There is a virtual cottage industry among academics in publishing papers that declare common terms or items as forms of white supremacy. This inexhaustible source for publication expanded this week with professors finding new forms of prejudice in common parlance and drinks. The problem is that if you really need a drink after reading that your referencing “Beethoven” is proof of your racism, you cannot even reach for a beer without reinforcing a separate beverage-based bias.
In column inĀ Slate, the University of Massachusetts-AmherstāsĀ Christopher WhiteĀ declared that referring to composers like Beethoven and Mozart by one name is a form of white supremacy. After all, White explained, it creates a āhabitual, two-tieredā method where white composers are referenced by one name while women and minority composers are referred to by their firstĀ andĀ last names:Ā āThese canonized demigods became so ensconced in elite musical societyās collective consciousness that only one word was needed to evoke their awesome specter.ā
White calls for an end to such āmononyms of music history.ā I guess I will have to research the full names of Beyonce, Madonna, Sting, Cher, Bono, Pink, Seal, Adele and others.
For many, messing with Beethoven is still better than messing with beer. However, Virginia Tech sociology professor David L. Brunsma, has declared that beer also reinforces white supremacy. His co-authored book,Ā Beer and Racism: How Beer Became White, Why It Matters, and the Movements to Change It, isĀ marketedĀ as a game changer:Ā Ā āFrom the racist marketing of malt liquor to the bearded-white-dude culture of craft beer, readers will never look at a frothy pint the same after reading Beer and Racism.ā
Craft beers are singled out as examples of racism. As explained byĀ University of New Mexico professorĀ Eli Wilson,Ā it is long overdue to call out such beer lovers:Ā āmaybe a little bit of guilt: after the 10th beer festival youāve been to where it is a bunch of pretzel-necklaced white dudes with beards and potbellies, it gets kind of old, you know?ā
The ultimate racism recreation is presumably having anĀ actual āBeethoven Beer.āĀ
Brusma also declared onĀ Twitter that Vice President Mike Penceās usage of the term āthe American peopleā during the vice presidential debate was racist and a dog whistle.
If so, it is a dog whistle blown daily by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris:
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This Professor is probably a PCRapper and cringes at the thought of anything classical.
Motor Mouth Harris should move to Queens she really is a Putz.
It is amazing how these morons even get noticed. Beer is considered white? So what? Tacos are Mexican but I still eat them. These people need lives. If blacks want to get into craft beers? Go for it! If itās good, Iāll drink it too.
Here’s a thought,. If certain popular musicians like Elvis or Prince are recognized from one name epithets, then what’s wrong with Mozart or Beethoven same way?
Are they somehow below Prince or Elvis? I would say Elvis was a great performer and Prince was a very excellent songwriter musician and performer, but one can modestly claim that Mozart and Beethoven were greater. In my white guy thinking that is, LOL.
Mr Kurtz…..good point….and while we’re at it, what about JESUS! oops! š
How can you call these totally worthless individuals academics or professors when they are nothing but pee-brained pissants?
This is how we will get to a post racial society. The term racism will be abused until it is meaningless as saying “What’s up?”
Interesting. I generally discount and skip over three-named pundits desperately seeking significance.
I thought the 3-name thing was reserved for serial killers and assassins.
As for individuals with single names, most will recognize the appellation “Cleopatra” and more should recognize “Hypatia”.
History of beer goes back to the Natufians, proto-agriculturalists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_beer
Good chance that beer was brewed even earlier in the Maghreb.
Where do you get Maghreb? that’s north africa not including Egypt. I don’t see anything in the wiki about Maghreb.
seems like they suggest Sumer which is what i’ve been hearing my whole life too
its funny you cite a decent wiki article and then toss that out there. you got a source for that? just curious
Mr Kurtz, no reference but the earliest fossils attributed to Homo sapiens are from the Maghreb and how can there be men without beer?
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