Cancel culture's stupidity — suicides brain function

30 March 2021

Thanks to Viva Frei for today's exemplifying topic

Cancel culture just extorted an abject apology from children's books author, Dav Pilkey.

His prostrate, boot-sole-aimed, tongue scrub regarded his book titled, The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future:

Pilkey said he had “intended to showcase diversity, equality and nonviolent conflict resolution” in the graphic novel.

“But this week it was brought to my attention that this book also contains harmful racial stereotypes and passively racist imagery,” he wrote.

“I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly apologise for this. It was and is wrong and harmful to my Asian readers, friends, and family, and to all Asian people.”

“I hope that you, my readers, will forgive me, and learn from my mistake that even unintentional and passive stereotypes and racism are harmful to everyone,” he wrote. “I apologise, and I pledge to do better.”

What were author Pilkey's allegedly passively racist references?

Typically, The Guardian would not tell us. No doubt trying to preserve the illusion of inoffensive harmony on Earth. Better to whisper, snicker and malign people behind its closed Establishment doors.

However, had The Guardian told us, we all would have laughed in its metaphorical face.

Enter Viva Frei

Viva Frei (David Freiheit) calls himself a "litigator turned YouTuber". He took upon himself to seek the cause of Pilkey's shaming.

This apparently turned out to be the fact that Pilkey's children's characters — Ook and Gluk — seek out Kung Fu instruction from Master Wong, so that they can save the Universe.

The illustrations that Frei found show Master Wong manifesting what Frei calls "Asian features" and "wearing traditional Asian" martial arts clothing.

So that's offensive?

Seeking training from an "Asian-looking" sensei, who wears traditional martial arts attire?

Are y'all cancel culture minions clueless about the levels of respect senseis' students hold them in?

Precisely because of their cultures, societal traditions, knowledge and skills?

According to cancel culture . . .

. . . we must infer that honoring the Master, his and her specified cultural heritages and their associated skillsets is racist, demeaning or both.

How one makes such a backwards calculus work, is beyond me

As Viva Frei put it:

It is not racist to pay tribute to the most valuable elements and history of a culture.

It is not racist, in a cartoon or comic book, to depict certain races with identifiable features of that race. In fact, it would be racist not to.

What are you going to do — have a Kung Fu master who is, in fact, Asian, and depict him with non-Asian features? As if there is something wrong with having Asian features?

Everybody who say that [book cartoon] image is offensive, says that there is something wrong with having Asian features.

The moral? — Cancel culture goes beyond stupidity . . .

. . . into brain-vacancy's bubbling perversity.

The fact that such astonishing levels of Absurdity have America in a full nelson — says nothing flattering about our own society, or its dribbled-away minds.

No senseis among you cancel culture lot. As the Brits would say.

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Cancel culture's stupidity — suicides brain function