researcher attacked by far right after she uncovers Jingle Bells' racist past

Again. Who cares? Congrats. You settled a debate and gave people ammunition to label a classic as racist. Bravo. Please do not come home for Christmas. Bahston can have her.
You're such a fucking snowflake sometimes. Jesus Christ. The past lost, get over it.
 
And what does any of this have to do with her settling which city it was written in?

Settling the origin is what led to researching the song. Researching the song is about researching the song. Her paper goes into a lot of detail about the various songs that Jingle Bells is melodically based on and how the song transitioned out of the minstrel era to maintain contemporary appeal.

But for people who are emotionally fragile, they basically ignore a well-researched paper on the origins of a popular Christmas Carol to get outraged over the reality that the song was written during an era when blackface was common.

For goodness sake, the paper actually lists the lyrics of Jingle Bells predecessors and contemporary songs but "Oh noes, the article mentions blackface and we can't handle the fact that blackface was ever real."

These are the same crybabies who accuse everyone else of being SJW's, meanwhile they're interpreting everything as a personal attack on themselves. They should be mocked for the sensitive snowflakes that they are.
 
You're such a fucking snowflake sometimes. Jesus Christ. The past lost, get over it.

Settling the origin is what led to researching the song. Researching the song is about researching the song. Her paper goes into a lot of detail about the various songs that Jingle Bells is melodically based on and how the song transitioned out of the minstrel era to maintain contemporary appeal.

But for people who are emotionally fragile, they basically ignore a well-researched paper on the origins of a popular Christmas Carol to get outraged over the reality that the song was written during an era when blackface was common.

For goodness sake, the paper actually lists the lyrics of Jingle Bells predecessors and contemporary songs but "Oh noes, the article mentions blackface and we can't handle the fact that blackface was ever real."

These are the same crybabies who accuse everyone else of being SJW's, meanwhile they're interpreting everything as a personal attack on themselves. They should be mocked for the sensitive snowflakes that they are.

Indeed.
 
she uncovers Jingle Bells' racist past/
"It seems that the work that I've been talking about on Jingle Bells ... has been absolutely misreported or reported very irresponsibly,"

"media outlets have characterized Hamill as saying the song itself is racist and should be shunned, which Hamill denies."


dude. youre propagating the same exact misinformation with your thread title. you sure do post a lot of social media quality 'news'.
 
"It seems that the work that I've been talking about on Jingle Bells ... has been absolutely misreported or reported very irresponsibly,"

"media outlets have characterized Hamill as saying the song itself is racist and should be shunned, which Hamill denies."


dude. youre propagating the same exact misinformation with your thread title. you sure do post a lot of social media quality 'news'.
It's from the title of the article, dum dum.
 
"It seems that the work that I've been talking about on Jingle Bells ... has been absolutely misreported or reported very irresponsibly,"

"media outlets have characterized Hamill as saying the song itself is racist and should be shunned, which Hamill denies."


dude. youre propagating the same exact misinformation with your thread title. you sure do post a lot of social media quality 'news'.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...cklash-from-the-right-its-not-black-and-white

Hamill published the findings in a peer-reviewed paper in September, noting that during the past 160 years the song had become an example of music whose “blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history”.

You misunderstand the difference between not calling a song racist, but saying it has a racist past.
 
I'm stuck in Court but when was this paper of her's published? The timing seems a bit... well.. fucky.

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This could be an overactive brain but it feels like she wanted it published or seen at the Xmas season as a "hey gotcha nudgenudge" thing and people mis-interpreted and then it blew the fuck up.
 
I'm stuck in Court but when was this paper of her's published? The timing seems a bit... well.. fucky.

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This could be an overactive brain but it feels like she wanted it published or seen at the Xmas season as a "hey gotcha nudgenudge" thing and people mis-interpreted and then it blew the fuck up.

This is a bit fucky. It's extremely fucky.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...cklash-from-the-right-its-not-black-and-white

Last year she detailed her findings to local media, yielding a front page story in the Boston Globe and no backlash.

This year, however, was a different story.
“Newest Christmas controversy has social justice warriors claiming this classic holiday carol is racist,” a Fox News host told viewers earlier this month. Breitbart warned that Hamill was urging people to “shun the jaunty tune”.

Hamill said much reporting of her research was incorrect and laden with “all sorts of absolutely absurd” accusations.

“It was obviously an easy way to bait and politicise Christmas,” she said. “Which seems to be what extreme political outlets want to do.” She had never said that Jingle Bells was now racist nor had she sought to discourage people from singing the tune, she pointed out.

Alt-right fucktards dragged this up as something to stir up fury from their supporters who don't examine things critically before they jump on them with death threats.
 
I've got bad news for you: if Sweet Home Alabama was a significant part of Klan culture, then it would deserve to be studied in a new light.

-when did this happen? For how long?
-when did the musicians learn about this and how did they feel about it?
-did the Klan influence the musicians? Did the musicians influence the Klan?
-what other songs crossed over to significance in the Klan? Why or why not?
-why did this song appeal to the Klan? Were they drawn to the intended meaning of the lyrics? Or did the Klan find their own meaning in the lyrics?
-what purpose did this song serve for the Klan?

This would all be fascinating and worthy of research.
No, the correct answer to ALL of this is "it's just a song".

Lowest form of criticism is "who cares!?"
 
Constantly reminding black and white people about blackface, slavery and Jim crow is not healthy for society.

We do not need to be thinking about this shit 24/7. It only builds resentment. I mean, look at the bitter minorities in the war room.
 
How would all you guys have preferred she deliver this information to prevent alt right fucktards from stuffing sand in their vaginas and sending her death threats?
omfg you still saying she's been sent death threats?
 
This is why we are doomed. It's 2018 and we have college students researching holiday songs.
 
This is why we are doomed. It's 2018 and we have college students researching holiday songs.

No. We are doomed because fucktard snowflakes go out of their way to drum up anger about someone researching a song (to settle a regional dispute -- real world, practical application). And when they're not doing this they're railing about women and Star Wars.
 
No. We are doomed because fucktard snowflakes go out of their way to drum up anger about someone researching a song (to settle a regional dispute -- real world, practical application). And when they're not doing this they're railing about women and Star Wars.

Not likely. People complaining is minor, and people will always complain. The rise of women's and gender studies (up 300% from 20 years ago) is a much larger issue.
 
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