I absolutely agree cancel culture is political correctness 2.0, and I think it’s very fair to say a pivot point happened circa 2010-2015, when conservatives moved from a “Jeez, can’t you take a joke” response into “we have a constitutional right to tell this joke at a private venue, a constitutional right to be paid cash to tell this joke, and you are required by law to listen to us tell this joke. We haven’t figured out how to force you to laugh at it yet, but we’re working on that” territory.
The naive kids of Wyoming -- WYOMING! -- have confused the Big Government that wants corporations to pay taxes (BAD) with the Big Government that wants to police our bodies (GOOD).
LOL, as the kids say. One would think grads should have at least no small amount of say as to who speaks at their graduation and who they pay to speak. And one would be wrong. But, as I'm wont to say, as life becomes ever shittier because of our awesome leadership, we still have, it would seem, a right to kill at least select fellow Americans (cf Covid, of course) and an absolute entitlement to a platform for expressing the proper expressions. Amazing. Or, as the red commies maybe used to say, decadent AF.
"...but at the risk of sounding conceited I think Clio’s still keeping some of mine under her pillow."
Tough, sad to be a Cassandra, harder these days when news media are focused on pandering to their audiences instead of reporting important facts and truths (as I'm wont to say). Indeed, Cassandra maybe is the OG cancel culture victim, but it's worse now.
Your PGA mention reminds me of a photographer I once worked with who had just come off a project with Jack Nicklaus. Surprise -- he was one of those "One-Does-Not-Speak-or-Even-Look-Directly-at-the-Great-Man, One-Must-Go-Through-His-Assistant" celebrities. There was some kind of brouhaha over a wardrobe person touching a sweater he was supposed to wear in the shoot, I don't recall the details, but he threatened to walk. Tense. It made for a long shitty day for everyone involved. So imagine my shock that he turned out to be MAGA.
It annoys the hell out of me every time some jackass pontificates about the "science" of two distinct sexes, which is the latest update of "homosexuality is unnatural." I know it's absolutely pointless to hope to educate these people, many of whom think that a killer argument against evolution is asking, "If we descended from monkeys, why are there still apes?"
If only we could actually cancel them .Like a spin-off of Welcome Back Kotter.
Blubber( in the non whale sense) is just the best word! My Mom raised 4 boys- "Stop your blubbering" was a frequently heard phrase.
The Smothers Brothers were so subversive. Their show looked like every other variety show( the whitest of all entertainment forms (until The Flip Wilson show) )( can I get in trouble putting parentesis inside the parentheses?) But oh my God that content. They were pretty upfront about this being a racist assed country deeply involved in a racist assed war in Southeast Asia. Plus Glen Campbell. I was 10 or 11 when they were on and I didn't get all of it but I bet I got some of it . I mean look where I am today . And Sonny and Cher was pretty cool there at the beginning .
Really great column today. Harkins well back to the VV days. We were all so much younger then. I remember going to the reading room in my local library as I was just starting my teen years reading through the Village Voice classified ads not quite knowing what was going on there but being pretty sure that it was something that I wanted to understand. Plus Greil Marcus and Andrew Sarris. I think I was the first first place I read any Nick Tosches. Then later in life that Ed Roso fellow.
I'm meandering now. I turn 64 this weekend. I've been told to expect that.
"Anyway, a few months later Trump was president. Draw your own conclusions."
Nope. Need my own blog to do that (and I'm not that motivated.)
"Ha ha ha, I kill me."
Easy there, chief. We're gonna just take a walk over here to the nice Mrs. Pierce who has a few questions to chat about with you...might take a few hours (maybe even overnight, but there's pizza) and then tomorrow you can go ahead and pick up that AR-15 you been muttering about...
Wow, those halcyon days of "political correctness," which was garbage back then, promulgated with a straight face by every major media outlet, and still invoked to this day by folks who ought to know better.* Basically when someone says this before a sentence like so, "this may not be totally PC..." I hear "this is probably an asshole thing to say" or "you all might think I'm a racist."
Oh, there's this use too that's equally fuckfaced: white person has opinion about how some other group ought to help themselves or solve some problems. So then you hear this: "This might not be _entirely_ to say, but did they.... [insert mayonnaise bullshit here]."
* There was, however, a campus romp movie called "PCU" (1994) released amid the tumult, which is notable only for a surprise cameo & performance by George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. God, that movie was shitty....
Good heavens, it's almost like taking a day that people have worked incredibly hard for and instead of applauding them and offering them hope much less advice, you tell some of them they're bad people for something they can't control and doesn't hurt anyone who isn't trying to be hurt by it. And then those hard-working kids, on their day of celebration, are rude enough to say they'd rather not be PAYING for all of their classmates to take this kind of hate speech into their own lives.
Hard to imagine some people aren't okay with it.
Also, Roy, you know there are books of columns out there right? I'd buy yours.
Yeah, why did the government allow mass gatherings of people in liquor stores to sing the praises of malt liquor and single malt while spewing coronavirus into the air?
I always learn something here at Roy's 'stack, especially following the links. Today I learned that Jack Nicklaus is currently being sued by Nicklaus Companies, LLC for using his own name to endorse things. Seems that back in 2007, Nicklaus sold all the rights to his name, nickname, etc. to this company for $145 million (!) back in 2007 when that was a lot of money. Yet he still is lending his name to tournaments around the world for ridiculous sums of cash. The suit recently forced him to turn down $100 million to let the Saudis use his name for their own golf tour. It seems that the paltry millions you make winning at golf when young and fit ain't nothin' compared to the earning power of licensing when old and decrepit.
PS I always picture Basil Fawlty at a funeral saying something like "Well isn't this a Sunny Bunch" whenever I see the name.
Excuse me, but the cancelculture judges have ruled that the acronym for Foundation for Individual Rights in Education shall not be “FIRE,” but rather “FFIRIE.” I will be taking no questions.
I would like to nominate Jordan Peterson as Little King Baby Man for his habit of quitting and then claiming he was canceled, most recently in a wounded tweet after the backlash to his insult to the model on the cover of SI, which did double duty as a complaint against "authoritarian tolerance," my apologies if I'm late on this one and y'all already put it to rest: “The endless flood of vicious insult [sic] is really not something that can be experienced anywhere else....If I have something to say I’ll write an article or make a video. If the issue is not important enough to justify that then perhaps it would be best to just let it go.” I look forward to his future treatise on what makes a woman beautiful.
Spot on, as always.
I absolutely agree cancel culture is political correctness 2.0, and I think it’s very fair to say a pivot point happened circa 2010-2015, when conservatives moved from a “Jeez, can’t you take a joke” response into “we have a constitutional right to tell this joke at a private venue, a constitutional right to be paid cash to tell this joke, and you are required by law to listen to us tell this joke. We haven’t figured out how to force you to laugh at it yet, but we’re working on that” territory.
Creeping fascism, indeed.
The naive kids of Wyoming -- WYOMING! -- have confused the Big Government that wants corporations to pay taxes (BAD) with the Big Government that wants to police our bodies (GOOD).
Nice shout-out to the halcyon days of Jonah Goldberg making a vague and sweeping and obviously made up accusation. I miss that guy.
LOL, as the kids say. One would think grads should have at least no small amount of say as to who speaks at their graduation and who they pay to speak. And one would be wrong. But, as I'm wont to say, as life becomes ever shittier because of our awesome leadership, we still have, it would seem, a right to kill at least select fellow Americans (cf Covid, of course) and an absolute entitlement to a platform for expressing the proper expressions. Amazing. Or, as the red commies maybe used to say, decadent AF.
"...but at the risk of sounding conceited I think Clio’s still keeping some of mine under her pillow."
Tough, sad to be a Cassandra, harder these days when news media are focused on pandering to their audiences instead of reporting important facts and truths (as I'm wont to say). Indeed, Cassandra maybe is the OG cancel culture victim, but it's worse now.
Your PGA mention reminds me of a photographer I once worked with who had just come off a project with Jack Nicklaus. Surprise -- he was one of those "One-Does-Not-Speak-or-Even-Look-Directly-at-the-Great-Man, One-Must-Go-Through-His-Assistant" celebrities. There was some kind of brouhaha over a wardrobe person touching a sweater he was supposed to wear in the shoot, I don't recall the details, but he threatened to walk. Tense. It made for a long shitty day for everyone involved. So imagine my shock that he turned out to be MAGA.
It annoys the hell out of me every time some jackass pontificates about the "science" of two distinct sexes, which is the latest update of "homosexuality is unnatural." I know it's absolutely pointless to hope to educate these people, many of whom think that a killer argument against evolution is asking, "If we descended from monkeys, why are there still apes?"
If only we could actually cancel them .Like a spin-off of Welcome Back Kotter.
Blubber( in the non whale sense) is just the best word! My Mom raised 4 boys- "Stop your blubbering" was a frequently heard phrase.
The Smothers Brothers were so subversive. Their show looked like every other variety show( the whitest of all entertainment forms (until The Flip Wilson show) )( can I get in trouble putting parentesis inside the parentheses?) But oh my God that content. They were pretty upfront about this being a racist assed country deeply involved in a racist assed war in Southeast Asia. Plus Glen Campbell. I was 10 or 11 when they were on and I didn't get all of it but I bet I got some of it . I mean look where I am today . And Sonny and Cher was pretty cool there at the beginning .
Really great column today. Harkins well back to the VV days. We were all so much younger then. I remember going to the reading room in my local library as I was just starting my teen years reading through the Village Voice classified ads not quite knowing what was going on there but being pretty sure that it was something that I wanted to understand. Plus Greil Marcus and Andrew Sarris. I think I was the first first place I read any Nick Tosches. Then later in life that Ed Roso fellow.
I'm meandering now. I turn 64 this weekend. I've been told to expect that.
I wonder if there's tapioca for lunch?
"Anyway, a few months later Trump was president. Draw your own conclusions."
Nope. Need my own blog to do that (and I'm not that motivated.)
"Ha ha ha, I kill me."
Easy there, chief. We're gonna just take a walk over here to the nice Mrs. Pierce who has a few questions to chat about with you...might take a few hours (maybe even overnight, but there's pizza) and then tomorrow you can go ahead and pick up that AR-15 you been muttering about...
Wow, those halcyon days of "political correctness," which was garbage back then, promulgated with a straight face by every major media outlet, and still invoked to this day by folks who ought to know better.* Basically when someone says this before a sentence like so, "this may not be totally PC..." I hear "this is probably an asshole thing to say" or "you all might think I'm a racist."
Oh, there's this use too that's equally fuckfaced: white person has opinion about how some other group ought to help themselves or solve some problems. So then you hear this: "This might not be _entirely_ to say, but did they.... [insert mayonnaise bullshit here]."
* There was, however, a campus romp movie called "PCU" (1994) released amid the tumult, which is notable only for a surprise cameo & performance by George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. God, that movie was shitty....
Good heavens, it's almost like taking a day that people have worked incredibly hard for and instead of applauding them and offering them hope much less advice, you tell some of them they're bad people for something they can't control and doesn't hurt anyone who isn't trying to be hurt by it. And then those hard-working kids, on their day of celebration, are rude enough to say they'd rather not be PAYING for all of their classmates to take this kind of hate speech into their own lives.
Hard to imagine some people aren't okay with it.
Also, Roy, you know there are books of columns out there right? I'd buy yours.
Yeah, why did the government allow mass gatherings of people in liquor stores to sing the praises of malt liquor and single malt while spewing coronavirus into the air?
I always learn something here at Roy's 'stack, especially following the links. Today I learned that Jack Nicklaus is currently being sued by Nicklaus Companies, LLC for using his own name to endorse things. Seems that back in 2007, Nicklaus sold all the rights to his name, nickname, etc. to this company for $145 million (!) back in 2007 when that was a lot of money. Yet he still is lending his name to tournaments around the world for ridiculous sums of cash. The suit recently forced him to turn down $100 million to let the Saudis use his name for their own golf tour. It seems that the paltry millions you make winning at golf when young and fit ain't nothin' compared to the earning power of licensing when old and decrepit.
PS I always picture Basil Fawlty at a funeral saying something like "Well isn't this a Sunny Bunch" whenever I see the name.
Excuse me, but the cancelculture judges have ruled that the acronym for Foundation for Individual Rights in Education shall not be “FIRE,” but rather “FFIRIE.” I will be taking no questions.
Hilarious that she tried to "right the ship" with a crowd of college students by switching to "They made liquor stores essential!"
OK, they didn't like my Phyllis Schlafly, but wait til they see my Carrie Nation!
I would like to nominate Jordan Peterson as Little King Baby Man for his habit of quitting and then claiming he was canceled, most recently in a wounded tweet after the backlash to his insult to the model on the cover of SI, which did double duty as a complaint against "authoritarian tolerance," my apologies if I'm late on this one and y'all already put it to rest: “The endless flood of vicious insult [sic] is really not something that can be experienced anywhere else....If I have something to say I’ll write an article or make a video. If the issue is not important enough to justify that then perhaps it would be best to just let it go.” I look forward to his future treatise on what makes a woman beautiful.