We’re All In This Together
The University of Utah has formed an “Anti-Racism” committee which will be tasked with “improv[ing] the overall campus climate regarding issues and events of racism across all intersections of identity.” The video, however, only mentions one race.
It’s an “intergroup dialogue,” you see, spanning “all intersections of identity and bias.” And in which only one notional group is implied as by default chronically victimised, albeit in ways that are somewhat mysterious. The term “anti-Blackness” is deployed many times. Though particulars of this alleged oppression are not immediately forthcoming, indeed entirely absent, as if such details were unnecessary – possibly on account of the time spent needlessly declaring pronouns, and repeating the words “equity,” “diversity” and “folx.” Students are, however, steered towards a course on “whiteness privilege,” during which people of pallor can feel suitably ashamed for their collective skin – sorry, sin.
We are told,
The Anti-Racism Committee recommends and evaluates measures to ensure that everyone enjoys a campus free of racism and hate.
And this feat will apparently be achieved by singling out The White Devil as uniquely defective and deserving of correction.
Update, via the comments:
Given the supposed gravity of the supposed problem, such that it requires committees and an ever-expanding infrastructure, you’d think these keen, colossal minds might share at least a hint of what it is they’re planning to “interrogate” and purge from the Earth. Alas, in page after page, we get only airy waffle about “systems… policies and processes,” none of which are specified, even in broad terms. The university itself is mentioned as allegedly a venue of seething racial bigotry, but again, no particulars are offered – none whatsoever. The claim, and what it implies about students and staff – which is to say, the insult - is simply presented as in no need of explanation, or examples, or any supporting evidence.
The video features Dr Bryan Hubain, the associate vice-president of student development and inclusion – a man who boasts of being a “black, gay immigrant” as if this were a credential, an accomplishment, a triple whammy – and a reason for our eternal fascination – and whose LinkedIn profile tells us he is schooled in “critical race theory.” So, no reasons for suspicion there.
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explicit race and sex swaps for more popular white male characters.
LOL
https://twitter.com/TheCriticalDri2/status/1429536700049633280
LOL
For some reason, the red hair is the icing on the cake.
Meanwhile, in the motherland:
It’s clear that such events antagonize the general public.
Oh, you think?
Bob Woodson,founder of 1776 Unites (https://1776unites.com/), and the black scholars he’s brought together, has a problem with this nonsense. These people don’t believe there is nothing redeeming of western civilization, and the United States, in particular. John McWhorter has stated that those who advocate CRT won’t debate him because he’d make them look like idiots.
The 1619 project, which is increasingly becoming a part of curriculum in American education, ignores a key element of the abolition of slavery. The 13th amendment was written by whom? I’m pretty sure a bunch of white guys formulated it and ratified it in 1865. Where’s the gratitude?
“They’ll stand right there, balding, grey at the temples, and insist that they’re eighteen,”.
It is not enough to deport all the illegal and unassimilated
immigrantsinvaders. We should also deport all the leftists.Brinster, why do you think Juneteenth was blown up into such a big thing? It allows them to pretend that the end of slavery had nothing to do with any 13th Amendment, but was a matter of black auto-emancipation.
I was shocked to find out that a friend of mine is locked up.
– Allowed out for one hour excercise.
– Lights out from 9pm to 5am.
– Has to justify leaving his cell.
– His whole block can get locked down from one inmate not following rules.
I asked him what prison he is in.
He said “Australia”.
She looked… disproportioned and unattractive
One problem with sex-swapping superheroes is that neither men nor women find female bodybuilders attractive. Meanwhile, this is what John Byrne’s She-Hulk and the MC2 American Dream look like.
at odds with, the tastes and values of the audience it supposedly serves
Rich Meyer has been collecting voluminous evidence over the last four years on his YouTube channel, but the fact that superhero comics are managed and edited by people who hate superhero comics and superhero comics buyers has been true for a very long time. I have comics that go back to the 1999-2001 period that tout DC’s “Out at DC” outreach program for gay youth, as that’s apparently a huge demographic that spends a lot of money on superhero comics.
the red hair is the icing on the cake
For me it was the feminine controposto pose, which…implies things about the character.
“Sentence first – verdict afterward.”
Critical race theory summarised.
One problem with sex-swapping superheroes is that neither men nor women find female bodybuilders attractive.
I remember Michael Golden could make Big Barda look imposing without depicting her as some androgynous hulking barn, but it’s tricky and not often done well.
Meanwhile, this is what John Byrne’s She-Hulk…
Right, turning green with large boobs will strike fear and terror in the hearts of evil doers everywhere. Captain Kirk was unavailable for comment.
Right, turning green with large boobs will strike fear and terror in the hearts of evil doers everywhere.
Blue skin, on the other hand, is an attribute of divinity in Hinduism: A refusal to properly respond to any invitation from a beautiful blue skinned woman would be impious.
Blue skin, on the other hand, is an attribute of divinity in Hinduism:
That, or being very cold, dead, or having agyria.
I have heard that Temple professors have a reputation for bullsh*t. That is, more so than universities in general.
Temple employs Molefi Asante and Makr Lamont Hill. It’s a large urban university in one of the worst neighborhoods in Philadelphia. It’s cleaned up its act in recent years but for the longest time if you were an academic mediocrity you were told, “Well, you can always go to Temple.”
It’s cleaned up its act in recent years…
About when did that start happening?
If the software you are developing has the ability to add incremental improvements and you actually don’t try to paper over waterfall with it, it doesn’t suck much more than anything else.
Yeah, that paper over waterfall is the thing. Basically describes to varying degree every large government contract I ever worked. The one I mentioned above was as paper-over as one could get. How people on that project, even the more cynical ones, would refer to our scrums and sprints without blushing or so much as a wink and a nod made me very cynical about how cynical they truly were. I truly think there were only two people on that project who really understood how f****d up it was. Yet after (I’m told, I got cut from the program…they never really liked me…the upper, out-of-state managers and such anyway) a couple more years, more missed deadlines, and many, many millions of dollars later, they actually did deliver something. I see on Google the program director was actually given an award for delivering it. $1.1 Billion dollars (they say) it cost. I worked a very similar in scope project in the private sector, no hint of Agile until way after the main product was out the door, that cost somewhere around $300 million. And that was starting virtually from scratch. The tech we used was changing much more rapidly, it was mostly C++ as Java hadn’t come along yet.
And all to catch bad guys only so we can turn around and let them loose anyway.
But back to Agile…Like all fads in software engineering, it’s been heralded as The Second Coming and turned into some kind of universal that every project can benefit from – including, apparently, ones that have no visual components or customers in the Agile sense.
This in spades. Not just to Agile but as I was getting out of the more intense, cutting edge stuff the blockchain thing was becoming the Answer To All Questions.
The shame is that Agile has a place. But it’s place isn’t everywhere/everything. It isn’t even all Agile.
And especially the sh*t driven by fattening remoras like Atlassian. The two important things about it that matter are getting user interfaces in front of business people who truly don’t want to know about tech. And they really shouldn’t. They have their own jobs to do, their own customers to focus on. But they simply do not work in as anal of an environment as software people. The exception being, as one or both of you infer, the harder, more cutting edge engineering or medical/life-or-death stuff. They may still hate software but they take a much more focused, hands-on approach with a greater sense of responsibility for getting their requirements right relative to regular business people or government agencies or law enforcement.
The second is the cyclical approach. Software seems easy to those who don’t do it, and even to most who do, but getting it right, getting the product that the customer needs done right, is very hard.
All that said (forgive me), one thing I never worked, at least until one of my last jobs, was a software product that was not customer-driven over some significant period. Any product that is being developed for a broader market (think iPhone or…something else…) where the user doesn’t even know he exists yet, well I don’t think anything I’ve related here would apply. I’m just a product of my environment…
turning green with large boobs will strike fear and terror in the hearts of evil doers everywhere
Female superheroes have always been pinup cheesecake. Always. Complaining about that is like complaining that the billionaire astronaut firefighter cowboys who cat around with nubile 21-year-olds until they settle down into wedded, child-producing bliss with a thirty-something soccer mom in women’s romance novels are unrealistic.
Byrne’s run on She-Hulk deconstructed the way the character was used as an “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” sexploitation gimmick in the original title, while making her sexy on her own terms. Part of the reason the current character design annoys a lot of people is that Byrne’s She-Hulk was sexy and fun and competent without the need for woke affirmative action or being drawn like an angry fireplug.
American Dream was a just a good example of how to sex-swap a popular hero without shitting all over the original: she’s a legacy hero driven by the need to live up to Cap’s example.
Female superheroes have always been pinup cheesecake. Always.
Trailblazer demands you stop objectifying zer.
one thing I never worked, at least until one of my last jobs, was a software product that was not customer-driven
I’m currently working on a project whose primary component is an endpoint that receives telemetry from millions of IoT devices a day, dumps the telemetry into an event queue, and drains the queue into a data lake for later processing and data mining. The technical challenge is primarily about scalability, performance and real-time verification of data integrity. There’s no “customer” for this in the Agile sense. The requirements are well-bounded and can’t change. Nonetheless, we started with Scrum (which we abandoned because the project director didn’t like people saying mean things about his project) moved to Kanban (but without WIP limits because the project director doesn’t like the idea of limits) and now we’ve adopted something best described as “desperate flailing”.
Trailblazer demands you stop objectifying zer.
Your terms are acceptable.
As of July 2021 no New Warriors comics have been released and the title has been removed from ComiXology with both Marvel and its creators refusing to comment on the future of the comic or if the series has quietly been canceled
…no New Warriors comics have been released and the title has been removed…
Oh noes ! Now Squirrel Girl has a sad.
That project sounds close to what I do for a living, albeit with devices that move around. (TCP sessions are expensive in that space.) I’ll point out that a good BA (AKA Business Analysis) is worth its (Newspeak is doubleplus good) weight in gold.
Business Analysis
Good God, I’ve posted stuff on CompuServe back in the stone age and still can’t see things even after using the preview button.
Business Analyst
albeit with devices that move around
That’s coming.
This is a reimplementation of an existing system that can no longer scale and in some places uses orphan technology (parts of the system are written in FoxPro. No, I am not making that up).
a good BA (AKA Business Analysis) is worth
You’re not wrong. Our biggest problem is the constant war between the tyros who want to use the latest and sexiest technology regardless of fitness for purpose, stability or longevity, and the hoary old frogs who don’t trust anything released after 1988. Just convincing them not to implement the whole thing on $%^&ing Kubernetes burned all my political capital and so I had to cave on using React for the front end.