“Cancel” / Knee-Jerk Culture of 2020 and beyond

[B-Man]

 

 

BLUE ON BLUE............

 

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since the historical musical “Hamilton” began its march to near-universal infatuation, one group has noticeably withheld its applause — historians. Many academics argue the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the star of our $10 bills, is a counterfeit. Now they’re escalating their fight.

 

Ishmael Reed, who has been nominated twice for a National Book Award, has chosen to fight fire with fire — collecting his critique of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed show into a play.

 

Reed’s “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda” is an uncompromising take-down of “Hamilton,” reminding viewers of the Founding Father’s complicity in slavery and his war on Native Americans.

 

“My goal is that this be a counter-narrative to the text that has been distributed to thousands of students throughout the country,” said Reed, who teaches at the California College of the Arts and the University of California at Berkeley and whose latest novel is “Conjugating Hindi.”

 

Reed, whose play had a recent reading in New York and who is raising money for a four-week production in May, is part of a wave of “Hamilton” skeptics — often solitary voices of dissent amid a wall of fawning attention — who have written journal articles, newspaper op-eds and a 2018 collection of essays, ”Historians on Hamilton .”

 

Miranda’s glowing portrayal of a Hamilton who celebrates open borders — “Immigrants, we get the job done!” — and who denounces slavery has incensed everyone from professors at Harvard to the University of Houston to Rutgers .

 

They argue that Miranda got Hamilton all wrong — the Founding Father wasn’t progressive at all, his actual role as a slave owner has been whitewashed and the pro-immigrant figure onstage hides the fact that he was, in fact, an anti-immigration elitist.

 

“It’s a fictional rewrite of Hamilton. You can’t pick the history facts that you want,” said Nancy Isenberg , a professor of American history at Louisiana State University who has written a biography of Aaron Burr and is the author of “White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.”

 

More at the Link: https://apnews.com/db3c9d7573334b55a651d7ceba4dc66b

[billsfan1959]

3 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

Sometimes, Jimmy, an apology is a sign of weakness...

[Nanker]

4 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

BLUE ON BLUE............

 

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since the historical musical “Hamilton” began its march to near-universal infatuation, one group has noticeably withheld its applause — historians. Many academics argue the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the star of our $10 bills, is a counterfeit. Now they’re escalating their fight.

 

Ishmael Reed, who has been nominated twice for a National Book Award, has chosen to fight fire with fire — collecting his critique of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed show into a play.

 

Reed’s “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda” is an uncompromising take-down of “Hamilton,” reminding viewers of the Founding Father’s complicity in slavery and his war on Native Americans.

 

“My goal is that this be a counter-narrative to the text that has been distributed to thousands of students throughout the country,” said Reed, who teaches at the California College of the Arts and the University of California at Berkeley and whose latest novel is “Conjugating Hindi.”

 

Reed, whose play had a recent reading in New York and who is raising money for a four-week production in May, is part of a wave of “Hamilton” skeptics — often solitary voices of dissent amid a wall of fawning attention — who have written journal articles, newspaper op-eds and a 2018 collection of essays, ”Historians on Hamilton .”

 

Miranda’s glowing portrayal of a Hamilton who celebrates open borders — “Immigrants, we get the job done!” — and who denounces slavery has incensed everyone from professors at Harvard to the University of Houston to Rutgers .

 

They argue that Miranda got Hamilton all wrong — the Founding Father wasn’t progressive at all, his actual role as a slave owner has been whitewashed and the pro-immigrant figure onstage hides the fact that he was, in fact, an anti-immigration elitist.

 

“It’s a fictional rewrite of Hamilton. You can’t pick the history facts that you want,” said Nancy Isenberg , a professor of American history at Louisiana State University who has written a biography of Aaron Burr and is the author of “White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.”

 

More at the Link: https://apnews.com/db3c9d7573334b55a651d7ceba4dc66b

The LSU “Fighting Tigers” are named for a fierce Confederate infantry unit. Wonder when LSU gets Cancelled. 

Edited June 23, 2020 by Nanker

[Buffalo_Gal]

30 Rock Is Pulling Blackface Episodes From Streaming Platforms and TV Reruns
 

Four episodes of 30 Rock, including two featuring Jane Krakowski’s Jenna character in blackface, are being removed from subscription streaming services Hulu and Amazon Prime and have also been made unavailable for sale on purchase platforms such as iTunes and Google Play. The episodes, which will no longer air on traditional TV either, were pulled at the request of NBCUniversal executive producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. A source tells Vulture the four episodes, some of which have already vanished, should be gone by the end of this week.
 

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Tina Fey's mea culpa follows in the snip...

 

[Joe Miner]

18 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

30 Rock Is Pulling Blackface Episodes From Streaming Platforms and TV Reruns
 

Four episodes of 30 Rock, including two featuring Jane Krakowski’s Jenna character in blackface, are being removed from subscription streaming services Hulu and Amazon Prime and have also been made unavailable for sale on purchase platforms such as iTunes and Google Play. The episodes, which will no longer air on traditional TV either, were pulled at the request of NBCUniversal executive producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. A source tells Vulture the four episodes, some of which have already vanished, should be gone by the end of this week.
 

</snip>

Tina Fey's mea culpa follows in the snip...

 

 

Why is it that none of the producers, directors, writers, and anyone else associated with the creation of this racist propaganda are publicly apologizing and in jeopardy of never working again?

 

Did Tina Fey just show up on set one day and demand to play that role and no one could say no to her?

 

If I've learned anything from the defund police efforts it's that ALL of Hollywood is complicit in the systemic racism of our entertainment industries.  

[RiotAct]

3 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

love the dig at Trump at the very beginning.  Classy.

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

 

 

...so with statues of abolitionists being destroyed, toppled and defaced, sounds like these fraudulent "protesters with a cause (COUGH)" failed History 101.....as if they could care.....

Edited June 23, 2020 by OldTimeAFLGuy

[Rob's House]

In an obscure podcast four years ago he said something to the effect of "when I saw her I was just like, I want to ***** rape you."

 

In poor taste, for sure, but it was clearly just a crude attempt at humor in saying he was really attracted to her. Now they want him cancelled.

[KD in CA]

5 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

BLUE ON BLUE............

 

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since the historical musical “Hamilton” began its march to near-universal infatuation, one group has noticeably withheld its applause — historians. Many academics argue the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the star of our $10 bills, is a counterfeit. Now they’re escalating their fight.

 

Ishmael Reed, who has been nominated twice for a National Book Award, has chosen to fight fire with fire — collecting his critique of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed show into a play.

 

Reed’s “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda” is an uncompromising take-down of “Hamilton,” reminding viewers of the Founding Father’s complicity in slavery and his war on Native Americans.

 

“My goal is that this be a counter-narrative to the text that has been distributed to thousands of students throughout the country,” said Reed, who teaches at the California College of the Arts and the University of California at Berkeley and whose latest novel is “Conjugating Hindi.”

 

Reed, whose play had a recent reading in New York and who is raising money for a four-week production in May, is part of a wave of “Hamilton” skeptics — often solitary voices of dissent amid a wall of fawning attention — who have written journal articles, newspaper op-eds and a 2018 collection of essays, ”Historians on Hamilton .”

 

Miranda’s glowing portrayal of a Hamilton who celebrates open borders — “Immigrants, we get the job done!” — and who denounces slavery has incensed everyone from professors at Harvard to the University of Houston to Rutgers .

 

They argue that Miranda got Hamilton all wrong — the Founding Father wasn’t progressive at all, his actual role as a slave owner has been whitewashed and the pro-immigrant figure onstage hides the fact that he was, in fact, an anti-immigration elitist.

 

“It’s a fictional rewrite of Hamilton. You can’t pick the history facts that you want,” said Nancy Isenberg , a professor of American history at Louisiana State University who has written a biography of Aaron Burr and is the author of “White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.”

 

More at the Link: https://apnews.com/db3c9d7573334b55a651d7ceba4dc66b

Glad I saw it in February!

[Unforgiven]

5 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

He did nothing wrong, he's a spineless weasel.

[B-Man]

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Rhode Island Becomes First State to Change Its Name.

The tiny state of Rhode Island announced that because some people are too stupid and too dense to understand that some words have several meanings, they will change the official name of their state.

 

The “official” name of the state is “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” But to those choosing to be ignorant — or those who really are — “plantations” means “a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers.”

 

But in the context as it was originally intended, “plantations” referred to a new colony. But what does context matter when there are dragons to slay? It has been decided that we should choose to remove context and substitute personal interpretation of meaning.

In accordance with the prophecy:

 

[bilzfancy]

I can't wait till the Buffalo Sabres play the Flavortown Blue Jackets......smh

[B-Man]

 

 

Cuomo Remarks About Pulling Down Statues Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Democrats

 

 

 

 

[KD in CA]

9 minutes ago, bilzfancy said:

I can't wait till the Buffalo Sabres play the Flavortown Blue Jackets......smh

“Sabres”???

 

You don’t think that image of a weapon of colonialism and conquest will go unnoticed do you???

 

Just because it’s not as horribly racist as ‘Redskins’ or ‘Buffalo Bills’ doesn’t mean we can let Sabres stand!

[muppy]

 

[RiotAct]

13 minutes ago, KD in CA said:

“Sabres”???

 

You don’t think that image of a weapon of colonialism and conquest will go unnoticed do you???

 

Just because it’s not as horribly racist as ‘Redskins’ or ‘Buffalo Bills’ doesn’t mean we can let Sabres stand!

The Buffalo Margarine Spreaders.

[SoCal Deek]

27 minutes ago, KD in CA said:

“Sabres”???

 

You don’t think that image of a weapon of colonialism and conquest will go unnoticed do you???

 

Just because it’s not as horribly racist as ‘Redskins’ or ‘Buffalo Bills’ doesn’t mean we can let Sabres stand!

I’m guessing get rid of a Sabre would be more like islamaphobic, no? 

[LeGOATski]

2 hours ago, Unforgiven said:

He did nothing wrong, he's a spineless weasel.

I remember Dave Chappelle doing white face. That ***** was funny. And IIRC, he actually used it to poke fun at general white people, not even a specific celebrity.

 

I understand the historical context is much worse for black face, but the context is key. 

[KD in CA]

43 minutes ago, RiotAct said:

The Buffalo Margarine Spreaders.

 

What's wrong with you???  'Margarine' is a disgusting creation by multi-national corporations who seek to poison our earth and feed us chemicals that turn us into addicts so they can pay their CEOs 8-figure bonuses!!!

[Rob's House]

1 hour ago, LeGOATski said:

I remember Dave Chappelle doing white face. That ***** was funny. And IIRC, he actually used it to poke fun at general white people, not even a specific celebrity.

 

I understand the historical context is much worse for black face, but the context is key. 

 

One thing that gets overlooked is that dressing up as a specific black guy isn't "blackface."

 

Blackface involved dressing up as a random black guy to poke fun at the black image in general. Dressing up as Karl Malone to poke fun at Karl Malone isn't similar, especially, and most importantly, in the way that makes actual blackface offensive.