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Snowflakes Triggered by Steve Martin’s 40-Year-Old King Tut Song
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Posted on 11/19/2017 9:22:01 AM PST by Morgana

Good thing Steve Martin came along before it was a thought crime to have a sense of humor:

Comedian Steve Martin’s rendition of “King Tut” is triggering social justice warriors at Reed College because they see it as a form of cultural appropriation.

For moonbattery at its most Jacobinic, there is no better place to look than a college located in Portland, Oregon.

The song, originally performed on “Saturday Night Live,” actually criticizes the commercialization and trivialization of Egyptian history and presents a caricature of the Treasures of Tutankhamun traveling exhibit that toured seven United States cities from 1976 to 1979.

Subtleties like that are lost on snowflake fascists, as they frenziedly demand bans on every conceivable aspect of our culture on grounds of political incorrectness. They regard the harmless song as equivalent to blackface, which is the ultimate historical pop culture sin from the liberal point of view, and even to uttering the forbidden N-word.

Steve Martin’s generation-old infringement upon their delicate sensibilities has inspired the brownshirts of Reedies Against Racism to issue a long list of demands, including “mandatory conferences for building race sensitivity for staff and faculty” as well as a yearly “anti-oppression workshop for all students, faculty, staff, and administration.”

As noted at Downtrend,

that a bunch of thin-skinned, intolerant twits in 2017 would be bleating like stuck pigs over a song that is four decades old is a testament to the failure of our educational system which is dominated by cultural Marxist professors who have poisoned the minds of impressionable young people.

Let’s have another look at King Tut, before it goes down the Memory Hole lest ancient Egyptians be offended. This originally aired back in 1978, when Saturday Night Live was funny on a regular basis — which would never be allowed today:

***VIDEO ON LINK***


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; kingtut; oregon; reedcollege; saturdaynightlive; saturdaynightvile; snl; stevemartin; theatlantic; tut; tutankhamun
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To: Big Red Badger
p07

Planes, Trains and Automobiles, he dropped some F-bombs.

21 posted on 11/19/2017 9:42:46 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"I would not be surprised if “Leave it to Beaver” reruns get banned."

Especially the episode where June says, "Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night."

22 posted on 11/19/2017 9:42:46 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

>>>Reminds me a bit of controversy, over a song by Dire Straits, in which the word “faggot” is mentioned. As I recall, radio stations nowadays were censoring the offending word, if they even played that song at all<<<

They take out the entire verse:

See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup?
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot, he’s a millionaire

Remember when Ted Turner started to “colorize” old Black and White Movies? The screaming from the Artistic License crowd was deafening.


23 posted on 11/19/2017 9:43:28 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Edie McClurg made that scene great.


24 posted on 11/19/2017 9:44:14 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Morgana

Lord loves a workin’ man.

Don’t trust whitey.

See a doctor and get rid of it.


25 posted on 11/19/2017 9:45:03 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Snickering Hound
Planes, Trains and Automobiles, he dropped some F-bombs.

18 of them in less than two minutes.

26 posted on 11/19/2017 9:46:54 AM PST by Simon Green (<i>)
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To: Snickering Hound

Oops...
My bad..
Never seen it.

S’pose we are both correct?


27 posted on 11/19/2017 9:47:05 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I gotta go. It’s time to read Little Black Sambo


28 posted on 11/19/2017 9:47:31 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Big Red Badger

Dr Hfuhruhurr....


29 posted on 11/19/2017 9:47:33 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Morgana

Nancy Reagan had it right to begin with: “Just say “No”!


30 posted on 11/19/2017 9:47:55 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Morgana

If the snowflakes have a problem with this then they must be sent into epileptic seizures over Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein.


31 posted on 11/19/2017 9:48:24 AM PST by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abramsp)
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To: Morgana
I recall a line from something William F. Buckley wrote — it might have been God And Man At Yale — about a debate topic when he was in attendance at that university.

The topic was something along the lines of:

Resolved: people think Yale undergrads are insipid and boring because we are insipid and boring.

32 posted on 11/19/2017 9:48:59 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Leaning Right

Why did the chicken cross the basketball court?


33 posted on 11/19/2017 9:49:36 AM PST by Safetgiver
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To: dfwgator

His Favourite meal;

Tuna fish with Mayo on white bread,
Wrapped in Saran wrap.
Two Twinkies and a TAB!

HILARIOUS!


35 posted on 11/19/2017 9:51:05 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Safetgiver

He heard the Refs’ were blowing fowls.


36 posted on 11/19/2017 9:51:10 AM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Snickering Hound; Mr. Mojo; Pelham
All were worthy babes

Little petite Miss Hoffs is prettiest rock pop girl ever for me...sorry Corrs and Imbruglia

Those doe eyes and shapely legs

And still smoking at fiddysumthin

My wife is Hoffsish

Small wonder given my taste

miss Hoffs gyrating like an Egyptian in underwear

Recent pic age late 50s dayum


37 posted on 11/19/2017 9:51:29 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Reminds me a bit of controversy, over a song by Dire Straits, in which the word “faggot” is mentioned.

For an example of how times have changed, see this panel from a Mad Magazine "Star Wars" parody in 1977. This joke would never be made today.


38 posted on 11/19/2017 9:52:03 AM PST by Simon Green (<i>)
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To: Morgana
>>...would be bleating like stuck pigs over a song that is four decades old is a testament to the failure of our educational system... <<

They don't teach "Steve Martin 101". Lack of knowledge about SNL forty years ago isn't really an education problem.

39 posted on 11/19/2017 9:53:00 AM PST by ex91B10
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To: Morgana
>>...would be bleating like stuck pigs over a song that is four decades old is a testament to the failure of our educational system... <<

They don't teach "Steve Martin 101". Lack of knowledge about SNL forty years ago isn't really an education problem.

40 posted on 11/19/2017 9:53:01 AM PST by ex91B10
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