His Creative Temperament
A Raleigh, North Carolina, chef who rose to prominence after attempting to have a white woman “cancelled” for “culturally appropriating” Japanese cuisine is now facing charges of domestic violence. Eric Rivera, who waged a digital war against an Aussie sushi restauranteur he labelled a “coloniser,” has been arrested for misdemeanour domestic violence, assault on a female, and assault by strangulation.
Setting aside the small matter of, er, assault and strangulation, readers may wish to ponder the notion, advanced by Mr Rivera and his numerous supporters, that white people, especially white people with blonde hair, shouldn’t be allowed to serve Japanese food.
At which point, I suppose I should mention this:
it was learned that [Rivera] was preparing Japanese food as a Puerto Rican man at his Japanese-inspired bar.
A shocking twist, I know. I do hope you were sitting down.
When not harassing people for having the wrong colour skin, and when not strangling women, Mr Rivera spends quite a lot of time blocking those who dare to quote his own social media statements.
[ Muses upon the merits of the Second Amendment and the Castle Doctrine. ]
You want to make a bit of money?
One bullet would have saved the airline tens of thousands of dollars and saved society from all his future crimes.
The result of an open borders policy which nobody could have anticipated. /sarcasm
I laughed and I’m not sorry: Black “abolish the police” group struggles with whether or not to notify law enforcement when founder embezzles their funds.
Wonder what prison Kier Stürmer is going to stuff this young lady in.
Well this is stupid, did they actually think anyone would be offended?
That’s an old counter-woke meme or prank or something, from the early 2000’s. I vaguely recall something about “the fighting caucasians” to poke fun at objections to team names referencing Indians and Indian tribes.
I vaguely recall something about “the fighting caucasians” …
“The Fighting Whities” of the U of Northern Colorado. Indian students changed the name of a team to show them honkies what it was like. Of course wypipo weren’t offended and team stuff sold like buffalo humps.
The big difference is, unlike the ‘Caucasians” shirt, the “Fightin’ Whities” was well done.
Having a self-deprecating sense of humor is rayciss. Only whitey-white-whities do it.
Nobody names their teams after wypipo. Especially not:
— Yankees
— Vikings
— Celtics
— Cowboys
— Texans
— 49ers
— Buccaneers
— Knickerbockers
— Metropolitans
— Brewers
— Packers
— Dodgers
— Royals
— Twins
— Mariners
— Rangers
— Saints
— Steelers
— Patriots
— Bills
— Trailblazers
— Kings
— Warriors
— Mavericks
— Cavaliers
— Pacers
— 76ers
— Nets
Yeah, some aren’t white-specific. Close enough. I mean, “Yankees” is a slur.
One of the consequences of massive, indiscriminate immigration is that it radically alters the general mood of those on whom this demographic transformation is being imposed.
Yes, in my country it’s government policy imposed on a generation unprepared to deal with it. They’ve been trained to see self-interest as privilege. Those effected are not all white either.
Sorry – but I’m going to need proof of that – because what I mostly see from you is “I told you all to say “no” but you weren’t smart enough to listen. So you should genuflect before my early conservative prescience.”
Show me a citation, ease off, or shut the fuck up.
(and I prefer door number three, Monty)
Show me a citation, ease off, or shut the fuck up.
There’s gonna be a gum fight.
Doubtless there are progressives who would regard the ‘gracious host’ attitude as wickedly hierarchical and ‘othering’, or even racist. But I suspect it’s how quite a few people process a sudden influx of newcomers, regardless of the gasping of lefties. I suspect that something along those lines is a necessary precondition of any subsequent coexistence. A social lubricant.
And were I to relocate to, say, South Korea, I think I would feel much like a guest – and feel a corresponding obligation to be on my best behaviour. Possibly on an indefinite basis. I very much doubt I’d feel entitled to disregard queueing norms, or to shit on the doorsteps of the indigenous.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own. Comments that-a-way.
I recognize that one, too! I think Instapundit linked to both, but forget all details and google search yields no hits.
Not to mention such norms as proper tone of voice, forms of greeting, social distancing, appropriate and inappropriate topics of conversation between strangers, business acquaintances, casual social meetings, etc, etc. Showing contempt for the customs of the host country is the mark of a psychopath, and and the more aggressive the contempt the more forceful should be the expulsion.
Another variation, also fun:
Well this is stupid, did they actually think anyone would be offended?
Forgot to mention: That is a very recent version of what I saw years ago. What I first saw looked much more like this.
In the South it’s considered an epithet.
Yes. Because being the huge and glorious public figure that I am, there is of course clear and convincing evidence available. And of course, if there is not, especially going back f*** decades, it didn’t happen. What do you want me to do? Produce the managers, HR reps, co-workers, pastors, teachers, etc. that I have raised these issues with? Tell me what would satisfy you? Would these things need to be notarized? Sworn statements by a priest or a nun?
Hell, I even admit that I was sucked in by much of this idiocy myself. Just to get along with life that has zero to do with politics. Perhaps I struck a nerve. If you had been pushing back on this idiocy over the last several decades, if you had even gone so far as to raise it with your doctor, your good, good, conservative Presbyterian doctor, only to be told, oh you mustn’t concern yourself about these things, then you might have some understanding of the frustration. Why, these things have ways of just working out for themselves! It’s magic or Jesus or something!
David, you posted many years ago about a Jane Elliot who was one of these earlier diversity training sessions. I looked her up but the videos seem to have disappeared. I will try to find your original post on this but might you know if those videos are out there somewhere else?
Here you go….of course as I said, the videos are not available but this is the sort of thing that I went through.
https://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2009/10/i-sense-a-malign-presence-.html
My ‘nic back then was KRW. It was at about that time that I was beginning to get nervous about my online presence potentially becoming a risk factor with HR so I changed to WTP. Read my comments there, which being 14 or so years ago are a tad fresher from what I can recall now.
Don’t take it out on us.
I’m sorry. Was that addressed to you?
Well, I’m one of the folks here at David’s Fine Establishment. And the issue of inappropriately directed anger has come up before.
The original post on the reprehensible Ms Elliott is here, but the embedded and linked videos have long since disappeared. It was fifteen years ago.
I’ll run the three of you a nice hot bath. Soak those tensions out in no time.
[ Fetches scented candles. ]
Well, if the shoe fits…
Yes, I figured as much. Was worth a shot to ask. When you posted that back then it really struck a nerve with me. What I went through was not quite as harsh but the absolute idiocy of it. But how everyone else just…observed while that woman just berated the middle aged white guy was very, very similar to what I went through for rolling my eyes at bloody obvious lies. And everyone else just sat there and took it. No one questioned it. Of course after the fact, it was mocked. Quietly. Outside the range of the HR and similar demons. What really got to me back then was going on recruiting trips with an HR rep around that time and seeing what a horn dog he was. And meeting other HR people who all seemed to know each other, how generally creepy so many of them were.
Thx. But none of that Gwyneth Paltrow crap like you tried to pawn off on us the last time. Please.
[ Wafts smell of lavender and peppermint. ]
I’m now reminded of the time Beloved Sister-In-Law #2 handed me, as a random gift, a ludicrously fancy scented candle. Posh box and everything.
I can’t begin to imagine what possessed her to believe that I’d like a scented candle. But I do remember the effort required to suppress a look of bewildered horror.
As I believe I have said before–and said to you–liberals were calling me a fascist at least 30 years ago. Maybe you should ease up on the indiscriminate anger throttle. And the snark throttle.
As I said before, I did not address these specifics to you. If you feel you are all part of some collective called ‘conservatives’ and thus all references to ‘conservatives’ applies directly to you such that you feel the need to express hurt feels, well ok. If the shoe fits. Ever turn down a promotion for the explicit reason that you will not tell anyone that they must attend diversity training classes? Ever see the puzzled look on your…conservative…boss’s face when you told him that?
Your lack of self awareness regarding your choice of language, well, I guess I really should stop interacting with you at all.
And yet he persisted. Speaking of people lacking self-awareness. Another pile of subjective BS that needs to be…deconstructed…but, ah…that would show a lack of…well something.
I notice I was asked for receipts. After initial thought followed by some consideration, I provided some. If that is not sufficient…well….
In the process of trying to find the Jane Elliott videos I was able to dig up some other significant information about her. Perhaps this is something in David’s original post but I forget…She actually started this crap experimenting on CHILDREN. Third graders back in 1968. And she got away with that (continued, hit wrong SAVE button) because no one spoke up. There is still a lot of information out there both pro and con, with even a lot of the con coming from the left, even the anti-raaaacisss cheering left, about her control mechanisms. I got down something of a rabbit hole but it does seem that some on the left turned on her partly because she’s white. The proto-AWFL. Was going to say more about this but getting called away…it looks like something that could stand to be reexamined in the current context. I see she’s still around at 90, still depriving our world of its precious oxygen.
Snark Throttle. My next band.
ccscientist August 27, 2024 5:19 pm
TBF, it was only Southern Democrats. The rest of the party was solidly for. Republicans were also solidly for. But again, TBF, Republicans had never bothered to Do Anything about it, even when they had massive majorities in Congress and the Presidency.
As I heard it told, to the world, a Yankee is an American. But, to an American, a Yankee is a northerner. And, to a northerner, a Yankee is a New Englander. And, to a New Englander, a Yankee is a Vermonter. And to a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who actually lives up in the Green Mountains. And to someone who actually lives up in the Green Mountains, a Yankee is someone who eats his pie with his coffee spoon.