Being called Fredo is now equivalent to calling someone the N-Word

[Spinachcat]

My Brooklyn Italian mother considers Fredo Cuomo a complete disgrace and his sudden fake NYC accent was joke. There are PLENTY of nasty words Italians have been called and can call each other, but the word "Fredo" is beyond meaningless...except if you're the loser little brother from an important family...

I saw CNN defended Baby Fredo, claiming he was insulted with an ethnic slur. But then it got hysterical when all those CNN broadcasts showed up where their people, including Baby Fredo, were using the "ethnic slur" on the air.

Poor CNN. They've had a bad week between Baby Fredo and Don Lemon going all #MeToo with his stinkfinger.

Someone better tell UK grime artist Fredo that his name is now "racist".

What's a grime artist?

[Kiero]

What's a grime artist?

A musician, grime is a genre of music.

[Spinachcat]

A musician, grime is a genre of music.

Thank you! I'm always blitzed by these micro-genres of music. I'm a headbanger and it feels like every month, some critic announces "a new sub-genre of metal is born" and suddenly dorks online are running around "re-classifying" songs and bands to be cool with the alleged new style.

Though I get it from a marketing perspective.

[Kiero]

Thank you! I'm always blitzed by these micro-genres of music. I'm a headbanger and it feels like every month, some critic announces "a new sub-genre of metal is born" and suddenly dorks online are running around "re-classifying" songs and bands to be cool with the alleged new style.

Though I get it from a marketing perspective.

You can't avoid grime in the UK given how much of it is in the charts and on the radio.

[Ratman_tf]

Poor CNN. They've had a bad week between Baby Fredo and Don Lemon going all #MeToo with his stinkfinger.

I hadn't heard about that, and had to google it.

#metoo has become the best example of why not to just believe women.

[Trond]

I don't think this will take off. Italians aren't brown enough.

[Spinachcat]

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You can't avoid grime in the UK given how much of it is in the charts and on the radio.

I've effectively avoided everything except hard rock and metal since the Walkman came out! I haven't set a radio preset in my car since the 90s. When Pandora and Spotify came out, I became the most spoiled piggy in all Piggydom because suddenly great new music was coming to me without any effort on my part.

[TNMalt]

If I was in Chris's shoes, I won't be upset at getting called that. I'd laugh given that calling me a movie character's name is the best someone can do. Besides, Trump and his dad got called out by Nixon's DOJ for housing discrimination.

[Shasarak]

And if you can't trust Nixon then who can you trust?

[TNMalt]

Given that Nixon got caught tossing the N word around. Should say something if his people looked at you for discrimination.

[Shasarak]

Is it saying that you are not paying him enough kick back?

[Spinachcat]

Dave Chappelle has a new Netflix special coming out. He's also going to get caught tossing "the N word" around!

[TNMalt]

Nixon won New York in '72. So he was going to do something. And with certain words, who is using it and hiw it is used do matter.

[spon]

You can't avoid grime in the UK given how much of it is in the charts and on the radio.

I can, I don't listen to the charts or the radio! :-)

[Spinachcat]

And with certain words, who is using it and hiw it is used do matter.

No. We just give a pass to some people out of misplaced political correctness.

If the "N word" is so horrific we can't even spell it out, then nobody should be using it.