Culture Wars

[Murph]

So true.  So very true:

 

[Murph]

[17thfabn]

4 hours ago, Murph said:

So true.  So very true:

 

Eisenhower wasn't a baby boomer. Not even close. 

I'm the tail end of the baby boom. I take no particular pride or embarrassment for my generation. 

[urbanoid]

6 minutes ago, 17thfabn said:

Eisenhower wasn't a baby boomer. Not even close. 

I'm the tail end of the baby boom. I take no particular pride or embarrassment for my generation. 

'Boomer' refers to Milley here, which is accurate.

[17thfabn]

51 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

'Boomer' refers to Milley here, which is accurate.

Thanks that makes more sense.

[Ivanhoe]

2 hours ago, urbanoid said:

'Boomer' refers to Milley here, which is accurate.

What's the Mandarin word for "Boomer?"

[Tim Sielbeck]

According to Google Translate:  Boomer

Chinese (Simplified) -  婴儿潮一代 (Yīng'ér cháo yīdài)

Chinese (Traditional) -  嬰兒潮世代 (Yīng'ér cháo shìdài)

[futon]

Although a different sense in word choice from boomer, boom, and to boom. 

婴儿  baby

潮   tide, wave, current

一代   generation

 

潮 seems to be used for not just for nature but also for popular movements or thoughts. If translating directly from Chinese, then it would come out something like "Baby Wave Generation" 

[lucklucky]

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[lucklucky]

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A University of Oxford museum will not display an African mask because the culture which created it forbids women from seeing it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/17/pitt-rivers-museum-oxford-university-africa-igbo-mask-women/

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A University of Oxford museum will not display an African mask because the culture which created it forbids women from seeing it.

The decision by the Pitt Rivers Museum is part of new policies in the interest of “cultural safety”.

The museum has also removed online photos of the mask made by the Igbo people in Nigeria, which would originally have been used in a male-only ritual.

Masks are a central part of Igbo culture, and some masquerade rituals carried out by men wearing the ceremonial objects are entirely male-only and carried out in secret away from female spectators.

The new policy, a first for a major British collection, comes as part of a “decolonisation process” at the Pitt Rivers Museum, which is aiming to address a collection “closely tied to British Imperial expansion”.

 

 

[rmgill]

Ahh. the colonial practice of allowing women same access in one's culture and society....

[Ivanhoe]

It would be most amusing for a bunch of black trans people to show up en masse. Lets see the museum docents tiptoe through that minefield.

[Soren Ras]

On 6/18/2024 at 2:44 PM, Ivanhoe said:

It would be most amusing for a bunch of black trans people to show up en masse. Lets see the museum docents tiptoe through that minefield.

LOL. I would pay good money to see that dance. 

 

 

[Rick]

One for truth and common sense.

https://www.newsbreak.com/share/3497050043812-louisiana-law-requires-ten-commandments-be-displayed-in-classrooms?_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjE1MjcxNDYyLTE3MTg4MzQwMzc5NzM=&pd=0EZFwM7f&hl=en_US&send_time=1718834037&actBtn=floatShareButton&trans_data={"platform"%3A1%2C"cv"%3A"24.12.2"%2C"languages"%3A"en"}

[17thfabn]

2 hours ago, Rick said:

One for truth and common sense.

https://www.newsbreak.com/share/3497050043812-louisiana-law-requires-ten-commandments-be-displayed-in-classrooms?_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjE1MjcxNDYyLTE3MTg4MzQwMzc5NzM=&pd=0EZFwM7f&hl=en_US&send_time=1718834037&actBtn=floatShareButton&trans_data={"platform"%3A1%2C"cv"%3A"24.12.2"%2C"languages"%3A"en"}

Are you going to be okay when passages of the unholy koran are displayed in the same manner in the interest of equal acces?

[sunday]

12 minutes ago, 17thfabn said:

Are you going to be okay when passages of the unholy koran are displayed in the same manner in the interest of equal acces?

Why equal access? Samland is a Christian country, established by Christians.

[17thfabn]

26 minutes ago, sunday said:

Why equal access? Samland is a Christian country, established by Christians.

See how well that works at the U.S. ninth district court of appeals.

[sunday]

6 minutes ago, 17thfabn said:

See how well that works at the U.S. ninth district court of appeals.

On the other hand...

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Deborah E. Lipstadt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 30, 2022 as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, with the rank of Ambassador. As Special Envoy, she leads efforts to advance U.S. foreign policy to counter antisemitism throughout the world. Special Envoy Lipstadt has a storied career as a historian, academic, and author. At Emory University’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, which she helped to found, she served as the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies. She has also taught at the University of Washington, UCLA and Occidental College. Special Envoy Lipstadt also served as the director of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute and was a research fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her numerous, award-winning books include: The Eichmann Trial; Denial: Holocaust History on Trial; Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory; and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945. She received the National Jewish Book Award three times, most recently in 2019 for Antisemitism: Here and Now. Her biographical study of Golda Meir will be published by Yale University Press in 2023. Special Envoy Lipstadt is probably best known for having been sued for libel by David Irving, one of the world’s leading Holocaust deniers. The case, which lasted for six years and was heard in court in a twelve-week trial, resulted in Irving being declared by the court to be “a right wing polemicist,” who engages in antisemitism, racism, and misogyny. That trial was depicted in the 2016 film Denial, which was based on her book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. Special Envoy Lipstadt was a historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, helping design the section of the Museum dedicated to the American Response to the Holocaust. She has held a Presidential appointment to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council (from Presidents Clinton and Obama) and was asked by President George W. Bush to represent the White House at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Special Envoy Lipstadt holds a BA from the City College of New York and an MA and PhD from Brandeis University.

One would have thought that role is for someone in the diplomatic corps of Israel...

[NickM]

1 hour ago, sunday said:

On the other hand...

One would have thought that role is for someone in the diplomatic corps of Israel...

I feel like I'm about to have a  Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel moment

[sunday]

11 minutes ago, NickM said:

I feel like I'm about to have a  Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel moment

The US government did not care especially for the plight of the Iraqi Christians, nor for the Yazidis, nor for the South African and Zimbabwean farmers, barely about the Christians of Niger...

@NickM, seems you only care for one people in all the world.

Edited June 20, 2024 by sunday

[NickM]

5 minutes ago, sunday said:

The US government did not care especially for the plight of the Iraqi Christians, nor for the Yazidis, nor for the South African and Zimbabwean farmers, barely about the Christians of Niger...

@NickM, seems you only care for one people in all the world.

Adenoid Hynkel didn't care-- that was the funny part.

It's one of his rants that never got memed 

Edited June 20, 2024 by NickM

[sunday]

Was that Hynkel guy a follower of Abraham Stern?

[urbanoid]

2 minutes ago, sunday said:

Was that Hynkel guy a follower of Abraham Stern?

We were training his guys before the war and so did... Benito Mussolini.

[sunday]

14 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

We were training his guys before the war and so did... Benito Mussolini.

Of course, pre-WWII Poland was a Fascist regime. Or at least that was what the Stalinists claimed.

Edited June 20, 2024 by sunday

[sunday]

Also...

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Supremacism is the belief that a certain group of people is superior to all others.[1] The supposed superior people can be defined by age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, language, social class, ideology, nationality, culture, or belong to any other part of a particular population.

That reminds me of those that consider that all human beings are equal in the sense they all are God's creation, thus keeping a colorblind approximation to the race phenomenon are qualified as Racists by the activists of the BLM kind.

Edited June 20, 2024 by sunday