Dark Comedy
It’s impossible to envision a world without race for the Democratic Party. For such people, it’s impossible to envision a world that gets beyond race because their bread and butter, their bottom line, their raison d'être, and everything that they’re trying to do depends upon people being kept in these boxes.
Professor Glenn Loury.
Martin Durkin’s new documentary, The Great American Race Game.
Mr Durkin’s films, which I strongly recommend, have been mentioned before.
Also, open thread.
The general thrust of the film will not, I think, be surprising to regulars here, but many of the factual particulars and historical examples are still quite eye-widening. Well worth renting, or indeed buying.
It’s impossible to envision a world without race for the Democratic Party…because [it is] their bread and butter, their bottom line, their raison d’être…
Indeed. For those readers of this blog who live in the UK, consider the Congressional Black Caucus, which refuses to admit Congressmen who are not leftists and racial-grievance mongers. But do not put all the blame on the Congress critters: their constituents keep electing them and only people like them, which shows just how intellectually and morally degraded many black Americans are.
Dr Wilfred Reilly, interviewed in the film.
Another ridiculous thing: All the white liberals who insisted that the Minneapolis riots were a right-wing false flag operation. They knew they were lying. But I don’t know that Uncle Hugo’s science fiction bookstore was in a “traditional black and Asian business district”–that’s not what I remember from my last visit many years ago. In fact, it would be odd for an sf bookstore to be in a black business district because that would place it farther from the vast bulk of its customers.
Everything is racist: The Guardian educates us: ‘I was the only black kid in the pool’: why swimming is so white: ”
There were plenty of blacks at the public swimming pool that I tried visiting as a young child, although they were greatly outnumbered by the whites. (But I soon stopped going because of all the black criminals who would threaten and rob white kids. I suppose that was ‘a fear born of systemic inequalities’ in criminality between the white neighborhoods and the black neighborhood.)
“When you tell people that they have the right to live at the expense of other people through government welfare programmes, then you’re going to expect a change in their behaviour”
That.
. But I don’t know that Uncle Hugo’s science fiction bookstore was in a “traditional black and Asian business district”-
Well, if memory serves, there’s an islamic center a block or two away…
Vietnamese-American gets in on the victim game:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/america-ruined-my-name-for-me
“Dark Comedy” – sounds pretty racist…
Meanwhile, this individual thinks essays will be more important than SATs for college admission because “There is substantial evidence of the potential for class bias in the use of standardized tests to evaluate college applicants…”.
Given that we know, through the hard labor of sociologists and other experts, that standard English is racist, grading, racking, and stacking the essays to pick the best applicants should be high adventure.
Vietnamese-American gets in on the victim game:
a) “My parents named me Bich, so I became one.”
b) ORD to SGN, $497 one way, though she might want to have a chat with her parents about how swell it really is.
Yte guys named Dick were unavailable for comment.
Well, if memory serves, there’s an islamic center a block or two away…
You forced me to use Google Street View take a look: the neighborhood does look run down compared to when I visited. (Caveat: Google Street View does not show images more recent than May 2019. I wonder why. /cynicism)
“My parents named me Bich, so I became one.”
We are supposed to carefully forget that there are plenty of English names which sound comical or insulting in other languages.
In the mean time, please meet my good friend Snivelling Little Rat-Faced Git.
Yte guys named Dick were unavailable for comment.
Mandatory cultural reference: Biggus Dickus.
Vietnamese-American gets in on the victim game
In the article, she writes: “A name like Bich (pronounced “Bic”)”. Well, if it is pronounced ‘Bic’, why not spell it ‘Bic’? Vietnamese does not use English letters, so all names are transliterations.
Or you could just moan, at tedious length, about the nation which provided refuge to you and your family.
Well, if it is pronounced ‘Bic’, why not spell it ‘Bic’?
I don’t know, but two possible reasons seem likely:
(1) The system of transliteration was developed by the French, for whom such spellings did not pose such problems of pronunciation.
(2) The constellation of sounds in spoken Vietnamese are such that “c” is needed to represent another similar but distinct phoneme.
Well, if it is pronounced ‘Bic’, why not spell it ‘Bic’?
It is not as histrionic to whine about a pen-name…
Springtime for Hitler in Chinese.
(oops… I first posted this in the Friday thread, not realizing the party had moved here)
It is not as histrionic to whine about a pen-name…
Flic off, there…
Flic off, there…
What? Dorothy Parker never wrote sniveling screeds about her name while vacationing at Mont Blanc.
Lucky her surname wasn’t ho.
Lucky her surname wasn’t ho.
New student enrolling at my kids’ grade school (I was helping out in the office). Name: Phuc Vu. Staff gently suggested he go by his middle name Nguyen as his first.
There were plenty of blacks at the public swimming pool that I tried visiting as a young child, although they were greatly outnumbered by the whites. (But I soon stopped going because of all the black criminals who would threaten and rob white kids.
Throughout the south there were restrictions on black access to swimming pools and even beaches. Up until the late 60’s, possibly early 70’s, blacks were restricted to one of the more inaccessible beaches in Broward county such that many of the black kids I knew growing up did not know how to swim, even in high school. There was not one single even remotely good black swimmer when we would compete against the two predominantly black schools and you could pretty much know the competitive quality of a school’s team by the racial ratios. Even our worst swimmers, the freshmen who just joined our team and never competed before (and unless you’ve done at least 6 months of training, you have no idea what you are doing in the water) would beat their best swimmers. Boy scout jamboree events would often have some team effort requiring at least one kid to be ables to swim, often a kid from a “white” troop would need to volunteer to do that part of the effort for many black kid troops because not one black kid in that troop felt comfortable even in waste deep water. This was mid 70’s to early 80’s. The first Olympic quality competitive black swimmer I recall was Anthony Nesty who swam for University of Florida but was actually from and competed for Surinam. He also attended Jacksonville Bolles high school, which has been one of the most competitive, Olympic medalist producing high school swimming programs in the USA.
… not one black kid in that troop felt comfortable even in waste deep water…
Yes, who wouldn’t, but what about the part of the pool people weren’t pissing in ??
Here’s a pretty good article regarding the situation as it developed in Broward county in the post war period:
http://www.sfltimes.com/uncategorized/broward-county-to-commemorate-the-colored-beach
Yes, who wouldn’t, but what about the part of the pool people weren’t pissing in ??
Heh. Funny you should mention that. In the context of the Boy Scout thing, these situations would have been creeks and lakes and such, not formal swimming pools…but in another context…
So a few years ago I worked with a young millennial at “a major US defense company” whom I learned had been on the swimming team at U of Florida. Nice kid, smart, hard worker. UF has one of the better swimming programs in the US. Olympian and buddy of Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte swam there and this kid swam on the team with him during those years. I had just read an article where Lochte seemingly joked about peeing in the pool. I teased the kid that since Lochte was obviously the Olympian and thus the better swimmer, he had to swim through Lochte’s pee. The kid then tells me it was no joke as he swam through his own pee. I was somewhat shocked by this. In my day, you got out to pee. It sometimes was an excuse but for the most part you did it between sets and were expected to be back in the pool ready to go. As I recall, coach would hold up the workout and thus there was peer pressure to get your ass back in the pool so we could finish and go home. In the intervening 25-30 years apparently coaches stopped letting kids get out of the pool to pee.
Rented. Watching tonight.
What? Dorothy Parker never wrote sniveling screeds about her name while vacationing at Mont Blanc.
Cross, are we?
In other news, Althouse closed her posts to comments. I would add “giving me one less site to see,” but I do like seeing what’s in the media without having to visit their sites.
Besides, I had cut back visiting because the commenters weren’t that interesting. Unlike here.
Personal History: America ruined my name for me
Asian names are foreign names in America. And even when Asian immigrants adopt Euro/Christian names in a (praiseworthy) attempt to assimilate, they choose them from a 1940’s high school yearbook, spelling out yet again their cultural remoteness, and redoubling the resentment of their children growing up in America with names like Doris Poo and Phyllis Ho.
See also here, here, or here.
In other news, Althouse closed her posts to comments.
I can’t imagine this place without its commenters. It’s pretty much what a blog is, I think. Though if you’re being besieged with trolls and spammers, that can definitely make the behind-the-scenes clean-up aggravating and time-consuming. (You see, you joke about the zeal of the spam filter here – I joke about the zeal of the spam filter here – but it does keep out the spam. And trolls and assorted troublemakers have been mercifully rare.)
Cross, are we?
Me, no, but it seems Your Nibs is in high dudgeon.
It’s impossible to envision a world without race for the Democratic Party. For such people, it’s impossible to envision a world that gets beyond race because their bread and butter, their bottom line, their raison d’être, and everything that they’re trying to do depends upon people being kept in these boxes.
Professor Glenn Loury.
Prof. Loury is a nice, well-intention man, but he’s just wrong. It’s impossible to envision a world without race because race is real, important and influences our behaviors and preferences in numerous ways. Additionally, tribalism is a fundamental biological truth of human behavior. Egalitarian race denialism is a dead end because it is fighting against reality.
One of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen was the mob during the Minneapolis riots following the death of George Floyd. It must have been 75-80% white. A bunch of white thugs, frankly, burning down the city’s traditional black and Asian business district… while chanting “Black Lives Matter.” It was literally surreal.
Dr Wilfred Reilly, interviewed in the film.
A narrative put forth, as usual, to deny Black agency and responsibility. It wasn’t White people I saw rampaging through a Minneapolis Target, stealing everything in sight.
It’s impossible to envision a world without race for the Democratic Party.
Disagree. The Soviets lasted, what, 70 years and race was never in their top-3 propaganda items. The American Soviets can and have pivoted to whatever chokehold is needed to stay in power.
One of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen was the mob during the Minneapolis riots following the death of George Floyd. It must have been 75-80% white.
Seriously? Most ridiculous? Let me introduce you to the story of the defacing of the monument to Robert the Bruce. Died in 1329. Never set foot outside the British Isles, fought against England, had his heart cut out of his dead body the year after his death and was carried off to a battle against Moors in southern Spain. A battle that they lost. And thus, for this reason (apparently) his monument…in Scotland…was vandalized in the context of the BLM/George Floyd protests. And then the ***** people responsible for his memory and the monument semi-apologized for it. Not to mention all the other burning and looting across the globe that has gone on, and I suppose will soon resume, because a multiple-times convicted violent thug died of a drug overdose in Minnesota.
Again, I really have a hard time believing any of this is really happening. Though I doubt if this reality were some sort of Truman Show, no serious writer would find it remotely believable.
It’s impossible to envision a world without race because race is real
And that’s why the Democrat Party can’t exist without it. All other Marxist barriers like class, economics, family, education are not the fixed barriers leftists have tried to make them out to be. In the west, it’s possible for an individual to overcome all of these things and be “successful”. Differences within groups and between groups are more likely aligned with these factors than they are with race.
You can’t change your race. It’s mostly visible to the world. Its physical existence makes it easy to build myths and stereotypes around. So, Democrats pander and play to strong base instincts, like envy, jealousy, guilt, anger, and hatred.
Another entry into the Satire is Dead category.
Bearing in mind the high jinks at Evergreen College, monitored to good effect by our host, it is surprising that a name-change has yet to happen. Mind you that would be applying logic and anticipating consistency of approach – which are probably white supremacist behaviours.
Another entry into the Satire is Dead category.
Satire is dead, stupidity alive and well.
One of the things I have noticed is the the first choice lynch mobs is an ornamental shrub, or a tree with flexible branches the lowest of which tend to be around ground level.
not the fixed barriers leftists have tried to make them out to be
Yes. That’s the whole point of “cultural” Marxism. Economic class isn’t immutable in free market societies, so the Marxists have pivoted to class warfare based on immutable biological characteristics like race and sex.
It works because as Cloudbuster said, human beings are tribal and will self-segregate based on visible characteristics; those are the simplest signifiers of consanguinity.
One of the things I have noticed is the the first choice lynch mobs is an ornamental shrub
The fascists who say ni?
The fascists who say ni?
Forgot about them.
“You call this a lynching, ’tis but a scratch, I’ve had worse…”
Via Rod Dreher: A very cheesy Soviet adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
It would make rather an appealing parlour game: think up an apparently unthreatening item that a college could use as a mascot, and explain why, looked at from the right angle, it’s actually an appalling racist object which will automatically trigger all
right-left-minded persons.I’ll start. A tortoiseshell kitten is triggering because cats were traditionally owned by white people who probably kept slaves.
there was pee(r) pressure
cats were traditionally owned by white people
Cats were sacred to the ancient Egyptians, who were black. Using a cat as your mascot is cultural appropriation.
I’ll start.
Among the musical genres, the blues are the most racist because they use instruments and the twelve tone scale structures developed by wypipo, and the call-and-response format especially racist because it is based on plantation work chants.
One of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen was the mob during the Minneapolis riots following the death of George Floyd. It must have been 75-80% white. A bunch of white thugs, frankly, burning down the city’s traditional black and Asian business district… while chanting “Black Lives Matter.” It was literally surreal.
This is conflating the daylight marches (some whites but probably not 75%+) with the rioting. If people see even one white guy breaking things with his group of black friends then it’s obviously a false flag because I don’t know that dude so he must be a bad actor. Racial solidarity is an amazing thing, to the point of mind-boggling idiocy when you see the hoops people will jump through to not hold their own people accountable.
would make rather an appealing parlour game: think up an apparently unthreatening item that a college could use as a mascot, and explain why, looked at from the right angle, it’s actually an appalling racist object which will automatically trigger all right-left-minded persons.
I’ll cheat and go the other way. Can someone explain to me, unless I missed it, why the Michigan State Spartans, arguably the Nazi’s (worse even) of Ancient Greece have flown under the radar in this Le Grande Estupido?
I guess I am going to have to whitesplain to my friends of color they are laying down on the job.
This is conflating the daylight marches (some whites but probably not 75%+) with the rioting.
If you were at Lake and Hiawatha at the time, you’d have noticed that the people burning down the police station were predominantly white Antifans living out their Les Mis fantasies. Across the street, the people clearing out the Target were predominantly blacks from the neighborhood who were taking advantage of the distraction provided by the burning police station.
It’s a bit of a symbiotic relationship.