Elsewhere (172)
Paul Joseph Watson on people who like the idea of a “white privilege” tax:
Asked to sign the petition to support a 1% income tax on all white Americans in order to “even out the playing field” and redistribute the wealth amongst minority communities, the first man in the clip is incredulous that such a policy would pass but signs his name to it anyway. After a Puerto Rican man signs the petition, another individual who admits he is a non-resident asks for clarification, remarking, “so in other words, tax the white man?” before signing the paper. “We’re gonna take the silver spoon out of the white people’s mouths and put it back into yours,” [prankster Mike] Dice tells an African American man who enthusiastically signs the petition before stating, “appreciate it, man!”
Somewhat related and somewhat less funny.
Heather Mac Donald on women in science:
The myth of a sexist science hiring process has persisted, even though it is contradicted every day by the observable characteristics of faculty searches. And that myth has given rise to a stupendously expensive campus bureaucracy tasked with increasing diversity and combating alleged faculty bias. Last month, the University of California at Los Angeles hired its first vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the jaw-dropping salary of $354,900 — enough to cover the tuition of nearly 30 underprivileged students a year.
And again, on the University of California’s plan to extinguish WrongThought™:
The “message” conveyed by this particular microaggression, according to the university’s “Recognising Microaggressions Tool,” is that “people of colour are given extra unfair benefits because of their race.” Now where would anyone get that idea? Well, you might ask any high school senior, steeped in his class’s SAT rankings, if it’s true that “people of colour” are given “extra benefits” in college admissions. He will laugh at your naïveté. A 2004 study of three top-tier universities, published in Social Science Quarterly, found that black students were favoured over whites by a factor of 5.5 and that being black got students an extra 230 SAT points on a 1,600-point scale. Such massive preferences for “under-represented minorities” are found at every selective college and graduate school. Every student knows this, and yet diversity protocol requires pretending that preferences don’t exist.
Regular readers will be familiar with ‘progressive’ interference in school discipline policies and the emergence of punishment quotas based on race. And familiar, too, with the grotesque consequences.
Feel free to share your own links and snippets in the comments.
people who like the idea of a “white privilege” tax
‘Gimme’ ≠ virtue.
Here is a link to share. Have youse hardcore conservative intellectuals noticed this statement by Guru Mark Steyn (PBUH)?
My, my. The most important issue of all is immigration, already? Since when did hardcore conservative intellectuals believe that? We’re all the same under the skin, surely. It’s de ideology dat matter, stoopid.
Via Arts and Letters Daily, John McWhorter on modern taboo words:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-dare-you-say-that-the-evolution-of-profanity-1437168515
“Drag queens have been banned from performing at a Pride event in case they offend transgender people.”
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/drag-queens-banned-from-pride-event-because-they-may-offend-transgender-people-10403198.html
Drag queens have been banned from performing at a Pride event in case they offend transgender people.
Identity politics is always so much fun.
Regular readers will be familiar with ‘progressive’ interference in school discipline policies and the emergence of punishment quotas based on race. And familiar, too, with the grotesque consequences.
The teachers’ accounts you link to are horrifying. It’s insane.
The teachers’ accounts you link to are horrifying.
Setting aside the grim and predictable effects, repeated many times, what struck me was the implausible naiveté of those championing the policy. The sheer unrealism of it all. The belief that if you openly favour one group of pupils and give them unilateral leverage over their peers, and over their teachers, and grant them immunity from normal consequences, then somehow they won’t ever exploit that leverage and immunity. It was as if the educators and bureaucrats had never been exposed to human children.
But maybe it isn’t naiveté. Maybe it’s just arrogance.
Since when did hardcore conservative intellectuals believe that?
Define [url=http://www.thisblogisdangerous.com/i-was-a-conservative-once/%5Dconservative%5B/url%5D.
Or even http://www.thisblogisdangerous.com/i-was-a-conservative-once/
Step 1. “Help” black students by “giving” them an extra 230 points on the SAT.
Step 2. Said black students get into higher-level and academically tougher colleges than they otherwise would have absent the 230 point bonuses.
Step 3. Black students struggle to keep up at these tougher colleges, resulting in high drop out rates.
So what’s better: to be a Princeton dropout than an Iowa State graduate?
Close down at once all non-science Uni courses. Fire all staff/teachers/bigwigs without compensation and confiscate their pensions. Boot the students out and let them discover the world of work –or the pain of its absence due to the socialistic antics they are all so fond of.
Job done.
There comes the point when naiveté and unrealism become, except for the useful idiots, insufficient explanation.
This sort of thing is enemy action.
Sorry, David, that was me.
This sort of thing is enemy action.
It’s certainly hard to imagine any amount of evidence being enough to make such people change their minds. As we’ve seen many times, identitarian politics tends to lead to unrealism, resentfulness and an imperviousness to logic.
For instance, this charming lady here got very angry indeed when someone challenged her definition of racism as something that only People of Pallor can indulge in. She dismissed the standard dictionary meaning of the word as “half-ass,” “written by whites” and therefore, in her mind, invalid. Unlike her conveniently unilateral definition of racism, the actual definition is of course reciprocal and doesn’t beg the question. Nor does it offer quite so many excuses for obnoxious racially-fixated harpies.
Or, as Peter Risdon put it.
The lack of women in tech explained
Close down at once all non-science Uni courses. Fire all staff/teachers/bigwigs without compensation and confiscate their pensions. Boot the students out and let them discover the world of work –or the pain of its absence due to the socialistic antics they are all so fond of.
Job done.
Not quite Mr Ecks. Just withdraw funding from any course with ‘Studies’ as part of the title.
Drag queens have been banned from performing at a Pride event in case they offend transgender people.
Identity politics is always so much fun.
I know a number of trans people . . . and I’ve hardly gone running to poll anyone, and have very quickly run across reactions of, basically, W.T.F.?!?!??!!?!!!!!!!!!! I love drag queens!!!, and also Uh . . . Why?!?!
Politics is always so much fun, would seem to be the issue . . .
Oh dearie me:
@Johnathon:
Just withdraw funding from any course with ‘Studies’ as part of the title.
Or the word Social.
An upcoming attraction that might be of interest to patrons of this establishment.
The women in science debate is choc full of … well ..lying. There’s no other way to put it – these people are lying through their teeth.
As we know, feminists need something to be angry about. They see the disparity in STEM subjects and think “that will do”.
The last thing they want to admit is that this imbalance could be in any way because of womens’ life and career decisions. So they make a massive fuss about every slight (& misreported) mistake by a senior scientist (the more eminent the better) claiming “it is sexist attitudes like this that put girls off science!”
It’s pure unadulterated bullsh*t, but they know that if they say it often enough it will stick, and it does…
Argue with them and you will be treated as Milo was here when he debates the “pay gap”. They talk for hours, give him half a minute to speak, constantly interrupting him and making snide remarks, then proceed to ignore everything he says.
Milo explains that the wage-gap is (once again) due to womens’ life decisions & choosing different jobs etc. The host says “yes yes” and a couple of minutes later repeats the inaccuracy of unequal pay for the same work… as though she’s understood exactly nothing.
But idiots like this will complain and shout people until they get their way. Young males going into science are already discriminated against (in terms of the existence of women-only grants) and it looks as though it could well get worse.
* that’s Milo Yiannopoulos I’m referring to there 🙂
Not a chap I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, but he’s got courage, taking on the feminists (mind you, half their standard ad hominems won’t work on him)
An upcoming attraction that might be of interest to patrons of this establishment.
Hmmm. Seems there is a credibility issue . . .
The only bit of this premise I can’t quite believe is that social justice hipsters were willing to go somewhere with no cell reception.
Yeah, really do have to watch the details . . .
Not a chap I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, but he’s got courage,
I remember being entertained by Milo’s exchange with Emily Grossman and the rumblings afterwards.
Off in a different forum, someone out of the US requested a presidential election weather report and assessment, so far.
A quick reply;
From what I understand from the number of candidates so far, the original idea was to have Hilary and the seven dwarves. The problem is that the best the Reps could field were all shorter than that, so the hope is that with the numbers doubled, at least the apparent fourteen candidates so far can pair up and stand on each other’s shoulders to at least reach up to standard dwarf height.
The problem is that the best the Reps could field were all shorter than that
A successful two-term governor of one of the largest states, a Senator who’s argued nine cases before the Supreme Court and never lost, a governor in his second term in a progressive state who’s taken on public sector unions and won, a man who turned down admissions offers from Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School to become a Rhodes scholar before an electoral career that included two terms in Congress and two terms as governor of Louisiana…you have to go to the bottom of the list to find anyone as “short” as the Democrats’ paragon of the working woman, who managed to balance helping Barack Obama destroy America’s standing in the world and collecting a tremendous amount of graft with the demands of enabling her husband’s career of sexual abuse and her own barely-concealed alcoholism.
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and a woman who actually had a very successful and REAL career in the business sector (on her own merit, not because of her husband) AND isn’t afraid of the media.
Meanwhile, in the not-at-all dogmatic world of academia:
No Marxoid boilerplate, no promotion. How righteous they must be.
Remember this?
My neighbor is a nice black lady who has taught 9th grade for the past 20-something years. She’s finally had it. Directives came down that certain students are NOT to be sent to the principal’s office, have their parents called, or even be made to stay after school. Nothing, not a thing, is to be done when they disrupt the class–teachers are supposed to pretend whatever’s happening isn’t happening. This has made her job–teaching–impossible, because the kids KNOW this, and so every class, in every subject, in every grade, became last year nothing but chaos. The kids who want to learn can’t. The shouting, cursing, singing nasty lyrics–the throwing of paper, pens, and books–the unrestrainable bullying–the school has become a madhouse, where good kids are punished every day by bad kids for the inexcusable crime of wanting to learn something, and the teachers are forced to be helpless, whilst the administration pats itself on the back for being so very supportive of…what the hell is it, anyway, that they’re supporting???
CNN’s Sally Kohn has lost her mind.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/katie-yoder/2015/07/22/sally-kohn-blames-planned-parenthood-videos-patriarchy-white#.wtot5v:Chn2
CNN’s Sally Kohn has lost her mind.
Wow. As I said upthread: unrealism, resentfulness and an imperviousness to logic.
Sally Kohn: this decade’s answer to A Flock of Seagulls haircut.
I suppose I should have registered her early signs of brain fever.
Because when you’re in a jam and a stranger does you a favour, the first thing you should do is publicly imply that they’re racist.
Because when you’re in a jam and a stranger does you a favour, the first thing you should do is publicly imply that they’re racist.
What a cow.
What a cow.
I think Dom spotted that one earlier this year. And yes, Ms Kohn is so busy signalling her leftist piety, showing the world just how elevated she is, she publicly insults the person who did her a favour, by implying – based on nothing – that they wouldn’t have done the same if she happened to be black. But then narcissism and gratitude don’t mix terribly well.
Regarding this article:
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/07/grilling_feminism_and_masculinity_a_grand_unified_theory.html
Snippet of such via Ace:
…I dare someone to try to untwist this logic…from the comments:
Hmmm. Speaking of Elsewhere, an interesting note out of the Guardian . . .
The world’s most charismatic mathematician
Now that is proper and best piddling about at a uni . . . .
In a different elsewhere—somewhere else elsewhere if not around here—I pointed out that the collective nouns for hipsters are a debacle, a congeal, a fiasco, where going in the different direction—following all possible axes—the collective nouns for mathematicians are a style, an elegance . . .
It was bound to happen some time.
The Facebook page is absolutely filled with angry comments from leftists, attacking the “xenophobic right-wing nationalists” for organizing a gay pride parade through Muslim areas. Since Islam holds that gays should be executed, something like this is obviously an attack on Muslims and should therefore be outlawed. At least, that’s what Swedish leftists – and, indeed, Swedish gays – are saying.
Leftists are organizing a counter-demonstration against this gay pride parade. Yes, really.
http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2015/07/21/sweden-democrats-plan-gay-pride-parade-through-muslim-areas-leftists-and-gay-rights-groups-decry-the-parade-as-racist/