I’ve Been A Bad Girl
In racial-dominatrix news:
Why liberal white women pay a lot of money to learn over dinner how they’re racist.
A growing number of women are paying to confront their privilege – and racism – at dinners that cost $2,500… A frank discussion is led by co-founders Regina Jackson, who is black, and Saira Rao, who identifies as Indian American. They started Race to Dinner to challenge liberal white women to accept their racism, however subconscious.
“However subconscious.” Pretentious guilt is, one suspects, billable too.
The women who sign up for these dinners are not who most would see as racist. They are well-read and well-meaning. They are mostly Democrats. Some have adopted black children, many have partners who are people of colour, some have been doing work towards inclusivity and diversity for decades.
Which, on reflection, might explain quite a lot.
Rao and Jackson believe white, liberal women are the most receptive audience because they are open to changing their behaviour. They don’t bother with the 53% of white women who voted for Trump. White men, they feel, are similarly a lost cause.
Those doubting, damnable souls. The ones who can’t be hustled.
Jackson and Rao have hardly been able to take a break since they started these dinners in the spring of 2019. So far, 15 dinners have been held in big cities across the US.
It turns out that quite a few well-heeled ladies of the left are keen to be denounced over dinner as “part of the problem,” warned against having “unmonitored thoughts,” and told to “own their racism,” whether real or imagined, in what amounts to a niche, and rather perverse, status game. If it sounds self-preoccupied and a tad neurotic, that’s because it is:
Jess Campbell-Swanson comes across as an overly keen college student applying for a prestigious internship. She can go on for days about her work as a political consultant, but when it comes to talking about racism, she chokes. “I want to hire people of colour. Not because I want to be… a white saviour. I have explored my need for validation… I’m working through that… Yeah. Um… I’m struggling,” she stutters, before finally giving up.
In the wake of her struggle session over carbonara and canapés, Ms Campbell-Johnson is now “committed to writing a journal, jotting down daily decisions or thoughts that could be considered racist.”
And happily, during dinner, there are the usual consolations, like put-downs and one-upmanship:
Erika Righter raises her tattooed forearm to her face, in despair of all of the racism she’s witnessed as a social worker, then laments how a white friend always ends phone calls with “Love you long time.” “And what is your racism, Erika?” Rao interrupts, refusing to let her off the hook. The mood becomes tense. Another woman adds: “I don’t know you, Erika. But you strike me as being really in your head. Everything I’m hearing is from the neck up.” Righter, a single mother, retreats before defending herself: “I haven’t read all the books. I’m new to this.”
Peck, peck, peck.
Of course, the race-hustling soirées weren’t always quite so polished:
In the beginning, Rao’s dinner-party tone was much more argumentative… Women at the dinners were always crying. Some of those dinners got out of hand – attendees have tried to place their hands on Jackson and Rao, and racial slurs have been thrown around.
Feel the magic of inclusion and diversity.
And if racial chastisement and dinner-table neurosis isn’t your thing, do bear in mind that it has other rewards:
“There are so many people worse than us,” says [Lisa] Bond. “I don’t talk about the 53% [who voted for Trump] because I’m not one of them.”
Again, a status game.
Ms Rao’s unhappy mental processes have been noted here before. 
Heh.
At this rate, it could be another five-page thread.
Bring snacks.
President Trump’s State of the Union address last night was a little long, but, boy howdy, really was the best he’s ever done and went with all his strengths. And there were moments that even the most hardened of partisans would have found touching (e.g. 100 y/o Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee and his great grandson)
Nancy Pelosi took her usual mugging, denture sucking, head shaking performance behind Trump to a new level by theatrically standing at the finishing remarks and tearing up her copy of the speech.
Trump has really broken them.
Mostly French, Germanic and Latin it reflects the waves of migration here since the time of Christ.
“Migration.” Is that what we’re going with now? So, the Roman legions just thought they’d escape the Mediterranean heat? The Angles and Saxons were just poor immigrants looking for honest work in the agricultural sector? The Normans got tired of all that red wine and decided to see what brewing ale was all about?
Of course, to call any of those “migrants” by their appropriate descriptors would just invite unpleasant comparisons to the present day, and one simply does not encourage such uncouth nonsense in polite company. So “migration” it is!
Of course, to call any of those “migrants” by their appropriate descriptors would just invite unpleasant comparisons
Heh.
We hear about America being a nation of immigrants. Some of my ancestors were not immigrants. They arrived well before there was a country to migrate to. They settled uninhabited areas in upstate NY and Ontario and made treaties with the Indians for the land they occupied. They were not colonizers, conquerors, or oppressors. They were relatively regular people who were able to escape the religious restrictions and tyranny in Europe of the time. I have to confess that they were white people, but they were not privileged.
I like to imagine that all David’s “Bless you, sir/madam, may you…”s are based on personal experience.
A surprising number are. And many require no embellishment at all.
The self-adhering kitchen foil disaster of 2018 was especially traumatic.
30 meters, really?
Are you a cat, David?
Are you a cat, David?
I do have adorable kitten-like properties.
What?
I do have adorable kitten-like properties.
I am thankful that you are not a social justice kitten.
Dr. Jekyll was a Sikh¹, Dorothy’s ruby slippers were red Converse high tops², and Frankenstein’s monster black¹, among other woke book covers.
Alas, this important and powerful work has been cancelled by the cancel mob.
It is unclear whether the depiction of Captain Ahab as a black man killing a white was considered problematic.
(1. Depicting monsters as PoC is obviously racist. 2. Stereotype much ?)
woke book covers
So Frankenstein and Peter Pan are merely a “white narrative” with no other features worthy of acknowledgement? It’s been a while since I read them, admittedly, but that’s not my foremost recollection.
Meanwhile, over at Extinction Rebellion, we find that we must destroy civilization in order to save it.
If he is speaking for himself and his band of nitwits, that last myth is indeed a myth.
He said in his climate controlled room, posting from his iPhone, wondering what all the fuss over that Blitz thing was.
Our friend is also deeply troubled by the fact that the founder of Extinction Tantrum is a member of Teh Patriarchy™, why he himself isn’t remains clear as a mud lake.
In related news, Anglia Ruskin professor goes Extinction Tantrum one better as Morticia Addams thinks we all just need to go extinct, to save the planet, of course.
we must also transform the myths that have got us here, the myths that we are in fact civilised.
As with Antifa and first-world Marxism, with which it has much in common, Extinction Rebellion isn’t so much a political phenomenon as a psychiatric one.
One wonders how many of the “women” at these dinners were actually JAPs. As in Jewish American Princesses. And therefor not actually “white”…
Anglia Ruskin professor goes Extinction Tantrum one better
One better? Has Anglia Ruskin considered how much damage her need to look different, as you say like Mortcia Addams, does to the planet? Is all that makeup locally sourced from her back yard? Did she make that outfit herself from discarded burlap sacks? Say what one will about Greta but at least she presents as a bland minimalist.
I was thinking about something similar regarding art recently. If one really sees virtue in minimalism, do we really need art? Certainly something so frivolous and unnecessary, while one could argue it would be wrong to simply outlaw it, should not be subsidized/publicly funded. STOP FUNDING THE ARTS! DO IT FOR THE PLANET! And if Anglia Ruskin is really serious about extincting humanity, perhaps we should stop funding education as well. The sooner humanity returns to the savannas and the trees, the better off the planet will be, correct?
JAPs. As in Jewish American Princesses. And therefor not actually “white”.
Jews count as super-white by nearly all leftist criteria, which is why the left ignores or excuses vicious and violent black hatred of Jews.
Anglia Ruskin professor goes Extinction Tantrum one better
Her idea is quite common, bizarrely. The Movement for Voluntary Human Extinction have been plugging away with their sad little message for decades. The Grauniad profiled their founder recently. “ The idea wasn’t as well received as I had hoped.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/10/i-campaign-for-the-extinction-of-the-human-race-les-knight
Some of my ancestors were not immigrants… I have to confess that they were white people…
Hah! Condemned out of your own pallid mouth.
Anglia Ruskin professor goes Extinction Tantrum one better as Morticia Addams
Morticia Addams thinks
Movement for Voluntary Human Extinction have been plugging away with their sad little message for decades.
And yet they don’t take their own advice.
I guess cauliflower with white sauce is off the menu.
Morticia Addams thinks
Not going to watch any more damn smarmy Bloomberg ads. Not.
“Struggle Sessions” masquerading as dinner parties? REALLY?
Cultural Suicide, voluntarily chosen. These people (mostly women, I note) make me shudder.
The Four Horsemen are overdue.