The Inadequate And Resentful Should Not Be Put In Charge
Professor Child’s presentation was not explicitly concerned with space exploration or Mars, which is not surprising since her area of expertise is indigenous education and history. She told us that indigenous people have travelled extensively – specifically, by canoe – and mentioned some indigenous people who travelled to Europe in earlier eras, though not by canoe.
A panel of woke scolds share their thoughts on space travel – which turn out to be rather limited and not of obvious use. They do, however, have thoughts, many thoughts, on how terrible able-bodied white men are.
When not rambling about canoes, seemingly in search of a point, the five panellists – billed as a “diverse group of thought leaders” – inform us of the apparent need for deaf and disabled astronauts, in the name of “social justice,” and ask whether a mission to Mars would benefit Black Lives Matter. No, really.
Lucianne Walcowicz, who appears in the video, complete with septum piercing and adolescent blue ‘do, has been mentioned here before. Readers may recall her insistence that the words frontier and unmanned are morally corrupting and should therefore be purged, along with any trace of gendered language. And let’s not forget Marcie Bianco, whose ruminations on the subject of interplanetary travel also entertained us. Not least her claim that sending spacecraft to Mars is an act of “male entitlement” and akin to grabbing ladies’ genitals.
Oh, and do watch to the end. The closing exchange, around 20:40, is somewhat telling.
Somewhat related, although inadvertently answering the question, we learn what “progressive ideas” are.
You would think they would be pro mars colonization either (a) as a way to form an white male free colony or (b) as a place white males can go allowing the freak to inherit the Earth.
a white male free colony
Self-reliance and ethnic divorce as political goals didn’t long outlive Malcolm X. These days it’s all about the immorality of white countries having borders, and the moral case for the redistribution of white income.
a place white males can go allowing the freak to inherit the Earth
That’s what suburbia was. And now the better off sururbanites are escape-podding from diversity into gated community exurbs.
the 1/1000 chance that a Muzzie who believes in the general values of English speaking western civilization might maybe spawn a problem child.
Angela Merkel agrees with you on this.
And AGAIN… Angie Baby ain’t kicking out two commies for every Muzzie she lets in. And AGAIN, she ain’t vetting her Muzzies either…ahem…
Angie Baby ain’t…
Why would she kick out her fellow believers? And how do you vet would-be immigrants for their beliefs? Polygraphs? Sodium Pentathol? Hypnosis? Islam encourages lying to infidels, so taking them at their word seems unwise. What do they bring to the West that improves our civilization and which we can’t produce internally, or get from less fractious cultures?
I’d rather not take chances. If we’re going to share our preferred approaches, I’d prefer to ban Muslim immigration to the West AND kick out all the Commies. Alas, that’s not going to happen either, barring a war:-(. So I’ll just keep grousing online and vote for Trump.
If these are ‘our betters’, God help us.
They may not be our betters, but they are the kind of people who are happy to be referred to as “thought leaders.” Which, in itself, tells us quite a bit.
Life is full of risk. Nobody, even Donny Twoscoops, gets a no-risk, everything he wants deal. Vetting isn’t perfect and as this is hypothetical I wouldn’t venture into what method, they will all be imperfect. The vetting is part of the hypothetical, but would apply to the other darkies as well. Muzzies being, what…1/100 of immigrants, properly vetted Muzzies being, what…1/100 of that, then a 1/1000 of that 1/10000 or whatever, lAGAIN said Muzzies being a subset of the less dangerous other darkies, any deal to accept one vetted darkie in exchange for throwing out two Lilly white commie pinkos…a deal which of course would never be offered, but I’d it was… I, and I’m fairly certain Donny Twoscoops as well, would take that faster than Laurie Penny can drop her knickers.
“Thought leaders” heh… my wife informs me that her sister now has that and “emotional intelligence “ on her LinkedIn profile. The number of things I can mock after a martini and a couple glasses of cab are slowly shrinking. Please pray for me through the next couple dozen holidays.
Life is full of risk.
Some of which is unavoidable, some of which isn’t. Allowing followers of the RoP into the West is avoidable.
but would apply to the other darkies as well
??? Why’d the darkies/lily-white thing enter the conversation? Islam isn’t a race.
Sure, nothing is no-risk. So what? What’s the point of the hypothetical?
There’s no advantage to bringing in culturally/ideologically incompatible people, of any race. Positing a hypothetical wherein one chooses to bring in one culturally incompatible population in exchange for expelling some *other* culturally incompatible population seems rather silly. Might as well declare that you prefer cyanide to strychnine.
Sure, if we could (and *would*) reliably vet the immigrants, and if they truly did buy into Western Civilization, then…well, they’d be apostates wouldn’t they? Regardless, they’d be better than Commies, at first. But given their history of radicalizing as their relative numbers grow, I’m not confident that any vetting would actually do any good, and the question still exists: what do they bring that makes us better off? Given my druthers I’d expel *both* groups. As that’s not an option, better the Devil you know. We certainly have no moral obligation to let them (or anyone) in.
All of which brings me back to my original (and preferred) solution: giant space habitats! Let a billion Bishop Rings orbit the sun and see which societies perform best:-).
??? Why’d the darkies/lily-white thing enter the conversation?
You’re the one populating Bishop Rings based on race…
then all the wypipo could move there”
To which I replied…
Don’t give them any ideas. Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B is for them (them being the leftists) not us. I like it here. All things considered.
Per my parenthetical, perhaps I’ve said this before but one thing that really starches my shorts about the “racism” cries every time immigration issues come up
Which, oddly, was my attempt to 1) hold our ground and make them (leftists) be the ones moved out and 2) to (admittedly awkwardly) remove race from the issue. I think we’re talking past each other and drifting dangerously into Code 9000 territory. So if you’ll excuse me, I’ll have to go now as, hypothetically, someone else is wrong on the internet and I only have so many fingers…JK…LUF…JKA…AMF….
You’re the one populating Bishop Rings based on race…
then all the wypipo could move there”
That was in response to the sentiments expressed in the video (and possibly elsewhere in the thread). Perhaps not as well expressed as it might’ve been.
Ideally the Bishop Rings would be populated by whomever wanted one and could afford it, and based on whatever criteria the purchaser set (race, religion, political philosophy, none of the above, whatever). It’d be interesting to see which flourished and which didn’t.
Anyway, the discussion doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, and it’s ultimately just bloviating anyway, so I’ll happily drop it.
It just occurred to me that leftism is the new freak and geek show, just as kicking celebrities is the new bear-baiting.
And how do you vet would-be immigrants for their beliefs? Polygraphs? Sodium Pentathol? Hypnosis?
Welcome to Canada. Here’s your ham sandwich.
Guy who got his job title from Darleen’s link above has trouble with sciency science stuff.
I’d hate to break it to him that you can tell boy chromosomes from girl chromosomes just by pulling down their genes…
Farnsworth, you should receive some sort of award for the spelunking you do to find some mind-numbing stupidity so we don’t have to.
In other news, “a woman eats a banana in protest”.
Welcome to Canada. Here’s your ham sandwich.
I have worked with Muslims who came down to the pub at lunch time for a pint and bacon sarnies / sausage rolls / pork pies.
Just saying.
I have worked with Muslims who came down to the pub at lunch time for a pint and bacon sarnies / sausage rolls / pork pies.
I suppose in this age of self-defining, one can meet none of the preconditions and still claim to belong to a group. But deliberately eating pork and drinking aren’t really in the “I am a Muslim” territory, no matter how much they might think they are.
Perhaps they are Muslim like I am agnostic. I don’t really believe in God, but I am a Christian that doesn’t believe in God.
…for the spelunking you do…
To be honest, as spelunking implies a deliberate search, most of the stuff I come across, of which I could fill an entire Friday Ephemera, is completely by accident and/or hitting a link out of morbid curiosity.
QED.
This gave me AIDS. I have AIDS now.
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“Beauty”. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they (pretend to) think it means.
This gave me AIDS. I have AIDS now.
Oh come on now, AIDS ? Chlamydia I could believe, but AIDS is a bit of a stretch.
.Perhaps they are Muslim like I am agnostic. I don’t really believe in God, but I am a Christian that doesn’t believe in God.
Well, they all prayed at the assigned times (or as near as possible in office hours).
Muslims or Skivers?
Alcohol? Never inebriated. Allah will judge me.
Pork? Ancient dietary laws of hygiene no longer apply. Allah will judge me.