Tipping Poison In The Ear
An unnamed New York Times reader asks, “How can I cure my white guilt?”
I’m riddled with shame. White shame. This isn’t helpful to me or to anyone, especially people of colour. I feel like there is no “me” outside of my white/upper middle class/cisgender identity. I feel like my literal existence hurts people, like I’m always taking up space that should belong to someone else.
Times contributors Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond, self-styled purveyors of “radically empathic advice,” inform this unhappy, seemingly demented reader that, “We do live in a culture steeped in white supremacy and class bigotry, as well as patriarchal values,” and therefore any comforts and advantages the reader might have, however they were arrived at, are “unearned, the product of corrupt systems,” for which “every white person should be ashamed.” “What you really feel,” they continue, “is trapped within an identity that marks you, inescapably, as an oppressor.”
Today’s words are abuse, creepy and cult.
Via Dicentra.
* He’s telling lies by omission about his vibrant neighborhood/school.
There’s so much that doesn’t add up. If Whitey really is as white and privileged as he says, then how did he get into an Elite White School For Elite Whites? Did his great-grandfather purchase the entire block where the family apartment sits? In this case, his parents may be paying retail to send him to the school where they met and fell in love. Otherwise, we’re left to believe that he was granted an amazing scholarship based on his ZIP code, and the admissions officers at the EWS4EW didn’t bother to check his melanin level before they extended the offer to what they surely figured was the token minority they could use for their newsletter covers.
Of course, his great awakening may be due to his exposure to a bunch of kids who grew up in various boring suburbs, and he’s just now finding out that his childhood in East Harlem is atypical. Finding out that you’re the only one who didn’t fall asleep to the sounds of your neighbors throwing dishes at one another might lead to all kinds of re-examinations…
Of course, his great awakening may be due to his exposure to a bunch of kids who grew up in various boring suburbs, and he’s just now finding out that his childhood in East Harlem is atypical.
Indeed it would be atypical, upper middle class wypipo in East Harlem, which has nearly half the population on some sort of assistance, are almost as rare as diamonds in a pig’s butt.
* He’s not as ashamed of himself as he pretends. His self-castigation purifies him and shames his white classmates who haven’t been as forthcoming about confessing their ethnic guilt.
*ding ding ding*
We have a winnah!!!!!
Behold this.
http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2018/08/she-hates-being-single.html?m=0
I read the linked article, and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out what Heather Havrilewski (“Polly”) is babbling about. That ain’t advice, that’s word salad. I could give better advice than that. (“ Don’t eat any pickled ‘eggs.’ Especially not in this dive.”)
What are y’all going on about? First Thursday of the month Jesus come to our house and hands us 20 Large and a “thank you wypipo fa bein wypipo”. Stop pretending like you don’t get the same. Shameful.
Stop pretending like you don’t get the same. Shameful.
Some of us are only honorary wypipo.
Those signs are for you Milesians, Muldoon. At least they let us Hiberno-Normans in the tradesmen’s entrance. Privilege, dontchaknow.
(Hmm. “Tradesmen”? I denounce myself.)
New Zealand had a transsexual MP, Georgina Beyer, for a while. In a fairly conservative area too. She’d been mayor of a local city, and was genuinely popular for her political ability.
Thing was, she didn’t go on about it. Obviously her political interest in things genital was high, but not over-riding. She was just an ordinary MP really.
It’s drama queens that you need to avoid, not people with slightly different backgrounds who know how to compromise and get along. Crusaders with only one thing on their minds, of left or right, are a problem. Dodgy sexual activities, and its not like the hetero ones are all saints in that regard, are only important if the candidate makes it the focus of their politics.
Georgina left after a couple of terms. In the end her Maori heritage caused her more trouble than her sexual one — there was a massive fuss at the time about transfer of sea rights to Maori, or return of rights as they believed (with some cause).
…for you Milesians, Muldoon…
¡ Dios mio ! ¿ Quien sabe ?
From now on, I shall be Ferdandino Matejo Muldoon, pendejo.
From now on, I shall be Ferdandino Matejo Muldoon, pendejo.
[ Slides enormous false moustache along bar. ]
[ Slides enormous false moustache along bar. ]
Hey! As they say in Japan, “Don’t touch my mustache!”
Also, in regards to the sign…It does say “Help wanted”. The latter part is kinda superfluous.
Hey! As they say in Japan, “Don’t touch my mustache!”
Ah. I found it in the lost property box and assumed it was Darleen’s. You know, from last year, when she went on the run after that spot of bother with the…
But I’ve said too much.
[ Slides enormous false moustache along bar. ]
Muchas gracias, now I will have a great advantage over you gringos blancos when in Canada lest I be mistaken for an ordinary wypipo.
Tamara is just an undocumented orthodontist, I guess.
There’s a lot of stealth undermining of the SJW narrative in the current MCU. Thanos the radical environmental activist is just the most obvious example, but Black Panther has a sneaky one: Killmonger’s rant about the black diaspora being abandoned by Wakanda is clearly projection of his own resentment of his father for abandoning him at a young age by getting himself killed for being a criminal.
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It’s almost like they’re saying something about the root causes of the violent black underculture in America.
On the other hand, they could maybe just go back to doing something like this:
A Calgary indigenous woman who knocked out a Caucasian woman’s tooth while yelling “I hate white people,” didn’t commit a racially motivated crime, a judge says.
And this is why many people are rightly sceptical of “hate crime” legislation. It’s premised on an assumption that it shouldn’t be applied consistently.
See also this, especially Glenn’s closing comment.
There’s a lot of stealth undermining of the SJW narrative…
Can’t have that, now.
It’s premised on an assumption that it shouldn’t be applied consistently.
Well, when words like racism are redefined in academia to exclude entire groups from culpability because of their ostensible lack of institutional “power,” it’s pretty obvious what the end game is. Of course, it’s hard to see a lack of power if one is allowed to punch random people on the basis of the victims’ DNA and get avoid legal jeopardy. Where does the power lie in that sort of interaction?
To be fair, the Angry Indiandigenous Person spent six months in jail, and her 12-month probation includes the condition that she “abstain from consuming intoxicating substances and is prohibited from going to any business whose principal sale is alcohol.”
That’s a pretty harsh sentence all on its own!
“abstain from consuming intoxicating substances and is prohibited from going to any business whose principal sale is alcohol.”
Which I am sure she will comply with. Certainly. She has now been told to behave in an even more circumspect manner. I’m quite confident if she had only been told not to go around punching white people in the mouth, this unfortunate situation could have been avoided in the first place. It’s society’s fault, really.
Some of us are only honorary wypipo.
The Irish are the blacks of the world, my son.
A Calgary indigenous woman who knocked out a Caucasian woman’s tooth while yelling “I hate white people,” didn’t commit a racially motivated crime, a judge says.
And the natives are the blacks of Canada.
On the other hand, they could maybe just go back to doing something like this
Howard has a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy, which seemed like a glorious return to the days of Not Giving a **** About Social Commentary. At least until the bucket of weepy emotional tampons that was GotG2.
And the natives are the blacks of Canada.
I seem to recall this being a common theme in movies around the time Trainspotting came out. First I noticed was in Trainspotting where some Scotsman refers to the Scots as “The n***rs of Europe”. Then I saw another movie, possibly The Commitments where the Irish refer to themselves as “The n***rs of Europe”. Then I recall yet another movie from that period, not sure which, where the Portuguese are referred to as “The n***rs of Europe”. I’m guessing it’s gone on from there. Surely the Italians have some claim? The Greeks? Such pride. Perhaps they’re all right.
Heh….meant to quote the first reference, The Irish are the blacks of the world, my son.. Sloppy work on my part. Though in my defense I am part Irish.
Nunchucks. Fake passport. Ball gag. Glass eye. Knuckledusters. Another fake passport…
[ Continues rummaging in lost property box. ]
Ooh. A pair of women’s shoes, broad fit, size 12.
Some of us are only honorary wypipo.
The Irish are the blacks of the world, my son.
Two men walk into a bar . . .
If I were you, I’d wash my hands after handling that glass eye. You never know where those things have been.
You never know where those things have been.
I’ll put the shoes in a bag for you.
Back to the original post, I knew I recognized the name “Cheryl Strayed.” She wrote a book entitled, Wild, which was ultimately made into a movie. It’s a auto-hagiography about her ostensible hike along portions of the Pacific Crest Trail. Suffice it to say, there are significant questions about whether she fabricated the whole thing. See, e.g. this opus. Of course, all the questions and problems with her story have been ignored because “Oprah!!!!” and she’s now a feminist icon, a status which evidently results from being a opioid addict, cheating on your husband and claiming a through-hike on the PCT while skipping all the hard parts.
Of course, all the questions and problems with her story have been ignored because “Oprah!!!!”
Didn’t “Oprah!!!” get dinged a bit ago for promoting another “true story” fraud that turned out to be cobbled out of thin air? Something about teatime in Afghanistan or lotsa cups of tea or something. But it promoted all the right leftist pieties, and was the latest greatest thing for awhile.
Just like the letter in the original post – doesn’t matter if it’s a complete fake – as long as it promotes the Ideology.
Suffice it to say, there are significant questions about whether she fabricated the whole thing.
Looks like it. If you watch the video here and watch the way she walks and climbs with her “exoskeleton”, she is clearly using her hip flexors and extensors, e.g., she isn’t “paralyzed from the waist down”, although she may be weaker, but there doesn’t appear to be significant muscle wasting as one sees in the truly paralyzed.
She also appears to have claimed to have schlepped up to 30 miles a day. A test tactical road march is 12 miles in 3 hours on generally level terrain, on a road, and will kick one’s fourth point of contact. An ordinary road march is about a more leisurely 3.5 miles per hour. Even without all the extra combat kit, there is no way someone as broken as this person claims to be is going to complete the equivalent of 2.5 leisurely 12 mile road marched over broken terrain with elevation changes in a day, even assuming an absurd sustained pace of of nearly 2 mph for 16 hours.
Baroness von Munchausen I think, has entered the building.
Meanwhile in the world of hoaxers at the intersection of the UK and Durham, North Carolina, we will recall that across the pond a judge has called for kitchen knives to be blunted to cut down on stabby crime.
Not so fast, your lordship, Crystal Magnum, better known for her Duke U rape hoax, would like to weigh in.
When knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have warm, buttered, scones.
@Farnsworth,
That’s another one, not Strayed, who fabricated a through hike, probably after seeing how Strayed parleyed her heroine addled delusions into a gig on Oprah and subsequent movie deal. Now she’s writing for the NYT, whose ability to vet its writers is, shall we say, subject to skepticism.
“And the natives are the blacks of Canada.”
Somebody already has the franchise for all America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Niggers_of_America
That’s another one, not Strayed…
Just so, my mistake, the two seem to have been mixed up in the maze of links, regardless, there appear to be two Baronesses von Munchhausen.
Strayed appears to be a gem in her own right, though.
Re: Cheryl Strayed
Wow, America really does have all the best mentals. Here in the UK we think the Guardian is worthy of note, but it’s like comparing Blackpool to Vegas.
The Pogonip Principle: if our moral and intellectual betters like it, it’s worthless bullshit.
An unnamed New York Times reader asks, “How can I cure my white guilt?”
Start by not reading the New York Times.
Nunchucks. Fake passport. Ball gag. Glass eye. Knuckledusters. Another fake passport…
Ah – the ball gag’s mine. I was wondering where that had gone. Thanks for finding it.
We do have a Godrey Elfwick -style culprit for the original! Or at least, an appropriately bold authorial claim.
Nice work, Whitey.
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1030010992816742401
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1030063563497500673
We do have a Godrey Elfwick -style culprit for the original!
Truly his spirit lives on.