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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.
As usual, feel free to share your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments.
Douglas Murray on the human cost of communism.
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.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/25/black-friday-posts-new-single-day-record-gun-checks-more-than-200-000/894706001/
These two things are not unrelated.
Much of the good stuff is towards the end.
I am stunned that there is a person on the planet without severe brain damage or developmental difficulties so unable to look at a can opener and figure out how it worked without a struggle.
Back in the day even the Cat IVs could figure these out, or they didn’t eat, though I suspect it would make Miss Millennial in the video collapse in a pile sobbing..
From David’s Thatcher thread above:
My work-mate Bill then noticed that amongst the more socially elevated individuals present, despair at the loss (again) of what had once been a Labour safe seat gave way to some particularly spiteful commentary about its electorate. Bill had to listen – with increasing anger – to a series of sneering remarks about white working-class voters in Basildon, and how stupid they were. The straw that broke the camel’s back was a throwaway remark about how the Tories had evidently bribed voters by giving them a free Doberman. Whilst others guffawed, Bill exploded, rounding on the author of this bon mot with the words ‘It is precisely attitudes like that that make working class people vote Tory!’ Bill burnt more than a few bridges that night, but he had basically ceased to give a fuck.
A description of upper class reaction to the 1983 elections in Britain. Note the similarities to the reaction following our election last year. Lefties never change.
Note the similarities to the reaction following our election last year.
Yes, much of the documentary has a certain resonance.
Now that I think of it, doesn’t everyone FAVOR endless free stuff? The difference of opinion seems to be whether that’s possible or not.
Still sick; off to doctor today. Poo.
I used to hate those itty-bitty can openers like Farnsworth showed. I hadn’t seen one in years and hadn’t missed them! I remember the introduction of the electric can opener. I used to think my aunt was tres cool because she had a dishwasher, an electric can opener, and one of those big color TVs that sat on the floor (a console TV, I think it was called). My parents refused to buy any of that stuff. They were “minimalist” before it was cool.
“I’m not Milo . . . I’m not even gay. I just have short hair. Those are two different things.”
Meanwhile, in other news.
Career girl.
… a console TV, I think it was called …
Kenneth Williams used to tell a story about his elderly mother’s response to news that a neighbour had acquired a new television (described as ‘a 17″ console’): ‘I’d have thought that seventeen inches would console anybody.’
I’ll get my coat.
*chortle*
Jordan Peterson is the lighthouse of hope in this fog of stupidity.
As a WLU grad, I can attest to how things have changed since I graduated in 97, however looking back, there was shades of this type of thinking. For example, in a Canadian History course about our Native Peoples (“Indians”, for you politically incorrect heathens) my professor at the time had very forgiving views towards some of the more heinous native cultural practices.
her “The act of taking scalps was in fact a wondrous deed where the warrior would take a piece of the soul of the other, and the person being scalped would now be welcomed into the afterlife with honour…”
me “umm, they were literally cutting the off the top of someone’s head while they were still alive..”
her “yes, how wonderful. And, slaves taken by natives would sometimes become a member of the tribe, so that is another example of how wonderful they were…
me “I thought all slavery was wrong, I’m sure some Americans treated their slaves well, but we still judge them critically…?”
Basically, I survived her course by agreeing that Canada’s Native Peoples were essentially Tolkienesk elves, and Europeans were bad. Like the Orcs.
I’ll get my coat.
I’m afraid the henchlesbians threw it into the street and then set it on fire.
… then set it on fire.
Philistines. I’ll have you know that was my second-best Astrakhan.
Why is there a burning coat on the street outside?
*reads joke*
Never mind.
As a WLU grad, I can attest to how things have changed since I graduated in 97
There is a better than even chance we have gotten drunk together. (U(W) Engineering, ’96, U(W) Math ’08)
It’s gotten much, much worse. Now they don’t even try to lionize these behaviours; they’ve gone down the memory hole. If you bring them up you’re told that either that’s a vicious, vicious white-person lie or else the natives learned those practices from the Europeans. Seriously.
I know two whiter-than-whitebread female friends with PhDs in Canadian History/Indigenous Studies that can’t get jobs because they’re white, and it’s verboten to hire anyone but a native to teach those programs now.
The schadenfreude is delicious.
Instalanche.
Instalanche.
[ Hastily passes round some heavily-used roll-on underarm deodorant. ]
Keep the deodorant. Give me the link.
@Geezer https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/281832/#respond
“…my professor at the time had very forgiving views towards some of the more heinous native cultural practices.”
Today’s cultural practices include drinking beyond twice the legal limit driving the wrong way on a street at over 180 km/h in 50 km/h zone t-boning a car, killing two of the passengers while seriously injuring two others then getting sentenced to 4 to 6 years in an aboriginal healing lodge. The sensitive souls of elves indeed.
http://torontosun.com/news/provincial/recommended-healing-lodge-sentence-in-fatal-drunk-driving-crash-a-joke
[ Hastily passes round some heavily-used roll-on underarm deodorant. ]
*Sniffs*
I’m good, thanks.
*Sniffs* I’m good, thanks.
Found it in the gents. It’s still got some life in it.
Peterson: You just don’t get gulags out of benevolence.
Lewis: Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
I’m afraid that this is one case where I’m going to have to quibble with Dr. Peterson. Something about roads to certain destinations being paved with “benevolence” comes to mind.
It does, however, tell the rest of us, quite vividly, what you are.
In Australia there was a state election in Queesnland. PM Turnbull could almost qualify for the title of stupidest pollie alive.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/terry-mccrann
I don’t understand the deodorant joke.
I don’t understand the deodorant joke.
We wouldn’t want to give the wrong impression to visitors that we are *uncouth*! Hence the deodorant.
I don’t understand the deodorant joke.
We wouldn’t want to give the wrong impression to visitors that we are *uncouth*! Hence the deodorant.
David is quite in favor of appearing couth.
“Couth is good.”–Winston Churchill
Good Lord, has it come to this?
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/new-york-times-celebrates-sexualization-10-year-old-boy/
I thought we were PROUD of our lack of couth. Am I in the right bar? Let’s see, the pickled “eggs” are fermenting away, the henchlesbians are at their usual table, the bouncers (all twelve of them) in their places with bright shining faces–sure looks like the right bar. Was a new Couth Initiative launched while I was out sick?
Re the junior drag queen: when was the last time that poor kid dared to go out onto the playground, and where is his father (the mother must be a lost cause)?
Was this picture photoshopped to give her a turtle neck?
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/beware-the-modern-day-heretic-hunters/
Or is she related to the turtlish guy we discussed a while ago?
. . . the bouncers (all twelve of them) in their places with bright shining faces . . .
Bouncers????
What happened to The Roaring Boys?
They got bounced.
Via Ace, a millennial job interview.
a millennial job interview
Sadly, being proficient in Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Vine is the job description for a “social media coordinator”. Not only do a number of millenial women actively pursue this kind of “position”, many of them seem to think it’s an actual career. The fact that it’s possible to combine image recognition with natural language processing to completely automate this job is going to take them by surprise.
Although I suppose it’s marginally better than the ones who think they can cosplay for a living.
Further to this, Gad Saad chats with Lindsay Shepherd.
I’m afraid that this is one case where I’m going to have to quibble with Dr. Peterson. Something about roads to certain destinations being paved with “benevolence” comes to mind.
If we set aside the explicitly sadistic and murderous fantasies of Marx and Engels, and Lenin and Trotsky and all the others, I suppose we have to ask whether the claim of benevolence and altruism, or the delusion of such, signifies actual benevolence and altruism, or whether it can be used as camouflage, a fig leaf, for something else entirely.
I mean, what if someone – say, a politician and supposed intellectual – wants to confiscate even more of other people’s earnings and wants to do this regardless of whether such confiscation would have any of the social benefits they claimed it would have, even if it makes their stated objective impossible. Are we to trust in their self-image as a person of unassailable virtue?
And what about these guys here, the ones who want to compel us to live more simply, as they conceive it, and who claim, apparently in all seriousness, that not permitting us to own the “dispensable accoutrements of middle-class life,” including “cars, holidays, electronic equipment and multiple items of clothing,” will make us “better neighbours,” “better parents,” and better people. Do you trust their stated motives, of “healing” us, and curing us of our acquisitiveness, and do you trust their self-image as benevolent and just?
And when a Guardian columnist rages against a random family in the neighbourhood, about whom she knows nothing beyond the size and amenities of their home, and then exults, proudly and in print, at the thought of that random family’s downfall and suffering, and at the thought of the “aggressive redistribution” of their belongings, and that Guardian columnist tells us how pleasing this will be and that she “can’t wait,” are we to believe that her motives are selfless and high-minded?
And the above mindset can be found, daily, in countless tiny variations.
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This is why I come here.
This is why I come here.
I think the last item is telling because it’s so small, so petty, and is evidently shared as a boast. It’s something that Mr Tyler Oakley thinks will make him look good among his equally woke peers. And the 32,000 ‘likes’ and subsequent comments, many savouring the thought of sabotaging a relative’s phone simply and solely because they didn’t vote Democrat, rather bear this out.
Re champ,
I hear babies cry and I watch them grow. They’ll learn much more than we’ll know. And I think to myself: What a Wonderful World.
And what about these guys here,
Ah, the NEF “discussion” with Sammichman. We’ve reflected a bit on minnow above, now Sammichman. Trying to think who else may be missing…
Ah, the NEF “discussion” with Sammichman
Oh yes, Sandwichman. He seemed very keen on the idea of people being compelled to live in poverty by an overbearing state, and claimed that the rest of us were mere “drones” and “willing slaves” of consumerism, and suffering from “false consciousness,” when we should be “fighting the system” heroically, like him. As I recall, he got quite angry – well, angrier – when his various errors and habitual self-flattery were pointed out to him. After throwing a metaphorical scarf across his shoulder, he practically slammed the door.
I remember being amused when I discovered that ‘Sandwichman’ is actually a pseudonym of Dr Tom Walker, a professional educator in Vancouver who “teaches Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University.” He is, apparently, an expert in “the history of economic thought” and “alternative economics.” Given Dr Walker’s evident annoyance at being corrected on points of fact and logic, and given his apparent difficulties with simple reading comprehension, and his bare-faced dishonesty, you do have to wonder what his classroom environment is like. For a self-described “peace and social justice activist,” he did seem terribly ill-tempered, positively misanthropic.
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Though I suppose if you spend every working day, year after year, surrounded by impressionable teenagers who are by definition unworldly and inexperienced, and who are obliged to defer, it must be quite unsettling to find the hokey Marxoid blather that you can get away with in class being poked at by people who aren’t quite so trusting. It must’ve been quite the culture-shock.
@Champ
Good Lord, has it come to this?
That doesn’t seem like something a paedophile might do at all…….
you do have to wonder what his classroom environment is like
Much like all the others I suspect.
… a millennial job interview.
I remember a time when this could have been enjoyed as satire rather than simple ethnography.
I miss those days.
“…I suppose if you spend every working day, year after year, surrounded by impressionable teenagers who are by definition unworldly and inexperienced…”
“Because, sir, teaching young gentlemen has a dismal effect upon the soul.It exemplifies the badness of established, artificial authority. The pedagogue has almost absolute authority over pupils: he often beats them and insensibly he loses the sense of respect due to them as fellow human beings.He does them harm, but the harm they do him is far greater. He may easily become the all-knowing tyrant, always right, always virtuous; in any event he perpetually associates with his inferiors, the king of his company; and in a surprising short time alas this brands him with the mark of Cain. Have you ever known a schoolmaster fit to associate with grown men?”
–The Ionian Mission by Patrick O’Brian
… a millennial job interview.
What’s amusing is that most businesses these days demand a social media presence across most/all of the major platforms. My eldest got conscripted into managing her tech start-up employer’s English language social media footprint in addition to her other duties. (She’s in Europe and the only native English speaker at her firm.) It’s a lot of work–many eighteen hour days. The snowflake depicted in the video wouldn’t last five minutes.
or the delusion of such, signifies actual benevolence and altruism, or whether it can be used as camouflage, a fig leaf, for something else entirely.
Ivy Starnes