On efforts to “decolonise” folk singing; on claims of being oppressed by a rapidly shrinking minority; and on rap, the ‘N’ word, and dumb academia:
Having covered quite a few of these “decolonisation” efforts, which generally rely on a fig-leaf of widening access and removing barriers, it’s remarkable just how rarely any meaningful obstacle to access is actually mentioned. Typically, the humdrum is depicted as gruelling and somehow agonising, and motes are inflated to the size of boulders.
We were told, for instance, that racial minorities are being “deterred” from visiting the British countryside “due to deep-rooted, complex barriers.” Barriers such as the fact that rock-climbing instructors are usually white. And apparently this unremarkable state of affairs, in a white-majority country, is something that needs fixing.
Though it occurs to me that if a person with brown skin were being deterred from trying rock climbing by the fact that the instructor is likely to be white, then it seems somewhat unlikely that said person is interested in rock climbing to any significant extent. And a person deterred by such things may also want to reflect on their own racial assumptions. But we’re not supposed to mention those, at least not in an unflattering light.
l find it AMUSING *such* *emphasis* on RACE when apparently RACE is such a verboten . . . . . thing?
let me try something here.
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nope. lm just note ‘getting’ what the deal is.
now back to our regular programming. lol
So, the race is not only to the swift. Sometimes the turkey gets it!
For your listening pleasure from 57 years ago…
National Lampoon – Well Intentioned Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2yppzb-Lpo
FILTHY LIBERALS
ITS NOT ALL OF THEM, BUT ITS ALWAYS THEM
How is going out to the country synonymous with rock climbing? Making sense of leftist arguments is impossible. They are all insane.
Maybe them there brown people are just scared of the Highland coos with the red shaggy hair and big scary horns…
I was informed by a Jamaican gentleman I used to work with, when the subject of the company river rafting trip came up, that it’s called “white water” because only white people are crazy enough to go out in it.
And lo, upon seeing the crowd who arrived for the rafting trip, this proved to be true.
I’ve seen the same to be largely the case with skydiving, climbing, etc.