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Will Gu on the deep and worldly wisdom on offer at Scripps College:
The college will be hosting two Venezuelan officials next week at a three-day speaker series praising the “grassroots initiatives” of the country’s totalitarian government. The officials, Venezuelan Consul-Generals Antonio Cordero and Jesús Chucho García, will be speaking to students on “African solidarities,” “coups and imperial wars,” and the country’s vision for “a new society rooted in political participation, communal economies and democracy.” The description adds that the event is “for all who are interested in economics that serve people not profits.” Venezuela is still facing mass food shortages as a result of its government’s economic illiteracy. People in Venezuela have lost an average of 19 pounds from recent food shortages… The event description does not mention whether the two Venezuelan officials will discuss their country’s rampant corruption problem, the government’s dire financial situation, or the rapid devaluation of Venezuela’s currency to the extent that the government cannot afford to pay for money printing services.
Related: this, and, rather tellingly, the first item here.
Cathy Young on debate and its enemies:
When about 30% of college students favour censorship, it should be a cause for alarm — especially because that’s up from 22% two years ago. Moreover, 53% of students believe “promoting an inclusive society” is a higher priority than protecting free speech rights. Over a third say it is sometimes acceptable to shout a speaker down, and one in 10 approve of violent disruption. The last figure may seem small, but it means some 2 million collegians in the United States believe it can be okay to use violence to stop speech they don’t like. That’s not good news.
Gail Heriot on racial discipline quotas and perverse media narratives:
A Government Accountability Office report finds that boys are disciplined more often than girls in school. It also finds that African-American students are disciplined more often than white students and that whites are disciplined at higher rates than Asian Americans. Of course, the New York Times covers it with an utterly misleading headline “Government Watchdog Finds Racial Bias in School Discipline.” Here’s what the NYT didn’t say: Just a few days ago, another government report showed that African-American students self-report that they have been in a physical fight on school property at a rate more than twice the white rate. Overwhelmingly, the aggregate disparities in school discipline are the result of differing rates of misbehaviour, not bias.
And Heather Mac Donald on the same.
Readers unfamiliar with the consequences of ‘progressive’ racial discipline quotas should take a look at this item here, and also this one. Both offer vivid illustrations of leftist psychology given power – and by vivid I mean ludicrous and horrifying. Such that the groping and choking of teachers and the setting afire of students’ hair are excused on grounds that “African-American boys” are more “physical” and “demonstrative.” Amid the inevitable chaos and degeneracy – including a dramatic fall in maths and reading scores, and a rapid rise in assaults and classroom thuggery, up to and including actual riots – amid all this, critics of the policy are smeared as racists, while “white privilege” guilt hustling is made mandatory. And while terrified teaching staff console themselves with free emergency whistles.
As usual, feel free to share your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments.
And yes, it’s real.
The jokes, they write themselves.
Didn’t Dr Johnson say something about listening to a woman preach a sermon being like watching a dog walking on its hind legs – it’s not that it’s done well, you’re just impressed that it’s done at all.
We’re still treating women in creative fields as if they’re only there for novelty value. You’d think feminists would object to this.
@Farnsworth
Once again, we see the frustration of Progressives at any evidence which demonstrates that humans are not fungible commodities and that there are biological differences between–note “between” and not “among”–the sexes. And assuming we find these mythical competitions where women can excel, how do we then deal with the progressive love for “my sexual identity is what I say it is and oh, BTW, can change hourly” mantra, which threatens everything Title IX created way back when?
Lord, these people are morons.
Dwyfor Meirionnydd… Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg
I’m sorry, you’re breaking up.
Years ago, we had a very enjoyable holiday in Wales. But God help you if you venture into the countryside and need to ask for directions.
designs one with the female skill-set in mind.
So beauty contests and quilting bees? Maybe bake-offs?
So beauty contests and quilting bees? Maybe bake-offs?
I wonder if David’s been keep up on the Scold-O-Mat maintenance? I hear there’s a new “Woke-Inator” probe attachment that’s available.
I hear there’s a new “Woke-Inator” probe attachment that’s available.
It probes like there’s no tomorrow.
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg
Fortunately, a brief dose of antibiotics will clear that right up.
More evidence identity politics is a hustle:
https://mobile.twitter.com/katvondawn/status/983386288073199617
I particularly like the “if you learned something today, then give me money” follow up tweets. The entitlement. It burns.
That’s not entitlement — that’s just hustle. You get one shot at a viral tweet — better make it count!
Meanwhile, when lost ball peen hammers are banned, only criminals will have lost ball peen hammers.
One might think that women — being smarter, more driven, more creative, more communicative, more collaborative, more agile, and just all-around better than men — would have developed their own competitive sports by now. And given their majority status and the fact that they control most household spending, you’d think that their sports would be wildly lucrative, relegating your average footballer to begging for scraps.
I wonder if Mr. Paulas can help us understand why this isn’t so today. Does he believe that today’s women lack the “genital fortitude” to make it happen? That might put a damper on his white-knight game with the softball girls…
That’s not entitlement — that’s just hustle. You get one shot at a viral tweet — better make it count!
Perhaps so, Governor Squid, but it comes off (to me anyway), as “I’m going to call you a racist, and then expect you to pay me for the privilege”. As I said, it feels like entitlement.
…would have developed their own competitive sports by now.
The toxic masculinity of the patriarchy is oppressing them, of course.
But Labour’s Chuka Umunna says the way to tackle knife gangs is to not use the word ‘gang’.
The word that comes to mind is Voldemort.
Voldemoron more like.
No idea why the spam filter accepted my comment yesterday, it must have been distracted.
From the London gangsta video:
“Deez yoots aint got dads fam, dey look up to me”
The Left in Britain has been out to destroy the family for the past 50 years. This is what it leads to.
scrap the current understanding of what constitutes as a “sport” and designs one with the female skill-set in mind.
There’s nothing stopping women inventing their own sports. And even better, they can do it without having to scrap male sports. Everyone is happy, and nobody has to butt in to anyone else’s play – but where’s the fun and profit in that for feminists?
Sport definitely does trade on male archetypes – athletes with Greek statue physiques, quarterbacks as field generals, the boys on our team representing our tribe. Female sports that ape those male archetypes tend not to be popular – our tribal pride isn’t inspired by watching our dames beating up their dames (no matter how much the media tries to shame male sports fans into feeling it).
Many sports already cater to feminine preferences. Tennis, with its Victorian garden party origins, has always had a place for feminine grace and elegance. Women like equestrian sports. Women like sports where there are style points and judges to impress. Gymnastic flips on and off a horse? They already do that in circuses, but our friend has told us that female sport may not resemble sport as we know it.
These articles always have a ten year old offensive linewoman whose NFL dreams are crushed. Is it surprising that girls can compete with boys before the age when boys and girls are fully sexually differentiated, and then they can’t compete? Is it scandalous that most girls grow out of being tomboys and become more interested in girly things?
Now that we have 20 years of the WNBA setting nothing on fire except the NBA’s cash, and multiple failures of hyped-up female sport leagues, the rhetoric has changed from sisters doing it for themselves to finding ways for women to be included in male successes. An interesting recent one was the introduction of mixed relays for the 2020 Olympics. It’ll be interesting to see how that’s presented – for example will the order of sexes be fixed so the audience isn’t presented with the speed differences on the same leg, and if so the anchor leg will probably be female, so that the highlight-reel audience is left with the intended impression.
Farnsworth,
North End Police:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Bw4zyW1ig
We found this spoon, sir!
I see the spam filter is being capricious again. If anyone has trouble with comments not appearing, email me and I’ll pry them loose. It’s that or wait for me to remember to check on the filter, by which time the rest of us may well have raised families and moved on with our lives.
MC,
The Left in Britain has been out to destroy the family for the past 50 years. This is what it leads to.
It’s the same in the US with the Democratic Party’s urban welfare plantation system. It has succeeded beyond Lyndon Johnson’s wildest dreams.
we find that all sports are “rigged” against wymxn.
Geez… it’s barely 9 am for me and I think I’ve read peak stupidity for the day!
Scrap away all the caricatures he engages in … e.g.
And he’d have no article at all.
Also,
And inevitably, the shameless, those devoid of moral sense, will multiply.
From the link:
Call:
Who would leave a tribute to a dead burglar outside the house he tried to rob?
…and Reply:
The so called mourners were probably thieves too. The flowers were probably stolen.
They do that here in Urban America, too. The most infamous was the Michael Brown Memorial Garbage Pile in the middle of the Ferguson, Missouri street where he was shot.
Check the spam filter will ya, Dave!
Who would leave a tribute to a dead burglar outside the house he tried to rob?
Moral imbeciles and, specifically, people hoping to intimidate the victim of the burglary, and his wife, and his neighbours. The kind of people who declare that they will “never be ashamed” of belonging to a family of thugs and career criminals who prey on the elderly, and who boast of getting “revenge” on those they rob and assault.
I’m guessing, of course.
Check the spam filter will ya, Dave!
The only thing in the spam filter was your message asking me to look in the spam filter. I’m still not sure why she picks on you. Have you tried combing your hair and smartening up a bit, maybe with a suit and a clean shirt?
Or, you know, a shirt.
I fear not the Probe, for I am Fully Armed!
I even carry a pocket knife at all times. Beware!
Have you tried combing your hair and smartening up a bit, maybe with a suit and a clean shirt?
Or, you know, a shirt.
I admit that, since I started working from home, I don’t cut quite the sartorial dash I once did.
Moral imbeciles and specifically, people hoping to intimidate the victim of the burglary, and his wife, and his neighbours.
Moral imbeciles:
One member of the travelling community warned: “They won’t get over the death of one of their own and they won’t rest until they get their revenge.
“And when I say revenge, they will go armed with whatever they’ve got — guns, knives. There’s nothing they won’t do to get their own back on this pensioner.”
Such lovely people.
They can say such things with impunity because they know the police will do nothing (more likely arrest anyone threatening the thugs), and the completely disarmed people the Telegraph (???) describes as “vigilantes” can do nothing even if they wanted to.
I don’t cut quite the sartorial dash I once did.
What with Darleen and her Princess Tippy-Toes number, the bar’s been raised. I’m going to have to get the diadem and furs out of storage.
people hoping to intimidate the victim of the burglary, and his wife, and his neighbours.
From the linked article:
One member of the travelling community warned: “They won’t get over the death of one of their own and they won’t rest until they get their revenge.
“And when I say revenge, they will go armed with whatever they’ve got — guns, knives. There’s nothing they won’t do to get their own back on this pensioner.”
Ah, “travelers”. Do any of you folks remember a heartbreaking BBC
documentarypropaganda piece about the plight of the poor, innocent, misunderstood “travelers”? Late 1980’s or early 1990’s, I think. Complete with music to tear at your heartstrings.Do any of you folks remember a heartbreaking BBC documentary propaganda piece about the plight of the poor, innocent, misunderstood “travelers”?
I think I remember that. Titled Snatch wasn’t it?
I have been told that there are Irish Travelers and Scottish Travelers, so after all these years I am unsure who that documentary was about.
Ah, travellers. Or Caravan Using Nomadic Twerps*, as my father calls them. About a decade or so ago some moved onto a couple of nearby playing fields, and each night they were there anti-social behaviour was the norm. One morning my father discovered that those delightful people had keyed his car during the night, for no other reason than that they could. The week they lived there felt like a month. The local council evicted them in the end, and believe me, there was much local rejoicing.
*The actual word he used may have been edited as there are ladies present.
Regarding so-called ‘travellers’, Julia has an extensive archive on the subject.
SJWs as gatekeepers to medical school.
This will turn out well, donja think?
The burglar-shrine saga continues.
If you laugh at the photo captioned with the words “One of the family members takes a cigarette break,” you’re a terrible, terrible person.
This will turn out well, donja think?
The Clown Quarter has invaded medical schools. Oh, I had thought I would post something snarky here, but this is just too horrifying.
A retired fellow recently posted a short video decrying the arrest of the 78 year old pensioner who killed a man who’d broken into his home. This energetic fellow brandished his old cavalry saber – excuse me: sabre – and insisted he would use it for personal defense.
I am mildly shocked I haven’t yet seen a story on him being arrested for threats and his sword confiscated. Maybe he doesn’t live in London? Maybe UK internet crime monitors are out for tea? Maybe they don’t recognize a sword being as dangerous as all those knives they’re so keen to confiscate?
I fear not the Probe, for I am Fully Armed!
You mock, but evidently you never heard of the Gurkha who filed several Taliban to death after he ran out of ammo.
The Clown Quarter has invaded medical schools.
They have been there since the 1970s, they are just getting louder.
If you laugh … you’re a terrible, terrible person.
I laughed. I sniggered, too. Chortled, even. I’m terrible beyond description.
I laughed.
It’s becoming a grotesque comedy.
In saner news.
Julia has an extensive archive on the subject.
The very first entry caught my attention:
No different from US inner-city “flash mobs”, then?
And no, no one here, even the police, will challenge them for fear of being called out as rayciss.
(No cop is going to try to police 40 or 50 “yoots” looting the corner store. That would only “escalate it”, see?)
Is fly fishing considered a sport ?
If so, Good news everyone, equality at last.
The very first entry caught my attention
If you poke about over there, you’ll see just how readily the ‘travellers’ employ the language of victimhood too. They know a good ruse when they see it. And a shield from normal consequences. Which, in the case above, might entail being chased out of town with their vehicles on fire.
I think it was Theodore Dalrymple who pointed out that the indulgence of chronic freeloading doesn’t result in gratitude or civility, or anything approximating such things. The result is typically to embolden – to encourage selfishness, irresponsibility, predation and resentment, and an expectation of more indulgence, indefinitely, and regardless of the cost (and insult) to others.
Actually, any half-competent parent ought to know this.
The burglar-shrine saga continues.
I for one have never been prouder of former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. (That beanie didn’t fool me for a second.)
Years ago, we had a very enjoyable holiday in Wales. But God help you if you venture into the countryside and need to ask for directions.
Heh. I denounce us both.
the indulgence of chronic freeloading doesn’t result in gratitude or civility, or anything approximating such things
This.
One member of the travelling community warned: “They won’t get over the death of one of their own and they won’t rest until they get their revenge.
“And when I say revenge, they will go armed with whatever they’ve got — guns, knives. There’s nothing they won’t do to get their own back on this pensioner.”
“I bring a curse, too. I bring the curse of the White Man From Town.” ~ Richard Bachman, Thinner