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Cliffy73Dan Neilan
12/08/17 2:02pm
You people had to square dance in gym class? Weird.
Also, so the big Wonkette reveal is that she found an article from the CityPaper?
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  cybersybilCliffy73
  12/08/17 2:08pm
  “Social dance” was part of middle-school (well, junior high ‘cause I’m Canadian) PE back in my day. A little square dance, but also waltz, foxtrot, polka, cha-cha (weirdly) and jive. Also forced a bunch of self-conscious teenaged girls into contact with weird and awkward teenaged boys. But hey, we also had gymnastics on ancient unmaintained equipment with inadequate landing pads and untrained teachers.
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  Robert Posts ChildCliffy73
  12/08/17 2:18pm
  Well, A) Yes, and it sucked, and it’s pervasive, so confirming that it is, in fact, actually total bullshit being peddled by creeps is massively satisfying.
  B) GJI inherently blows things out of proportion just by turning them into news articles, so.
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Martian LawDan Neilan
12/08/17 1:49pm
African-Americans invented square dancing
I have a feeling that instead of railing about cultural appropriation African-Americans will be more like, “That’s cool. You guys can keep it. It’s all you.”
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  Bart FargoMartian Law
  12/08/17 1:52pm
  African Americans already have their own lame dance subculture in the form of zydeco anyway.
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  hey-now78Martian Law
  12/08/17 2:10pm
  Wait - how is square dancing not basically the exact same thing as the Scottish Ceilidh?
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sethsezDan Neilan
12/08/17 2:36pm
I know how it’s supposed to be read, but I can’t help but see “dancepiracy” as anything other than “dance piracy,” which sounds fascinating.
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  Pudding Angers Lotionsethsez
  12/08/17 3:01pm
  It does, until you see 1982's The Pirate Movie.
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  tommytimpPudding Angers Lotion
  7/01/19 9:46am
  PUMPIN’ AND BLOWIN’
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Pope FrancisDan Neilan
12/08/17 2:30pm
Square dancing is also the centerpiece of the 1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon “Hillbilly Hare” - directed by Robert McKimson - which features probably the funniest sustained sequence of music-based slapstick in the history of animation, possibly in all of film. So, in short, thanks, conspiracy.
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  Pudding Angers LotionPope Francis
  12/08/17 2:59pm
  I am glad you took the time to mention McKimson, whom I believe to be an unjustly uncelebrated Looney Tunes director. Freling and Jones get all the huzzahs, but McKimson should get some love too!
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  Pope FrancisPudding Angers Lotion
  12/08/17 8:10pm
  He was probably the best draftsman the studio ever had, and his early directorial efforts (with the core of Tashlin’s, then Clampett’s former animation units, and with Tedd Pierce and Warren Foster as writers, from ‘46 to the mid ‘50s) were consistently as entertaining as anything Jones or Freleng were doing. Not to mention that he nearly single-handedly directed and animated three cartoons in ‘55-’56, while reassembling his unit after a studio shutdown. I think his preference for a cornier, hammier style, and some of the blander appearance of his later cartoons tainted his legacy. Personally, he’s a favorite.
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Young RutigerDan Neilan
12/08/17 1:58pm
So it’s Henry Ford’s fault that I had to hold hands with girls in gym class!
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  Pope FrancisYoung Rutiger
  12/08/17 2:04pm
  Henry Ford was in the pocket of Big Cootie.
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  The BabadukeYoung Rutiger
  12/08/17 4:33pm
  Gross!
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SpongyFrogDan Neilan
7/02/19 1:56pm
I think it’s weird you wrote this article implying the square dancing-Antisemitism nexus was a big discovery by Robyn Pennacchia. Look on Google for “square dancing Antisemitism.” There are many articles, dating back years about this. Robyn would have done well to have googled the topic before going off the rails about her ‘discovery.’
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  Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯SpongyFrog
  7/02/19 5:19pm
  chill the fuck out frog ... until Robyn published would anyone in their right fucking mind have thought to Google “square dancing” + “antisemitism” ...?
  NO ... never ... why would you ever put those 2 words together? Maybe you’ve been curating such a page for years and you finally get some press but just not the credit. So sorry but seriously, chill it.
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Olde FortranDan Neilan
12/08/17 2:00pm
This country needs a revolution. A Dance Dance Revolution.
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MedrawtDan Neilan
12/08/17 2:40pm
Who says square dancing is boring?
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  SpoooonMedrawt
  7/01/19 2:03pm
  Everyone?
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  Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Medrawt
  7/02/19 5:23pm
  k.d. lang comes closest to rocking it but it all starts to suck at the 1:20min mark
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JAB66Dan Neilan
12/08/17 6:25pm
In the That Douchebag Who Corrects Meaningless Grammar Mistakes Dept.:
“…she realized they once had ties to none other than American icon Henry Ford, who helped ensure their lasting influence in the world of forced dance appreciation.”
Doesn’t everyone feel better now? No, just me? Oh.
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  SpongyFrogJAB66
  7/02/19 2:02pm
  I do, too. Thanks.
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The Artist Formerly Known as YDan Neilan
12/08/17 1:51pm
“...the most boring dance style known to humankind—square dancing”
Pavane would like a word
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  Pope FrancisThe Artist Formerly Known as Y
  12/08/17 2:06pm
  So would “line dancing” - so lame it can’t even get two perpendicular and one other parallel lines going.
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