She’s Very Tired, You Know
Lifted from the comments, an unhappy Twitter exchange. As it’s couched in the contortions of “social justice,” and therefore not entirely honest, or indeed remotely honest, I’ll attempt to paraphrase:
“I’m a student of critical race theory and I’ve decided to get preposterously upset because you favourably quoted one of my super-woke boilerplate tweets. You should now pay me for my insufferable narcissism, on account of my Designated Victim Group status.”
“We’re sorry for quoting one of your tweets, which was obviously a traumatic violation of your Designated Victim Group status. However, the employee who quoted you is black, queer and non-binary, and therefore also a Designated Victim. So, although we’ll pretend to be sorry – because we all have to pretend, otherwise the whole racket will collapse – you really shouldn’t be applying our insane standards to us.”
Much theatrical fretting ensues. You see, quoting someone’s tweet, favourably, is, it says here, “causing harm.”
When not gargling “critical race theory” and being terribly oppressed by people quoting her tweets, Sydne is apparently an expert in “indigenous knowledge… and resistance,” and spends her leisure time thwarting pipeline construction, obstructing traffic, “jumping fences” and “chasing councils out of buildings.” Which may explain why she admits, or rather boasts, “I don’t know what I'm going to do… after I graduate.”
I know. She doesn’t look the type.
[ Added via the comments: ]This, then, is a severely educated young woman who rails against “the coloniser” and claims that the construction of a pipeline constitutes “genocide,” and who romanticises the “old ways” of “indigenous” existence – all that “sacred fire” - while doing her make-up on YouTube.
So pondering her opinions is perhaps not the most rewarding use of one’s time.
But note the conceit that regurgitating standard identity-politics tropes, the kind of “emotional labour” vanities found throughout the Clown Quarter, somehow constitutes profound and original thought, something one can claim ownership of, and thereby demand royalties. As if these were Ms Rain’s own ideas, generated by her own mighty brain. And not the flatulent default of her chosen environment, and mouthed on every elite campus and in the pages of the New York Times.
“Yes Sydne is actually looking down her nose at you”
Actual LOL
Actual LOL
See also Aisha Mirza, a Guardian contributor who insists that living among “WHITE PPL” is worse than being mugged. Because, unlike Ms Mirza, all white people are terribly racist.
And remember, these are the selfies they’ve chosen as best expressing their inner depth.
See also Aisha Mirza…
Of the two options, not with someone else’s, as the saying goes, but I digress.
I am sure it has been said, but it is amazing how these “POCs” who cannot stand wypipo or to live amongst them continue to do so (Brooklyn, I doubt she is in Bed-Stuy) and never decamp to some place like Tehran, Islamabad, or Kinshasa where wypipo are few and very unlikely to give them the shpilkes and existential angst.
It is almost as if their tales of woe are complete fabrications, but she does have a paypal if you are suffering from White Guilt™. Maybe she’ll use the money for a razor or laser depilitation and she won’t be so angry all the time.
Somewhat off topic, and I may have asked this before, but when did The Spectator become so “socialist elite”? Or, in currently-popular vernacular, when did they become “woke”? I click on links to it, and it’s as if I’m reading overtly left-wing US publications like the New Republic, or The Atlantic, or an even more stuffy, self-absorbed Huffington Post.
WTP
Think about it. A place where you could go to get sexual pleasue for “free”. It is something we all “need” to be healthy, is it not?
Nothing new, actually. True story: new-fangled electric vibrators were originally touted as a miraculous cure for Hysteria – in the hands of a professional physician, of course. Lovely young Bridget Fonda being “cured” in The Road to Wellville was, umm… surprisingly titillating.
@Farnsworth, you got me looking at her website. There’s an awful lot of random wibbling on there!
I looked at the first thing that came up in ‘writing’, it contains gems like:
Last night I had a dream that I had sex with four hot dogs wrapped together and I have been depressed since I woke up.
Stress is choosing not to love white people or men and being punished anyway.
Although I confess I rather liked this line: It’s the end of 2017 and I live in an apartment with a train outside my window and feel uncomfortable about my tits in approximately 40 percent of my shirts, but I don’t think those things are connected.
Last night I had a dream that I had sex with four hot dogs wrapped together and I have been depressed since I woke up.
She should go easy on the mustard next time.
She should go easy on the mustard next time.
Fortunately she also didn’t dream of spreading mustard with these deadly devices.
A) I don’t think she really thought this through, not that it makes a lot of sense anyway. (N.B., possibly NSFW for language, use at your own risk)
B) The authoress is not a well person.
these deadly devices
When I worked at Lockheed, butter knives were verboten. I was once responsible for an email to the staff because I brought one to apot luck lunch to use to cut/serve a pie.
I totally get Sydne’s rage. She worked extra hard on her tweet. Then to have someone comment on it is piggybacking (no actual pigs were abused) on her extremely tough labor. So pay up. Then shut up.
The authoress is not a well person.
Most of these posts do reduce to that.
“I’d imagine the beadwork is diverting as a hobby, or as some ruse of exotic authenticity, like peddling tat to the tourists; but less so if it’s how you’re expected to survive, in between pregnancies and tending the “sacred fire.””
Any bets that the beadwork container has “Made In China” stamped on the back? Totes authentico….
Hair is a vital source of empowerment.
https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/09/dont-touch-black-womens-hair/
The things I learn from that font of wisdom, Everyday Feminism.
(The author of the article doesn’t have to worry about me. I have somehow managed to go for 59 years without once wanting to touch a black person’s hair.)
I have somehow managed to go for 59 years without once wanting to touch a black person’s hair.
Especially not during that jehri curl craze of the late 80s-early 90s.
https://goo.gl/images/RgtEkd
She must be an absolutely tortured soul. Deserving of sympathy on one level but difficult to excuse given the resulting sadistic torturing of others as a result.
I mean this sincerely.
EM tried to raise the stakes in Victim Poker, and people actually called them on it.
I’m actually starting to see more of this. Maybe it’s due to that study that recently mentioned that 80% of Americans consider political correctness to be negative and damaging; people seem to be calling it out more.
This, of course, is making the wokelings dig in their heels and become even more fragile about what they will hyperventilate.
Assuming this link thingee works, here’s an exchange where someone is accused of “appropriating” vegan culture (such as it is), and the response is a highly appropriate “I’m just eating food, you moron”:
Link thingee
It’s pronounced Side Knee
…Link thingee…
Every night he dons his ghille suit and NVGS, armed only with his sharpened Spetsnaz entrenching tool, breaks into the Peoples Vegan Tofu Collective Warehouse #8 “Glory of Lenin”, and carves of a hunk of that sweet, sweet tofu with little care that he is taking food from the mouths of vegan babies, or that there is a Tofu Supply Crisis and rationing caused by the years of reckless tofu Gaia rape mining that has lead to these dark days of Peak Tofu.
The absolute state of the left today, Trump vs. Hitler.
Hitler, of course.
We’ll just kind of ignore that whole “poisoned her dead the next day” thing.
Hitler, of course
We’ve heard from Titiana before. Most likely satire. But who can tell in these “modern” times?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/9834mt/twitter_satire_account_titania_mcgrath_claims/
@Farnsworth – it’s worth keeping an eye on Titania. She’s not the Blessed Elfwick but she’s not half bad.
…it’s worth keeping an eye on Titania.
Yes, Titania is parody, @BruceBartlett is not.
@BruceBartlett is not.
True. The OT sounded familiar so I only researched that far. Bartlett himself is a disgrace which only shows how deep the rot goes. So much wrong in that one tweet of his that it’s almost wrong to single out one part of it for being wrong, yet I’m amused by the idea that Hitler is better than Trump because Hitler wrote a book without a ghostwriter…which itself is potentially a whole other can of worms because Rudolph Hess…but I digress. So if someone has never written a book at all, does that make them worse than Hitler as well? Of course this from a guy who argued that because the Church of Scientology advocated a national sales tax, the proposed Fair Tax was a tool of the Scientologists. The logic, it burns. And on top of that, as of just now I won’t be able to read the acronym WTH anymore without a part of my brain translating that into Worse Than Hitler. Just thought I’d share that last mundane thought.
Tofu Supply Crisis
Yes it’s very important to be sure that it is cruelty-free tofu.
And yes, that’s based on an exchange I actually overheard in a local Whole Foods (I go there for a spicy peri-peri no one else has, don’t judge), as a very earnest wokeling was actually quite concerned her tofu might have been abused during, uh, growing. The sales droid was very delicately trying to explain to her that, you know, tofu isn’t actually an animal…
which itself is potentially a whole other can of worms because Rudolph Hess
Ah, yes, Rudolph Hess. The only person in the world who literally had the job title of grammar Nazi.
. . . . the job title of grammar Nazi.
One afternoon, Bobby’s elementary school teacher turns up at the door.
Good afternoon, Bobby, is your mother home?
She ain’t here.
Why, Bobby!!! Where’s your grammar???
She ain’t here neither.