The Wrong Neighbours
In progressive academia, that blueprint of utopia, it appears there’s some unrest:
Black and Latino student groups at the University of Florida recently protested a plan to house their organisations in one building, saying it would erase and marginalise their black and brown bodies and their cultures at the predominantly white institution.
The university had revealed plans for a U-shaped building that would accommodate both organisations:
The two groups would each get their own wing of the building and simply share a walkway and elevator.
Sounds swanky.
But members of the Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Culture expressed fury at the plan.
You see, being so pious, and so very, very special, they mustn’t endure proximity to the wrong level of melanin, what with the risk of contagion and a loss of specialness. A student organiser of the protests, Daniel Clayton, said,
My main complaint to the University administration… is that we are not taken seriously at all. It is not appropriate to dismiss student concerns as being ludicrous.
However, inevitably, university administrators have been cowed by the usual histrionic rumblings and have agreed to build the immensely tolerant groups two entirely separate buildings. And with equal inevitability, the students are now insisting that the new buildings, the cost of which is unclear, should be “visibly distinct from the rest of campus.”
So these idiots are demanding their own ghettos.
This will not end well.
Sporkatus: “My suggestions: The new Institute of Hispanic-Latino Culture…and, of course, the new Institute of Black Culture”
Where *did* you find that hilarious Ancient Egyptians picture?
How much does it cost to build an outhouse?
Outside of New York City that is.
So these idiots are demanding their own ghettos.
I hear there’s been some pressure to get the U.S. out of Gitmo. Maybe we could create PoCistan there for them.
“Here’s what I have to say to everyone that says this matter was over-the-top: FUCK YOU.”
He’s not just a Person of Color. He’s a Person of Choler.
How dare these fragile females have their indoctrinated victimology challenged!
They aren’t so much students as absurdly reactive hysterics. Walking tangles of emotional wreckage. And utterly unfit for a world in which factual correction, even polite disagreement, is always a possibility.
“[Fondles laminated dossier of overflow italics incidents.] “
I had assumed that your white Persian cat would get in the way.
“absurdly reactive hysterics”
Red Guards…of Color.
@pst314: Jonathan’s post with speculative fiction Egypt, not mine. I do endorse it, of course.
Might try a reverse image search.
Where *did* you find that hilarious Ancient Egyptians picture?
I’ve got a million:
Hah! Thanks, Jonathan. Does that explain where the Ancient Egyptian Superbeings went to or where they came from?
Does that explain where the Ancient Egyptian Superbeings went to or where they came from?
A lot of it comes from NoI and Yakub.
We wuz Kangz!
Not to rain on your parade Jonathan, but why would the IBC appropriate the architecture of a people with a Euro-Turkish heritage?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4555292/Study-mummies-reveals-Turkish-European.html
A lot of it comes from NoI and Yakub.
I believe the fashionable term is “cultural appropriation.” Or just eye-widening bonkersness. See also Nuwaubians.
Or just eye-widening bonkersness. See also Nuwaubians.
I’ll see your Nuwaubians and raise you a photograph of King George III (don’t try to bamboozle me with the fact that he died before photography was invented), and bump that with the real Shakespeare.
To be fair, making it that shape would contain the commons.
I would factor in landscaping and shrubbery, to contain the perfection of that field of battle. Perhaps a maze, or three. Everyone in the moat!
Factor in for slope. One must have drains that can process overflow.
I am fully on board with their demand for two separate distinct buildings. One additional suggestion is that the university installs locks that lock from the outside so they can stay in their building and leave the rest of us alone.
hahahaha…. every parent’s dream, every offspring’s nightmare
See also Nuwaubians.
Not to overlook The Nation of Gods and Earths, also known as Five-Percenters, and practitioners of ‘Supreme Mathematics’. (I became aware of this particular sect when the athlete Queen Quedith Earth Harrison made the US Olympic team. She has 22 siblings or half-siblings, including brother God Goldin Zig Zag Zig Allah Harrison).
Move along, nothing to see here.
“One additional suggestion is that the university installs locks that lock from the outside so they can stay in their building and leave the rest of us alone.”
Reminiscent of medieval ghettos, not that these deranged racialists are likely to know anything about that.
The Nation of Gods and Earths, also known as Five-Percenters…
Oh yeah, them. “Hip-Hop superstar” and ridiculously-overpriced champagne impresario and Obama-pal Jay-Z (or did he change it again?) may not actually be a member, he just likes to wear their garish “bling”.
I’ve often wondered what would happen if the “Five-Percenters” had a ::cough:: meet-up with the “One-Percenters”.
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I wrote about black women and Sims’ gynecological tortures 20 years ago. Wearyourvoice writer is way late.
Muldoon, that picture site claims Henry VIII was a (black) Moor. Just…what?
every parent’s dream, every offspring’s nightmare
I have to admit, I was a bit surprised to learn that person has a B.A. in Neuroscience.
Oh yes: KTVU anchor: ‘I experienced hate firsthand’ at Berkeley rally
—Frank William Somerville (born March 19, 1958) is an American journalist.[1] He anchors the five-o’clock, six-o’clock, and ten-o’clock news hours at KTVU in Oakland, California. Somerville has received three Emmy awards at KTVU, including one for best on-camera news anchor.
Frank William Somerville (born March 19, 1958) is an American journalist.
That article seemed extremely…simple to me. I ran it through some readability tools and confirmed what I suspected:
Readability Consensus
Based on 8 readability formulas, we have scored your text:
Grade Level: 4
Reading Level: easy to read.
Reader’s Age: 8-9 yrs. old (Fourth and Fifth graders)
Frank William Somerville (born March 19, 1958) is an American journalist.
I’m reminded of a scene in Friends, where Joey is dimly and very slowly registering some incredibly obvious fact, while a frustrated Chandler shakes his arms about and says, “Get there faster.”
… keep in mind that they were yelling at me and their words were filled with venom, anger, hate and intolerance……It was sad to see.
The feeling when you realise commies aren’t the good guys:
I like that wearyourvoicemag has comments; something Everyday Mentalism misses. Sadly they require facebook. Oh yeah and almost all the comments seem to be from aggrieved loons shouting down those who dare to disagree. A POC has spoken and white people infected with original sin must listen quietly and respectfully to zer deranged, self indulgent wibblings.
Not to rain on your parade Jonathan, but why would the IBC appropriate the architecture of a people with a Euro-Turkish heritage?
It’s really just memetic warfare, mocking revisionist Afrocentric ‘historians’ who believe that the Ancient Egyptians were black, contrary to all the available evidence.
Frank William Somerville (born March 19, 1958) is an American journalist.
Were ‘woke’ eight-year-olds a thing in the 60s? ‘I grew up in Berkeley. I marched in anti-war protests during the sixties.’
Reader’s Age: 8-9 yrs. old (Fourth and Fifth graders)
IOW, pretty advanced for the Bay Area crowd.
I wrote about black women and Sims’ gynecological tortures 20 years ago.
Regarding that article, to say it is hyperbolic is charitable. Developing a procedure that had never been done falls in the category of experimental (see below), but other than that slaves likely didn’t get a chance to turn down the procedure, it was hardly Mengelian as the author seems to purport. Aseptic procedures were unknown, and even after Semmelweis’ observations in 1847. The mark of a surgeon back in the day was how filthy his frock coat was and how quickly a procedure could be performed, not on his results or morbidity and mortality rate.
A spoon ?
Retractors developed from that are still in use.
Anaesthesia for anyone was rare due in no small part that dosing was guesswork, and the practice was not widely accepted even in England until Queen Victoria was given it for the birth of Prince Leopold in 1853. It was not until the late 1800s that anything resembling scientific anesthesia was commonplace.
https://wearyourvoicemag.com
Wear your voice? (Wut?)
We ar your voice?
Weary our voice?
Weary our voice?
Like much of the content, it’s not well thought-out. But it is fascinating, in a dismaying kind of way. “Queer activists are using magic as a resistance,” proclaims one headline. “Healing and communing with our ancestors,” says another. “White mediocrity,” we’re informed, “is violence,” and “all white people are socialised to be racist.” White people have apparently “ruined” the word woke. “Nine steps for cleansing before the lunar eclipse.” Oh and, “Eight witches and healers of colour to follow online.”
As with Everyday Feminism, the tone of which it mirrors almost eerily, it’s obstinately dumb, a mix of pretentious grievance and empty-headed woo. You could think of it as another snapshot of how a ‘progressive’ and identitarian education can deform people, mentally, and make them absurd.
[E]mpty-headed [W]oo.
Band name sorted.
WHY FAT HUMANITY IS NOT GOVERNED BY FUCKABILITY.
Thank goodness we’ve finally answered that question.
She chose… poorly.
Back in the day it was Ho Chi Minh, but times change even if ideology and ignorance don’t.
an academic background in Media Studies, Women’s & Gender Studies, and African American & African Diaspora Studies
3 swings and 3 misses.
6 Medicines to Protect Our Communities From Police.
Right-O. Carrying around something that looks suspiciously like marijuana is always a good plan to keep police away.
Seems suitable.
On the subject of afrocentrism, the classicist Mary Lefkowitz’ books – which go back to the early nineties – are quite interesting. Many of them relate to the theories of the charlatan Martin Bernal, who claimed that Ancient Greece was colonised by Egypt, but that this fact was obscured by racist Europeans. Naturally Bernal’s ideas were taken up the afrocentrists. In opposing them on historical and factual grounds, the (soft-left) Lefkowitz was exposed to (often anti-Semitic) abuse.
Her Wikipedia article talks about one such incident with the ludicrous Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannan here. I remember reading about that incident – which took place in 1993 – and thinking how exotic and strange it was. It seems like it could happen anywhere now.
Twenty-five or so years ago I had a friend who only ever dated fat girls. He had two reasons. The first was, as noted in the article, most guys don’t go for them so he had his pick. The second was because they treated every time like it might be the last time, and as such were quite willing to please.
I judged him until I realized how much time, energy, and money I spent per partner compared to him.
3 swings and 3 misses.
Something tells me we may be revisiting this publication at some point in the future. I’m tempted to poke it with a stick right now, but there’s ephemera to compile and I’m halfway through a Sapphire & Steel audio drama.
And I’ll thank you not to judge me.
And I’ll thank you not to judge me.
Easy to ask with the henchlesbian back-up. It’s like a Godfather movie around here.
From the SEA Hut construction manual linked upthread: But no matter how easy erection may seem, always read and follow the instructions.
Wise words.
Mary Lefkowitz
There is video on line of an alleged ‘debate’ about Black Athena, in which Lefkowitz and a colleague (whose name I can’t recall) face Bernal and the comically pretentious old fraud John Henrik Clarke, the professor without a high school diploma, whose opening remarks are to inform us that he debates only his intellectual equals, ‘everyone else I teach’. Needless to say, the Lefkowitz side conducts itself with unfailing politeness and scrupulous honesty, no mean achievement in the face of an obviously restless and hostile audience of ignoramuses under the ‘moderation’ of one Utrice Leid. It’s grimly educational – all the grimmer in hindsight knowing that the stupidity is now more widely disseminated and firmly entrenched.
Car tries to ram President Trump’s motorcade in Springfield, Missouri:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yqa5PUViPo
Weakest assassination attempt ever?
This, apparently, is the creature who did it:
Claimed her ‘brakes failed’.