The Unsayable, Said
Little things. For instance,
Below the fold, you’ll find a short film by Rob Montz about Amy Wax, quoted above, a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Wax has been mentioned here once or twice before. Generally regarding her observations of everyday phenomena that are seemingly unmentionable, at least on campus, and the performative indignation and outright hysteria that reliably ensues. As when students, supposedly adult intellectuals, claimed that the professor’s mere presence on campus was “physically and emotionally harming all of us,” with the law school’s Dean, Theodore Ruger, another supposed adult, invoking the “lasting trauma” of hearing her speak.
Notable moments in the film include Professor Glenn Loury summarising the inevitable consequences of “affirmative action” and wildly varying standards of admission – which, it seems, mustn’t be acknowledged realistically – and Professor Wax’s comment about the race-grifting “equity” establishment, and its opposite – gratitude.
Update, via the comments:
Liz notes the theatrical agonising of both students and educators and adds,
Well, if a person’s worldview and piety, and social standing, are based on a series of fairly obvious lies, they will tend to be touchy. This can, of course, be extrapolated to describe an institution, many institutions, an entire elite culture.
Update 2:
What catches the eye, I think, is just how narrow the permissible range of views is. Practically a Rizla, seen edge-on. Which necessarily entails all sorts of contrivance and pretending. A list that grows. Hence the farcical, near-operatic twitchiness.
For instance, Professor Wax’s remark that all conceivable cultures and sub-cultures are not in fact equal, whether morally or intellectually, or in terms of resulting in success in the developed world. Apparently, any suggestion to that effect – i.e., that behaviour and values tend to have some bearing on outcomes – is to be condemned, categorically, as an outrage.
As was promptly done by the far-left National Lawyers Guild and a number of Professor Wax’s colleagues, other law professors, whose own culture – say, at home with their own children – is, we’re to suppose, indistinguishable from that of carjackers and the fentanyl-addled underclass.
Pretending these things, and remembering the entire list of things to be pretended, must be quite exhausting. It would, I think, put one in a mood. Something very close to a state of chronic neuroticism.
Consider this an open thread.
[ Pulls bottle from coat. Pours very large whiskey for our host. ]
Please don’t notice the label on the bottle. This is fine hooch. Top notch. Really.
Today’s word is symbolism.
This illustrates why individuals and companies tend to be so slow to switch apps: The process can be very difficult, frustrating, and traumatic.
But staying with old apps has a high cost and often is ultimately destructive: I can think of some companies that shot themselves in the foot by sticking with obsolete, hard-to-use software that lacked numerous features for productivity and convenience–and that drove away customers or wasted employees’ time.
“Hey you, why aren’t you applauding? Are you a hater? Clap! Clap louder!”
Today’s word is symbolism.
And the inevitable responses “how dare you mock this woman! Leave trans following their dreams alone!” never acknowledging that such symbolism means a very talented young woman was kicked to the curb so this male LARPer in a tutu can have a coveted spot at the Royal Academy.
We still have coasters?
Today’s word is symbolism.
Jack Posobiec, as a “veteran Navy intel officer”, should know better than to recycle unattributed stories. Seems that it’s from 2017, and it’s about an MtF passing a standardized skill test of the Royal Academy of Dance, which seems to be an accreditation body and not a school – so the question of the MtF being accepted as a student and displacing a female dancer wouldn’t arise.
Obviously as a general principle ballet is going to be targeted because of its connection with tradition, skill, beauty, hierarchy, sexual dimorphism, and with whites bringing those values to their best possible expression. How does it affect you personally, snark the Twitter commenters. Answer: you’re going out of your way to mark our beautiful territory with your ugliness.
If ever there was a reason to abstain . . .
‘Surrender’ might be a better choice, perhaps modified by ‘abject.’
Today’s word is symbolism.
Kinda like that middle-aged oaf featured here not too long ago who thought he was an ice princess, so stunning and brave!
Ooh, precisely this Darleen. Yet people today are outraged at the people like Sullivan. They don’t want any of her damn miracles if it means having standards of behavior. That’s fascist!
And the inevitable responses “how dare you mock this woman!
One of these things is not like the others.
Meritocracy offends the Left/Woke. Obviously the US was never a perfect meritocracy. The Ivy league had legacy admissions. Some rich people bought their kids a business. etc. BUT: blacks have become more than represented in football, basketball, movies, music. Culture is powerful and has a lot to do with current failures in the inner city. If you grow up surrounded by gangs and welfare moms, you incorporate that culture, to your disadvantage. If no one ever made you study, corrected your grammar, or had books in the house, college success is less likely. My mother corrected my grammar until the day she died, bless her.
A hero walks among us.
There are no “cis” kids, says this gent.
Speaking of unsayable, do you have a peen, trunk butt, or front hole? The debate is settled here.
The only real question at that point, is “Was that the point from the get go?”
There is no question. It is, and always has been, about destabilizing society to the point that it collapses into internal strife and is unable to defend itself against invasion.
It’s like demonic possession.
“front hole and vagina are both valid expressions”….uhhhh no.
It is a valid expression for announcing to the world that you are deranged.
Note the increasing frequency of mug shots in which the perps laugh or smirk.
Severe and swift punishment would solve that problem.
Suggestions for appropriate punishment are welcome.
Now, about that “body positivity” schtick …
I have to say, the whole bearded-man-with-rainbow-hair-big-earrings-and-sparkly-nail-polish look does rather scream “Was probably molested as a child, may try to molest yours.”
Regarding which.
Body positivity.
In the dead dudes defence he may technically have been “plus size” but by today’s standards of fetishising obesity he barely tipped the scales.
Dr Front Hole.
This person has some seriously weird shit lying around in the background and on the shelves in her video. However to quote Dumbledore “When you come to think about it, it’s really not surprising at all”
Always respect the media.
Note also her staring eyes and her artificial but constant smile.
The rape of the Sabine comes to mind. Though I suppose whichever version of the story would be its own Rorschach test.
The kind of leader that the kind of white women who are constantly seeking affirmation that this is the “Is this the new normal” look up to. I need to apologize to my father when/if I reach the great beyond for ever arguing with him regarding women’s rights. Not that I was a big supporter but his cynicism was far more on the mark than mine.
Apparently it did arise.
I thought “Harrison Bergeron” was nightmarish but an unlikely fantasy. This is even worse.
“Honestly, who gives a fuck if Black people are destroying property?”
I have absolutely no objection to rioters destroying all of Ms Miller’s property.
Ah, but Ms Miller, our moral dolt and declarer of pronouns, only finds such things amusing when they’re happening to someone else. I’m fairly sure that her own Brooklyn home wasn’t on the list of targets she finds acceptable. It’s the way of the woke. The piety is non-reciprocal.