Stupid Myopic Panic-Stricken Millennials

I almost thought this tweet, apparently by a 20 year old Grievance Studies major from Oberlin College, to be the sort of thing that only Snopes would think wasn’t parody:

Of course, “Edelweiss” was written by Rogers and Hammerstein, in the late fifties. For a movie about some escaping from Naziism.

Here it is, in all its storm-trooper-y goodness:

Silly millennials

UPDATE: I’m told that Ms. Haberman is not actually a grievance studies major from Oberlin, but in fact NBC’s White House correspondent and one of the “elite” “gatekeepers” that are supposed to keep the public’s news safe and hygienic.

My mistake.

11 thoughts on “Stupid Myopic Panic-Stricken Millennials

  1. Yet another picture of how much the press does NOT know these days. I’m fine if a reporter does not know the ins and outs of a movie from 1965, but trying to tar the President based on what she does not know is simultaneously infuriating and amusing.

    It might just be smart to require aspiring journalists to get a real major so they would understand something about the world…

  2. There are several choices here.

    1) The Marine Corps Band playing show tunes triggers Really Insightful and Courageous Reporters because the band isn’t gay enough.
    2) Trump reaches Galactic Master Troll status and even innocuous tunes are enough to trigger The Resistance.
    3) Trump is living inside the heads of the Democrats. And not just rent free, he’s a squatter making money off his residence there.
    4) Haberman and the rest of the media are complete idiots who don’t know that a song about resistance to Nazis is not an homage to Nazis.
    5) All of the above.

    Hint: there are no wrong answers above.

  3. What is very curious about this tweet, though, is that Haberman claims to be a reporter. How much credence is to be given to her reporting now that she has disclosed both her ignorance and her bias?

    Twitter is the petard given to reporters: they can use it breach the castle of fame, or they can hoist themselves upon it to gain infamy. And it seems that most of them are as totally ignorant of the use of twitter as they are of guns, and choose the path of infamy.

  4. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Flyers have removed Kate Smith’s statue from outsider their arena, and the New York Yankees have stopped playing “God Bless America” during the 7th Inning stretch, because it has been revealed that Smith once recorded a song from a musical that had the word “darkies” in it. Never mind that the song – also recorded by Paul Robeson – mocked racist attitudes.

    I’m not so concerned that some people have such shallow comprehension skills; idiots are gonna idiot. What concerns me is how readily institutions and entities collapse at just a whiff of such hufflepuff.

  5. NW, your “whataboutism” is showing. 😉

    I can’t help but think that one problem we have nowadays that seems to not have been a problem in the past, it that “we” listen to idiots. I find it difficult to believe that there hasn’t always been idiots, but they were recognized as such and not given the credibility that they get now.

    On the other hand, perhaps there are more idiots now due to a 60 year disintegration of the public school system.

  6. It reminds me of when Flannery O’Connor was asked why southern writers write so much about freaks.

    “Because we can still recognize them,” was her reply. She also wrote, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.”

  7. Check your privilege, honey. Don’t twaatsplain Nazi crap to actual Nazis (all penile equipped wypepul)

  8. After further reflection, and in her defense, the melodies of Edelweiss and Deutschland Uber Alles are remarkably similar. And those Nazi names all sound alike.

  9. I guess both tunes are indeed Austrian, sort of, as Haydn wrote the German/Austrian national hymn. It’s also used for a hymn called Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken about….Jerusalem.

    Never mind.

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