Shakedown, Down Under
SJW Nonsense reports from Australia’s Clown Quarter, where jokes about absurdity will be punished absurdly:
On the 28th May 2013, an incident took place in a computer lab on the campus at the Queensland University of Technology. A student, Alex Wood, and two friends walked into the computer lab, hoping to use a computer. A university staff member, Cindy Prior, approached the group and asked them whether or not they were indigenous, informing them that they had entered an “indigenous space” for aboriginal students, and that they needed to find another computer room on campus. The students left the lab at her request. Later, Alex posted a comment in a student Facebook group, saying, “Just got kicked out of the unsigned indigenous computer room. QUT: stopping segregation with segregation?” Among many comments was one by another student, Jackson Powell, saying, “I wonder where the white supremacist computer lab is?”
In August 2015, over two years after the incident occurred, Alex and Jackson discovered that legal action was being taken against them for their Facebook comments. Who was so grievously harmed to be pursuing this legally, years later? None other than Cindy Prior, the woman who had initially asked Alex and his friends to leave the computer lab due to their race. Ms Prior claimed that the comments caused her to suffer “offence, embarrassment, humiliation and psychiatric injury.” Ms Prior was not mentioned by name anywhere in the comments, but she was so psychologically damaged by the posts that she had been unable to return to work due to the “trauma,” and was now seeking some $250,000 in lost wages, general damages and future economic loss.
The chronically hyperbolical Ms Prior claimed to have suffered from “sweating,” as a result of students even questioning the need for a racially segregated computer lab, and to have felt “at risk of imminent but unpredictable physical or verbal assault.” Happily, this opportunist scam ultimately failed, but only after other targets of Ms Prior’s grasping psychodrama had settled out of court.
Ms Prior claimed that the comments caused her to suffer “offence, embarrassment, humiliation and psychiatric injury.”
Sounds like her psychiatric problems started the whole thing.
How is a computer lab on a college campus an indigenous space??
Sounds like her psychiatric problems started the whole thing.
When not crippled by sweating, Ms Prior claims she felt “unsafe leaving her home.” She also objected to being “found ridiculous” for fearing “a KKK presence in the university.” Indeed, she was so crushed by the comments questioning the need for racial segregation on campus, she was, she says, “unable to continue working face-to-face with white people.”
So, yes. I suppose you do have to wonder what kind of person decides to sue three students, two staff members and the university itself, for an eye-watering sum, simply because of Facebook comments questioning the need for a racially segregated computer lab.
And during the trial,
Ah, that kind of person.
Fekking disgrace. Freedom of speech becoming a defence rather than a right.
Indeed, she was so crushed by the comments questioning the need for racial segregation on campus, she was, she says, “unable to continue working face-to-face with white people.”
Another ‘anti-racist’ racist.
Another ‘anti-racist’ racist.
Ah, but academia has progressed to a point of such moral sophistication that we’re now expected to be surprised when a staff member whose job entails enforcing racial segregation turns out to be a bit of a racist. And more generally, an obnoxious basket case.
How is a computer lab on a college campus an indigenous space??
The electronic didgeridoo was rival to the electronic abacus doncha know?
In a word Nutcake
Is the “indigenous-only” computer lab university sanctioned, or was Ms. Prior freelancing her social justice?
If Australian Indigenous people use a computer doesn’t that count as cultural appropriation? can`t White people kick up a stink about all of our inventions from the English language to blue jeans being used willy-nilly by non white people without even asking us if its OK?
Time to start playing these SJW types at their own game.
Is the “indigenous-only” computer lab university sanctioned, or was Ms. Prior freelancing her social justice?
The computer lab in question is used by the university’s Oodgeroo Unit, which offers “cultural and educational support” for students of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, so I’m assuming the racial segregation was done with the university’s knowledge and at least tacit approval. There’s no mention of the lab being busy at the time, or even in use at all, so it seems that a white presence – even three students – would have somehow contaminated the area. Which, incidentally, was not signposted as off-limits to non-aboriginal students. And although the students left as asked, immediately and without protest, Ms Prior’s own behaviour during the incident was described as “aggressive and unpleasant.”
So, prior to the incident, she was able to face white people as long as they were segregated and she didn’t have to face them, but afterwards when they weren’t, she was too traumatized by facing them to face them.
Makes sense.
Is the “indigenous-only” computer lab university sanctioned, or was Ms. Prior freelancing her social justice?
Further to my previous, according to this report,
Apparently, Dr Hayes’ comments – about making use of unoccupied computers – left Ms Prior feeling “sick, furious and distraught” And also, it seems, rather hysterical. She even requested a “daily security guard patrol” to protect her from any potential lynching.
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YOU can do your part to stop future Italican invasions –
Although I concede that it’s a little long. Clearly we should whine feebly to the people in charge of the internet, whoever they may be, and hope they produce a <bq> tag for us to put on text we’re quoting.
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A witch walks among us. Fetch kindling.
Ah, that kind of person.
The Disordered. Coming soon to the theater of the absurd near you.
Fekking disgrace. Freedom of speech becoming a defence rather than a right.
Given that clinical malady is the disorder of their day, it bears repeating that to engage them on their terms is codependency. However engaging on their terms continually runs the gamut, from the macroscopic – a century of normals losing first the plot and then western civilization to cultural Marxism – to the microscopic – endless rightists patiently engaging these bananas in daily arguments and dissembling all over themselves trying to be reasonable.
That’s not reasonable. That’s not normal. Shame the clown quarter, but as history is your guide, do not engage.
Happily, this opportunist scam ultimately failed…
More, please.
One of the comments to the article in The Australian:
“Life as a mistletoe pays well so why work?”
Not sure if mistletoe in this context is common Aussie parlance? However, it deserves widespread adoption!
Technically, those are ‘HTML entities’, and they are legion: https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref
though it depends on browser support. </pedantry>
Time to start playing these SJW types at their own game.
Playing them at their own game would have been for the three students to have said “Why, but we are indigenous!” If you have a look at the “Aboriginal” representatives that agitate for indigenous rights and get wheeled out to comment on indigenous issues in Australia, most of them are pasty white. They’re about as indigenous as Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee.
So, the university establishes a segregated space, employs someone to police it and then throws said employee under the bus for policing it. Got it.
This whole social justice thing is very confusing.
Also, are the names “Cindy” and “Prior” common among the Australian aborigines?
Reason prevailed.
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2017/03/03/cindy-prior-denied-leave-appeal-18c-racism-case
Ping.
My answer to the question: Are you indigenous? Yes, I was born on this planet!
Who among us isn’t “indigenous” to someplace? Oh don’t tell me, I know: Not Whites apparently.
Time to start playing these SJW types at their own game.
– No, because
THEY
have rights, and
WE
don’t. It’s as simple as that.
This explains why I am conservative:
I used the church’s welfare system for a few months; the food was good enough to keep me alive (without gagging), but I also didn’t want to eat it for the rest of my natural life. Knowing that volunteers in my own community put in the labor to get that food on my table made it harder to feel that I was entitled to it. And when I was back on my feet, I could donate directly to the effort, knowing that the money went straight to the poor, not to a few six-figure salaries.
Good luck making the same system work elsewhere without the strong religious ethos behind it. If you don’t feel connected to your community through vows and shared values, it’s bally hard to make sacrifices for it.
As a result of this personality style, she is likely to blame and begrudge others when she perceives she has been mistreated,
Paranoid Personality Disorder
I knew one: the slightest slight was occasion for all manner of absurdly exaggerated “self defense,” which to the sane looked like extremely maladaptive behavior that could only make things worse.
She had been raised in a home where her parents fought like stray cats, using the kids as pawns in their sick little games, getting so bad the kids called the cops on them. As a result, she was hypervigilant about any danger to her self and felt that she was perfectly justified using Any Means Necessary to protect herself (usually through retaliation).
She was also bipolar. And a lawyer.
Yeah.
Ms Prior’s problem is that she has yet to find the sympathetic working environment she so richly deserves. She should apply here: http://bit.ly/2jw2bgd Fit right in, she will…
Time to start playing these SJW types at their own game.
Ah, no. Decidedly, emphatically, consciously no. I think what you mean to say is, time to start beating these SJW types at the game they can’t play at all.
Living with an abusive alcoholic is codependency, and social codependency is how cultural Marxism was allowed to root.
If you’re going to play, play with conscious awareness to win. If you’re going to win, disregard their entire playbook, such as it is. Do not be codependent because that would be, as the man said, reasoning with the inherently unreasonable.
The last century’s wreckage occurred precisely because the nature of the problem was undiagnosed, because the culprit was enabled, and because Normals waited way too damn long.
Shame is one thing, and since they play to the disorderments of dishonesty and appearances, are especially effective. But never, ever play the same game.
The chronically hyperbolical Ms Prior claimed to have suffered from “sweating,”. . .
This is Australia, dear girl, sweating is what we do.
Let me add that I can’t know specifically who “SJW types” are, having nothing to do with them personally. It’s the resemblance to strong unreasonableness and the appearances/dishonesty aspect of general missfittery that’s curious.
Ah, but academia has progressed to a point of such moral sophistication that we’re now expected to be surprised when a staff member whose job entails enforcing racial segregation turns out to be a bit of a racist. And more generally, an obnoxious basket case.
John Safran vs God has a look at aboriginal support signalling.
aboriginal support signalling.
Heh. “I don’t know what to do.”
As a result of this personality style, she is likely to blame and begrudge others… She may be blindly uncritical of her own behaviour and insensitive to negative consequences associated with her behaviour
Perfect for a social justice warrior.
Standard, even.
Confess!
Off Topic, but related …
… probably the craziest thing I’ve seen in a long, long while …
Confess!
Ffffuuuuuuuuucccckkkkkk!
‘Scuse my French, but … Ffffuuuuuuuuucccckkkkkk!
“We have all reinforced hypermasculinity one way or another regardless of our gender! …”
Really interesting use of the word ‘all’ there …
Really interesting use of the word ‘all’ there …
But if you peeled away all of the presumptuousness, there wouldn’t be enough left to hold up the roof. And I’m still not sure what hypermasculinity is. It conjures images of a 1970s Frank Frazetta painting.
probably the craziest thing I’ve seen in a long, long while
When lefties go LARPing.
Actually, to a quite significant extent, leftism is LARPing.
probably the craziest thing I’ve seen in a long, long while
Love their posturing. At least they have enough sense to do elementary trigger discipline, but why do some feel the need to carry at (approximately) Tactical Carry? (See USMC pdf linked below) Are they really anticipating a split-second need to make a firing decision? In Phoenix? In the (I think) newspaper parking lot?
I see pics of IDF carrying in Tel Aviv, usually slung muzzle down over the back, and it makes me feel reassured, somehow.
I see these blokes, and it makes me feel nervous. Although I suppose that’s the point.
http://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/Docs/wtbn/MPMS/0300-M16-1004_Demonstrate_Weapons_Carries_Media.pdf?ver=2015-06-15-115218-747
Now, now, surely you wouldn’t want smoldering <i> tags all across the place? I’ve accumulated quite the reserve of spares since I switched to blockquoting.
I did not know the KKK had a big presence down under.
Another job that Americans won’t do!
Amazingly enough, not a product of the National Health Service:
I think it says something when the kids gluing pointy ears to the sides of their heads and throwing coloured bean bags at each other in the woods come across as the well-adjusted, level-headed ones.
And I’m still not sure what hypermasculinity is. It conjures images of a 1970s Frank Frazetta painting.
Um. You’re thinking of stacked brunette females in very skimpy improvised bikinis, if any of ’em are wearing even that much???
Why David!! We never guessed.
Perhaps, instead, what you have more in mind is Tom of Finland . . . .
You think
Because
What sort of crappy system autocloses some tags but not others?