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Noah Carl on fashionable indignation versus probity and thinking:
There are several things to notice here. First, the signatories use the word ‘revisits’ – rather than say ‘examines’ or ‘investigates’ – to imply that the theories in question have already been disproved, and hence that [economic historian, Gregory] Clark is engaged in some sort of futile exercise. Second, so far as I’m aware, ‘naturalization’ refers to the process of becoming a citizen of another country. I presume the signatories meant ‘naturalization’ in the sense of “nature versus nurture,” but it’s a very odd word to use. Third, the signatories refer to the “vast amount of research” that supposedly refutes Clark’s thesis, but don’t actually bother to cite any.
The unhappy signatories do, however, mention race and racism repeatedly – as, it seems, is the custom – despite the offending paper referring to race precisely zero times.
Regarding the above, it occurs to me that if people are obliged, on pain of social exclusion and near-immediate career destruction, to mouth pieties that are illogical, blatantly question-begging, and which jar with observable reality, this will tend to result in an erosion of probity, a habit of pretence, and perhaps a kind of neuroticism.
Speaking of academic standards, an Ohio resident shares her displeasure with woke educators and their niche preoccupations:
“Now, the residents with kids who did find out about your deviant curriculum, they pulled their kids out as fast as they could. More are withdrawing their kids because the school has lost control of the classroom environment,” she said. She took a moment to collect her thoughts, and then went on to say that “in the document for critical race theory, the stated goal is to make children activists in their own home. What does that mean?” She asked. “Why are you trying to create an adversarial relationship between parents and child when that is the relationship that needs to be strengthened?”
And somewhat related, Christopher F Rufo shares a conference for North Carolina’s public school teachers:
At the first session, “Whiteness in Ed Spaces,” school administrators provided two handouts on the “norms of whiteness.” These documents claimed that “(white) cultural values” include “denial,” “fear,” “blame,” “control,” “punishment,” “scarcity,” and “one-dimensional thinking.” […]
Parents, according to the teachers, should be considered an impediment to social justice. When one teacher asked, “How do you deal with parent pushback?” the answer was clear: ignore parental concerns and push the ideology of antiracism directly to students. “You can’t let parents deter you from the work,” the teachers said. “White parents’ children are benefiting from the system” of whiteness and are “not learning at home about diversity (LGBTQ, race, etc.).” Therefore, teachers have an obligation to subvert parental wishes and beliefs. Any “pushback,” the teachers explained, is merely because white parents fear “that they are going to lose something” and find it “hard to let go of power [and] privilege.”
Subverting the preferences of parents regarding their own children, and disdaining parents who object as moral and cognitive inferiors, driven only by ignorance and “privilege” – and doing all this with an air of self-satisfaction and self-elevation, as “equity leaders” bravely correcting the world – well, this has obvious appeal, for certain kinds of people. Certain personalities.
And given their preoccupation with “microaggressions,” at least when purported victims are deemed sufficiently brown, our woke educators seem oddly unconcerned by the likely effect on white peers, and on white children, of continually being told, based on clown-shoe woo, that their pallor is problematic, harmful, the cause of all injustice. Something to atone for. Something to be fixed.
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*orders popcorn*
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/21/clapham-vigil-policing-investigator-is-suing-home-office-for-sex-and-race-bias
When did this racist shit become ‘the work’? Shouldn’t they be teaching kids maths and English?
When did this racist shit become ‘the work’? Shouldn’t they be teaching kids maths and English?
Well, indeed. The presumption, the practised arrogance, is quite a thing. But as we’ve seen, many times, leftist educators don’t on the whole seem overly concerned with the preferences of parents, i.e., the people ultimately paying their salaries. For many, thwarting those preferences seems to be quite gratifying, a basis for in-group status.
And given leftist psychology, this is hardly surprising. Imparting the basics of arithmetic or geography or whatever is, at least in their eyes, fairly low-status, terribly humdrum – an inadequate vehicle for self-imagined brilliance. While being a “change agent,” an “equity leader,” is much more exciting. Much more flattering to insecure egos.
Not entirely unrelated.
…well, this has obvious appeal, for certain kinds of people. Certain personalities.
Not entirely unrelated regarding certain personalities and the pushing of belief systems.
Muldoon, Muldoon, Muldoon…that “study” used the word ‘normal’ in describing non-GID boys. Thus the whole study is invalid. You should know these things by now.
“These documents claimed that ‘(white) cultural values’ include … ‘one-dimensional thinking.’”
That’s a bit bloody rich coming from a crowd of race-obsessed monomaniacs.
That’s a bit bloody rich coming from a crowd of race-obsessed monomaniacs.
But you do understand that for all intents and purposes they are correct, yes? And if you don’t understand this, you will be made to once everyone else does.
White humans should just shut up & listen in Ed Spaces. In fact, all humans should just shut up & listen to the horses in Ed Spaces.
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I will never apologize.
That’s a bit bloody rich coming from a crowd of race-obsessed monomaniacs.
From the same ideological group now insisting that “silence” – i.e., a failure to emphatically and publicly defer to their every demented demand – is “violence.”
Not exactly the signature of mental nimbleness.
More news from my former alma mater. When they banned the Gator Bait cheer I stopped wearing any Gator gear and waited to see if they would actually follow through on that ban come football season. When at the start of the first game they decided to kneel I turned the tv off and haven’t watched them since. Well, as an experiment I did kind of try to watch the SEC Championship game, but I found that I just didn’t care. There is a huge hole in my life right now but I simply cannot support this bigotry in any sense. Unfortunately most Americans, most “conservative” and even “pro-Trump” Americans, lack the cajones to do the simplest of things like stop watching the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc.
You should know these things by now.
I would hang my head in shame but I found the ‘tone and manner’…’unhelpfully emotive’.
I was surprised to read that the latest broadcast contact renewal gives the NFL the best part of a 100% increase. I wonder what the various networks think they know that we don’t. Possibly the same thinking that over here has sky sports bombarding viewers with in-screen comments about blm, rainbow laces, black history month etc along with endlessly encouraging us to watch all 8 minutes and 40 seconds of “The killing of George Floyd” on demand.
Shot fired.
like stop watching the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc.
Well, first I’d have to have been watching them to now stop. 😉
One of the main reasons we cut-the-cable years ago, I couldn’t abide paying for a half-dozen ESPN channels.
These documents claimed that “(white) cultural values” include “denial,” “fear,” “blame,” “control,” “punishment,” “scarcity,” and “one-dimensional thinking.” […]
It’s all projection and always is, every time.
I found the ‘tone and manner’…’unhelpfully emotive’.
It’s like something from Lucky Jim.
Woke breaking points…
https://notthebee.com/article/this-lady-asked-what-was-your-woke-breaking-point-on-twitter-here-are-the-best-responses
‘Christine Davitt, the senior staffer at Teen Vogue who wrote to the management to express her concern over the ‘past racist tweets’ of the editor, which led to her sacking, which she then celebrated, used racist language in old tweets, it has emerged’
https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1373588282236411906
From the archives:
“Oh, and during his time at Protein Wisdom, Dan Collins saw fit to compare your host, favourably, with Kate Beckinsale in a skintight leather catsuit – a comparison that has more than once robbed me of a good night’s sleep.”
Now I’m feeling a bit uneasy too.
[ Fetches talc. ]
[ Fetches talc. ]
[ Unease increases. ]
The petard, she is a harsh mistress.
So the school board guy silences the black lady as quickly as he can, and then tells her, “I don’t care if you were there and I don’t care if you’re black, I’m gonna stay woke.”
Why, it’s almost as if Wokesters regard black people as weapons to be used against the Wokesters ‘s fellow whites, rather than as people.
I don’t think this will work very well in the U.S. outside the PMC, because we have so many mixed-race families, and outside the PMC family ties are not lightly cut.
PMC?
“I wonder what the various networks think they know that we don’t. ”
Simple – the rest of their scheduled programming is providing a bit less of an audience.
As to the overall topic – would I be remiss in noting that there many (most?) of the fevered adherents seem to be… chunky white women?
(and yes, that would make an excellent band name – in the late 70’s, doubled with The Average White Band)
PMC?”
PubMed Central…
Professional Managerial Class.
Professional Managerial Class
Thank you very much, that clarifies things.
David, what can you prescribe for acronym overload?
Migration in Greece, Parts 1-3.
Via: “A Nigerian student I met in Perugia told me it’s well known across Africa that governments are simply dumping the uncontrollable, violent criminal underclass – created by decades of perpetual war – into Europe…”
True?
Via: Also true?
Professional Managerial Class: those folks who hop from one job to another every few years as they climb their career ‘ladder’, often having business degrees in management, but knowing little about what they are managing. [By changing jobs frequently they can stay one step ahead of their own ‘stuff-ups’ and not be found wanting.]
I and my colleagues started to encounter these wonderfully self-important, always well dressed creatures in the mid-1990s when I worked in the disability field. We quickly coined the term ‘content-free managers’ to describe them. Educating them was difficult as they had no real interest or sense of vocation, save their own careers.
NTSOG: I agree entirely. These people are a drain on whatever organization they are in. Remember when managers were people who had been hired out of high school, had risen in the organization, and had been promoted into management only when they showed ability and character?
Another anti-Asian attack by a white supremacist:
“A 68-year-old man [was] punched in the face by a stranger on a Tribeca subway train, leaving him in critical condition, was the latest victim of anti-Asian hate, a good Samaritan who helped the victim told the Daily News.
The victim was minding his business riding an uptown No. 1 train when the unhinged assailant, sporting a fedora, black leather jacket, pink hoodie and an elaborate gold necklace, boarded the train about 2:40 p.m. Friday, sources said.
‘You motherf—ing Asian,’ the snazzily-dressed man yelled, according to witness George Okrepkie.
Without warning, the 6-foot-2 attacker walloped the victim in the face leaving him covered in blood that dripped down his jacket.”
The photo at the link makes clear the race of the attacker, even though the text of article does not (to state it in print would, after all, be raacist.)
” sporting a fedora, black leather jacket, pink hoodie and an elaborate gold necklace”
It’s those darned Amish, I tell ya…
Christine Davitt, the senior staffer at Teen Vogue who wrote to the management to express her concern over the ‘past racist tweets’ of the editor, which led to her sacking, which she then celebrated, used racist language in old tweets, it has emerged’
Did the møøse bite her sister too?
True?
Yes.
…”sporting a fedora, black leather jacket, pink hoodie and an elaborate gold necklace”…
Sorry to see Huggy Bear go so bad, even if “many ppl believe” NYPD was orchestrating the attacks.
Well I’ve just checked with my sources and they say that many people think Tariq Nasheed looks suspiciously like a man who solicits sex from unsuspecting litters of puppies.
So, there.
Tariq Nasheed is a hard core racist. (But read the entire Wiki entry for more about this vile creature.)
We quickly coined the term ‘content-free managers’…
Heh. I’ve never considered them worthy of a non-profane euphemism. I first encountered this phenomenon in the mid-to-late 80s when a student consulting me for careers advice told me his goal was to ‘become a manager’. ‘Managing what?’, my not unreasonable question, was met with blank incomprehension. I would have to endure similar exchanges perhaps hundreds over times over the next decade. The notion that management was a discrete skill that could be applied successfully in absolutely any setting seems to have been promulgated by business schools and spread like toxic spores by graduates of the MBA courses that were starting to proliferate at that time.
Trevor: “The notion that management was a discrete skill that could be applied successfully in absolutely any setting seems to have been promulgated by business schools and spread like toxic spores by graduates of the MBA courses that were starting to proliferate at that time.”
I have not yet met the holder of an MBA who was not useless, though always ambitious and good at fence-sitting. They are con artists.
I have not yet met the holder of an MBA who was not useless
How about someone who, after years in their profession, gets an MBA? I’ve known a few engineers who did just that.
Well I’ve just checked with my sources and they say that many people think Tariq Nasheed looks suspiciously like a man who solicits sex from unsuspecting litters of puppies.
Well, if you think of life as a journey of moral self-betterment he does seem to have…screwed the pooch.
Sorry to see Huggy Bear go so bad, even if “many ppl believe” NYPD was orchestrating the attacks.
dammit, I hate it when I’m too late and the Tweet-idiot takes their account private.
pst314: “How about someone who, after years in their profession, gets an MBA? I’ve known a few engineers who did just that.”
Fair enough, but such people have a vocation and have operated in the real world and, presumably, are well grounded before embarking on an MBA.
The ones I met from mid-1990s on had not worked ‘on the ground’ in the field in which I worked. They came and went with monotonous regularity. They could recite the PC playbook according to Head Office accurately, but what happened in Adventureland where I worked was not the same as what happened in HO Fantasyland. They were granted great authority, but had no actual clinical expertise. A case in point: A new General Manager was appointed to the Disability Department. He had worked in a government department which provided state funded housing for poor/disadvantaged people. It’s often the case that people with disabilities take various medications. Under the Act of Parliament covering disabilities there must be a monthly reporting of use of medications administered to those who are in government care and it must be signed off by the Designated Officer under the Act, i.e. the General Manager. In signing off on the report the GM would be declaring that the use of medication was proper and correct. The new GM tried to get someone else – a trained disability nurse – to sign off on the report stating he [the GM] had no understanding of or training in the use of medication with people with disabilities, nor had he worked in the disability field before. To have someone else sign would have been illegal under the Disability Act: hence a content-free manager.
dammit, I hate it when I’m too late and the Tweet-idiot takes their account private.
Damn. An app that snapshots a tweet with a single click would be extremely useful.
Wait, I can still see that tweet. Darleen, how about you click the link again and, if you see any sort of error message, click Refresh once or twice. I have sometimes solved problems that way.
Tariq Nasheed is a hard core racist.
Unpossible, anyone who can come up with the cinematic genius of “The Triumph of Melanin”* and the sheer poetry and intricate music of “Wash Yo Ass”** is truly an intellect whose insights should be respected, if not revered. Besides, everyone knows only wypipo can be racists.
*(Probably sounds better in German)
**(Look it up at your own risk)
Darleen – Try here…
Also Trump’s fault, of course, at the link.