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Pointless: 40th anniversary of biggest white chimpout
Pitchfork.com ^ | 06/11/2019 | Michelle Kim

Posted on 06/13/2019 7:09:09 AM PDT by Bonemaker

This Thursday (June 13), the Chicago White Sox are giving away 10,000 t-shirts to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night, Chicago journalist Robert Feder notes. Written on the t-shirt is: “The Night That Records Were Broken.” The shirt is available as part of the team’s Free T-Shirt Thursdays promotion. According to Feder, Steve Dahl, the radio jockey who stirred up anti-disco sentiment by destroying records, will throw out the game’s honorary first pitch.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: demolition; disco
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1 posted on 06/13/2019 7:09:09 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Bonemaker

Ah yes, Disco Demolition night.

Bad Coho Lips. Very bad.

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2 posted on 06/13/2019 7:10:46 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Bonemaker

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night


3 posted on 06/13/2019 7:11:19 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Bonemaker

What’s a chimpout?


4 posted on 06/13/2019 7:12:38 AM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy."--Walter Williams)
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To: Huntress

I would think the added adjective would tell you all you need to know...


5 posted on 06/13/2019 7:14:08 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Bonemaker

I had a ‘Disco Sucks’ bumper sticker on my car back then.

Only bumper sticker I’ve ever had on a vehicle............


6 posted on 06/13/2019 7:14:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Huntress

People acting like chimpanzees in a jungle..............


7 posted on 06/13/2019 7:14:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Lurker

Insane Coho Lips!


8 posted on 06/13/2019 7:15:44 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Huntress

Find some videos of the 2015 Freddie Gray Death riots in Baltimore. Or the riots in Ferguson. Or any Friday or Saturday night mall disturbances on YouTube.


9 posted on 06/13/2019 7:16:47 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Bonemaker

From the article:

“NPR has written that Disco Demolition Night has come “to be seen as a not-so-subtle attack against disco’s early adopters: blacks, Latinos and gay people.”

Unbelievable.


10 posted on 06/13/2019 7:18:19 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Huntress

Despite the replies stating otherwise, it is a derogatory term used to call any public display of a lack of self-control by anyone that is black. Fight, argument, whatever.

Obviously the term “chimp” is used in place of the more well known “monkey”.

Yeah, It’s a dumb term.


11 posted on 06/13/2019 7:20:50 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Lurker

Disco sucked.


12 posted on 06/13/2019 7:28:47 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Huntress

>What’s a chimpout?

Like what happened in Memphis


13 posted on 06/13/2019 7:29:05 AM PDT by nevadapatriot
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To: Huntress

Bad, wild, uncontrollable, destructive, riotous, dangerous behavior by a large group of people.

See democratic national convention Chicago 1968, disco demolition Chicago 1979, English football hooliganism etc.


14 posted on 06/13/2019 7:30:44 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

“WZAZ in Chicago, where disco lives forever...” *CRASH*

Disco sucked then, and it sucks now.


15 posted on 06/13/2019 7:31:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: V_TWIN

Like the Bee Gees, Saturday Night Fever, Travolta, Newton John, etc.


16 posted on 06/13/2019 7:33:27 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker
IIRC DDN happened in mid July, so they're a month too early to mark the 40th.

IMO DDN marked the beginning of the real-life last days of disco.

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17 posted on 06/13/2019 7:33:50 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: foreverfree

Don Corleone was there in disguise!!!!


18 posted on 06/13/2019 7:38:28 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: NorthMountain

True, but it sounds pretty good in contrast with cRap and hiphop.


19 posted on 06/13/2019 7:47:30 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Bonemaker
Don't like disco? No problem. Here, have some RAP music!


20 posted on 06/13/2019 7:48:42 AM PDT by CtBigPat (Qanon - Please be real...)
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