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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You may be right.
But I wouldn’t be able to catch the references. We didn’t have any of them around where I grew up.
Just Seagulls.
Speaking of seagulls—was the gag to change the mascot in your era? I trust you know the story.
Miss Piggy turned to Oprah to complain about the years of abuse (mental and physical) she and the rest of the Muppets suffered under Kermit’s tyrannical show-running.
“I let on like I’m a strong and independent woman—yes, woman!—but I’m also very vulnerable. Kermit held the purse-strings and Fozzy was his enforcer. *sniff!* They always had me in the most ridiculous costumes, playing the most outrageous roles, and didn’t pay me on a human scale like a star of my calibre commands! *honk!* And our relationship??? A sham! He was always after _moi!_ I, however, _loathed_ that frog. But what could I do? There was only one show for muppets. And it was syndicated! *sob!*”
GMTA - the crow scene & song was excised some time back but that wasn’t enough for the PC “woke” crowd.
It was canceled over the depiction of the “crows.”
I miss the Land o’ Lakes girl. I mean what harm did SHE pose?
Stefan Molyneux “cancel culture is a dress rehearsal for mass murder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L0dPKpfHRA
The mascot at MHS? I don’t believe I’ve heard of that. I remember the robin’s egg blue police cars with the screaming seagull on the city emblem. The Crossline Ferry boondoggle, that “Spirit of the Whatever” sculpture in the fountain in front of City Hall.... Around the time all of the hippie stuff got stuck on St. Monica’s. Coos Bay...the ‘70s boom time.
I am a Boomer and cannot say ONE WORD about politics or religion to my Gen X children. They don't want discourse. If you don't agree with them you are the enemy.
I love my kids, but to even get time with them I need to keep my mouth shut on politics, religion and pro police topics.
The only way to turn things is for the 80% silent majority to take over the agenda. I don't know how or if that can happen.
I have suggested to DJT Jr. on Twitter that he should convince his dad to run for House of Representatives in 2022, get selected as Speaker, fix the entire Federal electoral mess (at least), and then run for POTUS in 2024 (or be the spearhead for the Republican nominee).
St. Monica’s and art. Yep. They had a burlap banner inside that read “God is other people.” A priest who was filling in one Sunday correctly noted that the banner was missing a comma.
The Seagull mascot story goes something like this (I’m guessing at least one of Ralph Mohr, Deb Larsen, or Eleanor Dinkins could give a more accurate version). A group of students at MHS thought that it would be fun to propose to the school board that the mascot be changed to Seagulls—it was a lark, not serious, and while the student rep to the school board did his job with a straight face, it almost wasn’t a successful gag because nearly all of the school board members had children who were aware of the gag. However, one member, a Messerle, who was on the board in virtue of being a pillar of the community rather than having children immediately involved, was not in on the gag, treated it seriously, and was trying to figure out what was wrong with these people.
Sorry. I’m not eating the sh*t sandwich so the Boomers and Millenials can benefit. As a very early Gen X’er every single asset class was inflated — education, housing, etc. I’ve made my own way. And will defend it. Boomers and Millenials are cordially invited to go have sex with themselves. Some people are too stupid to be free.
As a Gen Xer myself, it pains me to say that we became politically, culturally, and socially irrelevant without ever even having much of a chance to *be* relevant in the first place. The proverbial brass ring got passed high over our heads from the boomers, directly to the snowflakes.
At best, GenX has the numbers and resources to offer itself up as a small, brief sacrifice in the cultural battles, but at the moment, wokeness has become a behemoth, unstoppable, steroid-fuelled monster.
GEN X has fought and done considerably well regarding our two most recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The bunch in power now are '60s and '70s "activists" who are pretty long in the tooth, assisted by their Prozac'd kids (Karens and Kevins) and Adderalled grandkids (dressed in black and rioting on a street near you).
When the Vietnam war ended, these "Summer of Love" goons hit the discos and a lot of them started making a lot of money (some of them billionaires we know very well). A lot of them got into politics, (we know them very well, too), to "change the system from within."
They realize -- as they regard the expensive prints of Mao and Che in their luxury apartments -- that their time is short now to get that stubborn "system" changed, so they're making their ridiculously-rushed last stand, and we're taking the brunt of it. It's even money if we'll still have a country when Gen X gets its turn at the wheel.
The threat posed by “cancel culture” to our entire cultural heritage is truly terrifying. I’m worried that it will move into sites such as ITunes, the Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg, thereby denying public access to thousands of online books, articles, movies and musical works.
And burlap. When I was a kid, burlap meant gunny sacks. Grain came in them, and they were hanging in the rails in my grandfather’s barn in Arkansas. Touch one, and mice went flying out of it. Come the ‘70s on the hip west coast, and burlap is wallpaper. Sand candles, toll painting....A couple of days ago. I found a roadkill marijuana plant across from St. Monica’s, on 7th. I guess hard drugs are decriminalized, as of the 1st of February. I’ll be curious to how that plays out. And we have lots of crows, now.
Have you seen the new logo/picture? It's the usual liberal "manifest destiny" solution; they got rid of the Indian and kept the land.
I guess if the Crows talked in a British accent they would NOT be racist?!
Unless they were crowns.
Wore...wore crowns.
The manner in which the Baby Boomer generation has wielded political power will go down in history as one of the most tyrannical periods in our nation’s history.
The Capitol is filled with too few who love our country enough to preserve it for the following generations.
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