(02-27-2020 09:51 PM)Dirty Ernie Wrote: The sister makes a comment around her study of black culture and all the white men get all bent out of shape. I’m saying, what is the harm. Try to listen a bit if you are actually interested. It doesn’t have to be all hostile. It’s just a simple conversation about micro aggression. No biggie where white men have to butt in where they are not qualified or wanted.
Not qualified? How do I qualify? Change my race? What a dumb statement. Not wanted? If she didn't want people to weigh in on this issue, why did she draw attention to it and herself? It appears you are saying that only those with the 'correct' views on things are welcome.
Micro aggressions and cultural appropriation are silly concepts. Just more reasons for people to complain about something. As if there are not enough real and serious issues for people to be upset/complain about. The concept of microaggressions has folks LOOKING for something to be upset about. It's no wonder that some young folks can't function in the real world and need safe spaces away from any opinion or fact that is different from what you've known, as they see them as threatening. These people don't belong in college - they can't handle the idea that college should expand your mind by exposing you to ideas and concepts that are different than your own.
These concepts like microaggressions and cultural appropriation were invented by left wing academics. Do some research and you'll see. There is not much good that comes from them. They divide us and cause unnecessary strife between people.
I wonder if this girl even stopped to consider what the repercussions of her believing that white people shouldn't sing those songs? Should black musicians not be able to perform 'white' music? Music is music - some forms evolved from both black and white roots. Many music groups are racially mixed. Do they now have to get her permission to perform whatever songs they wish to perform? Ridiculous.
Ernie, I'm not angry, just bemused at the absurdity of it all. That you seem to embrace all these silly ideas that are divisive has me smh.
Your dismissal of an academic as 'white privilege explaining why white privilege isn’t white privilege' is another head scratcher. THERE CAN BE NO PUSHBACK ON THESE CONCEPTS, it seems is the message. So, only blacks (or other minorities) are allowed to explain racial concepts? Blacks are the biggest professional victims group in the country. When they shout about what they are upset with, they expect everybody to jump up and fix things to their liking. Somebody needs to tell them politely that we listened to you but there is no remedy for your grievance that makes sense. These concerts and many just like them all around the country have gone on for generations and few have ever complained. Rather the audiences appreciated that the music has been kept alive as a part of our American culture, taken from many diverse cultures that arrived on these shores.
Also, Haymondatthe4, this statement in your final paragraph is rather silly, IMO. "There is no objective, scientific correct answer on whether or not it is disrespectful for a mostly white choir and audience to sing black spirituals. But if you're white, and you find yourself blocking out and ridiculing black voices you disagree with, then you're not actually trying to answer the question at all."
Not blocking out or ridiculing 'black' voices. I am responding just at I would if it were anybody else asserting the point of disrespectulness. I'm
not trying to answer that question because it is a dumb question. If anything, it is NOT disrespectful because it is raising this music UP as worth celebrating. What if some random white guy said it is disrespectful for black athletes to play basketball because it is cultural appropriation since the game was invented by whites. (Never mind that for the most part, black athletes are better at it than their white counterparts - LOL) It would be dumb. Almost as dumb as what this girl is triggered by. Some people just are looking for a reason to be offended.