ACRONYMS ARE ANTI-BLACKRONYMS
WTF OMG SMH. It’s only February and already the people who do the stuff that makes you say, “It
can’t get any stupider than
this” have gone and done something stupider than this. Yes, the leftist guardians of social justice and racial “equity” (get used to that word; it’s gonna be drilled into your skull like an orbitoclast for the next four years) have decided that, in their never-ending quest to label non-racist things as racist, acronyms are now the product of “white supremacy.”
Like so many plagues, this one started in that storied California town where the streets are paved with poo San Francisco. Last week the San Francisco Unified School District declared that its arts department, VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts), must no longer be known by that acronym, because acronyms are “racist.”
Misha and the wolves: Movie poster.
Misha and the Wolves is a story involving a Belgian immigrant and a Massachusetts publisher. It’s an intriguing tale about an intriguing tale that isn’t what it seems. There’s deception on a grand scale and international backlash that reverberates for years.
Misha Defonseca was a Jewish child in Belgium when the German occupation began. Her parents were arrested and deported by the Nazis in 1941. She was smuggled into a foster home, where she had to live as a ‘hidden child’. She was alone and she was missing her parents badly. When she discovered they’d been deported to Germany, she looked on a map. She decided they were close enough for her to find. She was just seven years old when she began her journey across Europe. To avoid capture, she travelled through woodland, which was where a pack of wolves adopted her as their own. She lived with her four-legged friends and made secret trips into the Warsaw Ghetto. Somehow she survived. Wh