"Honky tonk" probably does have racist origins, "a place honkies go to listen to music" ... doesn't "tonk" sound like some stupid slang they'd come up with now on twatter? An Ebonicsy way of saying "tank"? (As in holding tank).
I'm thinking more of the allied soldiers on the ground during a tense evening's back and forth shooting from cover expecting axis to sneak up on them getting "Spooked" when a member of their team comes over to relieve them of their duties so they can sleep.
There could be a racist element to it of course but I think that's mostly in the head of whoever it was that came up with this censorship.
I don't get why they would be so niggardly with perfectly innocent language.
Spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, ghost or spectre.
I'm sure that at a time of war, in the darkness, black soldiers would have frightened some people by pretty much being harder to see that Caucasians.
Are they going to ban The Scottish Honky Tonk in Bute because honky can also be interpreted by some outside of the context of music?
A slippery path for an arts institution to go down., and make no mistake.
Won't be long until cockaleeky soup is off the menu due to our transgendered cousins and you can forget about baps for the same reason!
"Honky tonk" probably does have racist origins, "a place honkies go to listen to music" ... doesn't "tonk" sound like some stupid slang they'd come up with now on twatter? An Ebonicsy way of saying "tank"? (As in holding tank).
Rip Dwight Yoakam
That's Johnny Horton's song!
If you can discern the skin color of the fighter pilot, you've got reason to be shitting your pants already.
I'm thinking more of the allied soldiers on the ground during a tense evening's back and forth shooting from cover expecting axis to sneak up on them getting "Spooked" when a member of their team comes over to relieve them of their duties so they can sleep.
There could be a racist element to it of course but I think that's mostly in the head of whoever it was that came up with this censorship.