Friday Ephemera

“Say, if any of all y’all over in Blighty want some breathing room, real estate in the US&A is real cheap, there are only about 100 million of us left.”
Yet another statement by a Democrat candidate that, were she a Republican, would make her a laughing-stock all over the world.
I’m serious. Yes, the news media are biased. But most people don’t really watch the news. Especially not about stuff that doesn’t directly concern them. So what people outside the US see about American politics is comedy shows… “Ho, ho, Dan Quayle can’t spell ‘potato’. What a dope!” “Sara Palin thinks she can see Russia from her house! What an idiot!” “Donald Trump grabs women by the p***y. What a sleazeball!”
And what they never hear is, “Ha, ha, Barack Obama says there are 57 states! What a doofus!”, “Joe Biden gropes young girls. What a creep!”, or “Kamala Harris thinks two thirds of the American population have died from the Chinese plague! What a fool!”
That’s the bias that’s the problem.

That’s the bias that’s the problem.
I’ll take “Things I’ve been saying for 40 years” for $100, Alex.

I believe that is what is referred to as “a culture”.
‘Ere you are: The Big Fat Northern Opera Company sings Nest In’t Dormer and other well known classics.

We haven’t had interpretive dance around here for a bit, an actress no one has ever heard of corrects this oversight for us.

An inexcusable oversight on my part.
Now, now, none of that, completely understandable what with all the lockdowns and rozzers chasing mean tweets and random interweb posts that your access to high quality cringe and WokeWTF might be limited, and indeed, it is incumbent upon all of us here to strive constantly to cover down and help maintain the standards that make this the go-to Site of Excellence for this sort of thing.

Interpretive dance is hell fun
Ah, good times. Mr Devine really shot down any suspicions of him being at all entitled or obnoxiously self-flattering.

A friend passed on this article from the linguist John McWhorter on what the likes of Rachel Dolezal and Jessica “La Bombalera” Krug might mean for the rest of us.
Ah, but given the buzzword of the moment, the operational mindset covers just about anything.

To adopt preppyness can confer a sense of importance more generally. No person in academia or the media can miss that the educated class finds almost anything more interesting/dynamic/challenging/worth-a-look when a preppy person does it. We are taught lately that academia is shot through with taste, style, and a clue, yet no scholarly work is dismissed because someone preppy wrote it. Indeed, scholarship by a preppy person is more likely to be elevated over scholarship by an adult person on the same topic. Krug’s book would likely have gotten much less attention if an adult person had written it. Certainly, she felt more interesting as a badly costumed, pretentious git fighting for “her” people than she would have as a adult professor toiling in obscurity.

The success of the label being marketed is going to depend on the audience, but from there, the label is irrelevant.

Your response neither makes sense nor says anything of relevance to the content of McWhorter’s article.
Well, you do have to read the response—and yes, it does tie into the article.

Oh look, enjoying autumn is racist.
Because the joyless, pretentious bitching must never, ever end.

Because the joyless, pretentious bitching must never, ever end.
Honest to God, I’ve never met a Happy Leftist. They nurture and cultivate their resentment like a hothouse orchid.
And the enemy of resentment is gratitude. Leftists sneer at Christmas, they loathe Thanksgiving.

Enjoying spring, summer, or winter is also racist. As is disliking spring, summer, fall, or winter.

people well into their thirties and forties,
Or fifties, sixties, seventies, and though I cannot claim firsthand knowledge, see many of the well known leftists in their eighties.

The adolescent tone, and the psychology it implies
Like I keep saying, from extreme Complex PTSD to the mere emotional dysregulation common to anyone who spends too much time on social media, the defining characteristic of our society in 2020 is a failure to grow the hell up.
How we’ve reached this state of affairs is left as an exercise for the reader.

Oh look, enjoying autumn is racist.
I loved this response from Richard O’Callighan in the referenced Twitter thread:
Dare I say there’s an air of colonialism about her attitude – she’s moved into the countryside, is appalled by the natives, and has resolved to “civilise” them.

so quick to abdicate responsibility for their own feelings.
As I like to think this blog has shown, the left does seem to attract a very high concentration of neurotic narcissists.

The very concept of Britishness is wrapped up in images of the fields of England – and I do not represent that concept
She intends to destroy the village to save it, and to have fun and settle scores while she’s doing the destroying. She doesn’t want a rural English community, she wants a lower-density version of Notting Hill, or something like the “quintessential British private school in the countryside” she went to (all that horse riding and nature rambling gives her the credentials to speak on rural affairs) whose progressive authorities can scold the children for not including a newcomer in their friendship circles.
If your ancestors didn’t come from a rural community, if you can’t be placed in the giant interlocking family tree that people carry around in their heads, then you have to accept being a blow-in. If you’re a non-white blow-in a white rural community, the intense interest in who you are and who your people are will take a broad-grained form – these yokels might even assume from your race what your ancestry isn’t, so they’ll skip asking you if you’re so-and-so’s cousin from the city or if you’re any relation to the Smiths from up the hill, they’ll just ask you where you’re really from.
This makes outsiders feel like outsiders, it makes them feel they can’t just walk into some place and overturn its cultural norms to suit themselves. It’s heresy in a world where the Uninvited Guest is at the top of the moral hierarchy and anyone who feels that their hospitality is abused by the Uninvited Guest is at the bottom of the moral hierarchy.
… a cultural exodus from the cities … new cultural heritage … fastest-growing demographic … new identity for country living that is not associated with old stereotypes.
Rural communities in historically white nations are places for white people to reconnect with their cultural heritage, and reminders that nation states too used to be based on common ancestry and cultural inheritance, that it was the exception not the norm to have even a grandparent of a different nationality. So yes, the agenda requires those communities to be overwhelmed and erased.