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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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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.
“I’m a professor! You should be ashamed of yourselves! You’re a joke!”
#LeftiesProject
this screeching creature – apparently a professor
I think we’ve found this year’s Trigglypuff.
I give the far left credit. They said Trump’s presidency would unleash a wave of fascism on America, and so far they have right.
Mind you, it was an easy call for them, as they were the ones who intended bring the fascism.
#LeftiesProject
It’s the line, “They shouldn’t have to use their own fists! They were taught to be peaceful!”
I think we’ve found this year’s Trigglypuff.
The big screeching id of 2017.
Still, the night is young…
That screeching professor made me laugh. Just what I needed as I flog through 6 years of my company accounts because I can’t make the cash flow tally.
Guido has a good link to an interview with Milo on the subject of the riots. He’s on fine form, as usual.
Nick Land coined the term fascism factory about Berkeley and similar events:
Crying “Only a fascist would disagree with me!” while being intensely disagreeable,
Beating random people in the streets and saying “we’re beating up fascists!”,
Driving a homosexual Jew off campus and announcing that one has stopped a fascist.
I fear support for fascists will only go up from such events, and the current POTUS does not seem the de-escalating sort.
I think we’ve found this year’s Trigglypuff.
There’s a longer YouTube version here.
Punching people we don’t agree with is a basic human right. How DARE you arrest us?!
It seems that Screeching Id Lady is now a meme.
The drool is a lovely touch.
Crying “Only a fascist would disagree with me!” while being intensely disagreeable,
It’s a bold conceit, certainly, but self-flattery is seductive. As is a ready-made pretext for assaulting people and scaring them, and thereby feeling powerful.
The thing that gives such thuggery license and makes people contort all logic to minimise or excuse it, is very much an academic conceit, a product of the left. If you cultivate identitarianism and pretentious victimhood – and an expectation of deference – such that a person’s blackness or womanliness or gayness or whatever determines their moral standing – and if you tell students, repeatedly, that any facts and opinions that they find insufficiently flattering constitute “incitement,” “hate speech” and “violence” – and if you tell them that “microaggressions” justify actual aggression and a mob veto – then escalation is inevitable.
And creatures like Screeching Id Lady will multiply.
NYU, my alma mater, oh my. (Bows head in shame, shuffles toward door.)
Know, of course, that the Lexi Alexanders and Sarah Silvermans of the world will never get their own hands dirty with “The Resistance.” They have the useful idiots of Berkeley for that. And those Berkeley idiots will be content to remain on their Maoist preserves, never venturing forth on a sucker-punch safari to a place where there’s conceal-carry.
Lemme play Armchair Supervillain for a moment and speculate wildly how Trump might work towards a fascist takeover from this if that’s his goal.
From a budding supervillain perspective, you’d prefer no resistance, but that’s off the table by now. Second best is the kind of resistance you can break with a maximal combination of violence and lawfulness in order to establish a norm that you’re in charge, you will hurt people, and your enemies deserve it, serving to reduce further resistance. And my goodness, does this look like a great situation for such.
Bluster towards Berkeley. Demand they invite Milo back and pay for his security and treat him as a guest of honor. Get their dander up and spew hot air (incidentally distracting from EOs and appointments elsewhere). Make “the Resistance” feel they’re accomplishing something and prepare to do it again. Arrange for Milo to show up and speak again later, perhaps with Richard Spencer or the like in tow. Retune the bluster towards issuing decrees and imperatives about how Berkeley must let them speak, or else! Warn of terrible unspecified consequences, so you can say “I Warned You” later.
When the upshifted antifa show in, invoke the legacy of Little Rock and send in the army, nominally to protect Milo and ensure he can speak, but in practice under a loyal officer with orders to capture or neutralize as many antifa as possible. Bring absolutely overwhelming force. Provoke incidents/excuses to start shooting as necessary.
Make announcement about how you are protecting free speech and will Make America Safe Again, touching on your own defense of “persecuted minorities” (Milo being a homosexual Jew), backed with suitably lurid images of jackbooted resistance, victims of said jackboots invited as (carefully vetted) guest speakers, the failure of local authorities to respond the first time, and the sad necessity, the very unfortunate (shed a single tear) necessity of having to use the army this way to protect fundamental rights. Muffle dissenting press with lawfare: charge them with complicity/advocacy/incitement of the resistance crimes, parallell with trials of the resistance themselves.
All hail the Golden Trumpeter! Now is the Golden Age of America! Time for an addition to Mount Rushmore!
@MicroB
The flaw is the Army bit. It’s against the law for the regular military to deploy on mission within the states. It would have to be the National Guard, which is controlled by the governor, in this case Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown. Good luck with that.
(Federalizing the Guard isn’t the answer, as there is no federal jurisdiction. Eisenhower was able to do it in Little Rock, because he was enforcing a SCOTUS order to integrate cthe school district.)
Didn’t Ike send the 101st Airborne into Little Rock?
For some context, and maybe a snigger or two, here’s Gavin McInnes interviewing feminist activist Heather Marie Scholl.
@Sherman,
Against which law? If you mean the Posse Comitatus Act, it has a multitude of exceptions, perhaps the most relevant one being the Insurrection Act.
The flaw is the Army bit. It’s against the law for the regular military to deploy on mission within the states.
That is not entirely correct. 18 USC §1385, AKA the Posse Comitatus Act, does prohibit Active Component (AC) and Reserves of the Reserve Component (RC which is Reserves and National Guard) from performing direct law enforcement duties, however, Department of Defense Instruction 3025.21 Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies lays out instances in which AC forces can be used, e.g.:
10 USC Chapter 15 covers insurrection which is another instance in which the AC and Federalized NG may be used. The question then is at what point does this crap that is being played out daily rise to where Federal intervention could be warranted. It is clear that the civil authorities in California in general and Berkeley specifically did nothing, and will likely do nothing in the future, and there are arguably Federal property and/or functions via funded research at risk at Berzerkely and most major student day car centers masquerading as universities. Clearly if it spilled over to nearby Livermore the case could be made if the state officials continued to do nothing. Does the obviously coordinated actions and outside funding of “Antifa” rise to the level of “insurrection” given they want to overthrow the present government ?
At any rate, regarding the literally spittle flecked “professor”, only one word comes to mind, Backpfeifengesicht.
“Polygon senior editor Ben Kuchera expressed support for the violence”
If there was ever any doubt about Polygon, there it goes.
“Crying “Only a fascist would disagree with me!” while being intensely disagreeable,
Beating random people in the streets and saying “we’re beating up fascists!”,
Driving a homosexual Jew off campus and announcing that one has stopped a fascist.”
Or, as someone said about the inauguration day mini-riotettes, smashing windows while dressed in black shirts to protest fascism. Self-awareness is not their strongest point.
Of course, if you weren’t aware of fascism’s socialist origins, you might be taken in. Good job history’s being taught so competently, right?
I think we’ve found this year’s Trigglypuff.
Trigglyprof.
Trigglyprof.
[ Slides drink voucher along bar. ]
Meanwhile, what only the most fashionable rioters wear.
From this, by David French.
2006. Over a decade ago,
Wow, that makes me feel old.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll go yell at those kids to get off my lawn.
And another unprovoked beating. They didn’t like his hat.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/02/trump-supporting-berkeley-student-attacked-by-left-wing-thugs-in-the-middle-of-the-day/
The drool is a lovely touch.
And here I thought “spittle-flecked” was only a rhetorical device.
And here I thought “spittle-flecked” was only a rhetorical device.
How very dare you. She’s a PROFESSOR, you lowly peasant.
Triggyprof
From what I can make out, our agitated educator is unhappy that the police – whom she hates, according to a placard she was holding earlier in the video – didn’t see fit to beat up Gavin McInnes for… well, for walking down the street and being Gavin McInnes. Thereby forcing the “peaceful” students to “use their own fists.”
Perhaps we should send them moisturiser.
There’s only one counter to the newly emerging caliphate of jackbooted liberal book burners – I’m voting for this bloke: http://bit.ly/2gOxdzB Prime Minister, police commissioner, I don’t care. Just get him in charge, pronto.
I see it linked here often, but isn’t the Dalston Mercury a satirical website, like The Onion?
The Dalston Mercury: local, national and global news written the way you want it – without fear, without favour, without bothering too much about the facts.
@MicoB and Farnsworth.
I certainly realize there are exceptions, but I doubt localized rioting is enough to trigger one of them. One has to remember our military has a long institutional aversion to being involved in internal affairs, even in the context of natural disasters. See, e.g. Katrina, Hurricane. Again, this is contrasted with the state militias, i.e. the National Guard. Possible? I guess, buy highly unlikely.
Zombie has a first-hand photo and video report from the UC Berkeley riot:
It’s curious how those who define unflattering speech as “violence” and swoon in horror at any verbal impropriety are also very often titillated by actual violence. Committed by gangs of men wearing masks.
Just sayin’.
“Capitalism sucks.” And burning other people’s stuff is such fun.
Meanwhile, gay muslim women are coping so courageously with Trump’s Presidency. They utter not a word about Islam’s attitude to gays, or how fortunate they are to live in the US rather than Iran or Pakistan (where they would be raped or stoned to death). No, their gripe is the white supremacist hetero-normative patriarchy in the US….
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/queer-muslim-women-south-trump-administration
Zombie has a first-hand photo and video report from the UC Berkeley riot:
And yet, we were told, rather smugly, that it was nothing, and not on, or even that near the UC Berkeley campus – and only involved outside agitators.
I see it linked here often, but isn’t the Dalston Mercury a satirical website, like The Onion?
I raised that point myself a while back, Spiny. I’m thinking it’s an inside joke that it isn’t. Which given the current state of the world and its constant absurdities and the blurring of irony, sarcasm, and reality, makes it rather amusing. Of course, now I’ve blown it by openly stating so…
And to further our Mondo ad Absurdum, we now have former Clinton Labor secretary, Dartmouth/Oxford/Yale alum saying he didn’t recognize any of the Berkeley rioters, thus they must be non-students, and therefor could very likely be Trump thugs.
The esteemed Robert Reich appeared on CNN to inform, despite any factual evidence, as he casually stated, that the protestors were actually Milo supporters in a black flag type event. Obviously, it was the intent of the protesters to discredit the left.
Clearly.
I find the Dalston Mercury about as funny as a prostate biopsy. But if it brings dome amusement to others, I’m fine with that.
I’m still absorbing the fact that, every year, some of the most prestigious and expensive universities on Earth, in one of the most developed nations on Earth, are deliberately churning out tens of thousands of shockingly ignorant moral imbeciles.
Meanwhile, Laurie Penny, who still hasn’t commented on the UC Berkeley thuggery, despite being at the scene, is now letting everyone know just how brave she is – for – wait for it – mixing with conservative students. Because unlike masked far-left rioters armed with iron bars who smash windows and punch women, conservative students and Trump supporters are “vicious and vengeful.” And she’s “fucking terrified of them.”
@18:28 I said black flag event, when I meant false flag.
It looks like this will be the theme going forward; that these violent and destructive protesters are just Trump supporters, KKK and Bannon-ites running false flag operations to discredit the totally non-violent and sensible left.
Gee, I wonder who will bite?
Meanwhile, Laurie Penny… is now letting everyone know just how brave she is for – wait for it – mixing with conservative students.
Is she off her meds again? ⊙_ʘ
The world must look very strange through Laurie’s eyes. I imagine it’s like sniffing butane.
No. It’s not this year’s Trigglypuff. Trigglypuff has evolved into Trigglyprof.
The esteemed Robert Reissssch-uh appeared on CNN…
Fixed.
😉
(For those across the pond, that’s something of an inside joke. After serving as Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary, the diminutive Marxist regularly appeared as a television news commentator, signing off as “Robert Reisssch“. Conservative radio pundit Rush Limbaugh then put extra emphasis on that quirk when referring to his often absurd pronouncements.)
Meanwhile, Laurie Penny… is now letting everyone know just how brave she is for – wait for it – mixing with conservative students.
Everyone there was a flesh-eating NAAAZZZZIIII!
A note about the inimitable Zombie. After a good 15 years, s/he has been reporting first hand the absurdities of the San Francisco Bay area Left, yet has maintained complete anonymity, despite the leftist goons trying their damnedest to expose him/her.
@MicroB
Lemme play Armchair Supervillain for a moment and speculate wildly…
I’ll try: George Soros = Auric Goldfinger, with a little Heath Ledger “Joker” thrown in, as Michael Caine’s Alfred Pennyworth said, “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
Soros has a knack for making huge amounts of cash during economic crises.
So I watched some of Zombie’s videos from the riot. What stood out to me, and what I find most amusingly refutable about the false-flag narrative, is what total wimps most of the black clad anarchists seemed to be. The threw like girls, they sling clubs, axes, whatevs like they could barely lift them over their shoulders. I saw one anarchist run up and take a club/axe away from another one to more properly break the door/window. In a way I was a bit relieved as it was giving me angst just watching the wimpy one try to do so.
And the cops just stand there? Why are they even there? Eventually these mobs are going to attack the cops and I’m not entirely sure the cops (in Berkeley anyway) will fight back. I’m reminded of a video I saw a few years ago from London, I think, where muzzie mobs got the police to turn and run. Pathetic. These clowns are weak but it really wouldn’t surprise me if they overrun one of these encounters because our cops are more afraid of making a non-PC move and having their lives ruined afterwards in court than they are of taking some lumps from these pussies.