The situation invokes a thought of ‘Inglourious Basterds’
After news of the reaction to Vance at the concert emerged, Richard Grenell, interim director of the Kennedy Center who was recently appointed by Trump, said the crowd was “intolerant”.
Orly?
Audience members had undergone a full Secret Service security check as Vance’s motorcade drew up at the US’s national performing arts centre, delaying the start of the concert by 25 minutes.
After news of the reaction to Vance at the concert emerged, Richard Grenell, interim director of the Kennedy Center who was recently appointed by Trump, said the crowd was “intolerant”.
In February, Donald Trump sacked the chairman of the Kennedy Center board along with 13 of its trustees, appointing himself the new chair, bringing in foreign policy adviser and close ally Richard Grenell as interim leader, and naming new board members (…)
“So we took over the Kennedy Center,” the president said at the time. “We didn’t like what they were showing and various other things. We’re going to make sure that it’s good and it’s not going to be woke. There’s no more woke in this country.”
Who ruined this place, JD?
There’s no more woke in this country
I’m still waiting on their written definition of woke. They will never provide one though. “Woke” is their “shmoo”.
I’ve just started calling things I don’t like “woke.”
That makes you just as ignorant as them.
It’s like everybody forgot about that song Redbone by Childish Gambino. Woke is a good thing. Stay woke.
I do it sarcastically to make fun of them but ok.
And no I didn’t forget about redbone. It slaps. Definitely not a woke song.
Are you still being sarcastic? Cause Redbone is the very definition of a woke song. The lyrics literally have “stay woke” in the chorus.
I thought that was obvious, but yes.
Woke is anything they don’t like. If they have to describe it, it’s minorities and women having equal opportunities. Saying woke makes them sound like less of an asshole to people not willing to go beyond surface level conversations.
It’s civil rights.
From Britannica:
Civil rights are an essential component of democracy. They’re guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics. Examples are the rights to vote, to a fair trial, to government services, and to a public education. In contrast to civil liberties, which are freedoms secured by placing restraints on government, civil rights are secured by positive government action, often in the form of legislation.
“Elites use different words, eat different foods, listen to different music – I was astonished when I learned that people listened to classical music for pleasure – and generally occupy different worlds from America’s poor,” he said. “Unfortunately, this can make things a little culturally awkward when you leap from one class to the other.”
To be fair, I look at classical music listeners the same way I do craft beer drinkers, namely that I suspect they’re doing it more because they like the idea than the actual reality.
I can’t imagine being proud of limiting your experiences to the blandest shit imaginable because you’re literally incapable of understanding that taste is subjective.
So tell me, what’re your favourite Top-40s butt rock bands and corn-based mass produced light beers?
It’s always interesting seeing the assumptions people make when I disagree with them.
In your case, because I don’t like the things you like, you’ve thought of the worst music imaginable, and decided that must be what I listen to.
Fascinating.
I’m going to take a wild stab and guess you listen to pop/rap? Understandable why you’d not like classical. I can’t stomach any pop/rap save for a few 90s artists. Whenever I hear it its just gross and non musical to me (Deltron 3030 not included). Ive also never been into lyric focused music unless it has more than an annoying single bass note and 16th note hihats behind it. Classical is interesting for musicians, and it’s proven in studies to be healthy for your mind. But yeah you don’t have to like it!
More of a classic rock person, but it’s always interesting to see what people assume about me.
Apparently everyone I disagree with also thinks I’m American.
I never assumed you American!
Also heavily into classic rock.
Classical music is like any music, some of it is uplifting and beautiful and some doesnt do it for me, maybe you should try it though and see for yourself
I have, my mother used to listen to classical music all the time.
Incredibly dull and uneventful.
not a classical guy, i love death grips, machine girl , post punk and thrash. but i would never say classical is ‘dull’. isnt there one that uses fucking cannons??
Tchaikovsky, yeah. Honestly, he’s got better stuff than that.
Iirc, Tchaikovsky wrote his 1812 Overture rather quickly to commemorate the defense of Russia against Napoleon and wasn’t too thrilled with it himself. I believe he called it noisy and without artistry, but I’m prone to collecting myths, so please do check my work.
Is “prone to collecting myths” a turn of phrase? I’ve never heard it before, but it goes hard imho. Makes me wanna build a ttrpg encounter around it.
I was just looking to express my penchant for collecting pseudo-historical stories that I don’t feel compelled to check the accuracy of because they don’t purport to express anything important. Ngl though, I would play the fuck out of that encounter if you made it.
