In this episode of "Just When You Thought the Grievance Industry Couldn't Get Any Crazier"...
We've all seen various words and things the left tells us we can no longer use without offending people of color. Lemme correct that: "without offending woke people of color, and, I assume, the rest of the inhabitants of Planet Woke.
Welp, now that summer is approaching, there's a new list of words we've been instructed to avoid if we want to "decolonize our summer." No, really.
lantoines (AKA "The Lorax") on Instagram recently posted a hilarious yet clear sign that these people have truly lost what little minds they might have had left — regarding their absurd fixation with all things race, and how white folks should behave, and what they should and shouldn't say, so as not to offend.
Ready? Popcorn in hand? OK, here we go, compliments of, um, the Lorax:
Here's a list of words to help you decolonize your summer. Like with anything, our vocabulary evolves. It isn't about being woke; it's about elevating your vernacular to fit the times and the paradigm that we're in.
Huh? While I appreciate the big words and stuff, what is this woman talking about? Not to mention, I wasn't aware that I've apparently been living colonized summers for my entire life.
Let's listen on, shall we?
First, stop saying 'picnic.' 'Picnic' originated from "pick a N-word," The word originated in the 1700s, but gained popularity once people enjoyed lynching black people, and spreading a nice charcuterie board along the trees as people were being lynched. Instead of using 'picnic,' why don't you use 'barbecue,' 'outing,' 'outdoor excursion,' 'gathering,' 'rendezvous,' what have you.
Nope, I'm good. Call it what you will — origin aside — but a trip to a park, or wherever, where we eat food outside is a picnic in my family, and it will remain so.
Next up, "art." Who knew?
Art. Often times, 'folk art' is ethnic, ambiguous, art. And 'fine art' is European, often times generated by Caucasians. So, just keep that in mind when you observing a beautiful piece of artwork that there is no such thing as folk art. All art is fine art.
One word: lunacy. 21 words: Au contraire. Not all work is fine art; I've seen some lousy "art" in my day, and so has this woman — and everyone else.
And it continues:
Final thing: 'dark,' and 'light.' In referring to a melanated woman such as myself, I do not accept being called 'dark.' I am melanated; I am richly hued, I am dripping with melanation. This is how you should refer to those with melanation.
Do not use 'dark' and 'light'; 'fair and dark' — in reference to obviously caucasian skin — and automatically assumed, 'good.' And 'dark' is presumed 'bad.' ...
[It's] time to move away from this colorism blind spot of referring to black people as 'dark' and as 'light.' This has a connotation of 'good' and bad'— There is no such thing as 'dark humor.'
OK, we get it. And what we get is: It's sheer lunacy and obsession. Lady, let it go.
But she wasn't finished.
This is just an exercise of evolving and maturing your vocabulary. We oftentimes think that just because we grew up saying a word, or doing a certain thing — habituating ourselves to certain language — that it is OK. But once we begin to pull the thread of the history; the etymology of the word, that word does not resonate with who we're becoming.
Who are you becoming? Someone who is knowledgable? Someone who is present to what is happening today, and locked into the paradigm, or someone who is still operating from your 8th-grade brain?
I. Got. Nothin'. Except for this, that is:
People like "The Lorax," who sit around thinking about ever more things by which to be offended, say far more about themselves than the people, places, words, and things they choose to let offend them. They're somewhere between sad and shameful.
In this case, toss in this woman's smug self-righteousness, and she's not only an example of everything wrong with the grievance industry; she's also off-the-charts annoying; therefore, doing zero for the "cause" she and like-minded people create in their heads.
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