Posted on 02/04/2019 12:01:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Hey we can update this entire “we are all one” argument to a more modern movie.
Try this one on for size— interspecies love and sex between a white woman and an alien from outerspace. So ridiculous in it’s prospective and silly virtue signalling... and a damned boring movie, completely needlessly and uselessly— PREACHY.
Movie: “The Shape of Water”. Not kidding- a ridiculous “fantasy” with a specieist agenda. This will NEVER stop these psycho dem liberal whateverists (how about lunatics?).
RE: Spoofing individuals should be done carefully as well, but can be quite funny, especially when the roastee is also laughing.
As I said in a few posts above — SPOOFING, PORTRAYING and MOCKING are different and should be taken by the viewer IN CONTEXT.
Unfortunately, even spoofing and portraying is offensive now. In other words, we throw the word — RACIST around like rice in a wedding.
“Watermelon Man” from 1973.
I’ve seen a non-white redneck-— from the historical photos from where the term originated. Red bandana wearing, BLACK coal miners who fought the Logan County, WV wars, Blair Mountain, and eventually the US Army sent there by the President at the time.
Rednecks—the original term. Labor— coal miners. Not sunburned white Southerners.
And Crackers?— They were teamsters in the South who supplied the CSA with beef cattle stock. Cracking their whips from the saddle and from their wagons of supplies.
But, nobody wants to know this. Or that one can find so called “red necks” in deepest Bergin County, NJ in Five Families neighborhoods. Oops.
You deserve a Social Justice Warrior medal with two stars for political correctness.
Interesting.
Rednecks—the original term. Labor— coal miners. Not sunburned white Southerners.
But the latter is and has been the stereotype
You’d be offended too if your boss made a point of demeaning you just for cheap laughs.
It's always a thrill to be lectured on racial insensitivity by a son of the Indian Subcontinent, where they honed the practice into a fine art.
Caste System, anyone? And don't let the Untouchables handle the luggage!
Oh you can’t throw rice at a wedding anymore. You blow bubbles or throw rose petals. That’s why young people are having so few children. Rice,the symbol for fruitfulness and plenty has been replaced with air.
“Don’t fool with Fu Manchu,
“Don’t fool with Fu Manchu,
“Cause if you do, he’ll make a fool out of you.
Confucius say, “Many men smoke, but few men chew.”
Another Caucasian appropriator: Edward G. Robinson as Chinese Tong assassin in “Hatchet Man”.
Because they depicted black people as, not to put too fi an edge on it, sub human.
I get it. I never thought it was the least bit entertaining—even when Pryor and Gene Wilder did it.
Even back in the late 70’s and early 80’s I cannot recall seeing anyone dressed up like that “in real life.”
IIRC, Shirley was in disguise to escape the Yankees in that makeup.
At a wedding in 1987 we were given birdseed to throw instead of rice because the latter was said to cause birds to die of indigestion.
But otherwise, throwing rice is now cultural appropriation? Or is it OK if the bride is Asian?
Their Religious officials wore a red collar as part of their vestments. It's usage in the South was a consequence of so many Scotts-Irish settling there.
http://scotshistoryonline.co.uk/rednecks/rednecks.html
https://neddybee.blogspot.com/2005/05/who-are-rednecks.html
It has been said that the American Civil war was just a continuation of the English Civil War, with the North being mostly settled by English descended people, and the South being mostly settled by Scottish-Irish descended people.
“Watch this and tell me with a straight face it’s not offensive.”
Yes, it’s a terribly offensive and innacurate portrayal of blacks. It must have made them feel the same way men, heterosexuals, Christians and gun owners feel lately.
Richard Pryor on Black History Month:
“Has anyone noticed that when they finally gave us a month of our own, that it’s the shortest month of the year?”
Demeaned? Unikely. And they laughed the loudest at Richard Pryor blacking up Gene Wilder in 'Silver Streak.'
The difference today is that 50% of American society raised on collective guilt and the original sin of racism walks around like an open sore, just itching to find offense, hatred, bias, and all of the other sores they've been raised to hunt down like bloodhounds. Two generations of being told "You mustn't say 'hate', honey" and "Be sure you're becoming to everyone, honey" has now become the adults who act like squalling toddlers. And God help us all, because these imbeciles will decide whether to keep our life support machines running...
No they say rice blows up in the stomachs of birds. It’s stupid. We should have stopped the PC crap back then when it first raised its ugly head.
In Logan county WV there was a battle between miners wanting to unionize and the owner with his guards and the sheriff Chapin’s deputies. The miterers hunkered down in blair mountain where hundreds of thousands of rounds were fired/
miners came from northern WV and Penn to support the miners. They rode on open flat bed train cars and wore red bandannas around their necks to avoid sun burn. They were called “red necks.”
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