BansheeOne Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 I think the depiction of Hobbits in their original blackness is a reactionary return to Tolkien's racist imagination of them as simple-minded yet loyal pygmies robbed of their true African noble savage culture to act as watercarriers for white aristocratic elites, and should be cancelled. 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P Allen Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Tolkien was no 20th Century English gentleman: he *was* a West Midlander and pretty well acquainted with their ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/19/miss-france-contestants-suing-beauty-pageant/ Quote Miss France beauty pageant sued for selecting contestants based on their appearance Three women have joined forces with a feminist group to file a legal complaint over discrimination and breach of labour laws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 10 minutes ago, lucklucky said: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/19/miss-france-contestants-suing-beauty-pageant/ The Onion and the Babylon Bee are going out of business, I tell you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Quote Emmanuel Macron’s education minister has launched a “war on woke” with a think tank dedicated to fighting cancel culture, a hot-button issue ahead of French presidential elections next year.... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/19/france-launches-anti-woke-think-tank-protect-french-values/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikel2 Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 1 hour ago, lucklucky said: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/19/france-launches-anti-woke-think-tank-protect-french-values/ Pretty rich considering so many of the "intellectuals" behind this rot were French. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Ras Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 It is still a far saner and preferable response than what passes for leadership across the pond these days ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Tan Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Hobbits are not golliwogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 43 minutes ago, Mikel2 said: Pretty rich considering so many of the "intellectuals" behind this rot were French. Sort of. Because it' came to the US and then had a manifest gestation period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 45 minutes ago, Mikel2 said: Pretty rich considering so many of the "intellectuals" behind this rot were French. Not all French think the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 To understand for what the "democratic" journalists root for: stained, defied, fiery Note also there are no "Dictator" in any of these titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 https://oberlinreview.org/25000/opinions/male-workers-allowed-into-baldwin-unsettling-residents/ Male workers come into dorm to install radiators. This causes distress to the students.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 15 minutes ago, rmgill said: https://oberlinreview.org/25000/opinions/male-workers-allowed-into-baldwin-unsettling-residents/ Male workers come into dorm to install radiators. This causes distress to the students.... They should have put on dresses and makeup, and identified themselves as some kind of perverts, perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R011 Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 7 hours ago, Steven P Allen said: Tolkien was no 20th Century English gentleman: he *was* a West Midlander and pretty well acquainted with their ways. Upper middle class educated at an elite school, Army officer, and Oxbridge educated. There was a huge class divide between him and ordinary working class people, like the soldiers he led in France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R011 Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 12 hours ago, BansheeOne said: I think the depiction of Hobbits in their original blackness is a reactionary return to Tolkien's racist imagination of them as simple-minded yet loyal pygmies robbed of their true African noble savage culture to act as watercarriers for white aristocratic elites, and should be cancelled. 😁 Simple and loyal water-carriers for aristocratic elites? That's pretty much the impression I get about Hobbits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 (edited) 40 minutes ago, R011 said: Upper middle class That was before his widowed mother Mabel converted to Catholicism in 1900, her family shunned her and cut her financial support, then she died in 1904, leaving JRR, and his brother orphaned, and in care of a notable character, Fr. Francis Xavier Morgan, a half-Spanish Oratorian priest, that helped greatly in the upbringing of the boys thanks to his share in the family wine business, one firm with the name of Osborne. JRR Tolkien did suffer from some poverty. Edited October 19, 2021 by sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargrunt6 Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Even the Anglican church gets knocked: https://quillette.com/2021/10/18/a-better-way-to-lead-christians-away-from-intimate-partner-violence/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargrunt6 Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 13 hours ago, BansheeOne said: I think the depiction of Hobbits in their original blackness is a reactionary return to Tolkien's racist imagination of them as simple-minded yet loyal pygmies robbed of their true African noble savage culture to act as watercarriers for white aristocratic elites, and should be cancelled. 😁 Awesome, another reason for me to post this. Read this. Now. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-by-howard-zinn-and-noam-chomsky-recorded-summer-2002-for-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-platinum-series-extended-edition-dvd-part-one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R011 Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 53 minutes ago, sunday said: That was before his widowed mother Mabel converted to Catholicism in 1900, her family shunned her and cut her financial support, then she died in 1904, leaving JRR, and his brother orphaned, and in care of a notable character, Fr. Francis Xavier Morgan, a half-Spanish Oratorian priest, that helped greatly in the upbringing of the boys thanks to his share in the family wine business, one firm with the name of Osborne. JRR Tolkien did suffer from some poverty. Thats not poverty. Poverty means going to council schools, living in a slum, and going to work at 14. It isnt going to an expensivw Public School or socializing with working class kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 (edited) 11 minutes ago, R011 said: Thats not poverty. Poverty means going to council schools, living in a slum, and going to work at 14. It isnt going to an expensivw Public School or socializing with working class kids. Said in another way, the Tolkien kids were poor in money but not so poor in social status. I could agree with that. Fr. Morgan facilitated the access of the kids to St. Philip's School, a Grammar School, after Mabel was unable to pay the tuition fees of King Edward's School, a Public School, so not so wealth, not so poverty. Edited October 19, 2021 by sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Stargrunt6 said: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-by-howard-zinn-and-noam-chomsky-recorded-summer-2002-for-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-platinum-series-extended-edition-dvd-part-one I think my brain just died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) The American Progressive Hate: China embraces Woke America denounces https://asiatimes.com/2021/10/china-embraces-woke-america-denounces-turandot/ Quote Meanwhile, it is abominated in the United States, with the Wokerati fulminating against its supposed anti-Asian bias. After all, the Chinese are the world’s most practical and pragmatic people, while the Americans are the most ideological. Quote The Chinese absorb, adapt and assimilate what they find useful or beautiful, as they have done for thousands of years. Somewhere between 50 and 100 million Chinese now study classical music, while Americans neglect it. Quote The Protestant missionaries of the 19th and early 20th centuries looked at the Chinese as prospective Christian converts. Their descendants, today’s woke mob, have twisted America’s original Christian impulse into a secular pseudo-religion where salvation arises from protecting the fragile identities of the oppressed. They have become clowns. It’s too bad Puccini didn’t write a comic opera about them. Edited October 20, 2021 by lucklucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Never saw this announcement about a Black women leading a prestigious institution for three years. https://www.heritage.org/staff/kay-c-james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 (edited) She is a capitalist, that means she lost her blackness. Edited October 21, 2021 by lucklucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWB Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 15 hours ago, lucklucky said: She is a capitalist, that means she lost her blackness. She has become an un-person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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