She’s Bringing Us Together

Not entirely unrelated.

Ms Rao studied law
Okay then.

See also:

I know Youtube’s Sargon of Akkad isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but this conversation with an “anti-racist activist” and congressional candidate was a perfect encapsulation of these people’s worldview. We see many of the ticks our kind host has tirelessly documented…

The far left does like its word games.
Judging by those who most often and loudly use the term, “social justice” seems increasingly defined by the abandonment and derision of reciprocity – from civility and debate to bizarre and self-serving redefinitions of violence. But without an assumption of reciprocity, where’s the moral footing?

Shockingly, this warm and wonderful woman lost her 2018 bid for Congress in the primary phase.
However she did manage to earn this distinction:
https://www.westword.com/news/sorest-losers-from-colorados-june-primary-10522578
Worth the quick read. Hard to believe of a person with such charm, but there it is.

Why is this hard?
Because some of us didn’t touch the intersectional crack pipe.

you may want to bear in mind the kinds of creatures most attracted to these things.
I believe the word you are looking for is “aposematism”.

You redefine the words “sexist” and “racist” until the dissonance seems to disappear.
It must be nice to be able to continuously add synonyms for “poopyhead” by appropriating whatever you like from the oppressive hetero-normative white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’s language.
Want to write a flaming hot take on twitter but are over the character limit? Sub “sexist” for “misogynist” (that’s four letters saved per use) and “racist” for “bigoted” (one letter goes a long way) and you’ll be clapping back in due course.

…and regurgitated by people who expect to thrive, as above, in the world of law and politics a world of violent mobs. Hence the uniformity.

Ms Rao studied law
For much of the same reason a doctor studies disease.

the-psychiatrist-in-my-writing-class-and-his-gift-of-hate/
Wait a minute…the psychiatrist is the (mostly) sane one? That alone makes me think this is from the Things That Never Happened Files.

That alone makes me think this is from the Things That Never Happened Files.
Well, I’ll believe she’s taking a writing course. Because holy hannah, that woman’s a terrible writer.

“My skin combusts into tendrils from the force of his statement. My back sharpens.”

What in the actual f*ck.
Also, further proof that feminist writing reveals rather a lot more about feminist writers than anything else.

One of her twitter replies absolutely devours her, and then spits-out the bones in disgust:
girlwriteswhat @girlwriteswhat
2h2 hours ago
Replying to @sairasameerarao
Yes yes, everyone knows why you use this “new and improved” definition–it’s your “get out of racism and sexism free” card. It gives you the “right” to malign entire groups of people based on race and sex and not get called out as racist or sexist.
*Glances at replies.*
Oof.

the-psychiatrist-in-my-writing-class-and-his-gift-of-hate
I skimmed through this article. The author is clearly struggling with mental illness, probably a result of her fractured childhood with a mentally-ill mother, but is dealing with it by blaming the white man and filling herself with hate.
See also: every other SJW…

I think the feminist roots of this sort of thing are the numerous debates they get into where they emphatically assert that “gender discrimination of any kind is wrong” (usually so wrong that it makes them angrier than do terrorist attacks that have claimed 20-30 lives).
Then 5 minutes later they’ll say “close women’s prisons!” or “men aren’t allowed to have an opinion on abortion”. Some brave soul might point out to them that they just said this was bad form – so without missing a beat they say “that’s different because etcetc” – insert specious nonsense.
All this becomes second nature – file under Dealing with pesky logi… I mean Dealing with mansplaining

“Social Justice” is mainly an excuse for anti-social behaviour and/or for inflicting injustices on certain individuals selected for their race, religion, culture, or sex.
It does seem to be the go-to ideology for borderline personalities and spiteful little shits.
A coincidence, I’m sure.

The author is clearly struggling with mental illness
That reminds me: a Marxist author who asserted in the 1970’s that black people cannot be racist spent some time in a New York psychiatric hospital (hallucinations, etc.) He eventually abandoned psychiatric treatment because he wanted to get on with life. (All this is more or less his own words, filtered by my memory of 40-year-old events.)

Thanks, Pogo. Ms. Neutill (from the longreads article) is operating at Titania McGrath levels!

When she says it’s not hard, she means it. She’s anti-white on principle and in practice, and she doesn’t struggle with any cognitive, moral, or rhetorical contradictions.
It’s Goodwhites who struggle to reconcile MLK-era dreams of men of good will who are the same under the skin with today’s multikulti communautarism. Integrated education systems have made it hard to pretend that race differences are merely skin deep, and mass Third-World immigration has made it hard not to notice that different ethnicities and religions have incompatible understandings of supposedly universal ideals like freedom and self-determination. This has been a source of cognitive dissonance and moral hesitation in Goodwhites, but not in anyone else.
People like Saira aren’t cramped by any commitment to Kennedy era schoolbook ideals. She takes racial differences in aspirations and life outcomes as a given. If the white mans’s system isn’t working out for people like you, it’s reasonable to dismantle it and replace it with a system your people are compatible with, and that can only be done if you have the demographic and electoral numbers. The “who we are” MLK rhetoric is for the consumption of nice white lady Democrats, but as those ladies die out, the appeals to unifying ideals become more perfunctory and the naked ethnic advocacy comes more into the foreground.

“Why would you pay for a workshop to critique your work when what you really want is to be told it’s perfect? Any random fellow wanting into your pants will do that for free.”
From what I hear writing classes generally are a hot mess of people with depression and clinical anxiety and related mental cases desperately seeking validation.

I’d rather hear the criticism from someone I’m NOT trying to sell the piece to. If the criticisms seemed valid, I’d make changes accordingly and, God willing, the editor would end up sending me a check.

Yes, and I sympathise with her (to an extent). Who *does* like criticism? Very few are able to accept it all with equanimity, and even fewer will change because of that criticism. (And let’s face it, sometimes the critic can be an utter dickhead).
I’m heavily involved in Melbourne’s performance poetry scene, one thing I like about it is that it *doesn’t* replicate the atmosphere of such a writing group. It seems to me the very history of such writing groups, the context, and the political affiliations of most – if not all – of the constituent members – could easily turn most meetings into acts of Maoist self-criticism. It’s not exactly conducive to improving one’s own writing.
I’ve learnt the most probably from reading criticism of other writers: basic principles, like clarity of style, avoiding needless repetition, not mixing metaphors, etc. If you’re a weirdo into performance poetry, like me, you can also learn a bit from hecklers – and there you have the advantage of being able to give as good as you get. 🙂

Instead of portraits of the pickled “eggs,” why not hang these behind the bar?
https://despair.com/collections/demotivators?page=1

Sounds like the de-motivators still work!

Attention (white) ladies! Mistress Rao and her colleague Regina Jackson are now offering you the privilege of their company for an evening of food, drink, and extra helpings of abuse, all at your expense: https://race2dinner.com/
“Our goal is to be seen, to be heard, and to have you, white women, bear witness to our pain, pain that you have caused.”
You might be thinking that sounds like a nice evening, but before you sign up:
“Please consider WHY you want to join a dinner with Regina and Saira. If it’s ‘to learn’ or to feel better or to be a ‘good ally,’ reconsider. This dinner is not for you or about you. The dinner will be painful, uncomfortable, maddening, and upsetting. But what you’ll experience listening to our stories doesn’t come close to the pain of living as a Brown or Black woman in America. Are you TRULY ready to join us?”

Thanks, Greg. Post updated.