Not sure which question I find more puzzling. Why the OP keeps obsessing about this stuff, or why I click on his threads.
I think it's just less stressful than having arguments with people I disagree with but who aren't on another planet. In those cases I often feel real anxiety as to whether I might not be able to defend my views to my own satisfaction. With the OP I don't have that worry, because he's so far out there that no rational engagement seems possible.
Also his links are educational - e.g. I didn't know that Jingle Bells' origins lie in US racism and minstrel-culture. Seems as if the OP is offended by facts, which causes him to post links that contain them. Hence being educational by accident.
It's also educational in revealing how blinkered conservatives apparently are, constantly hearing what they want to hear rather than what was actually said.
The academic didn't say the song "is racist" just that it originated from a racist context. That's a bit of historical information she dug up.
Of course, being an academic she is obliged to then over-egg the theory-pudding with what seem rather vague assertions about what that means , in order to get a paper out of it - inevitably involving using the word 'problematic' (I think the use of that word is compulsory in her field). But that's just what academics have to do across all kinds of topics. There's still a factual point in there.
Why get irate at someone telling you some historical facts? If stating the truth about the origin of the ditty 'ruins it for you, then maybe there's something you are trying to avoid thinking about?
How well is that claim backed by actual evidence? Wouldn't it be more like Upper Class culture?You may want to read the paper that the professor did.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour.../D42C78950A58BDB88290954F73B195B2/core-reader
In this, you will find how it explains that sleigh rides are racist. The paper does more than give a history, it makes claims. One such claim is that the sleigh imagery has its roots in racism, and that sleigh riding was part of white culture.
How well is that claim backed by actual evidence? Wouldn't it be more like Upper Class culture?
On the salvaged box sleigh is written, “One pair of Paris Bronzes with care per steamer[,] Africa”—a coded text that suggests a repurposed box of enslaved blacks from Africa. In sleigh riding and outdoor dress, the artist depicts the black couple as emulating the white couple passing them, with a parallel seating arrangement, furs, and a crop in each man's hand. The box sleigh and the single, emaciated horse that pulls it clearly index the idea of Northern free blacks with delusions of grandeur—a stereotype that, as we have seen, had earlier walked the blackface stage as a “dandy.”
One of the people I ride with on med cab on the way to mental health classes was upset at "Merry Xmas" because he thought it was taking Christ out of Christmas.These offended liberals are pretty thin on the ground, at least regarding the holidays. Yet it seems like no matter where I go this time of year, the upright social authoritarian/holy roller types are blue in the face over people choosing to say "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Xmas."
Tis the season for more projection from our poor victimized snowflakes. Good of numbnuts OP to do another thread like this though - watching dishonest and hateful people grasp at straws has a warming effect for me.
Added Jingle Bells-is-racist to the OP.
One of the people I ride with on med cab on the way to mental health classes was upset at "Merry Xmas" because he thought it was taking Christ out of Christmas.
Some Christian sects actually banned Christmas after they took power due to it having Pagan origins and other reasons.I've heard that many times. I vaguely think I once got told off by a teacher at primary school for exactly that.
You may want to read the paper that the professor did.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour.../D42C78950A58BDB88290954F73B195B2/core-reader
In this, you will find how it explains that sleigh rides are racist. The paper does more than give a history, it makes claims. One such claim is that the sleigh imagery has its roots in racism, and that sleigh riding was part of white culture.
Well, props for linking to the actual paper (more than the OP did). Though just as with the other thread on here with a long academic paper in it, I find I'm hampered by lacking the time and energy to wade through the damn thing. Which is related to the point, that this is what academics do, it's how they keep their publication records up and keep their jobs but I really struggle to see it as all that important in most cases, and certainly not enough to justify the OP's absurd persecution complex. A tremendous amount of what appears in journals, even in 'hard science' subjects, is so much inconsequential noise.
(Academic friend defined their job as 'digging things up from one part of the library in order to bury them again in another part')
There does seem to be a lot of historical background in that paper - it appears it's making claims that it attempts to support via argument and evidence. Whether the evidence is convincing I can't say because I just don't care enough about to do the work needed to try and decide. Maybe I'll get back to it one day. I doubt it's any worse than the guff that evolutionary psychologists or those who study IQ, or, indeed, economics, come out with, and is likely to have far less real-world influence.
I've heard that many times. I vaguely think I once got told off by a teacher at primary school for exactly that.
Where's the little bitch boy? wonder how his pending Trump shutdown is working out for him.
I've been an atheist since 15 and I only heard about this "War on Christmas" maybe a few years ago. I was also completely floored when Right Wingers went around claiming that Xmas was an attempt to remove Christ from the Holiday, not withstanding that Christians invented the word as shorthand.
can we get the thread title changed to offended slow scroll? seems more appropriate.
that troll is long gone, tucked his tail and ran off.Foxnews, a British tabloid site, YouTube and some other sites I've never heard of. What an awesome list. Thanks for the chuckles OP.
Wonder if he will ever make it back to the market watch thread.that troll is long gone, tucked his tail and ran off.
Wonder if he will ever make it back to the market watch thread.