It seems like everywhere you look something new is oppressing someone or other by existing in the same way as it has for as long as its existed. From home ownership to what books you read to what kind of car you drive, almost anything that you ever do can and will be pointed as somehow being oppressive to somebody. So what’s the newest addition to this list of problems that are apparently plaguing minority communities in the United States today? Well, the good folks down at the New Yorker have thought long and hard on that subject and come back to us with their considered opinion: It’s crossword puzzles.
The first crossword was published in the U. S. in 1913.
The puzzle has since spread across the globe—but the American crossword today doesn’t always reflect the multiculturalism that immigration brings. Oh man, crossword puzzles don’t ‘reflect the multiculturalism’ of immigration’! Who would have thought that fun little brain puzzlers written in English and put into English language newspapers wouldn’t have inclusion of other languages and cultures in them, right? Why does it always have to be so black and white? Immigrants need to bring their own crossword puzzles with them. Early crossword puzzles were all white.
And they were super difficult. It wasn’t until desegregation and the black boxes were added that the puzzles could be solved. Man history is always such an interest subject, you learn something new every day it feels like! What does any of that have to do with crossword puzzles? You should be ashamed to post this claptrap Just stop.
It’s embarrassing. But they need articles to stick in amongst the advertisements! If they stop they won’t be able to properly signal to their advertisers that they’re by their acts of self-flagellation! Won’t you think of the advertising dollars? We also need to have a national conversation about birdwatching, philately, model railroading, scrimshaw, and building ships in bottles That sure does sound like a scintillating set of national conversations, doesn’t it? GP You make crossword puzzles only in English, you oppressive occupiers. You should self-cancel for the good of diversity.
Racism update: crossword puzzles That’s what Sudoku is for. It gets harder and harder to understand how these people justify their own pay checks to themselves and their relatives. The New Yorker doing the vital work of.
. . *checks notes* .
. . problematizing crossword puzzles.
Who takes these clowns seriously?? The New Yorker used to be good. Serious, even. Says the magazine with the whitest subscriber base on earth.
The New Yorker doing the vital work of. . .
*checks notes* . . .
problematizing crossword puzzles. Who takes these clowns seriously?? The New Yorker used to be good. Serious, even.
Yes, well, lots of things used to be better than they currently are but here we are. We’ll have to admit we didn’t have ‘Crossword Puzzles’ on our 2023 ‘Intersectional Oppression’ Bingo Cards, but then why would anyone sane even consider that as a possibility? Oh well, clearly it’s time to plan on getting a more creative with these bingo cards come 2024. ***.
From: twitchy
URL: https://twitchy.com/coucy/2023/12/18/new-yorker-crosswords-n2390927