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The Atlantic Reports SJW Students Triggered by Steve Martin's 1978 'King Tut' Song
Newsbusters ^ | November 19, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 11/19/2017 2:34:48 PM PST by PJ-Comix

There are some situations in the news just begging to be mocked. One such example was the report that snowflake social justice warrior students at Reed College in Oregon objected to one of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits ever performed: Steve Martin singing "King Tut" in 1978. The song even became a hit single that sold a million copies and hit the Top 40 on the radio.

Four decades ago, Egypt sent its Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit to America. The traveling exhibit was so wildly popular with the public that it was inevitable there would be some commercialization in the form of King Tut T-shirts and other items. 

As a result, comedian Steve Martin appeared on SNL to claim that he thought it was a "national disgrace the way we have commercialized it with trinkets and toys, T-shirts and posters. And about three months ago I was up in the woods and I wrote a song. I tried to use the ancient modalities and melodies and I would like to do it for you right now. Maybe we can all learn something from this." Martin then went into one of the most hilarious skits of all times using "ancient modalities and melodies" that sounded suspiciously like jazzy rock music:

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KEYWORDS: kingtut; oregon; reedcollege; saturdaynightlive; saturdaynightvile; sjws; snl; snowflakes; stevemartin; theatlantic
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Snowflakes claim the skit is racist because it is offensive to ancient Egyptians who no longer exist. Next on the ban list: Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.
1 posted on 11/19/2017 2:34:48 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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And yep kill and rape whitey rap music doesn’t phase them.


2 posted on 11/19/2017 2:36:24 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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With “Walk Like An Egyptian” by The Bangles not too far behind, lol.


3 posted on 11/19/2017 2:37:05 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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One such example was the report that snowflake social justice warrior students at Reed College in Oregon objected to one of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits ever performed: Steve Martin singing "King Tut" in 1978.

How many of these students were actually Egyptian? The cretins claiming outrage over such things seem to always turn out to be young and white - all indoctrinated from birth in left-wing nonsense by their schools, pampered at home by their helicopter moms. For some reason they seem to think they have a right to be offended on behalf of minority groups who mostly couldn't care less.
4 posted on 11/19/2017 2:39:25 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Buried with a donkey
He’s my favorite honky


5 posted on 11/19/2017 2:40:25 PM PST by JennysCool
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“...Funky Tut...”


6 posted on 11/19/2017 2:40:33 PM PST by PaleoBob
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They can shove up their Obamaholes.
Take it out.
Repeat without rinsing.
Had it with these low IQ future targets.


7 posted on 11/19/2017 2:41:52 PM PST by Da Coyote
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No one can resist the tweeting of a trigger. ..

Courtesy of Remy song to Thriller called trigger


8 posted on 11/19/2017 2:42:28 PM PST by RummyChick (I have no inside sources, media sources, or federal government employee sources. NONE)
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Next up, “Island Girl” by Elton John.


9 posted on 11/19/2017 2:46:24 PM PST by fruser1
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Thank goodness I grew up in the 80s.

Likely the last decade in which people didn’t live with sticks shoved up their rears.


10 posted on 11/19/2017 2:49:59 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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“They can shove up their Obamaholes.
Take it out.
Repeat without rinsing.
Had it with these low IQ future targets.”

I’ve got some triggers.


11 posted on 11/19/2017 2:51:34 PM PST by Bonemaker
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What about extra-terrestrial cultural appropriation!

We might have offended the One-Eyed, One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater!


12 posted on 11/19/2017 2:57:02 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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Sadly we lost most of the real Egyptians over 1,000 years ago. The closest you can find these days are the Coptic Christians. I don’t think they interbred with the invading (Muslim) Arabs.


13 posted on 11/19/2017 2:57:22 PM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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And then there was the song “Alley Oop”, inspired by a comic strip about an ape man who lives in a cave. “Look at that caveman go...He sho’ is hip, ain’t he...”


14 posted on 11/19/2017 2:59:11 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Or The Clash’s “Rock the Casbah”


15 posted on 11/19/2017 3:01:50 PM PST by dfwgator
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Click The Pic

16 posted on 11/19/2017 3:04:36 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Watch them stroke out when you play Ram Jam’s “Black Betty.”


17 posted on 11/19/2017 3:08:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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Seinfeld does not perform at colleges anymore because of all this kind of crap.

Thank you, NEA for dumbing down our kids so much they cannot even appreciate innocent good humor.

18 posted on 11/19/2017 3:10:51 PM PST by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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Click The Pic

19 posted on 11/19/2017 3:13:55 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Show the SJWs this, and watch their heads asplode.*

* term borrowed from another character who is guilty of cultural appropriation

20 posted on 11/19/2017 3:14:04 PM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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