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Ian Miles Cheong on the mob thuggery at UC Berkeley and its ‘progressive’ cheerleaders:
Vocal members of the progressive left took to social media to voice their support for the riot, dubbing it a legitimate resistance movement against the Trump administration. Feminist film director Lexi Alexander, who has directed episodes of Arrow, Supergirl and American Gothic, encouraged rioters to set the campus on fire. Her calls to “join the resistance” were echoed by comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, whose outspoken calls for violent insurrection have only escalated with each passing day… Polygon senior editor Ben Kuchera expressed support for the violence, saying it was okay to punch anyone who mocked safe spaces. And Arthur Chu, the perpetually “woke” male feminist ally, invited his followers to cheer about the brutalisation of a young woman who was assaulted as she conducted an interview.
See also this thread from yesterday.
Somewhat related, this screeching creature – apparently a professor – was rendered outraged and hysterical when some of her leftist associates were arrested following an unprovoked assault on the writer Gavin McInnes. She seems to believe that she and her comrades should be able to assault people, as they deem fit, with impunity.
Also related: Laurie Penny, who has yet to comment on the UC Berkeley thuggery despite being at the scene, is now letting her followers know just how brave she is – for – wait for it – mixing with conservative students. Because unlike masked far-left rioters who are armed with iron bars and who smash windows and punch women, conservative students and Trump supporters are “vicious and vengeful.” And she’s “fucking terrified of them.” *
Kyle Smith on the evasions of ‘progressive’ niceness:
Not-nice Trump voters sometimes speak dismissively of immigrants and others who refuse to learn English; nice Clinton voters are shocked that anyone could hold such cruel views. It isn’t nice to point out that some people don’t have a very good command of grammar. Even teachers no longer make it a priority to teach others how to speak properly, as Theodore Dalrymple points out in his 2008 book Not With a Bang but a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline. To the nice people, “attempts to foist alleged grammatical ‘correctness’ on native speakers of an ‘incorrect’ dialect are nothing but the unacknowledged and oppressive exercise of social control — the means by which the elites deprive whole social classes and people of self-esteem.” Moreover, all forms of expression are equally valid, says the nice-ocrat… If people who can’t speak properly find themselves subsequently accruing little value in today’s job market, the nice-ocrat simply shrugs again.
And Victor Davis Hanson on fake news and narratives:
A good example of such fake news is the Duke rape story of 2006. Over a decade ago, an African-American stripper falsely accused three Duke Lacrosse players of rape. The media eagerly consumed and enhanced the narrative fed to it by radical civil rights groups and a legion of progressive Duke academics: privileged white male students had predictably sexually abused a woman of colour, whose poverty had forced her to perform sexually demeaning acts for frat jocks. The three accused students were summarily indicted on rape charges and expelled from Duke, and the lacrosse team’s season was cancelled and its coach fired — all without reliable forensic or investigatory evidence that corroborated charges of assault. By the time the professional stripper was shown to have fabricated the entire charge, lives were ruined, but the narrative of racial exploitation had been firmly implanted. Jesse Jackson, for example, offered to pay the alleged victim’s college tuition and said the fact that she had concocted the story was irrelevant.
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I think the point is to make the demonization/dehumanization strategy possible. You can’t convince someone that Trump supporters – or Brexit voters, or Milo fans – are Nazi bigots if that person actually knows a few of them.
Yes, probably. I think it’s also the case that communist groups and their variants tend to attract certain, fairly obnoxious personality types. It’s been my experience that the more ostentatiously someone professes their egalitarian righteousness and compassion for humanity, the more likely it is they’ll be a selfish and resentful moocher. (See also, Karl Marx.)
“the Left is a lot more organized & prepared for violence than the Right is, and has the advantage of a mainstream more supportive of it.”
But in the USA at least, certainly now BO is the retired President, the Righ are the ones with most of the guns and all of the practical experience in how to use them in organised groups.
Trigglyprof and -puff, no matter how well armed, against some of my NG mates with Walmart 9mm?
“The streets will flow with blood.”
After inspecting Ms. Goyette’s ouevre, I have to give it a ‘meh’.
It looks like the ‘R-rated’ version of most of Frank Zappa’s ’60’s album art.
As in, it’s all been done before.
What next, a ‘Sargent Pepper’s’ cover parody in seafood? With flannel dildoes, to make it ‘edgy’?
You’re not going to epater any bourgeoisie like that, tunatits. Back to the drawing board!
Here’s an interview with Kiara Robles, one of the women surrounded and assaulted, repeatedly, by the Berkeley ‘protestors’. It seems that merely wearing a hat with the words “Make Bitcoin Great Again” is enough to make you a “Nazi,” a “fascist,” and therefore a target of physical abuse. And Ms Robles is one of the people of whom Laurie Penny is supposedly “fucking terrified.”
While I’ve been watching these fools rage I cannot help but recall these words, they would do well to heed them.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
The agitation is escalating and they’re gearing up for a big showing outside the super bowl tomorrow. Although, some of them know exactly what they’re doing and trying to ignite, far too many of them don’t. I fear that too many of these fools, these useful idiots, have no idea what a dangerous game they’re playing. The event that lights the fuse, that sets the world on fire, is boiling near the surface.
Having these thoughts is unsettling, some days I feel that I am letting paranoia get the better of me, other days I buy more ammo.
By the way, Trigglyprof has been identified.
Rebecca Watson?!?
And Ms Robles is one of the people of whom Laurie Penny is supposedly “fucking terrified.”
Obviously a great big Nazi.
other days I buy more ammo.
Funny, that. Before I had even reached that line in your comment I was already thinking maybe I should buy more .308. One of those if/when cases where thinking in “when” rather than just “if” can make all the difference.
I don’t attend political events, I keep to myself, and I do not presently live near any major metropolitan area. But despite that I’ve still heard enough fantasizing of violence committed against dirty unbelievers and gloating over violence actually committed (that made it into the press) against dirty unbelievers coming from lefties in person that I would be goddamn fool to think any of them would lift a finger to put a stop to it.
It isn’t what they want to happen that matters, it is what they need to believe.
So … I see the Independent is leading the charge against fake news and the post-truth society.
Or then again, maybe not.
Obviously a great big Nazi.
And yet Laurie’s crab-bucket comrades are the ones keen to dehumanise their political opponents.
And here’s an interview with another woman – sorry, “Nazi” – who was repeatedly assaulted at UC Berkeley, along with her husband, who was severely beaten.
Purple monkey dishwasher!
*Cough*
Sorry, that was the other page it seems….
Uh, got any Laphroaig?
Has Laurie had a makeover? Her new Twitter avatar looks quite … normal.
That doesn’t surprise me at all. I’d guess it’s a standard pattern. And the ‘purity’ aspect has faintly cultish connotations.
So is the “isolate the cult members” strategy, which is why they work so hard to keep all dissenting opinions off campus … now very much an all-inclusive resort … and to have cult members monitor other cult members who stray in the least. Probably also helps explain why so many lefties hate sports, too; it’s very easy to end up respecting your opponent.
Heather Mac Donald on the evasions and dishonesty of UC Berkeley’s ‘progressive’ academics:
The word degenerate comes to mind.
They attacked property but they attacked it very sparingly, destroying just enough University property to obtain the cancelation order for the [Yiannopoulos] event and making sure no one in the crowd got hurt.”
Are these fuckers high?
Are these fuckers high?
Given the marked departure from reality and basic moral norms, and the casual waving aside of mob thuggery and the path it takes us down, you do have to wonder just how mentally corrosive leftism is.
Again, degenerate.
Are these fuckers high?
Don’t make excuses for them. This is all their own work.
Rebecca Watson
Wrong. I believe that character is called Carol Beer.
“Driving a homosexual Jew off campus and announcing that one has stopped a fascist.”
Funny. I thought Milo was a practicing Catholic…
“They attacked property but they attacked it very sparingly, destroying just enough University property to obtain the cancelation order for the [Yiannopoulos] event and making sure no one in the crowd got hurt.” Translation: “North Korea wouldn’t give us a nuclear weapon to use at this location.”
“and only involved outside agitators”
According to long time Clintonista Robert Reich, they were right-wing pro Milo agitators…
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-guest-berkeley-rioters-were-actually-secret-right-wingers-affiliated-with-breitbart/
Antifa should change its name to Fa.
Antifa should change its name to Fa.
That would fit, but of those doing such posturing, the problem is thus indeed, that would fit.
—The other thought that popped into mind; . . . any of these chuckleheads . . .
Antifa
Fa(a)
It seems that our Trigglyprof may not actually be a prof after all. Developing…..
I would ask everybody to please don your shocked faces now.
“Driving a homosexual Jew off campus and announcing that one has stopped a fascist.”
Funny. I thought Milo was a practicing Catholic…
Oh, that’s all right, aside from Milo at least apparently being—or stating to be—Jewish, the WWII era Nazis also went after the Catholics as well…
I find my man, squirt him down with aphrodisiac drugs from my forehead, slip my whole shell off. …
Sounds like a vaguely schizophrenic fever-dream. Is she trying to be poetic or is her brain malfunctioning is a particularly identifiable way?
It’s always a bad idea to mix mental illness with a nasty personality.
It seems that our Trigglyprof may not actually be a prof after all. Developing…..
I would ask everybody to please don your shocked faces now.
Don we now Milo apparel,
Antifa, antifa, antifa-la-la . . . .
—Oh, wait, that’s from the December festivities, not February. Oh well . . .
Trans-professor.
Oh dear, Shia’s 4-8 year baby seems to have mutated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kJh0B4_yxE
I wonder if he’ll abort it?
Are these fuckers high?
Don’t make excuses for them. This is all their own work.
Quite. It’s not an oversight. It’s a contrivance.
If an academic at an elite university, a professional educator, is telling you that mob intimidation and the destruction of other people’s belongings is totally acceptable, provided you stop once you’ve achieved your political goal, however illegal and sinister that goal may be, and regardless of the precedent being set, and while studiously ignoring the actual, practical fallout of the behaviour she’s excusing, then that person is a moral idiot. To proudly assert a non-reciprocal license for thuggery in order to look cool and down with the kids requires deliberate contortion. A practised looking away from things – whether that’s the sight of women being hit with iron bars, or how the Professor of French might feel, and react, if similar liberties were taken with her person and property.
I think the point is to make the demonization/dehumanization strategy possible. You can’t convince someone that Trump supporters – or Brexit voters, or Milo fans – are Nazi bigots if that person actually knows a few of them.
“No matter how charming the right are, don’t become one of them.” Says Laurie.
Maybe Trigglyprof identifies as a professor…
It would be a lot easier if people stuck to the traditional definition of Nazi i.e. murderous dictators stomping about in jackboots and shouting “Sieg Heil!” As opposed to the definition these SocJus types use of ‘Anyone who isn’t exactly like them.’ -sigh-
Orwell weeps.
Aha!! Trigglyprof
This is my shocked face.
This is my shocked face.
She seems overly enthused by images of men being mutilated.
The ladies of Cluster B, they walk among us.
“The Kübler-Ross model lists the stages of grief as Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. To check where in this process the left finds itself, I perused the covers of several news magazines. Here are some results.”
“The broken windows in Berkeley were an act of self-defence.”
@ dicentra:
I find my man, squirt him down with aphrodisiac drugs from my forehead, slip my whole shell off. …
Sounds like a vaguely schizophrenic fever-dream.
I’m going for “pornography written for hermit crabs”.
“Orwell weeps”
“Social engineering” has been redefined, all the better to not be able to see it when it’s actually happening.
Trigglytwat there is an artist like my cat is–when she makes art with her poops in the litter pan.
I’m going for “pornography written for hermit crabs”.
I think it’s intended to be lobsters, but honestly I suppose it was only a matter of time before writing crap like this became something you could get a job being a professor of.
Don’t click the link.
Seriously, just don’t.
Gee DR, if you didn’t like that I see two alternate tomes available at that link are Space Raptor Butt Invasion and Space Raptor Butt Redemption . It’s impossible to please some people.
Re: the rioters, erm… they’re not very… well, they’re not very manly, are they? I feel like I’m stepping outside the bounds of polite discourse to say it, but watching Zombie’s videos the thing that struck me most was that they seemed like what my dad used to call “big girly la-las”.
Teenage vegans, skinny hipsters, boys that never played football, girls… These are the people holding civilisation to ransom?
These are the people holding civilisation to ransom?
Well, the spineless university administration, at any rate.
…what my dad used to call “big girly la-las”
One does get the distinct feeling that the Y chromosome isn’t what it was. And someone is clearly watering down testosterone.
Beloved Nephew is the butchest young man of his age (30) I know, unapologetically heterosexual, resolutely non-PC, admirable in every way, yet he spends more in a year on having his eyebrows threaded than I paid for my first house. It’s terrifying.
he spends more in a year on having his eyebrows threaded than I paid for my first house.
[ Googles ‘eyebrow threading’. Shakes head. Drinks wine. ]
“Rebecca Goyette creates persona-based works that poke holes in Puritanical sexual mores. . . .”
One of her ‘personas’ seems to be lobster based. Interesting the costumes involved are red, meaning the lobster is i] dead, and ii] cooked.
Is this evidence of stupidity, or of new depths of meaning in the area of lobster porn?