Orchestral Manoeuvres No Longer in the Dark

Steyn On-line ^ | July 23, 2020 | Tal Bachman

[Twotone]

Pop quiz:

What's the most important thing about opera singer Luciano Pavarotti?

(A) He used his vocal gifts to bring joy to millions;

or

(B) He was white, and not black or Latino.

If you're a normal person, you'd choose option A. But if you're the New York Times chief classical music critic, Tony Tommasini (or some other equally lousy person), you choose B.

Tommasini last week published what might be the single worst arts piece ever published by the formerly revered, now auto-cannibalizing Gray Lady. And since I have no word limit on this column, I might as well add that in my imagination, the backstory to Tommasini's piece (about which more below) goes something like this.

[glennaro]

If you choose B, that race is the most important perspective of a person and that race determines behavior, then you are — by definition and action — a racist.

[Rastus]

Is this Randy Bachman’s son, Tal? Wow, never would have guessed he be on our side.

[Pajamajan]

B is the answer of a racist.

Captain Obvious:

"Racism can not be solved with racism".👍

[NobleFree]

Looks that way: “Singer-songwriter Tal Bachman made his debut as a SteynOnline guest columnist Thursday with a column and short story taking aim at the racist-masquerading-as-anti-racist push to end blind orchestra auditions.” - https://www.steynonline.com/10479/a-sennight-of-steyn-july-20-26

[Red6]

More of the same liberal philosophy - let’s be unfair to artificially create equality in outcomes not based on actual performance or talent.

Blind auditions, didn’t even know that’s how it was done.

A part of liberalism is in love with the idea of equality in outcomes in all aspects. They strive to create this in education, hiring, promotions, government institutions, arts and media... But they never focus on equality of opportunity, because today their idea of fairness is to be unfair regards opportunity in order to achieve their outcome or quota or goal or whatever other euphemism they use to disguise what really amounts to discrimination against whites, Asian and males predominantly.

[SunkenCiv]

Guess he’s been takin’ care of business.

[NobleFree]

Bachman’s “She’s So High” is a terrific pop-rock song - I crank the radio whenever it comes on. Guess now I’ll have to crank it even higher.

[Paladin2]

I forget to check the article author before reading.

I couldn’t tell it wasn’t Steyn until the “That sucks” observation.

Interesting...

[Sans-Culotte]

Good article. People asking for racial preferences in music are admitting that their preferred race can’t cut the mustard. Sad.

[NobleFree]

People asking for racial preferences in music are admitting that their preferred race can’t cut the mustard.

As the article points out, those races probably don't even like mustard.

[SuperLuminal]

"...published by the formerly revered, ..."

Dang! Is Mark on drugs now?

I have clear memories of the NYSlimes going back to the 1930's and it was, then and since, "revered" only by practicing communists, nazis, and various fellow travelers...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Yes it is and here he is;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElORM9O-0U

[xp38]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElORM9O-0U

[cgbg]

Agreed on the NY Slimes—that newspaper was disgusting when my grandfather used to read it when I was knee high to him...

[Gene Eric]

Tony Tommasini is evidently a racist.

But the Merriam Webster dictionary is about to provide Tony cover by defining that only Whites are racists, and likewise can never be the victims of racism.

[zadox]

[hanamizu]

“He was white, and not black or Latino.”

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Where was Latin spoken, I wonder?

[A_Former_Democrat]

If only Archibald Cox and the supreme court understood that

[Tax-chick]

*snicker*

You know you’re in Bizarro World when an Italian in Italy isn’t “Latino,” but an Italian in Argentina is “Latino.”