Did you watch the Grammy awards Sunday night? Probably not – along with 321 million other Americans who think scantily-clad divas grinding to WAP (Wet Ass P*ssy) are offensive. A Cold Civil War now engulfs America, pitting big media and secular statists against the moral majority – and who are they? In short, folks who trust their church, employer, and family over the so-called liberals in media and government. The growing divide is unmistakable.
8.8 million watched the Grammys, the fewest ever in a post-peak swoon for award shows: Emmys (down 30 million), Grammys (down 31 million), and Oscars (down 31 million). The slumps steepened with President Trump, whom Hollywood attacked non-stop with crassness and cruelty. Most Americans have a sense of fair play; laughing at Chevy Chase impersonating a clumsy President Ford, but changing channels when CNN hosts mocked Trump supporters.
By alienating the moral majority, Democrats stand to lose the voters (Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and suburban moms) that gave them slim control of Washington; thereby inviting the illusion of inevitability that is bemoaned by the Wall Street Journal (“Republicans are divided and in intellectual disarray”) and hooted by CNN’s Don Lemon (Anglo-Americanism is “in its death throes”). Clearly, they are not paying attention to everyday people.
Start with suburban moms, who won’t let their kids watch WAP gyrations and can’t let their kids watch Swiss Family Robinson on the Disney Channel, because “negative stereotypes” are now banned. If Hollywood thinks Asian pirates swashbuckling in inauthentic costumes is racist, and black women grinding one other in dominatrix attire are not, they’re guilty of bad parenting. I raised three girls who knew Swiss Family was “inauthentic” because of the fanciful tree house no marooned 3-man crew could build.
It’s only a matter of time before secular statists in the Democrat Party drive away black voters: 94% of African-Americans believe in God, 79% are Christian, and 60% prefer to worship in all-black congregations (source: Pew Research). In other words, black cultural views are not so progressive. To wit, after Obama publicly supported gay marriage, 70% of black voters still said homosexuality was a sin, despite 80% saying gays and lesbians faced discrimination (source: Pew Research).
In 2020, Gallop polling found 54% of black voters thought abortion was morally unacceptable and only 32% supported abortion under any circumstance. Also in 2020, blacks outpaced whites in gun purchases – up 58.2 % (source: NSSF). And, Pew Research found most blacks in Chicago and in Raleigh-Durham felt immigrants take jobs (58%) and threaten American values (56%). God, nuclear families, pro-life, 2nd amendment, and nativist – this is why Democrats lost the most black votes since 1960.
Hollywood has a problem with “negative stereotypes” in Pepe Le Pew (sexism), The Muppets (white supremacy), and Dumbo (racism), but not in Gomer Pyle (south-slapping), the Beverly Hillbillies (hicksploitation), and Green Acres (immigrant-insulting). This is true and begs the question: why are some negative stereotypes, such as Jethro Bodine, acceptable? Jethro’s ha-ha value is an educable mental handicap – not funny in real life – and Amazon Prime is streaming it right now.
The nation of E Pluribus Unum is still the #1 destination for third-world immigrants because America did not sink to the lowest common denominator. Waves of immigrants worked and studied hard to rise above “lazy” and “dumb” stereotypes. Citizen soldiers fought real white supremacists and real fascists. Along the way, the ideal of American hero evolved; thick-skinned individuals who rose above adversity to achieve his or her dreams.
Snowflake – an apt description of any thin-skinned casualty of free expression, right? Because, if you lived through COVID, you should not fall to pieces over a Looney Tunes or Dr. Seuss caricature. In the land of the free, we should tolerate negative stereotypes as just really bad art. In the home of the brave, we should live up to the words of Everyday People:
I am no better and neither are you. We’re all the same whatever we do. You love me, you hate me, you know me, and then – – you can’t figure out the bag I’m in. There is a yellow one that won’t accept the black one that won’t accept the red one that won’t accept the white one. Different strokes for different folks, and so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby. I am everyday people!
And speaking of Scooby Doo, when will he be cancelled?