Posted on 11/17/2019 6:08:39 PM PST by Impala64ssa
In Portland, Oregon, at Reed College, a small liberal-arts school, a 4 decade old old ‘Saturday Night Live‘ skit by comedian Steve Martin recently caused an uproar over cultural appropriation.
In the classic Steve Martin skit, he performs a goofy song, “King Tut,” meant to satirize a Tutankhamun exhibit touring the U.S. and to criticize the commercialization of Egyptian culture. The skit is felt to be full on racist! Watch for yourself.
Steve Martin performs his funky musical parody “King Tut,” which satirizes the popularity of the King Tut exhibit. [Season 3, 1978]
Students in a humanities class at Reed College blasted the inclusion of the ancient skit in their coursework, branding it a vile racist example of cultural appropriation. They demanded that it be removed entirely. One student called the performance, which includes African-Americans clad in faux ancient Egyptian attire, as racist.
“The gold face of the saxophone dancer leaving its tomb is an exhibition of blackface,” the incensed student told The Atlantic. The Atlantic explains:
But many students found the video so egregious that they opposed its very presence in class. “That’s like somebody … making a song just littered with the n-word everywhere,” a member of Reedies Against Racism (RAR) told the student newspaper when asked about Martin’s performance. She told me more: The Egyptian garb of the backup dancers and singers—many of whom are African American—“is racist as well. The gold face of the saxophone dancer leaving its tomb is an exhibition of blackface.”
Such outrage has been increasingly common in the course, Humanities 110, over the past 13 months. On September 26, 2016, the newly formed RAR organized a boycott of all classes in response to a Facebook post from the actor Isaiah Washington, who urged “every single African American in the United States that was really fed up with being angry, sad and disgusted” over police shootings to stay home on Monday. Of the 25 demands issued by RAR that day, the largest section was devoted to reforming Humanities 110.
A required year-long course for freshmen, Hum 110 consists of lectures that everyone attends and small break-out classes “where students learn how to discuss, debate, and defend their readings.” It’s the heart of the academic experience at Reed, which ranks second for future Ph.D.s in the humanities and fourth in all subjects. (Reed famously shuns the U.S. News & World Report, as explained in a 2005 Atlantic article by a former Reed president.)
As Professor Peter Steinberger details in a 2011 piece for Reed magazine, “What Hum 110 Is All About,” the course is intended to train students whose “primary goal” is “to engage in original, open-ended, critical inquiry.”
"He's my favorite honkey!" Help!! I'M TRIGGERED!! When they graduate from this diploma mill and realize their degrees wouldn't qualify them to operate a French fry machine at McD's, not to mention facing all that student loan debt then they'll really have something to be triggered over.
Ping.
These nitwits are so easily “triggered” I think they must like it.
So we should go out of their way to trigger them and then tell them “you’re welcome”.
Ping.
They’d better not watch this sketch..
Word Association (w/ Richard Pryor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9TS1pRmajU
They’re TRAINED to be triggered. They are following orders to. Justify their college debt.
the offending skit...
(just when you thought libtards could get no stupider)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbavuReVF4
Yo, Incensed Student, you ever heard of this song called Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves by this woman called Cher? Or another song she sang called Half Breed? Look into it and handle as you see fit.
I loved this so much that after I saw it (and I have never been a big SNL fan, so watching was a rarity), I searched high and low till I found the 45. Still have it. Love it!
Humorless snowflakes.
How do they make it through their long dreary laughless days?
Cher is part Native, much more than Fauxcahontas, but it wouldn’t matter to them. It’s all about getting offended for the sake of getting offended. It’s like emotional meth. It gives them a short term high, a temprorary feeling of moral superiority and empowerment. But once that high wears off the need for the next “fix” becomes progressively more insatiable. What a sad pathetic, self destructive way to go through life.
Can you IMAGINE these snowflakes’ response to the funniest sketch EVER on SNL? “Word association test” with Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor. Of course Pryor was ALSO the guy on the SECOND funniest SNL sketch: “The Exorcist.”
In fact, Pryor could not make it on today’s college circuit. Oh wait, the snowflakes have made it so there IS NO college comedy cicuit!
Two points:
1. You’ll piss your pants, laughing
2. Is there ANY way honkies could joke like this...? No way in hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtgY1q0J_TQ
Damn — Ishould read before posting.
THAT was the quintessential essence of my high school years. We gathered to watch his presence on TV that Thanksgiving holiday. NONE of us would have even understood “triggered” Good Lord. Good thing Normandy was stormed when it was...otherwise there would be a lot of goose stepping right now.
A great YouTube video. And Steve Martin can flat play bluegrass banjo. The fit he threw in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the St Louis Airport is classic. He’s great in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels too. It’s a shame youngster are such useless wussies.
That might drive them to suicide.......
Drive on!
Oregon ping snowflakes Again
Get a grip, snowflakes. Now THAT was funny. Oh, and no one’s FEELINGS were hurt. Dipshits.
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