All Types. But Not Yours, Obviously
Speaking, as we were, of clown-shoe identitarians:
Update:
Somewhat related, this:
This statement is in response to an upstanding community crack dealer and career criminal, a self-declared “gang banger,” choking on his own stash while resisting arrest, and whose associates decided to express their grief by donning masks, smashing windows, and assaulting and terrorising random people.
You’ll be astonished to hear that Skylar Baker-Jordan, pictured above, has “an academic background in gender studies.”
Via dicentra.
Though I do like the idea of a Can’t Play Well With Others Club.
“I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.” – Groucho Marx
“Diversity is our strength!”
Oh wait.
First, it’s the notion that ostentatiously excluding “able-bodied straight white men” as some inherent problem somehow means “equal rights for all.” And then there’s the conceit that the kinds of personalities attracted to such labelling and intersectional scolding are the kinds of personalities most likely to achieve this fragrantly egalitarian utopia. Rather than the whole thing resulting in endless, fractal sub-divisions, each claiming greater victimhood (and therefore greater piety), while jostling for status as rulers of the crab bucket.
This identity politics nonsense is in a contest with enviro-nutbag-ism to see which is the world’s dumbest religion
A new party the “centers” everyone but able bodies straight white males ? WTF – they already have that in the democrats and I imagine the labourites.
This identity politics nonsense is in a contest with enviro-nutbag-ism to see which is the world’s dumbest religion
This.
At least the more traditional religions acknowledged a power greater than humanity in play.
These modern secular religions have turned inward, beyond navel gazing, to orifices further down, degenerating into, as David often describes them, crabs in a bucket.
Yechhh
Mucking forons.
When do we get to start calling them “Splitters” and “Trotskyites?”
Not to mention, “Mensheviks.”
Something that recently occurred to me…One nice thing about 1984‘s Two Minutes of Hate was that it only lasted two minutes. Would make for a much healthier society if you ask me.
Related, this:
This statement is in response to an upstanding community crack dealer and career criminal, a self-declared “gang banger,” choking on his own stash while resisting arrest, and whose associates decided to express their grief at this great loss to humanity by donning masks, smashing windows, and assaulting and terrorising random people.
You’ll be astonished to hear that Skylar Baker-Jordan, pictured above, has “an academic background in gender studies.”
Via dicentra.
You’ll be astonished to hear that Skylar Baker-Jordan, pictured above, has “an academic background in gender studies.”
Someone call the stereotype police.
For all their talk the people who cause me to develop an antipathy towards minorities of any kind are not the white supremacists they use as a boogeyman but groups and people like them. Fortunately I am of a stronger mind than to succumb to their garbage but sometimes it is extraordinarily hard not to.
Someone call the stereotype police.
And a hairdresser.
Someone call the stereotype police.
Again, this isn’t some random fit of idiocy; this is a learned behaviour. Skylar, like so many others, has been severely educated.
“All white people are complicit in white supremacy – ergo, racism,” says Skylar.
Because cultivating paranoia and resentment is so helpful, of course. And what every minority person needs to succeed in life is someone to tell them, often and emphatically, that the fault, whatever it is, always lies elsewhere, and that their fate is not their own.
Because whitey.
Skylar Baker-Jordan, pictured above, has “an academic background in…
*drum roll*
gender studies.”
In response to Cathy Young’s call for a party that includes everyone except white men, would it not be perfectly reasonable to found a corresponding party that is open only to white men?
Aims of said party would be the formation of a white homeland (let’s call it the Fatherland) where blacks, homosexuals, Jews, etc., etc. would be unwelcome to the point of … you get the picture.
Logically and morally the two parties would be identical.
It’s not Cathy Young’s call. She’s mocking it. It’s the idea of “former journalist” Wendy Brandes.
Because cultivating paranoia and resentment is so helpful, of course. And what every minority person needs to succeed in life is someone to tell them, often and emphatically, that the fault, whatever it is, always lies elsewhere, and that their fate is not their own.
I want to upvote this.
I want to upvote this.
Sadly, it’s a common feature of “social justice” advocacy; more poisonous counsel.
If that sounds outlandish, consider the Writing Centre at the University of Washington, Tacoma, the stated goal of which is to “help writers write and succeed in a racist society,” and which aims to improve the life chances of brown-skinned students by encouraging them to give employers the impression that they’re incapable of mastering even rudimentary grammar. Because the way for minority students to flourish as writers is to dismiss any criticism of their prose, and any attempt to improve it, as a racially motivated “microaggression” and an “oppressive practice,” and thus proof of “an inherently racist society.” And because that ungrammatical job application, the one enlivened with incomprehensible sentences and lots of inventive spelling, will do just fine, apparently.
And if you think that must be a one-off aberration, follow the links in the piece and subsequent comments.
the Writing Centre at the University of Washington, Tacoma… aims to improve the life chances of brown-skinned students by encouraging them to give employers the impression that they’re incapable of mastering even rudimentary grammar.
Tar and feathers.
Tar and feathers.
As Heather Mac Donald noted, it’s like watching a co-dependent relationship. Or at best, a shockingly incompetent parent.
In much the same way as psychology majors often are trying to understand their own mental issues, should I assume that the Skylar-person chose its major to find out just what in the hell its sex actually is?
I myself remain a bit baffled.
I myself remain a bit baffled.
You’ll notice I carefully skirted around that whole issue.
[ Added: ]
He’s a he, apparently.
They wish to create such a party by exclusion, because the villain role is already defined. The costumes all fit, so to speak. Nothing could make them happier than to be opposed to such people – Nazis. And obviously, if they bring in everyone who might have once been given the side-eye by some iniquitous White Person, then only Nazis will be left. The only person who will oppose a left-wing nazi of sorts will clearly be a right-wing Nazi. Right?
Unfortunately, out here in the real world, this defines their opposition as Nazis, people who’re a bit annoyed by them and contrary, and… people other than totally mad. The clustering by race also suggests a bit of the old politics-by-genes, being “authentic” nonsense.
Since they have a surfeit of opponents rather than a small and easily defeated cadre – because their definitions spread a much wider net than their rhetoric – the only thing that remains is to bemoan the enormous scope of hallucinatory Nazism at large.
Fair warning – it appears zer has infected Blighty, but we don’t want zit back here either. Perhaps y’all can banish xem to some island off Scotland ?
I see Skylar is a Laurie Penny fan. You can imagine my surprise.
And goodness me, lookee here.
Every pretentious intersectional tic, every cliché, regurgitated wholesale. It’s as if some people aspire to being cartoons.
Pinned tweet is a reply to self on some Deeply Important Issue, with minimal context. Thus forcing one to do one’s own digging to find out what the Vitally Important notice that The Skylar has issued and demands your attention to really means.
Professional writer and editor, you see.
And goodness me, lookee here.
From the linked article:
Note the carefully contorted definitions, the airy unrealism, and the reliance on double standards. (Basic reciprocity is, it seems, terribly old hat.) And so, for instance, the 18-year-old mentally impaired white man who was beaten and tortured by laughing black assailants – who livestreamed the assault on Facebook while shouting “Fuck white people” – this wouldn’t count as racism. According to Mr Baker-Jordan.
Who, lest we forget, has “an academic background in gender studies.”
And goodness me, lookee here.
As you say, clown shoes. >_<
As you say, clown shoes.
It’s stupefying stuff, a cultivated unrealism.
It’s stupefying stuff, a cultivated unrealism.
Indeed, cultivated and pretentious unrealism: Ten things you may not know about Skylar Baker-Jordan, but probably didn’t want to anyway.
It’s as if some people aspire to being cartoons.
I think this bozo has more than aspired to, but actually mastered, being a living cartoon.
As you say, clown shoes.
The irony being that if you wanted to see some shockingly racist behaviour – behaviour that’s being publicly and widely applauded – then a very good place to look would be a campus crawling with “social justice” devotees.
We’d gone so far without any explicit mention of the sex, and now you’ve let it slip and the whole thing is shattered. Mystery laid bare, suspense come to an end.
I know, no refunds, credit note only.
And of course I missed your edit above to clarify the he-ness, so the blame is lying on the wrong REVEAL comment. I maintain it is a *just* blame, however.
I ask you, when has clarity ever contributed to the fun of a thing? Never, that’s when.
Why am I not surprised to learn that Skylar “is single and finds dating annoying and exhausting”? I’m inclined to believe it would have been the counterparty (if indeed there were any) who experienced the annoyance and exhaustion.
I knew I’d seen that Skylar name somewhere before. Oh yeah:
https://twitter.com/SkylarJordan/status/891915298990850048
I am wondering if this is not a parody account, a la Godfrey/Jodie Elfwick…
But then some of these … humans … are beyond parody. Some seem to actually believe this dreck.
Ball lightning! With video!
http://m.nautil.us/blog/-a-new-explanation-for-one-of-the-strangest-occurrences-in-natureball-lightning
Skylar fooled me, I thought it was female.
I read the ten things. It sounded like a British version of those wanna-be-Japanese anime fans.
From the University of Washington, Tacoma Writing Center:
The representations of the UW Tacoma Writing Center and its antiracism statement being made by national issues-oriented blogs are completely inaccurate.
David, they’re on to you…
David, they’re on to you…
Heh. Quoted verbatim, here and elsewhere, they’ve chosen to lie. Why, it’s almost as if they’re hustlers.
English people seem to me to be the most tolerant on Earth, but sure, keep aggravating able-bodied straight white men and see what happens.
Why, it’s almost as if they’re hustlers.
You don’t say… Flabbergasted, I am.
Truth is as fluid as gender these days, it seems.
Well, since David’s not a *US national* blog of such kind, they don’t quite contradict him, do they?
Flabbergasted, I am.
Actually, hustlers doesn’t quite capture the degeneracy of what they do. These so-called educators, self-styled champions of “social justice,” function more as saboteurs. In that, if you were spiteful and wanted to undermine the practical life chances of black students, and leave them resentful, unskilled and racially fixated, and heavily in debt, it’s hard to see what you’d do differently.
In that, if you were spiteful and wanted to undermine the practical life chances of black students, and leave them resentful, unskilled and racially fixated, and heavily in debt, it’s hard to see what you’d do differently.
Amen!!
And here in the US, at least, this keeps them dependent on the politicians who promise the free goodies to which they are “entitled” because of all the Oppression listed above. Keeps them chained on the Democrat – Leftist – plantation. It’s a vicious little cycle.
The black students refuse to see how badly they are being used, and by whom. Yet they can spot a “microaggression” a mile away.
It’s enough to drive a thinking person to drink. Good thing I’ve come to the right place.
*fumbles in pockets for proper currency*
Bartender!
[ Slides jar of suspiciously grey pickled eggs along bar. ]
We reuse the same brine, so there’ll be plenty of flavour.