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Jim Goad on rappers, shootings and bullet-hole cred:
In late October 2005, a rapper named Cam’ron took three bullets in an attempted DC carjacking. When a reporter asked him for a quote as he was leaving Howard University Hospital, Cam’ron quipped, “I got shot three times and my album comes out November 22.” […] Being shot is such a shot in the arm for the aspirant hip-hop mogul, a rapper named Gravy got shot in the buttocks outside a Brooklyn radio station in April 2006 before heading right into the studio for an interview. As it turns out, Gravy had one of his friends shoot him because he knew it would be good publicity.
Toni Airaksinen on more things you mustn’t think on campus:
Angela Putman, who teaches public speaking at Penn State-Brandywine, designed a comprehensive three-day seminar on “white privilege” for her students, then interviewed 12 attendees on their belief in meritocracy and equal opportunity. To her dismay, Putman discovered that these “whiteness ideologies” were widely endorsed by students, many of whom agreed that “if I work hard, I can be successful.”
Believing in study, effort and diligence as positive things and broad prerequisites for success is, apparently, a harmful and racist ideology. Unlike cultivating resentment and then spending decades seething at how racist, sexist and hopelessly unfair everything is, which I’m sure is bound to pay off.
And Mark Steyn on the indignant librarian, The Cat In The Hat, and the great racist retcon:
The piece argues that the Cat in the Hat’s bow tie is meant to be an evocation of 19th-century racist minstrel shows. Now, just off the top of my head, cartoon characters who wear bow ties: Porky Pig, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Huckleberry Hound. Yogi Bear doesn’t wear a bow, he wears a tie like me, but his boy sidekick Boo Boo the Bear wears a bow tie. Ambrosia, I think the name is, in ‘My Little Pony’ wears a bow tie. I’m not one of the many men in the western world who are obsessed with ‘My Little Pony’ and have ‘My Little Pony’ parties, but I happen to know this one character in ‘My Little Pony’ wears a bow tie. Cartoon characters wear bow ties. That has nothing to do the minstrel shows. We are making ourselves a society too stupid to survive.
Readers are invited to speculate as to exactly when said books became so “steeped in racist propaganda,” as the librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro claims, and therefore corrupting of children. Presumably, it was at some point after Ms Phipps Soeiro was photographed proudly dressed as the aforementioned cat, at work, with children, while celebrating the birthday of one Theodor Seuss Geisel.
As usual, feel free to share your own links and snippets on any subject, in the comments.
…read The Cat In The Hat and assume that the cat is actually a black man, and a mocking caricature of a black man, is faintly bizarre.
There’s been a recurring claim that the Looney Tunes cartoon character Daffy Duck is a racist caricature of a black man, when in fact he’s a caricature of the animation studio founder Leon Schlesinger – right down to the lisp.
First reader comment at Campus Reform:
Universities are indeed becoming Day Care for over-indulged, overgrown infants.
I don’t know if I’ve ever witnessed such a divine example of Providence as the near-immediate release of librarian Pippi Bluestocking’s photos dressed as the quondam acceptable Cat in the Hat, promoting the reading of the now-‘racist’ books.
I guess it just comes down to cooties. Melania Trump put Trump cooties on all the books! Ewwwwww! Trump cooties! Now they’re ICKY!
We’re dealing with children. Spoiled, snotty, self-absorbed, no-redeeming-qualities-visible children.
Oh, and this:
She forgot her fucking lines in that pantomime. YOU HAD ONE JOB!
Jordan Peterson on the problem for men when faced with crazy women.
@kirby
Her Ph.D. is in Intercultural Communication
What the heck is “Intercultural Communication?”
What the heck is “Intercultural Communication?”
It’s where Captain Kirk boinks the Green Space Alien lady.
Followed the link to the Mao-lings at Berkeley, but found Vivaldi instead., Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA
It’s therefore not unfair to entertain the possibility that the ‘protestors’ may not be the sharpest or most diligent of students, and may have opted for fatuous grandstanding rather than taking the exam and receiving more graded confirmation of their own academic inadequacies.
It will be interesting to see whether the university rewards their SJW kibuki in some fashion or allows the professor to run his class as he sees fit.
Granting picking at nits, but; Kabuki.
In a better and brighter world, all clown quarter academics would have to live in their cars and fellate sailors to make ends meet.
Thus unifying the training between the navy and the air force into a cross-service whole:
“Don’t look down.”
Has anyone noticed that the new improved Klingons would not be able to drive because they could not use their side mirrors?
Not to mention the unlikelihood of a warrior culture developing among people who are physically unable to check all 8 directions.
BTW, if I understand Putnam’s complaint, it’s that white people are genetically different from her and others like her, in major ways … but “her” people should still get precisely as many jobs and awards in every field (indeed, in every job in every company in every locale in every field) as white people do. Because they’re not different at all. Or something.
Victor Davis Hanson on “white privilege”:
From this piece on the conceits and evasions of the NFL protests.
Jordan Peterson on the problem for men when faced with crazy women.
Toxic femininity.
Toxic femininity.
I shared the clip because it’s often struck me how prominent and numerous women are – crazy women, I mean – in “social justice” psychodramas on campus. Faced with determined obnoxiousness and attempts to bully, many of the usual responses that might occur if the aggressor were male aren’t so readily available when the aggressor is female. Even though the degree of malice involved may be the same, or higher, and the physical threat not entirely trivial. And so, as we’ve seen, you can find demented young women exulting in physical provocation, mob coercion and attempts to dominate, while simultaneously invoking victimhood, and while obviously exploiting the customary inhibitions regarding physical payback.
As if ripped from the very pages of Everyday Personality Disorder Do I make you uncomfortable?
So many clichés, so little time.
“Scary. Raw. Bad-ass.” If you say so, I guess.
It’s scary. Raw. Cinematic. Bad-ass. Feminist af.
I see Ms Vernon tells us that she’s also a hashtag and a “fashion movement.” Though for someone who says she’s “no longer bound by the scale,” she still seems awfully preoccupied with her fatness and telling us how fat she is, and how she’s, like, totally okay with it, honest.
…she’s also a hashtag and a “fashion movement”…
Judging from the photo on the right side of her blog, I am guessing Boy George got there first.
No, she doesn’t make me uncomfortable. Unless an inability to get an erection for a week after viewing is the same as “uncomfortable.”