Some years ago, while in a very international campground, folk from all over, it was pointed out that the old ethnic jokes were rude to somebody nearby. So we decided to pick on a People that could not fight back. Someone whose culture was extinct. No Anti-defamation league. Someone their neighbors would, back then, have made jokes, often rough jokes about.
Hittites. So we told every old, bad, and insulting ethnic joke we could remember, or find, and used the Hittites as the foil.
We even had a "chant".. "Those goat roping, iron smelting, sheep shagging...." getting more obscene as the rant continued, kinda based on alcohol levels... and delivered with an impassioned beginning, tapering off into a mutter, depending on present company. ( you would stop before "sheep shagging" if children were present, for example )
There's a follow up...
Years later, my sister was taking a history class, and The professor asked what the Hittites were known for. Not quite under her breath, enough, reflexively came out the mantra..."Goat roping, iron smelting,... uh, oops"
"Correct!" says the professor, "Iron smelting!" and the lesson continued.....
I'm not really trying to be a prig, but the BS can be tiring, and It Would Be Awesome if we all could use calm and reasoned language, and it be effective to convince the spoiled brat, rude, cannon fodder future slaves of the Left, wanna be thugs and social media warriors, to see reason.
As soon as you guys figure out how to do that, please let me know.
My sister was also asked once why she kept laughing in European ancient history class. The professor was pleased she was amused, but didn't normally get visible reactions to his humor.
It was because she would learn something that explained some obscure joke she'd either heard in camp, or read in an ancient manuscript. ( I do weapons, she does fashion. Need to know what a well dressed lady wore when Plato was lecturing? What kind of stitching was used by a lady of Queen Victoria's court? She knows. Me, not so much. Unless it's the special leather glove worn to quench burning embers by a Gunner in a British ( or American ) Ship of The Line. )
Happens to me all the time. I'll be reading some essay on, say, food production technology, & Suddenly I get some joke by Swift, or Aristophanes, and start laughing.
I considered the News Media adoption of a uniform color scheme for election maps brilliant in it's dishonesty and a rare example of a real conspiracy.
Everyone uses this new color code. It is a deliberate lie, a propaganda tool to deny the connection between left/communist/socialist/progressive groups.
It's smart. Red is the color of blood, of danger, of stop signs and lights, of warning lights..... Communist dictatorships almost universally adopted Red as Stars or background for their flags.
Naturally a smart graphic designer would choose Red for The Enemy.
Blue is the normal contrast color. Cool, calm, the color of the sky, the sea, the aristocracy... ( blue bloods )
The conspiracy is the universal use of the same color code for all the networks in one flood of deliberate meaning, complete with "blue state/red state" as an accepted mantra, As If It Had Always Been So.
I'd love to see the memos. You Know there were memos.
Note: Pre-Marxist flags often used red in varying amounts. It attracts attention. A Fun With Flags fan might notice that several nations had Battle Flags with a different color ratio. Usually the choices were originally to make it easier to differentiate between flags of nations that were similar and easily confused. I suspect it was an England/France thing originally, both using blue, white, & red. ( but have not verified that ) I speculate that other nations adopted Battle Flags simply because it sounded cool.
I honestly don't know if we can undo the harm that has been done by the lefts takeover of the government schools and also universities. Those college kids / 20 somethings have been completely brainwashed. The really sad and scary part is that not only have they been brainwashed but they have not learned how to think for themselves or think critically.
Given the dumbing down, I'll bet most students who have not served in the Armed Forces wouldn't recognize the flag, ( I meant the isis one, but I wouldn't be too surprised if that applied to both flags for some of our more "enlightened") I'll bet the blinkered and feed-bagged set would view that, say to themselves "that must be the flag of Islam", and would pass quietly feeling smug inside about their tolerance, and multicultural world view.
RE Dodge eating isis flags: I respect free speech, its actions that warrant reaction. A police officer acquaintance said to me once "Be respectful and polite to everyone you meet, but have a plan to kill them if you have to."
Has to be older than that. It's the basic creed of every Kung Fu Temple, more or less.
Might be the first to use those exact words? But the sentiment is Timeless. Variations were spoken to troops by non-coms in the time of Patton, Alexander, etc.
I was impressed by this article. that showed up when I "googled" the quote.
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet,” Maj. Gen. James Mattis cir. 2003-2004
Yup that sounds more like what I heard. My cop friend didn't say it was his, and it was about that time he had quoted it. Thanks to the sharper minds on Badweb to finding the true source.
While I generally agree with the video, the portrayal of femininity as a character weakness is lame. The video characterizes non toxic masculine men are leaders, heroes, warriors, providers, they make society thrive, they open doors, etc. The implication that women can do none of these things or else shouldn't, suggests we want our women to be weak, and I certainly don't agree with that part. OK, I'm off the soapbox now.