From the comments, some items you may have missed. We’ll kick things off with some kicking off, care of commenter Mr Farnsworth M Muldoon:
Curious how when you hear of yet another educator being intolerant, childish, or wildly unhinged, you don’t need to ask what their politics might be.
Speaking of unhinged:
After many months of refusing to confirm what so many people already suspected, Ron DeSantis will reportedly announce on Wednesday that he is running for president. And that’s not all: He is said to be planning to formally jump into the 2024 race during a conversation on Twitter with Elon Musk, because apparently other neo-Nazi sympathizers weren’t available.
When you get your news from Vanity Fair.
Found via Flappr.
And with near-telepathic simultaneity:
You see, Twitter has “fully assumed the role of a far-right platform.” “It is,” says The Atlantic, “accurate to call [Elon Musk] a far-right activist.”
Remember, dear readers, always respect the media.
Oh, and because I do like quoting myself, we revisited the moral pretensions of Guardian columnist Zoe Williams:
According to Zoe, we should be “unstigmatising,” which is to say, non-judgmental. A result of which is that empathy, or feigned empathy, is shifted from the working class victim of crime and antisocial behaviour to the working class perpetrator of crime and antisocial behaviour, on grounds that the thug or criminal is in some way being oppressed and, unlike their neighbours, being made to misbehave.
Presumably Ms Williams’ own neighbours have little in common with, say, the delightful Stuart Murgatroyd, a father of twelve who has never worked and boasts an extensive criminal record, not least for robbing the elderly in graveyards, and whose attempt to challenge an antisocial behaviour order was cut short at the very last minute due to him being arrested for assaulting the mother of his children, herself a convicted getaway driver, on the steps of the courthouse.
And I suspect our infinitely compassionate Guardianista has yet to experience an all-night eleven-hour rave being hosted next door, which would doubtless give her an opportunity to practise that non-judgmental piety.
See? If you poke about, you never know what you’ll find.
I bet we’ll see more versions of the same article by tomorrow.
They only hire the brightest and best!
When not shrieking abuse at polite students and being physically aggressive towards them, and when not chasing people down the street while brandishing a machete, as one does, Ms Rodriguez likes to “decolonise” things. Being, as she is a self-styled “Black Marxist.”
Oh, and her artwork, our educator’s field of expertise, is every bit as accomplished as one would expect.
I’m disappointed. I read the story in The Atlantic, and I nearly got a buzzword bingo blackout, but they forgot to use the words “rage farming” and “Christofacist.”
From Christopher Hitchens to this shit. Progress!
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/17/elon-musk-defends-soros-attack-rejects-supremacy-claims-in-wild-cnbc-interview/
I see your Atlantic and raise you a Salon.
Their desperate insistence towards the end that the Texas shooter, Mauricio Garcia, was a white suprematist is almost pitiful.
“On this issue at least, the evidence appears overwhelming. The AP reported last week that Texas Department of Public Safety regional director Hank Sibley said at a news conference, describing Garcia, “We do know he had neo-Nazi ideation. He had patches. He had tattoos.”
You tell ‘em Hank!
Meanwhile in real fascism, the governor of North Carolina declares a “state of emergency” because he doesn’t like the legislation being passed in his state’s, you know, legislative body. Though of course the state of emergency isn’t really meant to be understood as a real state if emergency except in so far as we want you to think of it as a state of emergency but since we say it’s not really, really a state of emergency then it’s not. Don’t get all worked up about it. We won’t even mention it on the governor’s wiki page. That would be silly. So there.
Was it here or somewhere else, maybe Insty, that we were discussing Noam Chomsky and his certain language talents. I think it probably was Insty…but whatever.
Are they doing affirmative action for nutters now?
And another thing that f’n pisses me off that doesn’t get called out by anyone..except me every few years when I see it one too many times and get pissed about it again…this sort of shiite..
The part “according to the Washington Post” part should be at the bloody front of the sentence if one is expected to be attempting honest communication. Putting the qualified “conclusion” in front of the qualifier is mind fuck bullshit. This is Propaganda 101. Yet nobody, conservatives or otherwise, says anything. Chomsky just smiles.
If you poke through the tags academia and pronouns or else, you’ll see that the supply of bedlamite educators seems all but inexhaustible. Such that one might indeed wonder whether schools and universities, those fiefdoms of the left, are actively favouring the psychologically marginal.
Including bedlamites who wish to inflict harm on the children in their care.
It’s easy to find violently unhinged professors, because being a political fanatic is now a job requirement in academia.
Speaking of the unhinged, from Queensland, scroll through the tale of this chap who,
Because that is the important thing, of course, not at all getting the kid some nourishment (BTW, I think he is assuming the kid’s “gender”).
Yes.
Also for people of low intelligence.
Equity, baby.
Or, equality of outcome regardless of inputs. Inputs including diligence, probity, cognitive wherewithal. Things of that kind.
Twitter is far right because Musk defending free speech is just what Hitler would have done. See? Totally logical.
Lovely people, fighting for their “rights”.
You can’t tell the players without a score card. Dime store van Gogh discusses his spouse’s partner and his spouse’s patrner’s partner.
“It’s Radio, radio, radio, radioactive…”
Ah, the odd earworms that pop up, triggered by headlines.
Oh. “Interactive”. Never mind.
And ladies, how could you object to having these piss-hurling misfits in your bathrooms and changing rooms?
The Left has been undermining standards for a century based on critical theory (no truth exists, everything is just discourses, standards reflect the ruling elite bias, all cultures are equal, blah blah blah). One of the consequences of lowering standards in college is that hiring has become based on popularity and politics.
That.
Band name.
Also… missus’ email is filling with “click here to skip father’s day ads”, as that’s… something, along with a well known pet supply co. pushing “pride” gear for your pet.
The west is indeed whimpering out…
They have been for some time. How else to explain the state of academia?
Isn’t that a felony? And yet it doesn’t get treated as such when done by leftists.
Mud wrestling for Gaea?
As far as one can tell those two are quite fit by the usual standards – by which I mean at least they’re clearly recognisable as women. Anyway who doesn’t like mud wrestling?
(Moves towards exit. Too late, the henchlesbians are surprisingly quick on their doc martens).
Well, TBF and we must always be fair, they were doing similar with Mother’s Day ads and I saw quite a few mothers saying it was a good thing.
Oil is better. It’s cleaner. And it comes in fabulous scents.
Speaking of which, I was anticipating a throw down twixt Meagan Kelley and ..I believe Charlize Theron or wtf she’s called. I coulda swore I put down a deposit on tickets. I must have the receipt somewheres…
“Anyway who doesn’t like mud wrestling?”
*starts searching for John Candy in Stripes*
It always makes me laugh to see people accusing Twitter of being a far right racist site that is out to suppress trans and other rights…on Twitter. Elon: he’s doing authoritarianism wrong.
I’ve lost track of the number of liberals who have called me a fascist for wanting government to be smaller and less powerful: Wanting government to be answerable to the citizens rather than authoritarian, and wanting greater limits on the scope of government “management” of our lives (and especially wanting to curtail the ability of unelected bureaucrats to make law) made me, yes, a fascist.
Mud wrestling: I assume they are blaming flooding in Venice on climate change. Venice, a sinking city built on mud. And yes, they are certainly better looking than the average naked protester.
“fascist” –anyone who opposes the grand new plan for us. We all must update our dictionaries.
Puts me in mind of Robt. Benchley’s telegram on arriving in Venice:
I assume they are blaming flooding in Venice on climate change.
Also blamed on climate hysteria – Venice dry canals.
“Attention, citizens! Anticitizen Musk is an unperson. Anticitizen Musk has always been an unperson. Treat him accordingly.”
Not unrelated, Jeff Goldstein, here:
There’s more at the link.
And George Zimmerman was demonstrably not a racist.
Jeff Goldstein: note that the consequence of the lies he lists were riots (even the Hands UP lie) that cost lives and billions of dollars. And yet they don’t feel bad in the least.
Media lies? Noooo…
Let’s see – Tet? JFK in Dallas? The NYT and Duranty?
Yeah, not new. Bummer, there.
“Attention, citizens! Anticitizen Musk is an unperson. Anticitizen Musk has always been an unperson. Treat him accordingly.”
I feel a two minutes hate coming on.
Again, the left shows us how they view 1984 and Brave New World as “How To” books
Time to bring this to life again, it was originally posted on a blog by Night Jack, a policeman, in April 2008. He one the Orwell prize for his blog and was immediately grassed up by the Times newspaper which revealed his real name. He was promptly disciplined by the police hierarchy, presumably for wring the truth, and forced to cease publishing the blog.
The article was probably the cause of more hyperventilation and fits of the vapours by the Islington Tendency then any other and was denounced by Penny Red.
Younger readers might not believe this but this was actually a time when some cops tried to do their jobs and behaved honestly. Save a copy of this and post it at intervals.
The Evil Poor
Firstly apologies for the blatantly sensationalist and sweeping title of the post. It’s just that I could think of no better way to put it.
Throughout the years there have always been chroniclers and documenters of the worst of London life. In 1751 William Hogarth shone light into the dark corners with his studies of Gin Lane. He set down the worst behaviour of the indolent poor by drawing them sprawled, thieving, prostituted, numbed even to the suffering of their own children. His was a very urban decay caused by alcohol, peopled by characters devoid of the ability or ambition to climb from the gutter. Nearly 90 years later in 1837 Charles Dickens was writing vividly about the mores of the workhouse society. He knew there were packs of feral children in thrall both to the malign father figure of Fagin and the local gangster heavy Bill Sykes. Sykes seems to have become a role model for modern times in that he came complete with devil dog and long suffering battered other half. If you were a London centric person looking at your city today, you might think that there is nothing new under the sun and that nothing has changed.
For London you would be right but this phenomenon of the evil poor has spread so that not a town in England does not have it’s unfair share of Kappa clad, drugged up, workshy, wasters swaggering through the town centre streets with a can of lager in the one hand and a bull mastiff on a string in the other. They aren’t out looking for a job or a chance in life let alone a wash. They are just looking to do you over, nick your stuff, sell you stolen stuff and drugs, take the next drugs and collect the next dole. The attendant girls aren’t much better, shrieking complicit harpies who will all end up looking grey and faded round the edges, kicking dirty nappies out of the way to feed the dog in the kitchen of their two bedroom basic box flat on the grim estate where everything has been broken if it can’t be stolen.
There has been talk and much naiveté about respect and a “respect agenda”. Even in my nick the silly posters have gone up saying “Give Respect – Get Respect.” I think of it as the algebra of the willfully uninformed. There is a simple problem with this stupid, stupid (repeat stupid) slogan. What you and I mean by respect and what Adibok boy means by it are not the same. His respect means “Act like you are scared when I am around. Do what I say because my wants come first every time. If you don’t agree, if you don’t do what I say, then that is disrespect and you won’t like me if I feel disrespected” This is respect as a loaded gun with a hair trigger pointed at your head by a youth high on drugs, booze and ego. Now if you really want me as an officer to give respect to someone that thinks like that, I am happy to do so, but it will be on his or her terms only. There is no respect as I understand it to be given to me or you by the KappaMassiv. They just want to get high, shag your 14 year old daughter until she is pregnant and nick your stuff. Sorry if that’s a bit bleak but it’s a lot true.
This common debasement of our social currency so that the worst of metropolitan life is cloned everywhere is commented on recently by Judges
Judge Russell sentencing in the Sophie Lancaster murder yesterday said said that the case raised “serious questions about the sort of society which exists in this country at the start of a new millennium which was heralded with such optimism.”
Judge Coleridge in his recent Brighton speech said “We are experiencing a period of family meltdown whose effects will be as catastrophic as the meltdown of the ice caps,”
We, the Police are currently responding with the Dock Greenism of Neighbourhood Policing and Community Focus as if turning back our policing methods 50 years will return society to the state of the 1950′s with us. That isn’t going to happen because we are not a big enough lever to move society and we have never been a catalyst. We can only help by keeping the peace, enforcing the law and protecting life and property.
The evil poor are now with us everywhere. So how are the rest of you planning to deal with them?
Never heard of it, so thank you very much!
The blog has a Wikipedia page.
This is the blog’s URL.
It is archived at the Wayback Machine. Thank goodness.
I wonder what happened to the Times reporter who used computer hacking to expose the identify of the blogger. Nothing good, I hope.
My first randomly chosen date in the Wayback Machine yielded this post from 23 Jan 09:
Overs23Jan09
And I wonder, How long can I delay?
We’re just a habit Like saccharin.
And I’m habitually feelin’ kinda blue.
But each time I try on the thought of leaving you,
I stop…I stop and think it over.
Paul Simon “Overs”
You will no doubt have noticed that the gaps between posts have been getting longer as the Sergeants exams approach. Sure enough between the studying and some mildly beserk workloads, blogging has come in a distant 4th, maybe 5th in my life. That’s not all though. As I read back over the 11 months I have been posting here, there really isn’t much that I have not got off my chest. Should there be any doubt….
In March, I expect to be back with free times two or three days in each week providing an opportunity to blog. I don’t know if I can be as prolific. I am definitely running out of “Only 24 hrs” stories that will not clearly identify me. I expect that between the Home Office, The Law Society, MiniJust, Social Workers and the Bar Council, there will be sufficient new idiocies for me to rail against.
Mrs Night thinks I should write a work of pure fiction in a police procedural vein. Maybe that’s what I should do and publish it chapter at a time on-line. I don’t know.
Anyway, over the next month or so I am sure there will be some sporadic posting but mostly, my head will be in the books.
Take care everyone
NJ
(end quote)
I can see why a Times reporter would have disliked this blogger and wanted to expose him by any means possible.
It was a wonderfully provocative title. I vaguely recall the competitive disapproval among several middle-class lefty bloggers at the time. Much tutting and contortion. Night Jack and other behind-the-scenes police bloggers – Inspector Gadget, CoppersBlog, etc – were very much disdained by Our Betters, whose own experience of criminal predation and antisocial behaviour was either very limited indeed or entirely theoretical.
They were generally annoyed by the idea that factors other than one’s economic situation – one’s “social conditions” – might determine how badly one behaves, and how often, and how gleefully. As if a person’s character, their psychology, had no role to play at all. As if even considering the possibility were scandalous.
And with the implication that one shouldn’t discern a difference between that nice Mrs Wilson, who doesn’t have much but is always friendly and obliging, and the laughing ferals who trashed her tiny flat, nicked her pension, and pissed all over her carpets and furniture.
Again,
And again,
It’s remarkable just how often this manoeuvre, or some variation of it, is performed. By those who deem themselves sophisticated.
I have also posted this on Samizdata but either it’s a bit quiet over there or they don’t agree.
The families of the boys paid tribute to the two “best friends” and said they were not only loved by their relatives, but also by the community.
In a statement, Harvey’s family said he “lived life to the full, had a big heart and truly cared”.
Kyrees’ family also released a tribute and said he was a “loving, caring and handsome young man”.
“They both had so many friends and were very well liked doing many things together, having fun and laughs”, they added.
In Cardiff they have clearly been taking note of what happens over the pond. The instant rioting, which thankfully has yet to be described by our media as mostly peaceful, is a chilling portent of a society at the point of rejecting the rule of law. While Rome (Cardiff) burns our bien pensant fiddle (fulminate at the possibility that the police might have been doing their job for once).
For those unaware of the story this is two young men aged 15 & 16 who lost their lives in a crash after travelling at speed without helmets on a single dirt bike/e bike through the streets and “escape routes” of Cardiff in an attempt to avoid the pursuing police for reasons which will probably never be made clear. The resulting rioting, while not up to Ferguson standards, was still considerable, remorseless and self-righteous. Our media is naturally focused on the police action but managed to find time to illustrate their coverage with Trayvon Martin style photos of the young men which appear to have been taken while aged approximately 7 or 8. .
Similar comments were made, and more importantly reported, a few years back by the large family of the career-criminal traveller who was killed in the process of committing robbery when his own screwdriver was turned against him in a struggle. One of the numerous wreaths included the words “he was too good for this world”.
@John: it’s unfortunate for the parents that the release of family photos showing apple-cheeked small children was rather overshadowed by the ‘Mail’ harvesting more recent photos from their social media showing them as sullen young thugs scowling, smoking and flashing gang signs…
Indeed.
A real investigative journalist wouldn’t just stop at photos when there is so much more to be learned including how the expensive (I’ve seen figures of £4k quoted) bike was financed and in whose name was it purchased. Either the boys had extremely generous parents or else they’d saved a shedload from their paper rounds.
Nor would they stop at photos provided by the family. Nor would they uncritically accept photos that were clearly so out-of-date.
But the news biz is now dominated by malevolent propagandists and ideologues.
Evil poor: there have always been such anti-social elements and bums, even in ancient times. However, giving out tons of welfare enables their numbers to grow massively. Young people who would have been forced to get a job in spite of their wishes can now mooch off society and indulge their worst nature. Squishy policing makes it worse also. This is a problem that society itself has created in the name of compassion and kindness. And conservatives have warned about it for 70 yrs.
I have a long list of liberals who are now in their 60’s and 70’s who have not learned a damned thing since I knew them in their teens and twenties. Not only have they not learned anything, they continue to condemn anyone who points out reality as “racist” or “fascist” etc.
So do I.
Not since the Wolfman or Dr. Jekyll have I seen so astounding a transformation.
The poor: Marxism views the poor as a fixed lump, the proletariat. The Left follows that tradition. You are part of the poor class categorically. But in reality, most people are poor when young and work their way up (if they allow themselves to) over time. For most people, their highest income and greatest wealth is just before retirement. When I was 20 and briefly dropped out of college, I was “poor” but since I didn’t even imagine anyone would give me free money, I got jobs in demolition and then painting. My friend and I painted houses for a year and were always busy. A group of my friends were hippies and did not want to give up their casual lifestyle and long hair so 5 of them opened a Volkswagon repair shop. But if you view the poor as a fixed class, then you start giving able-bodied people money for no reason and it kills incentives to work.
Ms Jekyll and Ms Hyde.
Is it hateful to point out that her voice remains the same throughout?
Ditto posture and mannerisms. She really needs to work on that Elliot Page shtick which is a pretty low bar anyway.
Found farther down in the replies:
Women’s group forced to flee public meeting room to escape creepy trans critters.
For many years I “lived poor” in order to save for retirement and hedge against the possibility of extended illness. I gave up many pleasures in order to provide for a secure retirement. But my feckless leftist “friends” who failed to live frugally have told me that people like me should be subjected to confiscatory taxes to fund their failure to save for retirement.
“I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list, of society offenders who never would be missed…”
Or, “Dysmorphic men – i.e., men with a high probability of having a Cluster B personality disorder – behave as men with Cluster B personality disorders very often behave.”
I have encountered men exhibiting such behavior although without any special gender pronouns.
Recall the folk tale of the man who gave strange names to everyday things: “You must not call it ‘fire’. You must call it ‘hot cockalorum’.”
Those men made it extremely difficult to interact with them because they would refuse to use ordinary English and would demand that others learn their arcane (and obfuscatory) jargon.
I first heard that tale at a very young age, read by Danny Kaye. The “woke” fanatics may eventually get around to cancelling that story as being subversive to their goals.
Meanwhile, in Sheffield.
Congratulations to George Floyd: 3 years drug- and crime-free.
Also Michael Brown, crime-free for almost 9 years.
And Trayvon Martin: over 11 years without a crime.
…….or a purple drank.
[ Does last-minute check of links in tomorrow’s Ephemera, clicks schedule, considers a beer. ]
Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto – you’re beautiful!
Dime store van Gogh
Forgotten Montreal band name.
empathy, or feigned empathy, is shifted from the working class victim of crime and antisocial behaviour to the working class perpetrator of crime
Concurrence but one dissent: we oughta differentiate between the working class and the criminal class. (The Victorian/Edwardian term “respectable working class” does this neatly.) Or as Oscar once said, work is the curse of the drinking classes.
It’s remarkable just how often this manoeuvre, or some variation of it, is performed. By those who deem themselves sophisticated.
I’d forgotten that post but it speaks volumes about the Zoe Williams mindset. (Not to mention seeing Steveageddon, dicentra, NikW, and the like…where are they now?) Between that and the destruction of the garden I’m reminded of that great reflection on the Liberian coup by Theodore Dalrymple.
When I become Lord Vetinari, they will be forced to live with those criminals.
For some reason, I’m reminded of Sheffield, City on the Move from the beginning of The Full Monty.
The Dalrymple piece is very good. Thanks for that.
It touches on, among other things, something I said a few days ago, regarding Ms Williams, Mr Matthews, and their likeminded peers. That they seem oblivious to just how degenerate the degenerate can be, and to why this is so. That, or they feign an obliviousness for the sake of their own self-flattering conceits, which is scarcely an improvement.