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

[B-Man]

 

 

FACE, MEET PALM: The Dixie Chicks Drop the Geographical Reference, Retain the Sexist One.

 

 

 

 

While We’re Erasing Confederate Names, Let’s Remove Robert Byrd’s, Too.

 

 

[Hedge]

 

 

umm hmm.

 

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

Er, HBO it is South Park.

Honestly, South Park is equal opportunity offensive!
 

 

[Koko78]

2 hours ago, Hedge said:

 

 

umm hmm.

 

 

 

 

She is such a ***** phony.

[BuffaloHokie13]

14 hours ago, Hedge said:

 

 

umm hmm.

 

 

 

I'm still very much a proponent of this logo change. Especially considering their performance of late.

[B-Man]

 

 

 

[Hedge]

 

 

[Uncle Joe]

2 hours ago, Hedge said:

 

 

 

33 minutes ago, Uncle Joe said:

Just when I thought I saw it all:

Oregon-Oregon State rivalry will no longer be referred to as 'Civil War'
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/oregon-oregon-state-rivalry-will-no-longer-civil-war
 

I wonder if I will be charged with racism if I continue to call it the civil war game. 
Or maybe I can call it the civil game and both quarterbacks will be called Marcia.

 

[Hedge]

Complete cognitive dissonance.

 

 

Who will be the first Leftist to tweet that only real women should be allowed to play womens organized sports?

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

1 hour ago, Hedge said:

Who will be the first Leftist to tweet that only real women should be allowed to play womens organized sports?

Women are dead last in the liberal hierarchy. It has never been more obvious than the last few years. The first wave feminists must be rolling in their graves.

 

[Uncle Joe]

1 hour ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

Women are dead last in the liberal hierarchy. It has never been more obvious than the last few years. The first wave feminists must be rolling in their graves.

 

What happened to the Chinese slaves that built the railroads?

Ancestors were Shanghaied?

[3rdnlng]

44 minutes ago, Uncle Joe said:

What happened to the Chinese slaves that built the railroads?

Ancestors were Shanghaied?

They opened up laundries and called themselves such names as Tiberius and Gatorman. 

[B-Man]

 

Black Community Elders Shutdown And Shame Anti-Statue Protest

by Christopher Bedford

 

Original Article

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Blazing sun and high humidity met hundreds of protesters, counter-protesters, neighborhood residents, police officers, and reporters Friday evening at Capitol Hill’s Lincoln Park. The protest, planned Tuesday, hoped to tear the monument of Abraham Lincoln with one hand on the Emancipation Proclamation freeing a slave, modeled by freedman Archer Alexander. It was paid for by local black residents and black Union veterans and dedicated by Frederick Douglass.

(Snip)

While Black Lives Matters activists tried to chant them down, reenactors dressed as freed slaves of Capitol Hill and Frederick Douglass gave an abridged version of the dedication speech.

 

 

 

 

 

These reenactors really put it to the young (many white) radicals who were there to take the Emancipation monument down. Gave them a history lesson. One man said the freed slave depicted is a relative of his. The monument is so far still standing.

 

 

 

 

Watch: Black Americans Turn Out To Defend Lincoln Emancipation Memorial From Extremists

by Ryan Saavedra

 

Original Article

 

 

 

 

Edited June 27, 2020 by B-Man

[B-Man]

 

It's NOT about the Confederacy.

 

 

 

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 

 

U. Wisconsin-Madison professor cheers protesters tearing down abolitionist, women’s progress statues.

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Big Blitz]

Last week I said that people we're so fearful of losing their jobs, damaging their reputations they will absolutely think twice of going to a Trump rally, posting online, or wearing a freaking OAN shirt.  This was brushed off as nonsense by some in here.  Well....here you go...

 

 

 

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Emmanuel cafferty’s story is not one of a kind. Other companies, trying to prove to the public that they take racism seriously, have also sacrificed business partners or employees who likely did nothing wrong.

 

David Shor, for example, was until recently a data analyst at a progressive consulting firm, Civis Analytics. (Emerson Collective, the majority owner of The Atlantic, is an investor in Civis Analytics.)  Shor’s job was to think about how Democrats can win elections. When Omar Wasow, a professor at Princeton, published a paper in the country’s most prestigious political-science journal arguing that nonviolent civil-rights protests had, in the 1960s, been more politically effective than violent ones, Shor tweeted a simple summary of it to his followers.  

 

Because the tweet coincided with the first mass protests over the killing of George Floyd, it generated some pushback. After a progressive activist accused Shor of “concern trolling for the purposes of increasing democratic turnout,” a number of people on Twitter demanded that he lose his job. Less than a week after he tweeted the findings of Wasow, who is black, Civis’s senior leadership, which is predominantly white, fired Shor...

[Chandemonium]

50 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Who did try to warn us about the Weeping Angels.

[GG]

54 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wonder what a real life Night at the Museum be like? 

[B-Man]

LINCOLN’S NEW ASSASSINS AND THE MAOIST NATURE OF THE NEW WAR ON WRONGTHINK. 

Nothing evokes a nice gloomy feel like the German language. The Germans, a people forged under the gray skies and dark shadows of the Black Forest, are a gloomy people, which is why they have such wonderful words to describe gloomy things.

 

(For instance, there’s schadenfreude, taking pleasure in the misfortune of others. And fremdschamen, the feeling of being embarrassed for someone else who doesn’t have the good sense of being embarrassed for themselves (think of that feeling you get watching Michael Scott humiliate himself in The Office, or President Trump answering a question from Sean Hannity. See below). And there’s my favorite: futterneid—that feeling of jealousy you get when someone is eating something you want to eat. When I go out to dinner with my wife and she orders better than me, my futterneidfuels the Fair Jessica’s schadenfreude.)

 

So let’s consider the word Einfühlungsvermögen.

 

Einfühlungsvermögen means “empathy.” And that English word is just over a century old. It entered the English language in 1909 as a translation of Einfühlungsvermögen. It’s an adaptation of the shorter term Einfühlung, a concept pioneered by the German historicist Johann Herder, one of the founders of German nationalism. Einfühlung literally means “feeling one’s way in.” And it was one of the core concepts of the German historicist school, which is responsible for many bad ideas we won’t discuss here.

 

But Einfühlung, in isolation, is not a bad idea. What Herder meant by “feeling one’s way in” was that for a historian to understand a particular society, one must grasp on both an intellectual and emotional level the cultural currents of the time. One cannot just look from outside the fishbowl using the scorecards of the moment and judge a society from some modern, abstract, standard. You must dive in and understand people and cultures on their own terms first. This is something the best historians do. They make the reader feel like they understand why people did the things they did without the benefit of knowing how events turned out.

 

Which brings us to this post at the American Greatness Website: Lincoln’s New Assassins:

Now the mob takes the role of John Wilkes Booth in removing perhaps the greatest of all Lincoln sculptures, the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, located in northeast Washington, D.C. The preeminent Lincoln scholar of our or any other time, Harry V. Jaffa, said many times that this sculpture, originally referred to as the Freedman’s Memorial, rivaled Daniel French’s Lincoln Memorial creation. The statue was dedicated to honor Lincoln on the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

 

Yet the furious mob blindly objects that the statue shows a kneeling slave before a standing Lincoln. The mob is even more blinkered in its art appreciation than it is in its historical understanding, as I will show in close-up views of the muscular freedman—no longer a slave!—and other details.

 

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If we don’t believe our own eyes, we have the testimony of Frederick Douglass, who delivered the dedication address, honoring his friend Abraham Lincoln. The escaped slave Douglass is famous for his criticisms of Lincoln’s policies, including what he then regarded as his slowness to accede to plans for using black soldiers. But he also conceded the correctness of Lincoln’s measured policies. Douglass’s speech is among his best, his most complex, for its unsparing, many-sided views of Lincoln: it smashes all clichés about both men. His audience, we should note, included President Grant.

 

Read the whole thing.

 

 

 

Related exit question: Do we erase Black history when we take down statues?

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

"Revolutionary moments also require public confessions of iniquity by those complicit in oppression. These now seem to come almost daily."

 

"I’m still marveling this week at the apology the actress Jenny Slate gave for voicing a biracial cartoon character.

 

It’s a classic confession of counterrevolutionary error: 'I acknowledge how my original reasoning was flawed and that it existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy …

 

Ending my portrayal of "Missy" is one step in a life-long process of uncovering the racism in my actions.'... If you find this creepy, but don’t want to say that out loud, just know that you are not alone.

 

Ibram X. Kendi, the New York Times best seller who insists that everyone is either racist or anti-racist, now has a children’s book to indoctrinate toddlers on one side of this crude binary....

 

The use of the term 'white supremacy' to mean not the KKK or the antebellum South but American society as a whole in the 21st century has become routine on the left, as if it were now beyond dispute....

 

The word 'racist,' which was widely understood quite recently to be prejudicial treatment of an individual based on the color of their skin, now requires no intent to be racist in the former sense, just acquiescence in something called 'structural racism,' which can mean any difference in outcomes among racial groupings.

 

Being color-blind is therefore now being racist. And there is no escaping this. The woke shift their language all the time, so that words that were one day fine are now utterly reprehensible. You can’t keep up — which is the point.... So, yes, this is an Orwellian moment. It’s not a moment of reform but of a revolutionary break, sustained in part by much of the liberal Establishment."

From "You Say You Want a Revolution?" by Andrew Sullivan (New York Magazine).

"Being color-blind is therefore now being racist." — That's been true for a long time, at least where I live. When was the last time you could say "I don't see color" and not be thought an idiot at best.

 

I've lived in Madison, Wisconsin since 1984 — and that's not an Orwell joke — and assertions of colorblindness have always been regarded as racist. I think there was a chance to adopt the ideology and outward manifestations of colorblindness back around 1968, but America went in another direction. Everyone younger than the Baby Boomers could have been taught colorblindness from the earliest age. But that opportunity was lost, and now we are very far along in cranking up racial sensibilities.

 

Sullivan's yearning for a time when you could get off the racism hook by being colorblind — or, realistically, claiming to be colorblind or believing yourself to be colorblind — is a yearning for a past that never existed. There was a time when it was posited as a goal — notably, MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech — but that goal was down a road not taken and a cynic would say you can't get there from here.

 

Posted by Ann Althouse