World Of Woo (2)
Via Mr Muldoon in the comments, our betters at work:
Laughable, yes. But not harmless:
All school principals, district office administrators, and superintendent teams were required to attend the anti-white supremacy training put on by the city DOE’s Office of Equity and Access… “It requires discomfort,” said Matt Gonzales, who serves as an outside adviser on the DOE’s school diversity task force and is a director of New York Appleseed, an advocacy group for school integration. “Having to talk about someone’s own whiteness is a requirement for them to become liberated.”
Ah, salvation via struggle session. How wonderfully Maoist.
White employees who object when accused of harbouring deep-seated bias are branded “fragile” and “defensive,” one insider who received the training has said… [New York schools chief, Richard] Carranza says that those sceptical of the training “are likely the ones who need the training the most.”
Previously in the World of Woo.
A confused individual.
Wow, a Jewish Maoist. Well, he wouldn’t be the First.
There’s a lot of nonsense to pick at here, but “Right to Comfort” strikes a particular chord of projection, considering how left-activists will often demand things on the grounds of feeling unsafe. (Or in the extreme cases, claiming that the mere presence of dissenters somehow threatens and endangers the victim group of the day.)
In particular, the N-word. Now there’s a discomfort source.
“Right to Comfort” strikes a particular chord of projection, considering how left-activists will often demand things on the grounds of feeling unsafe.
Well, quite. And as so often, their alleged remedies are pointedly non-reciprocal. The bedlamite ladies at SURJ flatly reject reciprocity in terms of racial bigotry, such that objecting to slanderous accusations of racism, when white, is framed as mere “defensiveness,” a “fear” of “losing privilege.” Guilt having already been fathomed by some supernatural means. And likewise, our self-imagined betters, and those on whose behalf they presume to speak, are entitled to indulge in personal psychodrama and hair-trigger indignation, however unwarranted or preposterous.
Their targets, however – credulous white people – are told “don’t take everything personally.”
The bedlamite ladies at SURJ flatly reject reciprocity in terms of racial bigotry…
A black “Writer, Actor, and Producer*” penned, “An Open Letter To Gay, White Men: No, You’re Not Allowed To Have A Racial Preference”
Not at all racist or condescending. Don’t bother to RTWT, it is just the usual boilerplate SJW cliches and claptrap.
*It is amazing that all these SJW types claim to be “producers” yet never actually produce anything. Also apologies for a link to Huffingpaint Pest.
Don’t bother to RTWT, it is just the usual boilerplate SJW cliches and claptrap.
The mannered uniformity of these articles, the wholesale regurgitation and sheer lack of imagination, is quite extraordinary. These things are so uniform in their tone and contortions, reading them is an odd and rather tiresome experience. It feels like nobody wrote them, no particular individual. It’s just a runaway programme.
It feels like nobody wrote them, no particular individual. It’s just a runaway programme.
These things are so uniform in their tone and contortions…
Indeed, “…the more we are exposed to someone, the more attractive they become to us…”, always a one way street.
Now for something completely different and a break from the tediousness of the SJW world, take the dialect test and see what part of the UK you come from.
According to this, I am from either Galway, Dublin, or Gloucester, so maybe I am channeling and ancestor.
speaking of runaway programmes….
stopped?
Nice save.
Thanks. I’m apparently linguistically from west/south Ireland, BTW. Great-great granpa was Irish but AIUI, his wife was something of a proper-ish English woman.
BTW judging from the test, ya’ll rhyme funny.
take the dialect test and see what part of the UK you come from.
That was… surprisingly accurate.
take the dialect test and see what part of the UK you come from.
That was… surprisingly inaccurate.
take the dialect test and see what part of the UK you come from.
Being born and raised in New England the “you’re not from around here are you?” option was always going to be number one. A bit surprised that I appear to sound like I’m from either Dublin or, God help me, the west of Ireland.
I thought the heat map changing during the test based on current answers was pretty nifty*.
*no idea where “nifty” would place me other than the 1960s.
Simply put, the more we are exposed to someone, the more attractive they become to us
“Yeah, we’re a couple of dogs all right. But still, we’re not too repulsive. Anyway, what’s the difference? We’re victims of propinquity.”
Not sure if that line of argument works if you’re a white heterosexual man. “How do you know you won’t find me attractive, why don’t you give me a chance, get to know me better?” No, doesn’t sound good. Doesn’t sound attractive, which amounts to nearly the same thing. The necessity for pleading confirms the unattractiveness. You’re on your way to a reputation as a potential rapist, or even a quote-unquote nice guy.
And even leaving aside the pleading of personal cases, and making a general case for spaces where people can get to know the character of potential intimate partners, with propinquity overcoming sterotypical preferences, surely such spaces exist already, for example in the public high schools and colleges that boast about the racial and sexual diversity of their students. But even in such spaces, love still isn’t fair or equal, and “conventionally” unattractive people may just have their failure rubbed into their faces every day.
San Francisco (because of course it would be) may send George Washington to the yte gulag.
You will be surprised to learn that the “students” at George Washington
day care centerHigh School are traumatized by a mural which, for some reason, has managed not to traumatize anyone since 1936.BTW judging from the test, ya’ll rhyme funny.
You sir, did you go to school?
You sir, did you go to school?
I’ll see your Dr. Doolittle guy and raise you a Dennis Farina…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGuGzH3Ne5w
Odd that she doesn’t seem to want to go to those places.
Odds are she is not from any such place, and would not be any more at home in them than would any other middle-to-upper class brat. She is perhaps also aware that part of the vibrancy of such communities is that skin color alone doesn’t count for much in terms of guaranteeing your safety; if people don’t know you, if you aren’t anyone’s kin, expect no sympathy or compassion.
A libertarian Marxist Leninist Maoist Anarchist (from his logo).
An individual’s awareness of the obvious is often clouded in proportion to the amount of “flair” found on their car bumper or their person. Or logo.
…traumatized by a mural which, for some reason, has managed not to traumatize anyone since 1936.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_High_School_(San_Francisco)
8+4+0.5% = 12.5% – at most, one student out of eight has any reason to feel ancestral trauma or ancestral anything in a dispute about George Washington’s racial attitudes.
Students whose ancestors weren’t anywhere near George Washington, whose ancestors didn’t arrive in the country until a century or two later, why would they have any attachment to what the school is called or who is on a mural?
Especially when the even the defenders of the mural are arguing on the basis that the artist was trying to subvert the legacy of the Founding Fathers. With friends like that, who needs enemies? Why stop at subverting the legacy when it’s 2019 and you can erase it?
An individual’s awareness of the obvious is often clouded in proportion to the amount of “flair” found on their car bumper or their person.
And such individuals will mandate endless TPS reports.
Farnsworth
Thank you SO much for the link to the NY Times dialect quiz – it got me spot on – the most fun I’ve had in ages! (I lead a sheltered life.)
Some one gets something done and I don’t. I feel I worked hard to achieve not much but I know they worked harder over a long time to achieve more. Mum used to tell me I am special and can achieve anything, she still does (though I”m in my 30s). I don’t feel special in my job because I’m not as effective as others. It can’t be my fault because mum said so. It must be the system. I complain about (insert “‘ism” here).
@Farnsworth
May I also thank you for posting the quiz.
While it assigned me to an area that included my part of Essex, my pronunciation was largely influenced by David Davis, the finest narrator of the BBC Children’s Hour.
Pozhaluysta, all y’all, however, in other language news Shareena Hamzah of Swansea University says idioms involving animal products could be rendered obsolete because they are out of touch with the zeitgeist.
Of course.
Interestingly enough the video at the link asks the question, “Do people hate vegans ?” Yes, it is the zeitgeist, and this sort of chicken molesting* is why.
*(Trying to be semi-polite for the impeccable repuatation of this establishment, I don’t give a damn about the zeitgeist.)
idioms to encourage the use of:
“other fish to fry”
“killing two birds with one stone”
“more than one way to skin a cat”
“beating a dead horse”
take the dialect test and see what part of the UK you come from
Stone the bloody crows. Can’t youse Pommy bastards call a chair a chair?
Isn’t Chesterfield a brand of dart? What do youse sleep on? A Dunhill?
Clicked on the link and was confronted with the name of the person who wrote this short list on ‘white supremacy’: (((Tema Okun))).
Every flippin’ time.
For giggles, I did the dialect quiz … answer “You’re not from around here.” Heh.
(2nd generation born/raised Los Angeles – typical bland California “accent”, except for a couple of things that have stayed via maternal grandpa from Pennsylvania)
Darleen: Family was mostly midwestern but I was raised in California and grew up speaking Basic Broadcaster with a faint overlay of Masterpiece Theater. The dialect quiz (after I lied about my origins) placed me mostly in southeast England, which is probably about right.
The Opposite of White supremacy must be:
Incompetence Power of looting
Lack of drive Open conflict
Offensiveness Collectivism
Neither Quality nor quantity We’re the only ones
Distain for the written word Regression
Every which way Bigotry
Abandonment Right to Whites’ comforts.
Neither/nor Thinking