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For Hallowe’en, three strange tales from academia.
Further to recent comments, Toni Airaksinen marvels at a bedlamite educator:
A sociology professor at the City University of New York recently argued in an extensive series of tweets that “the white-nuclear family” perpetuates racism. Jessie Daniels, a self-described “expert on race,” began by declaring that, “What I’ve learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy. I mean, if you’re a white person who says they’re engaged in dismantling white supremacy but… you’re forming a white family [and] reproducing white children that ‘you want the best for’ – how is that helping [and] not part of the problem?”
Apparently, the stable family structure is a “fact to be lamented,” and stable white families should be discouraged from existing.
And again, on associate professor of sociology, and fellow bedlamite, Lisa Wade:
A feminist professor at Occidental College recently argued that men must renounce their masculinity and “denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it.” Calling masculinity a “dangerous idea,” Wade argues that, “The problem is not toxic masculinity; it’s that masculinity is toxic,” adding that masculinity is “simply not compatible with liberty and justice for all.” Wade concludes her essay by urging people to “call masculinity out as a hazardous ideology and denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it,” saying that doing so is crucial for “gender revolution.”
We must “attack masculinity directly,” says this educator of the young.
And further to this item here, via dicentra, J Oliver Conroy on the new intersectional morony:
When [panellist and author, Kmele Foster] started explaining the methodological research behind his claim, the audience [of students] exploded. “Facts?! Facts?! Don’t tell me about facts!” one person screamed. Foster tried to finish as five or six people shouted at him. “Do facts matter?” Foster asked, and repeated it several times in mounting frustration. The resounding, devastating answer was no, facts do not matter.
As usual, feel free to add your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments. Oh, and sleep well.
*holds torch under chin*
And this is how much you’ll be paying for this shit….
And this is how much you’ll be paying for this shit….
Ooh. It’s like John Noble was in the room.
Tim Newman explains, in some detail, how to pet a cow.
Ban Halloween.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10070
Good heavens, David, I wasn’t asking for anything THAT scary.
No refunds. Credit note only.
We must “attack masculinity directly,” says this educator of the young.
Toxic academia.
Toxic academia.
Heh. That.
It does rather add weight to the impression that academia’s Clown Quarter is home to an unusually high concentration of mad, unhappy women. Also, dogmatism, narcissism and malevolence generally.
Many of western society’s problems could be solved by rounding up every sociologist in a large net, flying it over the North Atlantic ocean, and dropping it in the sea.
Jessie Daniels is, of course, very, very white indeed.
Mark Kermode has some Hallowe’en film trivia.
I’m unclear whether white families are bad just because of their whiteness or if their er… familyness is also a problem. Are black nuclear families OK? Or is the family a white concept forced upon American POC? Of course trying to understand malicious idiocy doesn’t get one very far…
I have mentioned this before but the ravings of the bedlamites are tediously parochial. If you were to present a list of the things that the malicious mentals consider aspects of ‘whiteness’ or ‘white bourgeois values’ to an Indian, Japanese or Chinese* person they would agree that all of them were their values too. They would be most surprised and not a little put out to be told that valuing hard work and education are ‘white’ things.
“Facts?! Facts?! Don’t tell me about facts!” one person screamed.
They aren’t students. They’re true believers.
They aren’t students. They’re true believers.
They do seem gripped by a practised incuriosity, having somehow short-circuited the usual, often time-consuming process of learning. And remember, it’s not an entirely unheard-of response.
I’m unclear whether white families are bad just because of their whiteness or if their er… familyness is also a problem.
It’s probably a combination of both. If we remember two fundamental characteristics of the Leftist realty, i.e. all human interaction is zero-sum and those on the “advantaged” side of the spectrum are there because of some sort of “oppression” perpetrated on those beneath them, we see the problem.
As much as the Left tries to hide the stats, it’s clear that an intact, traditional nuclear family is less likely to be impoverished than a single parent household. Whether traditional family structures cause the success of their members or are indicative of personality traits which lead to success is irrelevant. There’s still a correlation. Sadly, since LBJ’s Great Society took off, the intact, traditional Black family has almost become extinct. Thus, for the Leftist, the zero-sum nature of the world combined with the “systemic oppression” du jour, necessitates denouncing both the nuclear family and those demographics in which they are prevalent, which then is denominated “white supremacy.” To think otherwise would require blaming counterproductive behaviors and advocating personal agency and responsibility which the Leftist cannot do.
I’m unclear whether white families are bad just because of their whiteness or if their er… familyness is also a problem.
Somewhat related.
Also, this.
Regarding the current madness afflicting universities where facts and truth no longer matter if they conflict with the orthodoxy, it’s hard to see how the present system can continue to survive, where the fact-based disciplines are forced to coexist with those areas of “study” which have been taken over by SJW types. At some point, the liberal arts and the soft sciences, i.e. sociology, anthropology, psychology, and of course literature & philosophy, etc. will have to separate themselves and become leftist “seminaries.” Alternatively, the STEM fields and related matters will have to go before they’re completely destroyed by the progressive zombie hordes. It’s reminiscent of the separation of theology departments from universities which occurred post-Enlightenment.
“academia’s Clown Quarter is home to an unusually high concentration”
The creation, encouragement and weaponization of Cluster B, emotional disturbance and mental illness.
Wait wait – I am SO confused!
If we are to “call masculinity out as a hazardous ideology and denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it,” as the bedlamite perfessor claims, what if I as a fully functioning XX human decide that I am actually a male? Do I have to try to act stereotypically female while taking testosterone, growing my beard, etc? Isn’t that putting undue strain on those in the Trans- community?? What if I want to identify as a masculine male??
The mind boggles.
What’s really scary is that those of us who just wish to live and let live are being forced to care.
I know, credit note only. I need a drink.
I know, credit note only. I need a drink.
[ Rolls pickled egg along bar to Lab Rat. On its journey, egg accumulates dust, fag ash, several hairs, etc. ]
“A feminist professor …”
From the Real World Dictionary: syn. a useless drip, a parasite, see also – tick, louse, charlatan, academic poseur
Academic bedlamites indeed. The original Bedlam would be a suitable residence for them.
[eyes pickled egg warily…]
In spite of all the erm…accoutrements this egg has accumulated on its journey, it’s STILL not as scary as those links you posted this morning, Sir!
“Facts?! Facts?! Don’t tell me about facts!” one person screamed.”
I’ve seen that before. I’ve been talking about gun control to Liberals since Kim Campbell was Justice Minister. They do not care what the facts are. They live in a different universe than we do. In their world, how you feeeeel about the subject is what’s important. Guns make them uncomfortable, therefore no one should have a gun.
But when -they- feeeel like they might need a gun, that’s different.
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.ca/2017/10/more-leftist-idiots-discover-self.html
Barack Obama may be credited for arming the Right in the USA, but Trump has to get the credit for arming the Left. You’ll notice gun sales are WAY down this year, indicating there aren’t very many Lefty losers feeling all threatened and stuff.
That means they’re very outnumbered. >:D
fag ash.
Two countries separated by a common language.
I recall a day as a graduate student, when a British arrival said to me during intervals between cigarette (fag) puffs, “We need to get pissed.” I, being a naive rural Missouri boy, thought, “Why would I want to get deliberately angry?”
Those were the days.
Months later, I erupted, “It’s not fucking tin!. It’s a can, dammit!”
I’d maybe had a few beers. I can’t recall.
I’d maybe had a few beers. I can’t recall.
“It’s all a blur, your honour… I just remember lots of shouting. And flashing lights. And sirens. I swear I don’t know how the panties got there.”
We’ve been here before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards
Western academia (or at least Anglo-Saxon academia) is hell-bent on re-creating the conditions that spawned these maniacs.
Don’t think it can’t happen here. It can.
In the name of “liberty and justice”, she means to destroy the inborn essential nature of one whole sex, half the population. The half which invented the modern world of comfort and plenty which affords her the liberty and leisure to pursue a career as a tenured lunatic.
Equal rights for women was a mistake, I’ll tell the world.
Hallowe’en tweet of note.
Dave, you’ve almost certainly featured this before – if so, please delete; if not, please enjoy! The rest of his site is well worth a browse.
https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/too-good-to-not-quote/
Attention Brits! While walking the windswept moors, have any of you seen any ghosts? Fires burning and cauldrons bubbling? Spectral black dogs? Let’s hear it!
Let’s hear it!
It’s about 14°C hereabouts and I’ve just seen the postman wearing shorts. If that’s not uncanny I don’t know what is.
Trigger!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynO-bqU6tUk
J Oliver Conroy on the new intersectional morony:
The walking brain-dead.
The walking brain-dead
from the Dissident Frogman:
If we are to “call masculinity out as a hazardous ideology and denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it,” as the bedlamite perfessor claims, what if I as a fully functioning XX human decide that I am actually a male? Do I have to try to act stereotypically female while taking testosterone, growing my beard, etc? Isn’t that putting undue strain on those in the Trans- community?? What if I want to identify as a masculine male??
Remember: this is the domain of super-jargon, of Humpty Dumpty semantics. ‘Masculine’ is here not just the adjective pertaining to being male; it means specifically the bits about being male that I don’t like.
This is why you get articles pointing out that ‘there is no non-toxic masculinity’; well, of course there isn’t, as you’ve redefined ‘masculinity’ to mean all and only what you think is toxic.
Also, you wouldn’t decide that you are ‘a male’. You’d decide that you are ‘a man’. ‘Male’ pertains to biological sex, which doesn’t exist for human beings: what exists for human beings instead is gender, and ‘man’ is a gender. What is a man? Well, in ordinary English, a man is an adult male human; but in this discourse, a man is ‘anyone who identifies as a man’. Gender is thus decoupled from sex, very much like grammatical gender in, say, French. A man is no more a male than la table is female.
Seriously, you can’t make any sense of this sort of stuff if you go in expecting words to have their ordinary meanings. It’s basically all code, deliberately meant to be impenetrable to outsiders: it’s how you know that you’re talking to someone in the in-group, that they can command the jargon, and it’s how you establish ranking within the group, as new entrants are schooled by their superiors in the entry-level jargon and then, after they can use it fluently, they induct others in their turn. Inventing new jargon, and teaching it, is how status is obtained.
Seriously, you can’t make any sense of this sort of stuff if you go in expecting words to have their ordinary meanings.
As a scientist that goes against my training and makes my head hurt. All this crap does. And the Bedlamites are now invading the STEM disciplines. Not with actual degrees in any STEM discipline, mostly, but degrees with a STEM discipline name followed by “Education” or “Studies” or some other watered down bullshit. ARGH!
[eats the pickled egg, fag ash and all]
And that’s STILL not as bad as the scary stuff David started this whole discussion off with.
[shudders]
“simply not compatible with liberty and justice for all.”
Reality check on aisle three.
Reality check on aisle three.
Tear it down ! He’s wearing a cross !
Reality check on aisle three.
Another one. Just a crew of U.S. Navy airmen after a rescue from a crash landing in the Aleutian Islands in WWII. Far left, second row is my hyper-masculine father.
And the Bedlamites are now invading the STEM disciplines.
Weell, actually, no. For all of the handwaving, you have the advantage that a friend of mine has always had and will keep having.
He reports that he has indeed actually had people coming to him to demand that [insert attempt at trying to get hipsters seem capable of being mistaken for appearing to be adults, in a dark alley, when the viewer is very drunk].
His reply is that what he does is merely Teach Math.
There are zero circumstances where 2+3=15 is going to be a correct statement, even fewer circumstances where the source of such a statement will ever have any relevance, and even more certainty of both as one moves from adding up through calculus.
Reality check on aisle three.
[ Rolls especially large, and now hairy, pickled egg along bar to Squires. ]
Ghost vs. Grammar Nazi
I’m now hoping that no trick-or-treating children materialise. There’s a large bar of Dairy Milk stashed in a cupboard, but now that I’ve discovered it I don’t want to part with it. Bizarrely-costumed children will be happy to get fruit, won’t they? Or a nice healthy sandwich?
Tell it to a Muslim, Professor.
When I hear a new phrase I try my very best to figure it out in context rather than look it up. If my ignorance persists I still prefer to ask people rather than head to the goolag. So…
What does “taking the piss” mean? Best I can figure it’s “slacking off” or “joking around” but I’ve seen it used in too many contexts to nail it down. No other blog’s comment section is worthy of the…er… “honor” in Limeysplaining this to a hapless Texan.
What does “taking the piss” mean?
To take liberties with someone or to exploit them in an unfair or unreasonable way. (E.g., “Have you seen the price of bottled water in here? They’re taking the piss.”) But taking the piss out of someone generally means to mock them. It can be used to describe affectionate teasing too.
Ah, there IS a variation that changes the meaning. I feel at least 1% less stupid now. Thank you sir.