Beyonce infiltrates the church. Should the U.S. make twerking a crime? How to combat degenerate culture.
Destabilize morality and make degeneracy acceptable; the recipe for chaos is a gumbo of vices, best served lukewarm. And America is having a buffet of vices, culturally speaking. It should be no surprise that other countries, such as china, wanted to ban sissy idols’ feminine boy bands, restrain pop culture and limit social media usage. These things may appear to be “harmless” fun, but they spread like wildfire, degenerating society’s moral fabric. These are conservative talking points; conservatives don’t have a monopoly on reality. These are historical consequences of cause and effect, the french revolution, Russian communism, and the U.S. today. Is twerking an innocent dance, or does it influence degenerate behavior? Should the U.S. make twerking a crime? How to combat degenerate culture.
Not since the crusades have the church been under attack like it is today. There may not be a bloody war where millions are killed, but the spiritual battle is just as worse. Mass shootings in churches are commonplace; bombings, hell(no pun), and lighting strike down churches. The most recent attack from the church comes from Beyonce with her song church girls. Influencing church women to twerk and seduce men trying to focus on GOD. As if there already isn’t enough distraction in the world from GOD. No one is stopping people from twerking in clubs or at home by why encourage it in places of worship? Why taint and disrespect righteousness? And Beyonce grew up singing in the church. While there is nothing wrong with encouraging freedom, at what point does your freedom begin to hurt society?
Should the U.S. make twerking a crime? Russia decided to call it petty hooliganism, which is a great term. Last month, Russian dancer Yana ‘Cat’ Sloeva was arrested and thrown into a three-day bug-infested detention cell. Sloeva was dancing at the Yeltsin Centre with the message “so what” across her buttocks. Sloeva felt the arrest was unusual as everyone clapped for her and covered all her private parts. “I’m not a prostitute- it’s just a dance.” ” I am a very modest person in life- it is better to be liberated in this way than in some other way, by taking drugs,” she told the daily mail. While dancing is a great outlet compared to drug usage, is twerking just a dance?
If youtube is age restricting the video, that should tell you something. Can’t a person non-verbally make sexual advances or movements while having clothes on? And to say you can’t help how people respond or interpret is a copout. Plenty of indigenous and modern dances don’t infer sexual innuendo worldwide. But why would the U.S. even consider tweaking a crime, and why did Russia make it a crime in the first place? Let’s go back to 1950’s Russia.
In 1956, convictions for hooliganism exploded and a wave of deviant activity swept through the country that was noted as new and unheralded. “Hooliganism is not getting less,” a group of workers noted alarmingly. “With every passing day, it is growing more and more.”2 Showing a 69 percent increase from 1953 to 1956, statistics confirmed that hooliganism had, as a man from Riazan´ noted in a letter to Pravda, “surpassed all previous bounds.”3
To combat the serious hooliganism of the 1930’s such as knife fighting, which received 3-4 year sentences. Less time was given out for petty hooliganism, but it was given out at a high rate. People can’t live in complete totalitarian control, therefore
Ending the atmosphere of impunity that reigned around minor misbehavior was important because unpunished minor misbehavior was, according to many jurists, one of the root causes of major crime.7 Unpunished minor offenders, they argued, were emboldened to try more serious offenses, devolved farther down the slippery slope of deviancy and developed into tomorrow’s hardened criminals
The convicted petty hooligan would not be burdened with a criminal record upon release and his job would be held for him during his detention.
Unfortunately, watering down hooliganism from knife fighting violence to misconduct would lead to a police-like state. As more and more people were arrested, even if they weren’t criminals or leading a life of crime.
So making petty hooliganism, a crime had the opposite intended effect; it increased it. Repeated offenders missed work, and their families lives were disrupted. This turned working people to lead a life of crime to compensate for being detained for petty hooliganism.
Most petty hooligans were arrested for obscenity on the streets and in other public places.19 Yet even obscene speech in the home could result in petty hooligan prosecution as in the case of a 42-year-old bookkeeper from Moscow who was imprisoned for five days for cursing “in the presence of his wife and children.
In conclusion, should twerking be a crime? Probably not; is it lustful and tempts others to sin? Yes, so how do we find the middle ground? Americans love to tell others to follow the law, but individually we all love to rebel and break the rules. It gives us a sense of power, real or imagined. With flashmobs taking over convenience stores and twerking in public at red lights(lol), hooliganism is at an all-time high and will spread like cancer into society. Yet criminalizing it will only make it worse, and telling others not to do it will make them want to partake. So what’s the solution? Focus on your spirituality, develop a relationship with your spiritual-religious principles, and continue to be an example for others.