It looks like the social justice warriors are angry at Steve Martin again, this time for a classic skit he was part of for Saturday Night Live … nearly 40 years ago.
Martin released a song in 1978 called ‘King Tut’ and performed a rendition during a live performance for the April 22, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live.
The tune was a hit, with the comedian’s homage to the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun selling over 1 million copies, even reaching number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Why? Because it was a silly, funny song, when, accompanied by the physical comedy of Martin, was an absolute blast for audiences at the time.
https://t.co/yAz9aduIYm
Came across this. Very funny
Steve Martin— joe embry (@jjembry34) November 8, 2017
Students attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon, however, saw the SNL skit and became immediately triggered. Martin had, in their eyes, engaged in ‘cultural appropriation.’
“Many students found the video so egregious that they opposed its very presence in class,” the Atlantic reported.
“That’s like somebody … making a song just littered with the n-word everywhere,” a member of Reedies Against Racism (RAR) told the student newspaper. You mean like the ones we hear from Hip Hop artists on nearly a daily basis?
The Atlantic added that one student had declared “The Egyptian garb of the backup dancers and singers—many of whom are African American—’is racist as well. The gold face of the saxophone dancer leaving its tomb is an exhibition of blackface.'”
The parents of these students paying Reed College may want to consider demanding a refund. Hey Reedies, when they call it an ‘institution of higher learning,’ the ‘higher’ doesn’t mean what you think it does. You’re clearly killing too many brain cells.
Steve Martin’s ‘King Tut’ Offends College Students 40 Years Later https://t.co/VLd7XQxGCQ
Were Millennials born without a sense of humor? Is that their basic problem?— Baglady (@fubaglady) November 9, 2017
Even Sarah Silverman, a far-left loon in her own right, couldn’t understand the outrage.
“I don’t have the answer, but I will say a couple things,” Silverman said on Real Time with Bill Maher. “One. I am trying very hard not to roll my eyes at the youth … at our youth being progressive because they tend to be on the right side of history.”
“Two, I worship Steve Martin, I hold him no account to this, but we also know comedy, what’s great about it and what’s frustrating about it, is that it is not evergreen,” she added.
This isn’t the first time Steve Martin has found himself in hot water with the social justice warrior set. He was forced to delete a touching tribute to Carrie Fisher on his twitter account after she passed away because he had the apparent gall to call her beautiful.
Huh. SJWs made Steve Martin delete an eloquent Tweet about Carrie Fisher because “male gaze” or something. Still can’t believe Trump won.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) December 30, 2016
Martin wrote, “When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. She turned out to be witty and bright as well.”
How horrible. 🙄
There is practically nothing that the snowflakes littering college campuses and social justice warriors these days won’t take offense to.
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