I’m Sensing Unrest
And so, an open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
I’ll set the ball rolling with the gushing brains of Harvard’s best, and, via Captain Nemo, a textbook display of socialism, darling.
Our betters, you see.
Update:
In the comments, John notes the agitation of Ms Janover, our Harvard intellectual, and adds, rather drily, “Something is obviously upsetting her.” Well, yes. As a Higher Being, she’s offended by “entitled caucasity,” by which she means expectations of reciprocity.
Needless to say, the upset continues. Despite being quoted verbatim – and despite her own video, which she saw fit to share, presumably expecting applause – Ms Janover is now claiming that she has been cruelly misrepresented by “Trump supporters,” whose “hate” she denounces. After threatening to stab people who disagree with her. We’re told, furthermore, that she will “never be silenced into shame.” Which is rather the problem, one might think.
The not-at-all-entitled Ms Janover is also, it seems, astonished that sharing stabby meltdown videos is not a good way to impress employers.
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.
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
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.
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
It’s a tangle of mental and moral wreckage. Which, as I often point out, isn’t arrived at by accident. It’s a tangle that’s taught, encouraged and reinforced, at considerable expense.
As with so many of her ideological peers, Ms Janover’s worldview – a wholesale regurgitation of her lecture notes, one assumes – seems premised on unilateral exemptions and non-reciprocation. A fundamental and habitual double standard. In that, 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. Her actions and choices, unlike those of thee and me, should never have consequences. Even quite predictable ones that might have easily been avoided. Especially the kind of consequences that she endorses for others, chiefly on grounds of their skin colour.
Given the childish psychology on display, it’s hardly surprising just how seductive it is for people who don’t want to grow up.
“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
Dude had a way with words.
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?
We’re told, furthermore, that she will “never be silenced into shame.” Which is rather the problem, one might think.
That.
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.
Barkeep, a drink for Mr STG on my tab…
I’ll throw in a sausage roll too.
Act casual. Say nothing.
I’ll throw in a sausage roll too.
Act casual. Say nothing.
Just look innocent as you assure that it’s a fresh smell.
At least Ms Janover was let go for something she did this week, rather than something she did two decades ago.
I will not be surprised if Deloitte does not undo her firing, apologizes, fires the person who fired her, and makes a large donation to BLM by week’s end.
“I will not be surprised if Deloitte does not undo her firing….”
I meant – “will not be surprised if Deloitte undoes her firing….”
Thank you, STG, for posting that quote.
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.
Thanks all. No problem.
Oh. Sausage roll too. Thank you.
Hey… did that just… twitch?
[ Throws grubby bar towel over sausage roll. ]
Anyway, about that recent sporting event…
twitch?
Nah. Looked more like a throb to me.
I will not be surprised if Deloitte does not undo her firing, apologizes, fires the person who fired her, and makes a large donation to BLM by week’s end.
Yep. At the rate corporations cave to the twitter and other mobs, this seems like a very safe bet. Hope I’m wrong. Seems lately in such matters I aspire to be wrong.
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.
more like a throb
Band name.
Palate cleanser.
Incidentally, Janover has started a hashtag #FireMeToo for which there is already at least one enthusiastic supporter:
Have you looked at his page?
https://twitter.com/calebdwking
Somehow I suspect he’s not quite Deloitte material, even though he claims to be.
Somehow I suspect he’s not quite Deloitte material, even though he claims to be.
And heavens, madam does think highly of herself.
Somehow I suspect he’s not quite Deloitte material, even though he claims to be.
Come now, he’s indigenous, a sugpiaq boy no less. Surely that scores mega-points in the intersectionality olympics. How could Deloitte possibly let go of such fabulousness.
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.
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.
Isn’t the running theme of this blog that these people don’t actually believe what comes out of their mouths?
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:
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.
“The job that I’d worked really hard to get and meant a lot to me has called me and fired me because of everything.”
As our host might say, “everything” is doing a lot of load-bearing in this sentence. It wasn’t everything, sweetheart, it was one specific thing, and you’re unlikely to improve your lot in life unless and until you figure that out.
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.
as long as a black guy who’s made millions driving in F1 can denounce the fans who voluntarily funded his fortune as racist
First race of the abbreviated season is Austria (3 more days!!), where last year Mercedes lost because they couldn’t cool down their cars. So they changed their livery to…all black. I’m sure when their engines are engulfed in flame this go round it’ll be because of white supremacy or somesuch. I f*cking love science.
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. =
It’s the knitting/fiber group crap all over again.
Looks like the BLM/SJW crowd is targeting gardening groups now as “racist”
By and large, they’re unhappy, spiteful people who lie about their motives, and much else besides. Trying to hurt and dominate others is presumably some kind of compensation.
It’s what they do.
You will not be allowed any non-political space …
By and large, they’re unhappy, spiteful people who lie about their motives, and much else besides. Trying to hurt and dominate others is presumably some kind of compensation.
They’re bullies. Like Brianna above, they come in looking for arms to twist, expecting to be validated by cries of, “Uncle!”
The patient academic lady who had the Twitter thread on defusing such situations made it clear she didn’t hold out hope for situations where the SJWs (arm-twisters) grossly outnumbered the intended prostraters (arm-twistees). Her entire endeavor was one of getting the intended victims to see that arms were being twisted, leaving the bully minority in a position where they either had to back off or openly display their true intention – to make themselves feel better by extracting obedience.
They’re bullies.
For those who missed it, the laugh-a-minute world of intersectional knitting.
For those who missed it, the laugh-a-minute world of intersectional knitting.
And the additional knitfit at Ravelry.com fiasco was only last summer … I swear, 2020 has lasted years already.
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 swear, 2020 has lasted years already.
I’m finding comfort in the prospect of a haircut.
[ Strokes lush, voluminous mane. ]
Soon, my pretties. Soon.
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.
Whoda thunk it? College students throwing parties with cash prize for whomever can prove they got Covid-19 first. Roll Tide!
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.
Good things come to he who waits, David.
Much longer and I’ll be needing a neck brace to support the weight of the hair.
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.
Much longer and I’ll be needing a neck brace to support the weight of the hair.
Problem solved dude.
Problem solved dude
I have to say, it’s not quite what I’m used to.
Heh. Don’t knock it. I have a mostly-work buddy to whom I once complimented (and I am about the last person one should expect to comment on such things) that his hair always looks perfect. He said he uses a Flowbee every weekend.
Looks like the BLM/SJW crowd is targeting gardening groups now as “racist”
Bolshevik Lives Don’t Matter
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.
D’ye think an image update would be in order then? Just think of the corporate sponsorship posters and ads that could be done . . . .
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
Claira Janover – it’s been the same old pattern:
– someone of the hard left let’s the mask slip and says something nasty
– it is gleefully shared around on social media
– original Leftist collapses into self-pity & announces that they are the victim.
– In advanced cases (Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Jess Phillips, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown) the miscreant refuses to respond to any criticism of what they actually said, instead changing the subject to the hate mail they’ve managed to provoke. In some cases it looks quite deliberate