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.
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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
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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.