They Come To Teach Us (2)

Lost for words.
It is quite special and does, I think, illustrate some fairly common dynamics.
So, to recap: Insufficiently Woke Guy notes the irony of so much vehemently anti-white sentiment at an “anti-racist” rally and is promptly berated by Mr Neckbeard (our Ultimate Woke Champion), who denounces him as racist for noticing such things. After telling Insufficiently Woke Guy that he has no culture, on account of being white, and that his opinions are of no importance (while demanding to know what they are), Mr Neckbeard and his fellow luminous beings embrace the intellectual high ground with more shouting and profanity. “Go back to your side of the street,” say the luminous beings. And when said beings realise they’re not successfully browbeating their target with pretentious racial guilt, they revert to self-satisfied chanting: “Racist go home.”
The only racism we hear, of course, is coming from them.

“Go back to your side of the street,” say the luminous beings.
#HeWillNotDivideUs

I’ve been called cynical, but even now, after a decade of doing this, I’m still surprised by just how stupid supposedly clever people can be. Or more accurately, how stupid they can be made to be, with a little education.

Regarding Scharführer Neckbeard, the word that comes to mind is backpfeifengesicht.
And he’s so vehement and incurious. He just knows. But then the credulous ones, the ones who most eagerly internalise this horseshit, in order to conform, always do.

That.
You see, being students, and therefore officially intellectuals, they don’t need to listen. And self-flattery is a powerful drug.

Not unrelated:
“Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture”
(via Guido Fawkes)

Before //pol:
After //pol:
The mystery deepens.

Fucking hell. I’m a fairly rational person, but that made me so angry I threw my iPad across the room. Fortunately, it’s undamaged, as it landed on a rather ugly but mercifully soft, sofa. What’s so astonishing is that this person isn’t some dumb, ignorant, back-woods hick, but an attendee an almost certainly elite university. Which if anything makes it worse. Someone who’s genuinely ignorant I can pity, indeed, even understand. But to see someone wilfully and deliberately educated into ignorance, while paying for the privilege, is galling. And, no doubt, he considers himself to be intelligentsia, an intellectual. Severely educated indeed.

to see someone wilfully and deliberately educated into ignorance, while paying for the privilege, is galling.
You could think of it as a kind of civilizational rot.

There’s quite a lot of Michael Moore in that physiognomy. The tone is the “because mommy says so” mode of feminists tired of enacting the emotional labor of explaining to white dudes that hating men isn’t sexist because structural oppression.
The Douglas Murray interview posted here a few weeks ago is relevant to this line of thinking…

Something deeper is going on in Europe of which Islam and terrorism are really just symptoms. It could have been anything in a way, anything that was assertive and believed in itself. There’s a set of what I think of as thought diseases – guilt being one, existential tiredness being another. It’s in part this feeling that we’ve run out, that the story’s run out, that a change is as good as a rest.
What was it about ourselves in Europe that we decided Europe is a really boring uncultured place that hasn’t done enough or thought enough or created enough, and what we really need is an injection of people from around the world to bring us their brilliant culture. What is it about us that makes us think that the culture that produced the Renaissance and the Reformation and the heights of what we regard as civilisation actually had a hole in its heart that needed filling. You never hear this about anywhere else. Nobody ever says the thing about Somalia is they really need an input of people from Wales or it’s really hard to find a good chamber orchestra in Mogadishu. This goes to the masochism that we clearly indulge in; and the great risk for masochists is what happens when they meet a real sadist – it’s possible that we’re in the process of meeting our sadists, and that what seemed to be just a kink turns out to be fatal.

Also relevant…

The origin of these quizzes, which Pesta calls “cultural literacy markers,” was his increasing discomfort with gaps in his students’ foundational knowledge.
“They came to college without the basic rudiments of American history or Western culture and their reading level was pretty low,” Pesta told The
… What’s more, he began to observe a shift in his students’ quiz responses in the early 2000s. Before that time, Pesta described his students as “often historically ignorant, but not politicized.” Since the early 2000s, Pesta has found that “many students come to college preprogrammed in certain ways.”
“They cannot tell you many historical facts or relate anything meaningful about historical biographies, but they are, however, stridently vocal about the corrupt nature of the Republic, about the wickedness of the founding fathers, and about the evils of free markets,” Pesta said. “Most alarmingly, they know nothing about the fraught history of Marxist ideology and communist governments over the last century, but often reductively define socialism as ‘fairness.’”
Pesta also noted that, early on, his students’ “blissful ignorance was accompanied by a basic humility about what they did not know.” But over time he said he increasingly saw “a sense of moral superiority in not knowing anything about our ‘racist and sexist’ history and our ‘biased’ institutions.”

Right, I’m off to a birthday gathering. Play nicely. Use coasters.

If we figure Mr. Neckbeard did not come his conclusions on his own, but was rather taught that he has no “culture,” the question becomes why he was so incurious early on in the process to go along with it. To be charitable, he’s right in that there is no over-arching “white” culture, but if that’s true as he smugly asserts, then what’s he protesting?

Heh. No, nothing quite so bad, I’m pleased to remark. It’s a dull, standard floral-patterned fabric sofa that’s about 10 years old, give or take a year or two. It’s ugly but comfortable. What more can I say?

Whose culture is western civ then? If it isn’t mine?

We’re fucking white. We don’t have a goddamn fucking culture!
Having given this some thought, I believe the gent has a point. White people don’t have a culture per se, what we have is better: Western Civilisation.

You don’t have a fucking culture! … We’re fucking white! We don’t have a goddam fucking culture!”
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Smith, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sartre, Frege, Schopenhauer, Russell, Wittgenstein … Fra Angelico, Donatello, Raphael, Bellini, Durer, Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Turner, Picasso, Braques, Nolan, … Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Cervantes, Lorca, Molliere, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Hughes, Plath, Harrison, Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Hugo, Zola …
It wasn’t necessary to make that point, I know. And, probably, I spelt a few of the names wrong, but, please, “We’re fucking white! We don’t have a goddam fucking culture!”.
What an oaf.

You don’t have a fucking culture! … We’re fucking white! We don’t have a goddam fucking culture!
Whites have a civilisation, rather than a culture.

“You may want to bite down on something.”
*tastes hot, coppery, salty fluid* Mmmm. That’s better.

You may want to bite down on something.
Both shoes now ruined.

Deplorable Dan,
“It explains the rampant stupidity, endemic to all pot smokers”
Were you stoned when you wrote that?
And can we all please avoid any confusion by including adopted ranks in responses? Many thanks.

Everybody must get stoned!

Vancouver is a shithole with nice scenery. Perhaps only Sweden has more sheeplike, low-information shitlibs.

There is a difference between being a profoundly *uncultured* individual and belonging to an ethnicity somehow bereft of one.
There’s a reason that the Russian “nekulturny” is considered insulting…

He doesn’t even know you should never never never button all the buttons.

We don’t have a goddamn fucking culture!
Well, the fellow with the bathtub ring on his face is quite correct in two ways.
One, hipsters aren’t the counterculture, they’re the lackingculture.
Two, the distinct impression one gets is that after all, who’d wanna goddamn sleep with him??

Kant, Hegel, Marx
Add Gramsci and Marcuse and you have the explanation as to why there are so many people going around professing that we “don’t have a culture”.

From the subsequent Twitter thread:

*Triggering intensifies*
It seems to me this is close to the nub of it.
The fact that being “woke” so often entails double standards, contradictions, factual and logical errors, along with rationalised spite and outright dishonesty, may explain the vehemence of the Mao-lings’ assertions, and the hostility towards anything or anyone who, however politely, reveals those contradictions. Such things will presumably be felt as a threat to a Mao-ling’s ego, and to any theatre of righteousness. Few people enjoy being exposed as a fraud. And the greater the pretence, the more that’s staked on it – the more the pretence is a person’s status and identity – the more likely it is that any challenge to it, however factual or civil, will be met with irrational rage.
Bad faith tends to result in prickliness.

And somewhat related to the topic of this thread.
Being woke is evidently a competitive business.

It must be so hard being that woke all the time.
The dogmatic, regurgitated word salad is quite a thing. As a reflection of this person’s mind and its processes, it doesn’t bode well. And when I heard the line, “how people are conditioned to believe certain things,” I felt a wave of irony wash over me.

But this is how the enemy trains its young.
The only real difference between these “woke” humanities students and Middle Eastern Moslem yoots is that the humanities students aren’t blowing themselves up.

The poets are coming.
Oh.
‘k, fine.
Roses like lips
Violets like sky
Your poem sucks
Piss off and die.
Oh, and a couple of classics . . .
The Sky
The sky is blue,
the grass is green,
get off your butt
and join the Marines.
Elegy for Sir Francis Hinsley
They told me, Francis Hinsley,
they told me you were hung
With red protruding eye-balls
and black protruding tongue;
I wept as I remembered
how often you and I
Had laughed about Los Angeles
and now ’tis here you’ll lie;
Here pickled in formaldehyde
and painted like a whore,
Shrimp-pink incorruptible,
not lost nor gone before.

Related “In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values”

Darleen’s link is nicely written and spot-on, of course, but I would point to the recent influx of civilian aid to Houston, Texas as defense of “bourgeois values.”

“It must be so hard being that woke all the time.”
I love this little exchange from that thread:
“…white people have never been systematically targeted by people of colour on a widespread scale”
“Except for the Barbary slave trade, but who cares, right?”

Being woke is evidently a competitive business.
This has been noted and explained in terms of existing economic theory:
https://iea.org.uk/blog/the-economics-of-political-correctness
Tl;dr: PC credentials are positional goods.

Loved the cartoon of all the other ethnic groups dancing happily together if the white people were all dead. So believable! And happens so often in countries without white people!

To wit:
http://nypost.com/2017/09/05/indian-man-flies-to-florida-to-beat-his-sons-disobedient-wife/
Indian in-laws fly to Florida to beat son’s ‘disobedient’ wife: cops
The family that beats disobedient wives together stays together.