MandoMan |
06-23-2020 07:24 AM |
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Originally Posted by tophcfa
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Another one bites the dust, apparently a nice cold ice cream pie on a hot day is offensive?
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Wow! I missed that one in the news! You are right.
‘Inappropriate’ Eskimo Pie Name Will Be Retired, Company Says - The New York Times
I hear Charlie the Tuna is outraged over how he has been portrayed in advertisements—cultural misappropriation—and Bumble Bees are saying they should never have appeared on cans of tuna, either.
How about references to Amish this or that, such as furniture, by companies that aren’t Amish? How about “Redneck” jokes.
I devoted over forty years of my life to teaching English literature in universities. The last few years, my colleagues felt entirely free to speak disparagingly of the Dead White Males whose world makes up about 95% of great literature. They wanted us to stop teaching work by Dead White Males. Anyone else dead was honored, of course. Sometimes they changed it to Old White Males, and it was clear that they considered me part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. I decided to retire when the virus hit.
Honestly, I’m scared that there may be some of these protestors who have taken a course in art history and realize that a huge share of paintings in our National Gallery, in the National Portrait Gallery in London, etc., are of Kings and Queens and nobility who were guilty of, say, colonialism, or slave-trading, or atrocities of some sort. Then the protestors will rush in and destroy our heritage in art. We may be left primarily with landscapes and animal paintings. Well, maybe not even them. Maybe they’ll want to get rid of all of Audubon’s paintings, as he worked from dead models.
They are so eager to take offense at a past about which they know virtually nothing and treat it as if it has just happened.
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