Steve Martin's 40 yr old SNL 'King Tut' Sketch Is Racist, Liberal Arts Students Say

[Soul Crusher]

It seems there is a camp of posters whose sole purpose on this site is to insist that the type of nutty left wingers in the OP don’t actually exist in spite of all evidence to the contrary

I'm convinced Prime Rib is a robot.

 

[Soul Crusher]

Something about being built with slaves or some crap
http://amp.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...by_slaves_spider_man_homecoming_says_yes.html

Liberal progressive brainwashing in movies...

 

[Steve-French]

These groups are fringe, but we still need to take note. We don't want to end up having thought crimes like Europe and Canada. Shit like this can snowball. Stuff like this is way more alarming than the dying breed of white supremacy groups

 

[Michaelangelo]

lol at Reed College

any bozo can open up a school apparently

 

[floivanus]

These groups are fringe, but we still need to take note. We don't want to end up having thought crimes like Europe and Canada. Shit like this can snowball. Stuff like this is way more alarming than the dying breed of white supremacy groups

There’s probably a faction of ‘white supremacy members’ that turn that way in part as a reaction to all the cultural appropriation white guilt BS that has been given attention lately.

Ganging up against people over their cultures, skin colors, or beliefs is inherently wrong any way it pops up

 

[n...not crazy]

Keep it going, lib fringe. Keep it going, IDGAF. It's just humor now.

 

[Prime Rib]

I'm convinced Prime Rib is a robot.

And I'm convinced you are a racist, misogynistic asshole.

 

[Durr T Sanchez]

 

[M3t4tr0n]

Who gives a shit?

 

[Ruprecht]

Apparently they weren't just protesting "King Tut" and they got their way.

Spoiler

Reed College announced last week that it will overhaul its core humanities course after students claimed the curriculum’s focus on the classics “perpetuates white supremacy.” Mark down another school that has succumbed to demands to let politics trump education.

For more than 70 years the 1,500-student private liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, has required every freshman to take a yearlong course covering the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman canon (Humanities 110). Through these texts, students explore “issues of continuing relevance pertaining to ideals of truth, beauty, virtue, justice, happiness and freedom, as well as challenges posed by social inequality, war, power and prejudice,” according to the course description. These themes transcend race, gender and culture.

But activists calling themselves Reedies Against Racism denounced the course as “oppressive” and “Caucasoid,” claiming too many of the writers were white men. You know, like that lame Aristotle dude. Last spring they demanded that their peers participate in sit-ins, and last fall the bullying grew worse.

When a parent complained online about the disruptions, a Reedies Against Racism participant “tagged the parent’s employer in a post,” the Atlantic newssite reported. English professor Lucía Martínez Valdivia said protesters were so intimidating that she suffered “physical anxiety—lack of sleep, nausea, loss of appetite, inability to focus—in the weeks leading up to my lecture.”


Protesters shouted down lecturers, forcibly grabbed microphones, and shut down class. The faculty finally voted to prohibit protestors from attending the class, and the college had to issue no-contact orders to stop them from harassing staff.

But even as the school punished unruly protestors, the faculty voted to advance the decennial review of the Humanities 110 course. Reed College now says it will scrap some of the traditional texts and focus half the course on Mexico City and Harlem. Reedies Against Racism still isn’t satisfied. In a statement on Facebook last week, the activists called for faculty to cut more “white” texts from the curriculum “as reparations for Humanities 110’s history of erasing the histories of people of color, especially black people.”

Reed’s curriculum has plenty of other courses that deal with “the histories of people of color,” so this is more about blocking the study of the core texts of Western civilization. That Reed would agree to this, and especially under political pressure, is an insult to the meaning of a liberal arts degree.

 

[Andy Capp]

Wait, so you mean you were talking about a post in a different thread?

What's your deal, you seem like you have a problem with me?

Just drunk posting and got my threads crossed. Drop it if you like or respond to the post in the other thread wherever you are tagged, either is fine with me. I have no intent to derail this thread over this.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

It seems there is a camp of posters whose sole purpose on this site is to insist that the type of nutty left wingers in the OP don’t actually exist in spite of all evidence to the contrary

Incorrect , we acknowledge they exist but recognize they are a fringe and know they don't represent the main stream, these things are outrage porn , nothing more.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

Got another one here.

Notice how the angry white progressive liberals want this kind of stuff to fester and grow? Extremely disturbing.

Derp

 

[TidWell]

Incorrect , we acknowledge they exist but recognize they are a fringe and know they don't represent the main stream, these things are outrage porn , nothing more.

How many people do you suspect are in this fringe give a rough estimate.

 

[dontsnitch]

Just drunk posting and got my threads crossed. Drop it if you like or respond to the post in the other thread wherever you are tagged, either is fine with me. I have no intent to derail this thread over this.

The reason I didn't respond to your post in the other thread is because it's not going to be a one-and-done, we're going to go back-and-forth and I don't want to get into it with you.

I didn't read your post and say "I don't like that guy I'll ignore him", I read it and thought you are so sure about your position that we're never going to agree and I don't care enough to go 12 rounds.

If I'm being totally honest, after seeing you go from zero to 60 with me in this thread, I'm not really regretting my decision. I don't like discussing things with people who do not give me the benefit of the doubt, but that's just me.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

How many people do you suspect are in this fringe give a rough estimate.

Haven't got a clue , never see it irl only on the web's

There as always been college kids and activists the only thing that changes are the causes , I doubt the numbers have changed much over the years

 

[Andy Capp]

The reason I didn't respond to your post in the other thread is because it's not going to be a one-and-done, we're going to go back-and-forth and I don't want to get into it with you.

I didn't read your post and say "I don't like that guy I'll ignore him", I read it and thought you are so sure about your position that we're never going to agree and I don't care enough to go 12 rounds.

If I'm being totally honest, after seeing you go from zero to 60 with me in this thread, I'm not really regretting my decision. I don't like discussing things with people who do not give me the benefit of the doubt, but that's just me.

Again, I plead temporary insanity due to intoxication. I withdraw my earlier comment. Make of it what you will. I will be offline for about awhile anyway.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

It could be my age but I've never found anything from snl in that era to be funny.

Well there was some funny stuff but ya I'll take Python over snl anyday

 

[El anciano]

Breaking: Back when SNL was actually funny, it was also slightly offensive. People in that time however, realized it was all lighthearted and didn't get their panties in a bunch over it

Yes back then white people didnt mind making fun of minorities. How dare some people care now!

 

[Final Rehab]

Well there's that as well as cultural appropriation, white guilt/privilege, feminism, gender confusion and boys allowed to wear skirts, gun ban, extreme political correctness, people willing to go along with it (usually out of spite), no free speech.

OK one at a time.

Cultural appropriation-Ridiculous concept to get upset about. Fringe leftist concept that I reject.

White guilt/privilege-Well I'm white and don't feel guilty for the sins of my fathers, so to speak, but if you don't recognize that there are societal advantages to being Caucasian in the US that's being naïve. On the other hand lynchings happened only a generation or two ago so maybe some collective guilt is warranted.

How pissed would you be buddy? Yeah right, that's just the past.

Feminism-Very vaguely defined issue but I'm not threatened by women so whatever.

Gender confusion boys in skirts blah blah blah-So scary, much fear. Also...

Yeah what a bunch of girly men.

Gun ban-What fucking gun ban? You mean one of those many gun bans that Obama was going to enact when he became Pres? Oh wait, that's just a paranoid right-wing talking point and lies to fill the coffers of the NRA and troll for votes of idiots.

Political correctness-That shit goes both ways. You try to pin this on the left but try being outspoken in criticizing the military and see how that goes. I'm a vet BTW.

No free speech-Free speech is doing just fine. There are consequences to words of course. If people think you're a piece of shit for what you say and shun you well then...

And I'm convinced you are a racist, misogynistic asshole.

You forgot homophobic and xenophobic and a few others but yeah.