Mother’s Pride
She chose to share, and thereby impress. Pronouns, obviously.
Update, via the comments:
Given Ms Vilkomerson’s ostentatiously woke outpourings elsewhere, I think we can assume that, whether true or fabricated, said tweet was intended to both amuse and be met with approval. A bit of peer-group positioning, The key part being the modish dismissal of “white boys.” (Sort of, “See, I’ve taught my daughter to disdain whiteness and masculinity. How brave I am.”) That said tweet conveys other things, and unintended ironies, seems to have escaped Ms Vilkomerson.
As public boasts go, it’s quite a strange thing. I mean, you can imagine a proud parent announcing that their fourteen-year-old had passed a chemistry exam or reached piano grade three or something. But wanting to announce that your fourteen-year-old has internalised pretentious disdain for white people, and white men in particular, seems… obnoxiously unhinged. That this is apparently something statusful, a basis for applause, or at least in-group belonging, does not make it seem less so.
Via Rafi.
– the results will tend to be unattractive.
According to the comments, Tim Newman is either now, or by September will be a complete and utter misogynist. Can’t say I’ve seen him at any of the meetings.
insists on being referred to by a random Japanese word
I continue to wonder why so many white… women have random Chinese characters tattooed in various places. I still chuckle at the memory of one youngish sporting what she claimed were the symbols for “love and virtue”, yet they amazingly resembled the symbols for green cabbage (Bok Choy).
Can’t say I’ve seen him at any of the meetings.
The tall chap at the back, with the dark glasses and the headscarf.
The tall chap at the back, with the dark glasses and the headscarf.
He is not of the body!
He is not of the body!
Hence the dark glasses and headscarf. Like the Invisible Man. Do try and keep up.
“White boys waiting for a boat” is a style of making fun of something by summarizing it to triviality. “The Money Pit is about a couple who buy a house”.
but there is a tone here of sneering at a pivotal moment in world history. It was the entire british army that was about to get captured. If they had, the brits would have had to sue for peace with hitler and europe might still be nazi. And it was white boys who saved the world, my dear twit.
Do try and keep up.
What happened to the Guild of Evil lapel pins?
If they had, the brits would have had to sue for peace with hitler and europe might still be nazi.
Sooo….white boys kick the can down the road 80 years?
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sandwich-brexit-netherlands-intl-scli-gbr/index.html
I heard the lapel pins got confiscated as well.
I heard the lapel pins got confiscated as well.
As long as we don’t return to sewing the insignia into the lining of our hats: I kept wearing the wrong hat and it was so embarrassing to display a THRUSH insignia when entering a GOE meeting. Possibly why I never got promoted.
I didn’t get the lapel pins references, so I googled THRUSH GOE.
And that’s how I learned it’s a type of yeast infection.
I didn’t get the lapel pins references…
[carefully ignores mention of yeast infections]
So The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was before your time? Very popular when I was a kid.
I actually have no idea who first came up with the Guild of Evil, but it’s been a running joke all over the internet for years. And then there’s the battle cry “Free the hero of Krasnovia!” You’ll have fun googling that, perhaps.
The Bible: Just a bunch of Jews wandering around and you know, like, some of them form a breakaway group
Rorke’s Drift: A bunch of white boys winning 23 Victoria Crosses.
I heard the lapel pins got confiscated as well.
So aside from the cheddar, they are not entirely wrong, then.
You’ll have fun googling that, perhaps.
Not if you were actually there, man.
A different James mentioned Dad’s Army in a recent comment thread.
Thanks! I have now seen the movie and will next borrow the TV series. Very good.
I continue to wonder why so many white… women have random Chinese characters tattooed in various places.
In this particular case, the wife spent an undergrad semester in Japan and decided that being Japanese was her life’s ambition. Unfortunately her understanding of Japan comes mostly from movies and anime. More anime, really. The daughter has picked up on this.
Said wife’s sister-in-law, who is actually Japanese, has the most subtle “Oh Jesus Christ” eye roll I’ve ever seen at family gatherings.
Free the hero of Krasnovia!
Colonel, I’m an ordinary Englishman. I couldn’t begin to act like a hero even if I tried.
Colonel, I’m an ordinary Englishman. I couldn’t begin to act like a hero even if I tried.
Well, you could do your part by making sandwiches and waffles for the heroes. Much fun was had at the expense of Fecesbook.
My wife’s grandfather was killed while waiting for a boat at Dunkirk.
I strongly suspect there was something else going on rather than just waiting on a beach.
A different James mentioned Dad’s Army in a recent comment thread.
You’re welcome.
I hope you don’t get the same looks of pity as I do at home when I watch it.
I only recently became aware of the war experiences of Arthur Ridley who played the doddery pacifist, Private Godfrey.
Just another white boy spending time in France, I suppose.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35491036
I only recently became aware of the war experiences of Arthur Ridley who played the doddery pacifist, Private Godfrey.
And so many veterans didn’t talk about their experiences, and even discounted them. More in the next comment.
David and james, I just ran across a fascinating item on the Assistant Village Idiot blog about J.R.R. Tolkien’s service in WWI:
“Until recently biographers and commenters on JRR Tolkien have taken him at his word that he was not a good soldier during WWI. He believed he had done his duty but little more, and he specifically referenced his character of Sam Gamgee as the sort of person he thought a better soldier than he.
The great Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert disagreed, and has taken some pains to contact Tolkien biographers and expositers and give them some background.
…
He found that WWI soldiers, when asked who had been good soldiers, invariably identified those who had died. While the army, navy, and government would identify acts of heroism among the living and award them, the servicemen themselves did not mention this. Gilbert, knowing this by the time people were writing that his friend Tollers was being called a bad soldier, did a bit of research – he admits not exhaustive – and found that all indications were that he had been an excellent soldier. But the survivors didn’t say that then.
…
Tolkien honored the dead throughout the work, and his characters who survive battles always make light of their own part…”
Well, you could do your part by making sandwiches and waffles
I came for fishing, not revolutions. I don’t like revolutions and I do like fishing.
I came for fishing, not revolutions. I don’t like revolutions and I do like fishing.
It’s not revolution, it’s heroic defense of our glorious motherland Krasnovia from the vile Pinelanders. But in addition to sandwiches and genocide (but mostly sandwiches) Krasnovia is also known for beautiful upland lakes and trout streams. Come stay in our rustic fishing lodges and spend your nice American dollars. Waffles for breakfast every day.
Waffles for breakfast every day.
Also: no hump fat. Just sweet fresh butter. From cows that were not liberated from Pinelandia. We promise.
Come stay in our rustic fishing lodges and spend your nice American dollars.
If your monarch gets kidnapped on the eve of his coronation, I’m not helping.
…Krasnovia is also known for beautiful upland lakes and trout streams…
Krasnovia is a land of desert located between The Baja Republic and the Republic of Mojave on the island of Tierra del Diablo. It is not to be confused with the country of Atropia, which is in the same place, or worse still, the Republic of Cortina where no one in there right mind wants to go. No one who was there will ever be the same.
Pay no attention to that Farnsworth liar! He will soon learn the true facts, just as soon as our team of educators can shake the sand out of their shoes.
I noticed the bump in New comments and scrolled down, thinking maybe to participate, only to find myself utterly at sea. And apparently, not the sea off Dunkirk, either.
[Fiddles with the stale barnuts littering the area, awaiting a general return to sanity.]
‘Critical Race Theory’ – just a bunch of white men playing with votes..