South Park Republicans
category for pubescent arrested dev masquerading as brave macho rebellion, eg Howard Stern and So park
revisited 1219 on djt rally as recycled ADJ
see also CET
beavis and butthead/ andrew dice clay [early FOX?]
fox? simpsons/ family guy etc etc?
related to hypermaculinity found in wrestling
note also Top Gun and Red Scorp inherent ability to use weapons.(top gun basically long ad for navy, actually boosted recruitment; // America's Army video game) MIC
Related to denigration of women by Rush feminazi
UN is cooperative thus inherently feminine?
is it waning or am i not in touch with its demographic [4chan?]
nugent? see heavy metal http://www.metalinsider.net/columns/top-5/metal-insiders-top-five-republican-rockers/2
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WE NEED NEW NODE/CATEGORY
MADE HUGE DEAL IN A TIME OF LATE NIGHT CENSOR KIMMEL THEN SAVAGE PARODY
AN 11 25
Viewership doubles as cartoon becomes 'surprising voice of resistance'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go
...Several things jump out. Despite Trump’s claim that he doesn’t believe the polls, his San Antonio research team spends $100,000 a week on surveys (apart from polls commissioned out of Trump Tower) and has sophisticated models that run daily simulations of the election. The results mirror those of the more reliable public forecasters—in other words, Trump’s staff knows he’s losing. Badly. “Nate Silver’s results have been similar to ours,” says Parscale, referring to the polling analyst and his predictions at FiveThirtyEight, “except they lag by a week or two because he’s relying on public polls.” The campaign knows who it must reach and is still executing its strategy despite the public turmoil: It’s identified 13.5 million voters in 16 battleground states whom it considers persuadable, although the number of voters shrinks daily as they make up their minds.
Trump’s team also knows where its fate will be decided. It’s built a model, the “Battleground Optimizer Path to Victory,” to weight and rank the states that the data team believes are most critical to amassing the 270 electoral votes Trump needs to win the White House. On Oct. 18 they rank as follows: Florida (“If we don’t win, we’re cooked,” says an official), Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia.
Trump believes he possesses hidden strength that may only materialize at the ballot box. At rallies, he’s begun speculating that the election will be like “Brexit times five,” implying that he’ll upend expectations much as the Brexit vote shocked experts who didn’t believe a majority of Britons would vote to leave the European Union. Trump’s data scientists, including some from the London firm Cambridge Analytica who worked on the “Leave” side of the Brexit initiative, think they’ve identified a small, fluctuating group of people who are reluctant to admit their support for Trump and may be throwing off public polls.
Still, Trump’s reality is plain: He needs a miracle. Back in May, newly anointed, he told Bloomberg Businessweek he would harness “the movement” to challenge Clinton in states Republicans haven’t carried in years: New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Connecticut, California. “I’m going to do phenomenally,” he predicted. Yet neither Trump’s campaign nor the RNC has prioritized registering and mobilizing the 47 million eligible white voters without college degrees who are Trump’s most obvious source of new votes, as FiveThirtyEight analyst David Wasserman noted.
To compensate for this, Trump’s campaign has devised another strategy, which, not surprisingly, is negative. Instead of expanding the electorate, Bannon and his team are trying to shrink it. “We have three major voter suppression operations under way,” says a senior official. They’re aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans. Trump’s invocation at the debate of Clinton’s WikiLeaks e-mails and support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership was designed to turn off Sanders supporters. The parade of women who say they were sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton and harassed or threatened by Hillary is meant to undermine her appeal to young women. And her 1996 suggestion that some African American males are “super predators” is the basis of a below-the-radar effort to discourage infrequent black voters from showing up at the polls—particularly in Florida.
On Oct. 24, Trump’s team began placing spots on select African American radio stations. In San Antonio, a young staffer showed off a South Park-style animationhe’d created of Clinton delivering the “super predator” line(using audio from her original 1996 sound bite), as cartoon text popped up around her: “Hillary Thinks African Americans are Super Predators.” The animation will be delivered to certain African American voters through Facebook “dark posts”—nonpublic posts whose viewership the campaign controls so that, as Parscale puts it, “only the people we want to see it, see it.” The aim is to depress Clinton’s vote total. “We know because we’ve modeled this,” says the official. “It will dramatically affect her ability to turn these people out.”
The Trump team’s effort to discourage young women by rolling out Clinton accusers and drive down black turnout in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood with targeted messages about the Clinton Foundation’s controversial operations in Haiti is an odd gambit. Campaigns spend millions on data science to understand their own potential supporters—to whom they’re likely already credible messengers—but here Trump is speaking to his opponent’s. Furthermore, there’s no scientific basis for thinking this ploy will convince these voters to stay home. It could just as easily end up motivating them.
Regardless of whether this works or backfires, setting back GOP efforts to attract women and minorities even further, Trump won’t come away from the presidential election empty-handed. Although his operation lags previous campaigns in many areas (its ground game, television ad buys, money raised from large donors), it’s excelled at one thing: building an audience. Powered by Project Alamo and data supplied by the RNC and Cambridge Analytica, his team is spending $70 million a month, much of it to cultivate a universe of millions of fervent Trump supporters, many of them reached through Facebook. By Election Day, the campaign expects to have captured 12 million to 14 million e-mail addresses and contact information (including credit card numbers) for 2.5 million small-dollar donors, who together will have ponied up almost $275 million. “I wouldn’t have come aboard, even for Trump, if I hadn’t known they were building this massive Facebook and data engine,” says Bannon. “Facebook is what propelled Breitbart to a massive audience. We know its power.”
Since Trump paid to build this audience with his own campaign funds, he alone will own it after Nov. 8 and can deploy it to whatever purpose he chooses. He can sell access to other campaigns or use it as the basis for a 2020 presidential run. It could become the audience for a Trump TV network. As Bannon puts it: “Trump is an entrepreneur.”
Whatever Trump decides, this group will influence Republican politics going forward.These voters, whom Cambridge Analytica has categorized as “disenfranchised new Republicans,” are younger, more populist and rural—and also angry, active, and fiercely loyal to Trump. Capturing their loyalty was the campaign’s goal all along. It’s why, even if Trump loses, his team thinks it’s smarter than political professionals. “We knew how valuable this would be from the outset,” says Parscale. “We own the future of the Republican Party.”
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https://www.alternet.org/video/south-park-franchise-prequel-zuckerberg-facebook-professor-chaos
Even if you don't normally watch "South Park," you might want to check out week's episode, "Franchise Prequel." (Yes, you can jump into it even if you're unfamiliar with the show's characters and story arcs.) For the Facebook-addicted, it brings up some timely reasons to reconsider using the platform.
In the episode, concerned about the 'news' that masked vigilantes are performing disgraceful acts, the South Park community's parents discuss how to prevent their impressionable children from being targeted by disturbing Facebook stories. Unbeknownst to the parents, their children--the show's main characters--actually arethose vigilantes—and the news is fake.
"We all know there's a lot of mixing of truth and fiction that's been on Facebook lately," the parents agree.
The solution they propose? "Let's invite Mark Zuckerberg here and hear what he has to say. I'm sure he's a reasonable person."
Cue ominous music.
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The moral of the story is if you have opted into giving Zuckerberg (a metonym for Facebook) your personal data in exchange for access to his social media empire, don't be surprised when it's used, over and over again, for evil purposes. And once he gets past that first gate, you may never be able to block him (and the targeted advertisers and fake news dealers) again.
The other valid point the episode makes is just how easy it is to use Facebook's cache of personal information for any purposes. As Vulture's Charles Bramesco writes,"The sharpest jab of the half-hour comes in the suggestion that the money advertising clients pay Facebook, a whopping sum of $17.23, is all the incentive the company needs to turn a blind eye to deliberate fakery." A child (moonlighting as supervillain Professor Chaos) is able to use Facebook to spread fake news that harms others. When the show's heroes confront Mark Zuckerberg about why he is protecting Chaos, he responds, "Simple. He paid me $17.23," alluding to Facebook's troubling policy toward advertisers under the guise of free speech.
The episode's image of an abandoned Circuit City filled with a supervillain and his tinfoil-hat-wearing minions bent on creating chaos, with Mark Zuckerberg protecting them like some awkward "Street Fighter" video game character, is almost enough to make viewers consider giving up this Facebook culture gone awry. Not to mention, it delivers a chill to think we are living in a post-truth world, where people seek news only to confirm their own opinions and "fake" can become a synonym for "doesn't align with my worldview."
Outside of fiction, it's perfect timing for talking about the possibility of deactivation—life without Facebook. Early Facebook employees "regret the monster they created," a Vanity Fair headline points out. And in the episode, Zuckerberg shutters the site when the heroes catch him in a Facebook Live video recording—very problematically, in what could be twisted by the alt-right as a conspiracy-fueling staged alt-left framing of—Zuckerberg beating up disabled, black, and Jewish children. Uncannily, here in the real world, the morning before the episode ran, Facebook was down for an hour or so for many users.
The bizarre animated series is well equipped to serve up cold truths about a good chunk of our culture that's addicted to Facebook. But mixed reviews agree it's not Matt Stone and Trey Parker's most comically genius work. One basic criticism not yet raised, perhaps because the "Coon and Friends" franchise is absurd to begin with (and, unrelated but significantly, playing with racist themes), is the timeline: If this is a prequel to the 2010 "Coon and Friends" trilogy, what are the grounds for commenting on the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, mentioning Instagram casually (Instagram only began a month before the trilogy was released), and using Facebook Live (which came out last year)? Not to mention the blink-and-you-miss-it but sharp dig at Harvey Weinstein, only publicly outed this week. Admittedly, thinking back to seemingly innocuous times of Facebook and the news in 2010 does help to make you think how very different our digital lives were just a handful of years ago.
Bramesco neatly sums up the episode's appeal despite its limited satiric power:
Watch the full episode at Comedy Central."Parker and Stone take all the expected Facebook potshots, dutifully pointing out that spreading fake news is technically not illegal, and then parrying with the fact that what’s legal can still be, and often is, highly unethical. It’s a pretty broadly supported stance — nobody really supports fake news, though the more deluded deny its existence — that lacks the usual 'did they really just say that?' quality that South Parkfans crave."
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i'm just confused: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/21/1286455/-John-Oliver-s-new-show-spoofs-Republican-Hipster-Guy
related to sil vly librtarian? he's a valley boy! cray-cray; maybe just spin on colbert gingrich gen?
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http://www.alternet.org/culture/why-south-park-perfectly-armed-fight-alt-right
"South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are harboring a dirty secret: Much of their audience, the 18- to 34-year-old demographic, overlaps with a certain young, male, white slice of President Donald Trump’s base. You know, the ones who troll liberals online and proudly rock MAGA hats in public.
It is perhaps the reality of this ugly Venn diagram that led Parker and Stone to announce that “South Park’s” 21st season, which debuted last Wednesday on Comedy Central, would avoid satirizing the president. In an
, the cartoonists claimed that they had grown tired of mocking Trump,whom they compared to a monkey “running himself into the wall over and over.”
While Trump has been low-hanging fruit for comedians, a particularly nasty segment of the president’s base is no laughing matter. Known as the alt-right, these online trolls get a kick out of transgressing liberal sensibilities. They not only dabble in sexism and anti-Semitism; they have built an aesthetic based on white supremacy and claims of reverse racism. Founded and subsequently nurtured on 4chanand other anonymous online communities, the alt-right gleefully breaks modern-day taboos as a form of protest against normative ideals.
It is this counterculture that can often be found in “South Park” — especially in the earlier seasons. “South Park” created a cult following through an unabashed, irreverent humor that spared nothing and no one. Indeed, the show has even been labeled “racist” for its abuse of ethnic stereotypes. Hell, one of its few black characters is named Token.
The alt-right revels in what they see as an unapologetic contempt for all that others deem holy. In truth, the creators are far more nuanced and progressive than most give them credit for. Token, for instance, amplifies the fact that, yep, TV shows employ token, often one-dimensional characters of color in a practice that is often more a disservice to underrepresented groups than a benefit to them. Still, parker and Stone cannot deny that “South Park” has fans in the some of the darkest, most hateful corners of the internet.
When the duo said it would no longer parody Trump on their show, The_Donald **subreddit,** an online basket for the president’s “deplorables,” rejoiced over the news. “Fuck yea. Finally looking forward to a new season of South Park,” one Reddit user said. “Its only fun when the snowflakes get bashed [sic],” another user chimed in. “THEY LIVE! Matt Stone and Trey Parker are COMING BACK TO REALITY!,” an enthusiastic redditor proclaimed.
While this decision appeased Trump’s base, Parker and Stone absolutely did not preclude them from the scope of their ridicule.
In the season premiere on Wednesday, Parker and Stone set their sights on a big sector of Trump fans — the kind of white, blue-collar voters who blame everyone but themselves for their economic status. The episode, which Deadline called a “subtle takedown of white supremacists,” had two narratives: the town’s Confederate flag-waving rednecks protesting Amazon’s Alexa for taking their jobs, and Randy’s feud with the protestors for disrupting the set of his HGTV-inspired TV show, “White People Renovating Houses.”
Randy concocts a plan to replace all Alexas in town with the aggrieved white nationalists, thereby ending the Confederate-themed demonstrations. When one of the protestors refuses, calling the labor demeaning, Randy fumes, “Sorry you didn’t go to college so you have to take the jobs you can get. Coal mining and truck driving are not exactly jobs of the future. You’re stuck in another time.” The protestor runs off, yelling, “Muslims trying to kill us, black people rioting, Mexicans having babies – I say, ‘Kill ’em all!'”
The political satire was admittedly muddled, but it succeeded in crystallizing the absurdity of white, blue-collar entitlement. The target of the premiere was older Americans, those who have seen the new economy pass them by. Yet “South Park” has an unusual opportunity in future episodes to use its comedy to enlighten young, disenchanted white men who have embraced the alt-right ideology.
Parker and Stone did not create “South Park” to push a political agenda. The self-described libertarians are in it for the jokes. They also likely despise liberals as much as these new-age conservatives — a healthy, fair position. But because “South Park” spares nobody its scorn, Parker and Stone can — and perhaps should — do the country a solid and employ the alt-right’s tactless humor against them. As a Trojan horse, “South Park” can finally demonstrate to members of the alt-right just how pathetic and ultimately self-destructive their dead-end worldview is. They’re watching, after all.
Although the alt-right frequently bemoans the liberal bubble, they are just as guilty of confining themselves to their favorite channels.“South Park” has been a safe space for the alt-right since its inception. It would be only appropriate if the show turned around and devoured its own viewers.
Taylor Link is an assistant editor at Salon
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[9/17 wife peddling something on booktv]
Former "Hercules" star Kevin Sorbo,who has a sideline as a political conservative and outspoken Christian, probably should have just sat back and enjoyed Faux News' coverage of the unrest in Ferguson, MO, after police shot an unarmed black teen. Surely, he would have gotten his victim-smearing, race-baiting, Obama-blaming fill there. But no, he took to Facebook to rant about the protestors in Ferguson, calling them "losers" and "animals"—animals with ulterior motives. (Wait, can animals have ulterior motives?)
"Ferguson riots have very little to do with the shooting of the young man," Sorbo wrote, because, of course, he knows. "It is an excuse to be the losers these animals truly are. It is a tipping point to frustration built up over years of not trying, but blaming everyone else, the Man, for their failures. It's always someone else's fault when you give up. Hopefully this is a reminder to the African Americans (I always thought we (sic) just Americans. Oh, well) that their President the (sic) voted in has only made things worse for them, not better."
He later apologized. “I stand humiliated and humbled. My most sincere apologies for my post on the events in Ferguson,” he said. “I posted out of frustration and anger over the violence and looting. My words were never meant to hurt the African-American community.”
Well, who were they meant to hurt?
The apology rang just a little hollow. It may rank Sorbo slightly lower on the douchebag scale than, say, Ted Nugent, but that’s not saying much. And it’s not like this was his first conservative rant. Earlier this week, Sorbo dubbed atheists "angry"while promoting his recent film, God Is Not Dead, in which he plays an atheist, according to RawStory. Last year, he took aim at Hollywood for liberal hypocrisy.
Finally, in an interview with his pal Hannity later in the week, Sorbo pointed out that 97 percent of black people voted for Obama. “Isn’t that kind of racist?”
A deep thinker, this Sorbo.
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AlterNet [1] / By Hannah Gold [2]
Six of the Most Disturbing Racist and Sexist Themed College Frat Events from the Past Year
March 3, 2014 |
It's common knowledge that at fraternity and sorority parties much more is slurred than just words. Racial and sexual epithets abound, not only spoken, but also displayed through dress, signs, gestures, email and social media posts. Yet year after year this practice continues, unabated, reported on for salacious details and then left to die in the news caverns of the Huffington Post archives.
Caitlin Flanagan’s cover story for the Atlantic [3] on the history of frat house fatalities, fraternity, and to a much lesser extent sorority culture, has rekindled public outrage. The hulking, year-long investigation covers nearly two centuries of brotherly exclusivity along with more recent scourges of sexual assault, students falling from great heights at parties, and painful hazing rituals.
Let the media mudslinging (or, rather, the Animal House-style food fights) begin! Maria Konnikova also wrote for the Atlantic [4] this week about the cult of white male privilege that characterizes so many fraternities. “One of the fundamental principles of group psychology,” Konnikova writes, “is that, in order to define a group, you must define not only what it’s for, but what — or whom — it’s against.”
Konnikova began to get at the psychological underpinnings of frat life, but it was Katie J.M. Baker at Al Jazeera who administered the smackdown. Baker writes that Flanagan’s article doesn’t “look at the real ‘dark’ side of Greek life: institutional class privilege, racism and sexism.” That's true. When Greek life makes it into the media spotlight it’s almost always to do with some outrageously insensitive party that targets women and minorities for the pleasure of their mostly white, mostly male peers (okay, and rapebaiting emails [5] and the occasional butt-chug [6]).
Don’t know much about history? Consider this your primer on another year of racist, sexist ragers that no amount of dubious punch can black out.
1. “Thug Party” at Arizona State University
What’s the sexiest time for a bunch of privileged white kids to wear basketball jerseys, drink frat juice from hollowed-out watermelons, and flash gang signs? According to members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University that would be MLK day (correct answer: never). This past January, students congregated in what they interpreted as thug attire, posted copious pictures of the charade on social media, and even got creative with tags like #MLKblackout and #hood and studded their Instagram posts with watermelon emoticons.
The New York Times reported [7] that the fraternity was suspended after outraged students allied with civil rights leaders. The fraternity had already been on probation after one of its members was suspected of beating up a black classmate on campus. The ASU undergraduate student population is 5 percent black.
2. “USA vs. Mexico” party at Randolph-Macon University
In November, members of Kappa Alpha fraternity threw a party where guests were encouraged to dress like “illegal Mexicans” and border patrol agents at Randolph-Macon University in Ashland Virginia. Participants, who sported sombreros, large fake mustaches, and border patrol disguises, were encouraged to play a drinking game in which the students dressed as agents tried to “catch” students portraying immigrants. According to NBC Latino [8], the fraternity’s guiding slogan is “The moral compass for the modern gentleman.”
Randolph-Macon University is only the most recent example of this insolent strain of frat party. The University of Texas at Austin had promoted such an event in September 2012. “Alpha Tau Omega Presents Fiestau” [9] advertised a veritable obstacle course of institutional racism with guests told there would be some sort of faux-wall in the middle of the party with Mexican-themed drinks on one side and Texan-themed drinks on the other. There’s nothing borderline about the biases of those who planned the event without raising objections. In response to pressure from a slew of UT students, the party name was unhelpfully changed to “Alpha Tau Omega Presents the Alamo” and then canceled altogether.
3. “Asia Prime" Party at Duke University
“We look forward to having Mi, Yu, You and Yo friends over for some Sake. Chank you.” So read Kappa Sigma’s invitation to its “Asia Prime” party, which took place at Duke University on Feb. 1, 2013. According to rumors of that “epic night” and photographic evidence posted to students’ social media accounts, guests dressed up in silk robes, fake sumo wrestler paunch, chopstick hair accessories, and parroted stereotypical Asian accents. The New York Daily News [10]reported that by the time the party actually took place it had been renamed “International Relations.” Students immediately began referring to it as the “racist rager.”
Ashley Tsai, a Duke senior at the time, explained to the Duke Chronicle a few days after the incident, "This is a consistent thing happening. We want serious things to be done by the student body and the university so that this never happens again." As part of the organized protest against the party, some students posted pictures from the party of their drunken cohorts in costume. The fliers read, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention” and were removed in a brotherly blitz of image control the same day.
The frat was temporarily suspended a week after the party due to these and many other protests. The day before the suspension took place, Larry Moneta, the vice president of student affairs at Duke, told the Herald Sun [11], “The event was thoughtless and offensive, but we’re not sure it actually broke any rules.”
Other recent racist antics in the Duke University frat-o-sphere include a “Pilgrims and Indians” party in December 2011 and an invitation in October 2010 summoning “all potential slam pieces” to a “Plan-B Pregame.” What lucky lady could resist?
4. “Colonial Bros and Nava-Hos” at California Polytechnic State University
How can you be anti-woman, insult Native Americans, and signal your approval of genocide all in the same rager? Just do what Cal Poly did and throw a Colonial Bros and Nava-Hos party. Better yet, throw it on Thanksgiving [12]. The party, which was thrown by three fraternities, was later denounced by the university president and a forum was conducted where students could air their grievances.
Cal Poly is by no means the first to inflict this lame idea on the rest of the student body. Many other fraternities have tried to ride the same gravy train to party town only to be brutally rebuffed by their unchill peers. Harvard bros also threw a “Conquista-bros and Nava-hos” party back in 2010 in honor of Columbus Day (when brother Chris found America and cracked open a 40). Backlash eventually forced an apology from Sigma Chi, the fraternity that threw the bash.
The University of Chicago’s Alpha Delta Phi chapter also tried to throw such a party in May 2012, wooing guests via Facebook invite with a call to “conquer, spread disease, and enslave natives.” The name of the party was facetiously changed to “Hats” before it was canceled.
5. “Bloods and Crips" Party at Dartmouth
I’m all for brothers and sisters coming together to have a good, loving time, but that’s not even close to what happened when Alpha Delta fraternity and Tri-Delta sorority joined forces to heighten the powers of their racist antics. In July 2013, these two groups of Dartmouth students co-hosted a “Bloods and Crips” party which, for anyone who does not know, is a reference to arguably the most famous and violent L.A. gangs, both primarily African American.
One student who was on campus for “sophomore summer” and had attended the event wrote about it in an email, shared with the Huffington Post: “Individuals mingled for hours while dressed as bloods or crips while using racialized language. It then turned into a 'ghetto party' with racialized language, speech and dress. Over 200 individuals attended this event.”
In the morning everyone woke up, and lo and behold, became upstanding, politically correct citizens of their elite university again. Both the fraternity and the sorority acknowledged the party foul in diplomatic statements made, it would seem, through gritted teeth (Alpha Delta claimed “there was no ill intent,” calling the matter an “oversight”). No disciplinary action was taken, though Dartmouth administrators claimed to be possibly thinking about concocting some guidelines for not throwing parties that target minorities and women.
The very first lesson of history? It repeats itself. In 1998, white Dartmouth students — fake guns and fake afros blaring — threw a “gangsta party.” Students continued staging protests well after the fraternity and sorority behind the event issued their apologies. Black, Hispanic, Asian-American, and Native American students constituted less than 25 percent [13] of the student body population 16 years ago; now that number is about 35 percent. [14]
6. “Beer Olympics” Party at Columbia University
Sometimes you don’t have to look behind you for a history lesson; instead, look to your side. The Winter Olympics have closed, but the saga of sorority Kappa Alpha Theta’s “Beer Olympics” party, held just last weekend at Columbia, is still unfolding. If this particular story has one silver lining it’s that there's no lack of loyal opposition to what went down, since the party managed to be offensive to about half a dozen racial and ethnic groups.
For starters, women representing team Mexico donned all the unimaginative cultural cues: mustache, sombrero, maracas. Columbia’s Chicano Caucus criticized Kappa Alpha Theta’s choice of dress in a statement to the student paper the Spectator, which read in part, “The attire trivialized an entire nation’s history, its peoples, and its cultures. ... The term ‘cultural appropriation’ is not one that is discussed often at Columbia, and it is not one that is easy to define.”
Sisters on team Ireland brandished a sign that read “Kiss me, I’m a famished potato” (because nothing gets you in the mood like mass starvation), while those portraying Japan wore schoolgirl outfits and hachimaki.
The Columbia Panhellenic Association released a statement admonishing the sorority, “We are taking this matter very seriously and are working directly with members of the organization involved to address the situation.” As of yet, no disciplinary action has been taken.
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Fairly or unfairly, the Occupy Wall Street protests that have spread to urban centers around the country have taken plenty of heat for the vagueness of their message. Now a familiar local satirist has added his voice to the call for coherence: Comedian Remy Munasifi, best known for his "Arlington rap" video, posted up at the some of the protests currently going on in D.C. to record a satirical ode to the movement. Although he doesn't support corporate bailouts, he tells TBD, “I just disagreed with some of the proposed solutions...Some people choose personal attacks over substantive discourse, and it’s neither productive nor persuasive.” Still, as a critique of the Occupy protesters, his video for the libertarian Reason.TV leaves a little to be desired. What's Remy trying to say? Here's my best guess.
Come gather young people, come and join your hands/We're taking Wall Street and we're making demands/And we're heeding the call and we're crying for help/Only 1 percent of us have wealth
Translation: By choosing a melody and rhyme scheme suggestive of Bob Dylan's iconic protest song "The Times They Are a-Changin'," I hope to juxtapose the incoherent "Occupy Wall Street" protests with the widely-agreed-to-be-worthwhile social movements of the 1960s!
But first we need posters, we need to make signs/But to do so it seems that we need some supplies/We need poster board, I can't make it myself/But it's 10 cents a sheet at the store it's on sale/An example of economies of scale/it's so evil
Translation: Because anti-capitalist protesters need to buy things to mount their anti-capitalism protests, they are hypocrites!
They're saying that freedom's done little to stop/corporations from keeping the wealth at the top/But at what point in history could a kid and a king/both have clean water to drink?
Translation: You should not complain about the 9.1 percent unemployment rate given that you are able to fill up your Nalgene!
George Washington was the richest man of his age/But he lost all his teeth at a very young age/because they didn't have Scope and they all crapped in trays/We're not wealthy
Translation: Because of 200 years of advances in dental care, you really should not criticize corporate greed!
Now there's fountains in streets from which clean water pours/Four-dollar generics at all big box stores/A sultan and a student both have iPhone 4s/It's not fair
Translation: Why complain about inequity when everyone can have Angry Birds? Also, I am really serious about the clean water thing!
Come gather, young people, come on everyone/and I'll tell you a tale of a fortunate son/He's born in a country and given vaccine/and rendered immune to all kinds of disease/The Kardashians are on all his TVs/It's not perfect
Translation: Things are mostly OK, and therefore you should not question what you got for your $2.3 trillion bank bailout!
See banks don't need bailouts, on that we agree/So let's start up a group and let's take to the streets/Cuz if we do so, well you know what that means/We're racists
Translation: I will now obviate critiques of my critique by ending on an absurdist note!