This time, it’s bland, innocuous old folk music that has shitlib panties all in a bunch. Too White, don’tchaknow. Next time (and bet your bottom dollar there’ll BE a next time), who the fuck even knows. Vanilla extract, maybe.

Don’t Oppress My People With Your White-Ass Folk Music
In crushed-by-niche-culture news:

University of Sheffield researchers handed taxpayer cash to ‘decolonise’ folk singing.
A mere £1,485,400, since you ask. A gnat’s eyelash. For an issue of such fundamental importance to the turning of the world.

The project… has also been granted extra funds on top of this from bodies such as Research England.

Whew. I was getting worried there.

Taking place at the University of Sheffield, researchers “will take an unflinching look at the white-centricity of folk music repertory, performers and audience by conducting fieldwork to shed light on long-standing vernacular singing practices of ethnic minority cultures in England.”

Obviously, activities that are chiefly indulged in by white people – in this case, folk singing – must be deemed suspect and found problematic with great urgency, and then probed for hidden wrongness. At taxpayer expense.

And behind this mannered waffle is the weird implication that devotees of folk music are somehow, simply by existing, excluding racial minorities. Shooing them away. Though, again, details on this point are neither obvious nor forthcoming. Still, perhaps we can look forward to an academic interrogation of classic car shows in Nottinghamshire as some heinous bastion of “white-centricity.” Another item on the list of Things That Must Be Decolonised And Morally Corrected.

Just cool your jets, you know it’s coming.

Following the quip about British classic car shows as another potential target for pointless academics, commenters svh and asiaseen caution against giving such people ideas:

Not just “white-centricity”, but judging by the photograph, “white-male-centricity.”

That’s this photograph here. Do feel free to grip the arms of your chair.

Just this once, I troubled myself to transcribe the link mentioned above, on account of it’s kinda important. Plus, you can never have too many car-show pics, even if it’s crappy Ainglish autymobiles.