Because It’s Too Bloody Hot
And I can’t think when it’s hot. Hence, yay, open thread. Feel free to share links of possible interest and then bicker about them. I’m assuming, by the way, that we’ve all checked this week’s pyramid of white supremacy, as last week’s pyramid of white supremacy may by now be out of date and insufficiently woke. And that simply wouldn’t do.
If all else fails, you can always poke through the reheated series and greatest hits.
When You So Woke, You Asleep”
Is it a good omen if even the BBC is making fun of this?
Ann Miller performs the number out of protest.
Just the sort of protest I like to see.
I just wrote to my uncle (my aunt’s from Korea) to see if he’s tried those fish. Will report back.
Wtp,
Xkcd, of course, covered that issue.
From memory:
Kelvin: 0 ? Dead. 100? Dead.
Celsius: 0? Cold. 100? Dead.
Fahrenheit: 0? Very cold. 100? Very hot.
Step aside, you lowlies, feminist science coming through.
This one is, I think, an interesting clue of panic mounting among the intellectually superiors
I see that in order for Dr Van Norden to assemble his argument, such as it is, he begs questions, misquotes his opponents to the point of parody, appears proudly ignorant of widely available data, and conflates the encouragement of a thing with its active suppression. Not an ideal performance by a professor of philosophy. Especially one whose authoritarian fantasies are ultimately based on his own pretence of rigour and intellectual superiority.
I mean, when you find yourself appealing to the alleged wisdom of Herbert Marcuse, for God’s sake, alarm bells should be ringing. Or circus clown music.
@Posted by: Pst314
“Is that the Cole Porter who wrote ‘Kiss me, Kate’?”
“Alas, no, this is the Cole Porter who wrote ‘Anything Goes'”.
“Oh! They’re the same one!”
From one of the better Flying Circus episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaRtlMp-hMU
“the alleged wisdom of Herbert Marcuse”
While reading it, that was the eye-widening moment I tossed the article into the recycling bin.
While reading it, that was the eye-widening moment I tossed the article into the recycling bin.
Marcuse’s position, which seems very much in fashion among Mao-lings and the academic left, was basically a license for the most ludicrous vanity. To paraphrase the root message: “Being leftwing, I am persecuted but brave, indeed heroic, and am always and forever right. I do not need to listen to my opponents because no one will ever show me to be wrong, about anything, ever. Especially if I force them into cowering silence with threats of mob coercion and physical intimidation.”
If you were able to subtract self-flattery from leftism, along with titillating thoughts of thuggery, the whole thing would deflate catastrophically, like a mistreated soufflé.
…feminist science coming through…
University of Zambia: “Hold my katata…”
when you find yourself appealing to the alleged wisdom of Herbert Marcuse, for God’s sake, alarm bells should be ringing. Or circus clown music.
That. 😀
University of Zambia: “Hold my katata…”
I can’t tell if the article is sarcasm or the comments on the article are sarcasm or both or neither. Grip on reality is slowly loosening.
That. 😀
And yet here we are with self-styled intellectuals in effect saying, “I’ve thought of everything already and have nothing more to learn.” And we see discussion, civility and reciprocation dismissed as personal complicity in some ill-defined oppression. And self-imagined intellectuals announcing, quite proudly, that they don’t have to substantiate their assertions to anyone outside of their self-defined “marginalised communities” because, er, power dynamics.
It’s a recipe for smug morony. And look at the creatures it attracts.
It’s a recipe for smug morony. And look at the creatures it attracts.
i”m not so much concerned about the creatures it attracts as the creatures it creates/converts. These “morons” are on a roll. Their idiocy is spread far and wide. This isn’t something as self contained as say, Scientology or some such. I hear some of this crap over the wall from my high-tech co-workers. Such people have money (for now) and power (for now) and have a tremendous capacity to do a whole lot of damage before the s*house caves in on them, taking many of us with them.
Update: uncle has not tried the penis fish. I told him to live a little & report back.
I can’t tell if the article is sarcasm or the comments on the article are sarcasm or both or neither.
As we take a trip down memory lane, I fear it is not sarcasm.
Of course, not taking it seriously means you are a white devil (even if you are not) and need to have lightning thrown at you.
“Is that the Cole Porter who wrote ‘Kiss me, Kate’?”
“Alas, no, this is the Cole Porter who wrote ‘Anything Goes'”.
Any moment now the Dirty Vicar will walk into David’s fine establishment.
so does that mean when PoCs such as the Khmer Rouge, the Tutsis, the Japanese in WWII, the various pre-Columbian Mesoamericans killing each other off, etc., etc., etc., were white supremacists ?
No, they’re just cultural appropriators…
Woke civility.
According to Mr Klion, if anyone to the right of him politically, including Claire Lehmann and Jordan Peterson, notices an increase in threats and deranged behaviour coming from the left, and suggests that such threats and behaviour reflect badly on those indulging in them, then the people noticing this are merely being “triggered.”
Mr Klion imagines himself as part of an “insurgent” movement and is now frantically blocking anyone to the right of him politically.
As Glenn Reynolds says, “The Left is taking things well”
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1011614157018468353
Perhaps it was an underprivileged youth, the sort of whom Laurie approves of rioting?
https://twitter.com/pennyred/status/1012056718585614337?s=21
Perhaps it was an underprivileged youth,
But Laurie has assured us, repeatedly, that opportunist theft – of trainers, phones, laptops and such – is a sign of “desperation” and “a political statement.” A statement she favours. Are they only “dickheads” when they steal from her?
I’m so confused.
The Left is taking things well
The Twitter page only half-ass loaded for me, so I didn’t see any user portraits. It wasn’t until I read the “Good god man…” response that I realized it was “Elie” and not “Ellie”.
Perhaps it was an underprivileged youth,
A post of its own, I think.
One notes that the bottom of this week’s pyramid includes “Prioritizing Intentions Over Impacts,” which has to be in the running for most self-unaware pronouncement of the week.
I guess that “impacts” affecting the feelz of a brave and strong protected class are totes important, while “impacts” affecting the livelihood of millions of workers don’t count. Because “those aren’t real impacts” or something.
Note this later post by ElieNYC:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1012074988873056257
“What can we do to stop this? *Legally* nothing. Not a damn thing. The bad guys won. THEY’VE WON EVERY DAY SINCE SCALIA DIED. And if *legally* is your boundary, then you are of no more fucking use here.”
“Woke civility”
From the Grauniad:
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/david-klion
“David Klion
David Klion is a freelance writer in Brooklyn and a former editor for Al Jazeera America and World Politics Review. He has a master’s degree in Soviet history from the University of Chicago and has lived and worked in Russia.”
And he pines for the Soviet Union, no doubt.