Question Answered

A perfectly normal cover story in the latest New York Magazine profiling a perfectly normal person.

Speaking of targets acquired.
Tim Newman really should start blogging again.

A perfectly normal cover story in the latest New York Magazine profiling a perfectly normal person.
New York magazine won’t let me read the item in question. Apparently, I’ve already gorged on too much of its content recently, despite the actual amount being nil. I can only guess as to whether this is a tragic loss.

I can only guess as to whether this is a tragic loss.

If you’re feeling particularly masochistic, https://12ft.io/ may be able to help.

The London Times is being Wise and Thoughtful again: We need a global panel on fake news: “With the rapid spread of the new Omicron variant comes the spread of another deadly social disease: misinformation. Conspiracy theories and inaccurate news abound, again threatening to exacerbate the death toll and undermine management of the pandemic…Misinformation itself is an existential threat because it impedes action on virtually every global problem. It has stymied efforts to address climate change…election violence…attacks on minorities around the world…Which has led us to this conclusion: we need an Intergovernmental Panel for the Information Environment (IPIE)”
Via Tim Worstall, who is far too polite: “Dear God no. A global censor to insist upon what is truth? That’s a right off there matey, with the usual F word in front of it. When you’ve finished doing that you can then fuck off some more too.”
Note that the Times is now telling us that dissent from the Official Truth is now an “existential threat”.

On a lighter note: driving in the USA vs. the UK.

…driving in the USA vs. the UK.
Yeah, not entirely accurate, you can start in America, in Kentucky, and in four hours be in Orberlin, OH, which is a completely different socialist country.
“Wypipo, don’t let the sun set on you at this concert!”

College third-year Haley Sablay talked about her experience at her first Solarity concert over the summer semester….Of course, concerts are meant to be enjoyed by everyone. But when there are so few resources for non-white students on campus, it can be upsetting when concerts headlined by artists of color are dominated by white students.

Oberlin College is 68% honkey, so any concert is going to be dominated by ytes, and if they weren’t going, the rest are going to have some spendy tickets.

The requirements to attend Solarity last summer included watching a 30-minute bystander training video and completing a form with basic questions about drug use and consent. The problem is that these measures don’t necessarily prevent inappropriate behavior from happening. To improve the situation, Solarity organizers are implementing “vibe watchers” with the help of both Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct…

Well, yeah, man, they are STASI, but like, you know, they are really mellow STASI.
These people are broken beyond all belief.

completing a form with basic questions about drug use and consent
How about ideology and consent, comrade?
they are really mellow STASI.
Kalifornia Uber Alles.

Communist elected president in Chile. How long until the economy collapses? How long until political dissidents are imprisoned?

Via Old Holborn: Passenger breastfeeds her cat, which she insists is a baby, not a cat. Truly, we are living in Heinlein’s ‘crazy years’.

driving in the USA vs. the UK.
The bread roll part is not untrue, as the matriarch of the local chip shop can confirm.

“watching a 30-minute bystander training video and completing a form with basic questions about drug use and consent”
Well, that might have been a good idea at Riverfront in ’79…
*digs up “I’d walk over you to see The Who” t-shirt *

Chile electing a communist is so typical of people who think they can get free stuff somehow, for whom envy is a valid emotion.
Oh well, at least Pinochet staved off the collapse for a few decades.

“I breathed deep”
In the gathering gloom?
With some watchlights?
Hmmm.

“one has to admit they have some great architecture, such as the Paris Opera House.”
You are a mean, nasty, little man*. And owe me a new gallon (Costco, perhaps?) of eye-bleach.
*yeah, I know. My fault for clickage. BTW, why is it in Engrish?

Much as one should disdain the perfidious French…
Sigh.
Will David throw me out if I admit to, all in all, liking France?
Via the same Twitter channel: Georgia high school student, 16, charged as an adult for rape of 15-year-old.
Note how certain kinds of crimes get reported in England but covered up in America.

Well, yeah, man, they are STASI, but like, you know, they are really mellow STASI.

Sablay and I are both officers for the Asian Diaspora Coalition, and at the end of the meeting, one of our fellow officers talked about an experience at Coverband Showcase where white students slowly pushed her from the first row all the way to the fifth row.

Petite Asian girls lose out in the free-for-all when everyone is pushing up to the front. The Courtney Cox moments will continue to be monopolized by tall white girls.
On the other hand, Asian girls can publish wholesale racial slander without the slightest pushback. White students with nothing better to do at a concert than pushing the Asian students back … Has she gone through life believing that, or is she following the rewards of pretending to believe it? Did telling such lies in her application essay improve her chances of getting into Oberlin? Does the mutual reinforcement of her ethnic advocacy group make it harder to distinguish lies from reality? Are any of her goodwhite classmates likely to bring her back to reality, or to call her out on her ethnic animus?

a common problem seen in the ‘Sco is the physical pushing of POC and Black students to the back of the space, even during events that are intended to serve the interests of POC and Black students on campus.”

Those soft-spoken, physically delicate blacks are pushed to the back (or into the Asian section, as it’s called in Oberlin) at rap concerts.

If you’re not part of that group, acknowledge that you are a guest walking into that space.

If only the Asian Diaspora Coalition applied that such principle and tact to their presence in the United States of America.

If you’re a white student at a concert and you observe non-white students visibly uncomfortable or being pushed to the back, use your voice and say something.

I’m sorry milady, the peasants are being impertinent as usual.

You are a mean, nasty, little man*. And owe me a new gallon (Costco, perhaps?) of eye-bleach.
Makes one pine for l’âge heureux.

A Diaspora is when people are forced to flee their home. The Jews fleeing Nazi Germany is one. Asians coming to America is mostly not (unless fleeing communist china/cambodia). The big words just make them seem important.
Black people pushed to the back of a concert? Really? I can’t even picture it. As for asian girls in a rap concert, if 5ft2in and 105 lbs they should not get in that crowd near the front.

“suppose bald people as role models for hair salons”
*raises hand*
We’re folically challenged.

own the floor
How do you know it’s territory marking? They tell you it’s territory marking.
In English, in Paris. But that’s not a thing the French are concerned about as much as they used to be. What a quaint notion it was: that if the English language gets into Francophone spaces, it causes American habits of thought to colonize French minds.
Ordinary people get arrested for writing graffiti on cultural artifacts. But if you’re an American shoe vendor (or indeed if you’re the French ministry of culture), you can juxtapose and interrogate and recenter, ie shove black women into white people’s eyelines and if they don’t like it so much the better.

[ Rearranges Christmas cards, puts cheap ones at back. ]

It’s no laughing matter you hirsute bigot.
The preferred epithet is “follicle fascist”.

[ Rearranges Christmas cards, puts cheap ones at back. ]
It is the custom. 🙂

“one has to admit they have some great architecture, such as the Paris Opera House.”
Is it Kwanzaa already ?!