What The********

[Steve D]

“Jingle Bells,” explained Council Rock principal Matt Tappon in an email, has been replaced with other songs that don’t have “the potential to be controversial or offensive.”

Jingle all the way? Maybe not - Rochester BeaconRochester Beacon

[rob-c]

Gotta love cancel culture . 

[Five Seasons]

lmao. so the school cites a paper about the song. the news contacts the paper's author who is shocked and states that her paper doesn't mention anything negative about the songs lyrics, only that it's old and where it originated and that no other school has cited her work to remove it.

news contacts school with the author's resonse

“Some suggest that the use of collars on slaves with bells to send an alert that they were running away is connected to the origin of the song Jingle Bells. While we are not taking a stance to whether that is true or not, we do feel strongly that this line of thinking is not in agreement with our district beliefs to value all cultures and experiences of our students.

Some suggest? The paper you cited as your reason to remove it says the opposite. Nobody ever has described bells as being racists. And if they have there isn't some 7 year old african american kid in that school who is having flashbacks when they hear a bell. 

A quick Google search shows that bells on horses were common as far back as Roman times. The linkage of “sleigh bells” with slave bells is not addressed in Hamill’s paper. When I asked Hamill about this, she responded:

“The use of bells on enslaved peoples may be true, but there is no connection to the song that I have discovered in my research. Perhaps finding a well-referenced source for this claim might be in order if that is what (school officials) want to determine as the cause for not singing it.”

Edited December 29, 2021 by Belo

[The_Real_TCIII]

In other news, WAP is probably played at every school dance


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