They Come To Teach Us

Why are so many of these psycho scumbags women?

He’s very brave. I think this really beings home the horror of the Maolings and their hateful ideology. I’m quite shocked.

I’m quite shocked.
It does, I think, capture the basic dynamic, the pathology of it.
While professing their compassion and high-mindedness, and therefore their superiority, the Mao-lings seem determined to out-group Polite Guy and tar him as an interloper, a “white supremacist,” etc., based on nothing at all, except the fact that he’s white. When this characterisation fails as implausible, and Polite Guy remains polite and pointedly unthreatening, the Mao-lings then get even more hostile and menacing, even assaulting him from behind as he’s trying to leave. Presumably because he made their preposterous self-image more difficult to sustain. And so he must pay.
But such is Mao-ling psychodrama. There’s no point trying to engage with it rationally, except to reveal what it is, and no reward for being civil. It’s just a ball of vanity and malice.

I’m quite shocked.
I suppose that if you were feeling charitable, which may be a big ask, you might register the sadness of it all.
In that, if you take lots of young people who are credulous and/or narcissistic, or who have borderline personalities, and whose expectations of status are at odds with their capabilities, and you tell them, repeatedly, for years, that any personal failure or shortcoming, any difficulty or mental discomfort, is a result of oppression and therefore someone else’s fault, someone they should punish, then the behaviour seen above will tend to be the result. That, or something very much like it. And once you’ve cultivated this level of dysfunction, this self-flattery and vindictiveness, it’s hard to see how it can be undone. Those seduced by it may well remain broken.

it’s hard to see how it can be undone. Those seduced by it may well remain broken.
If current theories on personality development and neuroplasticity bear out, then yes.
Regular readers will be aware that I work a lot with people who suffer from borderline personality disorder. The prevalence of this is tragic enough, implying as it does a level of juvenile sexual abuse that seems staggering.
That we have entire institutions dedicated to producing hordes of young people with a kind of artificial cluster B personality disorder, and the societal prolonging of adolescence well past the point where personality is believed to become fixed and immutable…this does not bode well for the future, when a significant proportion of the next generation can be credibly described as mentally ill.

The US is an absolute basket case. The sooner that country implodes the better.
I would disagree. The Mao-lings are a vociferous bunch (to put it mildly) but they are still a tiny minority and as ineffectual as Spencer’s neo-Nazis. Their malignant and narcissistic idiocy has now gone mainstream; my guess is that within ten years the majority of Angry Studies Depts. will have been shut down, not least because (America being America) the lawyers are going to get involved seeing as how ASDs have churned out several thousand unemployable pillocks, many of whom have wealthy parents. That would entail a few hundred class-action suits which, irony of ironies, would be defended by pleading First Amendment rights.
Start stockpiling popcorn now.

That we have entire institutions dedicated to producing hordes of young people with a kind of artificial cluster B personality disorder…
Daniel, you may find yourself being called as an expert witness for the plaintiffs.

#SocialJusticeBrainstorm
“When have you ever been oppressed?” they asked the polite man, while laughing at his assault, mocking his politeness, and shortly before assaulting him themselves.
It isn’t politics. It’s pathology.

The US is an absolute basket case. The sooner that country implodes the better.
No, the areas west of I-5, east of I-95 north of Norfolk, and certain big cities are full of loons, the problem is that all the “media” are among those in those benighted areas, and hence the loons get all the press. It is rather a do-loop of stupidity. Here in the vast middle between I-5 and I-95 things are generally normal.
Meanwhile, I’m not seeing much difference.

That was f*cking awful. I’m actually upset now.

And yet people will tell you eugenics is wrong.

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The US is an absolute basket case.
Meanwhile in the UK, Toppling statues? Here’s why Nelson’s column should be next.

One of the obstacles all these abolitionists had to overcome was the influence of Nelson, who was what you would now call, without hesitation, a white supremacist. While many around him were denouncing slavery, Nelson was vigorously defending it…We have “moved on” from this era no more than the US has from its slavery and segregationist past. The difference is that America is now in the midst of frenzied debate on what to do about it, whereas Britain – in our inertia, arrogance and intellectual laziness – is not.

Hysterically removing statues = “frenzied debate”. OK, it is The Guardian…

If people want to render themselves unemployable
And yet someone is being commissioned to write all those tediously uniform “woke” articles for Gizmodo, io9, Mic, Teen Vogue, et al., in which disdaining “whiteness,” and using “white” as a pejorative, is a sign of sophistication and moral status.

And yet someone is being commissioned to write …
That would be employment of a sort, but I tend to think of those articles you mention as being not so much written as expectorated.

As a few of you may know, I’m writing a book loosely based on my experiences with a deranged Brooklyn-based feminist I encountered last year. I don’t know if she would go to these sort of protests, but her friends – older women with green, red, and purple hair who exert considerable influence over her – most certainly do. When I showed a draft of the book to a friend of mine – a professional, extremely decent Turkish woman – she asked if the conversations actually took place as depicted. I said they did, more or less, and she remarked that she couldn’t believe a woman would use so much profanity. I didn’t realise it at the time, but this woman’s chat was littered with profanity and sexual obscenities.
The same is true for her friends, at least if their Facebook accounts were anything to go by (I no longer look at them): their posts were chock full of immature profanity-ridden outbursts such as “I’m so fucking tired of this shit right now!” as if they were a teenager being told to clean their room rather than an adult nearing forty. Almost every time I see a bunch of women SJWs protesting something this sort of language is used constantly, to the point that’s often all you hear. I watched a minute of the above video and already several women have been swearing incessantly, unable to make a point without the words “fuck” or “shit”.
Tell me, how many decent, properly educated, functioning women have you met in your lives who speak like that, who use the words “fuck” or “shit” continually when trying to deal with an everyday situation? I have several women colleagues, professional engineers, not one of them speaks like that. I don’t mind women swearing occasionally, but if one is using the language of a sailor as a matter of course, you’re likely dealing with trash.

Possibly relevant
Exactly. They think it makes them appear hip, edgy, modern, passionate. Instead it makes them look ignorant and trashy. Coupled with visible tattoos on the arms and neck and the image is complete.

There is a lot of avocado in those California rolls.

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They think it makes them appear hip, edgy, modern, passionate. Instead it makes them look ignorant and trashy.
Well, I suspect Laurie and her sister both imagine that being randomly, gratuitously and ostentatiously abusive makes them terribly iconoclastic. When in fact it signals a cartoonish unrealism, and a desperate conformity. Someone whose trajectory in life is much more predetermined than many of the people she disdains as bourgeois.

It’s all part of their Épater la Bourgeoisie schtick.

You can’t define us by *class* with all your *rules*, man. Now hold off while I quite deliberately enter the lower class and adopt all its trappings.

And the fat white chicks are totally using the black chick as cover for their jerkiness.
She’s their talisman. A blank cheque for misbehaviour. I wonder if she realises how she’s being used.

I’m looking at these screeching women and wondering what in God’s name their fathers are thinking right now.
Absolutely. You also have to wonder what the ladies themselves will make of the video, which presumably they’ll see. Will there be a flickering of recognition, of embarrassment, of remorse? Or, as suggested upthread, are they too far gone to risk any hazardous reflection?
I mean, breaking people, creating these monsters, that’s the easy part.

She’s their talisman.
I’d accuse them of following Derbyshire’s advice, but they’d probably blow a gasket if they read the relevant essay.

In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized blacks. (I’ll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.

stripping them of judgment and common decency.
That is what’s missing, isn’t it? Common decency. How proud they must be.