tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770944055299241586.post489523458434232859..comments2024-03-24T12:38:44.642-07:00Comments on The Raving Queen: Who The Hell Do You Think You Are, Laura?????????????????The Raving Queenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01700003803433178894noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770944055299241586.post-4215950128620886212017-02-16T06:51:53.102-08:002017-02-16T06:51:53.102-08:00
It is true Trump(s) will come and go. However, ...<br /> It is true Trump(s) will come and go. However, with the prospect of him wanting to eliminate the NEA and the NEH, commentators like Laura are playing right into his hands. That said, the rest is true--her condescension, which characterizes her generation, and its inability to see anything beyond or before the historical context in which they are3 now living! I hope she is not given such an assignment again.The Raving Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01700003803433178894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770944055299241586.post-41783490732932427942017-02-15T19:06:44.596-08:002017-02-15T19:06:44.596-08:00Hmmm.... I had the opposite impression of Miz Laur...Hmmm.... I had the opposite impression of Miz Laura's inane review. I didn't read her as pandering to Trump: she's parroting the same old tired, trite, self-loathing, ill-conceived "faux-progressive" point of view that has poisoned every page of the Times for at least the past decade, if not 20 years. <br /><br />Trump and the right have plenty to answer for. PLENTY. But they are not responsible for this typical-NYT, suffocating, soul-destroying, insincere PC crap. The suppression of historically-accurate satiric fiction, particularly Twain's work, is an ignoble stain on civilization perpetrated solely by our very own "progressives", whose bizarre catechism goes something like this:<br /><br />"Blacks have been oppressed throughout American history. The N word was used in the old (and not so old) South to de-humanize them. Whites cannot possibly understand that oppression, so any novel or play or movie that purports to show a white person awakening to the black plight, developing some enlightenment, TRIVIALIZES said black oppression. Therefore, it must be stamped out of existence, especially if it uses the N word"<br /><br />"Never mind that Twain specifically uses the N word to show *how demeaning* the N word is. Never mind that slyly couching the enlightenment of an uneducated careless white youth to the appalling oppression of his black friend in a "popular entertainment" was rather subversive and "progressive" of Twain at the time he wrote it. Its "bad" because it tells a story of a white fool learning to grow the eff up and learn some sensitivity, but since "we all know now" that white people are incapable of such development, Twain's books and Big River should be burned, banned and vilified. How dare they continue to revive this horribly racist, white-pandering musical. How DARE they."<br /><br />THAT is what disgusts me about Laura Collins-Hughes' review: its nauseating display of clueless white condescension, hubris and "privilege" in pandering to the insulting assumption non-whites are incapable of parsing the merits of a fictional work within its historic context. Twisted sisters like Laura are the true long-term threat to the survival of intellectual integrity in this country: Trumps come and go quickly, but self-congratulating, virtue-signaling pseudo-progressives hang on tenaciously. Martin Luther King and Gandhi must be having an afterlife eyeroll contest in response to these obtuse cultural arbiters.Videolamanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085408408647466431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770944055299241586.post-7698278212103074972017-02-15T17:31:39.633-08:002017-02-15T17:31:39.633-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Videolamanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085408408647466431noreply@blogger.com