Dodging Bullets
Via Mr Muldoon in the comments, a shocking revelation:
Not so much overlooked, I think, as warning signs heeded.
As we’ve seen many times, pretending to be a they does rather send a message regarding neuroticism, pretentiousness, captiousness, and the likelihood of disruption. If job applicants in effect announce that they expect anyone nearby to indulge their tedious psychodrama and pretend along with them, this will not always be met with enthusiasm. Demanding that others lie – and ignore or contradict the evidence right in front of them, daily – is, in short, rude. An act of hostility.
Contrary to Ashton Jackson, the author of the article quoted above, and contrary to Ryan McGonagill, the author of the report cited in said article, it’s not a matter of “how much work there is to do around diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the workplace.” And I very much doubt it’s about pronoun-stipulators finding themselves disqualified for “being authentic.” It’s more a matter of whether employers would be wise to hire, and trust, people who signal their narcissism, their unrealism, and their inclination to manipulate others.
And employers would do well to remember that The Pronoun Game, so much in fashion, is very often an attempt to bully others, to exert power, by making them say things, publicly and repeatedly, that they don’t for a minute believe to be true.
If an illustration is required of how things can go awry, readers may recall the infinitely charming Ms Amber Leventry, a “queer person and educator,” a professional them, who managed to be outraged by the fact that she had been asked not to swear and scream in the workplace. This appeal to reciprocal courtesy, and preference for not being assailed with bellowed epithets, was denounced as both “tone policing” – a wickedness “rooted in colonialism and white supremacy” – and an effort to crush underfoot the rights and wellbeing of transgender people.
When not expecting deference and “validation” for her frequent fits of temper – one might say bullying – Ms Leventry encourages her own small children, aged seven and nine, to shout profanities at passers-by who may have voted Republican. So, obviously, the perfect employee.
Update, via the comments:
EmC adds,
Well, if a job application includes imaginary pronouns and claims of themness, I think one could treat it as roughly equivalent to the words I like to shit on the carpet. Signalling, as it does, insufferable pretension or serious mental illness, or some unhappy combination of the two.
But in the minds of Ms Jackson and Mr McGonagill, every employer, and every workmate, has time for this shit.
And every employer, and every workmate, wants to be held to ransom with workplace meltdowns and threats of self-harm if the absurd made-up rules, which can change arbitrarily, at seemingly any time, several times a day, aren’t obeyed.
Update 2:
In the comments, sH2 follows the links above and finds this, one of many such examples:
A complication that necessitates the wearing, and frequent changing, of colour-coded bracelets:
To which, sH2 replies,
Well, quite. One has a finite lifespan and only so much goodwill. Best not to piss it away.
And note that Ms Jackson and Mr McGonagill make no provision for such scenarios, despite them being very much in fashion among the “non-binary” demographic, and competitively so. It would seem that Ms Jackson and Mr McGonagill believe that no degree of farce would be too much, and employers should simply accommodate and indulge any level of derangement and manipulation, regardless of the impracticality and expense, and regardless of the disruption, and regardless of the impact on the employer’s own mental health.
And so, we arrive at a situation in which employers and employees would be obliged to closely monitor the mood swings of their unhinged workmates, regularly checking pronoun-bracelets and pronoun-earrings, and other pronoun-stipulating accessories, as if they couldn’t possibly have anything better to do. Lest they be faced with some hair-trigger umbrage and operatic drama, or get summoned to the HR department and then scolded for being insensitive and insufficiently inclusive.
And a happy, utopian workplace would surely follow.
See the link on my following post. He has made some inroads with blacks who at first rejected what he said but then gave it another listen. Not all of them have been conservative blacks. There are many blacks on the left, some far left, who have woken up to how badly they have been treated by the Democrats and are open to giving them a black eye…npi. That more left element has been made somewhat aware of opportunities because of how Trump has been treated by both the Dems and the establishment right, whom they never trusted, after his outreaches to the black community. I would put his chances of success around 25-30%. Either way I do believe, similar to Trump, he will mover that Overton Window back a bit.
I was in a…well a thing…a survey kind of group thing that I got a few hundred bucks for yesterday and it involved discussion amongst a dozen or so people. Our group had three black women (one wore a mask the whole time) one hispanic and the rest (apparently) white men/women. At one point a white guy whom I initially thought was more moderate politically than myself, whom I could tell over the course of the discussion was slowly becoming more frustrated, whispered to me, “You can tell who voted for Biden”. The thing was two of the three black women, one who was wearing a mask, were clearly on the same side of the issue as the two of us. One was as strong as I was on the significant factor of personal responsibility. We seemed to agree more than I did with any of the other white people, even more than the guy who made the Biden comment. The third black woman was herself leaning a bit more our way than the opposite. I got the impression that at base she wanted to agree more with us but she was more than a bit conflicted.
(2) “Nigerian” and “Somalian” both end in “ian”.
(3) Both are in Africa
[ Slaps forehead. ]
For what it’s worth, the Gulf of Guinea – including Nigerian waters – is the current global piracy hotspot.
“Being trans is integral to who we are. It is an inseparable part of our existence...”
…unless someone isn’t constantly reaffirming the delusions…
Can we get the henchlesbians reading on this bozo’s thoughts (and I use the word thoughts loosely)?
Ian owes me 50 quid.
Coming very soon: Bruce Bawer’s The Victim’s Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Birth of the Woke Ideology
Wake me when there’s a book about the death of woke ideology.
Bruce Bawer is worth reading. See also: While Europe Slept and Surrender.
And The New Quislings.
Listen carefully to your instructions.
I’m a little choked up now that I know the truth about these humanitarians.
Listen carefully to your instructions.
I’d have had the bike in gear and been halfway down the block an instant after he began walking towards me. I expected a much worse outcome.
Hard pass.
See second update to post.
Somewhat relevant:
See also the steep downwards trajectory of Nature and Scientific American.
See the Science Wars of the 1990’s. Serious scientists did yeoman’s work debunking the anti-science and anti-scientific claims of academic leftists. But their efforts had little long-term effect because the tenured leftists ignored the evidence: They just kept publishing more nonsense while indoctrinating students, and what’s more than redoubled their efforts to take control of funding and hiring so that they could kill the career of anyone who criticized them.
As I have said before, it is a grave error to think you can coexist with leftists. They will use your tolerance to gain power and then set out to destroy you.
But in the minds of Ms Jackson and Mr McGonagill, every employer, and every workmate, has time for this shit.
That.
Well, as so often, there doesn’t appear to be an upper limit to the absurdity. It seems we must simply defer and pretend it isn’t insane, and pretend that it somehow isn’t a license for opportunist bedlamites who like making others jump through hoops. Of which, we’ve seen so many.
Previously noted: The online left is a cesspool of dysfunction and psychosis.
The offline left is isn’t much better.
JFC.
This guy wants a uterus transplant so he can have a baby, but to have the uterus removed after so his body doesn’t reject it.
Sure, why not, uteri are like Kleenex or paper plates, one use and disposable.
Ironically, the trans movement is enforcing the most extreme binary. A girl cannot just be a tomboy or lesbian, she is “really” male. A boy cannot be gay or even merely not very masculine, he is “really” a girl. They give lipservice to “nonbinary” but I have never heard of a parent proudly proclaiming that their child is nonbinary, no, they go straight to the drugs and surgery. And the trans adopt the most extreme version of female appearance and behavior. This goes for the “scholars” trying to prove that there are not only two biological sexes. They use a strawman of perfect binary and if there is any overlap in traits, then there is not two. These two groups need to get their story straight.
No. Not having a straight story is their actual game. I’m not saying this to be snarky. Getting a story straight would enable logic and reason, both of which have been overtly and loudly rejected on all the woke fronts. This is one of the most important things to understand about this crap. They thrive on chaos, on gross subjectivity that is so gross it barely even qualifies as subjectivity. Hence the pronouns that change on a whim, etc. etc. etc.
I’d have had the bike in gear and been halfway down the block an instant after he began walking towards me. I expected a much worse outcome.
It’s hard to tell from the video whether it’s a threat or a well-intentioned warning. I once took a wrong turn out of Buffalo airport when picking up a friend and ended up lost in a very bad part of Buffalo. Burned out, abandoned houses, stores boarded up, and not a human soul for half an hour of driving.
We eventually found a FedEx or UPS location and stopped in to ask for directions. The all-black staff were extremely surprised to see us, gave us directions back to the highway, and were very clear that we should leave the area as soon as possible and not stop for any reason. Including traffic lights. They weren’t threatening us; they were trying to keep us alive.
Agreed. It’s an authority game and thery intend to win every time using the power of the state or proxies.
That happened to me once in another city.
keeping their story straight: of course, that is merely to point out the contradiction. When you put feelings as the primary arbiter, and not reality or logic, then you can say anything, even impossible things. You can say “we must stop farming” or “this is a woman” or “printing money has no bad effects” or “it is racist to criticize the chinese government” or “women can do anything a man can”. The more outrageous or impossible the better.
Not having a straight story is their actual game
When you realize that the goal is not to present any kind of coherent, sustainable social, legal or moral philosophy but rather to destroy existing society so the Great Revolution can take place, much becomes clear.
As President Bartlet used to say, “look at the whole board”.
Any links to twitter are currently unaccessible. Clicking on a link brings this message:
Here’s one explanation I’ve seen. Not sure if or when it will be fixed.
They’re working now, for me at least – though videos embedded in tweets weren’t loading properly earlier today and Twitter in general has been slow to load on Microsoft Edge for a couple of days. Not glacially slow, but noticeably sluggish.
Made me think of Typepad, which I try not to do.
Well worth the time.
Remember Erin Brockovich? Plucky little guy against big bad PG&E, heroine of the eponymous movie, etc.?
Now a “terrorist threat,” said threat being that Booty Judge might be made to look bad.
The sections on marriage and transgenderism, around 30 minutes in, are interesting.
By the way, does anyone else as a habit listen to interview videos (and podcasts, insofar as I listen to them) at x1.25 speed?
They’re working now, for me at least
Back for me now too.
I saw this and thought, “Maybe other people’s children shouldn’t be used as accessories to your mental drama….”
does anyone else as a habit listen to interview videos at x1.25 speed?
I can read much, much faster than most people can speak, so I barely consume videos at all if they’re just information dumps. It’s frustrating waiting for them to get to the damn point. I understand why everyone has moved from blogging to YouTube, but it’s reduced my consumption of most opinion pundits to near zero.
The only podcasts I listen to are narrative in nature, in which the presentation is a signficant part of the experience.
Heh. Over the years, I’ve spent quite a bit of time muttering, “Where’s the goddamn transcript?”
I saw that and thought that thing hanging from her nose reminds me of a Hitler mustache. A cute little Hitler mustache. Also made me think of what this guy said.
Yep.
another fruit loop – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11825563/Im-sexual-relationship-PLANE.html
Are the pilots affirmative action hires? Women? transgender? POC?
MaryCate Delvey, Bio-transgirl, a woman who identifies as a man identifying as a woman. The delivery is perfect.
I can read much, much faster than most people can speak, so I barely consume videos at all if they’re just information dumps.
Yep. I’m a fast reader and feel the same way about audio books. Unless I’m going on a long trip in the car, I would much rather read a book than listen to a narrator.
another fruit loop – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11825563/Im-sexual-relationship-PLANE.html
Maybe she’s an accountant. According to Tony Soprano, if you cross an accountant with a jumbo jet, you get a Boring 747. Despite her attempt to be “outrageous”, she seems pretty boring.
“another fruit loop”
Sounds a bit “rapey.”
another fruit loop
That clown has been featured here in the past – DM is doing reruns or updates…
Speaking of people featured here many times before, your TV licence fee at work.
TV lic fee: she advocates “dismantling western civ” as do many others (“end capitalism”). To get a glimpse of what this would look like, go to Haiti or Somalia. It is NOT what she imagines. The toughest SOBs become head gangster of a neighborhood. Lots of people starve or get shot. Lots. Mini-civil wars.