American Silliness Aug 10, 2016

Weasel Zippers, as always, is a treasure trove for this sort of thing:
Supporter’s Giant Trump Sign Set On Fire In Staten Island

Lib Rag Salon Complains Coverage Of Olympics Is Sexist…  "Didn't the media make a big deal out of Michael Phelps becoming new dad but Solon thinks if you mention a woman being a mom it's sexist."

White House Touts Article On How Blacks Can “Survive At A White Institution”…

25 LGBT Groups Ask Big 12 Not To Admit BYU Because It’s A Mormon-Based School…

Boston Red Sox Cancel David “Big Papi” Ortiz Bobblehead Night After Declaring It Racist…   "For the record it wasn’t Ortiz who declared the dolls “racially insensitive,” it was team president Sam Kennedy (a white guy)." . . .

Salon Flips Out Over Reports Describing Women Olympians as Wives and Mothers  "You can always count on progressives to hate on wives and motherhood, and to find any excuse to demean the family unit."

New Jersey Goes Full Nanny State: Considers Bill to Fine Coffee-Drinking “Distracted” Drivers   "Nanny state’s gonna nanny state"

Among all this silliness, here at least, sanity prevailed:

U. Houston Student Govt Rescinds Suspension of VP for All Lives Matter Post  "Last week on The Torch, FIRE’s Will Creeley explored the legal and practical issues surrounding a decision by the University of Houston Student Government Association (SGA) to suspend its vice president, Rohini Sethi, in response to her Facebook post: “Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like #AllLivesMatter.” On August 5, the SGA announced on Facebook that Sethi’s suspension has been lifted and the SGA’s judicial branch would review whether the bill that authorized the suspension violated the SGA’s bylaws."

No special sharia rules in American courts for Muslims’ wrongful-death recovery 

"But there, too, the principle is simple: American courts apply American law, including when an American law principle calls on American courts to enforce a foreign judgment . . ."
. . . "(For instance, a contract calling for the cutting off of a person’s hand would be unenforceable; a will calling for a court to apply a legal rule that requires the court to distinguish males from females might be unenforceable, though a will calling for a court to distribute property to named parties would be enforceable.)"

American silliness; brought to you by the people who select our presidential candidates these past nine years Yoga pants update!

New object of hate: Guy who complained about older women in Yoga pants

"Women plan large protest at Rhode Island man’s house as he receives death threats."

"The internet moves from object of hate, to object of hate.

"Perhaps a prime example was Justine Sacco, who after tweeting an ambiguous, clearly satirical message about AIDS that some people interpreted as racist, found herself the subject of an internet hunt — all while she was on an airplane to Africa. By the time she landed, she had been fired from her job, and people tracked her airplane and confronted her at the airport when she landed. The writer for Gawker who started the whole thing apologized years later.

"Certainly there have been many other such examples, but the Sacco incident stands out.

"I don’t know if it will reach Sacco proportions, but there is an internet “outrage” gaining momentum against a guy in Barrington, RI, who wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper complaining about older women who wear yoga pants: . . . " (more)

Sillier and sillier; UPDATE:  Hundreds of people wearing yoga pants parade past man’s house in R.I.

. . . "Quickly, it snowballed into a “Yoga Pants Parade” Sunday afternoon with hundreds of people walking past the letter writer’s house — and a few death threats, according to the author, who said he had only intended satire." . . . 

Buffalo Bills fans chant USA, boo Kaepernick as he kneels for anthem  "Buffalo Bills fans have had enough of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick protesting the national anthem. They chanted “USA! USA!” when he took a knee and then booed him loudly when he took the field."

. . . Wonder Woman: “Large Breasted White Woman’, With American Flag Attire Not Appropriate For Gender Equity  Apparently American silliness has metastasized.

Black Lives Matter Supporter Sings National Anthem On One Knee   . . ."Denasia Lawrence was scheduled to sing the National Anthem before the Miami Heat/Philadelphia 76ers preseason game, but neither team or league officials knew what she really had in mind. As she walked out to mid-court, Lawrence opened her jacket revealing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt. She dropped to one knee and then sang The Star Spangled Banner, taking this ridiculous and disrespectful protest to a new low.

"There were some boos from the crowd, but sadly most in attendance cheered this travesty." . . .

(Video) ‘Cowards’ Write ‘Kill All Police, Kill James Craig’ On Side Of Detroit Building  “ 'The coward that did this, just know, it’s a matter of time — we’ll find you,” Craig said.

"Craig said that whomever tagged the message might be looking at felony terrorist threat charges.
Holtschneider not only declined to approve the flyers, but sent a letter to the entire university body explaining that the pro-life posters constituted “bigotry” and were not considered free speech.

Nutty! Clinton Fan Smears Cars with Peanut Butter Because Trump or Something

And this:

Sorority warns against 'insensitive' pop culture costumes

'Unborn Lives Matter' flyer censored by DePaul

. . . "Holtschneider not only declined to approve the flyers, but sent a letter to the entire university body explaining that the pro-life posters constituted “bigotry” and were not considered free speech." . . .

American Silliness 2-15-2018

What?! Sony Had To Issue An 
Apology Because A Food Allergy Scene Triggered Some Peter Rabbit Viewers  . . . "Political correctness is literally making us an insane people. In the new film, Peter Rabbit, the little creatures reportedly fling blueberries at Mr. McGregor, the guy who ate Peter’s dad, because he’s allergic and needs to use an EpiPen. Well, some viewers got very upset with this scene, as they felt it denigrated the serious nature of food allergies. An apology was issued . . ." Naturally.

This Leftist Sent The Single Stupidest Tweet In Human History About 'Black Panther.' It's Incredible.  "On Monday, senior editor and “planetary evangelist” for The Planetary Society Emily Lakdawalla got herself into a Twitter mess over her suggestion that she skip the opening weekend of Black Panther." . . .
So, as a white person she was unworthy of attending that movie!

. . . "First off, it’s difficult to believe that many black people expect white people not to go to the theater, or that they care if they do. Second, why would Leftists stand for re-segregating theaters, this time out of respect for black people? Third, if Black Panther is such an important statement about race, why shouldn’t white people see it and be challenged and changed? But ideas have now taken a back seat to identity politics." . . . 

 Elizabeth Warren Doubles Down On Claim That She Has Native American Heritage  "Senator Elizabeth Warren made a surprise appearance at the National Congress of American Indians Wednesday morning, forcefully responding to President Trump’s derisively calling her “Pocahontas” and addressing her claims of Native American heritage more directly — and far more expansively — than she ever has before."

Target: Happy Valentine’s Day To My “Person!” (Left)

The Most Politically Correct Valentine's Day Card  . . . "The hilarious message inside the card mocks the PC times in which we live. The card reads: “Please accept with no obligation my nonsexually harassing, potentially platonic Valentine"s regards as a token of my/our love, lust or friendship within a relationship that we may or may not choose to be monogamous, whilst understanding that the romantic sentiment that it signifies does in no way guarantee the success or progression of the said relationship over any length of time. The sender reserves the right to remain anonymous." . . .

California High School Bans ‘Outdated And Racially Offensive’ National Anthem From Rallies . . . "She said the decision was made when students learned about the third verse, which includes the line “No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,” during planning for the winter rally. It applies for the rest of the school year." . . .

He will likely be the prosecution witness in the trial of those people who continue to "misgender" this guy. Or ...um...the pictured being. TD

More American Silliness, April 18, 2017

Professor: ‘The English language is sexist’  . . . "Anne Curzan, an associate dean of humanities and professor of English at Michigan, made her remarks in a talk titled “Politically Correct: Do Our Language Choices Matter?” During the lecture, she reportedly discussed “everything from sexist language to preferred pronouns in order to dispel the stigma against politically correct speaking,” according to the Iowa State Daily."

Moonbats Call For Attacks On McDonald’s And Its Customers For Being The “Largest Murderer Of Cattle”… 

Army Ranger Has Message For College Students Triggered By Chick-fil-A On Campus 

Video: Maxine Waters Falsely Claims That Trump Pays “Nothing” In Taxes…

College Student Rep Resigns Citing “White Privilege,” “Hostile Environment” From “White, Straight, Cis, Upper-Class Men”…

It's political correctness gone Psycho! Remake won't show the killer cross-dressing in a shower scene in order to avoid 'transphobia'   . . . "Bates is no longer wearing women’s clothes – for fear of damaging the image of the transgender community.

"This is despite the fact he wears his mother’s dresses at other moments in the series." . . .

Notre Dame students 'feel unsafe' about Pence giving Commencement
"#NotMyCommencementSpeaker' ” ? 

Tucker Confronts Researcher Who Claims Babies are Racist  . . . "The flip side of this study erroneously concludes racism is at the root of these infants’ inability to bond with or otherwise fail to respond positively to people of races other than their own.  Note that it’s not clear how the researchers determine what race the babies in the study believed themselves to be." . . .



Federal Judge Denies Democrat’s Lawsuit Seeking To Re-Hang ‘Cops As Pigs’ Painting In Capitol  "Dems lose again, as they continue to hate cops and push it on the public."

"Since when did people start going to college to get stupid?"   "Wellesley has demeaned itself by printing a fascist screed by a student who writes poorly and has not a clue about what our Constitution says or means.  She is opposed to freedom of speech." . . .
. . . "Stanford just admitted an applicant who is not black but who wrote "Black Lives Matter" a hundred times on his application.  Forget all the serious students who took the application question – "What matters to you and why?" – seriously."

Student government votes to allow the American flag to be removed from meetings   The University of California-Davis's (of course!) student senate voted to allow the removal of the American flag from its meetings. 

"Saying "patriotism is different for every individual," the senate voted to make displaying the flag optional.

"Any idiot can see where this is headed" . . .

Sources:  Weasel Zippers, UK Daily Mail, Campus Reform, Legal Insurrection, American Thinker

The madness of 'cultural appropriation' exposed rot in the American soul (Updated)

Let's file this under "American Silliness", shall we? TD

Rick Moran  "Keziah Daum is an 18 year old high school girl who set off a worldwide debate on the idea of "cultural appropriation." Daum wore a dress to prom loosely based on a Chinese design and committed the mortal sin of not being Chinese. 

"She was called out for her sin by another teen, Jeremy Lam:" [bleep]

. . . 

" 'Cultural appropriation" may be the sickest, most outrageousely stupid element of political correctness in existence. The history of human civilization would never be known without the Egyptians culturally appropriating the idea of writing from some unknown source. Every major advance in the history of civilization has occurred because of one culture appropriating and improving upon an idea or invention from another culture.

"Can you imagine what the world would be like if the invention of agriculture had remained in the fertile crescent? It is mind boggling that in a country that has made cultural appropriation a huge part of its identity, there would be those who would accuse anyone of "privilege" for doing what comes naturally to humans; learn from others.

"I don't think that the cultural appropriation accusers will be able to gain as much traction with anyone except the true believers after this incident. " 

 Shaming teen for wearing ‘racist’ dress to prom is crazy -- Where does nonsense of cultural appropriation end?

When everything is racist, then nothing will be racist.
Personally I'd not want my daughter to wear that dress for reasons better than "cultural appropriation". TD

How a Pretty Prom Dress Helped Reveal Rot in the American Soul

"If you’re a normal human being, like the majority of Americans who saw their Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter feeds fill up with prom pictures last weekend, you thought that was a pretty girl in a pretty dress. Nothing more.
" But if you’re a toxic social-justice warrior, you saw something else. You saw oppression. You saw exploitation. You saw bigotry. You saw — gasp — “cultural appropriation.” The dress, you see, had obvious Asian influences, and Daum isn’t Asian:

Jeremy Lam@jere_bare

My culture is NOT your g*****n prom dress. https://twitter.com/daumkeziah/status/988115815068139520 …

4:34 PM - Apr 27, 2018 · Salt Lake City, UT

. . . "Let’s take the concept of “cultural appropriation.” It’s absurd down to its very definition. Susan Scafidi, author of Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law, defines it like this: 

Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission. This can include unauthorized use of another culture’s dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, etc. It’s most likely to be harmful when the source community is a minority group that has been oppressed or exploited in other ways or when the object of appropriation is particularly sensitive, e.g. sacred objects. 

"In a multi-ethnic, multi-racial culture like America’s, the potential for offense is unlimited. (Moreover, who, exactly, is empowered to grant “permission” to wear clothing, cook food, or use language? Is there a central registry?" . . .

Update: In a World Where Everyone's Offended by Everything, Can Comedy Exist?

American silliness 7/5/2015

 

Reparations: The Next Liberal Thing?    "The level of overreaction in this country seems to have reached a fever pitch since the killing of nine black people in Charleston, SC by a highly disturbed young man.  First the calls for banning the Confederate flag began, followed by calls for the removal of statuary of anyone having anything to do with the Confederacy.  Louis Farrakhan has called for banning the American flag, and Malik Shabazz, the head of the New Black Panthers, has called for the killing of "slave masters."  The logical progression would seem to be that there will again be legislation introduced in Congress for reparations to be paid to black people for the enslavement of their ancestors."

“We’re here. We’re polygamists. Get used to it” . . . " Professor Martha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago, who argued in 2009 that polygamy must be allowed for the same reasons as same-sex marriage, as we detailed in “Polygamy would have to be permitted”." .


Weenies burn flag to protest cops, get attacked by bikers, need cops to save their as--s  . . . " The anarchists had announced on social media that they had planned to burn the flag in protest of NYPD policies, drawing a large group of flag-waving counterprotesters, including the bikers." . . .

 [VIDEO] Americans Don’t Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July  " Fortunately, there was an Italian vacationer who was able to answer some basic questions about American history. At least we know they’re teaching our history somewhere."

Obama in 4 Quotes by his favorite person: Barack Obama 

HuffPo: Bathroom Signs Are Sexist Since Women Aren’t Wearing Pants In Them 
Who thinks up these ideas?  Actually with the aid of social media, a throwaway line can become a campus movement.

 PUH-LEEZE: Check Out What Ben & Jerry’s is Doing to Gloat Over Gay Marriage
  . . . " It’s also that B & J and its namesake founders are big donors to anti-American, pan-Islamic foundations like the Tides Foundation. And, now, Ben & Jerry’s is even more in your face with its new pro-gay marriage celebratory ice cream."

Seattle Teens Get Birth Control at School ‘More Easily Than They Can Buy a Soda’

American Silliness 7/20/2015

Hip Hop Artist Russell Simmons Compares Plight Of Carriage Horses To Holocaust/Slavery Victims    #HorsesLivesMatter.

 

Western Literature, shot to death by ‘trigger warnings’  "American universities discourage reading of Ovid, Lolita and The Great Gatsby. And the trend is spreading."

 O'Malley apologizes for saying 'all lives matter' at liberal conference  " . . . O'Malley responded: "Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter."

"The demonstrators, who were mostly black, responded by booing him and shouting him down."

Obama Family Vacations Surpass $100 Million

Pride parade celebrates military's plan for transgender troops

(Prank)  VIDEO: Liberals Sign Petition to Support “White Privilege Tax”
 "A 1% income tax on all white people to be redistributed to help "minority communities' "
"Mark Dice’s latest ‘man on the street’ stunt is perhaps his most outrageous yet, proving that leftists will advocate unbridled insanity so long as they are told it’s in the name of fighting racism." Video

MEANWHILE IMPORTANT THINGS ARE GOING DOWN … Non-Stories Distracting the American People
. . . " Another non-story is anything concerning that pipsqueak, Ariana Grande.   Just tell her that if she dislikes this country so much, get the hell out and find another that suits her.   As a matter of fact, nothing about celebrities is of interest when compared to national defense." 

American Silliness June 20, 2017

Dennis Rodman: ‘People Don’t See … The Good Side’ Of North Korea   "Former professional basketball player Dennis Rodman spoke out in an exclusive interview with ABC News about his recent trip to North Korea, suggesting that he is partly responsible for the reclusive nation’s release of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died last Monday, just days after being medically evacuated from a North Korean prison."

New Oakland Police Commission being created: 'Formerly incarcerated individuals encouraged to apply'   . . . "Those who seek to hobble police saw their opportunity and took it, capitalizing on voter hostility to the police at the moment and using ballot wording that obscured the worst aspects of their plan.

"Now it will become tougher to recruit cops for the Oakland P.D., and the officers on the street will hesitate more often, aware that people hostile to them may sit in judgment."

Pelosi Gives Incoherent Response To Trump Saying Her Being Dem Leader Helps GOP   . . . "Some Republican members have said that it would be good for their party if Pelosi remains the top Democrat in the House. These remarks followed heavy criticism from Democratic lawmakers of Pelosi’s leadership following Tuesday’s special election losses in Georgia and South Carolina." . . .

A Democratic Party official was booted after he allegedly wished Scalise dead

I'm glad he got shot. I'm not f**king saying that in public. I wish he was f**king dead.
—Phil Montag, former co-chair of tech committee

 

University of Georgia Socialist Group Calls for GOP Lawmakers to Be 'Guillotined'  . . . "Campus newspaper The Red & Black notes that the organization's former leader claims the tweet was a joke (because the only jokes anyone can make today must come at the expense of conservatives):" . . .

NJ Yearbook Advisor Suspended for Altering Photos of Kids Wearing Trump Shirts

NFL’s Kaepernick Compares Cops to Fugitive Slave Patrols

Everything That's Wrong With American Culture, Encapsulated in One Five Minute Music Video

UPDATED: American Silliness: 8/12/15

Really neat update; too good not to use:

Hat tip to Richard Wagner;  No, not THAT Richard Wagner

“The Coddling of the American Mind”   "Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense." . . .

NR Video on Politically Correct Comedy   . . . " I especially like this one out just this morning about the perils of politically incorrect comedy (just under two minutes long):

 American Sniper: Too Dangerous for the University of Michigan

'I've had enough of the Kardashians!' The moment US news anchor walked off set during live broadcast in protest at Kylie Jenner's 18th birthday coverage 
"Surprise move came when he was forced to report on a Kardashian story." Video

Gov. Brown doesn't want California to use this word for immigrants 

Speaking of California: Latest California Proposal Features Gas Rationing
"A bill so bad even some Democrats are speeding away from it!"

Taxpayer money being used to teach 'transgendered' men to talk like girls
 " A voice actor who will never be seen, who can still easily use a man's voice in his work, still wants his voice changed so he sounds like a girl?  No irony there!"

Hillary Clinton: “As President, I Would Model The Kind Of Behavior I Would Hope All Americans Would Have” 


 "Speaking of dinguses."

 

Dems Terrified Of Racist Black Lives Matter Supporters Begin Removing Ties To Thomas Jefferson And Andrew Jackson… 

UN Ambassador: Parents Should Talk About Bob the Builder’s Sex Life ‘As Soon as Their Children Can Talk’
. . . "Goedele Liekens, a former Miss Belgium, said Bob’s relationship with his business partner Wendy could be used to broach the topic with young children." . . .

And what better way to come into the 21st century than to talk about the sex lives of, um, cartoon characters?

Which leads us to Bugs Bunny in drag.

Somehow this used to be funny but is kinda revolting to me now.

American Silliness: Jan. 24, 2017 Updated.

Updated, 1/25

Update: Buffoons March for Free Condoms While Yazidi Girls Burn Alive

"If you can bear this horrific testimony, listen to the real war on women ignored by leftist women.

“ 'Because we are not Muslims, and because our path is the path of peace… we are being burned alive,” Mirza Ismail, chairman of the Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International, told members of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, CNS News reported."   Video here.

Moonbats Fret How “Genital-Based Feminism Isolated The Transgender Community” At Women’s March…   "You can’t make this stuff up."

Sausage Party Star ‘Spiraled Into a Depression’ After Clinton Loss

"The Oscar-nominated actor was an advocate for Hillary Clinton during the campaign. He was famously featured in a campaign ad for Clinton claiming she was “the most interesting woman in the world.' ”  I'm sure this didn't help him much either.

Signs-of-Madness: A look at the #WomensMarch

Question: How many speakers at Tea Party events threatened to bomb the Obama White House?Answer: Zero.

Women Marchers Desecrate Daughters of the American Revolution Memorial   Video

Chelsea Handler on Why She Won’t Have Melania Trump On Her Show: ‘She Can Barely Speak English’  Politics is cool?

. . . " 'Exactly what I think about him as the first man,” Handler said. “Nothing. I don’t respect either one of those people.' ”

"The worst of the American left was on unhinged display for all the world to see."  . . . "Most of this energy is concentrated on keeping the “right” to kill children in the womb. Tellingly, pro-life women were excluded from the march. When it initially looked like pro-life groups were going to be allowed to participate, the radical pro-abortionists went ballistic. Declaring that the killing of children in the womb is “central” to feminism, Jessica Valenti was “horrified” that pro-life women were going to be allowed to march with what she must deem as “real feminists.' ” . . .