Reheated (72)
Some items from the archives:
No Black Lights Were Available.
New York Times contributor is oppressed by pedestrian-crossing traffic lights.
Mr Kaufman – who can doubtless detect racism in the motions of subatomic particles – would have us believe that his friend was using the word white as a racial descriptor, rather than, as seems more likely, an unremarkable acknowledgement of a traffic light’s colour when talking to a child. In light of which, Mr Kaufman’s claims of being “bombarded” with racism – daily, everywhere – become at least explicable, if not convincing.
The pedestrian crossing signal that so distresses Mr Kaufman – a rudimentary humanoid figure, made of white lights on a black background – can be seen here, from a safe distance. You may want to steady yourselves. It’s all very upsetting, at least for the exquisitely sensitive. Mr Kaufman then goes on an investigative journey, in which he learns why, in a society with lots of non-English speakers, crossing signals with words are being replaced by simple, universal graphics, calibrated to capture attention – say, by using lights of a certain hue. Which all sounds quite sensible. Rather than, say, a nefarious racial conspiracy intended to break the will of the negro.
Mr Reed Altemus rubs his trousers, awaits applause.
Mr Altemus, you see, is putting an end to war, dictatorship, violence, and poverty by subverting our entrenched assumptions and “oppressive discourses.” He’s literally saving the world with his art. For reasons that will doubtless become clear, the following life-transforming, poverty-solving, dictator-toppling piece is called Amplifying My Clothes.
Don’t Oppress My People With Your White Devil Science.
Radical students demand to be taken seriously and given free stuff.
In the video, filmed at the University of Cape Town, members of the science faculty meet with student protestors who wish to “decolonise” the university and not pay their bills. During the meeting, one of the staff, one of the “science people,” points out that, contrary to claims being made by a student protestor, witchcraft doesn’t in fact allow Africans to throw lightning at their enemies. He is promptly scolded for “disrespecting the sacredness of the space,” which is a “progressive space,” and is told either to apologise or leave. The offended speaker, the one claiming that Africans can in fact throw lightning at each other – and who disdains “Western knowledge” as “very pathetic” – then uses the scandalous reference to reality as the sole explanation for why she is “not in the science faculty.” There being no other, perhaps more obvious, reason.
There’s more, should you crave it.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
I always wondered why the walk signal was white. Keeping the Black man down. Of course, it’s so obvious now.
Would it help if the signal were changed to a silhouette of – definitely not a man or a gendered or cis-able person (maybe a squirrel?) – and illuminated with multicolored lights?
(A special “Hello” to the FBI Special Agent monitoring this forum.)
;>
The offended speaker, the one claiming that Africans can in fact throw lightning at each other – and who disdains “Western knowledge” as “very pathetic”
If I were a Lord Vetinari style of tyrant, I would deny them the right to enjoy any of the fruits of the eevil white man’s science. Relocation to a rural Coventry where they could “root, hog, or die”.
(A special “Hello” to the FBI Special Agent monitoring this forum.)
A question for any British police: Will I be detained if I visit the UK again, to question me about using such forbidden expressions as “illegal alien” and “leftist vermin”?
Will I be detained if I visit the UK again?,
More likely to be detained or refused entry for being a yt revolutionary splittist – sins of the great-great-great grandfathers thing. No matter your family moved to the US after 1776 you are still tarred with revolution against HM the King (especially now we have a king again). Be different if your ancestors came from the continent south of Europe though.
Happy travelling
New York Times contributor is oppressed by pedestrian-crossing traffic lights.
Or time to up his medication.
Or time to up his medication.
Mr Kaufman, our casually racist New York Times contributor – one whose go-to phrase is “as a black…” – does seem a little high-maintenance. And, inevitably, untroubled by expectations of reciprocation.
And it’s curious how the people forever invoking victimhood and bemoaning how oppressed they are, supposedly on the basis of some uninteresting physical attribute, tend to say the kinds of things that one would only say if one were very much accustomed to deference and indulgence. Say, on the basis of some uninteresting physical attribute.
Mr Reed Altemus rubs his trousers, awaits applause.
What the hell did I just watch?
What the hell did I just watch?
Could you not feel the art happening? No refunds. Credit note only.
What the hell did I just watch?
As noted in the original thread, Mr Altemus inhabits a social circle in which nobody takes him to one side and quietly explains to him his tragicomic lack of talent. Because the people around him, his peers and fellow artists, are equally pretentious and deluded. And presumably they’re quite apprehensive about being called out themselves. There’s a collective failure of integrity, an understood dishonesty, that’s not only taken for granted, but vital. And so, Mr Altemus tells us that, while the great composers failed to solve all present and future shortcomings of human society, he, being more daring and insightful, will triumph. By scraping a microphone across his inner thighs. And wrapping eggplants in string.
one of the staff… points out that, contrary to claims being made by a student protestor, witchcraft doesn’t in fact allow Africans to throw lightning at their enemies. He is promptly scolded for “disrespecting the sacredness of the space,” which is a “progressive space,” and is told either to apologise or leave.
They’re not ‘oppressed’. They’re just f*cking monsters.
They’re not ‘oppressed’. They’re just f*cking monsters.
Well, yes. The air of the thing suggests a social dominance game. And you can imagine the kinds of people to whom that might appeal. It’s what happens when you repeatedly indulge narcissism. And again, you have to wonder if the ostensibly respectful audience is held in place, in part, by a morbid curiosity. That, and presumably a fear of being called racist. And when you hear the word “decolonise” used in this way, you can be fairly sure that you’re listening to someone who does not mean you well, a vain and spiteful inadequate. Someone for whom churlishness and self-flattery are the highest of goals. As in the video linked above, and in a dozen or so similar examples that can be found in the archives.
No matter your family moved to the US after 1776
At least some came here between 1 and 2 centuries before that (although I have no idea which side of the Revolution they were on.)
They’re not ‘oppressed’. They’re just f*cking monsters.
Like I said, forcible relocation to Coventry. Wise societies do not tolerate leftists, just as parents do not tolerate venomous snakes.
Mr Altemus, who “lives with his cat, Clyde, in Portland Maine,”
I’d rather watch a performance by Clyde.
That said, Mr. Altemus certainly lacks the gravitas of Sandrine. If he can’t commit to spending 20 minutes rubbing himself or rolling around in his underwear, how can he expect discriminating viewers like ourselves to take him seriously?
Mr Reed Altemus rubs his trousers, awaits applause.
One of the things I learned, in the years after university, was how to avoid invitations to such “art events”–not just plausible excuses but preemptive excuses. Much easier to fake a prior engagement beforehand than to fake approval afterwards. And it was essential to avoid any hint of a “non-supportive” attitude when the invitation came from a consulting client.
While the Africa lightning video is an hilarious example of absurd prog belief, the belief that renewables can power western civ is just as absurd and lacking contact with reality. Renewables supply 4% of the world’s power and if you take out burning wood (ie only wind and solar) it is 2.3% (IEA data)–but we should ban ICE vehicles?
There have been pretentious fake artists forever, but the internet gives them a platform for their fakery and progressivism gives them an audience who dare not criticize. Win-win.
Africans are to the forefront in science and technology, as we know from switching on our TVs to see Africans curing COVID, repairing BMWs, being enthused about the latest version of a programming language, drawing mathematical symbols on those transparent dry-erase boards.
There’s a theory that Africans are particularly difficult to integrate into Western society because even a college credential gives them a plausible but superficial verbalist layer over what’s fundamentally magical thinking. This was often reported in the memoirs of white colonialists or missionaries trying to train Africans to do a job up to Western standards, but we know that they’re bad people.
When Africans themselves put their magical thinking habits on show, we understand that that’s in addition to their being first rate scientists, that the magical thinking enriches rather than undermines the scientific discipline. It’s something that blacks can do, like music or dancing, that white people can’t.
I’m having difficulty reconciling “decolonise” and “not pay tuition”. Can anyone help me out, or at least stand me my morning beverage?
Can anyone help me out, or at least stand me my morning beverage?
I have a fuzzy drink that I don’t need.
And it’s curious how the people forever invoking victimhood and bemoaning how oppressed they are, supposedly on the basis of some uninteresting physical attribute, tend to say the kinds of things that one would only say if one were very much accustomed to deference and indulgence. Say, on the basis of some uninteresting physical attribute.
That.
If “decolonizing” the Third World means cutting off their access to evil Western modern medicine, then yes. By all means, please do.
Jeff Guinn: I have replied to your comment in an earlier thread about difficulty with the Preview button.
Crazy eyes.
Daniel Ream: Is this you? Interesting bit of Canadian history.
It occurs to me that all the stuff about safe spaces for being gay/trans etc in elementary school point back 100% at the teacher. Before puberty, I doubt that much of any kids are flagrantly and obviously gay/trans whatever. I sure can’t remember any. There were a few boys who were not that masculine (as much as you can be at age 11) but no one bothered them and they certaintly weren’t “unsafe”.
If I were a Lord Vetinari style of tyrant I’d need a much larger scorpion pit & possibly an orm-garth.
The Triggernometry duo interview biologist Colin Wright.
If I were a Lord Vetinari style of tyrant I’d need a much larger scorpion pit & possibly an orm-garth.
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to scorpion pits.
… doesn’t in fact allow Africans to throw lightning at their enemies. He is promptly scolded
Still, you have to give these “student protesters” credit at least in the performing arts. It is academy award winning hubris.
Any pundit who ventured to pronounce from on high about the many subjects he did not understand would quickly find himself in a scorpion pit, on the wall of which was painted “learn to code”.
From June, trans girl speaks. Note mother’s lips. Coached? Ventriloquism? https://www.today.com/parents/parents/50th-anniversary-title-ix-trans-athletes-are-still-fighting-play-rcna34966
(I hope this isn’t a repeat. I really did try to search the site.)
(I hope this isn’t a repeat. I really did try to search the site.)
FYI: I have had very limited success searching this site. Searches do not always return hits that I know are there.
I’d say that this is a very strange tradition, but in America we allow Californians to vote.
Facebook has already fact-checked this as false.
Daniel Ream: Is this you?
Yes. Trudeau Jr. had a tough row to hoe to beat his father in the fascist tyrant department, but he rose to the occasion.
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to scorpion pits.
I suppose they’re cheaper than helicopters. Although honestly, like venomous snakes, scorpions are rarely fatal unless you’re already ill or a long way from medical care.
Can we compromise and drop them from helicopters into scorpion pits?
in a scorpion pit, on the wall of which was painted “learn to code”
We have enough incompetent Node.js developers already, thank you.
The Triggernometry duo interview biologist Colin Wright.
Did I wake up in the mirror universe?
Always respect the media.
Stunning and brave.
The tweet is real – if not, I suspect, the story – and some of the gushing replies may amuse.
I just don’t get why nobody ever tries to stop these blatant shoplifters.
We have enough incompetent Node.js developers already, thank you.
I’m not saying we should allow them to code, only that we should mock them with their advice that unemployed miners and factory workers should do so. 🙂
I just don’t get why nobody ever tries to stop these blatant shoplifters.
Especially since, according to Joe Biden, a single round from an AR-15 would vaporize the beast.
Stunning and brave.
Isn’t he supposed to say everyone clapped?
I think I may have pointed out the first time around that British crossings feature positive discrimination in favour of Native Americans and, er… I dunno… Treens?
Before puberty, I doubt that much of any kids are flagrantly and obviously gay/trans whatever. I sure can’t remember any.
Oh, I do. The times being very different back then, and lacking much understanding of sexuality, there still were signs. Consciously or subconsciously I would deny it because some of them were friends. One was my best friend before our families moved away from each other when we were preschoolers. But with him and some elementary school classmates it certainly didn’t surprise me to find out in later years. There was this odd conversation I had with my parents in my mid-20’s when they “broke” the news to me that my friend had come out. Mom was shocked that I already knew, Dad had a good laugh that I knew. They asked me when I figured it out and it kinda occurred to me, since I really couldn’t put a finger on exactly when, that I kind of always knew. That’s not to say that I haven’t been surprised to find out that other more straight-seeming guys were gay but I think it is fairly discernible at a young age. Especially now that such things are more open and open to discussion without fear of offense or offending. Speaking only of gay males here. I could not be as clear about lesbians for numerous reasons.
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera, slumps on sofa, anticipates baked sea bass for dinner. ]
anticipates baked sea bass for dinner
You island nations and your ready access to seafood.
I’m not saying we should allow them to code
In my experience that’s the best approach to Node.js developers.
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera, slumps on sofa, anticipates baked sea bass for dinner. ]
[ Returns from annual budget meeting. Finds new reason to live. ]
ready access to seafood
Hey what about Lake Ontario?
’…anticipates baked sea bass for dinner.’
Food of the gods!
OT: Haven’t been able to load SDA today; keep getting a WordPress error page. Anyone else have success?
Haven’t been able to load SDA today; keep getting a WordPress error page.
Kate is migrating the site to a new server.
Food of the gods!
With garlic, spring onions, shallots, and a whisper of lime juice.
Kate is migrating the site to a new server.
Ah thanks; I missed that memo.
I deep-fried Sea Bass for relatives for Thanksgiving once, many many (many) years ago. Turned out great, and established a Fourth Family tradition wherein my wife and I perform gustatorial experiments on folks, entirely without permission from the Ethics Review Board! (But only at major holidays.)
Typical Antifa thugs.
Vetinari would say: “Do you want to be hanged or decapitated?
British crossings feature positive discrimination in favour of Native Americans
Um, how?
Murderer blames victim for fighting back.
Once again, I favor the Lord Vetinari solution: Swift removal from the ranks of the living.
I hear that “not all” British police are nutty as a fruitcake. But that rumor is unconfirmed.
I favor the Lord Vetinari solution
In the real world, tyrants are not controlled by authors using them to flog their particular political hobby horses, and giving the state the power to execute people even after due process is likely to cause more problems than it solves.
I favour the Second Amendment solution.
I favour the Second Amendment solution.–it is amazing to me that the right to self defense has ever even been questioned. All the people who do not want you to have the right to fight back would in fact defend their children or wife from an attacker.
Agreed, the right to self defense is a fundamental human right. But what would you do about a murderer who is only later caught? Society cannot afford to allow him to remain free. Either the mob kills him out of hand, or a court sentences him to death after a trial, or sentences him to a term in prison–after which he often kills again.
And then, of course, there is Vetinari’s policy of nailing “conceptual artists” to blocks of wood. 😀
All the people who do not want you to have the right to fight back would in fact defend their children or wife from an attacker.
I’m not so sure about that. I certainly would not say “all”. I even have doubts about “most”. Most people are such pathetic milquetoasts they will find justification for their cowardice even in the face of dire threats to their own well-being. The last couple of years have convinced me of that. Especially as I have spent considerable time in the last couple of years dealing directly with members of my community and the police. Along with paying closer attention to what concerns them in the community.
Heh – even in US states that allow the death penalty criminals are out early and murdering again, repeatedly, on camera sometimes. And anyone who takes a Second Amendment approach to self defense is in for a world of prosecutional hurt if one of the protected classes gets hurt. DAs who’ll let a stone cold killer loose to kill again will gladly lock up for life some poor sap who fought back.
Hell – not only are the murderers livestreaming their threats and murders, they’re also blaming the victims for fighting back (e.g. pst’s link above) before falling back on the” racism made me do it” shtick. I have zero sympathy for these repeat offenders. I am almost to the point of wishing they will visit upon every bleeding heart that wanted them let out early (after the proper bleeding-heart rehabilitation classes, of course) what they visit upon the ordinary citizens of lefty-controlled cesspits. Because it is only when the elites and the bleeding hearts get criminally-eliminated or feel the pain that the rest of the citizenry have to go through will this stuff get turned around. Soft on crime and “poor criminal” crap only invites more and bolder crimes.
But wishing this fate on other people who think differently than I do is wrong, so landlord another drink please, and make it a stiff one.
Give him the death penalty: In Tulpelo Mississippi an: armed robber executed a fully compliant convenience store clerk, shooting him in the back of the head after he obeyed all orders.
Proof that there were zero extenuating circumstances, for those who need sickening video evidence.
Another animal who needs the death penalty: Shot a woman dead merely because she was not from the neighborhood.
And still another animal that should be put down. Although in this case I favor dropping him out of an airplane over the country he came from. Along with all his friends.
An ongoing question: How many millions should be permanently separated from us for the sake of our civilization?