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Don’t Oppress My People With Your Big Hooped Earrings.
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And I think that, for many, that’s the tacit appeal of identitarian wokeness – it’s a chance to defer adult norms and an excuse to act out pretentious, inchoate tantrums. But it is a strange thing, this combination of assumed superiority and infantile emoting. Remember, Ms Martinez and Ms Aguilera emailed the entire campus, repeatedly and quite vehemently, with their views on hooped earrings and who should be allowed to wear them.

As sane people do.

And for a little perspective, it’s just occurred to me that when one of my nieces was the same age as these ladies, she was raising money for charity by trekking across the Sahara Desert. I doubt that hooped earrings and lip-liner, and who may or may not wear them, were foremost in her mind.

So. Much. That. 🙂

Ms Martinez and Ms Aguilera emailed the entire campus, repeatedly and quite vehemently, with their views on hooped earrings and who should be allowed to wear them. As sane people do.
Kids raised badly.
when one of my nieces was the same age as these ladies, she was raising money for charity by trekking across the Sahara Desert. I doubt that hooped earrings and lip-liner, and who may or may not wear them, were foremost in her mind.
Kids raised well.

“winged eyeliner, lined lips, and big hoop earrings”
Not that it matters overmuch but what exactly are lined lips?

Not that it matters overmuch but what exactly are lined lips?
Winged eyeliner is appropriation of Pharonic culture, lined lips appropriation of chola culture.

The enthusiasm is almost too much to bear.
That’s some effete flapping.

The black and brown bodies who typically wear hooped earrings … are typically viewed as ghetto, and are not taken seriously by others in their daily lives … Meanwhile we wonder, why should white girls be able to take part in this culture (wearing hoop earrings just being one case of it) and be seen as cute/aesthetic/ethnic.

As it was put in Kingsley Amis’ novel Jake’s Thing…

When the first glow has faded and it’s quite normal to have girls in the same building and on the same staircase and across the landing, they’ll start realising that that’s exactly what they’ve got, girls everywhere and not a common-room, not a club, not a pub where they can get away from them … there will be women everywhere, chattering, gossiping, telling you what they did today and what their daughter did yesterday and what their friend did last week and what somebody they heard about did last month and horrified if a chap brings up a topic or an argument. They don’t mean what they say, they take all disagreement as opposition, yes they do, even the brightest of them, and that’s the end of the search for truth which is what the whole thing’s supposed to be about.

What has been lost with suburban life is any hint of physical or mental toughness. I have daughters and I always pushed them to toughen up a little, to not fall into the black hole of girly weakness. They can pick up frogs and lizards and snakes and squish bugs no problem. As a guy, can you take a nap on the floor? If you trip and fall do you roll and get up unhurt or do you need medical care? Can you tough out the heat or cold? If you lose your job do you start a business or fall into depression? The lack of toughness shows with all the people who are “erased” if anyone disagrees with them and freak out if they hear about an idea they don’t like. OR it is just a tactic of bullying. Or both. Hard to tell there is so much dishonesty.

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Testing…
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Dosis sola facit venenum.

Result: Grotesque clown-like face.

Result.
Via Andy Ngo

White Supremacy looks better every day.
So much of “progressive” politics can be legitimately interpreted as “black people cannot be expected to obey the law and refrain from antisocial behavior”. Not to mention “succeed in school” and “carry out the routine tasks necessary to live in a modern society”. Why, they are even claimed to be unable to obtain voter ID cards.

last election some wag interviewed black people on the street and said the dems doubt their ability to get ID or know where to vote. they were really offended, as they should be.
Ami Horowitz?
Related.
And by the same.

The joys of air travel, Part 5384, the real surprising thing is wasn’t either Spirt or JetBlue.

Linguists slam Cambridge University for teaching ‘woke’ German: “Fury as students are taught ‘gender-neutral’ version of the language that avoids using masculine forms that are not ‘inclusive’ to non-binary people…non-native speakers attempting to chatter with Germans using the woke version of the ancient language ‘stand a good chance of making a fool of themselves.’ ”
Cambridge University, the very flower of English intellectual achievement.

Remember this existential crisis?
Yes, yes, and yes.
The theme, according to the ABC report, is that whites are to be a minority (and not a sainted heroic minority either, but a minority that will be so much the easier to demean) by 2044 or so, which everyone agrees is a good thing (but the Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory); that the whites are hoarding the magic that makes white countries nice to live in and to immigrate to; that we need to extract this magic from the whites so we can continue to have the quality of life of white nations without having whites around; and that the whites are being maliciously uncooperative in getting with this program. In this case we’re pretty sure that national parks are part of the magic that makes white nations nice to live in, but the whites have put a curse on the parks so that non-whites are more likely to feel bored and mosquito-bitten than Uplifted.
The ABC report goes on to interview Lexi Halvorsen, a Minnesotan who moved to the Indian countryside and likes to go hiking among the mango groves and the Hindu temples, or is it the Hindu groves and the mango temples? Lexi: “These people make me feel like an outsider. I’m usually the only person here who’s tall, blond, and blue-eyed. A mango priest looked at me funny, as if I was going to steal one of the Hindus”. Lexi is wearing a t-shirt that says “immigrant”, the meaning of which is that immigration must be a good thing if it has brought Lexi to your country. Or maybe it was a (dot) Indian who moved to Minnesota, was offended not to be able to meet other (dot) Indians hiking and canoeing and so on, and was given a national news platform to explain how this was the fault of whites.

Remember this existential crisis?
There seems to be an overabundance of shameless two-bit grifters whining about – or rather, boasting about – how they “don’t identify with” white people, and are therefore, somehow, being inhibited from walking in the countryside or a national park. These pretensions have long been a staple of ‘progressive’ commentary and some minor variation is churned out every few weeks or so. It seems that churlishness and ingratitude, and tedious self-absorption, are now to be regarded as virtues. A basis for applause.
Other demographic niches now have their own “oppressed by countryside” schtick. Though apparently there’s no obligation to be remotely coherent or convincing. And so, despite the contrivance and the convoluted whining, those interviewed, and merrily deferred to, don’t seem able to provide a credible illustration of what the supposed problem actually is, or what a supposed cure might be, beyond more attention and influence, and more taxpayer funding, for people much like themselves.

Well, I would tell them to take a hike, but . . .
As I said in one of the posts linked above,

If I were to move to, say, South Korea and complained in a national Korean newspaper about how I was being deterred from visiting Seoraksan National Park or Namiseom Island, on account of such places requiring some travel from whichever Korean city I’d chosen to live in, and by them not already having sufficient numbers of white Europeans striding about in a suitably affirming manner, you might think me a tad presumptuous.

And yet, in the genre of “oppressed by the awful whiteness of the countryside” articles, I’ve yet to see any meaningful pushback, any testing of assumptions, any polite demurral within the piece. The articles seem to exist merely to affirm whatever flimsy contrivance is uttered. As if the journalists in question, and their editors, were wholly on-side. And as if we, the readers, shouldn’t notice this.

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Odnamrod Meditation:
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The joys of air travel, Part 5384, the real surprising thing is wasn’t either Spirt or JetBlue.
Never a stick around when you need one….

Or a shock collar?