A Testing Of Boundaries
Lifted from the comments, a small but telling thing:
“I’ve not done anything wrong.” Why has this become so normal? pic.twitter.com/GKHzIozlRj
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 7, 2023
Regarding which, sH2 replied,
Well, indeed. We do seem to be witnessing an upsurge in such sly provocations, and almost always from the same kinds of people with the same kinds of views – an eerie uniformity. And so, Narcissistic Glitter Bint can invade someone’s personal space and shower them, and their children, with some substance – in this case, glitter – and do it repeatedly, against their wishes, while saying, rather triumphantly, “I’m not touching him.”
The dynamic is basically, “You, unlike me, have some self-restraint, which gives me an advantage, therefore I shall test it and see how far I can go.” It’s the psychology of a child unaccustomed to consequences.
Left uncorrected, it’s a psychology that can quickly become quite vile. As seen, for instance, here.
Update, some variations on a theme:
In the comments, we mentioned the videos of Chris Elston (“Billboard Chris”), filmed at Portland State University, in which students who disagree with him – our supposed intellectuals of tomorrow – feel entitled to harass and threaten, and to throw water on him, and to steal his phone and other belongings.
This related video, embedded below, is ostensibly less dramatic, but in some ways more instructive. The charming songbird seen early in the video, and in those above, is Chrissa Mae Kalal, a student, adjunct employee, and self-styled “trans refugee from West Virginia.” Schooled in the role of persecuted saint, Mr Kalal – formerly Chris Burney – spends an awful lot of his time disrupting and physically blocking other people’s conversations – say, around three minutes in, by repeatedly shoving his bike at the legs of the participants while looking enormously self-satisfied – and generally harassing them in a gratuitous and fairly creepy way.
As one does when one is a Higher Being and stipulator of pronouns.
Note too the equally divine creature in the pink mask, who, around six minutes in, also seems unhappy about strangers having a polite conversation.
This brave woman at Portland State University ended up in tears, afraid of the backlash she’ll get for agreeing with us.
She doesn’t know what’s going to happen to her, and says sharing these views in university will get her a bad grade.
She has to fear for her future for… pic.twitter.com/aC58mIoW4X
— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) May 9, 2023
It’s worth noting that the man with the bicycle, the lovely Chrissa, and his masked accomplice – the one circling the conversation and ‘accidentally’ barging into its participants, repeatedly – are trying to intimidate the young woman in the video. And judging by her nervousness, and the need for continual looks over the shoulder, they’re doing a fairly good job of it.
Needless to say, what you’re seeing is pathological – one might say malevolent – and yet, for some, it’s a marker of woke status, a progressive ideal. And the behaviour above isn’t the result of some fit of temper or a one-off aberration. It isn’t done reluctantly or under duress. It’s practised and calculated. It reveals a sadistic ingenuity.
Hence the grinning and the self-satisfaction.
See also, for instance, the videos of Billboard Chris, in which students who disagree with him – our supposed intellectuals of tomorrow – feel entitled to harass and threaten, and to throw water on him, and to steal his phone and other belongings.
Related: student tries to steal microphone, is too feeble.
Actual LOL
Our betters. In all things.
Mostly a consequence of an evil political subculture. But partly a consequence of “you cannot hit girls even when they hit you”: I have heard warnings for many years about reckless women who get their boyfriends into serious fights with other men because the women do not understand consequences. (And as an aside, I have known a lot of feminists whose ideology can be summed up as “women are entitled to all male advantages but not male disadvantages”.
These professional victims look very privileged to me.
Quite. The expectation of impunity, of some unilateral exemption from behavioural norms, isn’t well hidden. And note the signature dishonesty, as if it were merely an expression of jollity.
Adult woman approaching not an adult protester but a teenage boy, getting into his space in a way that’s … how would you describe it? Flirtatious? “Do you like this?” Suggestive of physical intimacy, or rather of sexual humiliation (allowing someone to pour something unknown over your head). The intent not only to embarrass the boy but to sexually embarrass him. It’s pretty disgusting.
Not to go too far with “what if you swap the sexes”, but indeed if grown man was behaving and talking like that to a teenage girl protester, the sexual intent would be assumed. But she’s just a flower child who spreads love and glitter even to bigots, and if you see sexual aggression there, that’s because you’re repressed and projecting, and you’ll sooner or later be found with, as the saying goes, a live boy or a dead girl.
This. They told us, the experts, the psychologists and psychiatrists, the educators, the most educated of the severely educated, the smartest smarty smart smart people in the actual business of being smart, that spanking was actually causing problems with our children. Funny how spanking has been essentially outlawed yet children’s behavior, and the behavior of such once grown, has gotten much, much worse. It’s all so odd. Who could have seen this day coming? Well aside from all those people they told to shut up because we were so bloody stupid.
Same kinds of views: I noticed over at reddit.com (top level) a complete uniformity in anything controversial: pro- gun control, abortion, vaccination, trans (even for children), and drag queen story hour. Oh and of course pro-electric vehicles (we are all going to die from climate change). It is almost like they get a song sheet when they join the choir.
Also, exactly what Telopz said.
And yet it’s supposed to be us who (quoting from a friend of an acquaintance) follow tropes we “were fed by Fox Nooz, Twitter Twits, or similar.”
Calls someone who opposes sterilizing children nazis. Sorry twerp but nazis were all in on this sort of experiment. If the protester claims children are not getting sterilized, what exactly does he think the medical procedures are? Of course he has some vague feel-good idea of it as “affirmative care” or some shit.
See also.
And of course this.
I the right were in any way serious about this fight they would undermine this mentality culturally via a publicity campaign of some sort to get schmucks like this guy to understand that their betters are sending them out with very, very weak arguments that get them humiliated. But the right won’t do that. Because the right likes losing. It’s like a comfortable old shoe.
Also for reference…Got this from someone on Insty. Apparently there’s been a minor setback for the left in Chile. Go figure.
Who knew cost / benefit analyses could be so uplifting.
But partly a consequence of “you cannot hit girls even when they hit you”…
Yes, but what if one is startled, trips, and knocks one of these clowns down or elbows one in the face accidentally trying not to fall down?
Helicopter economics – not in depth enough, there is a huge difference between the consumption rates and lift capacity of an Mi-26 and a Huey, for example.
Do you still have pterodactyl boy in the vaults somewhere?
I beg your pardon?
Ah, the braying donkey boy. Alas, the link I had is long defunct.
[ Added: ]
Oh wait. Here we go.
Bloody hell. Nine years ago.
Ooh, that one. Knew a girl back about 6th grade who played that little advantage up. Hadn’t seen nor thought of her in ages then she popped up on my FB friend suggestions about a month ago. Odd that.
Something I said in that ancient thread caught my eye:
Perhaps not entirely inapt.
That’s the one – thanks, barkeep!
Also watching it again, and closely related to the current post, note that the excitable creature:
Although the creature is very far from sly, the dynamic (“You, unlike me, have some self-restraint, which gives me an advantage …”) is pretty much almost exactly the same.
For some reason, the beast seems to think they have a legitimate right to physically attack others and almost implodes with indignation when they discover sometimes other people might just hit you back.
And that’s another reason why I drink …
As Daniel said some time ago, regarding the modern, progressive campus and its stew of bedlamites:
Not unfair, I think.
Because “Your speech is violence. My violence is speech.”
Some of that, certainly, but more so the indignant fury of a liar called out.
Childism
Childism
GKC
“We do seem to be witnessing an upsurge in such sly provocations…“
And some are not so sly. More criminal assault.
So much THAT.
Well, if someone wanted to witness some weirdly spiteful behaviour being indulged in with impunity, the nearest ‘progressive’ campus would be an obvious venue.
I’m actually angry now.
Apparently, Billboard Chris is an example of “insecure, disgusting toxic men” – according to a woman who says she wants to hit him, simply for daring to politely disagree with her, and then talks about wanting to plant drugs on him, resulting, one assumes, in his arrest.
Because she’s so secure, and not at all toxic.
“This is a place of learning,” he bellowed, threateningly.
Or, Man Who Relies Entirely On Screamed Abuse and Physical Intimidation Invokes Intellectual Standards.
Ah, the little known Pinochet Curve…
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/09/from-the-deep-drexciva-smithsonian-washington
From the Deep: an underwater kingdom for enslaved people who died in the AtlanticThe pre-Afrofuturist mythology of Drexciya is explored in an immersive and ambitious exhibition from Ayana V Jackson
But what were their pronouns?
Bub/Glub ?
In defence of pterodactyl boy, not that he deserves it, he did hit the concrete with a most satisfying thud.
Having not seen that particular drama before I was particularly taken with his childish “I don’t like you” towards the end.
The law of the jungle. A law that supersedes those of civilization. When the prey shows weakness the predator is under no obligation to restrain itself. Quite the opposite in fact. It’s better for all in the bigger picture.
A very good Chesterton quote. Time to re-read him.
“I’m not touching you”
That, as they say.
Though it’s perhaps worth pointing out that the kind of pathological behaviour we’re seeing is unlikely to be corrected, or at least somewhat suppressed, by anything other than public, physical humiliation. It may not prompt any moral reflection – I suspect nothing would – but it may serve as a reminder that malevolent egos can be broken.
Yawn. More racialist hallucinations.
Get back to me when one of these artists displays interest in, and sympathy for, Europeans enslaved and murdered by Africans.
Possibly relevant: The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America.
I haven’t read it yet, but Victor Davis Hanson is usually worth paying attention to.
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I didn’t watch the video to which Mike D is referring in the second quote above, my blood pressure can only take so much, but I echo his sentiment with regard to the original video.
I enjoyed listening to the cop tell the woman that she has committed assault, and that if she commits assault again she’ll be escorted out and he ‘doesn’t want to have to arrest anybody’. Jesus wept.
There is evil in this world, and it won’t be deterred with niceness and ‘not wanting to arrest’ it. Give me the days when cops would wade in there handing out wooden shampoos to the offenders.
Also: “Let’s just have a conversation” as a cover for disrupting and drowning out unapproved speech.
It is almost impossible to “cure” antisocial behavior past a rather young age.
Some people should be broken. As a warning to others and as an effective way of stopping them from harming more innocents.
What such incidents share is a combination of narcissism and catastrophism, both neurotic traits. The narcissism accounts for the total focus on the individual’s own views and inability to imagine that others might have valid views that differ. For example, the pro-abortion people simply cannot imagine that anyone else might view abortion as murder or that the overall society should decide the parameters of abortion (how many weeks etc). Catastrophism is the belief that this or that thing is a crisis. You simply must solve this world problem (as they view it) NOW! That some big problems persist for 100 years (or forever) is simply unacceptable.
It would, I think, be hopelessly unrealistic to believe that one could somehow appeal to some imagined better nature, of which we see no evidence whatsoever in the videos above, or that one could shame these creatures in any morally redemptive sense. Humiliation, however, is an option and, it has to be said, a tempting place to start.
It seems Twitter won’t resolve if 3rd party cookies are blocked.
That delusion is one of the many reasons I rarely bother to talk to liberals: It is impossible to have an intelligent conversation with a delusional fool. And they will not abandon their delusions.
Well, as should be obvious, the behaviour above – and countless other examples we’ve seen over the years – isn’t some fit of temper or one-off aberration. It’s practised and calculated. It reveals a sadistic ingenuity.
Hence the grinning and self-satisfaction.
Liberal blindness to evil is also practised and calculated.
You left out ‘feigned.’
Liberal blindness to evil
Don’t forget how far back this goes. From covering up the horrors of Stalin to wearing Mao t-shirts, they have pretended and elided for 80 yrs +.
“women are entitled to all male advantages but not male disadvantages”
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to patriarchy.
Who knew cost / benefit analyses could be so uplifting
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to helicopters.
The expectation of impunity, of some unilateral exemption from behavioural norms, isn’t well hidden.
It doesn’t need to be. They are impune to legal consequences for their behaviour. From Glitter Bint to Yvette Felarca landing body blows on a counter-protestor in front of a line of riot police to antifa physically preventing a barely mobile
elderly couple from attending a PPC event, the police do nothing. The police, at this point, are on the other side and anyone foolish enough to use reasonable force to defend themselves will have their lives destroyed by the legal system. Kyle Rittenhouse will have a target on his back for the rest of his life.
I’m not exaggerating or using hyperbole when I say the only way out of this is a violent revolution. And as Victor Hanson has already noted, those have a tendency of not going the way one might hope.
And 100 years ago American progressives were falling in love with European fascists.
note the double memorial in Chicago to the fascist Italo Balbo.
Agreed.
This. I’ve been having this conversation with my local police since about 2007 and what happened to George Zimmerman, while it infuriated me, did not surprise me in the least. As I have told a few cops now, this “lock it or lose it” attitude they have is BS. What we need is the old “if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime”. Of course the only reply to that one gets is crickets.
Similarly, this really doesn’t surprise me when you think about it:
California, other states with strong ‘Defund the Police’ movements ranked best to be a cop, new study claims
Why do students who harass women and try to steal phones not get expelled?
Well, indeed. Again, the expectation of impunity, of some unilateral exemption from behavioural norms, isn’t well hidden. But ours is an age in which narcissistic, sociopathic behaviour is excused, encouraged, and actively rewarded, not least by leftist educators, who happily disregard their own institutions’ rules of conduct. Especially when the delinquent little shits belong to some favoured identity group.
As I said regarding this fit of nakedly recreational malice:
And yet, it doesn’t happen. And it doesn’t happen pretty much every single time.
As Glenn Reynolds noted a while ago,
A sentiment that may be familiar to regular readers here. But here’s the thing. If educators and administrators were to stop pretending and instead concede the glaringly obvious – that what’s on display, and being exulted in, isn’t piety, but pretension and pathology – just screeching little egos in need of a slap – then the entire woke edifice, which is built on such pretence, would become rather shaky.
More scenes from the brains trust at Portland State.
David’s piece on entitled glitter bitch has been copied and linked in a comment to yesterdays New York Subway article at Samizdata.
No interaction as yet but they’re a serious bunch who tend to think a lot before joining in.
Invidentally I see that Billboard Chris intends to visit England, Ireland and Scotland next week.
Good luck mate because you’re going to need it simply to get through immigration without the police or home office deciding you’re an existential threat to the well-being of the country.
In the unlikely event that you clear that hurdle don’t expect any meaningful protection from law enforcement against the foul mouthed deranged morons (and that’s just the media) who will dog your every step. Our nutters will make the ones you see in Portland look civilised in comparison.
then the entire woke edifice, which is built on such pretence, would become rather shaky.
That.
Well, once you’ve bought into the lie, the game of mutual dishonesty, then you’re fundamentally compromised and pretty much at its mercy.
If, say, an ostentatiously progressive “equity” administrator were to stop pretending, even momentarily, and in exasperation blurt out, “Actually, you’re not oppressed. You’re just a narcissistic little monster trying it on” – which would cover just about every interaction on any given day – then their own vanities and fictions, and the ostensible basis for their own employment and social status, might be subject to unwelcome scrutiny. Once you give the game away…
The analogy that comes to mind is r/Trans or the high-security wing of transgender TikTok, where sexually dysmorphic or autogynephile men present themselves in make-up and frocks, and fish for affirmation – i.e., compliments about how fetching and womanly they look. And about how absolutely and obviously female they are. Over and over again. It’s an odd atmosphere, to say the least, and prone to inadvertent and unacknowledged comedy.
And those involved in this strange, rather surreal fishing game must never stop pretending. No-one dares risk a moment of honesty. No-one dares say what they actually see. Because then the spell would be broken.
That’s one big old bear-paw he’s holding his phone with.
”How Eurovision became an LGBTQ+ safe space”.
Seriously bbc? It’s been the campest thing on tv for at least 30 years now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65485540
Incidentally what about the IA or the two-spirits (does that mean Jedward?). Bloody bigots.
It does rather catch the eye.
The entire woke edifice never had a consistent structure with it to begin with. Its only thread of legitimacy stems from the basic decency and tolerance that our (proper term) liberal society is built upon. We long ago blew past the ideals of tolerance once we let our schools preach the idea that all ideas are equally valid. Not just that all ideas are acceptable for discussion but that such discussion must be predicated upon their innate validity. This absurdity blew the doors off of logic and reason such that we are solidly on a path back to emotion-based thinking. These woke ideas hold their power in the face of all reason because for all intents and purposes any discussion on such matters might as well be taking place in another language. And in many ways, given how words are constantly being redefined we don’t even speak the same language anymore.
This crap is thick and deep. It’s not just academic fruitcakes that believe this stuff. Normal people…well so-called…mostly white women…and not just leftist white women…accept most of this BS as reality and whatever they cannot make fit into the Narrative they simply ignore by writing it off as conspiracy theory. I see it every day in discussions with normal people. Mostly women but even normal men…”men”…buy into this crap. Conservative …”conservative” men…”men”. Or they at least pretend to. At best they just shut up about it because these men…”men” fear the wrath of the women. This woke stuff has wormed its way into the sociosexual structures of society. That sort of this does not get unwound through reasonable discussion.
Everyone, best behaviour.
[ Hands out ties, combs, bars of soap. ]
No-one dares say what they actually see.
Many such cases.
This. Crazy Russian Dad knows communism. He lived it. He sums it up quite well right there. He moves to America to escape the damage it had done only to have his children come under the influence and indoctrination of communist professors. Funny how he didn’t see this coming though.
He wants ALL THE VICTIMHOOD.
It’s a wretched aspiration, but it would seem that way. He’s certainly been practising for the role. And so, for instance, instead of explaining his reasoning, such as it is, or defending his bizarre and slanderous claims, at all, he can simply be a creepy, obnoxious liar. A sanctioned bedlamite.
You see, being a self-designated victim, a sacred status, he isn’t obliged to justify his behaviour in anything approaching an adult manner, however provocative and gratuitously unpleasant that behaviour may be. He can simply inflict it on others – again, with impunity.
Dress up day again?
These protesters are the ultimate useful idiots. If you call someone the bad word they will scream and throw things with no idea if the bad word really applies or what the crime is. When shutting down a campus speech they do not have a clue what the bad person has ever done or said. Like trained attack dogs, just point them at the target and say “sic-em”.
[ Pushes bar of soap to aelfheld. ]
Does that mean we may now use the Henchlesbian’s shower?
[ Rummages under bar for hamster urine. ]
Wait. Are the henchlesbians also “sinister and heavily armed”? I thought the weapons budget had mysteriously vanished during the Great Remodeling. Are we defenseless? Can we at least afford a couple long-range hamster urine squirtguns?
“trans refugee from West Virginia.”
“Country Roads, take me home, to the place I belooooong”
Heh.
Gee, I hope the poor dear gets resettled. So important to help refugees. Like my friend who was shot at escaping Iraq at night on the back of a motorcycle. At that point the smuggler told him –yeah, the last guy didn’t make it. Just the same.
Well, it is worth noting that – along with his accomplice – Mr Kalal, a student and adjunct employee, clearly feels entitled to harass and threaten polite strangers, to assault them, menace them, and to steal their possessions, all on camera. As if normal consequences – basic moral assumptions – should never apply to him. And again, the behaviour above is practised and calculated. I very much doubt it’s his first rodeo.
Whether Portland State University deems this acceptable behaviour for an employee will doubtless become clear. By all means, place your bets.
A slight glimmer of hope among the gathering gloom. It appears that Starbucks has done the right thing and fired a ‘trans’ employee, who was the store manager, for confronting a customer about ‘transphobia’ and knocking the phone out of the hands of another customer who filmed the incident.
Baby steps perhaps but better than them banning the customer and supporting the manager.
Regarding the motives and malevolence of self-styled radicals, the last item here seems relevant.
More companies need to learn the warning signs. For instance, pronouns in a job application are a red flag.
Indeed.
Spit on her. That way you won’t be “touching” her either !