The Canceling Culture Is Not About Culture--It's About Power and Control Over You

(from 2020:)

Mark Steyn: "Ours is an age of stunted vengeful hacks who cannot create anything new but only wreck everything old, and have now determined to erase everything beyond their own shriveled imaginations."

"The March of the Morons has breached the gates of Disneyland:

Disney's Splash Mountain ride, the famous log flume that's popular at both the Disneyland and Disney World theme parks, is getting a facelift. And not just any ol' facelift, but a major one that will finally scrub Splash Mountain of its ties to Walt Disney's infamously insensitive 1946 film Song of the South.

The Walt Disney Parks division announced Thursday that a project to "completely reimagine" Splash Mountain began last year, and that the ride's new theme is inspired by Disney's 2009 animated film The Princess and the Frog. The film notably stars Disney's first black princess, Tiana, who arrived 72 years after Snow White kicked off the Disney Princess canon.

Among the victims of the "re-imagining" is this once beloved song, a three-decade fixture at Splash Mountain complete with special lyrics. ...

When you're told you can no longer sing a song, the only response is to cry "Encore!" and bellow it even louder. So here from a couple of years back is my Song of the Week essay on "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"...

Song of the South was a rather bold film in its day. The leading man was a black actor, and indeed the first such ever to win an Oscar. And, even more striking, the trio of young tykes capering through the picture is, as we would now say, multiracial. Walt Disney was so anxious to avoid accusations of "Uncle Tomism" he hired Maurice Rapf, a Jewish Communist, to work on the script and keep it sufficiently au courant with enlightened thinking on the racial question. Mr Rapf was so up to the minute in progressive thinking that shortly before the picture's release he was outed as a Red by The Hollywood Reporter and became more or less the original blacklisted screenwriter. (He would up teaching Film Studies down the road from me at Dartmouth College.)

All this ultimately availed Disney naught. Joel Chandler Harris' rendering of Negro dialect came to be seen as "stereotyping", and, notwithstanding that the movie is set in the Reconstruction south rather than the slavery era, the scenes of plantation life were offensively idyllic to those who can't tell late-nineteenth-century dress from antebellum garb. So Song of the South is the only Disney feature never to be released on video or DVD, and thus has the distinction of being an early victim of our culture's intolerance of anything non-conforming to the pieties of the last three days.".......

Tucker:  "These are definitely not protestors. They're not even rioters. They're the armed militia of the Democrat Party (the role once played by the Klan). They're working to overthrow our system of government. They're trying to put themselves in power. That's all obvious now. Also true: these people are idiots. For real. The angry children you watch setting fire to Wendy's and screaming at you on television day after day are truly and utterly stupid. There has probably never been a dumber group gathered in one place in American History. They Know Nothing.".......

The mobs are indeed knuckle-dragging morons--even ISIS could tell you why they were tearing down a statue. But the Communist perverts and cop-killers who are running this operation for Soros and his Democrat Globalists aren't stupid. Just evil.

Insty: "FINALLY: Feds warn UCLA about disciplining professor who read N-word from MLK letter.

The US Department of Education has warned UCLA it could face fines if it disciplines a political science professor who read the N-word from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
Lecturer W. Ajax Peris, an Air Force veteran, has been under investigation since early this month. UCLA Political Science Chair Michael Chwe and two others in his department had blasted Peris in an email, agreeing with students’ complaints that he didn’t “pause and reassess [his] teaching pedagogy” after objections to the N-word.
An apology from Peris did little to assuage students and faculty. According to Fox News, Chwe and company alleged Peris’s act of contrition “escalated the situation rather than engaging in […] thoughtful and open discourse.”
The DOE informed UCLA that Peris has been “improperly and abusively targeted.”

Universities need adult supervision these days, and while I’d rather that not be the case, the DoE and DOJ need to provide some.".......

David Marcus:  "The first black actor to ever win an Oscar did so for her part in ‘Gone With Wind,’ and she does not deserve to have that performance disappeared.

Hattie McDaniel is one the greatest and most inspiring success stories in Hollywood history. But hers is a story we have become uncomfortable telling, which is very sad. Born of parents who had both been slaves, her father a Union soldier in the Civil War, McDaniel cut her teeth and earned her chops originally in early 20th Century Minstrel Shows. But now it is no longer sufficient to erase the Minstrel Show, now the performance that netted the first Academy Award for a black actor must also be toppled and hid away like some statue of a Confederate general.  This is truly a case where the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater. This is part of a broader erasure of black performers from the first decades of the 20th Century.  HBO promises that the ‘Gone With The Wind’ will return, eventually placed in some kind of context. Perhaps a panel discussion appended to the movie, or a warning label, who really knows? But who are they protecting and from what? Americans know that slavery was brutal and evil; they aren’t going to watch the movie and suddenly think it was fine. That we can watch this phenomenal award-winning performance from a child of slaves is little short of a miracle. " .......

The Lid: Hey Cancel Culture: The Butter Maiden You Killed Was NOT A Stereotype

It Was Created By A Native American To Honor His People

by Wes Walker And Jeff Dunetz

Red Lake Ojibwe artist Patrick DesJarlait circa 1971. Source Indian Country Today

Mia was originally created for Land O’Lakes packaging in 1928. In 1939, she was redesigned as a native maiden kneeling in a farm field holding a butter box. In 1954, my father, Patrick DesJarlait, redesigned the image again.

My father had been interested in art since boyhood, when he drew images related to his Ojibwe culture. After leaving Pipestone boarding school in Minnesota in 1942, he joined the Navy and was assigned to San Diego, where he worked alongside animation artists from MGM and Walt Disney producing brochures and films for the war effort. In 1946, he established himself as one of the first modernists in American Indian fine art.

After I was born in 1946, my family moved from Red Lake, Minn., to Minneapolis, where my father broke racial barriers by establishing himself as an American Indian commercial artist in an art world dominated by white executives and artists. In addition to the Mia redesign, his many projects included creating the Hamm’s Beer bear. By often working with Native American imagery, he maintained a connection to his identity.

"This (1954)project was a redesign. DesJarlait made changes, but the changes he made were very intentional… both to the woman featured (‘Mia’), but even specific details in the setting where she was pictured. When his father was finished, that image was modified so that it featured a real-world location: The Narrows — something that would be immediately recognizable to any Tribal Citizen of Red Lake. He made intentional changes in the woman’s appearance, too.

"With the redesign, my father made Mia’s Native American connections more specific. He changed the beadwork designs on her dress by adding floral motifs that are common in Ojibwe art. He added two points of wooded shoreline to the lake that had often been depicted in the image’s background. It was a place any Red Lake tribal citizen would recognize as the Narrows, where Lower Red Lake and Upper Red Lake meet."

Both sets of changes were significant in that they were faithful to real-world realities. When the woman was quietly removed from the butter box, and the land left behind, that quickly became a meme, including one quote that caught traction, “They got rid of the Indian and Kept the Land.”

Now that we know that land was intended to depict Red Lake the artist’s home, this statement is all the more damning.

“They Got Rid of The Indian and Kept the Land.” That isn’t too far from the truth.”…….

Excellent work, cancel culture. In your zeal to purge the world of racism, you have (what’s that word you use for it) ‘erased’ an actual piece of legitimate, iconic, and native-crafted artwork.

And like everything else the left does, you did it ‘for our own good, or as Albert Camus once wrote, “The welfare of the people, in particular, has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”

How long until you admit you’re just another stripe of totalitarians glibly burning down everything in society that doesn’t fit neatly into your narrow little world view?

Apart from the violence component (at least for now), you’re like ISIS… but with a smiley face.".......

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Rest in the Vine: Like Butter: Patrick DesJarlait and the Soviet Airbrush--It's What's For Breakfast!(tm)

We say oppression will be far from us and the Spirit of Liberty will live here, in Jesus' Mighty Name, Amen!