Sometimes the headlines write themselves.
We live in amazing times.
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/videostudents-sign-petition-boycott-racist-song-white-christmas
So… this is basically the same plot as the First Amendment petition at Yale thread. Guy with petition appears to get students to sign a petition for a ridiculous cause. Ah, the PC youth of America.
So now there’ll be pages of the same old argument with the same people arguing that people need to grow up already, followed by historical lectures and second- (and third-) hand accounts while others bemoan the fall of civilization and others yet express doubt this accurately portrays what occurred. Sounds fun.
User makes account to complain about MIT deferring his/her son and the only other post comes from a right wing site talking about something that’s been beaten to death repeatedly.
yawn
Look, college students sign things. I sign things sometimes just so people will leave me alone. I sign things because I think they’re ridiculous and why not?
I think people worry WAY too much about what a handful of college students are doing especially when you have zero idea why they’re doing it.
Move… on…
Maybe u should learn to just say NO.
Isn’t that what young people are taught about being pressured into doing drugs? Or what young women are taught about acquiescing to unwanted sex?
When my kid pestered me for a pony, I said NO.
Saying NO is an important life skill.
In this day of stupid innocuous acts going viral on social media the next day, why would anyone sign their good name to ANYTHING “just so people will leave me alone” or because it’s “ridiculous”?
This is not right wing or left left advice, but prudence.
The song “White Christmas” wasn’t even written by a Christian. It was written by Irving Berlin.
I do agree that “white xmas” is not inclusive of peoples who live in the southern hemisphere
http://news.kedo.gov.cn/upload/resources/image/2014/12/23/58017_600x600.jpg
It is 80 degrees in Houston on Christmas day. Thunderstorms predicted.
We call it a wet tanning christmas.
oh, good grief…
it goes without saying that these idiots have never seen snow, let alone in Dec.
that maybe too forgiving.
If someone is STUPID enough to attribute an OLD xmas song by Irving Berlin- which was written based on the fact that new fallen snow IS white and in the Northern Hemisphere, where he used to live, it USED to snow in Dec -into a racist statement, then I fear for the species… 
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How not interesting that someone from an uber conservative media source comes up with something like this to create a false sense of backlash against a movement or idea that doesn’t really exist by generating a purposely inflammatory headline. I fear for the species too, not because some college kids can be talked into just about anything, but because a schlock like this can actually generate outrage with his antics by making it seem that the students were clamoring for this. It might be humorous on a prank show, not so funny when presented as if it were real news.
It appears most of these students didn’t know the song. The guy was also slinging a whole lot of BS. For instance, he tells at least one group that “he knows the guy who sang the song originally; Bing Crosby actually came out and said the same thing, that it’s not appropriate.”
So how surprising is it that he was able to convince a group of students who had never listened to the song or at least not paid any attention to the lyrics that it’s somehow racist and should therefor be taken off the radio? Yawn…
I was thinking that many people reading this story would assume that everybody is familiar with the song. That’s probably not the case, though, especially for young people.
Also, I suppose one could be persuaded that “White Christmas” had been co-opted by white supremacists. My church had a choir director (an old guy, not a clueless youngster) who refused to ever play “The Old Rugged Cross” because he thought it had been too much coopted by the Klan–something I had never heard of.
I agree I wouldn’t expect the young kids to necessarily know the song lyrics. One of mine loves all things Christmas and probably does. The other probably doesn’t.
This is an old and juvenile joke. 40 years ago Marvel Comics ‘Cracked’ magazine (a poor man’s Mad Magazine) had the same joke, and also noted that the Black Panther Party member who objected to ‘White Christmas’ was expelled from the group when he was caught at a screening of ‘Snow White.’
Quibble: Cracked wasn’t published by Marvel. Maybe you’re thinking of “Not Brand Ecch.” The Cracked magazine is no more, but the Cracked website has some pretty good stuff.
Right you are, Hunt. A quick wiki search reminded me that the Marvel satire magazine was entitled ‘Crazy.’ By the way, I have fond memories of ‘Not Brand Ecch’ and Irving Forbrush. Excelsior!
Perhaps we should put up a “anti PC thread” tracker on the site? The regularity of these posts is like clockwork
At the end of the day, they’re signing a petition to try to eliminate something they’ve been told is hurtful. Their information is wrong, of course, but that’s OK. From their point of view, it’s simply a signature. They’re hoping to do something positive at no cost to themselves.
While we can smile at their gullibility, we have to admire their willingness to eliminate something that supposedly hurts someone else. Their hearts are in the right place.
I remember well in my senior year of college signing the dumbest thing ever, an application for my first ever credit card. Somehow the credit card company even in the pre-web days knew who would soon be in the workforce, and given that I was the first of my family in college and the first to ever have a credit card in my immediate family, the 29% interest rate didn’t even phase me. Thank goodness I only qualified for a modest credit limit, so if one of my kids ever signs a dumb petition, and that is unlikely as they tend to question EVERYTHING, I will know that there are a lot dumber things they could be putting their name to.
Good point, bjkmom. In other words, if you actually thought White Christmas WAS a song meant to imply “I’m dreaming of a Christmas filled only with white people,” you would be justified in thinking “ugh, what a horrible song, that shouldn’t be played.”
It pains me to think they are also able to cast ballots.