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Further to the first item here, biologist Heather Heying on the Mao-ling urge to shut down thought:
When banal observations like “men and women are different heights” prompts the accusation that I’m both brainwashed and a Nazi, it’s clear that this was not good faith protest. It is true that the authoritarian-left is denying biology, but the deeper truth of the situation is perhaps even more concerning. The incoherence of the protesters’ responses and the fact that the walkout was scheduled in advance suggests something darker: the protesters are “read-only,” like a computer file that cannot be altered. They will not engage ideas — they will not even hear ideas — because their minds are already made up. They have been led to believe that exposure to information is in and of itself dangerous.
Via TomJ in the comments, Helen Pluckrose on the same:
The problem [for the protestors] was that both of the people [invited to speak] had penises, those penises were white and, as far as anyone knows, responsive to those of the opposite gender. They were hegemonic penises and this was problematic… Resolution of the hegemonic penis “problem” was first attempted via the invitation of not one but, ultimately, all five members of the tenured and tenure-track Women’s Studies faculty at PSU… They all declined to attend, one insisting it was inconceivable that the discussion could be had in good faith given the participation of [James] Damore and [Peter] Boghossian.
Again, the word projection comes to mind.
Kirsten Grind and Douglas MacMillan on “diversity” in practice at Google, and attempts to hide it from public scrutiny:
YouTube last year stopped hiring white and [East] Asian males for technical positions because they didn’t help the world’s largest video site achieve its goals for improving diversity, according to a civil lawsuit filed by a former employee. The lawsuit, filed by Arne Wilberg, a white male who worked at Google for nine years, alleges… YouTube recruiters were instructed to cancel interviews with applicants who weren’t female, black or Hispanic, and to “purge entirely” the applications of people who didn’t fit those categories.
Short version here.
And Chris Rossi on the creep of “social justice” and wasting class time with voodoo:
“This semester, for Physics 101, in addition to learning about quantum mechanics, we are also learning and discussing implicit bias, microaggressions, and other similar topics.”
Because when you’re paying good money – $64,000 a year – to learn about wave mechanics, spectroscopy and atomic structure, what you really want is to be bored and insulted with unfalsifiable intimations of racism and misogyny. Readers will of course recall just how laughable and fatuous the so-called “implicit bias” methodology is. As I noted at the time:
When the peddlers of a test, an alleged curative for unconscious racism, count practically any kind of behaviour, including the random positioning of a chair, as proof of “discrimination” and unjust inclinations, alarm bells should ring, quite loudly. This is the realm of “diversity” Scientology, and the kinds of leverage in play may well attract people whose own motives are not entirely benign.
In a saner world, the peddlers of this hokum would be chased out of town with blow darts and nail guns.
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They will not engage ideas — they will not even hear ideas… They have been led to believe that exposure to information is in and of itself dangerous.
Perfect leftwing students then.
[T]he protesters are “read-only,” … They have been led to believe that exposure to information is in and of itself dangerous.
There also seems to be an authoritarian streak at work. How dare you want the facts to make up your own mind when your betters have already decided the issue?
Perfect leftwing students then.
Vanity is a powerful drug, not least because it excuses one from testing one’s own assumptions. And so the wokest of woke-lings have zero appetite for discussion or debate, which entail the risk of being proved wrong, perhaps embarrassingly so. Given such risks, the woke-lings’ prefer to silence and denounce while feeling immensely self-satisfied. As unwittingly symbolised by this chap here.
‘When banal observations like “men and women are different heights” . . .’
It may be a banal observation, but guess who is responsible for it
I’ll give you one guess.
…peddlers of this hokum…
Speaking of which, you can now microagress yet another identity group,“mixed-weight” couples.
Note the “occupation” of most of these charming duos, something that is telling in of itself.
Meanwhile, as this is from a UK rag, I am hoping this is just someone taking the piss, as I believe y’all say.
The article should have told readers how to pronounce “Mzznaki.” Sloppy writing.
Other than that, it was a nice story. Who can object to true love?
The incoherence of the protesters’ responses and the fact that the walkout was scheduled in advance suggests something darker … They will not engage ideas — they will not even hear ideas — because their minds are already made up.
Something in that description reminded of a line I came across recently in Lorna Finlayson’s 2016-published Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy: An Introduction to Feminism:
If I think you’ve got it wrong, I can’t very well afford to be tolerant.
Finlayson is a Lecturer in Philosophy with a PhD from Kings College, Cambridge.
Well, we haven’t heard from Farnsworth yet…😄
Oops, yes we have. Sorry, I was reading on a phone, going up and down, and got mixed up.
Farnsworth’s casting a jaundiced eye on True Love, God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world!
Is it still snowing like crazy in England?
Is it still snowing like crazy in England?
Intermittently. Hereabouts we have four inches or so, enough to fully submerge your shoes. Happily, it’s still at the entertaining ‘new snow’ stage and not sludgy or icy, though I’m sure that will change.
Let’s be honest, we’re not surprised by this, are we?
https://twitter.com/evawiseman/status/969530407476695040?s=21
Let’s be honest, we’re not surprised by this, are we?
It’s been my experience that the more ostentatiously leftist a person is, the more likely it is they’ll be vain, entitled and casually selfish, often in ways that are breath-taking. I can think of one, maybe two, exceptions to this, out of dozens of first-hand encounters.
Farnsworth’s casting a jaundiced eye on True Love…
My metaphorical eye-rolling was over yet another bogus identity group, however, take a gander at their links. You may call it True Love, but as the man said, “I sees ’em as I calls ’em”, and I see pathological attention seeking.
http://www.unz.com/gnxp/men-are-stronger-than-women-on-average/
I noticed the thin/fat alignment to sex in the examples. (I know that there are fat men/thin woman pairings, but they didn’t appear to be able to find one.)
I see Pomona doesn’t even have the guts to respond to questions about the course. So perhaps they should also teach the Physics students some basic biology, to do with sunshine making a good disinfectant.
One wonders what the actual ratio of productive employees to dead weight is at Google. There’s a sense that the vast majority are merely there to check some sort of demographic box and who then spend most of their time sending each other emails for their hourly SJW fixes. So, has Google reached the inevitable end-stage of all monopolistic enterprises, where their primary concern is not the product or the consumer but its own self-aggrandizement?
Is it still snowing like crazy in England?
One of the two foxes that pass through the garden has been treated to several chunks of raw chicken, tossed from a respectful distance. He’s now curled up in the snow, on the lawn, licking his genitals.
#MyWinterWildlifeJournal
“…racial microaggressions” can be “lethal” because they lead to “racial battle fatigue.”
Well, sure, if your the only one flailing about with your sword of racial righteousness and others are refusing to play along. Newsflash: It’s not that you’ve taken the field of battle; it’s that people are now avoiding you, because you are a dick.
Jack Sprat, could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean.
And so betwixt the two of them,
They licked the platter clean.
“Intermittently. Hereabouts we have four inches or so, enough to fully submerge your shoes.”
Hard to tell now because it’s beginning to thaw, but we had close to a foot in central Glasgow. I shudder to think what it’s like on the outskirts. On the upside, milk supplies have resumed, but there’s still no bread to be had. (Overheard in a local supermarket: “They’ve no’ even got tottie scones…” Grim times indeed.)
Well, sure, if you’re the only one flailing about with your sword of racial righteousness and others are refusing to play along.
Or, “Being a neurotic, whiny, tedious, self-preoccupied prick may impact your social life.”
“Note the “occupation” of most of these charming duos, something that is telling in of itself.”
I’d guess that’s just HuffPo being lazy and going to the easy source of crazy narcissists.
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The outlet pipe’s probably frozen on it – a few kettles of hot water to thaw it should do the trick.
NB I the degenerate south the snow stopped falling last night and is stealing away like melting snow in a thaw. Though it appears my simile generator is still frozen solid.
the snow stopped falling last night and is stealing away like melting snow in a thaw.
Don’t make me share more of this stuff.
I have plenty.
“…racial microaggressions” can be “lethal” because they lead to “racial battle fatigue.”
What this snapperhead fails to realize is that the only ones fatigued by their racial caterwauling is the other side, their side appears, they way they can’t shut their pie holes about this nonsense, appears to fueled by 110 octane amphetamines.
Don’t make me share more of this stuff.
Meh, he is a shameless ripoff.
Sam, is a foot of snow unusual for Glasgow? If so, have they been able to clear the streets?
David, are you also in Scotland?
I’m about 250 miles to the south of Glasgow. So no.
Looking at the map, that puts you in the middle of England?
One of the two foxes that pass through the garden has been treated to several chunks of raw chicken, tossed from a respectful distance. He’s now curled up in the snow, on the lawn, licking his genitals.
*Finishes tasty chicken dinner*
*Looks shifty*
On the topic of any subject…Curious, what does a bottle of decent vodka cost in the UK? Or is home distillation some new hipster-ish hobby over yonder?
what does a bottle of decent vodka cost in the UK?
About £20 or so for a litre, I believe.
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Hey, that wasn’t a bad guess.
+: Hee hee hee hee hee
Heather rhymes-with-flying (thanks, Heather!) posted her article on Medium. Robert Stacy McCain was recently banned from Medium (again). I wonder if they’ll ban her too?
Don’t make me share more of this stuff.
What in blazes was that?
I’m going to go with Art … but…
The mind boggles.
Is anybody gently mocking the Independent with regard to this snow?
And by gently mocking I mean savagely beating a rented mule.
“Our betters”
https://twitter.com/Roran_Stehl/status/969956421360996352
“Sam, is a foot of snow unusual for Glasgow?”
Oh, not even close. At least, not here in the city. That’s not to say it doesn’t happen – I recall 1986 and 1987 (I think) being quite similar to this, and there was another bad one in the mid-’90s – but an inch or so is more usual. If that. Sometimes we go two or three winters with no snow at all.
“If so, have they been able to clear the streets?”
It has been, as one bloke interviewed for the TV news put it, like a disaster movie. There was barely a shop open on Thursday. People who’d set off before it all started were stranded on the M80 motorway for more than 24 hours, with no information as to if or when any assistance would be forthcoming (frankly, the photos there don’t look as bad as it eventually became). The M80 starts literally a mile from the very centre of the city, and runs for about five miles. At no point along its entire length is it more than about 500 yards from civilization. Her Majesty’s First Minister in Scotland, whose “government” took over control of trunk roads from local councils some years ago, blamed, as is her wont, anyone but her.
Absolute bloody chaos. Still, as I say, some semblance of normality appears to be returning now.
Food Stall Serves Up A Social Experiment: White Customers Asked To Pay More
Also, the NYT plumbs new depths of dishonesty for a hit piece on Ryan T. Anderson’s book on transgenderism.
In relation to the article about mixed weights. I am 190cm and weigh 145Kilograma my wife is 160cm and weighs 60 kilograms. She seems happy.
2 or 3 winters with no snow at all? And they sort of speak English? Hmmm. What’s the cost of living like? Is Glasgow full of 3rd-world immigrants? How about the surrounding burbs? Can furriners use the NHS?
This white customer would tell him where he could put his social experiment and try to organize a boycott.
I just read the snow article. It looks like any U.S. city during the first big snow of the season. I’d feel quite at home sitting there looking at the panel truck in front of me.
“I know that there are fat men/thin woman pairings, but they didn’t appear to be able to find one.”
Because the guy in those cases is filthy rich?
And they sort of speak English?
Yeah…I think you’re still gonna need a babblefish.
I know some fat guys with skinny wives. Until my uncle died, my aunt was one of them.
Hi WTP, can’t remember the name of it but I watched part of a movie set in Scotland. It had subtitles. I needed them.
I wonder if all those expensive Glensomething brands of whisky, like Glenfiddich, are cheaper in their homeland?
He’s now curled up in the snow, on the lawn, licking his genitals.
There’s a gender identity for that!
I guess.
can’t remember the name of it but I watched part of a movie set in Scotland. It had subtitles. I needed them.
Root Of Evil