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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.
Henry George on the Clown Quarter’s pathological coddling and its strange selectivity:…..the university’s Islamic Society hosted a speaker who failed to condemn stoning for adultery..
Could this be a clue?
President of King’s College London Students’ Union, Momin Saqib..
No, that’s just crazy talk.
From Momin Saqib’s Twitter:
http://twitter.com/kclsu_president/status/887589181567926273
Instructive, I’d say.
I don’t know why, but everything i post appears bolded. Any chance of a fix, David?
Fixed.
The Scold-O-Mat 9000™ is fired up and ready.
Thanks Guv’nor. You’re a gent, but please not the 9000….
Moron SJW who ran into interstate traffic and got knocked down is now suing her university.
http://iotwreport.com/student-sues-uc-san-diego-for-injuries-in-anti-trump-election-night-protest-shutting-down-freeway-claiming-university-organized-it/
It’s never their fault.
I’m afraid Ms. Shepherd is doomed at Laurier, here is an op-ed from one of her MA faculty who also apparently thinks “free speech” should exist only for approved speech.
He said, ignoring that if he has an op-ed, there is not exactly a lot of “silencing”.
There you have it, Peterson’s wrongthought has been “validated”, and we can’t have that.
There is that “violent” crap again, and as we have seen, the loudmouths are hardly repressing themselves. Read the whole idiotic screed at your own risk.
Meanwhile, for a bit of comedy relief and since Ms. Shepherd was compared to Hitler, his own take on the matter.
Moron SJW who ran into interstate traffic and got knocked down is now suing her university. It’s never their fault.
But of course.
As I said at the time, do we think that the “woke” students who amused themselves by blocking the motorway will eventually come to realise that they were the aggressors? Will any of them empathise with the random drivers on whom they gratuitously imposed themselves in order to seem radical in front of their equally narcissistic friends? Will they, of their own volition, pause to consider how frightening it must be to be driving home, perhaps with the kids in tow, and then suddenly being confronted by a screaming mob sprawling into your path, in the dark, on a motorway, intent on who knows what? And will they understand how unwise it is – given events like those linked in the post above – for a driver to stop for a mob and allow themselves to be surrounded by it?
I’m guessing that in each case the answer is no.
their neo-conservative agenda… all other voices have been silenced… alt-right scholars like Jordan Peterson
Another teetering pile of lies. They’re quite shameless. A conscientious parent would not allow their children to be in a subordinate position to so-called educators whose default mode is dishonesty.
.. the voices of trans people do not matter. Sit silently on the side and wait for your turn…
Given that ‘transgender’ people are about 0.01% of the population, their opinions literally don’t matter.
And will they understand how unwise it is…
By “unwise”, I am assuming you mean criminally irresponsible.
Given that ‘transgender’ people are about 0.01% of the population, their opinions literally don’t matter.
My point isn’t the number of people the issue concerns, but rather the eagerness with which some of those concerned, the loudest and most dogmatic, wish to limit and predetermine how any discussion can occur, and how readily those loud, dogmatic voices mouth outright lies.
Re the bolded part of Farnsworth’s post, when will this SOB be forced to apologize or GTFO? Such madness. I understand this is not one of Canda’s finest institutions, but it is government funded (BIRM), correct? WTF, Canada? I thought you people were supposedly known for your politeness. Or perhaps that’s the problem.
I’m beginning to realize that provocative and slanderous statements of this kind are much less about silencing the speaker than to serve as Dalrymple’s necessarily-outrageous propaganda. The more wild and lunatic the statement, the better the breaking and molding effect on the spirit of acceding to the lie. It’s an attack on any truthteller bold enough to disagree.
Moreover, those who claim that this is about silencing Peterson only are knowingly mendacious. This is all about vesting power over the “truth” only with chosen and correct individuals. Put another way, the unchallangeable statement of cause to ban Peterson is the deeper attack on free speech. “We forbid this person, and you may not question it“.
The legendary days of iron children:
Oops, found here:
Ham kills turkey
do we think that the “woke” students who amused themselves by blocking the motorway will eventually come to realise that they were the aggressors?
That would take some self-awareness.
That would take some self-awareness.
Vanity is a powerful drug, and one of its effects seems to be to inhibit even rudimentary self-awareness.
My point isn’t the number of people the issue concerns, but rather the eagerness with which some of those concerned, the loudest and most dogmatic, wish to limit and predetermine how any discussion can occur
My point was similar, but more along the lines of minorities not being entitled to dictate to the majority in a democratic society.
Equality under the law, certainly. Tolerance, definitely. Veto power, no.
The Safest Space spies some feminist scholarship.
Two words that don’t belong next to each other in the same sentence: ” Feminist” and “Scholarship.”
Tim Newman has a footnote to the Lindsay Shepherd saga.
Just because two words combine to mean “absolute rubbish” doesn’t mean they can’t be in the same sentence, you exclusionary hater, you.
I marvel at Ms. Shepherd’s innocence in demanding to know the precise nature of her offence. Doesn’t she yet realize that ignorance of the nature of the offence is in itself evidence of her being insufficiently “woke.” It’s a variation on a the “Kafkatrap,” substituting ignorance for denial of the offence.
I marvel at Ms. Shepherd’s innocence in demanding to know the precise nature of her offence.
At her age, I could still be caught off guard by such creatures and left a little nonplussed.
You just don’t get gulags out of benevolence.
That.
That.
But you will get gulags and all the other horrors out of sentiments like these.
Just add power.
I’m afraid Ms. Shepherd is doomed at Laurier, here is an op-ed from one of her MA faculty who also apparently thinks “free speech” should exist only for approved speech.
What I don’t get is how this Assistant Professor keeps saying that only the alt-right and conservatives get to speak, and yet, what Ms. Shepard showed to her class was a video of Jordan Peterson and some leftist professor debating the issue of gender, with Peterson stating that there are only two genders, and his opponent arguing for multiple genders. Seems that both sides got to speak their piece…
@Champ.
Perhaps, via Ace, The Unified Theory of Madness that explains the enigma of the left will help.
Some snippets:
The whole thing is long, but worth your time.
But you will get gulags and all the other horrors out of sentiments like these.
Just add power.
That too.
Ps. I’d forgotten how slimy ‘Minnow’ was.
A good short video from Gad Saad…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj12gqpzGcI
That too.
As I said in the original thread, I sometimes forget that we’re not supposed to actually read the more sadistic ravings of Marx and Engels – which, shall we say, hinted quite strongly at the horrors to come. Because if we did read them, and if we thought about what such people would do with any kind of power, then the likelihood of boneyards, both moral and literal, would be hard to miss.
I wonder what Canada’s labor laws are like? I’m in the benighted U.S., and even here my union contract requires that if I believe I’m going to be disciplined I have a right to a union representative present to hear everything that is said. Meaning if that had been me, at any time during that struggle session I could have called in a steward as witness. I thought that in Europe and Canada, all employees had the basic rights enjoyed by the tiny minority of American employees who belong to unions? Is that wrong?
In most U.S. states, we have “at-will employment,” meaning they can fire you at any time for any reason or no reason and harass you at will, as long as they’re not stupid enough to use ethnic insults and suchlike, which is more like what Lindsay experienced.
Now that I think about it, I’m also one of the dwindling group of employees who are employees. Every day here, more and more employees become “independent contractors.”
The Safest Space spies some feminist scholarship.
As one might expect, there is pretentious sniveling in the replies.
I’d forgotten how slimy ‘Minnow’ was.
Had to follow the link to be reminded of who ‘Minnow’ was. Slimy indeed.
I noticed one of Minnow’s assertions which was not challenged in that thread, which bears note:
If they oppose immigration, for example, that will have the effect of making some people much poorer, so that others can stay even richer…Immigrants make counties richer, I agree. But controlling immigration is good for the wealth of some people some of the time. Just like restricting markets can enrich individuals at the cost of the masses.
Minnow never made explicitly clear who these “some people” are who are made poorer by restrictions on immigration, so it’s impossible to be certain if Minnow was referring to foreigners or natives or both.
However, it is clear that immigration leads to reduced wages for natives due to competition for jobs–and in fact there have been numerous news reports in recent years about companies replacing native workers with cheap immigrant labor.
Furthermore, it is demonstrably false to claim that all immigrants make countries richer–some immigrants do little more than increase the welfare rolls and the crime rates–and sometimes the frequency of terror attacks.
The above problems are ones that you would think the Left would be concerned about, since the working class are those who are most vulnerable to increased crime and to downward pressure on wages. However, the Left now sees massive immigration as a political tool, to swamp the disappointing native voters with huge numbers of people who favor socialism and endless Free Stuff, to make people dependent upon the State and unable to even imagine any other life, and (of course) as a continuation of Lenin’s infamous principle “the worse the better”.
On the sexual harassment front:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/26/politics/john-conyers-step-down-judiciary/index.html
The significance of this is that Conyers, who was beaten up during a 1960’s civil rights march–suffered a concussion and broken bones, if I remember right–is a holy man in liberal circles, absolutely beyond any criticism. If the witch hunt has ensnared him, it’s gone beyond control and no man who’s a public figure is safe.
I know little about Conyers–I don’t live in Michigan–so I can’t tell you if he’s done nothing; done something that was never acceptable; done something that was acceptable 60 years ago but taboo today. I can tell you that we have reached the point where it no longer matters.
to swamp the disappointing native voters with huge numbers of people who favor socialism and endless Free Stuff,
From the same thread, this may be worth revisiting.
Every day here, more and more employees become “independent contractors.”
I was chatting a bit back with someone else doing job hunting in the midst of hordes of others . . . His observation was basically that No, there is no such thing as the “gig economy”, the accurate term is the scraps economy.
I know little about Conyers–I don’t live in Michigan–so I can’t tell you if he’s done nothing
He recently paid an out-of-court settlement to a female former staffer who’d claimed sexual harassment in a (wrongful termination?) lawsuit against him. He’s another of those about whom salacious rumors had swirled for years, but no one dared say anything because he was, as you say, a “holy man”.
More detail on the Conyers topic:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/morality-will-to-power-pelosi/
From the same thread, this may be worth revisiting.
Thank you, David, that was illuminating.
And Stephen Fry hated Thatcher. A leftist and a snob?
Moron SJW is claiming UCSD ‘organized’ the tantrum, which is highly unlikely. While I have no doubt the administration and bulk of the faculty would’ve been completely on board with it, they had damn-all time to actually arrange much of anything. None of them had the slightest inkling that Trump would win, and it was only confirmed in the middle of the night. 99% of them wouldn’t even have been there to wave pitchforks and torches, let alone hand them out.
That said, I’m greatly enjoying watching Eschewing Personal Responsibility 101 whip around and bite them on the ass and looking forward to a veritable motherlode of idiocy being mined in discovery.
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As I was saying, vanity is a powerful drug.
Via Darleen.
From the same thread, this may be worth revisiting.
Halfway through the video. The thread is awesome. 🙂
The thread is awesome. 🙂
It is, I think, one of our better ones. And do stick with the video. Much of the good stuff is towards the end.
Vanity is a powerful drug, part three.
The tightly controlled framing of this story has helped to reaffirm the message of peripheral and extreme ctrl-left scholars like Professor Greg Bird and his followers: that the voices of reason-loving people do not matter. Sit silently on the side and wait for your turn, if it is ever presented, to speak up and defend yourself. Wait for those who question your existence to present their case first. Those who deem your very existence to be illegitimate are legitimate voices. Irrational “trans” opinions have been given a carte blanche and thus validated.
There. I fixed it.
Meanwhile, in other news.