You’re Reading The Comments, Right?
Where, for instance, pst314 and Mr Muldoon point us to an “analysis” piece in Scientific American, in which we’re urged to fret about “the violence Black men experience in [American] football,” and in which we’re told that the physicality of the sport “disproportionately affects black men.” This is framed in the article so as to imply some systemic racial wrongdoing – “anti-Black practices” that are “inescapable” – rather than, say, being an unremarkable reflection of the sport’s demographics, in which, at professional levels, black players are a majority.
Or to put it another, no less scientific, way – the risk of injury while playing a contact sport disproportionately affects those who actually play it.
No evidence is offered, at all, to establish that injuries are more frequent among black players compared to their white peers – which is pretty much the article’s premise – or to support the conceit that any such disparity, should it exist, must be driven by racism. And yet we’re told, with an air of satisfaction,
Albeit a plantation with fan mail, lucrative endorsements, and an average salary of around $2.7 million.
And so, the approved line of thinking seems to be that if a sport doesn’t have whatever is deemed a representative proportion of minority participants, this must be construed, and denounced, as damning evidence of racism, regardless of the actual factors involved, including the preferences and priorities of said minorities. And if a sport comes to be dominated by a racial minority, at least at elite levels, this too must be construed, and denounced, as damning evidence of racism.
The author of the piece, Tracie Canada, is a “socio-cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic research uses sport to theorize race, kinship and care, gender, and the performing body.” Ms Canada, an assistant professor at Duke University, should perhaps be thanked for reminding us that in order to propagate a woke premise, and thereby grift, one may have to avoid thinking about fairly obvious things.
Likewise, when you’re the editor-in-chief of Scientific American:
An editor-in-chief whose thought process seems to be:
I paraphrase, of course. But not, I think, unfairly.*
The steep downward trajectory of said publication has been mentioned here before.
*Added via the comments.
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…And pst314 is correct, a camel’s digit was on full display and in great detail. I’m quite sure she had a piercing…again as if she were wearing nothing…In her case she was young and physically attractive, but…
I occasionally see pretty young women who dress like that, and my reaction is “She’s very pretty, but she’s a slut and a skank–Men should avoid her like the walking disaster that she is–and avoid all her friends, too.”
Mind you these days, it would also apply to men of the awful road cycling MAMIL clan and probably trans-gagas too.
I tend to laugh at those men: They don’t need expensive, brightly colored lycra racing outfits; it’s all fashion and status.
Mind you these days, it would also apply to men of the awful road cycling MAMIL clan
True, but if they’re actually cyclists, their lyrca “outfit” has a sewn in chamois that is going to hide all the nasty bits unless, of course, you’re massively endowed or so active in the saddle that your nasty bits migrate oustide the chamois.
That’s some next level shit, because I’ve seen the Duke University football team. And it is exactly the racial mix you would expect from North Carolina.
I wonder if the The Duke Sports & Race Project ever wander down to the football field and tell Mike Elko, who the university pays over $2,000,000 a year, that he’s racist.
Duke is primarily a basketball university. Their coach, Mike Krzyzewski, was paid a touch over $9,000,000 a year. I wonder if the The Duke Sports & Race Project have any words about him “exploiting” young black men.
Duke Provost Sally Kornbluth must have been having a laugh.
Oops.
I love a happy ending.
I think we can dare to say that, with his departure from this world, little of value was lost, and in terms of future victims, considerable good was done.
There are of course those who would insist otherwise.
That.
It’s a manoeuvre we’ve seen many times – for instance, here, in the closing paragraphs:
Maybe there’s a word for it. Seems there ought to be.
Duke University. Rings a bell. Three white lacrosse players falsely accused on the word of a Crystal Magnum a black strumpet and since a murderess. All three thrown under the bus by faculty and admin. None of the latter ever brought to account. Ideal place then for Tracie to find refuge and spout garbage.
They only hire the best, you know.
To answer the initial question, yes, I do read the comments. Religiously. And I enjoy indulging in my mind’s eye of guessing what you all look like (with the exception of those who have their faces – or, at least, someone’s – in their avatar).
[ Passes Stephanie a cup of tea. ]
[ Rummages under bar, flicks single Custard Cream in her general direction. ]
My eyes are more green and I usually don’t wear the God-awful hat.
Added: I must say your crown is absolutely fabulous!
More Science High School brings us more science:
I wonder what the explanation might be.
However, we will do it anyway.
People who are on cardiac meds have more heart attacks than people who aren’t.
This is cutting edge stuff, but of course it is climate change (hot or cold), fossil fuels, red meat, and plastics.
Duke University. Rings a bell. Three white lacrosse players falsely accused on the word of a Crystal Magnum a black strumpet and since a murderess. All three thrown under the bus by faculty and admin.
The scandal was covered extensively, from start to finish for 8 years, by this blog.
And that blogger eventually wrote a book about it.
My liberal “friends” could not see anything wrong in how those students were railroaded.
I love a happy ending.
Note the two teardrop tattoos below his eye, telling us that he has been in prison–maybe twice–even if a newspaper won’t tell us.
Yes, I’m glad he’s dead. But never forget about the liberals who try to keep monsters like him out of prison: They, too are enemies of civilization.
“The President has a decadal vision, to get to a commercial fusion reactor within 10 years,”
Why how completely ridiculous.
Doesn’t the Resident know that we are facing a global burn-up of climatic proportions? If only the Resident had the vision to “get a commercial fusion reactor within the week” we could immediately rescue humanity from it’s overburden of cheap, efficient, reliable fossil fuelled electricity.
Seattle schools sue social media companies for having ‘exploited the vulnerable brains of youth’
Compensation demanded. Don’t those fuckers know that’s the schools’ job?
Given that climate is always (slowly) changing, it is better for humanity if it gets warmer rather than colder for a whole host of reasons.
Our betters in the corporate media never seem to be curious about this, why is that?
“The President has a decadal vision, to get to a commercial fusion reactor within 10 years,”
Well, OK, then. “Let it be written, let it be done” – these are not serious people.
I love a happy ending.
Another happy ending, achieved however in a problematic way.
Did you know the average male head in the Netherlands is about an inch and a half, but lower legs are about 5′ 2″?
This graphic proves it.
Yes, unfortunately for the fine upstanding citizen who defended his fellow diners from a violent criminal, under Texas statutes it’s legitimate to shoot someone who’s robbing people (yes, even in the back), but the law frowns upon putting one in the thug’s head while he’s lying dying on the floor afterwards.
Stoopid laws.
Don’t those fuckers know that’s the schools’ job?
Indeed, the schools don’t like the competition.
Meanwhile, a thief with a sound legal argument.
these are not serious people
I think that room-temperature net-positive output fusion is an engineering challenge, so a Manhattan Project or Apollo Program equivalent might be able to get us there.
But those projects were military projects, and the US believed it faced an existential threat. Absent that all that would happen is trillions of dollars going to government cronies and scam artists.
So business as usual, really.
I picture 2am at the bus station in the rough part of town.
And yet the vast majority of people, including the vast majority of conservatives…”conservatives” lack the logic skills to understand. Most people are not serious people, including the most seriously educated. There was even this recent article in a scientific (so-called) magazine…
Duke U: there was a single act of justice in the lacrosse player’s case. The DA (Mike Nifong?) much later was brought up on charges of misconduct and disbarred. One of the things that brought him down was that one of the white kids was on video at a cash machine across town at the time of the “rape” and he still brought charges.
“Today In Racism™”, in this exciting episode, “Field Work”…
Because wypipo never worked in fields, I guess.
Meanwhile, mysterious goings on in The Levant…MOO7.
Oddly. I believe the rough part of town is by law where the bus station is located.
I can’t help thinking the phrase “slavery” might have connotations for the descendants of slavery?
Yes, unfortunately for the fine upstanding citizen who defended his fellow diners from a violent criminal, under Texas statutes it’s legitimate to shoot someone who’s robbing people (yes, even in the back), but the law frowns upon putting one in the thug’s head while he’s lying dying on the floor afterwards.
There’s nothing illegal (or immoral) about shooting an armed robber in the back and without warning: That ends the threat with the least risk to innocent people. There is no reason to give the robber a chance to shoot anyone. To hell with all that Hollywood Western movie garbage about fair fights.
On the other hand, the law on self defense does not allow you to execute a robber once he is no longer a threat.
At the risk of beating that poor dead horse: heat waves kill fewer than cold waves. Excessive cold kills via both respiratory and heart attacks. Even in S China, relatively cold weather (no snow obv) kills.
On the news they were covering houses falling into the ocean in NC (not Duke unfortunately) and went on at length about climate change. Sea level in NC is rising more than the global average–but how could that be? After glaciers left Canada, the NE Can region has been rising, but since it is all rock down there, this is causing the NC region to tip downward. Not climate change. Every other thing they said was false too. More storms? No. More hurricanes? No. But they scare people to death.
And I enjoy indulging in my mind’s eye of guessing what you all look like
Given the reference to “more science high” I am guessing geezers. But good looking geezers. (perhaps is an americanism)
Oddly. I believe the rough part of town is by law where the bus station is located.
Or does the bus station location tend to always become a rough part of town? At least in the absence of serious law enforcement?
When I was young, the downtown bus station was perfectly safe. I used it now and then to visit friends in the country and to go to and from college for Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks.
On the other hand, from what I have read it seems that the New York Port Authority bus station was a bad locale even in the 70’s. And some intellectuals liked it that way.
“field work”–oh, look at the cow out grazing in its practicum. What a lovely practicum of flowers.
How about let’s make communication impossible?
Oh, and “field work” can mean going out to the mall to survey people or going out on a boat to take water samples. A “field” need not even be involved.
But good looking geezers. (perhaps is an americanism)
In UKish English, is just a bloke, not necessarily an insult; in ‘Murkan English, an antediluvian bloke, generally an insult.
And to my continuing point regarding the idiocy of the smart people, so called, drop down this Twitter hole. This is how these people live. The ones who mock flyover people for living in their own private Idaho now live in their own private China. Personally, I’ll take Idaho. Every time.
This graphic proves it
Pity all those poor unsatisfied Indonesian ladies
All the videos that I have seen, like three or four, cut out the supposed execution shot. I see references to it, I see cut video, but I have not seen that specifically. Has anyone? I certainly would not put it past the media or anyone else to invent that “fact”. In fact…ahem…somewhat like God if it did not exist I would expect it to be invented.
But good looking geezers. (perhaps is an americanism)
In UKish English, is just a bloke, not necessarily an insult; in ‘Murkan English, an antediluvian bloke, generally an insult.
But geezer means elderly man, while bloke means a man of any age.
I see references to it, I see cut video, but I have not seen that specifically. Has anyone?
Scroll down for full video.
For reference regarding Dutchmen (if it ain’t Dutch it ain’t much) relative to Indonesians…I had to find the original source material. Because I had to.
https://patient.info/news-and-features/whats-the-average-height-for-men
Added, even that feels off. Is the average height of men in the UK as close as they say (even taller than) to men in the US? And Canada and Oz as well? Having been to all three countries I certainly felt like I stood out much more in the UK than the other two.
All the videos that I have seen, like three or four, cut out the supposed execution shot. I see references to it, I see cut video, but I have not seen that specifically. Has anyone?
There are two separate posts of the video in my link:
“Another happy ending, achieved however in a problematic way.”
And those do have audio so you can be sure of when the shots are fired.
I had certainly thought so, however many hours of fruitlessly hanging around in the early hours hoping to score, disabused me of the notion.
Mind you, I did get mugged a couple of times, so maybe you’re on to something…
OK, that one had the full thing. Looks to me like the shooter was still not sure the perp was dead and no longer a threat. Even after he appears to have emptied the clip (magazine, whatever) he seems quite cautious. Anyone who has has to dispatch a dangerous animal on occasion or seen real video of such things should be aware that even severely wounded creatures can still be a threat. Anyone who has been in a gunfight or has spoken to any degree of detail with those who have should also be aware that bullets fired in the heat of a life-or-death moment don’t land as close to target as you think. I spoke with a cop once who was witness to a firefight in which both men were fairly close to each other, fired multiple shots but only one or two landed. My father concurred that such was similar in battle scenarios where both units were surprised to be on top of each other.
Male ht: 50 yrs ago, the average in US was 5ft 9in. For men in their 20s today it is 5ft 11in. It was 5ft 7in back in 1900.
@WTP: ‘Anyone who has has to dispatch a dangerous animal on occasion or seen real video of such things should be aware that even severely.’
As any PH (professional hunter) will tell you, it’s the dead ones that get up and kill you.
Shooting muggers: I blame the lone ranger for the idea that you can shoot the gun out of someone’s hand. If you shoot someone and they fall they may not be dead and can easily shoot you. IRL of course but not in clown world where the impossible is demanded if a magic minority person is involved.