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Further to this Kafkaesque episode, Lindsay Shepherd explains the difficulties of dealing with the Mao-ling mentality:
I know absolutely nothing [about my accuser or the accusation]. I don’t know how many people complained; I don’t know if it’s something specific that I said or that was in the [Jordan Peterson] clip; or something even that someone in the class said. Currently, the Rainbow Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University is demanding an apology from me… but first I feel I need to know… what am I apologising for?
Henry George on the Clown Quarter’s pathological coddling and its strange selectivity:
King’s College London has made impressive new strides in its efforts to be crowned “social justice warrior college of the year.” As of this term, the King’s College London Student’s Union is paying what it calls ‘safe space marshals’ to attend speaking events and sit in the audience to protect the attendees from speech that might prove offensive or uncomfortable, with instructions to intervene at the first sign of wrongthink… The first speaker to enjoy this new form of policing was the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is, of course, considered a dire threat to student safety and wellbeing… This raises the question of whether or not these ‘safe space marshals’ would have intervened when the university’s Islamic Society hosted a speaker who failed to condemn stoning for adultery, calling it as merciful as euthanasia earlier this year.
And Jordan Peterson on the psychology of leftism:
Hatred turns out to be a very powerful motivation. If you think about the sorts of things that happened in the Soviet Union, all these places that were supposed to be workers’ paradises – if you look at the outcomes and you had to infer whether it was goodness of heart and care for the working man that produced the genocides, or outright bitter resentment and hatred, it’s a lot easier to draw a causal path from the negative emotions to the outcome than from kind-hearted benevolence. You just don’t get gulags out of benevolence.
As noted here before and illustrated at length, it’s interesting just how often “social justice” posturing entails something that looks an awful lot like spite or petty malice, or an attempt to harass and dominate, or some other obnoxious behaviour. Behaviour that, without a “social justice” pretext, might get you called a wanker or a bitch. A coincidence, I’m sure. And it seems to me that when your chosen means of expressing piety and high motives include terrorising a lone female driver, picked at random, and trying to smash her car’s windscreen into her face while videoing her distress, then some self-reflection may be in order. And likewise, when Black Lives Matter activists and “social justice” juggernauts deliberately and laughingly obstruct ambulances and other emergency vehicles, and endanger the lives of random people, while giving the ambulance drivers the finger, this doesn’t exactly indicate some lofty moral purpose.
It does, however, tell the rest of us, quite vividly, what you are.
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his bare-faced dishonesty
Not to damn near literally beat a dead horse, but SM was such a target-rich…target such that re-reading that series of exchanges it seems we all glossed over this bon mot (my emphasis):
Logic. From a man who teaches. At a college. An expert on the subject of “the history of economic thought”. From wiki: “SFU is a public university, with more than half of funding coming from taxpayers”.
Sandwichman
I’d forgotten that jackass.
From his first comment on that thread:
“…Fifty years ago the consensus among conventional economists was that we’d be working something like a 20-hour week by now…”
Right off the bat he gives us a lie, a lie straight out of the Communist handbook of propaganda ploys to deceive and confuse people.
And of course his comments positively drip with condescension.
Tom Walker ain’t no Doctor. The link proveded lists these credentials:
No Ph.D. Or even an Ed.D.
but SM was such a target-rich… target
I haven’t re-read the whole thread, but I seem to remember ‘Sandwichman’, i.e., Tom Walker, getting especially pissy with the ladies who corrected him or challenged his assumptions – among them, Andrea, Laura and Anna. At one point he snapped, “Grow a brain, sweetheart.” I’m tempted to suggest that, in any other context, a dogmatically leftwing educator and “social justice activist” might consider that rather sexist. But there we are.
Three good things about Canada:
– Gad Saad
– Jordan Peterson
– Mark Steyn
But I’m not sure about the last one, I think he might be just a funny-talking foreigner.
PS “After throwing a metaphorical scarf across his shoulder, he practically slammed the door.” – LOL!
Apropos of nothing whatsoever, I felt an urge to share this.
It’s Jeremy Clarkson.
LOL
It does rather linger in the mind.
I guessed it was him, but Google couldn’t find a match – it does make a surprising guess, though.
it does make a surprising guess, though.
Captain Slow? Remarkable.
Ah, the NEF “discussion” with Sammichman
He’s not a Professor, nor an Associate Professor, and not even an Assistant Professor, he’s a “Term Lecturer”
Rogues Gallery. That was the term I was looking for earlier. We needs us a Rogues Gallery like Batman gots. He has his Penguin, his BookWorm, his Joker and Two-Face indexed there. We got Sandwich Man and The Minnow. Perhaps the HenchLesbians can get on that posthaste? Problem is, galleries tend to have pictures…Well we do have SM’s but The Minnow’s composition was, IIRC, a figment of collective speculation.
And the above mindset can be found, daily, in countless tiny variations.
Wow. What a spiteful bitch. I have relatives of a left-wing persuasion, as I imagine most of us do, and never once have I considered refusing to help them because they voted for someone, or something, I find politically and/or personally distasteful. I’m neither petty nor vindictive – I’m better than that.