For newcomers and the nostalgic, some items from the archives:
Pantomime.
Sociology lecturer wants you to be disconcerted by his stockings.
Dr Cremin doesn’t seem to grasp, or isn’t willing to admit, that his craving for public transgression – to, as he puts it, “sow gender confusion in kids” – by which he means young people over whom he has leverage – reveals quite a lot about his character. And his fitness to teach.
I hate to sound prim, but if I were – God help me – a sociology student, I doubt I’d be reassured by the fact that my lecturer felt entitled to use the classroom as a venue for his transvestite fetish. It does rather suggest a pathological level of self-involvement and raises a suspicion that students may find themselves playing captive audience to – or being reluctant participants in – some personal psychodrama. A kind of power game. Some variation of, “I can do this, and you can’t stop me without being accused of bigotry.”
Let’s Do That Thing That Doesn’t Work.
In which resentful narcissists give really bad advice.
And so, we find a seemingly endless parade of preening, pretentious dolts telling us that poverty, and staying in poverty, never has anything to do with bad choices, including the choices that they themselves encourage. As, for instance, when telling us, emphatically, that “a couple cannot raise a child better than one [person] can.” And that the “diffusion” of the family unit – which is to say, absent fathers, hardship, and subsequent dependence on the state – “is one of the most exciting things to happen to the American social pattern since sexual liberation.”
Yes, divorce, estrangement, and sudden-onset poverty. It’s all terribly exciting.
The Bedlamite Solution.
He’s a campus counsellor and he’s here to help.
When not using the word “whiteness” as a modish pejorative, and “questioning Eurocentric ideas surrounding mental health,” Mr Soto plans to “challenge the historically-dominant whiteness” of the campus and thereby “create a more open environment for students.” This heavenly state of openness and resurgent mental wellbeing will be rendered upon the Earth by telling students at an upscale and statusful liberal arts college how oppressed they are and by invoking racial conspiracy theories, the aforementioned “whiteness” and “white supremacy,” as the root of all distress.
Readers will recall that Middlebury College is where students suitably gorged on “inclusivity” and “social justice” display their righteousness and mental stability by physically menacing elderly scholars, trying to trample them underfoot, and assaulting female staff, such that they require a hospital visit and, subsequently, a neck brace.
Only Doing It For The Betterment Of Us All.
Come, dip a toe in the world of “queer studies.”
Mr Andersson tells us that during three months of, er, research, and 30 notebook entries, his mind often wandered to thoughts of other gentlemen doing much the same thing with the same publications, including the copies he’d acquired second-hand. This is described as a “feeling of intimacy.” Dozing off afterwards is described as “self-care,” which is apparently important. And we’re informed that the Cellophane wrappers of his pornography collection “signalled luxury and investment in myself.”
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Blimey, look below. I see buttons.
This. But people accept those responses. Provided that they come from the kind of people who are trying to tear down western civilization. I believe someone upthread mentioned self-hatred. People accept these sort of excuses because deep down inside, they hate western civilization as an extension of hating themselves. This is a big chunk IMNSHO of the problem. Where/why so much of this? Can it all be virtue signaling in the service of status climbing? I would submit that politeness is a big part of the problem. It is considered rude to point out to these bloody morons that they are in fact bloody morons. You don’t even have to be rude in pointing it out as they will call out any conflict with their pointless points as being rude. People, conservative people have waited way too long in dismissing unfounded accusations of racism. They need to get some backbone in the “rudeness” department as well.
“I am ashamed that I am better off than most of the world’s people.”
“My society is not absolutely perfect. Therefore I hate it and want it to die.”
“I have a depraved lust for illegitimate power and wealth and status. I choose ideologies that justify this lust.”
Mostly ineffective: Showing evidence that one is not racist.
Better tactic: Aggressively attack the accuser, showing that the accuser is a malevolent liar. Make it all about the accuser’s evil nature.
Depending on how aggressive the accuser is, yes. But once attacked/accused you have every right to push back harder. This “proportional response” BS is just that. BS. When such accusations come out of the blue, they themselves are disproportional responses to your rational position and peaceful existence. This Gandhi crap about making the whole world blind is another pile BS. An eye for an eye leaves two guys with one eye and something serious to think about.
That there is no ‘climate crisis’ has no effect, regrettably; fantasy being ever so exciting compared to the humdrum of daily life.
[ Discovers new-found admiration for Dutchmen of yore ]
We are into the fifth or sixth generation of functional illiterates being the main product of schools.
…people who accepted being told that standing up for their ideas, let alone themselves, was somehow wrong.
Oh, well played, sir.
Acceptance or not knowing differently?
Granted, a little of both. But it should be natural instinct to stand up for your own rights. My dog even seems to feel that way. Acceptance of allowing those rights to be taken away is a learned, “civilizing” thing that was allowed to go way too far.
This ties in to my Dark Triad/Dark Tetrad comment: A refusal (or inability) to adhere to social conventions of reciprocity correlates with the psychopathic pillar of the Dark Triad. And considering that even lab rats understand reciprocity, this is a pretty fundamental failing.