Posted on 03/13/2021 4:23:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
First it was Huck Finn. Then it was JK Rowling. Last week it was “The Muppet Show.” This week it’s Dumbo. It’s only a matter of time before “Star Wars” gets canceled and you know it.
Will Gen X please stand up? I have something I want to say to you — to us.
We grew up in a country that didn’t ban books. We all agreed that witch hunts and blacklists were bad. Censorship was an outrage. The 1980s were not that long ago. Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about.
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The Cancel Culture will love their Communist Chinese Masters, ... for a day or two.
Technically, I’m in at the tail-end of the Baby Boom. I don’t have a lot of respect for the average Baby Boomer. But Gen X has always struck me as a generation that was handed a somewhat raw deal and actually came out OK despite it. I certainly can’t think of any other generation that might have the fortitude to help turn to country around.
Like Gen X is going to save the future? Fuggetaboutit.
As a Gen xer (born in ‘76), one caveat: we are way outnumbered by the boomers and Millies/Zers.
The Muppet Show? Did they hurt Animal?
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The Muppet Show? Did they hurt Animal?
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I’m still trying to figure out what atrocity Dumbo committed. A funny little baby elephant that can fly. What’s wrong with that?
>>>I’m still trying to figure out what atrocity Dumbo committed<<<
Oh, that’s easy. You got an animal-of-color named Dumbo. They are saying that all colored peeps are dumb.
Exactly till the day the government decides they are of no use to them anymore and no safe space is big enough
Thanks for the vote of confidence, but to quote several of the books of wisdom on which we were raised:
This mess is so big and so deep and so tall, we can’t pick it up. There is no way at all.
They already have packed up Dr. Seuss and are undoubtedly rounding up a Thing or two.
Or to switch over to Robert McCloskey, “We’re going to have some weather. She’s a commin’. It’s gonna blow.”
Batten down the hatches.
A funny little baby elephant that can fly. What’s wrong with that?
He makes Zero look to be untalented given his natural endowments.
Just take it from Mammy and say “I ez free”.
I loved her. Still love her. A shame she’s been cancelled.
Yup
Most dont even act like we exist
At the last moment, they’ll push the Cancel Culture Crowd in with the muggles they canceled, slam the gulag gates closed behind them, and throw away the key.
Those of us born in the 80s and prior are the only hope. My wife believes the left showed their hand one generation too soon.
Time will tell.
2. I realized any sentence said on the news, tv, a commentary (even if not meant to be racist) sometimes will make me have that “ooohhh that's not going to go over well” thought
3. Even the most logical of conclusions or deductive inference based on cultural Norms is now “racist”. My local liquor store was recently robbed. The stole only the Hennessy and all the Newport cigarettes. When the manager pointed to this as his reasoning for suspecting a black man who frequently lurks nearby rather than a white man who had been unruly early, the cops said it was racially profiling and not relevant to the investigation.
4. When someone cuts me off, break checks me, or is just rude in general on the road... I feel guilty for thinking “bet they are black” but 99.99% I'm correct. ( I live in Atlanta area and it just is that way. My friends from the North or West even say they have never seen anything like it. That the narrative is we are racist here but it is the complete reverse and far more racist where they previously resided)
The point is, being someone who grew up during the original indoctrination of the 90’s and early 2000’s, I see how ingrained it is that I or anyone caucasian have racist intent on any logical thought, statements that could be misinterpreted, or cultural discussion. Even now I feel guilty for this comment. Questioning myself if someone will misinterpret my intent or sincerity of thought without labeling or dismissing it as racist.
X is too small to make the change by themselves. Conservatives need to cancel the corporations that buy into this garbage. For example, Disney stock should be nearing zero right now - as long as it isn’t, cancel culture’s victims are not taking their situation seriously enough.
Is fascism genetic?
An infectious Disease.?
Who’s working on the vaccine and or DNA splicing?
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