For newcomers and the nostalgic, some items from the archives:
Clown Quarter Contagion.
At Birmingham University, making white staff “feel uncomfortable” is a goal.
Professor Rowe admits that no evidence of “overt prejudice” against women and minorities has been found, but he nonetheless hopes to
inflict discomfort on those deemed sufficiently pale. As if, in itself, this would be some kind of triumph. “We are mindful that previous attempts at addressing such imbalances have not been successful,” says the professor. And so, rather than revisiting his own egalitarian assumptions regarding the distribution of interest, aptitude, and talent, he and his team will be searching for witches and racial ectoplasm.
It’s not unreasonable to suppose that the role of “reverse mentor” will attract people already sympathetic to the hokum being peddled – people intrigued by the personal leverage it affords, and who may feel an ideological obligation to unearth some damning but invisible sin, fairly or otherwise, if only to validate their own conceits. Which is to say, the so-called mentors – who’ve agreed to participate in a project that by definition assumes white guilt regardless of evidence or lack thereof – seem more likely to be racially bigoted than any random member of staff.
Not Boldly, Then.
On politically-corrected space exploration.
I suppose the above is what happens when otherwise clever people are encouraged to cultivate worldviews that depart from reality, often quite dramatically, but which nonetheless convey in-group status, which they choose to value more. The implication that referring to, say, a populated outpost on the Moon as a colony or a settlement will somehow be “harmful,” resulting in distress, or the raping and pillaging of all that indigenous lunar dust, is somewhat comical and contrived; but evidently that doesn’t matter. What matters is letting your peers know just how woke, and therefore statusful, you are, at least compared to the heathen rabble.
Your Failure To Enthuse Is Violence, Apparently.
Roy G Guzmán is oppressed by the “violence” of people not liking his poetry.
Mr Guzmán, whose tweet appears below, describes himself as “a marginalised writer,” and an “artist and influencer,” thereby signalling to lower beings both his suffering and his modesty.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
BOOM
I don’t know about BOOM, but it does seem an obvious possibility, the kind of thing one might consider. I mean, given the overtly question-begging nature of the scheme – all taxpayer funded – in which the racism of white, male employees is simply assumed, and assumed to be having terrible and malevolent effects, despite, by their own admission, no evidence of either.
But clearly, some thoughts, however obvious, aren’t supposed to occur to one. Certainly not at a university, where all the clever people are.
“According to our arbitrary, question-begging standards, we’ve decided that there aren’t enough brown women on this engineering course. Therefore, every white male employee of any standing must be publicly humiliated and bombarded with the rays of our Totally Scientific Racism Detector.”
I paraphrase, but not wildly.
I may have commented at the time that Mr Guzman has omitted Vogon from his list of intersectional W’s.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/16/blade-silvano-accused-duping-girlfriend-have-sex-man/
Judging by the photo the question should clearly be why rather than what.
Oddly, given… well, everything else, what caught my eye was this:
As one does.
I laughed and hit your tip jar.
Bless you, sir. May you know the simple pleasure of new pillows.
As you might imagine, I had to check the spelling of poontang.
I read that as “failure to euthanize” and thought, oh Canada WTF now? Given what is generally accepted for reasoning and given the one-up game being played by the scumbags and being accepted by the general public, I can see that argument on the horizon.
The Durham report or wtf it’s called had me curious so I looked to see what was going on on the NeverNeverNeverEver Trumper site of Patterico. There I see a comment by one of the people that I used to argue with there. Seems he’s seen the light in how the Durham thing indicates the general collapse of our legal system and it is now finally affecting things having to do with his personal life. He was basically saying things that he argued against me about, i dunno…it was back in 2016, 2015 or so? Heh. Clown World has been clowning for quite some time and it ain’t gonna get better.
No need to shout: The merits are inarguable.
What does Patterico have to say about that? What is the general tenor of opinion in the comment threads? I haven’t visited that blog in about 10 years.
How do they know how many brown women should be interested in an engineering course?
Well, quite. It’s not unlike saying that there ought to be more people with ginger hair doing history. There are so many faulty premises, it’s hard to know where to start.
From long ago, but not entirely unrelated.
Today is IDAHOBIT Day. The big question is what isn’t an Alphabet Mafia Day these days?
Related, the detail in last panel is spot on.
Coming soon.
LOL. Would watch.
Calm yourself, madam.
[ Fetches spray bottle. ]
How Therapists Became Social Justice Warriors.
Patients who seek help become targets of abuse by “woke” therapists.
Every institution has been corrupted.
My uncle ran a small manufacturing facility (his own business) in Atlanta. He hired local people with perhaps less than a high school degree and black (and white too) and women. Some of these people were barely employable but he kept them on for their entire life. I am sure that the commies would say he exploited them, but it is curious they stayed that long if he was some sort of monster.
It is the easiest of all methods of gaining a following and power to gin up an enemy. People will unite against danger. It is also a dangerous game that leads to wars and genocide.
It should be more widely known that in Rhodesia (now another name) after they took all the land away from white farmers the economy tanked and people there now wish the white farmers could come back. It was not the land that was wealth, it was the farmers.
Funny how no one ever laments that there are not more brown women doing furnace tuneups or putting on roofs.
How Therapists Became Social Justice Warriors.
JFC. I mean literally Jesus Fucking Christ. The mental “health” profession has been nuts since at least the 1970’s, probably even before that. It could have been addressed by conservatives but “conservatives” didn’t want to dirty their clean pretty fingers. It just wasn’t the hill to die on. Nothing really is. Better to get slaughtered down in the meadow. Or over by the nice ditch they just dug for themselves. Idiots.
As for pst asking about Patterico, he and his ilk have of course adopted the media apologist excuses/mentality of picking every little nit and even inventing some when necessary. Durham’s tepid milquetoast approach to what should be done helps them there. BTW, based on limited personal professional experience, again, fuck the FBI.
I was amused to see that happy feet still lives rent free in Patterico’s head.
And the few Trump friendly people are of course required to put anything they say there couched in Trump derisive language or they won’t be taken seriously. Idiots abound.
One other thing…I see she’s in the news again for NOT being in prison. HTF that Thoranos bitch is still walking around and why anyone who supported or endorsed her isn’t flat broke and mowing my fucking lawn right now is…disturbing.
But they’re not banned? I vaguely recall Patterico banning commenters who challenged his claims, but it’s possible that was someone else.
Not enough to shut him up.
Still can’t quite believe I bothered to copy his poem’s gratuitously unobvious formatting. That’s time I won’t get back.
If ineffable.
oh I got banned there three or four times. Not generally my nature to go back. I generally leave when I see others get banned. Sometimes even people I don’t necessarily like. But his place was so silly…and easy. But as I said, I don’t think these people are genuinely keeping Trump at arm’s length, I think they like him more but they gotta pretend.
Well, Geo. Schultz is dead if that’s any consolation but that she keeps getting additional passes at the brass ring is troubling.
James T. Kirk: Effing the ineffable since Stardate. . .
Yes. Not of his own accord however…fortunately (?). Yet it was his grandson that helped break the story.
And was practically disowned for doing so. Holmes hasn’t gotten near the kicking around she deserves.
The progressive retail experience:
What’s a few billion to knowing you’re among the morally elect?
Biochemist Ian Gibbons took his own life because of the web of lies he felt trapped into. While reading the story and not knowing the details ahead of time, I thought for sure he was the one who was going to speak up and put an end to the BS. I wonder how many others were in a position to see the full reality of the BS but were afraid to say anything. Some were mentioned in the book but I’m sure there were a few more.
Comment of the Year Thus Far
A strong contender over at Tim Worstall’s gaff.
For them as can’t be bothered clicking:
The Age of the Noodly Armed LinkedIn Man is going to be brief, before he is overpowered and eaten on TikTok by militant Norfolk Separatists. But until that fated day, he dreams of turning the whole island into Greatest London.
Picture it: a vast, vibrantly smelling, 15 minute eco-slum from John O’Groats to Grenfell. With a Halal Chicken shop on every corner, and a guaranteed gender clinic place for every child-identified person.
Surely only a radical right wing extremist could object to that.
Another comment at Tim Worstall’s blog:
Trying not to what?
Off to re-education with you. Don’t struggle with the henchlesbians.
[ Stares in haughty defiance. ]
I think one of them winked at me.
Hamster urine and a squirt gun provide endless hours of amusement.
Uh oh.
A hits to shots fired ratio so low as to be considered disappointing by a current day drive by crew.
but still more historically accurate than the cleopatra monstrosity.
True. But drive-by crews don’t have people shooting back. Generally. My limited experience discussing fire fights with people who were in some and those who would know more than myself, when return fire can be expected especially in an open-ish arena where both parties just had an uh-oh moment, everyone is literally scared so shitless that their muscle movement relative to their perceptions of what they are telling their muscles to do goes significantly haywire. This adrenaline rush helps in the 100,000 whatever years of hitting your enemy with a stone or axe or spear that you may even be holding onto at the time of impact. That adrenaline is useless when all you need to do is point the weapon and apply a couple pounds of pressure to a trigger. Especially when your legs are simultaneously trying to run for cover.
WTP is completely right on this one. Data from real-life firefights with handguns show that almost every shot misses, even at comically short ranges. The odds go up some with rifles or shotguns because they’re more stable and easier to point at something accurately.
Thank you. But you don’t have to sound so damn surprised. I’ll confuse you with my wife. Not saying I’m never wrong but today’s not Thursday, is it? I didn’t think so. Either way, if you ever think I’m wrong about something, if I make you laugh or if I appear to lack self-awareness, just wait five, ten, fifteen years. You’ll see. Of course by then you’ll deny I ever said such a thing and if I did you thought of it first. And we’re back to the wife thing again.
I have a similar problem with the music I play in my car/truck. People whining “Why do you like country?”, “Why do you like Mariachi?”‘ “Why do like Italian Opera?”, “I don’t like rap”, “I don’t like European techno” (though TBH even I don’t like European Techno but I listen to it to prove to myself that I’m not a bigot. It’s like eating Kim-Chi. The Korean sauerkraut not…oh, never mind). If you don’t like my taste in music, if you find it annoying, just wait five minutes and it will annoy someone else.
It’s David’s fault. He got me watching those damn revolution lectures on Flippr.
Still, you don’t see too many gangbangers firing single-action wheel guns In a drive-by these days. Handgun aesthetics were declared dead in the big city around the time of Straight Outta Compton.
WTP, the local complaints are over Red Dirt country, soukouss, and old-school Northern soul. Like you say, wait five minutes…
Discrimination.
Cat fight.
Wait, so it turns out that awful, narcissistic people make awful, narcissistic partners? I may need to sit down.
You’re not meant to notice the contradictions. Noticing things is ‘hate’.
It seems to me that contrived idiocy – all that not noticing – is pretty much what wokeness is. To comply, to pretend, and thereby fit in, there are any number of things one mustn’t acknowledge or think about realistically, and any number of quite glaring contradictions one must studiously ignore.
As seen, for instance, here.
I mean, just how obvious does the incoherence have to be? Or is making people defer to obvious nonsense the cherry on the cake?
Answers on a postcard, please.
The editor-in-chief of Scientific American.
Ms Helmuth and her colleagues have been mentioned here before.
More than once.
And in other this-never-happens news:
And,
Because every cake needs icing.
Heh:
Captures the essence of it, I think.
The unspeakable injustice of having to pay for lunch at work or bring it from home.
The original Twitter thread is here.
I’m not sure which has a higher proportion of deranged douchebags: academia or the Atlantic magazine. (See, David? Not all the lying kooks at at the Guardian.)
May I point out that a US court has recently accepted the “fat bastard” defence when it ruled that actual women could not be offended by the sight of a naked blokes girldick if it was hidden by his (girl)gut.
The unspeakable injustice of having to pay for lunch at work or bring it from home.
It is not “for no reason” people are accurately calling you a fucking idiot.
None of this would happen if leftist academics were provided with slaves.
Ah, that white fragility. They wrote a book about it. They have classes where you can study what should and should not be ignored. All the good white peoples have taken those classes and know this. Because they ain’t ignorants. Or so I have been told by the good white peoples.
Complaining that no one would sell them rope.
You’re missing the point here. The obvious incoherence is what makes it that much harder to refute. I believe it was Goebbels who, perhaps apocryphally, said if you tell a lie big enough and bold enough people will be afraid to not believe it. See the “Trump told people to drink bleach” hoax for a telling, objective, clear cut example that even some (most?) Trump supporters try to make peace with. Hell, even Trump himself got conned into thinking he might have said it as a joke. Yet it never happened. Not even close.
They’re called adjuncts. 😐
Anti-capitalist cafe…
…sounds rather capitalist.
Besides, just what the hell is “seed money from ethically bankrupt sources”? Does that mean seed money from sources that have no ethics, or seed money from people who have no money?
I can’t understand how this business failed, these people seem so level headed.
An open admission that socialism is parasitic upon the host culture, and that socialism collapses when it has exhausted the capital accumulated by those “evil” predecessors.
Clear evidence the Japanese and Koreans are just racist.
And what could be lovelier than being stuck next to a moron whose every third word is nigga…?
Notice the American who stands up to him backs down when this thing says he has 1000 subscribers and he makes money from this? American says “Cool”. Because of course. I call him just American because I want to believe a real Texan would have smack him upside the head and chased him off the train. Meh. Real Texans, so called, are mostly pussies now anyway. Nevermind.
Writ small:
They’re working on it.
ICYMI, another Netflix documentary drops, as the kids say.
[ Sound of potatoes being parboiled. ]
Cleopatra: these guys are amateurs. Oliver Stone made the movie JFK which was a big distortion of history, but he didn’t call it a documentary—but people believed it to be one. Same with Braveheart (for example, the Scots did not wear kilts back then). They were so up front about their propaganda that they missed their big chance to pervert history.
Something unlocked in his brain.
‘Unlocked’? ‘Rapid unscheduled disassembly’ seems more apt.
The SNP has a lot to answer for.
I have read that repeated exposure can slowly change people’s attitudes. Do not claim to be knowledgeable, though.
If your idea of womanhood, of some womanly essence, comes from rather niche pornography, then I think it’s fair to say something is probably amiss. If you poke through Wikipedia, you’ll see that Mr Wachowski, like his brother – now ersatz sister – had a somewhat fringe upbringing and a, shall we say, complicated romantic history. Complicated further by Wikipedia’s retroactive re-gendering, and which refers to him – a man named Andy – as she throughout.
In that regard…and in a Truman Show sense, near as I can tell I’ve never seen anyone else point this out but…in Bull Durham Kevin Costner’s character goes into a long, and I think beautiful rant about the things he believes. One of those being opening presents on Christmas morning not Christmas Eve…but to my point one other being that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Now this was only three years before he stars as the main character, conspiracy mongering character, in JFK. All “back and to the left” and shit.
Yes, I get that he’s just a stupid actor who is willing to be paid to say anything his masters tell him to say. I’m just saying it’s an interesting incongruity that a society raised on infinite introspection and where making connections between things is viewed (not quite justifiably) as some sign of significant intelligence would (pretend to?) not notice this.
I must be slow. “Seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources” Huh?
But of course he means “from sources which expect a return on capital invested” , OBVIOUSLY an unethical stance for any funder to hold.
Just like “generational wealth” == rich and indulgent (or guilt-ridden) parents.
So, “sustainable” is no longer a goal?
(Yesterday I abandoned a “discussion” on Reddit with a person who insisted that contracting for interest on debt was immoral and should be “eliminated”. All my attempts to get it to think about long-term consequences were rebuffed as “attempts to avoid the issue.” )
Also, the SNP…WTF is with those guys? By the name they sound like a right-wing, close to fascist party. I mean Scottish National Party. Yet they oppose Brexit. They loooves their NHS. But they want out of the UK. Because…? I’m afraid that’s about all I know because for my personal sanity (long gone but I like to pretend) I don’t want to know. That Flippr guy could have a field day with British history in this regard. Probably has, I just haven’t checked yet. Because rabbit hole.
Also…
Because she just bloody well looks like an ‘Amy’. She wouldn’t be a Willy or a Sam.
Also, ‘pleaded’. SNP indeed…
Let me know if this gets annoying and I’ll see what I can do about it.
Laura Helmuth has presumably tired of blocking people.
As of today only her acolytes are permitted to post replies.
As noted in an earlier thread,
She’s a piece of work. Among other things.
TV had news story about raid on 4 massage parlors in the next town. All chinese girls. Prostitution–which people don’t care much about so they played up “human trafficking. The evidence? Some of the girls had fake ID. ahahhaha seriously at a time when 5 million illegals have come across the US border since Biden took office? Fake ID? It is like grade inflation–virtue inflation.
TV had news story about raid on 4 massage parlors in the next town.
In related news, a bank, situated in a retail plaza below a massage parlour which was a front for prostitution, recently went out of business. When asked for a reason why the bank had to close it doors, the manager replied “too much fµçking overhead.”
[ ba dum tsss ]
I’m here for the rest of the week. Don’t forget to tip your server.
[ On the wall, a painting of poker-playing dogs slides aside. The tip of a blowpipe emerges. ]
He is so confident and comfortable in who he is he has a total meltdown over his family using proper pronouns and “to allow that to go down”.
Always remember, “trans” women are women, and we know this because to be a “trans” woman you have to be a man.
What did it think should replace interest? [ Shakes head. ]
An effeminate man pretending to be a woman – i.e., misgendering himself – and then scolding his parents for not playing along perfectly, for days, as if their memory of their own son should simply be erased, sounds pretty disrespectful too.
There are people who have no sex lives outside of pornography and prostitution, in which case it seems likely that their thinking will be slowly distorted by the milieus they inhabit.
Yesterday I abandoned a “discussion” on Reddit with a person who insisted that contracting for interest on debt was immoral and should be “eliminated”.
The only argument that *might* work is to point out that we pay to rent cars or housing, so why not pay to rent money?
Careful wher you use it, though. Probably wouldn’t work with the ‘housing is a right’ crowd.
Who ever would have thought vegetarianism and veganism might have drawbacks?
Complicated further by Wikipedia’s retroactive re-gendering, and which refers to him – a man named Andy – as she throughout.
That big bald bloke is trans now? Ye flipping gods. By the time I got to wikipedia article they’d called him Lilly throughout, to go with the she, and now they’re the watchkowski sisters I guess. It’s getting beyond ridiculous.
“Interest on debt is immoral”
Near as I could understand, their position was that loans could be made, but requesting interest was immoral because the lender was demanding payment for no value. The lender is, you see, just sitting on their butt, contributing nothing, raking in money.
It was Reddit, so they were probably between 16 and 22, never had a job in a profitable enterprise, never met a payroll, never did maintenance on a property, etc.
Their ignorance, which I had to infer, did not bother me. It was their absolute refusal to engage in the discussion, that was the disappointment. I answered their questions, but they answered no questions. Indeed, my asking them was apparently evidence of my immorality.
At least I wasn’t accused of racism.
Time wasted.
Once you pop you can’t stop.
interest is immoral: the anarchist cafe used some source of funds to open the store and bought goods and sold goods and paid rent and paid staff…all of this is capitalism.
But actually, “capitalism” is the wrong word. It implies rich people somewhere with “capital” vs the “workers”–ie the communist view. In the real world, individuals open a small business all the time and work there and have all their money tied up in it. It is called “business” or “enterprise”.
Don’t forget all the 40- and 50-year-old idiots. Lord knows I have known more than a few.
Nope. You engaged in a noble endeavor. Time wasted is every minute spent being afraid or reluctant to engage. They think they know everything because they only hear onsey twosey responses that they can dismiss. If enough people engaged with them directly it would eventually have an impact. You were the Man In The Arena. And God bless you for it.
Almost as noble as helicopter pilot.
Never forget that there are other people reading that thread, and they may be very persuadable.