For newcomers and the nostalgic, some items from the archives. Think of this batch as a kind of “critical race theory” special edition.
Beneath The Planet Of The Bedlamites.
Oh, the thrill of being screamed at by mad people.
Regarding Robin DiAngelo and her lamentable bestseller
White Fragility, some of you may have been wondering, “What kind of person is drawn to and internalises this neurotically demented horseshit?” Well, here’s a possible answer, captured for posterity during a live-streamed meeting of the New York City Community Education Council. In a mercifully abridged video, embedded below, we see “public education advocate” and gratuitous declaimer of pronouns Ms Robin Broshi using the meeting to chase away the demons nesting in her head.
You see, when you’re bouncing your friend’s young nephew on your lap, you’re not being affectionate or delighting in babyness, you’re actually “exhibiting [your] power over people of colour.” And therefore require immediate “anti-racism training.”
You’re Reading The Comments, Right?
When wokeness collides with logic, only one can be allowed to prevail:
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 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, “These playing fields… are never theoretically far from plantation fields.” Albeit a plantation with fan mail, lucrative endorsements, and an average salary of around $2.7 million.
Have You Tried Less Tiresome Music?
On the word you mustn’t say but must love hearing.
It’s also worth noting how one of the most hazardous of words to use – one that may result in a kicking or sudden unemployment, and from which All Decent Non-Racist People are expected to recoil – is simultaneously one to which All Decent Non-Racist People are supposed to be drawn, or at least happy to tolerate. Provided it’s being mouthed, endlessly, by idiots of a certain hue. And failing to have a taste for this experience is, we’re now told, evidence of racism.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Went to that link earlier but didn’t have time to peruse it. Now it seems it’s gone?
Now it seems it’s gone?
Still there, it takes a bit of wading, e.g., 23 hours ago...
More wading and more stellar behavior from the Ass. Prof. appearing to threaten Exulansic.
I’m still trying to process the whole making-public-videos-from-under-the-duvet thing,
Looking at and listening to that Assistant Professor it seems Disney missed a trick when casting the role of Ursula for the live action remake of The Little Mermaid.
…making-public-videos-from-under-the-duvet thing,
She’s autistic, just ask her, not that more often than a vegan will she’ll tell you, just as real autistic people do.
… upper Midwestern towns destroyed by (cleans glasses) hillbillies.
So he’s found a group of immigrants who aren’t just like us only better.A group of immigrants who don’t dream of our freedoms and opportunities and protections except as a soft touch for transplanting their dysfunctional culture. A group of immigrants who as soon as they have sufficient numbers corrupt the political process and make a nice country worse. A group of immigrants who probably shouldn’t have been allowed to settle because their illiterate inbred honor culture where grudges are nurtured for generations isn’t compatible with having a nice country to live in.
But there’s no analogy to be drawn here and no general principle conceded. This only applies to Scots-Irish migrants, not to any other migrant group.
Zck: I believe the hillbillies thing was satire. Obviously the midwest was not a racially diverse paradise until hillbillies moved in (there is no great hillbilly migration).
I think the human race can do without every member of this family.
I believe the hillbillies thing was satire.
S. de La Grave was sarcastic, mattparlmer, not so much.
I think the human race can do without every member of this family.
For those of you who wisely have no truck with zuckerberg’s abomination, the story is here.
Big video here.
Cue evasions and hand-waving.
Couldn’t stop watching the woman in the background…
Well, trying to follow the logic, or supposed logic, takes some concentration. From what I could make out, it’s basically,
Or, if you prefer an actual quote,
And their politeness, or complicity, is the sole yardstick of what is real, you see. There being no other basis on which to make a determination.
This is followed almost immediately with claims of feeling “not safe” among people who, while polite and in no way threatening, may not feel obliged to play the pretend game. Because a reluctance to pretend is some kind of mortal threat to a supposedly unshakable and very real identity that requires continual external validation and must never, ever be in question.
As trains of thought go, it’s a bumpy ride.
As trains of thought go, it’s a bumpy ride.
To paraphrase the gist of what he is saying, “I know I am a woman because some one else who isn’t a woman but thinks he is told me so.”
As trains of thoughts go, that is not so much a bumpy train ride as going over a cliff in a shopping cart with four bent wheels.
From the same Walsh talk and another ride in the shopping cart, an EMT is baffled.
Well, yes. And invoking the affirmation of people whose own perceptions are by definition unreliable is a bold strategy.
And invoking the affirmation of people whose own perceptions are by definition unreliable is a bold strategy.
In related news, Kylie is a “sancti-mom of a stillborn”.
At the same time over at the Daily Mail, a lede of note regarding a surprise.
They were expecting, in much the same way as I expect a package, having had nothing to do with the manufacture or delivery of the item.
Writer Janet Fraser says:
But fails to realize that it is not compassionate to accept and encourage a lunatic’s delusions.
As I’ve said, there is no logic nor even supposed logic to follow. It’s entirely an emotional domain.
In the world in general, for all intents and purposes, this the sole yardstick of what is real. What people see and feel inside their heads in the context of a society willing to support their delusions but financially and emotionally is all that matters. There’s a lot of ruin in a society. Especially the wealthiest of societies (by leaps and bounds) that has ever existed.