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Rachelle Peterson on the ugly racial dogma of Black Lives Matter:
A major claim shared by most of the participants at Black Lives Matter 101 is that the black “lived experience” is impenetrable to non-blacks. The “narrative” is closed off and inaccessible to any who has not lived it, which means, by definition, all “whites.” According to these pronouncements, [non-black people] are inadvertent racists if they attempt to affirm black culture because they will inevitably present it as one-dimensional. And they are racists pure and simple if they do not affirm black culture in exactly the ways the Black Lives Matter activists prescribe. It is racism either way, and racism all the way down. […]
The spokesmen at Black Lives Matter 101 gave voice to what would quickly be recognised in any other context as claims of racial exclusivity. They were not shy about this or worried that it would undermine their larger claims. But, in fact, this view does undermine their larger claims. Their eagerness to take racial categorizations as fundamental, unalterable, and essentially “true,” contradicts their sense that racism is unjust and wrong. Replacing one form of racism with another takes us no closer to a fair and just society… What is the use of protesting racism by affirming an intrinsic all-powerful racial identity?
And yes, there’s video of the gathering in question. Though to get through it, you may need a handy canister of nitrous oxide.
Heather Mac Donald on the Great Mao-ling Psychodrama:
My personal favourite in this tsunami of self-pity comes from Princeton’s put-upon minority students, who proclaimed that they were “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” a phrase first used by Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist who had picked cotton as a child on a Mississippi plantation and who was beaten for trying to vote. Can we have a reality check here? Every American college student today, no matter his race or gender, is among the most privileged individuals in human history. Millions of Chinese students are at this very moment studying their butts off in the hope of gaining access to the intellectual resources that American students take for granted. And being a Princeton or Yale student bears no resemblance – need I really say this? – to being a sharecropper in the Jim Crow South.
Meanwhile, at Dartmouth College, merely suggesting that the lives of police officers matter too can result in indignation, vandalism and organised efforts to intimidate. Note which party college administrators are frightened of upsetting and willing to indulge with double standards, and note the somewhat creepy tactics of those who feel entitled to dictate the range of opinions and facts that may be expressed. Apparently, remembering police officers killed in the line of duty is nothing more than “white supremacist bullshit” and an act of “violence.”
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David, you should write a book… I bet you’d make more money
I think you wildly overestimate the level of income such books typically generate. They often function as a loss-making promotional tool for a wider media career, if you want to be a pundit, a personality. Which sounds revolting.
And just think of all the fun you’ll have on the book tour — students shouting at you, protesters outside the door,
You’re really not selling the idea.
You’ve been at this for so long now,
That I can’t argue with. Nine years and counting.
Heather Mac Donald on transgenderism, elite piety, and the contortions of modern feminism:
Coherence is presumably a patriarchal construct.
David, you should write a book… I bet you’d make more money
I think you wildly overestimate the level of income such books typically generate.
The real money is in films.
I dare you. No, double dare you, to make it into a film.
Or, “Social justice,” level 3.
re Social justice, level 3,
I’m usually not the one to notice, but shouldn’t that read “Who was eaten by whom“?
I’m usually not the one to notice, but shouldn’t that read “Who was eaten by whom”?
Well spotted. How anyone capable of such a grammatical infelicity has the nerve to criticise a bit of didactic anthropophagy is beyond me.
Well spotted. How anyone capable of such a grammatical infelicity has the nerve to criticise a bit of didactic anthropophagy is beyond me.
Thread winner. Take a couple of “attaboys” out of petty cash.
Or, “Social justice,” level 3.
Do students even learn about Maoism now? Or do they just pick it up naturally?
didactic anthropophagy
Now there’s a phrase I didn’t see coming.
“what happened during the Cultural Revolution”
I am not sure which horrifies me more: That I know people who applauded and applaud the Cultural Revolution, and that I know people who, while not themselves cheering it, nonetheless are not shocked and disgusted at those who do.
Do students even learn about Maoism now? Or do they just pick it up naturally?
I still have no idea whether the student pictured below has any awareness of the event to which she refers.
Either way, it’s hardly encouraging.
Given that Bernie Sanders seems to be advocating for both a “Cultural Revolution” and a “Great Leap Forward,” I think it’s time to heed Kurt Schlichter’s advice: Buy more ammo.
Yet another Hate Crime that wasn’t. No charges to be brought against the false accuser.
“I still have no idea whether the student pictured below has any awareness of the event to which she refers.”
The ones I knew in the 70’s and 80’s and 90’s knew very well what Mao did, and approved.
They are now teaching our children.
Nah. Just look at that vacant expression. Dat is one ignorant, spoiled child.
Oh look, and she is surrounded by others.
The “aren’t I cute and smiley and advocating nice fluffy things because I’m on the side of the angels and all kind-hearted, right-thinking folk” smile to camera is also a giveaway that she knows FUCK ALL.
And… breathe.
Now there’s a phrase I didn’t see coming.
One of the reasons I like this joint.
By extending a 15+ IQ point admissions cheat to certain groups based purely on their pigmentation, the system all but ensures that other, more capable students will get an unflattering impression of the supposed beneficiaries, who will tend to be at the bottom of every class.
When I taught Spanish at an Ivy in the 1990s, the black students that I had were either at the tip-top of the class or the very bottom.
The ones at the bottom had urban accents; the ones at the top did not. So yeah, the other students could tell who got there on merit and who got a boost up.
In one of my all-white classes (10-15 class sizes), the kids once voiced resentment at the all-black dormitories and all the self-segregation. Not because it “wasn’t fair” but because they didn’t understand why the black kids had to be socially stand-offish and isolated so that the white kids couldn’t get to know them.
Thereby making it easier to call them “racists” for not having non-white friends, I guess. If the black kids actually did mix with the white kids at the dorm-room level, racial harmony might actually break out.
And they can’t have THAT.
“Today our freedom of speech was violated by our fellow students while the administration stood idly by. We spent three weeks getting our poster remembering fallen men and women of law enforcement approved through the proper administrative channels. Almost as soon as it was posted in the Collis Center for Student Involvement, it was torn down and replaced with Black Lives Matter posters. Parkhurst was unwilling to remove the posters as it was afraid of taking a political stance. There is, however, nothing political about standing up for freedom of speech, our First Amendment right.”
There WERE black lives among the police lives being remembered.
BLM WOULD eat their own children.
When the wrong kind of black person speaks on campus.
https://twitter.com/owolade14/status/733067685651722241
“Science Mike” is now blocking like crazy.
“Science Mike” is now blocking like crazy.
Heh. Identity politics stupefies so quickly.
“Science Mike” is now blocking like crazy.
Tom Owolade is given the perfect response to Mike.
Tom Owolade is given the perfect response to Mike.
Heh. Absolutely. You have to wonder how these people miss the obvious implication of their own statements – i.e., that the way to respect someone is to treat them as emotionally unstable, mentally incompetent and generally inferior. Based on their melanin levels.
Based on their melanin levels.
Perhaps we could just form two new species, Homo pigmentus, and Homo pallidus, the whole sapiens ship is down by the bow and sinking fast.
“Science Mike” seems to think that brown people, all of them, are a special needs minority, and that those special needs include perpetual deference for fear they might explode or burst into tears.
“You have to wonder how these people miss the obvious implication of their own statements”
Especially ironic coming from a person who calls himself “Science Mike”.
When the wrong kind of black person speaks on campus.
Heaven forbid, a black person–conceived via a rape, but whose mother chose to allow him to exist–merely recites certain uncomfortable truths, i.e. that Planned Parenthood was founded by a white woman for the express purpose of diminishing/eliminating social “undesireables,” a category that included virtually all American blacks, and that a disproportionate number of PP “clinics” find themselves in or near poor black neighborhoods.
In short, Mr. Bomberger is living proof that the Left’s sacrament of abortion is a lie and that the young Mao-lings have been duped. No wonder the only response they can come up with is an endless series of curse words. The alternative is too traumatic for them to consider.
BLM = Alinsky meets racial vitimhood culture. It will die out like the panthers and other militant/criminal cults before it.
Somewhat related. If it smells like a cult, maybe it is.
Presented for your consideration…the person venerated on today’s Google doodle/wtf it’s called, one Yuri Kochiyama. From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kochiyama
WTF is with these Google people? I thought one of the Google guys was born under communism?
“But they wouldn’t lie, would they?” Trevor
http://www.therealcuba.com/?page_id=77
I was just coming to comment on the Google doodle, but thankfully WTP beat me to it.
I guess being a leftist activist is inherently noble and praiseworhty, regardless of support for mass murderer. Thanks, Google.
Yes, FP…what surprised me most about that was there it was right out there in front of God and everybody and I only ran across it when I went to the Google page to search at 10:30 this morning. Heard nothing about it, saw nothing on blogs, no outrage, nothing. This person was an open admirer of some of the greatest murderers and oppressors of the 20th century and she is praised for her work for as a “human rights advocate”. And to this point I see nothing in the MSM about this. Just now searching the most outrageous thing I find is outrage about the very outrage I see very little of. The first hit I see addressing anything controversial:
http://www.recode.net/2016/5/19/11713478/google-civil-rights-yuri-kochiyama-radicalism
Of course, being a good Asian American. Because internment camp, of course. Where’s the outrage about the internment camp that is Cuba, the internment camp that is North Korea, the internment camp under Pol Pot, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.? It’s like living in the Twilight Zone.
Social justice, level 3
WTF is with these Google people?
I wonder, did they Google-doodle the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution? Judging by past behavior, I could imagine them doing that. I don’t use Google anymore, so I wouldn’t know.
Especially ironic coming from a person who calls himself “Science Mike”.
Most scientists specialise, so are “chemists” or “agronomists” or whatever. Just as policemen call themselves “police” and don’t lump themselves in with other law enforcement agents. I did a science degree, and for a while even had the word “scientist” in my job title, but I don’t think I ever described myself as “a scientist”. It would imply knowing rather more than I do.
Using the word “science” used like that is a red flag. It is virtue signalling that you are clever and wise and on the side of the angels. In the same way as “sceptic” when not prefaced by what you are sceptic about (and indeed I see that Science Mike does in fact describe himself as “skeptical”. Why not just call himself “Wise and Thoughtful Mike” and be done with it?
Why not just call himself “Wise and Thoughtful Mike” and be done with it?
Too many words, and equally inaccurate.
As mentioned above, the SJWs are not having much impact on gamers themselves, but more on game creators.
What I think is worse is they are making inroads into the general software development community. Coraline Ada Ehmke – http://where.coraline.codes/ is making a career of convincing community projects and companies they need her help to become more inclusive.
>I still have no idea whether the student pictured below has any awareness of the event to which she refers. < pol pot might have had the right idea about what to do to the "intelligentsia" /sarc off
Ntokozo Qwabe … has boasted on his Facebook page about reducing a white waitress to tears.
I’ll let the charmer tell the story himself.
LOL wow unable to stop smiling because something so black, wonderful & LIT just happened! And of course, the catalyst was a radical non-binary trans black activist – Wandile Dlamini – from the Rhodes Must Fall movement. Because trans activists have BEEN the ultimate blessers of this decolonial struggle!
To cut the long story short, we are out at Obz Cafe with the said activist, and the time for the bill comes. Our waitress is a white woman. I ask the said activist what the going rate for tips/gratuity is in these shores. They look at me very reluctantly and they say ‘give me the slip, I’ll sort that out’. I give them the slip.
They take a pen & slip in a note where the gratuity/tip amount is supposed to be entered. The note reads in bold: “WE WILL GIVE TIP WHEN YOU RETURN THE LAND”. The waitress comes to us with a card machine for the bill to be sorted out. She sees the note & starts shaking. She leaves us & bursts into typical white tears (like why are you crying when all we’ve done is make a kind request? lol!). Anyways, so this white woman goes to her colleagues who are furious. She exits to cry at the back & a white male colleague of hers reluctantly comes out to address us & to annoy us more with his own white tears telling us that he finds our act “racist”.
We then start breaking it down for this white man & ask him why they are catching feelings when we haven’t even started (like the part where we take up arms hasn’t even come & yall are already out here drowning us in your white tears? Really white people? Wow.). We start drawing him to the political nature of the act & why we couldn’t be bothered that they decided to catch feelings from the note. We tell him it’s great that business as usual has stopped & the pressing issue of land is now on the agenda in that space – seeing the cowntry was celebrating ‘Freedom Day’ yesterday. We then chase him back to do his job. And continue with our conversation before exiting the café.
Or the telegraph or Mail
The spokesmen at Black Lives Matter 101 gave voice to what would quickly be recognised in any other context as claims of racial exclusivity. They were not shy about this or worried that it would undermine their larger claims.
At the risk of this not being posted, here goes:
I have had it up to HERE with all this obsolete farm equipment.
I have had it up to HERE with all this obsolete farm equipment.
No problem, here y’are.
And I should be able to fix that cascading italic and bold that you triggered . . .
Meh. Or not.
Paging David, paging David . . . .
Fixed.
FF…FFS
http://youtu.be/g37HT4-EtzE
Ran across this. Rather old but found it amusing in a “try to lead a horse to water and count the excuses why he can’t drink” kind of way.
http://www.lesterspence.com/philly-wants-black-men-to-patrol-the-streets-gratis/