WHEN BEEHETOVEN AND BEER ARE RACISTS….
A new sport is breaking through in American universities: the hunt for the casual racist. The result is a kind of demented witch hunt, carried out by second or third row characters, which would also be fun were it not for someone to take terribly seriously.
In a column on Slate , Christopher White of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst stated that referring to composers like Beethoven and Mozart by their last name alone is a form of white supremacy. After all, White explained, it creates a "habitual, two-tier" method in which white composers are referred to by a first name while women and minority composers are indicated by their first and last names:
"These canonized demigods so settled into the collective consciousness of the elite musical society that it took only one word to conjure up their fantastic specter."
White calls for an end to these "mononyms in the history of music". So we will have to start calling Mozart by his full name: Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (Amadeus is the Latin translation from the Greek Theophilus). On the other hand, with Beethoven he goes a little better: Ludwig van Beethoven . I guess I'll have to research the full names of Beyonce, Madonna, Sting, Cher, Bono, Pink, Seal, Adele and others.
After these first gems, however, we have another even better one. Virginia Tech sociology professor David L. Brunsma says beer also reinforces white supremacy . His book, B eer and Racism: How Beer Became White, Why It Matters, and the Movements to Change It. , is marketed as a game changer against racism:
" From racist marketing of malt liquor to bearded craft beer culture, readers will never look at a frothy pint the same way after reading Beer and Racism ."
Craft beers are cited as examples of more extreme racism. As explained by University of New Mexico professor Eli Wilson, it's time to call these beer-lovers for what they are: dumb old racists walking around in preztel necklaces.
The inventors of beer were Middle Eastern: Sumerians and Egyptians consumed barley beer, even if it was flavored differently from ours. But no, they weren't racists….
What can be the height of racism, if not the "Beethoven Beer?"
Those who drink this are certainly politically incorrect, but they will probably have a good palate.
But I prefer Lambrusco, Culatello and Verdi. Will it be racist?
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