Yes, But Have You Purged Your White Devil Ectoplasm?
Or, She Works With Children.
Whiteness…. is hostile, it is violent… it is annihilating… That is something we always need to be mindful of as white people.
A reminder that woke anti-white woo doesn’t have to be convincing or coherent, just signalled often, regardless.
Note the implication that “whiteness,” being white, equals racism and is therefore by default a thing to be discussed in terms of pathology, a thing to be cured. “Colour-blindness” – i.e., not being weirdly fixated by race – is, it turns out, deeply problematic, and must give way to deconstructing “the whiteness=greatness fallacy in white psyches.” Which is what “white psyches” are all about, you see.
This self-confessed “white lady,” Natasha Stovall, is a child psychologist, a stater of pronouns, and an avowed “anti-racist,” which is to say, a seeker of woke status. And hence the racism, of course.
Dr Stovall “specialises in warmth and empathy.” Her rates are between $120-$250 per hour. In case you were tempted.
Update, via the comments:
Dr Stovall tells us that she is terribly progressive and a child of progressive parents – presumably, the Less Bad White People – and is therefore “part of the solution.” Though one can’t help wondering if the phantom bigotries she invokes and then casually ascribes to others, seemingly based on their pigmentation, may have more to do with her own racial neuroticism – what with her being so terribly progressive and a child of progressive parents.
Commenter sH2 asks, “What the hell is ‘psychic energy’?” – a term, one of several, deployed as if self-evident. Alas, with all of the nebulous rambling and unfinished thoughts – all the y’knows, likes, and kind-ofs – it’s hard to be sure. Beyond the claim that this energy is a thing being “drained” by “whiteness,” a malevolent phenomenon, and which in turn is like a “ghost.” Or something.
Readers who watch Dr Stovall speak, in her area of alleged expertise, may not be given an impression of mental clarity, or of ideas that have been thought through and subjected to stress, even of a routine kind. It seems we must make do with a series of disjointed pronouncements surrounded by rhetorical gas. Such that, were Dr Stovall to sit there chanting “Bad Whitey” over and over again, the dogmatism and idiocy might be slightly more obvious, but the informational content would remain much the same.
The Roman Catholic Church does not require circumcision for religious reasons.
I had Sonkitten circumcised because when he was born, my father called long distance (does anyone remember long-distance?) and urged me to have it done in case Sonkitten ever found himself in a combat zone. In Korea, in the filth of the front, the uncircumcised guys got awful infections. The Church does not object to circumcision for non-religious reasons, they leave it up to the parents.
So I searched for San Pellegrino cans, and lo and behold, they put a bit of foil over the top, to keep dirt out of where you drink, and to add to the price of the beverage.
And to make their high-priced beverage more visually distinctive–not like those other cheap drinks that the hoi polloi drink. 🙂
There does seem to be a pattern to all of this – the more Woke that academia becomes, the less actual logic, reason, and load-bearing arguments it must use and make.
I’ll guess that about half of American college professors serve no useful purpose whatsoever.
I’ll guess that about half of American college professors serve no useful purpose whatsoever.
Only half?
Speaking of unsavoury enthusiasms, meet Dr Derek Hook, an associate professor at Duquesne University. His areas of alleged expertise include “post-colonial theory” and “white anxiety.”
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/other-cans-think-san-pellegrino-is-an-arsehole-2015062999712
Only half?
The other half, although leftists, do convey some knowledge in their lectures. So partly useful/partly useless/harmful.
Speaking of unsavoury enthusiasms, meet Dr Derek Hook…
How is it that so many Catholic universities have allowed themselves to be infiltrated and taken over by such monsters?
Speaking of unsavoury enthusiasms, meet Dr Derek Hook,
If only they would lead by example.
If only they would lead by example.
I suppose the thing is, it’s not just that the ideas are obnoxious or fatuous or morally deranged, it’s that the kinds of people who find such things titillating, as Dr Hook clearly does, tend to be… psychologically marginal. Which is to say, the kinds of people you wouldn’t generally want anywhere near your children.
How is it that so many Catholic universities have allowed themselves to be infiltrated and taken over by such monsters?
Have you heard the pope recently? Having an inconvenient unWoke pope “retire” so the Woke Pope can take over was a glaring red flag, and it’s gone downhill from there.
they put a bit of foil over the top, to keep dirt out of where you drink,
My friends think I’m a little weird — for a lot of reasons, if I’m honest — but in this case it’s because I wash or wipe down the top of any can I’m offered before I open and drink from it. I’ll skip it if I see the can coming out of a six-sided carton, but I’ve seen too many warehouses and storage areas to ever forget the kinds of critters that scamper over the tops of cans, nor the sort of things they leave behind. Anything transported and stored in open flats is automatically suspect in my eyes.
Mock if you will, but I’d be delighted if every can of soft drink or beer arrived uncircumsiz(s)ed.
Have you heard the pope recently?
Yes I have. But the process has clearly been underway for decades, perhaps for my entire life. Catholic institutions used to be run by Catholics who cared deeply about their faith and about the purpose of their institutions. Somehow that changed. Did they simply cease to believe? Were they infiltrated by leftists who successfully concealed their hostility to Christianity? I have only a fragmentary knowledge of what has happened.
I’ve seen too many warehouses and storage areas to ever forget the kinds of critters that scamper over the tops of cans, nor the sort of things they leave behind.
Agreed!
Mock if you will, but I’d be delighted if every can of soft drink or beer arrived uncircumsiz(s)ed.
OK I nearly spit my tea out reading that hehehe.
Somehow that changed. Did they simply cease to believe? Were they infiltrated by leftists who successfully concealed their hostility to Christianity?
I think what happened to Catholics is the same thing that happened to mainstream Protestantism – they still believe in God, but got infiltrated by the 60s feel-good socialist radical hippie movements and stopped believing in the existence of a Hell, or a Satan, or rules for that matter. We’ve got the 10 Suggestions now, although Thou Shalt Not Kill is mostly agreed upon, except if they are old and sick and ask for it, or if they aren’t human beings but blobs of tissue, or… And Thou Shalt Not Steal – welll now – we can all agree that some people have too much, and some people have too little, and if the wrong sorts of people have too much… And it just goes on from there.
I have an aunt who is a devout Catholic who hated the old unwoke pope and just looooooooves the Woke Pope, because he is all about the right feelz – climate change and save the rainforest and feed the children and kumbayah and all that hippie shit. Yes, we should be good stewards of the earth, all humans are created equal and should all be equal before the law, and we should treat others as we wish to be treated, and love one another and look out for one another, but mind our own business about how much or what other people have. But we all were given different gifts and abilities, and even Jesus Himself said – the poor will always be with us.
I think religions have forgotten what they are about, and have let the leftists take over and dictate how they do things, which is how these once-great institutions have become cesspools of leftist ideology. The Catholic Church has been here before, with decadent, corrupt popes and institutions – thus Luther, Protestantism, etc. And here we are again. Although many of the groups who Protested originally are now right down in the cesspit with us.
I’ve seen too many warehouses and storage areas to ever forget the kinds of critters that scamper over the tops of cans, nor the sort of things they leave behind
[ Pauses ]
[ Orders flat of disinfectant wipes and 24-pack of soda from Costco ]
I have an aunt who is a devout Catholic who hated the old unwoke pope and just looooooooves the Woke Pope, because he is all about the right feelz
Whatever could the reason be for the wokification of our traditional institutions. If only there were a common thread. I just can’t put my finger on it.
Dr. Hook always did crave attention.
I think what happened to Catholics is the same thing that happened to mainstream Protestantism
Well Protestantism didn’t help itself much with the dogged insistence on literal interpretations. Catholicism seemed to have learned its lesson but was never forgiven for the Galileo thing (and yes, of course the literal arguments being made at the time are not what is popularly portrayed…or so I’m told…which is ironic itself…depending on what one means by literal…or literally meaning literal…). The insistence that the entire universe and everything in it down to the tiniest speck was created in seven…no, wait…six, literal 24-hour days, something preached, even today, well over 200 years since it was obviously improbable, has done significant damage to our society by opening the doors for the socialists and other scum to undermine our various other institutions, not the worst being religion itself.
WTP, I’m not so sure about that. It cuts both ways: once you grant that some of your religious doctrines have been superseded by science, you open the door to doing the same with other areas of life and to undermining the religion that way.
I can’t speak for Protestantism, but I can tell you that various groups of religious Jews (one of them being the Chabad movement, to which I belong) take the creation narrative of six 24-hour days literally, have found (where necessary) ways to harmonize that with science, and are, thank G-d, growing and becoming stronger over time. One difference, I suppose, might be that Judaism isn’t sola scriptura – we have an entire oral tradition accompanying the Bible (eventually written down in works such as the Talmud and Midrash), such that a single difficulty doesn’t cause the whole thing to come crashing down. Another difference might be that Judaism encompasses a lot of areas of life that mainstream Christianity doesn’t (for example, diet, dress and personal grooming, etc.), such that theological points take a back seat to practical details.
once you grant that some of your religious doctrines have been superseded by science, you open the door to doing the same with other areas of life and to undermining the religion that way.
While I understand your point, one needs to stand on what is verifiable and let the rest go. Religions all change over time to some degree, the reasons for most are lost to history or whatever. By not accepting the reality, you’re just kicking the can down the road to a greater disaster. And yes, there are elements across the vast Protestant landscape that have done similar to the Chabad (not that I’m familiar with it but the term does ring a bell), to varying degrees of success. When younger and a tad more religious, I would attempt to triangulate/interpolate science and The Bible myself (while still a KJV fan IYKWIM). It’s a fight between the poetic look at life and the hard realities of science…or shifting science, as the case may be. Ultimately though, no matter how you view God or a god or even principled atheism, the purpose of that area of philosophy, no matter how poorly attempted, is to establish a foundation of truth. Some sort of social and philosophical consistency is needed to run even a primitive society.
WTP, I hear. It’s certainly possible that Chabad and other Orthodox Jewish groups have certain structural advantages that make this kind of thing more viable than for most Protestant groups. For example, Orthodox Jews tend to live in compact communities (necessitated by not being allowed to drive to synagogue on the Sabbath, and the need for infrastructure such as kosher food stores), and are less integrated with the wider world (many of them don’t even go to college). Or the fact that there are so many details of Jewish law and practice that a lot of the intelligentsia, who might otherwise be interested in delving into the interface between science and religion, are instead occupied with those details.
There’s also the fact that Jews are more used to being “out of sync” with the surrounding cultures, having been in that position for most of the last several thousand years, and so finding out that most of the world has a different view of the age of the universe doesn’t come as that much of a shock.
I’m sure a sociologist could have a field day untangling those and lots of other considerations.