Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Cal State Professor: It's Racist to be a Taylor Swift Fan Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:14:40 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 95 Message-ID: <20240319191440.00005f2c@example.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a6f14a73791dad57974f2f1ca4e9f5ff"; logging-data="845557"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196nulqA7m0btabsjZAmpSNzYYZzSq3M1g=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:L18eeOEFecPQoxrrdwYRqQw6thE= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240319-6, 3/19/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 5518 On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:40:52 +0000 BTR1701 wrote: > ..oh, and the Chiefs' Super Bowl win is a "white supremacist > conspiracy". > > Who isn't sick of these people at this point? > > This is the sort of sick asshole that makes a six-figure salary paid > for by your tax dollars. > > I see she also is one of those that perpetuates the out-and-out lie > that police evolved from slave catchers and that there was no law > enforcement before slavery. This is factually and utterly untrue, but > this is what she teaches students at Cal State with our tax money. > > ---------------------- > https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/us-news/professor-says-being-a-taylor-swift-fan-is-slightly-racist-chiefs-super-bowl-win-was-white-supremacist-conspiracy/amp/ > > A California professor, who is no stranger to controversial opinions, > speculated that it might be racist to be a Taylor Swift fan. > > "Why do I feel like it's slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?" > Melina Abdullah posted to X. > I posted here several weeks ago about a university in the Philippines that was offering a course in Taylor Swift. (As I recall, it was just a single elective but if it becomes popular maybe it will be possible to get a degree in Taylor Swift.) I guess the folks in the Philippines are really racist then, right, even if they are not "white" by the normal definition. > Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University > Los Angeles, is a self-described "#BlackLivesMatter organizer, > Pan-Africanist, Hip Hop scholar, daughter of God, womanist, > truth-teller, mama," according to her post on X. She is also listed > as a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter's Los Angeles chapter and > co-director of the activist wing of the advocacy organization, Black > Lives Matter Grassroots. > I have no idea what a "womanist" is supposed to be, do or think so I'll grant her that until I hear a definition. But calling her a "truth-teller" is nonsense: the correct term (which I just made up) is a "feelings-teller" because that's what she does, tells others about her feelings. Truth has nothing to do with it. As for being a Hip Hop scholar, that is about as impressive as being a Fecal scholar, except not as useful because doctors sometimes get important health information from feces. Expertise in Hip Hop is about as useless as anyone can imagine. > When one user asked her to elaborate on her opinion she replied: "I > said FEEL, not think. Kind of like that feeling I get when there are > too many American flags." In the same post someone commented that > "Literally everything is racist." Abdullah responded "Indeed!" > > A few hours later, she followed up in another post on X after the > Kansas City Chiefs had won the game: "Why do I feel like this was > some right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy?!?! Booooooo!!!! > #SuperBowl." > > "Folks think they're attacking me by asking why I think everything is > racist... I'm not offended. Virtually everything is racist," she > wrote in another post addressing the attention she received from her > previous posts. > > She has previously shared controversial opinions on Twitter. In 2022, > she told white people they weren't welcome to Juneteenth celebrations. > > "Attention white people... Please don't ask if you can come to the > cookout... #Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks," she posted to > Twitter in June 2022. "It should be #Reparations day for white folks." > > In December 2021, two days before Jussie Smollet was found guilty of > staging a fake hate crime, she argued for his innocence. > > "In our commitment to abolition, we can never believe police, > especially the Chicago Police Department (CPD) over Jussie Smollett, > a black man who has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in > the struggle for black freedom. While policing at-large is an > irredeemable institution, CPD is notorious for its long and deep > history of corruption, racism, and brutality," she wrote in a > statement on the Black Lives Matter website. > > In 2017, at a conference on intersectionality and discrimination, > Abdullah said today's police officers are the "slave catchers" of > yesteryear: "You literally have a target on your back. That is what > policing was founded on and that is what it evolved out of," > according to reporting by The College Fix. -- Rhino