Posted on 02/02/2019 6:33:58 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Mary Poppins branded racist by US academic - for 'blacking up' in iconic sweeps' rooftop scene
US Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner criticised the classic Mary Poppins film
The academic criticises the film in an article published in the New York Times
In one scene Mary Poppins's face is covered with soot after going up a chimney
Professor Pollack-Pelzner writes: 'Her face gets covered with soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks and gets even blacker'
By Chris Hastings for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 17:38 EST, 2 February 2019 | Updated: 20:17 EST, 2 February 2019
Dame Julie Andrewss performance as Mary Poppins is racist, says a US academic who accuses her of blacking up when her face is covered with soot as she dances with chimney sweeps.
The scene in which Poppins joins Dick Van Dykes Bert and his fellow sweeps on a rooftop for the song Step In Time is one of the best-loved moments in the 1964 Disney classic.
But writing in the New York Times under the headline Mary Poppins, and a Nannys Shameful Flirting With Blackface, Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner attacks the scene. Not surprisingly, the films legions of devoted fans have reacted with disbelief.
The literature professor acknowledges that Poppinss face is covered with soot because she has gone up the chimney with her charges, Michael and Jane Banks.
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True...very true
No someone pays him to INDOCTRINATE college students...
Ask yourself, why now? I mean, what is the magical significance of racism which is constantly invoked NOW?
In past times, there were widely deployed social policies which could fairly be called racist (although I do not concede that word has an actual fixed meaning).
But thats in the distant past. The results of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, etc. on Black well being can be evaluated.
Things are not getting better. They are getting worse, and quickly, too.
Is this because Ralph Northam is a racist? Is this because not hiring Colin Kaepernick is racist? Is it because a rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask is racist? Or is it Mary Poppins?
Of course not.
The racists in American multicultural society play the same role the wreckers played in the USSR. That is to say, they are put forward as the cause for the failure of some imaginary form of social organization which does not work - because the obvious conclusion - that it cannot work - is against the interests of the New Class which profits from it.
Shining a laser pointer and letting the prof go nuts chasing the red dot would do the trick.
If there are enough faculty in need of this kind of distraction, waving the laser pointers might be a good career field for grievance studies majors. They would need some additional training, of course, and probably a specialized degree, but it would be at about their intellectual level.
We’re making fun of the professor, but we should not forget that his article appeared in the New York Times. Newspapers used to have editors with the sense to say, “This is too stupid to print, except on April Fools Day.” But the press has followed academic journals in the woke disciplines deep into the rabbit hole.
This is why whites, imo should never acknowledge there is any racism from whites. We need to stand together, because we are the only ones targeted.All in an attempt to steal our nation.
It seems your technique might work well. He would probably follow it under a table...
I am careful to NEVER use the term racist. I use the term “anti-white”. And I only ever refer to such actions against my people because that is all I am concerned with.
+1
Clearly what we have here is a major case of cognitive dissonance.
Truly.
We are the Universe contemplating itself.
And right now it may be contemplating whether this solar system is due for (another) major douching. :)
To be administered to, of course, Uranus.
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