Posted on 08/30/2023 10:54:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
A social media mob led by a race-baiting civil rights huckster incited calls for violent retribution after an allegedly racist cow won an award at the annual Wisconsin State Fair, forcing officials to issue a kowtowing public apology and blackball the offending bovine from the premises.
The cancel culture grilling started earlier this month when a fair-goer noticed the cow’s name and posted a picture on social media.
“We’re walking through the dairy barn, enjoying ourselves, and came across the nameplate and was kind of taken aback,” David Blake told a Wisconsin ABC affiliate.
“It’s one of those words, one of those few words that should be totally off limits. I mean, there’s a big one that we all know, and I think it’s on the same level,” he said.
Sensing an opportunity to kindle racial discord, the self-proclaimed Milwaukee’s Malcom X had a serious beef with the alleged racist cow and the white supremacists at the state fair who allowed it into the fold.
“Ummmm Wisconsin State Fair this s*** has to come down. ASAP,” Vaun L Mayes demanded on Facebook. “Quit playing in our face. We KNOW this term is derogatory.”
The cow, which won an award in the fair’s junior division for adolescents, was originally named Jigaboo, according to the image posted online. The largely outdated and obscure term would likely have gone unnoticed, until it was twisted into the twine used for a social media lynching.
“The ways they keep trying to disrespect us in our face,” accused one Facebook reply, while another demanded, “Dude what?? How many people let that shit slide? WTF”
The responses quickly escalated with calls for protests and a boycott, prompting officials to not only issue a groveling apology, but also boot the cow from the state fair.
“We do not tolerate or condone this behavior and took swift and deliberate action to rectify this situation,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “The exhibitor who showed this animal was part of our junior show and is no longer at the State Fair. We are sorry this happened and was not brought to our attention sooner.”
The apology did little to sate the online mob, and responses grew increasingly violent. “Out of all places they better stop playing they don’t want no Milwaukee brawl nie,” warned one activist.
Multiple posts referred to the mayhem wrought at a recent Alabama riverboat racial melee, where one black brawler was seen using a metal chair as a weapon.
“This a chair special waiting to happen,” threatened one poster outraged by the racist cow, while another encouraged activists to “Get the folding chair,” and another called for a “Caravan????” implying a march on the state fair, or perhaps a protest at the home of the adolescent who entered Jigaboo, which the family was forced to rename “Puzzle” and offer a public apology for “the racially insensitive term we used to name one of our cows,” in hopes of appeasing the mob.
“We now recognize that use of this word is unacceptable and harmful,” the statement added. “Immediately upon learning the meaning of this term, we changed the cow’s name. We are committed to educating ourselves further.”
The response was rebuffed, with one activist declaring “The cap has been thrown and WE got chairs on deck. What are WE waiting for?” Another Facebook post featured a folding chair used as a beacon call to action.
The manufactured race-baiting didn’t go unchallenged and received its own dose of backlash, with one commentator noting the hypocrisy of the outrage, writing “You got rid of the cow, Aunt Jemima syrup, and Uncle Ben’s rice. Y’all are on a roll!” Now, how about going after rap music that’s offensive to black women?”
When a commentator came to the family’s defense and offered a reasoning behind the cow’s moniker, Milwaukee’s Malcom X and his posse of race-agitators couldn’t let it drop.
“The cow’s name is an amalgamation of the names of the ‘parent’ cows: Sire (Male): Duckett Crush Tatoo Dam (Female): Milgene Beemer Jiggly,” a post explained, adding it was likely “this pre-teen girl doesn’t even know” what the archaic offensive term meant.
“This is a slang term that has been mostly out of favor, especially here in the north, since the 1950s. So, please, put your rainbow flags and pitchforks away and grow up,” the commentator advised.
“So how u get boo out of tattoo. try again muddasucka. The worst attempt to whitesplain ever,” whined Milwaukee’s Malcom X, and was backed by his acolytes. “Disgusting and All they gone do is lie we’re sick of the reasoning and lies too,” aped one.
The racist gaslighting led one commentator to exit the Facebook thread, putting a cap on the faux outrage and misplaced criticisms.
“The real Malcom X would laugh in Milwaukee’s Malcom X wannabes face for getting his panties in a wad over a child’s pet cow name rather than the real issues at hand,” the poster wrote.
Mark Pellin is an editor at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/sabrepaw70.
Ever say “the jig is up”??? Ummm
are you seriously trying to argue that “jigaboo” is not racist?
Oh, dear God, you’re not trying to peddle the notion that “jig” refers to “jigaboo.” “The jig is up” taken literally “the dance is over.”
Happens at every fair I’ve been to. Controversial names all over. Never had anyone ask the exhibitors to change or hide the name. (Lots during the Obama years) Guess you gotta find the correct activist to make a scene.
A cow named jigaboo,
that is funny.
my wife would not let me name our ring tailed cat Coon for some reason. Something about going outside to call him?
There was a farmer nearby (now deceased) who used to raise a few beef cattle for market. He had one exceptionally long legged cow he named, wait for it,
High stakes.
Thanks.
Another aspect of the story brought back nice memories for me.
My father loved horse racing, and routinely went to the track. When he did well, he’d come home with his pockets full of candy for the kids on the block, and two-dollar bills for me and my brother. He used to employ me to calculate from the newspaper racing results what the daily ‘number’ was. (He’s long dead and so is his bookie, so I guess it’s ok to tell that :-)
Once, he heard about a contest to win a thoroughbred foal, and to win, you had to come up with the best name for the baby.
As I recall, the sire was named ‘Porterhouse’, and the dam was ‘Lily’-something. He thought ‘Li’lFilet’ would be a good name.
I thought we should have won, dammit. (Though I have no idea what we’d have done with a racehorse...)
*sigh*
When I began riding, the club had a thoroughbred who was no good on the track, and was sold to the club. He was so tall and long-legged his back hooves would knick his front legs. He was named ‘Highway’.
He was a good, gentle horse; but hard to mount. (It’s been decades since I could do that...)
We had a cocker spaniel named ‘Blackie’..................
What do you call a cow on stilts?..........
RAISING THE STEAKS!..................
Never seen or heard this word before today. Looked it up and it has a negative racial connotation towards blacks. The family claims they didn’t know the meaning, apologized and changed the name. That should be enough, but apparently not for the mob.
How did we get to the point where threats of violence over a word is considered an acceptable response in civil discourse?
1971....................
Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
1> “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2> “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
3> “Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
4> “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
5> “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
6> “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
7> “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8> “Keep the pressure on.”
9> “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10> “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
11> “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.”
12> “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
13> “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
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