@freemo
I'm accusing USAmericans of cultural imperialism, because they demand of everybody, irrespective of heritage and cultural tradition, to reinterpret symbols that predate the European colonization of the Americas by centuries:
https://www.erzbistum-muenchen.de/ueber-uns/zahlen-daten-fakten/cont/74980
under the aspect of their own Peculiar Institution.
@realcaseyrollins
@freemo
Yes, there are elements of racism, but more in the sense of the exotic.
In the case of the Sternsinger tradition, the black king signifies that Jesus has been born as savior of all humankind, black folks included.
In ecclesiastical heraldry, as shown in the Coat of Arms of the diocese of Freising and the village of Ismaning, which was part of it, the moor's head does not carry the connotation of hate, see http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/elezione/documents/stemma-benedict-xvi.html
@realcaseyrollins
I am quite offended to have my positive memories of what is a traditional part of celebrating my birthday in Germany,
https://www.google.com/search?q=sternsinger&tbm=isch reinterpreted as hate speech.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins
@freemo, informed by Michel Foucault's lectures on cynical parrhesia
[https://foucault.info/parrhesia/foucault.DT4.praticeParrhesia.en/, "Scandalous behavior"],
as a grandson of the Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister of Urach, I dressed up as chimney sweep for Halloween a few years ago, mostly to show that the Southern Californa burner crowd that their demand for assigning their interpretation of the symbol "blackface" (hate), even though for me, it's a symbol of luck and family tradition,
is a typical case of US parochialism and cultural imperialism.
It's possible that some Hollywood screen writers attended that Halloween party, so it's rather unlikely but not impossible that this ended up as inspiration for a Tonight Show skit with Jimmy Fallon and Christoph Waltz
[https://youtu.be/F0jr-HQeT74?t=200],
which, once you've suffered through reading through Foucault's lecture, is a textbook case of Cynical parrhesia.
That said, if you just want blackface without the intellectual overhead of my reduction to practice of Foucault's interpretation of antique cynical philosophy, you probably want to google the term "minstrel show",
https://www.google.com/search?q=minstrel+show&tbm=isch
@freemo As a German residing in Germany at the moment, I'm starting off from dinbrief.sty.
Didn't include an artful signature facsimile yet, though.
#worksforme
@IntegralDuChemin Nach einiger Nachforschung und zwei Besuchen in der lokalen Buchhandlung habe ich FK Waechters endgültige Aussage zu dieser heiklen Thematik wiedergefunden.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busch_Werke_v1_p_235.jpg
@freemo At standard temperature and pressure,
the oxides of iron remain solid, while the oxides of carbon are gaseous and dissolve into the atmosphere.
Rust binds atmospherical oxygen,
carbon oxides release carbon.
@freemo Nearly everything that matters is a side effect.
https://maradydd.livejournal.com/528043.html
@realcaseyrollins @freemo @a7
Close enough to be on the
[Los Angeles Terminal Chart](https://aeronav.faa.gov/content/aeronav/tac_files/PDFs/Los_Angeles_TAC_81_P.pdf),
close to the right edge.
@realcaseyrollins @freemo @a7
That's close enough to LA.
Looks like Nick Hanauer's pitchforks have come ... for the very company that catapulted him into the caste of bazillionaires.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014
@Lyudmila, y ahora en estéreo.
https://youtu.be/7CYAoUDGYh0
viola la ley de Godwin nuevamente.
https://youtu.be/np2ymo0iMfk
@Lyudmila
@freemo What about a wafer-thin MINT?
@realcaseyrollins Few agents provocateurs are THAT obvious.