K.K.K.
The following stunt would be a good one to use either at a luncheon or banquet. It was very cleverly used by a Florida Civic Club in entertaining the New England delegation en route to the International Convention in Miami. There are three persons; one of them dresses up in clerical garb like a Catholic priest; and if the stunt is worked by a local club, one should be selected who is an active worker in the Catholic church. Another character should be a typical Jew whose features portray his ancestry. The last is a very black Negro. Secure from the K.K.K. three robes and hoods.
During the luncheon one of the members comes in and whispers something to the president, and he gets up and tells the club that a delegation has asked to appear before the club for a few moments and that he has decided that they might have the privilege. When they enter, however, with their masks on, the president arises again and says that he did not know that the delegation was masked and that he will have to ask them to unmask before they can speak. First, have the one who represents the Catholic priest unmask and say a few words about the K.K.K. and the principles for which it stands, and urge all to take advantage of the membership drive. After he has finished, the Jew unmasks and makes a little talk, using Jewish dialect. He might stress the importance of the commercial side of it. The merchants might be able to get the concession for selling the cloth for the robes. The big laugh comes, however, when the Negro unmasks and makes a plea for all to line up with the Klan.
― anticon jemima (ooo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)
eight months pass...
A guide to academic newspeakby a student at Harvard Divinity School
Guilt Feeling bad about your genes, but not about your actions
Women and men The forces of good and evil in the dualism of gender (see gender)
Diversity The gathering together of as large a group as possible of discontents, deviants and social misfits while excluding, suppressing and bashing conservatives, Republicans, evangelicals, adherents of historical religions, serious students and anyone resistant to indoctrination
Sensitivity Being deferential toward and extraordinarily circumspect around those included in diversity while gratuitously attacking those excluded from diversity (see diversity)
Greater diversity Doing a better job of weeding out those excluded from diversity (see diversity)
Being exclusive Providing equal opportunity and equal protection under the law, regardless of race or sex
Hermeneutics/Deconstructionism Interpreting texts from the perspective of gender (see gender) with a rationalization by anyone with a French name
Victims All those not fitting the definition of oppressor (see oppressors) and officially recognized far-left groups; does not include refugees from leftist totalitarian countries, such as Vietnamese boat people, Cuban immigrants, etc.
Sexism The discrimination against and stereotyping of women or the failure to discriminate against and stereotype men
Gender Radical feminism
Oppressors White male heterosexuals
Leftists The empty set; exist only in the rhetoric of ultra-conservatives (see ultra-conservatives)
Bias Basing scholarship on reason and evidence
Patriarchal models Objectivity, logic, rational discourse, mathematics, science, the Bible, the U.S. Constitution, family values, motherhood and apple pie
Politically aware Politically far-left
Being divisive Deviating from the beliefs of the politically aware (see politically aware); synonymous with being hostile
Liberal arts education Political indoctrination
Racism The belief held by white oppressors (see oppressors) that their race is superior to that of non-white victims (see Victims) or the failure to apologize for one's own race if that race should be white; term is not applicable to non-whites
Moderates The Sandinistas, Castro, Lenin, Mao, Hillary Clinton and all those who are politically aware (see politically aware)
Ultra-conservatives/the far right All those to the right of moderates (see moderates)
Inclusive language An ostentatious form of new speak which seeks to remove the generic use of 'man' and 'he' (along with common sense and eloquence) from the language, e.g. "What are persons, that thou art mindful of her/him? and the child of persons, that thou doest care for him/her?"
Censorship A good thing when done by politically aware (see poltically unaware), e.g. punishing owners of baseball teams for alleged comments made during private conversations; a bad thing when done by ultra-conservatives (see ultra-conservatives).
Iconoclasm 1. An activity self-righteously pursued by the politically aware; 2. an activity considered criminal when the icons of the politically aware are involved (see politically aware)
Iconoclast One who can dish it out but can't take it
― and what, Sunday, 5 August 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)