You gotta curse out anyone that wrongs you
Summary
A straphanger has a bold philosophy: "You gotta curse out anyone that wrongs you." She explains it's about accountability, not random aggression. When someone does you wrong, whether a friend or a stranger who bumps into you, immediate correction is part of living in community. She's yelled at her parents. She's cursed people out and been cursed out herself, and she's always been better for it. There's one exception she regrets: her ex Steven, who wronged her but never got the verbal lashing he deserved. Kareem immediately crowdsources justice. "If you know Steven, tag him in the comments." They'll all curse him out together.
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You got to curse out anyone that wrongs you. 100% disagree.
Why?
Why? I don't need to walk around being like—
I'm not saying walk around [laughter] and curse people out. I'm talking about like your friends who have wronged you.
I thought you were talking about like random stranger, like somebody accidentally bumps into you.
Well, yeah. Sometimes that's what makes New York, New York. You know, you—you are corrected immediately.
Has this happened to you before?
I've cursed people out. I've gotten cursed out. Listen, anytime I've gotten cursed out and I felt like, "Oh, maybe I didn't deserve that." I've still been better for it. We live in a society. We live in a community. We are all responsible for each other. And I think that we all need to be—
Nice.
Yes.
We need to be nice.
We need to be nice, but we also need to understand that people make mistakes. People are good, but you know, sometimes you do the wrong thing.
They deserve a verbal lashing—
Sometimes, yeah.
What about your parents? You ever cursed them out?
Yeah, I've yelled at them. So you're talking about like using like curse words. I'm just talking about like yelling at people.
Oh, yeah.
So you're just saying that if you get mad, you should yell.
Yeah. You got to take responsibility for the people in your life and the people in your community. We got to correct each other.
Is that what "come correct" means?
I think so, yeah. [laughter] When you hold things in and instead of correcting that behavior or helping someone correct that behavior, you are contributing to more wrong happening in the world. And you don't want that. We—and we always say like, "Oh, we don't owe each other anything. We don't owe each other." You owe each other a lot. We all owe each other a lot. We owe each other humanity. Steven, you owe me an explanation.
Who's Stephen?
My ex. It happens. I should have cursed him out too.
Did he wrong you?
Yeah.
And you didn't curse him out.
That's what I'm saying. You got to curse him out.
If you know Steven, tag him in the comments.
Yeah, please do.
We'll all curse him out together.
Yeah. I stand with Zubie. [laughter]