Ray Andrews
I've solved the problem of spending my whole life worrying about whether I might be called a White Supremacist by actively embracing the label. Yes, I note that 90 - 99% of what we call civilization is the work of white people (mostly male!!) and that thus the presumption that white people should remain in control of their own culture is as normal and natural as understanding that a mother is the best person to care for her own child. I consider that opinion to be simply good sense in the same way that almost nobody would dispute that the best people to care for Zulu culture are the Zulus.
Ray Andrews
I suggest to professional Indians that if they want to 'decolonize' then fine, the first thing they need to do is return to a stone age hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Stop Appropriating my culture!
I recently gave up on one of the few remaining magazines I subscribe to, for describing Tarzan as a symbol of "white supremacy" (to be fair, they say "some people" see it that way- as if that's a disclaimer), and for saying there were no black jungle heroes in the 1930s because of "the prejudice of the times." The rag has also been promoting gay "viewpoints," which meant I'd put the thing aside and never finish reading it. Another one bites the dust...
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You mean American Indians, a/k/a "feather" Indians, of course, not the "dot" kind.
ReplyDeleteYou should tell them why you cancelled,RM. If enough people tell the magazine the reason,they might(odds:30-1 against)change their woke ways and get back to normal reporting
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Dear GRA, I certainly considered it, but it's not a "mainstream" publication, it's limited-interest and limited-circulation (comic-book history) edited by an 83-year-old life-long liberal (Roy Thomas), and published by much younger liberals, so it hardly seems worth bothering. I'm getting pretty fed up with CLASSIC IMAGES (film history publication) as well, for similar reasons. It's a matter of how much one wants to put up with in order to read about one's interests (there's not much out there anymore about pop-culture history). And of course, THEY have to worry about being "cancelled" if they would refuse, say, gay writers who need to inject their gayness into their articles. (Comic-book fans and film buffs these days seem to be overwhelmingly leftist for some reason, and certainly aren't going to complain!)
ReplyDeleteAnd forget about actual books- they're unreadable, not only because of leftism, but because no one proofreads or fact-checks them anymore, and they're filled end-to-end with errors- PLUS few people even know how to write!
Excuse the rant, but I'm grateful when when someone actually responds to something I post.
-RM
You're probably right(correct),but if they're that small a business,you might make a bigger impact on them with a suggestion or two--not that they'd change--but who knows? If Mika Brezinski and Scarborough feel they need to go grovelling at Mar-A- Lago,maybe SOME of the left,in general,could be convinced to head for the center to MAKE MORE MONEY! What a concept.
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When I click on the link to the Quillette article by Heather MacDonald I hit a paywall after the first two paragraphs. Is there some way to read her entire article without subscribing?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, NS, I think you're being too hard on MacDonald. She has written some good stuff over the years, even if she isn't perfect all the time.
Longtime Reader 9:16 P.M.,
ReplyDeleteSame here. I do not yet know of any way of getting below, above, or around the paywall. (Anyone else have it figured?)
As for Heather Mac Donald, I said what I said.
A friend thinks I'm too tough on writers with much higher batting averages, but Mac Donald's is really low.
I'm relieved that this "thing" is paywalled, because it saves me from reading anymore of it, and being tempted.
There are various sites that claim to get around paywalls. Don't know how well they work; I had one for the NYT that worked fine for a time, and then it didn't. Look 'em up on Googoo search and try them out.
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archive.ph stopped working for me with the nyt, but it worked for me with quillette: https://archive.ph/Zt5de
ReplyDeleteMaybe there's a limit.