I’m Sensing Unrest

“Half of you don’t even have a college education!”
Honk! Honk!

Mz Janover is careful to disclaim her statements as “a joke” for “legal reasons”, whatever that means.
Meanwhile…“…Eleven New Yorkers were shot across 12 hours that night, with several of the victims refusing to cooperate in any investigation. And that doesn’t include the couple gunned down with an AR-15-style rifle Saturday afternoon on an East New York stoop….”
https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/fresh-signs-of-nyc-spiraling-out-of-control/

Make life miserable for residents and business owners in the neighborhood? “Summer of love! Democracy in action!” Make life miserable for the mayor and her family? Send in the riot squad.
So nice of Mayor Jenny to remind everybody of how the rules work.

My initial impression is that Miss Harvard appears to possess a fair few privilege points (presumably intelligent, wealthy enough to afford Ivy League fees, extremely cute if terminally annoying, definitely not black) so no obvious signs of being oppressed.
Something is obviously upsetting her. Maybe it’s because she has a paper cut?

‘The CHAZ/CHOP “security” folks are shooting unarmed black men and boys at a much greater rate than the Minneapolis police, who are what this is supposedly all about.’
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/384220/

“Half of you don’t even have a college education!”
Class struggle!

“Send in the riot squad.”
I’ve been watching it live all afternoon (UK time). It’s actually been astonishingly quiet. Most of the tents were empty. I get the distinct impression that they could have done this weeks ago. But then, the “protesters” didn’t turn up at Mayor Jenny’s door weeks ago…

‘Stereotype’…
https://twitter.com/AbuWankinobbi/status/1278357088478072833

Heh. I did quite like this reply.
What we’ve paid in plumbing repairs over the last year, I believe we’re funding our plumber’s new boat.

[ Swipes for today’s open thread. ]
Point comments that way.
Thanks, Nemo.
Heh, and no problem. I think this is the second thing I’ve posted that’s made its way into a post of its own, the first being that Library Journal article/tweet from last year. The dynamic at work is, I think, quite telling. And frankly, if that’s what a college education does to people, I can see more parents refusing to send their children. Which can only be a good thing.

I went to school for 16-18 years, depending on how you count. Yet I have no idea WTLF the words in this paragraph really mean…

Other signs of disorder are more mundane, like the assaults on the barricades that close off roads under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “open streets” effort. Drivers blowing through those barriers are plainly putting innocents at risk while showing utter contempt for the law.

Now whose fault is that, I ask you.

“Half of you don’t even have a college education!”
The worst kind of hippies: college know-it-all hippies. /South Park

And frankly, if that’s what a college education does to people, I can see more parents refusing to send their children.
I think we’ve reached the limit of what gets called a college education. A lot of these so-called professional students are not enrolled in full time programs. They take a course here and a course there while working at Starbucks and tell people they’re college students. Just look at the ages of many of the protestors. They are well beyond what most of us consider college age. I’d be very surprised if Tinkerbell had actually graduated from anything.

“THIS”
Yes. But she must have the patience of a saint. I’m sure I wouldn’t last ten minutes on one of those committees without yelling at the idiots.

Here’s a peach:
Today’s words are craven and degenerate.

Christianity has been toppled and its tenets successfully ported to collectivist political dogma.

Successfully?
One of the fundamental tenets of Christianity is forgiveness. There’s d—-d little of that in collectivist theory or practice.

Here’s a peach
If I may repeat here what I posted on their facebook page (so long as it stands):

This has got to be one of the stupidest, most tortured reasonings/over-reachings to excuse inexcusable behavior that I have ever read. His heart, his physical dead muscle, was taken from his cold dead body on a crusade after his death (which should be obvious but given who may be reading this…God help us) and 700 years later some overeducated fool attributes the presence of this dead muscle tissue being present at a battle with darker skinned peoples as racism ON HIS PART. If this isn’t literally stupid (and by literally, I literally mean literally), we should remove the word from our dictionaries and vocabularies as it literally has no meaning.

My initial impression is that Miss Harvard appears to possess a fair few privilege points (presumably intelligent, wealthy enough to afford Ivy League fees, extremely cute if terminally annoying, definitely not black) so no obvious signs of being oppressed.
Not necessarily intelligent, or wealthy: Harvard admits a proportion of the former (and not just Kennedys, either; remember that Horst Weasel – David Hogg – was admitted after being turned down by Long Beach State fer cryin’ outloud), and a considerable number of the latter. Relatively few Harvard students pay full tuition. The sticker price is for the scions of wealthy American families with dumb kids (think Lori Laughlin and USC) and the kids of high-profile foreign potentates.

Back to the airplane glue.
I take it you didn’t bring enough for everybody, did you? SMDH

“I’ve never been able to find the direct quote but such observations always remind me of something Jack Kerouac quoted from Dostoyevsky that If you give man his utopia, he will destroy it with a grin.”
I believe Jordan Peterson has attributed something like that to Dostoyevsky. (Possibly in Crime and Punishment or The Demons, because those are the two books of his on Jordan Peterson’s reading list.)

Hopefully it’s short-ish as well?
A short Dostoevsky novel? No such luck. The Demons/The Possessed is even longer than Crime and Punishment.

I think we’ve reached the limit of what gets called a college education.
Given the ongoing list of band names and albums, and given the overall background, the band that David keeps calling for should be:
Manowar scale, complete with choir and orchestra, singing extremely loudly of being utterly innocuous and totally meticulously calculating accountants.
And again, particularly modelled after Manowar, and related.
The albums will be the reference source for songs going over concepts like double entry bookkeeping.

He probably said it in Russian…which may make it easier to find.
This is true. Not many Russians have said things.

NWfLR: “Mz Janover is careful to disclaim her statements as “a joke” for “legal reasons”, whatever that means.”
Turns out, it don’t mean jack:
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1278487434544549888

Just this minute updated the post.

Turns out, it don’t mean jack
The haste and certainty with which Ms Janover displaces all responsibility is quite a thing. As if employers should in no way be concerned by a potential employee publicly sharing self-satisfied, quite boastful threats of ghetto-rat violence, expressed in some detail. And aimed at people who simply disagree, and who dare to point out the non-reciprocal premise of her own Black Lives Matter posturing.

sharing stabby meltdown videos is not a good way to impress potential employers.
What astonishes me most is not that she was fired, but where she was fired from – Deloitte.
The point of cognitive dissonance is that attempting to hold two contradictory positions at the same time is supposed to create dissonance – mental anguish and distress.
Yet here is Janover attempting to be both an analyst for Deloitte as well as a radical anti-Capitalist neo-Marxist at the same time while appearing not to be even remotely troubled by such inherently incompatible beliefs (or even aware that those beliefs might actually be incompatible in the first place).
Its slightly disorienting to watch in much the same way it is to see radical Leftist feminist Laurie Penny asking on Twitter:

Where in London can I get a MacBook screen replaced fast, well, and for less than the cost of a month’s rent?

And then later crowing with delight about becoming a Hollywood screenwriter for a show produced by Joss Whedon, a man whose ex-wife accused him of “years of infidelity and emotional abuse, which she claimed contradicted his public persona as a self-identified feminist activist” according to The Telegraph and that Penny must have known about before she accepted the post as a writer on his show.
It’s almost as if their moral compass is still in its packaging, lying unboxed next to the unread warranty information in a dozen languages.
Incidentally, Janover has started a hashtag #FireMeToo for which there is already at least one enthusiastic supporter:

I am starting at @DeloitteUS in September as a Business Analyst in the same sector that@clurajan was supposed to start at. If getting fired for advocating for Black Lives Matter is a fireable offense, then #firemetoo.

The young man’s mother will no doubt be delighted at this principled white-knightly gesture for an apparently mentally unstable girl he likely barely knows.

“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as though that were so necessary— that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point! He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction between him and other animals), may be by his curse alone he will attain his object—that is, convince himself that he is a man and not a piano-key!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

It’s a tangle of mental and moral wreckage.
The generation of 1968 were reviled as hypocrites for being revolutionaries in their 20s, but putting on a tie and becoming executives in their 30s, homeowners and soccer moms in their 40s.
The generation of 2020 seem to be trying to square that particular circle by cutting out the transitions and getting it all done at one and the same time.
Still, I suppose they have plenty of corporate examples to crib from, what with huge multinational corporations and franchises such as McDonald’s, Starbucks, Nike and, let’s not forget, Gillette and Audi, all spending millions of marketing dollars on open declarations of support for organisations or movements whose activists have been nothing if not crystal clear in arguing that huge multinational corporations and franchises in one form or another are the source of all evil in the world and must therefore be destroyed.
she, it seems, should be free to behave in ways that would be denounced immediately and vehemently if indulged in by those who disagree with her.
Which I suggest is another way of saying, quite likely also regurgitated from her lecture notes, that since moral values are relative all that matters is the will to power.
Which, I believe, is Fascism, isn’t it?

Damn, STG. Thank you, thank you, thank you. A 30 year quest (well, ok… I did do other stuff with that time as well) has ended. So it seems Mr. Kerouac, being a much more concise writer, summarized. Which is what made it so hard to find in the original.
Barkeep, a drink for Mr STG on my tab…which I will gladly be paying…ok, not next Tuesday, nor the one after that, but hopefully the one after the one after that…or there abouts.

I’ll throw in a sausage roll too.
Act casual. Say nothing.
Just look innocent as you assure that it’s a fresh smell.

“I will not be surprised if Deloitte does not undo her firing….”
I meant – “will not be surprised if Deloitte undoes her firing….”

I’ll throw in a sausage roll too.
Hmmm, seems like there will be more than tea to throw in the harbor on July 4.

[ Throws grubby bar towel over sausage roll. ]
Anyway, about that recent sporting event…

If getting fired for advocating for Black Lives Matter is a fireable offense, then #firemetoo.
YES! Wonderful. We need to stoke that flame for all it’s worth. People here often and rightly point out hypocrisy as if dissonance was ever an obstacle for the Leftwaffe. Between pulling social media ads (a long con, but still), voice actors quitting roles, and now this we’re seeing a smattering of leftist being made to “live by their own rules”. Faster, please.

Palate cleanser.

Somehow I suspect he’s not quite Deloitte material, even though he claims to be.
And heavens, madam does think highly of herself.

Her would-be White Knight, Caleb King, has a Twitter profile picture that doesn’t obviously say business analyst. I wonder if Deloittes will stick with his obvious potential or take a long hard look at a recruitment process that so nearly landed them with these two losers.
Disclaimer. Many years ago, probably before our host was born, I qualified with and worked for Deloitte Haskins & Sells as they then were. At that time they were a solid and respectable firm of accountants. They appear to have moved on somewhat.

No links, but something occurred to me recently while watching a bit of Star Wars, and in the absence of a Twitter account I thought I’d share it here:

Peace is a lie. There is only Passion.
Through Passion I gain Strength.
Through Strength I gain Power.
Through Power I gain Victory.
Through Victory my chains are Broken.

That’s the Code of the Sith, the creed of the Dark Side. But if I’d told you it was a poem by one of BLM’s founders, how many would have argued?
“After Robert the Bruce’s Statue Was Vandalized by BLM, the National Trust for Scotland Apologized to Blacks for the Medieval King’s Racism”
Heh. My dad was a member of the NTS. I remember looking through the list of candidates for the new Board he was sent a couple of years ago and realising there wasn’t a single one I’d have been happy to vote for. They all had little thumbnail photos and you wouldn’t have picked out any of them as obvious SJWs, but the potted resumés told a different story. “Community Managers”, Big Charity, Civil Servants… this doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
“McDonald’s, Starbucks, Nike and, let’s not forget, Gillette and Audi, all spending millions of marketing dollars on open declarations of support for organisations or movements whose activists have been nothing if not crystal clear in arguing that huge multinational corporations and franchises in one form or another are the source of all evil in the world and must therefore be destroyed.”
Mercedes…
As I’ve been pointing out elsewhere, the retention of turquoise on the car in deference to their state-owned Malaysian sponsor carries a certain irony. Adultery, eating, smoking or drinking during Ramadan, and “indecent behaviour” – which includes holding hands in public – carry prison sentences in Malaysia, due to its Sharia courts, while its civil courts have a history of denying official recognition to Christian converts. But that’s all fine as long as a black guy who’s made millions driving in F1 can denounce the fans who voluntarily funded his fortune as racist.
“Which I suggest is another way of saying, quite likely also regurgitated from her lecture notes, that since moral values are relative all that matters is the will to power.
Which, I believe, is Fascism, isn’t it?”
Bringing us back to my first point. George Lucas modelled the Sith on the Nazis.

As our host might say, “everything” is doing a lot of load-bearing in this sentence.
It reminded me of this young lady – the one who imagined that employers would rush to offer lucrative and statusful employment to someone schooled in sourness, “social justice” and anti-capitalism, and who describes herself on LinkedIn as a “political troublemaker.” As if that were catnip to people looking for reliable staff.
And then of course there’s this unhappy creature.

Oh FFS …
I have a friend who owns a farm in Kansas. She’s part of a few FB groups dealing with farming/gardening subjects.
Looks like the BLM/SJW crowd is targeting gardening groups now as “racist” and are attacking people in her “plant & identification” group. e.g. =

May as well change the name to “plant identification for racist white karens”

It’s the knitting/fiber group crap all over again.

You will not be allowed any non-political space …

They’re bullies.
For those who missed it, the laugh-a-minute world of intersectional knitting.

The Case of the Racist Dad
I’ll just repost this on the right page, sigh 😉
Benjamin Boyce discusses a live-streamed working business meeting of the New York City Community Education Council (CEC).
Words.
Cannot.
Express.
Enjoy!

I’m finding comfort in the prospect of a haircut.
As was I, but now I’ve passed the “lesbian middle-school teacher” phase which earned me near-universal scorn and am currently in a “Mediterranean footballer” phase which has produced more than a few flirty stares. Good things come to he who waits, David.

The Case of the Racist Dad
What a gong show.
Harpy number two tipped her hand when she said she didn’t like the look, oops, smirk on the guys face when he was playing with the baby. Isn’t that what it really comes down. These are the people who get offended if you look at them cross-eyed and yet won’t stop rolling their eyes when someone else is talking. Reciprocity indeed.
These are people whose whole lives are spent judging and pre-judging others. They’ve found their home in an ideology that let’s them do it openly, virtuously, and with great feelings of piety. Dad has the right idea to call them out for their behaviour and to really get under their skin by calling them bad people (which they are). That more than anything drives them nuts. Take Harpy number one for example who’s racked with guilt because she’s been called out for “not doing enough.” They are people who feel kicked looking for someone else to kick.

The Case of the Racist Dad
For me that video is right on the slicing edge of unbearable. Ordinarily when I’m watching frothing-mouthed spittle-flecked entitled screaming racist bitches I have to stop the video because it makes me boiling angry enough to punch out the furniture.
This video is just sufficiently hilariously awful – these deranged buffoons are so absurd, so horrible, so utterly contemptible that I just can’t stop watching the comedy train wreck. And it wrecks so hard it causes me actual pain.
Remember – this is a Community Education Council. Live-Streaming. To the world.
Holy.
Fuck.

Problem solved dude

“Save money! Save time! Have fun!”

I have to say, it’s not quite what I’m used to.

Looks like the BLM/SJW crowd is targeting gardening groups now as “racist”
Bolshevik Lives Don’t Matter

Much longer and I’ll be needing a neck brace to support the weight of the hair.
Maybe these ladies could give you some advice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBPYDLYAXvE