Opening Windows Into Men’s Souls
Let’s say I assess your ‘unconscious bias’ and give you a diagnosis. Well, there’s no evidence that it predicts your behaviour. So what good is it? Well, it’s good if you want people to send you to ‘retraining’ exercises so that you can have your perceptions adjusted in the direction that your organisation thinks is proper. And that’s happening. It’s becoming mandatory… But there’s no evidence whatsoever that ‘unconscious bias’ retraining programmes have the effect they’re supposed to have, and there’s some evidence that they actually have the reverse effect. And maybe that’s because people don’t really like being marched off to re-education by their employers after they’ve been ‘diagnosed’ as racist, even if there’s no evidence that they in fact are. It’s an absolute misuse of psychology. It’s an assault on freedom.
Note that Dr Peterson’s talks are being denounced in advance - as “dangerous,” “hateful” and “white male arrogance” – by left-leaning umbrage-takers, most of whom claim, piously and repeatedly, to value “diversity” and “alternative views,” while trying to get Peterson’s talks cancelled or forcibly disrupted.
“teaches “critical thinking””
Intentional conflation and confusion with Critical Theory. It’s the same thing, right?
What is it about [AoSHQ] that the spam filter hates it so much?
I will bet money it’s the non-standard domain. Virtually no “real” web site uses them, but spammers frequently gobble them up in batches to use for Google-bombing or SEO traps.
I would imagine there’s a whitelist feature somewhere so David could add the URL specifically to keep this from happening.
I’m curious as to what make our Pitzer student believe that a)insulting and b)guilt-tripping one’s associates is a successful fundraising approach for a personal vacation? As for the national parks, I trust she realizes that the Sierra parks, i.e. SEKI and Yosemite are probably snowed under at the moment. Not exactly the place for the casual tourist.
The Donner Memorial state park is but a few miles away from where they’ll be. Mayhaps we’ll see the crab bucket metaphor at last dethroned. What’s the weather forecast?
What’s the weather forecast?
Joshua Tree, Death Valley and environs look OK. Redwoods, too, if a bit wet. The rest seem to have multiple weather related closures.
Intentional conflation and confusion with Critical Theory. It’s the same thing, right?
Honestly, I have no idea what “critical theory” is and have zero desire to explore that rabbit hole as whenever the phrase appears, it’s stewing in bollocks…Always feel the need to verify if I used that last word appropriately…not sure why…
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As a verb, the term queering is hopelessly pretentious and generally means trying to construe a text, usually a historical one, in ways that imply same-sex attraction, or some anachronistic sensibility, regardless of the author’s intent and regardless of any available historical evidence. It’s often used as a way to flatter students who crave identitarian validation and delusions of subversion.
As to queering a national park, a whole one – and queering it as fuck – I’m a bit stumped. Does it mean “visiting a national park in search of things that can be construed, eventually and with squinting, as in some way sexually wayward, and thus a validation of one’s cartoonish ‘queer’ identity”? That seems a bit dull and dogmatic, a waste of a good trip. Or does it mean “acting in a loud and ostentatiously ‘queer’ manner, thereby asserting one’s ‘queerness’, as it were, and feeling smug about it”? That sounds dreadful too.
Except, perhaps, as the basis for a comedy sketch. “Families with small children are reminded to avoid the car park, where an outbreak of full-on lesbianism is in progress.”
an outbreak of full-on lesbianism
You have my attention.
You have my attention.
[ Points to Scold-O-Mat 9000. ]
Does it mean “visiting a national park in search of things that can be construed, eventually and with squinting, as in some way sexually wayward, and thus a validation of one’s cartoonish ‘queer’ identity”?
I suppose lesbians could try this. Of course, this monument might be problematic for our lesbian friends.
My take is it’s one of those things other people are saying so I say it too. Like “yay” and “yip-yip” and “hoorah”. Only stupider and with less context.
Except, perhaps, as the basis for a comedy sketch.
Oh, right, haven’t thought of those in years . .
[C]alling on white allies especially [for your] support– remember that everything that [you] are/have [right now] is due to the genocide and enslavement of our [people]…
Wait – the “Latinas” think cracker ass honky mofos owe them gas money because the Spanish conquistadors killed and enslaved “their people” ? If so, who, exactly, are “their” people ? “Latin people” who are “hispanic” and either white or brown depending on their political leanings, or the Central American indigenous people ? If the latter, why are they still clinging to their slave names and culture ? I don’t think they have thought this through. Perhaps they should sit down with a mai tai by that nice pool at their dorms in that toxic environment.
Meanwhile, speaking of the Clown Quarter of academia, King Kong is rayciss, though you probably suspected it, now it is confirmed by one Robin Means Coleman who studies such things and has also discovered that the Muppet Elmo is black.
WTP, my understanding of CT is that it’s essentially a voluminous catch-all explanation for everything that’s wrong with the world and all the blameroads lead to western society. But of course, what most AngryStudies students think is that it’s a justification to righteously and annoyingly criticize anything not approved by the group-thinkers (while getting ego-stroking, attaboys and egging-on from peers and handlers).
When we know, in fact, that it’s the Guild if Evil that’s really to blame.
King Kong is rayciss, though you probably suspected it, now it is confirmed by one Robin Means Coleman
If memory serves, Kong is to a large extent a sympathetic figure, and pointedly so in recent iterations, which isn’t exactly consonant with expectations of racism. And apparently we mustn’t have any depictions of dark-skinned tribespeople with primitive ways, because – obviously – those never, ever existed at any point in history. And had they existed, they would never, ever have been interested in people who looked different to them.
I wonder if it ever occurs to these preening clowns that the only people who watch a Kong film and instantly see “a metaphorical stand-in for black American men” are (a) the busload of Klan members that must still exist somewhere, and (b) race hustling mediocrities employed in the Clown Quarter, who may now outnumber the first group and almost certainly do more damage.
I’m curious as to what make our Pitzer student believe that a)insulting and b)guilt-tripping one’s associates is a successful fundraising approach for a personal vacation?
What is there about Pitzer which would lead one to believe insulting and guilt-tripping the local white people is not the most lucrative endeavor available to a young latinx?
As to queering a national park, a whole one – and queering it as fuck – I’m a bit stumped.
I read that as a description of their destination, rather than what they want to do to it – they shall venture to “[O]akland”, which is apparently “queer [as -f]”.
One of my numerous mental disorders is that when I hear a phrase that I consider exceptionally stupid, I can’t seem to stop myself from using it. I have to go now as I need to queer as fuck the cilantro.
Ah…meant to add…because like interpretive dance, it’s hell fun.
What is there about Pitzer which would lead one to believe insulting and guilt-tripping the local white people is not the most lucrative endeavor available to a young latinx?
Ah, point taken. I suppose cohort of the “oppressor classes” who attend Pitzer are probably susceptible to those sorts of demands. One must take one’s indulgences where one finds them, I suppose. Plus, contributing a sawbuck for gas money is easier than hand digging potable water wells in Burundi, I guess.
…they shall venture to “[O]akland”, which is apparently “queer [as -f]”.
I wonder if they have discussed that concept with these chaps.
And had they existed, they would never, ever have been interested in people who looked different to them.
I remember when I was going through the townships in South Africa, the local children would all run out to their front gardens to look at me, shouting “Mlungo! Mlungo!” (“White guy! White guy!”) for the benefit of any family members who might also want a glimpse of this exotic creature. Of course, not being an SJW I found the whole experience mildly amusing in a slightly surreal kind of way, instead of an occasion for a full-scale nervous breakdown.
Cultural Appropriation ! Russia hacks St. Patrick’s Day.
Like Russians need another excuse to overindulge… 😉
Cultural Appropriation ! Russia hacks St. Patrick’s Day.
Yeah, that sort of thing keeps occurring . . .
Then again, the Russian Orthodox senior staff do have a history of reacting to the European Orthodox or so . . .