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Square dancing is a tool of white supremacy

Maybe this would be more appropriate in either the "Leisure Activities" or "Conspiracy Theories" Forum?
 
i know of literally no one who square dances. But I'll drop a secret with you

I do know plenty of people who are gay, especially nazis and baptist preachers who sleep with men behind their wives' backs.

being gay is a tool of white supremacy. We use it all the time in our meetings. Really.

and if you see any black people who are gay, those are just uncle toms who learned from their big-bull Massa's how to behave in the bedroom.
 
I only know of square dancing as that thing they made us do in jr. high school for reasons that remain as baffling and elusive to me now as the day it happened.
 
Oh, ferheavenssake!
Just because a couple of old codgers acted like old codgers over jazz and the Roaring 20's a hundred years ago, now square dancing is white supremacy?

There was a square dancing group around here back in the 70's and 80's. Gave the middle aged something to do one night a week, and the ladies got to wear a full skirt with petticoats, which they liked. They had fun. I remember they tried teaching it to us in gym class when I was in maybe 6th grade. It's kinda complicated.

Love the fiddle music and the energy of it, though.

P.S. Can you imagine what ol' Henry would have thought of rap? He'd have a stroke!
 
Cardinal said:
I only know of square dancing as that thing they made us do in jr. high school for reasons that remain as baffling and elusive to me now as the day it happened.
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There was square dancing at our school in Jr High too...
 
You seem to have a lot of insight into this... can you speak more about it?
 
We all know Henry Ford was a racist, right? It's not a secret.
 
“Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing .”
― Sir Thomas Beecham
 
Cardinal said:
I only know of square dancing as that thing they made us do in jr. high school for reasons that remain as baffling and elusive to me now as the day it happened.
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That and learning how to play the recorder.

 
It's hard to be supreme when you're turned out like a rawhide-clad, prancing peacock strutting about an off interstate roadhouse. Naw, square dancing is not a tool of white supremacy, it's a reminder of how easy it is to look silly in a world which left the cowboy life behind a century ago. It's right up there with Dark Age and Medieval Norse clubbing and Biblical Era Essene raves.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
I loved square dancing, and I am sure white supremacists and non-white supremacists loved it, too.,
 


Square dancing originates from England, France, and other European countries.

Square dance | Calls & Figures, Folk Dance, Americana | Britannica

Square dance, dance for four couples (or groups of four couples) standing in square formation, the most popular and widely known type of folk dance in the United States. It was called the square dance to distinguish it from comparable dances called the contra, or longways dance, for a double file
www.britannica.com

 
I had forgotten how racist Ford was.
 
RetiredUSN:

Yes it has come from abroad but stewed in America for some 500 years. However not the cow person costumps. Those are purely a North, Central and South American thing. By the way, as silly as modern American square dancing looks today, it not nearly as absurd as modern Morris Dancing is in the UK, which is far more silly and pointless.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
DataPoint said:
I loved square dancing, and I am sure white supremacists and non-white supremacists loved it, too.,
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DataPoint:

Are you a Mortis Dancer too? Be honest now. You know you love it, especially the tiny bells and the ribbons all set to the music of the Westcountry. Coo arr! Get off my land!

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
I tried square dancing once when I was in the military.

The ladies were hot and the beer was cold, but I wasn't cut out to dosey-do.
 
I think this is one of those times where there's a legitimate distinctions can be drawn between "was" and "is".

With some things there is no separation. Swastikas used to be a relevant symbol with multiple historical uses, but then came the Nazis. The symbol is forever stained. The confederate flag represented treason committed in the name of keeping human beings as chattel. There is no separable "southern heritage" angle there.



But square dancing? I certainly never sought out any square dancing joint (not that I'm likely to find one where I live, but maybe if I head North by Northeast until I land in backwoods Maine). But at present I haven't detected any

Wasn't even on my radar that the racist bastard Ford used what power he had to push square-dancing as a counter to jazz. Is that above the level of evil necessary to forever stain a thing?
 
You could say it's the square root of all evil. I'll see myself out now.
 
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