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-Great Cultural Revolution
Charlotte arts group APOLOGIZES for funding city's symphony, opera and children's theater since 1958 - calling them 'white, Western Eurocentric organizations'
2021-04-28
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Charlotte's Arts & Science Council issued the extraordinary apology in a February report examining inequities in its funding practicesThe report called out the fact that black and minority groups have historically received far less funding from ASC than white organizations

  • It highlighted eight 'white, Western Eurocentric organizations' that have received the most money from ASC since its founding in 1958
    Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, and Cairo can have symphonies but we can't?
  • Those eight included the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Opera Carolina and Children's Theatre of Charlotte and Charlotte Ballet

  • 'ASC has been complicit in upholding funding practices that elevate certain cultures, creative traditions, identities and art forms above others,' it read

  • Report drew outrage from critics who said it diminished work of those groups

  • ASC Acting President Krista Terrell condemned critics in a blog post last week

  • She said the backlash showed 'the uncomfortableness, the defensiveness, and scaredness of white people reacting to the unvarnished truth'

Posted by:Fred

#19  Message found on wall in six thousand year old cave, with skeleton still holding spear.

'ONLY THE PREJUDICED WILL SURVIVE!'
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-04-28 23:48  

#18  Prejudice? I never got burned in Chemistry Class -- I assumed all glassware was hot. Stereotypes are a survival tool, being too bigoted to change your perception in a specific case is not.
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-28 20:35  

#17  Stereotypes are a real time-saver
Posted by: Retard Strength   2021-04-28 17:27  

#16  Like "decimation" morphed, people say "prejudiced" when they really mean bigoted.
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-28 16:33  

#15  Grampaw, old bean, please notice I focused on the original Roman definition.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-04-28 15:57  

#14  I must confess I have a prejudice against the practices of torture and cannibalism despite my lack of experience with same.
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227   2021-04-28 15:50  

#13  Merriam-Webster definition of "prejudice" includes preconceived judgment or opinion. (2) an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge
No prior experience of any kind is necessary to form & hold a "prejudice". My mother experienced a great deal of prejudice in her time and used that term instead of "racism". She didn't believe in "races" anyway. She recognized the politically driven part of "racis" discourse and didn't want to propagate the error more than it has been.

Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227   2021-04-28 15:48  

#12  I live in a Charlotte suburb and am happy to say I stopped contributing to the ASC over 10 years ago (after a change in ownership in my employer deemphasized the importance of supporting them.)
Posted by: Tom   2021-04-28 15:34  

#11  #9 Prejudice from Latin praeiudicium "prior judgment" (judgment based on prior experience). For example:
"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then (I) look around and see someone white and feel relieved." - Rev. Jesse Jackson
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-04-28 13:21  

#10  But then, I supposed with the way things are going in our educational system, we could just as easily have some little snowflake spouting the same nonsense.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-04-28 13:00  

#9  ^ Indeed it does. I don't want to be prejudiced but every time something like this happens I have to judge it and, after a while, the judgments have a tendency to come first because of all the experiences that went beforehand.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-04-28 12:58  

#8  Her picture tells the whole story.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2021-04-28 12:49  

#7  Not included in the apologia are mass resignations and closing their own arts council down.
Posted by: badanov   2021-04-28 08:53  

#6  Well, opera can be considered a crime against humanity...
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-04-28 07:51  

#5  a bunch of guys beating on logs with sticks isn't quite as thrilling as the 1812 Overture
Posted by: Retard Strength   2021-04-28 07:20  

#4  Barbarian degenerate cancel culture, anti civilization, a return the dark ages.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-04-28 06:20  

#3  It's like 1930es Germany - with Jews running own persecutions.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-04-28 04:22  

#2  Those dang white people! Always going around inventing art and science and civilization and cable tv and Doritos(tm) and the aqueduct. They're irrepressible!
Posted by: Ebbavigum Snunter2522   2021-04-28 03:52  

#1  Wow, they seem really serious. Guess they never want anymore of that evil white money again. Perhaps they can taste of the oppression by daily beatdowns or having themselves broken on the wheel. I mean, lets carry this moronic play out to the nth degree of stupidity.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2021-04-28 00:44  

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