Mark Dice - Liberalism - Find a Cure

New York University recently posted a special menu in the school’s cafeteria to honor Black History Month, which included traditionally “black” foods like barbecue ribs, corn bread, and collard greens. It also included a watermelon-flavored drink and Kool-Aid, which are very popular in the black community. But, as you can imagine, some students thought the menu was racist and complained. (Probably white students).

The university’s president then called the menu “inexcusably insensitive” and said that the employees who came up with it were fired. The dining hall’s head cook revealed that those employees were themselves black, and thought it was a great way to honor Black History Month. 124

A firefighter in Detroit brought a watermelon for his fellow firefighters to enjoy after he was transferred to a new station, but since he is white and 90% of the firefighters at that station are black, some of them thought it was “racially insensitive,” so he was fired. 125

Are watermelons racist, or is it only racist when a white person offers a slice to a black person? I just can’t keep up anymore. Maybe grocery stores and farmers’ markets should suspend watermelon sales so nobody gets triggered. What’s the problem? Different cultures enjoy different kinds of food. Italians like pizza. Chinese people enjoy noodles. Mexicans like burritos—it’s an obvious fact, but facts hurt liberals’ feelings. Saying black people like watermelon is no different than saying people in Wisconsin like cheese, or people in Texas like barbecue.

This is just another one of countless examples of hypersensitivity, and in our backwards world today nobody seems to know what’s right or wrong, or what’s appropriate or inappropriate. And it’s all because a few bad apples keep spoiling the bunch.

When a CNN contributor named Hilary Rosen saw a student at Georgetown University wearing a bacon costume to a basketball game against Syracuse University, she declared that the student was anti-Semitic and taunting Jews (who don’t eat pork), apparently because there is a Jewish community in Syracuse. “This is a Georgetown #Hoyas fans anti-Semitic smear to the Syracuse team,” she tweeted. 126After Georgetown lost, she posted “Hey bacon-man. #Syracuse for the win. Bigots lose.” 127In reality, the kid in the costume has the last name of “Bakan” (pronounced bacon ) and he liked dressing up and acting as the unofficial mascot for his team to help hype up the crowd. 128

For “Pride Month” in 2017 (previously called “gay pride” month, but that’s not “inclusive” enough for the ever-growing LGBT acronym), Skittles removed the “rainbow” colors from its candy, making them all white, saying “During Pride, only one rainbow matters. So we’ve given up ours to show our support.” 129As you can imagine, like everything the social justice warriors try to do to appease the Left, it backfired.

Idiots online raged that Skittles had put out a new “white supremacist” candy, and were “promoting white pride.” “This is soooo fucking stupid. Why should whiteness mean equality?!” one woman tweeted. 130Another said that “Skittles realized how [popular] white/capitalist pride was becoming and wanted to join in the efforts.” 131“If everyone was equal, they wouldn’t be white,” said another.” 132

Someone else said, “Shoulda been brown or black. I ain’t eating no white Skittles.” 133The outrage went on, and on. Poor Skittles tried to virtue signal to the LGBT community and instead ended up being accused of being Nazis! Haha!

After First Lady Melania Trump sent a box of books to an award winning elementary school in Massachusetts for National Read a Book Day, the librarian posted an open letter rejecting them, claiming that Dr. Seuss books are “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.” 134Someone should have told Michelle Obama this, because she read children Dr. Seuss books inside the White House at an event just a few years earlier. 135

After word of this lunatic librarian getting triggered from the First Lady’s gift began to spread, curious people started going through the Twitter feed for her school and noticed photos of this same librarian dressed up as a Cat in the Hat character at a Dr. Seuss themed event she hosted in the library! 136

Some schools have actually banned books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , written by Mark Twain and published in 1884 because of the way black people are depicted, and To Kill a Mockingbird because of its “racist” language. 137

The American Library Association even renamed the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award which is given to authors who have made “substantial and lasting contributions” to children’s literature, and is now called the Children’s Literature Legacy Award because the author it was originally named after has been deemed a racist upon looking at her classic books in a new light. 138

Her Little House series was written in the 1930s and 40s, and loved by children (and parents) for over 80 years, but are now considered racist for depicting American Indians as “savages,” so after 64 years of giving out an award bearing her name, it was changed. 139

The Library Association said in a statement, “This decision was made in consideration of the fact that Wilder’s legacy, as represented by her body of work, includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC’s core values of inclusiveness, integrity and respect, and responsiveness.” 140

As the 2016 presidential election got into full swing, a lot of tech-savvy Trump supporters began creating memes using Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character which was first used ten years earlier in a little-known online cartoon called Boys Club . For whatever reason, Pepe memes caught on and were used to troll Hillary supporters and depict reactions to certain events that unfolded throughout the campaign.

Being it’s the Internet, of course some people created racist and anti-Semitic memes using the frog, as they do with just about any character or person, and the Leftist ADL [Anti-Defamation League], a social justice organization dedicated to amplifying anti-Semitism in order to justify their ongoing fundraising efforts, declared Pepe the Frog to be a “hate symbol” alongside the likes of the swastika and the KKK’s fiery cross. Pepe, they declared, was the mascot of the Alt-Right. 141

Band-Aids have also been called white supremacist because the “standard” color is a light tan that critics claim is designed to match “caucasian” skin. “Band-Aids are made for white people,” vented one angry blogger. 142And he’s not alone. In the late 1990s an entrepreneur in New York launched “Ebon-Aid” (short for ebony) “The bandage exclusively designed for people of color.” 143

A white man who adopted a few black children, apparently unaware that Ebon-Aids existed, felt uncomfortable when he had to put a Band-Aid on his four-year-old son because it “stuck out like a sore thumb,” so he decided to start his own bandage company called True-Color Bandages. “I want them to see they were made just as authentic and just as beautiful and the bandage market needs to reflect that,” he said. 144

That’s where we’re at in society. Band-Aids are part of white privilege so black people need their own. Apparently they don’t know that the Band-Aid brand sells clear bandages for those who are offended by not having a bandage that matches the color of the skin. Tolerance.org lists Band-Aids as a “perk” of white people’s “skin privilege.” 145