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    DisMyBurnerBaeRich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 4:23pm

    So many skins in the 90s, most of them were not nazis in the northeast, it was more fashion/music lemmings.

    There was this one time where a friend brought his “friends” he met at college back to the city one night... and they were not college students, but legit racist skins. What happened next... The ancecdote is too specific and horrific to repeat but it wudnt gud.

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      25% Meaner Godzooks - BACK TO EVENDisMyBurnerBae
      4/14/16 4:28pm

      Spill the tea.

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      DisMyBurnerBae25% Meaner Godzooks - BACK TO EVEN
      4/14/16 4:37pm

      Gotta check on statute of limitations. Lets just say, 12 skins showed up, said hello to their buddy, and they did violent racist skinhead stuff later that night, spontaneously, and it was what you’d see in a movie.

      I was near it so ... I’m guilty of not preventing it I think. LIke I was just walking w/ a friend behind it, then boom, explosion of 12 skin violence on random victim, maybe 20 seconds tops.

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    Ado About NothingRich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 4:15pm

    I just showed my students Patrick Stewart’s “Macbeth,” and now I am completely ready for more evil Stewart.

    Though I cannot stop seeing Locutus of Borg when he’s a bad guy.

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      BSTrainerAdo About Nothing
      4/14/16 4:18pm

      My high school English teacher showed us Polanski’s Macbeth. Not sure you’d get away with that these days. I was surprised she did at the time (90s).

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      newbadguyBSTrainer
      4/14/16 4:21pm

      It was part of my schools official curriculum back in the late 90s. We had accompanying textbooks discussing the film

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    boaboaboatengtengtengRich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 4:43pm

    Is it wrong that the default for Patrick Stewart in my mind is no longer Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, but CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock?

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      Lala11_7 (I'm in the grays, because this mouth DOES NOT PLAY!)boaboaboatengtengteng
      4/14/16 4:47pm

      No...it just means you are MAGNIFICENT!!!!!!!

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      crews200boaboaboatengtengteng
      4/14/16 4:47pm

      No, no it is not. The shit he says on that show is fantastic.

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    not danny gloverRich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 4:17pm

    Blue Ruin was a great movie that flew under the radar. Def looking forward to seeing this. It's got an evil Patrick Stewart...have we seen that before?

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      DoobyOnenot danny glover
      4/14/16 10:39pm

      It was No. 3 on my list when it came out a couple of years ago. It's so very patient and still throughout. Then it hits in the gut, briefly. I fucking love that movie.

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    LindaRich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 4:46pm

    Gore - no

    Dog fighting - no

    Me seeing this movie - no

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      DoobyOneLinda
      4/14/16 10:38pm

      If it's not you're thing, that's cool. But check out Blue Ruin if you haven't already. Dude is a really good director and writer.

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    Stay Woke 2020Rich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 4:40pm

    I grew up in Minnesota in the 90s where this wasn’t really a thing. My dads sister moved to Bethesda when I was 13 and my cousin my age turned into a DC skin head. But he wasn’t a racist one he was a sharp, or a Rudie, or something. When we went to visit he’d explain all these different sub groups and how the color of his boot laces had to match his braces or whatever or else the non racist skins would know he was a racist and kick his ass. We never saw any other skinheads when we were out and about so I always wondered if what he was talking about was a real thing or just all in his imagination. I guess it was a real thing?

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      The Once and Future KingStay Woke 2020
      4/14/16 4:52pm

      In California the sharps were mostly straight edge douches looking to fight at any show because sobriety is so fucking aggravating. It was a 50/50 mix of white and hispanic kids. Lots of really bad tattoos. Eventually they grew their hair out, started smoking butts and listening to psychobilly.

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      OKTOBERFISTStay Woke 2020
      4/14/16 5:49pm

      In his imagination ? You assumed he may have been cuckoobananas?? What kind of cuz are you??

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    TrulyTrulyOutrageousRich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 8:11pm

    “I think if you feel the brutality, if it’s a gut punch when someone dies, it’s way healthier, no matter how graphic it is, than feeling zero impact.”

    Fucking this! Reservoir Dogs was initially rated NC-17 - and it showed very little on-screen violence. Instead, it displayed the *result* of violence.

    I have always found it disturbing that people are totally fine with shitty American Westerns in which dozens or hundreds of people are shot and killed and it’s totally fine if you don’t dwell on the actual implications of those actions. To me, this is what desensitizes people to violence.

    I grew up playing violent games, drawing violent pictures, and, in general, being into stylized violence. But at the same time, I can’t watch movies in which the violence is especially realistic or hard-hitting. And I can’t even begin to sit through a whole episode of shows like Tosh.0 - in which people are actually getting hurt. Give me Kill Bill and I’ll watch it on repeat for a week. Give me Saving Private Ryan - and I’ll be watching half of it with my head turned and my eyes partially covered.

    I feel the same way about the word ‘Fuck’ in PG-13 movies. Sure, they only get to use it 1-3 times... but they usually ‘make it count’ by making it very aggressive and memorable. So, is it really better than I watched a PG-13 movie in which that word *really* stands out... Or if I watch something, like Pulp Fiction, where it’s so overused that it just doesn’t occur to me?

    Ugh. America is weird... and dumb.

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      DoobyOneTrulyTrulyOutrageous
      4/14/16 10:43pm

      You nailed it. I’ve scene Desperado dozens of times, along with Pulp Fiction and Van Damme and Arnold and all the rest. Saving Private Ryan? Twice.

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    HelloGoodMorningRich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 7:02pm

    This movie sounds like something I have been currently wrestling with.

    I use to be extremely and overtly racist troll through my teenage years and as old as 21 years old. I was trying to be the deliberately offensive and “politically incorrect” guy and all the repulsive behaviours and racial slurs that come with that. All of the big ones. I adamantly refused to believe white privilege or (ironically)that racism still existed

    The Dylan Roof Charleston shooting really made me reflect on race relations, privilege, American history and European history. I feel immensely guilty for my repulsive behaviour and was wondering how to properly atone for it short of like... killing myself?

    I’ve apologised to all the PoC I may have hurt by my words that I can remember but there are dozens more I’ve likely hurt by my very aggressive racism online. What can I do to make things right, if anything? Do I even deserve it? I want to be part of the solution and help those who are most vulnerable in our society.

    P.S. I know this sounds like whiney white shit. It is, but this has been causing me a lot of distress and if you’re feeling generous and felt ike helping this massive idiot I’d apperciate it. If you’re going to insult me by calling me pathetic, stupid, ignorant, cowardly, narcissistic feel free; you’d be absolutely right to do so. I was all of those things. I’m not looking to be absolved of my racist behavior either, I own up to it fully and offer no excuses for it. It is inexcusable. I just want to know how I can help and mend the hurt in this world I helped to cause.

    Thanks.

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      DoobyOneHelloGoodMorning
      4/14/16 10:49pm

      If you’re for real, then just be a better person going forward. There are very few of us who haven’t done supremely shitty things, especially when we’re young. If you caused real world damage, make restitution. If it was just harsh words raged anonymously into the Internet, say you're sorry and move on.

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    EndlessMikeRich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 4:25pm

    The idea of it was an immediate draw(A little SLC Punk reminiscence combined with horror). Then I saw it was the Blue Ruin director behind it and now it is 1st on my list.

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      DoobyOneEndlessMike
      4/14/16 10:40pm

      Blue Ruin is amazing.

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    det-devil-ailsRich Juzwiak
    4/14/16 6:31pm

    2,000 Maniacs?

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