Mehmet Oz, widely recognized as television’s “Dr. Oz” and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head Medicare and Medicaid, has sparked controversy over resurfaced remarks from a 2013 speech, where he addressed the balance between personal and governmental responsibility for the uninsured.Dr. Oz...
I’m no Trumper, and definitely don’t think Dr Oz is the right person for this job, but this is yet another case of words being taken out of context. Watch the video for yourself.
Additional context doesn’t make him sound much more convincing.
He literally says “…because they don’t have a right to health…”. What are all of us missing that you’ve so handily figured out the context for?
I don’t think he’s saying people _shouldn’t _ have the right health, just that in America, they currently do not.
But that’s just my interpretation and it still doesn’t help qualify him for the role trump selected him for.
We can see your comment history.
Including the Modlog.
I don’t care lol. The last screenshot is a movie reference. It wasn’t malicious in the slightest.
Ohhh, so I can say whatever I want as long as it’s a movie reference?
In the context of the movie, that was a perfect joke.
The character delivering it was a doctor delivering results to the patient: an average Joe from the early 21st century (or late 20th. I forget exactly when he was from). The person you expect to speak professionally and intelligently. But in this world everyone is crass, profane, and idiotic, having a vocabulary that’s rivaled by most 2nd graders today. It’s fitting, then, that someone like a doctor, speaks like a schoolyard bully.
The quote omits the beginning part of the line, “It says here on your chart”, which makes it more clear that it was originally delivered by a doctor.
Ergo, despite the words themselves being considered more inappropriate than they were even when the film was (relatively recently) released, the parent posters usage of them was perfectly appropriate: he was trying to present himself as intelligent, like the doctor, but instead came across as a crass schoolyard bully.
Though it does raise the question at which point it is okay to use inappropriate words as part of a quote. I was listening to an audiobook in the car today, a nonfiction history book, in which letters and poems from freed slaves were read aloud. These readings made strong and contemporarily appropriate usage of the “n” word, but when it gets shouted out my speakers at a red light, it’ll turn heads.
I know the plot of Idiocracy. It is one of my favourite movies. I also love Pulp Fiction, but I sure as fuck am not going to go around talking about dead n_____ storage.
Sigh, you nerds are too much sometimes.
This is how we know you’re a little troll and nothing more.
Sure.
can you quote it so i don’t have to watch it