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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.
Thank you sir.
You’re welcome. If someone is always late, or never buys a round of drinks, or is slacking off at work, they could be said to be taking the piss.
Remember the kid who knew a lot about planes. Well, here he is again:
https://twitter.com/nifeoluyemi/status/924840899137474565
Instalanche!
I’ll grab the bugle and sound, “Officers Dress For Dinner.”
Not many trick or treaters tonight, probably because it’s unseasonably cold. Though I did overhear a kid cautioning the others about that house giving out pickled “eggs.”
Happy Halloween! 🎃👻
I saw a young skeleton earlier, crying because it was scared of the dark. Not sure if it was the latest iteration of halloween snowflake, or if some facts were abroad causing mayhem. I just walked on and entered the pub. Seemed the best choice.
I discovered this too late to wear it to my interview today.
If you really wanted the job, that’s just as well.
I live in a big Halloween area–we get people from California, a good 2,000 miles away. We are now preparing to settle down for a long winter’s, spring’s, and summer’s nap. Someone please knock us up again next 30 September.
Zzzzzzz….😴
Ratty. You’re not a Mongrel rat are you?
(Sorry to everyone else. I just have to know.)
Officers Dress For Dinner
. . . I decided to look that one up. Somehow I’m sure David’s got it on the jukebox.
That and I’m nominating it to the list of band names, where I’ve now discovered that such names as Arsedestroyer, The Deep Freeze Mice , and World Domination Enterprises are already taken, or at some point, have been.
I’m not quite sure how I go about renouncing my masculinity.
It does rather add weight to the impression that academia’s Clown Quarter is home to an unusually high concentration of mad, unhappy women.
That. 🙂
Randy, I think it involves drastic surgery and a new wardrobe.
That. 🙂
Well, attempting to disentangle the stated arguments, or what pass for arguments in such circles, is a thankless task. There are too many contradictions, double standards, begged questions and outright dishonesties. Too many facts you mustn’t know and things you mustn’t think about, at least not realistically. It’s just rhetorical wreckage. And so you have to consider the kind of psychology in play.
And that psychology is usually, almost always, broken and vindictive. These are damaged, unhappy people who wish to damage you.
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The psychology in play is always something to consider, especially if the stated motives and rationalisations are absurd, unconvincing or bizarrely improbable. If, for instance, someone tells you that they want to fight racism because racism sickens them, and then their chosen course of action is to harass and threaten people, randomly and gratuitously, to humiliate and degrade them, based solely on their race, because they can do this with impunity, then those actions tell you most of what you need to know. The rest is an excuse, a pretext.
And if someone claims to be against oppression and injustice and then you see them delighting in the trapping and frustration of a random disabled woman, about whom they know nothing, while laughing at her distress, then, again, only a fool would assume that their motives are benign.
And there are over a hundred other examples in the archives.
Apparently, the stable family structure is a “fact to be lamented,” and stable white families should be discouraged from existing.
What, progressivism’s last half century and its intractable, 2-earner socialist servitude via public institutions never happened?
These people need to give themselves more credit. If that’s possible.
Ratty. You’re not a Mongrel rat are you?
Well, mongrel only in the super EEEEvil multi-European ancestry sense.
Which to SJWs is probably scarier than any follower of the Rat King 😛
Sorry for the interlude everyone. I knew a guy who went by the moniker “Lab Rat” who was also a Mongrel. Obviously someone else.
When I was just a lad in college, the lab rats we used in Skinner boxes were Wistar – to limit, we hoped, the number of variables.
Andrew Stuttaford on the dumb, twisted fantasies of Laurie Penny’s friend and fellow traveller Paul Mason:
Apparently, little details like Grigory Zinoviev’s belief that 10% of his fellow countrymen – around ten million people – would have to be “annihilated” for the good of communism isn’t enough to impede Mr Mason’s gushing.
Well, true communism has not be tried. True communism is always just a few more corpses of kulaks, wreckers, hoarders, and splitters shy of actually being successful.
If only the damn bourgeoisie – thee, me and probably everyone we know – would just lay down and die. Then… utopia!
Still more stuff to worry about:
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/10/what-is-cultural-dysphoria/
Gee. If I wanted to hang with a group of Korean speakers, and I didn’t speak Korean, I might…well…maybe ask if one or all of them would be willing to help me learn Korean?
No. That’s crazy. Better by far to get on the Internet and blame the world.
Still more stuff to worry about:
I see, the bindi exposes your “queerness”. I imagine that will come as a rude shock to the millions of ladies sporting it on the Asian sub-continent, and to Buddha his own bad self who who is often depicted with one.
“Facts?! Facts?! Don’t tell me about facts!”
…to Buddha his own bad self…
“Bad Buddha” has the ring of a Bollywood comedy romp. . .or a band name. “Buddha’s Bindi” also sounds like one of those bands you’d hear at some crap bar out in the middle of the Golden Triangle, while you’re undercover for the CIA trying to orchestrate a mercenary overthrow of the Pathet Lao or something.
Still more stuff to worry about:
You can imagine my surprise.
You can imagine my surprise.
“Severely educated”, as our host would say.
“Severely educated”, as our host would say.
And they seem to attach great status, and radicalism, to their uniformity. As if their display of fatiguing mental sameness were a thing to boast about, and a basis for deference.
[W]e can only give masculinity so many modifiers [such as ‘toxic] for so long before we have to confront the possibility that it is masculinity itself that has become the problem…. we need to call masculinity out as a hazardous ideology and denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it.
‘ideology’ she says; ‘denounce’ the heretics, infidels, and unbelievers she demands (with more than just a hint of Savanorolesque zeal)
Messages warmly embraced by Evan Davis and Emily Maitlis on yesterday’s BBC Newsnight special, ‘The Problem With Men’. A discussion programme so unwatchably awful that it’s not surprisingly been widely compared to Brass Eye.
yesterday’s BBC Newsnight special, ‘The Problem With Men’. A discussion programme so unwatchably awful that it’s not surprisingly been widely compared to Brass Eye.
We await the BBC’s follow-up programmes – Why Women Are Such Bitches and Those Bloody Negroes.
We await the BBC’s follow-up programmes
You know, it’s an interesting sign of the times we live in that your response could (and quite possibly will) be held out as ‘incontrovertible proof’ of your sexism and racism (probably mine too for that matter, by association if nothing else).
Interesting, because it sometimes seems that it’s simply not enough to be indignant in the face of prejudice and stand in opposition to it, but that one’s indignation is only acceptable when channeled in certain directions and expressed using certain prescribed ways.
Otherwise you are – somehow – said to be guilty of the very thing you are criticising.
And such people express surprise when others find such scolding objectionable.
it’s an interesting sign of the times we live in that your response could (and quite possibly will) be held out as ‘incontrovertible proof’ of your sexism and racism (probably mine too for that matter, by association if nothing else).
The world is teeming with idiots, liars and spiteful little shits. Can’t do much about that. Though sometimes I actually miss the indignant drive-by comments by rv and others.
…practices of decolonization…
The world is teeming with idiots, liars and spiteful little shits.
I am not sure that is entirely accurate so much as it is that the types featured in these pages are concentrated in certain areas in the west and given megaphones so that it seems like they are in the wire everywhere.
@Farnsworth
There’s something to be said for the proposition that those like Ms. Sharma garner a disproportionate amount of the attention. The problem though isn’t so much those like her. The problem is those in power in government and education who quietly churn out the Sharmas of the world in every-increasing numbers. For every idiotic professor who makes the news on these pages, there are probably 50 more out there doing the same stuff without scrutiny. That’s what’s scary.
“your response could (and quite possibly will) be held out as ‘incontrovertible proof’ of your sexism and racism”
I am still waiting for the MSM to discover the concept of Kafkatrapping. What are the odds that when they finally do it’ll be misinterpreted intentionally (see HRC’s ‘understanding’ of 1984) or characterized as something that is being done to Progs by The Deplorables?
…we’re in a time when many people are quick to call folks ‘sensitive’ rather than acknowledging that what we’re actually doing is continuing to confront our traumas…
Confront, nurture — whatever gets you through the night, Sharma.
As David is fond of saying, ‘Heh’.
For every idiotic professor who makes the news on these pages, there are probably 50 more out there doing the same stuff without scrutiny. That’s what’s scary.
Perhaps, but they are still going to be concentrated in small areas in the west. You would be hard pressed to find this ilk in Mindanao, Mali, or even Mississippi outside of maybe Oxford. If you look at the list of cities for the November 4th “protests”*, the only surprise on the list is Omaha (but then they have the university), everyplace else is a certified leftist safe space.
*[apologies for linking to the Refuse “Fascism” dingbats…]
Though sometimes I actually miss the indignant drive-by comments by rv and others.
He/she really didn’t like you. 🙂
He/she really didn’t like you. 🙂
I tried not to take it personally. It was a bit like being barked at by a passing dog. And it’s always nice to have your point made for you by someone else, albeit unwittingly.
I tried not to take it personally.
Truth be told, it was probably the pickled eggs. Those of us “in the know” smuggle in bags of Chex Party Mix, injunctions against off-site refreshments notwithstanding.
Those of us “in the know” smuggle in bags of Chex Party Mix, injunctions against off-site refreshments notwithstanding.
If the sniffer dogs detect Cheeto dust or any similar contraband, there will be punishment.
The world is teeming with idiots, liars and spiteful little shits.
I am not sure that is entirely accurate
Oh, of course it is. They’re just not limited to the world of politics. My last three jobs, spanning a period of fourteen years, were filled to the brim with incompetent, corrupt, nasty little people.
At my new job I practically fell on my knees and gave grace when the CEO was sincerely aghast at the notion we conceal a hypothetical security breach, because that would be wrong.
there will be punishment.
*flushes Haribos down toilet*
To borrow a phrase from the sitcom Scrubs, “bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling”. The only reason Hanlon’s razor tends to generally hold in society is that engaging in outright and forceful bastardry tends to be a lot of work, and the human race is a lazy one in the mean.
The only conversion possible for those who, unlike your example, are not Better Men by faith or habit, is to point out that non-bastardy laziness can often be more optimal than the bastardy sort, and even lazier.
They’re just not limited to the world of politics.
Yes, but this is of whom we were speaking.
My last three jobs, spanning a period of fourteen years, were filled to the brim with incompetent, corrupt, nasty little people.
That’ll teach you to work with journalists.
Two countries separated by a common language.
David,
According to the comment thread this was obviously written by an American, not a Brit.
How many clues are there, that you find interesting and worth noting?
https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/too-good-to-not-quote/
I believe it was written by James Delingpole, a Brit.
The world is teeming with idiots, liars and spiteful little shits. Can’t do much about that.
Ayup. Noting stuff bubbling up in the news feeds of the world, I don’t always make up punchlines, sometimes all one needs are the headlines . . .
After first running across Trump and Kobach’s Voter Fraud Lies Are Making More Voters Lose Confidence in Our Elections, Says New Poll I did note that certain sources can get declared suspect, so cross referencing and verifying is a rather good idea, and the same story kept coming up.
And then one finds Rick Perry: Fossil Fuels Can Prevent Sexual Assault in Africa, also with quite concurring echoes elsewhere.
I’ve been noticing that in my local stores, the Xmas decoration Stuff was already out well before Halloween, which is well before—for the US—Thanksgiving . . . Apparently the first of April has been moved to sometime in autumn . . .
Oy.
Bathing suits and lawn toys will be out in February here in the Midwest.
practices of decolonization.
Smashing automobiles, sabotaging water supplies, and downing power lines, then?
Appropriating farmland and agricultural machinery for redistribution?
Or just furious and constant masturbation of an insecure ego via signaling exercises?
Why is it that everything I can think of that would fall under “decolonization” leads to a smaller, dumber, and shorter existence?
Or just furious and constant masturbation of an insecure ego via signaling exercises?
Yup, that one.
Speaking of puncturing fragile egos, 4Chan /pol/ is up to no good again …
Of course it’s okay to be white, so say the Progressive(sic) Left, so long as you are sufficiently deferential and subservient.
“Epic victory” I believe is what the dweebs at 4Chan call successful trolling of this magnitude.