The trivialities now labelled “racist” always astound me. If Marxists are reduced to ferreting out “systemic racism” in the ice-cream truck’s song—yes, that jingle from childhood that signals a sweet treat and nothing more to anyone who hears it—how bad can this alleged plague be?
Especially when Our Rulers must educate us as to why this tune (titled “Turkey in the Straw” and resurrected from the nineteenth century) is so deleterious. I don’t know about you, but were I sauntering down the street as a few dozen white men in masks—ahem: why doesn’t the State condemn muzzles as racist?—and sheets were lynching a black guy, I’d suspect “racism.” But when I must learn history and musicology just to recognize supposedly blatant racism in the ice-cream-truck jingle, well, I laugh. And my will to oppose these absurd Marxists hardens all the more.
If you’re interested in the so-far-it’s-implausible stretch that innocent songs from childhood promote hatred, Will Stoutamire has sent the link explaining. And if not, take my word for it: racism is the least of our problems.
4:47 pm on August 18, 2020
