They Come To Teach Us (2)
Further to this, here’s a short but telling scene from an “anti-racist” rally in Vancouver, where young people are swollen with righteousness, and where even the most jarring irony escapes detection. Think of it as another illustration of what it’s like to be severely educated:
You don’t have a fucking culture! We’re fucking white. We don’t have a goddamn fucking culture!
Longer video here. You may want to bite down on something.
You don’t have a fucking culture!
Lost for words.
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.
You don’t have a fucking culture!
Well, if these folks didn’t have double standards, would they have any standards at all?
“Go back to your side of the street,” say the luminous beings.
#HeWillNotDivideUs
#HeWillNotDivideUs
Heh. Quite.
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.
You may want to bite down on something.
That, and have a large tasty adult beverage at hand. Regarding Scharführer Neckbeard, the word that comes to mind is backpfeifengesicht.
Sane person: “How many Syrians have come to Canada in a boat ?”
Little Miss Raven Chest Tat Dyed Hair: “That’s not documented, do you even know what undocumented means ?”
I think the first guy does, Little Miss Raven Chest Tat Dyed Hair, not so much.
The best part is that this melange of muttonheads is in Vancouver, and, as we all know, when it comes to raycissism, British Columbia in 2017 is indistinguishable from Mississippi in 1955.
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.
he’s so vehement and incurious.
That.
That.
You see, being students, and therefore officially intellectuals, they don’t need to listen. And self-flattery is a powerful drug.
…he’s so vehement and incurious…

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


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You don’t have a fucking culture!
So there is no rape culture after all.
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.
Also, my apologies for swearing. I’m just that angry.
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.
You don’t have a fucking culture!
The truly stupid part about this whole “there is no such thing as white culture”, is that these severely educated (synonym for uneducated) dickweeds think there is such a thing as “black” culture, or “indigenous” culture, or “Moslem” culture, completely ignoring the fact that west Afican and Sub-Saharan African cultures are different, just as Hopi and Inuit or Apache are different, as are Arab and Indonesian, and so on for all the People of Color (but not colored people).
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…
Also relevant…
Sorry, can’t bring myself to watch the whole of the longer piece. Awful.
Right, I’m off to a birthday gathering. Play nicely. Use coasters.
“how stupid they can be made to be, with a little education”
Taleb’s ‘Intellectual Yet Idiot‘ concept seems to merge Dunning Kruger with politics as a sort of weaponized imbecility or cultivated inanity.
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?
Nemo, does your sofa look like this?
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?
Nemo… MY culture, includes a white leather couch not so soft soft as to preserve a flung iPad but still quite nice for evenings in, and for the most part surrounded by mid 60’s – 70’s teak of scattered origins, some of it even matches! The culture of my children’s youth, included a trampoline that averaged about 10 hours use per day in the summer, with a water sprinkler under it to cool the kids down in the summer heat.
and THAT… That is my culture. My white leather couch, firm enough, with a stance you might say.
Whose culture is western civ then? If it isn’t mine?
does, I think, illustrate some fairly common dynamics
Well, yes, albeit not the ones you think.
Canada has never had a history of institutional slavery based on race; we were the endpoint of the underground railroad, and what institutionalized slavery there was in Canada was practiced by the native tribes before the British put a stop to it. Official multiculturalism has been government policy since the 1960s.
Canada does have something of a sordid history of trying to educate the natives out of their savagery in a “white man’s burden” sort of way, but that’s a completely different issue and one that’s been addressed ad nauseum over the last two decades.
What Canada does have, and what does define Canada’s culture, is a kind of national inferiority complex when it comes to the US. Like an annoying little brother who tags along everywhere, we want to do all the same things our older and more capable sibling does, but just different enough that we can claim that’s not what we’re doing.
I watch this video and I don’t have the “fling the iPad across the room in disgust” reaction; I have the “you’re protesting stuff that doesn’t happen here, and demanding a solution that already exists, because you’re trying so hard to be just like those cool kids in the US” eye roll.
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.
PiperPaul,
…a sort of weaponized imbecility or cultivated inanity.
All protected by a impenetrable wall of invincible ignorance.
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.
Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
John Alexander Smith, Speech to Oxford University students, 1914
Smith’s test is one that Neckbeard the Barbarian fails miserably.
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.
It is sad to see young adults behaving like children. Chanting a slogan does not mean that you understand it. In fact, it demonstrates that you know and understand very little. If you are so unconvincing in your speech and reasoning that you must drown out your opponent by squalling like a brat, your education was a complete waste of money and time. But then, our House of Commons has the same problem as does our Prime Minister.
“You may want to bite down on something.”
*tastes hot, coppery, salty fluid* Mmmm. That’s better.
Everybody has a culture.
Even bacteria?
Especially bacteria.
You may want to bite down on something.
Both shoes now ruined.
Yutes like that DO have a culture, they are just too stupid to recognize it. Being a west coaster, these specimens are everywhere. He’s part of the encompassing dope culture in BC, whose lives surround the worship of bud, joints, and getting stoned. It explains the rampant stupidity, endemic to all pot smokers
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.
And can we all please avoid any confusion by including adopted ranks in responses?
Must we all get stoned before posting on this thread?
Everybody must get stoned!
And can we all please avoid any confusion by including adopted ranks in responses?
Are adopted ranks like pronouns ? Admiral General is taken, so I want to be a Vice Colonel.
Vancouver is a shithole with nice scenery. Perhaps only Sweden has more sheeplike, low-information shitlibs.
Vice, Rear – there’s not much difference. I do actually have my own boat, but would be stretching the point to call myself ‘Captain’.
As to getting stoned, thank heavens for the food exemption in the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, or them pickled eggs would have to go.
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…
any chance to doxx this poor damaged soul, so they don’t harm a future place of employment?
red flag their I.D., so they can’t harm others?
He doesn’t even know you should never never never button all the buttons.
I laughed at the poor simp. Just as well I wasn’t there, or I might have pointed,too.
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??