To contact this jazz band and tell them to stop using this word?

YANBU. I read through the replies fully expecting the usual buzz words like "woke" "snowflakes" etc and I wasn't wrong.

I as much as there is a controversy around the word, it's because people associate the South, and particularly that era, with slavery and all the negative attitudes to blacks that were common at that time.

It's still fairly reductive though, those things to not sum up a whole culture, any more than slavery summed up the ancient Romans or the Ottomans, or raping and pillaging summed up the Vikings. Those were all rich cultures in many ways, some were harsh, some elements we have a hard time relating to, but I have never heard of anyone unwilling to use artistic or cultural elements of those because it might be offensive.

People need to stop being so sensitive, i’ll have to start moaning I’m offended to be called white..heterosexual…

That's all 86%? Dixieland Jazz was originally developed by African Americans.

Dixieland is a well recognized jazz genre since forever and then some.
The former Dixie chicks are a country band whose members are unusually liberal leaning in a genre which is by and large not liberal leaning at all.
I think it is a very different context which people will interpret very differently.

I dont think Id contact them because to be fair Im mixed race/ half cuban but was born and lived all my life in England and I have never heard of that been an racist word and have no idea of its meaning, Also had an mixed raced friend at school whos actual name was Dixie.

As a PP said, mea maxima culpa! Smarties are of course made by Rowntree. And your rats sounds very smart indeed 🕵

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I haven't tried them, maybe I should.

Oh yes blackberry jam is fine, all fruits are with the exception of oranges. I can eat satsumas so that is some consolation and I've just eaten the sweetest juiciest peach you can possibly imagine.

I'm sorry you are sad about our mortal enemy status but in the words of my GC, "they started it."

Ah, but can some of you people eat orange Smarties?

Dixieland jazz is a genre of music

Should I be worried my neighbours Mr and Mrs Dixie are racist?

@FinalInstructionstotheAudience as a NI Catholic: I mean, yeah, I would ban Orange marches if I could, with numbers like “Kick the Pope” and disruption of half the province during marching season, plus the inherent Catholic-hating in the Orange Order.

I think its odd to be offended on behalf of Americans and I think its ott to ask them to change. The region has connections with racism, but there is a lot of history there also that isnt connected with racism and in its about the music for them. If you don't like their name then don't go to their shows.

Oh dear. Let that be a lesson folks that trying to find offence everywhere to show how progressive you are makes you look like an uninformed idiot.

Is this an act for your good deed calculator OP?

Is it so that you can feel all virtuous and superior for being such a great person?

Virtue signalling knows no bounds.

@FinalInstructionstotheAudience You can still get tooth powder in a tin. I use it. My DCs say it tastes revolting.

Who are you to say what they can call themselves?

BTW "Dixie" was Abraham Lincoln's favourite tune. He asked the band to play it when he visited the Union Army in Richmond.

How do you know your fellow sufferers are orange??!! 😁
And yes, @FauxWhiteOrchid , have you 'phoned them yet? There is a trench of people waiting with bated breath...

I'm mainly here for the fellow orange triggered migraine sufferers.
But I would like to know how the OP went if she did ring the band to tell them not to describe their music style using the commonly used term for describing said music style.

Oh thank God, you meant proper Smarties (Not Cadbury's, tho, but it's an understandable mistake.) Otherwise I might be mildly concerned for the well-being of your taste buds

Incidentally, when I gave Smarties to my pet rats, they carefully removed the (obviously inedible) outer shell of the nut/bean/whatever they thought it was, before eating just the chocolate insides. Fuckin adorable imo

By over here I mean New Orleans (I made an earlier post about the history of Dixie and Dixieland) and by Smarties, I mean the Cadbury's ones and not the crappy sugar US Smarties 😁

Oh bless you op. You thought you’d be getting brownie points for being our WHITE knight in shining armour 😆

When you say "over here", that makes me wonder — what's coming to mind for you when you hear "Smarties"?

HA! I applaud the Bridlingtonians' standards, Smarties are infinitely better than the cheap plastic tat we lose our minds for over here 😉