Lawn Maintenance Is Racist
Further to the previous post, more “critical race thought” from a severely educated young person.
You see, a pleasing lawn is not only “racist” but obviously a manifestation of “the white psyche’s compulsion to establish complete dominion over ‘property.’” (Do note the scare quotes around the word property, which is apparently a doubtful concept with no basis in reality.) Now excuse me while I nip across the road to tell the chap at number 32, the one whose family hail from India, that his immaculate lawn is merely a sign of his own oppression, of submission to “white norms,” “white supremacy,” and the “white conception of property.”
I’m sure he’ll appreciate being educated in this way.
Via Dicentra.
TimT, you’re not getting off that easy. Veggies and ornamentals are also racist. Everything is racist. 🤪
You know, I have heard hair-raising stories of real racism from real black people who have real jobs. These SAPs ought to be ashamed of themselves for trivializing such a thing.
Yes. The Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study found that 0.9% of Americans are Muslim.
I can’t help noticing the irony in Apple seeing fit to inconvenience the 99% for the benefit of the 1%.
Apple didn’t do it for the 1%, they did it for themselves, to signal their virtue to their fellow travelers.
Closed groups tend to get more and more extreme in their pissing matches this way, as each member looks to one-up the last one along a single dimension, trade-offs be damned. When I see it get to this level, I know I’m dealing with someone who lives in a bubble.
It used to happen mostly to shut-ins, like the infirm, who needed to get out more but couldn’t. These days, though, it too often seems to be by choice, as in the Apple example. O Tempora.
I’m also working on my it’s and its. Really I am.
Oh, you’ll be fine as long as you remember to dot your Ts and cross your Is and burn your bridges when you get to ’em.
Closed groups tend to get more and more extreme in their pissing matches this way, as each member looks to one-up the last one along a single dimension, trade-offs be damned.
Still being apropos . . .
Still being apropos
Brings to mind the old joke, “three communists go for lunch; by the time they leave, they’ve founded four new political parties.”
Depends Jim, on location in time and space.
One my amusements is to follow Wikipedia articles on the splintering of Western Communist parties. I’m picking Green parties will start to exhibit similar factionalism as time goes by, and real world issues start to impinge rather than be swept away in the initial fervour.
But if you place the joke in 1960’s Eastern Europe, then four communists enter the bar with different ideas on how Communism should work and three leave firmly agreeing on the one correct way.
. . . four communists enter the bar with different ideas on how Communism should work and three leave firmly agreeing on the one correct way.
. . . As presumably the fourth is being carried out the back, with a bullet hole in the back of his head.
…but draw the line at ever uttering something like ‘lawns are raaaaacist!’
Tsk. It’s just a phase. here All the cool kids are doing it.
They’ll get over it.
Given the increased propensity of religious violence based on certain times per year, it can be useful for non-muslims to know when these periods actually are, especially since the islamic calendar is based on a lunar cycle and not the standard Western Gregorian calendar. Ramadan is a more dangerous time of the year for non-muslims and for the wrong-kind-of-muslims. See http://www.thereligionofpeace.com for the casualty scorecard during Ramadan. The Apple religious days calendar can be useful even if you are not of islamic religion.
It could have been a mundane grumble about residents’ associations and such, but instead it’s steeped in the language of intersectional victimhood.
She sounds mental.
“Related”
“If you don’t want whites to act like a 21st century American minority group—e.g., racially conscious, bloc voting, biased, prickly, and led by racial racketeers quick to proclaim their group’s victimization—then don’t make whites a minority.”
She sounds mental.
I suppose it’s what Jordan Peterson would refer to as ideological possession. And it’s hard to miss the vanity and imperviousness, of a kind we’ve seen before. So far as I can make out, Ms Zhang still hasn’t addressed any of the rebuttals and corrections aimed her way over the last couple of days. Instead, she’s just disdained any feedback at all from “non-white people,” whom she dismisses, collectively, as ignorant and unworthy, and then blocks.
Such is wokeness.
Since when does the majority get all the rights, and minorities no rights in the United States? That violates the First Amendment to the constitution.
I assume she’s talking about the states trying to stop blueprints for 3D printed guns from being released?
Such is wokeness.
Speaking of which, I am sure you all will recall the Pyramid of Privilege, that is apparently out, now we have the Mandala of Oppression.
She sounds mental.
Avoiding fetal alcohol syndrome is a tool of the patriarchy.
Well that certainly clears things up. You will be surprised to learn that “Dr.” Lee has a PhD from the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Kent
Such is wokeness.
And this malignant disorder isn’t as benign as much of the right seems to think. How it manifests and what it seeks are not the same thing.
I am sure you all will recall the Pyramid of Privilege, that is apparently out, now we have the Mandala of Oppression.
In fairness, it has helped a graduate of Oberlin and Columbia know which members of the lower classes she can sneer at with impunity and even acclaim. Because, thanks to the fully intersectional Mandala of Oppression, they, not she, “have every advantage.” Which is why they’re working in a chicken processing plant and being sneered at as “privileged,” and therefore inherently contemptible, by an Ivy League graduate who writes for the Wall Street Journal.
Again, such is wokeness.
I assume she’s talking about the states trying to stop blueprints for 3D printed guns from being released?
Ted, that quote that you quoted was from my slightly off topic rant about my looking up how to remove muslim holidays from my new iPhone. That quote specifically amused me as it is such a juvenile whine one would think it came from a young woman or a teenager, yet the picture associated with the commenter was of an elderly Ernest Hemingway looking guy. As he was using his full name for a ‘nik, I got curious and looked him up on LinkedIn. Picture of the same guy and he turns out to have been a project manager with 30 some years of software development leadership/experience. Once a VP. I wish I could say I can’t imagine working for such a prick and yet I’m quite certain I have.
Tsk. It’s just a phase. here All the cool kids are doing it.
Please do follow Ten’s link in that comment. Why hasn’t the NYT been taken to the woodshed for hiring such a blatant racist? And she’s also a Forbes 30 under 30 wtf person. And she’s been appointed to their editorial board?
Again, such is wokeness.
Indeed, however, for the Woke™ who generally eschew binaryism, they seem awfully fond of binaries. As I fit into several categories on both sides of The Event Horizon Of The Mandala Of Oppression I am not at all sure if I am privileged or oppressed, or if it is like the VA and I get a percentage of either, or if I am just privloppression fluid.
Why hasn’t the NYT been taken to the woodshed for hiring such a blatant racist?
Er, I’m perfectly happy the NYT has hired a “racist”. In this hopefully the right won’t adopt the left’s principles and then, like so many times before, forget to orphan the bastards.
Not so incidentally, the Democrats are making substantial inroads a few months before a national election. The question isn’t what could possibly power that collective madness as it is why does the armchair right have no capacity whatsoever to identify, educate, organize, institutionalize, or evangelize?
All roads, inevitably, lead to white guilt
And so we once again see the Nazi ideology appear in a slightly altered form.
This keeps happening, for some mysterious reason.
And so we once again see the Nazi ideology appear in a slightly altered form.
More so Bolshevik…
…why does the armchair right have no capacity whatsoever…
You underestimate the comfort of my armchair, friend.
And the racist little girl added to the NYT editorial board is not nearly so alarming when you look at it from the proper perspective: this was the best talent they could afford.
OT, a bit, but there’s been another of those taking Trump literally/Big Red Button/big boy pants pretending not to know what he means moments.
He was talking about in future needing an ID to vote, and mentioned that you needed ID to get groceries.
So this is reported as stupid Trump, you don’t need IDs to get groceries, duh.
Of course, his dumb redneck supporters, and those of us not beholden to TDS, knew perfectly well that he was talking about e.g. alcohol, tobacco etc.
And now everyone is talking about ID. Why, it’s almost as if…
You underestimate the comfort of my armchair, friend.
Just so, tongue in cheek or not.
And the racist little girl added to the NYT editorial board is not nearly so alarming when you look at it from the proper perspective: this was the best talent they could afford.
Even if that’s true, the proper perspective is that that segment of the world is clinically daft and it shall indeed have your end. As entertaining as this all is, the normie right, as the more astute call it, is unprepared for that eventuality.
Of course, his dumb redneck supporters, and those of us not beholden to TDS, knew perfectly well that he was talking about e.g. alcohol, tobacco etc.
In my corner of deepest South Flyoverlandia people still regularly write checks for just plain groceries, and, mirabile dictu, if buying that way, the cashiers do in fact want to see an ID.
Which is why they’re working in a chicken processing plant and being sneered at as “privileged,” and therefore inherently contemptible, by an Ivy League graduate who writes for the Wall Street Journal.
That.
And the racist little girl added to the NYT editorial board is not nearly so alarming when you look at it from the proper perspective: this was the best talent they could afford.
Yeah, I think you’re whistling past the graveyard there. Her youth is what they see as an outreach to future subscribers. That and the hipness of her being an anti-white, most likely communist tool. I’m quite certain there are many, many people one could add to the NYT editorial board who are not as “expensive” who are also not racist. Hell, I might be convinced to do it for kicks myself if NYC wasn’t such an expensive place to live.
Complacency is a killer.
That.
Well, the selectivity and incoherence with which these rules are applied doesn’t exactly suggest good faith on the part of those who mouth them.
But if you think of it as a way for unhappy and inadequate middle-class lefties to ease their own hang-ups about status, by framing others as undeserving of whatever happiness and success they may have achieved, while obscuring their own advantages, and by giving them an excuse to air their nasty personalities while being applauded for it by other, equally unpleasant people, then I suppose it starts to make a kind of sense.
even the woman’s Twitter avatar has a punchable face
That’s a character from a children’s cartoon. Who is deliberately written to be annoying, yes.
I think it’s telling that so many of these people choose to identify with entertainment aimed at children.
Ten,
Not sure what your first point @14:15 was getting at but to your second point, The question isn’t what could possibly power that collective madness as it is why does the armchair right have no capacity whatsoever to identify, educate, organize, institutionalize, or evangelize? I heartily agree.
Personally quite tired of the armchair right myself. However on the occasions in which I have raised this point amongst (supposedly) friendly right-leaning types, I have been caught off guard by the ferocity and being typecast as some sort of community-organizer-leftist. It seems most on the right would simply rather continue to retreat from the problems and are quite hostile to attempts to motivate them to deal with them. I am open to suggestions as to how to remedy this situation.
…a way for unhappy and inadequate middle-class lefties to ease their own hang-ups about status, by framing others as undeserving of whatever happiness and success they may have achieved, while obscuring their own advantages, and by giving them an excuse to air their nasty personalities while being applauded for it by other, equally unpleasant people…
That sequence starts out well enough – that these elites and urbanites are typically, and judged by their wokeherding, fundamentally psychologically affected – and goes downhill from there. Eventually they express this dysfunction as an active spectator sport, projecting whole moral ‘realities’ onto the world. Except it’s not a sport.
It’s surely no less than that. The question is what actually underlies that malady, and what is its goal?
It seems most on the right would simply rather continue to retreat from the problems and are quite hostile to attempts to motivate them to deal with them.
They haven’t only given away their ring of master keys, they don’t want them back. Of course, it’s also fashionable to ding an accidental, swamp-draining CEO than organizing to prevent his 2019 impeachment, because after that we can get back to the business of running Righteous Candidates whose fealty to goodness is eternally reflected in their 29% share of vote.
See? Proof!
It’s owing the right to own the left or something.
I think it’s telling that so many of these people choose to identify with entertainment aimed at children.
That, and it is how they want to see themselves, e.g., delusion vs. reality:
More so Bolshevik…
How about National Bolshevist, to reference that Monty Python sketch? Bolshevism was supposed to be internationalist and non-racist, and yet keeps morphing into something both nationalist and racist.
the selectivity and incoherence with which these rules are applied doesn’t exactly suggest good faith on the part of those who mouth them.
It doesn’t count when they do it.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/303739/
how they want to see themselves
It’s ironic that one of FFR’s common drumbeats is unrealistic portrayals of women’s body types in video games.
It’s even more ironic that that dude on the left is a dude.
It doesn’t count when they do it.
The best part is The Times non-apology, essentially, “Wypipo made her do it.”
The best part is The Times non-apology, essentially, “Wypipo made her do it.”
Some proof of that would be interesting. Hunted around a bit through the instapundit comments. Saw a few comments saying there were no such.
Well this is rich. So apparently I am now “unauthorized” from accessing that Apple Communities discussion thread regarding how to remove Muslim holidays from my iPhone. Not that I was interested in going back to it but I still got six email notifications of posts to the thread to which I now cannot directly access. The new mystery started with an email quoting this posting. Not sure which side this guy was on:
Which led to this exchange:
Yeah, I think you’re whistling past the graveyard there.
It was meant as something of a “ha-ha only serious” observation. I agree with you that her selection is meant as an attempt to reach the audience who type “wypipo” into Twitter unironically. At the same time, I think that with her selection, NYT shows that it is trying to reach out to the audience who type “wypipo” into Twitter unironically. When you’re reduced to chasing that demographic, I don’t think it bodes well for your long-term outlook. Especially after you’ve written your 500th article about that generation having no money, and when you’ve already seen your news division revenues decline by half over the course of a decade.
So, while I may be accused (rightfully) of laziness, I console myself by watching the best and brightest of our news media running around with their hair on fire, insisting that they are Real Journalists and not Fake Newsmen. Given the stellar work they’re putting in to discredit themselves, I’m not sure there’s much left for me to contribute to the effort.
So, while I may be accused (rightfully) of laziness, I console myself by watching the best and brightest of our news media running around with their hair on fire, insisting that they are Real Journalists and not Fake Newsmen. Given the stellar work they’re putting in to discredit themselves, I’m not sure there’s much left for me to contribute to the effort.
I agree. Problem is most people, especially most people under 50…which is most of most people…still believe these Real Journalists. If you’re not getting your news from them, you’re getting it from Info Wars (I still have no idea what that is).
Personally quite tired of the armchair right myself. . . . I am open to suggestions as to how to remedy this situation.
What faith one claims to believe in, or what mere label one gets identified by, remains irrelevant.
One leaves things as they are when one and the rest of us need things left as they are.
One will do what one and all of the rest of us need to have done.
Info Wars (I still have no idea what that is).
Imagine my shock.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
When you’re reduced to chasing that demographic, I don’t think it bodes well for your long-term outlook.
I’ve been watching a lot of the Diversity & Comics YouTube channel (also known as actual comic writer and artist Richard C. Meyer). Not coincidentally, I am also friends with a guy whose brother is top tier talent at Marvel (he’s worked on the Avengers, among other titles).
Meyer’s comments about Marvel doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on the SJW nonsense despite the way it’s cratering their sales are borne out by my conversations with Marvel guy. They just don’t care, and seem to be blissfully unaware of just how bad the sales actually are. Marvel Comics qua Marvel Comics will never die as Disney will float them forever as a loss leader but at some point the whole division is going to be reduced to turning out colouring books and Hostess Fruit Pie ads.
And now Daily Mail has gone lunatic. This narrative is full-on gaslighting.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6020573/I-attacked-restaurant-mocked-looks-medias-fault-says-Sarah-Sanders.html
This is not a thing the other party intends to negotiate.
Marvel Comics qua Marvel Comics will never die as Disney will float them forever as a loss leader…
Superhero movies make billions. What massive revenue-producer does the New York Times have in its pocket, which it can use to subsidize its increasingly selective appeal?
I understand that these jokers tend to amplify one another, and the resulting feedback loop often makes it look as though they have a massive popular movement. Then I remember that the 800 people who shut down the light rail downtown to protest a police shooting were stop-the-presses! capital-N News, while the 30,000 people who had to find another way to get to the metric football exhibition match were a mere footnote.
If you believe that the 800 will overpower the 30,000 through the power of their media allies, then I understand where the concern comes from. My money’s on the 30,000 — when they decide they’ve had enough, the whole charade will come crashing down.
In which known Hollywood leftist radicals shriek FILTHY RACIST and organize a mob to get people fired and ruin their lives.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1025085984181039104
Yet another racist, misogynist, thing foisted upon the world by the white patriarchy. Wypipo evil knows no bounds.