Never heard of this before but learned about it when reading about zoroastrianism on wikipedia (i followed a link to read about diadems)

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    On December 23, 1972, six women with tickets provided by debutantes and two of them, white women Gena Scott and Jane Sauer, walked together into Kiel Auditorium, with no problem. Then Charles Reed, that year's Black Veiled Prophet went to the entrance with Beverly Crosby and Florence Jarrett, presented the gatekeeper with three tickets and a statement demanding entrance. They were denied entry because they were not "dressed properly." Refusing to leave, they were arrested and taken to a police station.[43]

    Sauer and Scott took balcony seats on opposite sides of the house. During the program, Sauer began dropping leaflets into the audience, then "threw the rest of the leaflets over the railing" as two men converged on her and began to pull her away.[43]

    Meanwhile, Scott was rappelling on a rope from a balcony when she tumbled hard to the floor, climbed to her feet, rushed to the stage, grabbed the crown and veil and yanked it from that year's VP. The Post-Dispatch reported that "the Veiled Prophet, whom everybody could see was bald, and very angry, struggled gallantly to restore the veil and its 95-year-old tradition [of anonymity] to its proper place."[43][44] The VP was later to be revealed as Monsanto executive Tom K. Smith Jr.[1]

    Scott said: "The chairman of the VP committee, Alexander Cornwell Jr., had wanted to press charges, but when he was informed that the Veiled Prophet would have to appear in open court to do so, the whole matter was dropped." Scott's ribs were diagnosed as bruised and possibly broken.[43]

    They could have done so much good if they went a step further than drama kid protests.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      the Veiled Prophet, whom everybody could see was bald,

      HE'S BALD!?

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    9 months ago

    Historian Thomas Spencer considered that the VP parade was created in part to displace the parades regularly held by the trade unions....

    checks out yeah.

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    The funniest part is STL elites acting like they still run the fourth largest city in the country and not a rotted out shell that collapsed as quickly as it expanded.

      • GinAndJuche
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        9 months ago

        It was like 2-3 years ago, but yeah it’s a good episode that goes into all the creepy details.

          • GinAndJuche
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            9 months ago

            RSS truth feed, pod king on soulseek, and one of the power posters in trueanon sub(I think it’s classwarandpuppies)

            I might have the file, I’ll upload it or something when I get home if you can’t find it otherwise and I’m not wrong about having it on one of my data hoarding drives

  • whatup
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    9 months ago

    Removed by mod

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      I think it's okay to say that people don't match beauty standards. The blonde hair is definitely a factor though since this event used to be openly white-supremacist and now is just marginally closeted about that fact.

      • whatup
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        9 months ago

        White supremacists’ obsession with blonde hair is so intriguing. I’ve always wondered: why blond? Why not red hair? Is it because blond is more closely associated with youth? (The blondest people I’ve seen are children and their hair usually darkens with age).

        I get why they don’t like brown hair, though (i.e. because a lot of pocs have it). Kinda funny story: saw a screenshot of this racist trad wife account complaining about the men in her group only ever posting images of pale blondes, never brunettes. A literal call for DEI in a white supremacist group—the internet truly has it all. I guess it’s white ppl colorism lol.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          Red hair is prettier,* but that's more associated with the Irish and other "lesser" peoples, rather than the nords and anglo-saxons, among whom blond was the designated bright color. This shouldn't be surprising since this is all rooted in Aryanism and the like.

          I think you're also right about the youth thing, though it's worth noting that "dirty blond" hair gets noticeably brighter if you get a good amount of sun exposure, which I think is part of the "Americana" aesthetic of being tan with bright blond hair.

          It's always really funny in a sad way seeing hard right people feel marginalized not even by a society that hates their bigotry but by a society that embraces it. For example, t's a perennial issue for Lauren Southern, a proto-fascist great replacement influencer type that she has trouble with the ridiculous levels of misogyny of people in her sphere. At least if I ever personally knew someone with these issues, it might be a good opportunity to reach out and say "Hey, maybe what is hurting you is a part of this ideology rather than an aberration from it" or something.

          *Yeah I'm biased but come on, it's a more interesting color to occur on a human while blond is just a really light shade of brown when you get down to it, meaning it's fundamentally a difference it brightness between itself and all the shades it is supposedly more desirable than.

    • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      It was created 150 years ago as a way for the richest St. Louisans to try and work together to fuck over workers

      Yes that's what I meant by "fucked up rich people secret society"

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      9 months ago

      this isn’t “adrenochrome drinking satanic ritual” Epstein level fucked up secret society

      well of course it isn't, because those aren't real