The PC pantywaists at Salon got a little smack back by an 80’s icon during an interview last week. During the interview with Daryl Hall, from the Hall and Oates fame and who also has a television show currently airing somewhere, the interviewer asked about the latest progressive drop of insanity in the lefty crazy PC cocktail called “cultural appropriation”. The basic definition of which is doing something or donning something that is apparently not indigenous to one’s physical characteristics like a white guy with dread locks, for example. Or a white person wearing a sombrero. Or heck I guess, non- Asian using chop sticks. (Will this madness never end? Wait… who invented the fork? A white guy? Please say a white guy; how else am I going to eat!!!). Well, Daryl hall was going to have none of it from the interview.
(Verboten words asterisked mine:)
SALON: One of the current debates is over “cultural appropriation” – The idea that white people should not appropriate the culture of ethnic and racial minorities. I know that you don’t like the term “blue eyed soul.” Have you followed this conversation?
HALL: Are you trying to say that I don’t own the style of music that I grew up with and sing? I grew up with this music. It is not about being black or white. That is the most naïve attitude I’ve ever heard in my life. That is so far in the past, I hope, for everyone’s sake. It isn’t even an issue to discuss. The music that you listened to when you grew up is your music. It has nothing to do with “cultural appropriation.”
SALON: I agree with you entirely, because…
HALL: I’m glad that you do, because anyone who says that should shut the f*** up.
SALON: Well, this entire critique is coming back…
HALL: I’m sorry to hear it. Who is making these critiques? Who do they write for? What are their credentials to give an opinion like that? Who are they?
SALON: Much of it is academic.
HALL: Well, then they should go back to school. Academia? Now, there’s a hotbed of idiocy.
As someone who spends a great deal of time in a pound packed with a plethora of pouty, petulant academics, I think Hall is onto something there!
