tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post8176374132085759437..comments2024-03-14T16:57:29.045-04:00Comments on Whisky Prajer: "Great: MORE Liberal Guilt!" The Rock 'n' Roll Editiondpreimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09905531259256800022noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-46905607272244950292017-01-25T12:21:39.290-05:002017-01-25T12:21:39.290-05:00When I started writing, I wanted this to be funny ...When I started writing, I wanted this to be funny -- "Awright! Rock 'n' Roll is <i>transgressive</i> again!" But the further I explored this business of "identity politics" the tireder I got. I rallied enough to get these words down, but only just.<br /><br />Clicked over to <a href="https://viewpointmag.com/2017/01/06/white-purity/" rel="nofollow">this piece</a> on my daily links, btw. Nice to see someone "non-white" take the piss out of this ridiculous and pathetic high-n-mighty "liberal" posturing.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-56589634219140670842017-01-25T11:29:45.672-05:002017-01-25T11:29:45.672-05:00My daughter is in college at the moment, so I'...My daughter is in college at the moment, so I've got a first-hand view of what passes for a "liberal arts education" these days. Since all the dead white guys were shown the proverbial door, and now the white guys who don't have the decency to be gay are considered hardened criminals responsible for all the ills of the world, all that remains is minor modern authors whose qualifications have to do with their placement on the scale of goodness according to the Identity Politics movement. In short, Shakespeare need not apply. (And, in effect, "liberal education" as it was once defined, probably no longer exists.) <br /><br />Everything is reduced to race (which is often conflated with national identity origins), sexual preference, and gender. (Which includes the bugaboo you mention: cultural appropriation.) That's why some on the left, particularly squeaky wheel journalists, missed the larger narrative of the last American election. While the guy who won did say some sexist things and some inappropriate things about Mexican citizens (which weren't racist, as "Mexican" is not a race), those weren't the primary or central problems with what he said. The old saying that if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, applies here. Yes, bigotry based on the characteristics of your person is wrong and we should not accept it, but there are many more things that matter as well, such as what you do and what you say (about everything, not just the holy trinity of Identity Politics). <br /><br />So, I wrote all that to write this: if some choose to fixate on the skin color of musicians when that fact has no relevance (because sometimes it does), and state things like, "Geez, only the white guys are still around," what are we really supposed to do with that statement? Feel bad? Refute it with lists of rock/pop stars who aren't white who are still around (Lionel Richie, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz, for starters)? <br /><br />Or, can we be reasonable and logical, and say, "Oh Honey (yes, that's a HIMYM reference), what does that have to do with anything?"<br /><br />I'll choose the latter, though I'm sure I'll get some SnowFlakeSplaining for my efforts. Yahmdallah Bjorknickerfodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15222408419642040554noreply@blogger.com