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Heather Mac Donald on leftist contradictions:
The same left-wing establishment that in the morning rails against American oppression of an ever-expanding number of victim groups in the afternoon denounces the U.S. for not giving unlimited access to foreign members of those same victim groups. In their open-borders afternoon mode, progressives paint the U.S. as the only source of hope and opportunity for low-skilled, low-social-capital Third Worlders; a place obligated by its immigration history to take in all comers, forever. In their America-as-the-font-of-all-evil-against-females-and-persons-of-colour morning mode, progressives paint the U.S. as the place where hope and opportunity die under a tsunami of misogyny and racism… In pressing for an immigration policy determined by the desire of hundreds of millions of foreigners to enter the U.S., progressives implicitly acknowledge that the left-wing narrative about America is false.
Toni Airaksinen on feminist nutrition:
Two professors argue in a newly published anthology on “feminist nutrition” that “athletic performance” and “longevity” are simply “Western values.”
The authors, Allison Hayes-Conroy and her sister, Jessica Hayes-Conroy, are unhappy that dietary literature, which they wish to “decolonise,” rarely devotes space to activist issues such as “strikes and boycotts,” knowledge of which is apparently essential to any attempt to lose weight or correct a vitamin D deficiency. The ladies are also unhappy that farmers markets are “spaces of whiteness” and therefore oppressive.
And via R. Sherman, Bret Weinstein describes his career-changing encounter with the Mao-lings at Evergreen:
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the day that 50 Evergreen students – students that I had never met – disrupted my class, accusing me of racism and demanding my resignation. I tried to reason with them… Their response surprised me, and it would take months for me to fully understand what had happened. The protestors had no apparent interest in the very dialogue they seemed to invite. I was even more surprised by the protestors’ fervour in shouting down my actual students – some of whom had known me for years. The cruelty and derision reserved for students of colour who spoke in my defence was particularly chilling.
As the professor seems to have belatedly realised, good-faith dialogue holds little appeal for the spiteful, the malevolent and the sadistically inclined. Unlike scolding, humiliation and mob harassment. And of course, exerting power over others.
Update, via the comments:
Very much related to the above, Franklin Einspruch on the mental and moral contortions of woke commentary:
Noah Berlatsky is a herpes lesion on the lip of cultural criticism. This is someone who thinks Janis Joplin’s music is racist. He thinks the show “Altered Carbon” is racist. He can probably find racism in cloud formations and wood grain. After several years of politicising culture to within an inch of its life, he turned to politics. There, his attitude—that the world is divided into white supremacists, and people who agree with him—has guaranteed him an audience as a progressive journalist.
Do read the whole thing.
As usual, feel free to share your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments.
The protestors had no apparent interest in the very dialogue they seemed to invite.
“What I have seen functions much more like a cult”
That.
Or maybe it was just a really shit film?
https://twitter.com/Plipster/status/1008122988447846403
Or maybe it was just a really shit film?
I almost miss the era when stars and starlets were hired only to jump around and look pretty, and any political opinions were generally kept to themselves.
Or maybe it was just a really shit film?
Fie on the opinions of biracial teen women of colour. I want to know what aged white Christian women of privilege had to say abou-
“I have glimpsed it… I expected it to be bad, and it is.”
Oh.
The Hayes-Conroy sisters sound like fun. Here is another tome they have written, Visceral Geographies: Mattering, Relating, and Defying, or at least copied from the po-mo generator.
Well, OK, if you say so.
RTWT, and if anyone actually can glean what the hell “visceral geography” actually is from that random slap-dash of words, please let me know.
Regardless, particularly concerning their lamentations of farmers markets being “white spaces”, both of these “scholars” only reveal their innate prejudices and provincialism. One, being in Philadelphia, would indeed see them as “white spaces” as they would be largely gentrified events, and the other in Geneva, NY, would be rater pressed to encounter a black person anyway, given the demographics. Here in the hinterlands where the farms actually are, about half the sellers are black, and the buyers over represented, mainly because the produce is usually cheaper than in the stores. I imagine black farmers selling to whites is some form of oppression, though.
However, stolen from Small Dead Animals is this Rex Murphy piece about corruption in the FBI that also rather describes of the corruption in the Clown Quarter, and succinctly summarized.
Toward the end of Weinstein’s testimony, he seems to be approaching an epiphany when he notes that the 1st Amendment is really insufficient to address the problem he identifies. Unfortunately, he doesn’t go far enough.
Our Constitution, so the Founders thought, was designed for a virtuous people. A people without virtue would destroy it. A virtuous one would maintain it without much need for legal intervention. The 1st Amendment reflected a shared, collective value of free thought and expression. It didn’t prescribe it from on high.
How does such a thing become a shared value? Through, inter alia the education system which Weinstein identifies as the problem. Unless, the values of free thought and expression are taught as transcendent, higher social goods, then no amount of laws or other governmental tinkering around the edges is going to solve the problem.
For a break from all the craziness and lies, here is an interview with Freeman Dyson:
https://www.52-insights.com/freeman-dyson-i-kept-quiet-for-30-years-so-maybe-its-time-to-speak-interview-science/
“I almost miss the era when stars and starlets were hired only to jump around and look pretty”
To paraphrase a snarky reviewer, what does she think she has under her blouse that makes her opinions worthy of attention?
Heh.
[ Points to Stool Of Shame. ]
You should be proud of me, David: the reviewer referred to a different part of her anatomy. 🙂
Rex’s article contains some memorable lines, including, “The Inspector General’s report on the Clinton investigation is the story of another crash marriage, that of staggering, wilful bias with imperious self-righteousness, attended by bridesmaids of immense smugness and shameless deceit.”
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Someone’s going to make a lot of money putting “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” on a T-shirt with DJT’s photo.
And since shirts and what’s under them was mentioned…
I’ve only read one review of A Wrinkle in Time, by a black woman. She said it was rubbish, but that kids might like it.
what the hell “visceral geography” actually is
A map of one’s innards?
The sort of rocks that turn one into an interesting sploosh if fallen upon from a great height?
A map of one’s innards?
Maybe, but that used to be called “an anatomy book”.
However, Through The Alimentary Canal With Gun and Camera is a good alternative for studying innards.
Two professors argue in a newly published anthology on “feminist nutrition” that “athletic performance” and “longevity” are simply “Western values.”
People in Malaysia and Japan aren’t interesting in living past 40.
#FeministFact
People in Malaysia and Japan aren’t interesting in living past 40.
The ones who do are just Uncle Suhalias and Uncle Tojos, sold out to the white man’s values.
Or maybe it was just a really shit film?
It’s a new trend…
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1008336253153107968
Unintended consequences, but if teachers were armed..lol.. this would stop in it’s tracks.
In other news, I’m reporting from a corner booth in the bar of a local Mexican eatery, in which I and my son are the only two fans of Germany (my country-in-law.) Fortunately, my son is drawing attention with his game-worn Schweinsteiger jersey while I’m inching toward the door doing my best Sammy Hagar “Mas Tequila!” impression.
Speak well of me.
Speak well of me.
We’ll hold a candlelight vigil.
Farmers markets are “spaces of whiteness”?
Hell, I’m practically the only white guy at my farmers market. Don’t think anyone’s being oppressed, though. Let y’all know next week.
Let y’all know next week.
Bring back cheese.
And for those who missed the Evergreen saga, there’s a flavour of it here.
See also this.
Farmers markets are “spaces of whiteness”?
In a manner of speaking.
In a manner of speaking…
Reminds me a lot of the various local arts & crafts fairs, but.
In my area the farmers markets are full of serious looking middle-age and elderly mom-type shoppers. Veg and fruits are generally a significant bargain. Meat and fish are pricey but the fish,at least, is much better quality than in the big stores.
I’d guess the shopping population ethnicity is 60% Chinese with the rest a random mix of the world. Vendors about evenly split latino, chinese, “white”, with a few Indians, Persians, Vietnamese, russians, etc etc. Roughly 50-60 “shops”.
You can totally feel the whiteness surrounding you.
Fred the Fourth gets a second from me.
The same goes for Whole Foods and Sprouts in your area. They were “decolonized” without any assistance from the Righteous Sisters
The ladies need to get out more. And besides what is wrong with whiteness?
In my area […]
There’s definitely something to it (the video). There are real farmer’s markets, and then there’s the hipster knockoffs that seem to pop up a lot in urban areas that are gentrifying. The economically depressed former manufacturing town next door to me is going through that, and its new “farmers'” market cleaves so closely to the video it’s disturbing (right down to the £5 cupcakes).
As, cf the last post, is white farmers selling to blacks…
‘Feminist bookstore to close this month, blames white supremacy’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45955/
It’s never what they’re selling.
The authors, Allison Hayes-Conroy and her sister, Jessica Hayes-Conroy, are unhappy that dietary literature, which they wish to “decolonise,” rarely devotes space to activist issues such as “strikes and boycotts,”
Haven’t you heard? ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING MUST BE MADE POLITICAL UNTIL THE WHOLE WORLD IS SHITTY AND BORING.
Thanks pst for that Freeman Dyson link. To read about an elite who’s not completely up his own ass is as refreshing as a cool drink on a hot day.
Re Bret Weinstein and the Mao-lings at Evergreen, Franklin Einspruch has more:
He’s just getting started. Do read the whole thing, if only marvel at the mental and moral contortions of woke journalism.