‘Back to the Future’ Musical Cuts Movie’s More Problematic Elements - "The band member — “Marvin Berry” — is seen calling his “cousin” in the movie and holding up the phone so that Chuck could hear this mysterious kid play this rollicking new song. The implication, of course, was that rock & roll was invented by — Marty McFly. That wasn’t a good look in 1985, and it’s an even worse one now. The performance is replicated in the stage production, but even though Marty still plays “Johnny B. Goode,” that unfortunate phone call has gone the way of landlines. Charles Berry Jr., Berry’s son, says he was unaware that the telephone gag was cut from the musical version. But according to Berry, neither that scene from the movie, nor anything else about the cinematic Back to the Future, bothered his father or anyone in the family, and he laughs off the appropriation accusations. “In my perspective, I know the facts,” he says. “My family knows the facts. The world knows the facts. It’s a movie. We didn’t think of any appropriations, didn’t think it was any rip-off. In fact, our stance was, ‘This is fantastic! Nearly 30 years later, this is in a movie!’ You can’t beat that.” Four decades on, though, Berry does still have to field questions about his dad’s fictitious “cousin Marvin.” Other than the quintessential high school bully Biff, who’s like Shrek’s evil twin, the villains in the Back to the Future movie were Libyan terrorists, depicted as Middle Eastern caricatures in a VW van who seek revenge on Doc for bilking them out of their plutonium. When they find him, they shoot him dead. In the musical, any and all international bad guys have been vanquished"
Nothing is safe
Meme - Dr. Katja Thieme @Katja_Thieme: "Hey, want to know one of my all time excellent parenting ideas? Let. Little. Children. See. Penises. And. Vulvas. Of. Various. Ages. And. Sizes. In. A. Casual. Normalized. Totally. Safe. Way. The world will thank you for it. And so will those children when they grow up."
Dr. Katja Thieme: "katjathieme.bsky.social #WritingStudies #GenreStudies #CanLit "The epitome of the hysterical left wing!" Pronouns on chest: she/they"
It's a right wing myth that the left wants children to see genitals
Meme - Scott Greer 6'2" IQ 187 @ScottMGreer: "Even though the jury acquitted this magical youth of murder, they still felt bad they convicted him of anything. It's increasingly difficult for juries to convict blacks for the murder of whites. Our culture demands juries sympathize more with the assailant than with the victim"
"THE BALTIMORE SUN
One juror, a woman, was in tears as she left the courtroom Thursday. She looked at the teen and mouthed "I'm sorry."
The Baltimore Sun @baltimoresun Jul 27
A Baltimore jury on Thursday found a 16-year-old guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a man who confronted a group of squeegee workers with a baseball bat last July. The jury, however, acquitted the teen of first- and second-degree murder."
Meme - "Blacks When you make fun of other races *happy*
Blacks When you make fun of them *Upset*
Whites When you make fun of other races *Upset*
Whites When you make fun of them *Upset*
Latinos When you make fun of other races *happy*
Lationos When you make fun of them *happy*"
Meme - ">be me
>be chinese
>be from singapore
>get darktide
>oh cool i can make characters any way i want
>make the ogryn look chinese, because im chinese
>named it with my anglicized chinese name
>gets heckled and called a racist by some white kid
>tried to talk in vc to reassure him that im chinese
>he assumed i was making an offensive accent
>why are westerners like this
>pic related"
Meme - "Getting accepted law school low l...
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Racism or legit concern? Father of biracial kids gets secret paternity test because one is darker - "Doubting the paternity of a child solely based on their skin color is an act rooted in racism, as it fails to consider the intricacies of genetic inheritance."
I know a case where the paternity was doubted based on skin colour... and the doubts were founded
Meme - Daniel Oles: "Huh...I wonder why Leonardo Di Vinci didn't get a Google doodle, but all of these other people did? Mysterious..."
On iFunny someone claimed they did something for his 553rd birthday. But that was in 2005, before they went woke. So that proves the point
Meme - Sarah Campbell: "After an earnest chat about "tone deaf" being offensive to the hard of hearing, my editing FB group are now having a woke circle jerk over "spineless": offensive to people with spina bifida. They suggested "weak" as an alternative, but someone with lupus was offended (really). Oh an apparently "gutless" is out cos what about people with ulcerative colitis?! Newspeak is gonna be fucking dry."
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔 on Twitter - "Did you know that the ADL considers 17% of the numbers between 0-100 hate symbols? 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 28, 33, 38, 43, 52, 83, 88, 90 Try to avoid using numbers like this or people might think you're a bigot"
Meme - Soyjak in SS Uniform with Pride colours, BLM fist & Covid Vaccine Syringes: "Why can't you fascists just do what the government tells you!"
Meme - "Professionals are done code switching
By Ruiqi Chen, Editor at LinkedIn News
Code switching - or changing behavior and speech for others' comfort - is often used by Black people and other racial groups in majority-white spaces. Though remote work has provided a reprieve from constant code switching, many still feel the need to hide their true self in order to be taken seriously. Ina viral post on Linkedin, marketing manager Buku Ibraheem shares her decision to speak authentically, prompting other Linkedin members to detail their experiences. See her viral post below and join conversation by leaving a comment."
"I do not code switch at work anymore, stopped subscribing to that a long time ago. I be in meetings like "nah, that's hella dope." and sending emails like, "okay, bet." I am who I is."
Clearly racial differences in income are due to racism. And obviously in marketing, language is unimportant
Meme - "Someone just called my son "gay" and he responded "I'm straighter than the pole your mom dances on". I'm not intervening"
Liberals don't understand gaming culture and just dismiss it as "toxic", "migosynistic", "homophobic" etc
Meme - Kris Chievous: "Meh. Marginalized groups routinely get zucchini'd for calling out oppressive trends. That's different from when privileged jerks get zucchini'd for being gross and bigoted in public. And it's correct that the consequences should be different, because they are two very different choices based in two very different power dynamics."
Power relations means never having to say you're sorry
‘Kill the Boer’ Song Fuels Backlash in South Africa and U.S. - The New York Times - "“Kill the Boer!” Julius Malema chanted, referring to white farmers. The crowd in a stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday roared back in approval. A video clip of that moment shot across the internet and was seized upon by some Americans on the far right, who said that it was a call to violence. That notion really took off when Elon Musk, the South African-born billionaire who left the country as a teenager, chimed in. “They are openly pushing for genocide of white people in South Africa,” Mr. Musk, who is white, wrote on Monday on Twitter, the platform he now controls... Mr. Malema leads the Economic Freedom Fighters, a party that advocates taking white-owned land to give to Black South Africans. That has made his embrace of the chant all the more disturbing to some whites. Despite the words, the song should not be taken as a literal call to violence, according to Mr. Malema and veterans and historians of the anti-apartheid struggle. It has been around for decades, one of many battle cries of the anti-apartheid movement that remain a defining feature of the country’s political culture... Bongani Ngqulunga, who teaches politics at the University of Johannesburg, recalled struggle songs from the apartheid days in which people proclaimed they were going to march to Pretoria, the capital city, or that Nelson Mandela would be released from prison the next morning. The people singing those songs were not actually planning to march to Pretoria, nor did they really think that Mr. Mandela was about to be released, he said. Similarly, he said, the phrase “kill the Boer” — the word means farmer in Dutch and Afrikaans — is not meant to promote violence against individual farmers. “It was a call to mobilize against an oppressive system,” Mr. Ngqulunga said... Mr. Malema, who thrives on provocation, projected a blasé attitude toward the criticism. “Bring it on small boy,” he wrote in a Tweet to Mr. Steenhuisen. Asked during a news conference on Wednesday about Mr. Musk’s comment, Mr. Malema responded: “Why must I educate Elon Musk? He looks like an illiterate. The only thing that protects him is his white skin.” Mr. Malema emphasized a court ruling last year that said he was within his rights to chant “kill the Boer.” “I will sing this song as and when I feel like,” he said. Just over a decade ago, a South African judge ruled that the song was hate speech and prohibited Mr. Malema, then the leader of the A.N.C. youth league, from singing it. But after being booted from the party and founding the E.F.F., Mr. Malema sang the song publicly again. AfriForum, an organization that advocates for the interests of Afrikaners, descendants of South Africa’s white colonizers, took Mr. Malema to court. Last year, Judge Edwin Molahlehi ruled that AfriForum had “failed to show that the lyrics in the songs could reasonably be construed to demonstrate a clear intention to harm or incite to harm and propagate hatred.”... Mr. Malema testified during that court proceeding that the lyrics should not be interpreted literally. The song, he told the court, was directed toward the government’s failure to address a disparity in land ownership between Black and white South Africans."
Calls to kill people from a certain race aren't racist when liberals hate that race. Meanwhile if you say it's okay to be white, it means you're racist
Violent rhetoric is good when it comes from "minorities"
Meme - "TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN.
News: RACIST AND INCITING VIOLENCE @
WokelyConect
KILL THE WHITE FARMER!
News: Just a song, don't take it literally"
Lorgaire on X - "Came across a strange conspiracy theory regarding this photo of a girl with 'human pups.' I've seen multiple claims (all without evidence) that this image is:
1. from the Folsom Street SF event (18+)
2. Photoshopped
*Young pre-pubescent girl holding Pride flag with 2 men dressed as dogs in leather fetish gear from Montreal Pride Parade 2019*
There is no evidence this image is from Folsom Street. We have multiple videos of this exact group of pups performing in front of/to children along the 2019 Montreal Pride Parade route. The odd thing is how resolved people are to lie about this image being 'debunked.' When presented with photo/video evidence, they continue to claim the points above.
Here's a video where this group is performing in the main parade route where children are present (@ 28.48) Here's a video that covers the parade from a single position, where these pups/masters follow the same route as Trudeau. There is no 'adult-only' area for kink as some have claimed... Here's a video of the pup in the blue/orange mask receiving pets from a young girl. The timing of the uploads of these videos/photos coincides with the Montreal Pride parade on August 18, 2019. We have evidence of this group performing with children present along the parade route, and videos that suggest this group is exclusive to Montreal. Until someone provides evidence for the claim the image is from a Folsom Street event or is somehow Photoshopped, we should not believe it has been 'debunked.' If you're going to claim something is Photoshopped, at the very least provide the original image it's based on. Adding a couple details to the origins of this image. The earliest post I found was from Facebook. It was posted one day after the 2019 Montreal Pride Parade. This post references the original Facebook post of the image, which has now been deleted. I finally found the pup group, and they are using the picture (and art based on it) in their activism.
Here we go. The image is not from Folsom Street Fair. It is also not Photoshopped. One of the pups says, "The pic was taken in 2019 at Montréal." He later links to the photographer, who has this photo on his profile. *different photo of young pre-pubescent girl holding Pride flag with 2 men dressed as dogs in leather fetish gear from Montreal Pride Parade 2019, clearly showing it's not photoshopped*"
When you short circuit NPCs' routines, they malfunction and continue to repeat the narrative
Addendum: Screenshot of 2019 post, with mirror / another link
Houston Community College faces $100M alleged racial discrimination lawsuit - "The lawsuit alleges that, under the leadership of Chancellor Cesar Maldonado and the Human Resources director Janet May, Hispanic people received preferential treatment. A news release notes that the lawsuit “contains an actual email chain created shortly after Maldonado’s appointment, which states ‘Now we (Hispanic people) are going to receive preferential treatment.’” “The Plaintiff is the victim of a well-developed, systematic, entrenched and wildly successful campaign of race and sex discrimination against top level Black employees at HCC. This dreadful ‘campaign’ has resulted in the dismissal, demotion and/or termination of Blacks at alarming disproportionate rates,” the lawsuit reads. The news release says the suit alleges since Maldonado’s arrival, 90% of the longtime Black professionals at HCC have either been terminated or demoted, while there has been a 50% increase in Hispanic hires and promotions. The suit also claims while 90% of tenured and experienced Black employees have been displaced, only 10% of similarly tenured white employees have been displaced. The news release says the lawsuit also alleges Maldonado and May used a variety of tactics to get rid of Black employees. “These tactics include, among many others: telling a black male that a white woman’s word was more truthful than his word; when a white person complains, believing them, but if a black person complains doubting them unless corroborated; ‘padding’ black employee personnel files with false complaints to be used later as pretexts for firing them; when black employees are accused of sexual harassment, believing the complainant – but if the complaint is made by a black person, doubting them until HHC can corroborate; using the term ‘transformation’ as a cover for getting rid of black employees; and forcing black employees to take leaves of absence without cause to later use as grounds to terminate the black employee,” the new release read."
The power of intersectionality!
When you run out of white people to villainise
Russia to Build Village for Americans Tired of Liberals: State Media - "Russia is floating an idea to build a village for hundreds of American and Canadian families who want to run away from the cultural climate in North America. The village, slated for construction in Moscow's suburbs in 2024, is meant for conservative families who want to "emigrate for ideological reasons," said immigration lawyer Timur Beslangurov"
ms.pretty on X - "White people staring at me my biggest pet peeve... like yes we're free"
When they just hate white people
Meme - EmmaKate @monkeys4anarchy: "Tbh this is really insensitive, people have peanut allergies and gluten intolerances and you're out here acting like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a universal experience" the italianman @mustachetoilet: "who remembers eating these"
Meme - "Pride month in the Middle East. *stones*"
Meme - Godless Mom: "Book - "Women and minorities have the same rights as you"
Tom wearing MAGA Hat: *upset*"
"Then why are they complaining"
"But I thought we're still fighting for equal rights? Hmmmm"
Native American group threatens boycott 'similar to Anheuser Busch' if Commanders ignore name petition - "In a letter to the Washington Commanders Monday, the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) demanded a meeting with the team’s new ownership to discuss a controversial name change. The letter is the latest step in the organization’s “Reclaim the Name” campaign, which seeks to bring back the team’s previously retired “Redskins” monicker. A petition supporting the effort boasts over 60,000 signatures as of Monday night, a figure which matches the seating capacity of the Commanders’ FedEx Field. NAGA’s President of Global Impact Campaigns, Healy Baumgardner, told The National Desk Monday that the organization has repeatedly ignored such meeting requests... Though the name change was done in an effort not to alienate Native American football fans, NAGA says the majority of Native Americans feel disrespected by the change. “In terms of changing the name Redskins, the Native American community was never asked how they felt about it”"
Ayishat Akanbi on X - "It’s naive to think that you wouldn’t have taken part in historical atrocities once considered normal if you embrace all the trendy ideas of today."
Meme - Salon @Salon: "Forget About "Latino" - why I'm all for "Latinx," and you should be, too"
Salon @Salon: "Stop using "Latinx" if you really want to be inclusive"
Political correctness: a tyranny of the minority - "The list of words you’re not supposed to say and opinions you’re not supposed to hold grows larger by the day. The rise of PC culture means that many people feel they have to walk on eggshells to avoid causing offence. New polling from the Pew Research Center shows that the public has had enough. Majorities of people in the UK, the US and France beli
eve that people today are too easily offended... while those who are easily offended may shout the loudest, they do not represent the majority" ‘Most ethnic minorities are not woke’ - "Jilani: If you rolled back the clock by five or six years, you would primarily see woke ideas about race in fringe corners of academia or the media. But since then, there has been an escalation, to the point where we now see adherence to this ideology at high levels of corporate America, in substantial portions of the news media and even among some people in government. We have to mount an opposition to that. The majority of people just don’t buy into these ideas. But history has shown us that a small and committed minority can enact enormous and dangerous social change if there’s no organised pushback or resistance... One of the axioms of society is that if you hold any kind of power, you must use it responsibly. If you are head of a business, principal at a school, leader of a team at work or president of the US, you are expected to have a certain level of accountability for the power that you use and people place expectations on how you will use it. But when you assign a whole group victimhood status, you remove those expectations. You deny them the ability to develop themselves and to obtain and exercise power. Growing up as someone from an ethnic-minority background, I really benefited from other people holding me to very high standards. But as John McWhorter has highlighted, in many school environments people are now saying that kids from certain racial backgrounds should not be expected to do things like mathematics in the same way as other kids. If that’s the expectation, these minority kids will never be able to develop themselves into the next Neil deGrasse Tyson. It will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, because they will develop a mentality which sees the world as stacked against them. It’s also important to note that most people from minority backgrounds don’t adhere to this ideology. Most of them are not very woke. If you look at polling, it tends to be the case that Hispanic Americans, African Americans and recent immigrants are more patriotic than these progressive activists. I think a lot of them feel like this is a very patronising, dehumanising ideology that tries to describe their life through narrow categories rather than seeing the whole picture... There is a media tendency to see interactions between white people and non-white people as governed by the racial identities of the two. People assumed that there had to have been some kind of racial hatred in these shootings. But not everybody walks around thinking of themselves as a member of a ‘racial group’, in opposition to another."
Millennials Are Not an Exception. They’ve Moved to the Right. - The New York Times - "Over the last decade, almost every cohort of voters under 50 has shifted rightward."
Clearly this shows that there's a huge Nazi problem, not that the left has gone bonkers
Jack Poso 🇺🇸 on X - "White people are the only ones who are supposed to hate their own race in order to be considered good people Whiteness is the only culture identified by those outside it and not those who are part of it And white culture is the only one where hatred of it is considered a virtue"
Meme - "Canada in the world's history books *Thomas the Tank Engine*
Canada in the Netherland's history books *Jesus*
Canada in Canada's history books *Monster Thomas*"
Debate Erupts at N.J. Law School After White Student Quotes Racial Slur - The New York Times - "The controversy over the use of a racial slur that has embroiled a public law school in New Jersey began with a student quoting from case law during a professor’s virtual office hours. The first-year student at Rutgers Law School in Newark, who is white, repeated a line from a 1993 legal opinion, including the epithet, when discussing a case. What followed has jolted the state institution, unleashing a polarizing debate over the constitutional right to free speech on campus and the power of a hateful word at a moment of intense national introspection over race, equity and systemic bias... a group of Black first-year students at Rutgers Law began circulating a petition calling for the creation of a policy on racial slurs and formal, public apologies from the student and the professor, Vera Bergelson. “At the height of a ‘racial reckoning,’ a responsible adult should know not to use a racial slur regardless of its use in a 1993 opinion,” states the petition, which has been signed by law school students and campus organizations across the country... Any public use of a racial epithet can carry a risk of steep professional consequences. The head of the journalism department at Central Michigan University was fired last year after using the same slur when quoting from a lawsuit. An Emory University law school professor was placed on administrative leave for more than a year after using the word in discussions with students about race. Rutgers officials willing to talk openly about their opposition to the students’ demands have said that the school, as a public institution, has a greater obligation to safeguard students’ and teachers’ First Amendment right to free speech. “I don’t think the Law School should have rules that are stricter than the Constitution of the United States,” said Dennis M. Patterson, a professor. Professor Lopez and his co-dean, Kimberly Mutcherson, said in a statement that the discussion underway had nothing to do with “stifling academic freedom, ignoring the First Amendment, or banning words.” Rather, they said, it was about “how best to create classroom environments in which all of our students feel seen, heard, valued and respected.”... Samantha Harris, the lawyer representing the woman, said the school would be abdicating its responsibility to train lawyers if it encouraged professors to avoid epithets in all contexts. “When you’re an attorney, you hear all kinds of horrible things,” said Ms. Harris, a former fellow at FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. “You represent people who have said horrible things, who have done horrible things,” she said. “You can’t guarantee a world free of offensive language.”"
Clearly we need to rewrite history and pretend words were never said
Obviously if you use a word and get fired, that does not mean your free speech is threatened