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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.”
Feel free to share your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments.
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
I’m confused. Are they *trying* to convince me that racial segregation is the way to go? ‘Cos that’s what I’m getting from them.
‘Cos that’s what I’m getting from them.
It is all a tad incoherent and faintly depressing. I made a valiant effort to watch the whole video but I started losing the will to live shortly after the claims that “black Twitter” was being “colonised” due to supportive tweets by white devils.
Conor, this is simply the wedge being used to break up social cohesion. Same as the LGBT. Demonstrations do not happen spontaneously.
Re: the Heather MacDonald piece. As we’ve said before, this happens when you allow people who shouldn’t be at University to attend one. Jonathan Haidt found a 1969 article which predicted all this.
I have been wondering why the uni administrations allow these useless faculties and the clowns they attract. It must be that they saw a gap in the market of people who wouldn’t/couldn’t do a real degree but wanted one. These poor people would be willing to pay tens-of-thousands a year, if only they could go to uni.
I think it is a bit immoral of the unis to do this, knowing these students will graduate with huge debts they probably won’t be able to pay off, with a degree that is worse than useless because not only did they not learn anything it also screams “don’t hire me!” The uni has the money at this point, and the clown has gone and is no longer their problem, so they win.
For some reason clowns-to-be never seem to see/hear the lamentation of the women who graduate and can’t get a job or pay their debt and think “maybe I’ll try STEM or nursing or teaching or anything with a hope of being useful.”
I think one way to attack this would be a law that somehow indexes the amount someone can borrow in a student loan to the expected earning power of graduates of the degree. Then people doing useful degrees (or law) can borrow enough to get through as they’ll probably pay it back, and xxx studies students can borrow 2c, so can’t go, and the faculty will collapse.
a law that somehow indexes the amount someone can borrow in a student loan to the expected earning power of graduates of the degree.
We have too many laws as it is. A better approach, IMO, would be to allow student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy. No Federal guarantee (not sure if that’s the same issue or just closely related) would also help. Let lenders decide for themselves, at their own risks, whether they’ll finance a student’s college career or not.
With no guarantee that the taxpayer will reimburse them for their poor investment choices, lenders would likely be far more circumspect regarding which applicants they chose to support.
A Black Lives Matter quote from the Peterson piece:
Posting Blue Lives Matter reproduces the idea that All lives matter, again intensifying the violence against people of color. Invalidating individual realities.
Left unexplained is how the word “all” precludes “individual realities,” inasmuch as individuals are contained within the “all.”
@David Taylor,
Of course the system is immoral, but that’s beside the point. The purpose is to foment grievance. How better to do that than to seduce young people into borrowing too much money to buy something of no utility, thereby creating a person who’s likely to be a ward of the state and easily led by anyone willing to stoke the fires of their ostensible “oppression.”
Jonathan Haidt found a 1969 article which predicted all this.
Absolutely. The quoted passage says it all. But the likely consequences of grossly lowering standards for certain racial groups – which are now all too apparent – should have been pretty obvious at the time to anyone paying attention.
If a university is so determined to have more students with brown skin that it admits students with significantly lower SAT scores than is usually acceptable, and significantly lower IQs, by around one standard deviation or 15 IQ points, sometimes more, then problems will inevitably arise. As Heather Mac Donald pointed out, the supposed beneficiaries of “affirmative action” tend not to be unrecognised geniuses from poor backgrounds, but mediocre students from fairly middle-class backgrounds, and a common result of throwing mediocre students into a situation for which they’re neither prepared nor suited is failure, frustration, dropping out, crippling debt, and ultimately resentment.
As noted here recently, it’s hard to avoid the suspicion that the left’s cultivation of identitarian tribalism, its vast and growing “diversity” bureaucracy, is actually intended to perpetuate and exacerbate racial disaffection, and with it an exploitable sense of grievance, thereby justifying even more spending, more coercion, and the employment of more hustlers, ideologues and mediocrities just like themselves.
I’ve quoted this by John Ellis before, but it bears repetition:
It’s the Long March in action. And it’s despicable.
Amazing foresight by Judge Fleming. What an extraordinary document.
I tried sitting through the video. I pathetically gave up around the time of being told how wonderful Linda Sarsour is. I beg to differ on that.
“And it’s despicable.” Yes. It is.
@R Sherman, but why would sensible uni administrations want to foster grievance? I don’t mean the people in the faculty, I mean the dean of the uni or whatever.
@jabrwok, I didn’t know the state was a loan guarantor… your idea is better.
Yes. It is.
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. And who then either drop out or change majors to less demanding subjects – often Angry Studies – and who may still find themselves struggling, frustrated and resentful. It’s like expecting ‘C’ stream high school students to cope with ‘A’ stream work and then acting mystified when the inevitable happens. Except that in a university situation the alienation and humiliation are compounded by massive debt.
It’s not just stupid, it’s cruel.
They’re up against enormous competition for the title, but the higher education system is the most corrupt institution in contemporary life.
@jabrwok, I didn’t know the state was a loan guarantor… your idea is better.
That’s my understanding. A quick Google search indicates that the Federally guaranteed student loans were ended in 2010 for new loans, though apparently the Dept. of Ed. still offers direct loans, which presumably places the burdens of default on the taxpayers.
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-federally-guaranteed-student-loan.html
I may have to research this aspect of the issue in more depth.
Personally, I’d prefer that the government get out of the education business altogether. Alas, while I have both a pen and a phone, I have no sycophantic press nor a spineless Congress to allow me to dictate Federal policy, so my prescriptions are unlikely to be enacted:-(.
“It’s not just stupid, it’s cruel.”
Well, yes.
Having been someone who, when I arrived in secondary school, was streamed for Maths(I was in the lowest division), it would have been impossible for me to cope if I’d been put into a higher division for some reason other than merit. My best friend was, entirely mistakenly, put into the same division as me, and then went on to be so obviously much more able that the school realized they had made a clerical error and very swiftly put her into the top division. Where she flourished at the right level.
It was just common sense.
Anything else would have been pointless. And no one would have been helped to learn.
“By extending a 15+ IQ point admissions cheat to certain groups based purely on their pigmentation”
Let me ask a contentious question: If reputable sources such as Charles Murray’s “The Bell Curve” highlight that there is a demonstrable differential in IQ between racial groups, then the only way these groups can be equal is to take IQ discrimination e.g. by exam out of the equation.
At this point, does education have any role? By pursuing an equality agenda (and explicitly an equality of outcome) how are we not setting up blacks in general to fail? If so what is the alternative?
As a side note – I like to draw the metaphor as follows: My mate is charming and good looking, I am awkward and ugly. From an equality standpoint, do I get some of his pussy? Who’s is going to force the girls in question?
But universities have operated in this don’t-give-a-damn-about-the-student mode for decades. I would say about 1/4 of the professors I had in college had little to zero interest in teaching. Some would relish their role in weed-out courses and such. Some where damn near sadistic. And as a student, thus a customer, you are paying for this. Unless you have some taxpayer subsidizing your loans, of course. I am in no way saying that education must be soft. People are there to learn and the degree they earn should reflect a strict standard, hopefully rather rigid over time. But the purpose of an educational institution is to educate, not play goalie to keep competition down in an attempt to protect certain professions. One way to spot a con is when the “sales” man tries to intimidate the customer.
Again, not opposed to tough standards. In Navy Seal school, when they say “look to your left, right, front, and back. At the end of this course none of those people will be here”, that is different. The Seals still do have a vested interest in producing as much product as they can, even those that don’t make it are improved. Universities, not so much. Especially when you consider how many weak candidates they let in in the first place.
Never mind minorities, ‘educating’ vast numbers of young people beyond their level of intelligence by admitting them to often worthless university courses will lead to them having unrealistic expectations and becoming resentful.
The attempts by leftist academics to excuse the shortcomings of many affirmative action students can be quite bizarre.
As when Riyad A Shahjahan, supposedly an expert in “social justice theory” and “pedagogies of dissent,” claimed that we must “disrupt Eurocentric notions of time” and challenge “colonial binaries such as superior/inferior.” Apparently, this “disruption” of scheduling and abandonment of grading must be done to spare the feelings of students who struggle to complete course work on time and to an acceptable standard. We must, he says, “dislodge higher education from neoliberal personhood” and liberate ourselves from “the temporal colonisation of our bodies.” Because expectations of punctuality and attentiveness in class are terribly oppressive and unfair.
I swear to God I’m not making this up.
This is called “circling the drain”. I have never lived in a country that actually failed, but I have a feeling I will get to experience it first hand during my lifetime. Oh joy. I guess I could move to Venezuela to hurry the process along, but it’s coming to Canada; a bright shining road paved with intentions, and we are almost there.
“It’s only May, but I think I’ve found the euphemism of the year: According to Team Obama, criminals should now be declared “justice-involved individuals.””
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/233906/
Black Lives Matter is starting to look a lot like Stormfront.
@David Taylor
In order to create another reliably left-wing constituency is the reason. Add in the bushels of cash paid as Dangerous by private donors to subsidize the grievance studies industry and ever-increasing tuition financed by student loans to the aggrieved and the motive becomes clear.
Black Lives Matter is starting to look a lot like Stormfront.
But according to Dartmouth’s vice provost for student affairs, we’re supposed to regard this kind of behaviour as “a wonderful, beautiful thing.”
Didn’t you get the memo?
Jonathan Haidt found a 1969 article which predicted all this.
The letter from Judge Fleming in response to the imposition of a 10% quota of black students to Yale’s Law school is remarkable, so thanks for the link, Jonathan.
But there’s one small point I’d like to add that wasn’t mentioned in Haidt’s piece and it concerns this line here:
To achieve this goal, Yale had just admitted 43 black students, only five of whom had qualified under their normal standards.
Where does this leave the five out of those 43 that had actually achieved the desirable standard?
Just do what I do: laugh and say “Oh, now y’alls is just trippin’.” in a heavy black accent.
Works every time. They have no response programmed.
Where does this leave the five out of those 43 that had actually achieved the desirable standard?
Feeling cheated?
to replace one form of racism with another takes us no closer to a fair and just society…
A FAIR AND JUST SOCIETY means that the ruling class has successfully subjugated it’s citizenry and can claim anything they want.
I will take radical segregation anytime at all. That has served us well for thousands of years. It is how we got bordered countries in the first place.
Face it … people don’t like people who are very different from them. LIKES ATTRACT, It’s human nature. Stop fighting it.
it’s coming to Canada; a bright shining road paved with intentions, and we are almost there.
I’m fairly certain we’re going to see Cormac McCarthy’s The Road levels of societal collapse in my lifetime, and I’m not a young man any more.
I’m fairly certain we’re going to see Cormac McCarthy’s The Road levels of societal collapse in my lifetime,
[ Peers out of open window at tweeting birds, bouncy squirrels and sunny Spring afternoon. Remains, defiantly, in a good mood. ]
Where does this leave the five out of those 43 that had actually achieved the desirable standard?
Like this…
re @ Robert of Ottawa:
You are right. Demonstrations aren’t spontaneous, because demonstrations are always by the people already with power or supported/facilitated by people already in power.
The other day someone, following recent EUSSR’s police assaults on “right-wing” demonstrations against the muslimvasion, was bold enough to ask when was the last time we used water cannon on a muslim demonstration? We can only conclude then that “right-wing” means the government did not approve but happily approves of our newly-inserted friends demonstrating against the west.
If this was fiction, it would be laughable. Instead reality isn’t anything to laugh about it would appear.
Where does this leave the five out of those 43 that had actually achieved the desirable standard?
Easy. Their success will always be tainted; wherever they go, whatever they apply to, will always be the question if they really were successful on their own.
If they are successful, and they not only succeed but then publicly urge others to the principles of hard study, responsibility and perseverance in face of adversity while eschewing race-based quotas for just the reasons as outline, they will be denounced as Uncle Toms, inauthentic, race-traitors and, of course, too stupid to have really made it on their own.
see: Clarence Thomas
Meanwhile, behold the glories of a socialist utopia!
Links & Snippets, eh ?
Trees are racist.
A blast from the past: Federal court rules that failure to castrate inmate is “cruel and unusual” punishment.
Meanwhile, behold the glories of a socialist utopia!
Also behold more glories of a socialist utopia !
Meanwhile, behold the glories of a socialist utopia!
But the Guardian said Venezuela was going to do just fine.
But the Guardian said Venezuela was going to do just fine.
I remember in the 80s they told us ad nauseam that Cuba had the bestest eye surgeons that ever there were, thanks to the wonders of socialism.
Now I’m grumpy and middle-aged, there’s just a little sceptical part of me that wonders if that was entirely true. But they wouldn’t lie, would they?
Mickey Fearn. . .claimed that black people don’t visit national parks because they associate them with slaves being lynched by their masters.
The Civil War and slavery ended in 1865. The first national park (Yellowstone in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho) was established in 1872. The first four National Battlefields (all commemorating Union victories during the Civil War) were established in 1890. The first National Monument (Devils Tower, Wyoming) was established in 1906. The National Park service was established in 1916.
But of course, we shouldn’t let actual, you know, facts get in the way of imaginary grievances.
Aside: If anybody’s got a right to be pissed about national parks, it’s the Plains Indians. Devils Tower is sacred to most of the Plains tribes, but it doesn’t keep them from showing up there for ceremonial purposes, hordes of “Wais’chu” visitors notwithstanding.
I have come to an understanding regarding Preference For Black People. There should be a recognition to not provide any Athletics Scholerships to Young Black People who have scientifically/medically confirmed to have Extra Quadraceps.
Naturally this is particularly important in Track & Field Events; Football; Soccer; Baseball; Hockey; Swimming; Tennis; and probably several Atheletic Activities I have not mentioned.
I do not know if the Extra Quadracep situation will provide an advantage to Black People in Activities such as Archery; Polo; Sking-Down Hill-maybe?
However; Slalom-both Snow & Water; SnowBoarding; Sailing; Mountain Climbing; may already exclude Black People, because many have an extra Quadracep muscle. I rarely see participation of Black People in these Outdoor Activities.
Apparently Golf is ignoring the probable advantage of Black People over Caucasian People (both Light Skin Colour & Several different Shades of Brown-including Very). Presumablythe Quadracep advantage is also ignored as well as Oriental and North American & Australian early Immigrants to their respective Continents.
Basketball; must be a Special Situation. Possibly the Extra Qudracep is not prevalent in Black People, who through coercion in procreation during the 17th-18th and 19th centuries in North America are over-represented in this Athletic Activity because of Height advantage.
I do not spend much viewing time of Billiards/Chess/Checkers/Card Games/Tiddly-Winks–et al and therefore will hold back any comments regarding whether Black People have a definite advantage regarding these activities.
Regarding “Blue Lives Matter” I wholly support any Black People who may or may not have the advantage of an Extra Quadrecep Muscle in the performance of their Brave Service to the Social Contract.
What I do not support are any People or Organizations who use any Characteristic which may be perceived and/or understood to be different than the People who share the same Social Contract.
Why aren’t universities seen as simple commodity (in this case, service) providers. You pay for a course, you take it. You are only credited for the course if you pass it. Anyone who wants to take a course may do so. No admission test needed. I don’t take a test to buy a pair of pants, do I? Why should I require credentials if I buy an academic course.
As far as student loans, why do we have them? Why aren’t usual loans sufficient?
David, you should write a book. You’ve been at this for so long now, that your posts pretty much give you an outline. One chapter on cultural, one on education, one on politics, and so on. You can publish first drafts of a chapter here on your blog and get great feedback. I bet you’d make ore money than you get now with the pay pal button.
And just think of all the fun you’ll have on the book tour — students shouting at you, protesters outside the door, flyers calling you a … (deep breath) … cis-gendered, transphobic, mysoginist, ablest pig. And so on.
“Black Lives Matter is starting to look a lot like Stormfront.”
A significant fraction of black Americans have degenerated to the same level as the Nazis who operated death camps. These black people would enthusiastically do the same here in America. Yes, they really are that evil.
“As we’ve said before, this happens when you allow people who shouldn’t be at University to attend one.”
More than that: These people believe that it is a racial injustice for a white victim of even the most extreme black violence to shoot and kill their attacker. Such people not only do not belong at university, they do not belong anywhere.
Video games are probably not the largest area of interest around here. However, it’s becoming (yet) another area that PC warriors and SJWs as well as parasitic artists are taking over. There’s a picture of an article by a woman named Patricia Hernandez that I think’s a fake because I can’t find the original, however, just look at some of the stuff she does actually write.
http://kotaku.com/5914348/three-words-i-said-to-the-man-i-defeated-in-gears-of-war-that-ill-never-say-again
The part that really freaks me out is the last bit.
“I can’t help but ask myself, then. Who really won that match? Me, who completed the objectives successfully? Or them, who, despite as hard as I tried, made me complicit in the rape culture that has taken so much away from me?”
Holy shit. They were probably just kids playing a game. They didn’t make her advance the cause of rape, they were having fun shooting pretend guns! It worries me that one can so easily ascribe vile attributes to people they don’t know and who’re just playing a game. She actually hates them, it’s weird.
…however, just look at some of the stuff she does actually write.
Regarding the whole thing she wrote, (cough)bullcrap(cough). Never happened.
The ghosts of Jim Crow smile from beyond the grave…
Allan, yeah they are trying to make inroads into shaming gamers into submission but we are a hardy lot used to a lifetime of being ostracized by people for no particularly good reason. Really pissing off the SJWs.
they are trying to make inroads into shaming gamers into submission..
Well, they’ll never shame *gamers* themselves – the game=players don’t give a fuck what the SJWs think, and never will. They are really trying to shame the game developers into kowtowing to them – the problem, though, is that the developers are in a commercial space. The games the SJWs would like to see developed will sell (at a rough guess) twelve copies. The result is that the developers who kowtow will go broke – and they all know that.
“Well, they’ll never shame *gamers* themselves – the game=players don’t give a fuck what the SJWs think, and never will. They are really trying to shame the game developers into kowtowing to them – the problem, though, is that the developers are in a commercial space. The games the SJWs would like to see developed will sell (at a rough guess) twelve copies. The result is that the developers who kowtow will go broke – and they all know that.”
I’m worried it doesn’t quite work this way. The majority of the large gaming websites have a strong SJW bent.I think it’s already putting pressure on developers to bend and make concessions in games that have a strong base. Does this mean that I have to stop buying good games to show developers I’m not interested in SJW bullshit?
Flubber,
“From an equality standpoint, do I get some of his pussy?”
Are you equally “wealthy”?