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.
The various liberalish families I know well are uniformly extremely demanding of their children when it comes to English and old-style academic proficiency.
With one glaring exception. These young now-adults don’t know any history.
[ Morbidly curious, looks at Typepad’s X feed. ]
The platform was unusable for days on end in February, May, June, July and August.
And I see everything’s on fire yet again.
[ Remembers October and November 2022, eye twitches. ]
Thomas Sowell and others have noted ‘ghetto English’ is dialect originating in the poorer, more isolated parts of England. There’s nothing intrinsic to the dialect about place of residence or melanin content.
Cold compresses and brandy.
[ Slides gin and tonic down the bar. ]
“Lingering issues.”
“Oh God, not again.“
Mr Burkett, here.
I believe the dysfunctional “honor” culture came from there, too.
How about 8x8x8 padded cells?
A certain Monty Python sketch comes to mind. (Cue NASA and Boeing flaks saying there is no problem.)
That, I think, is a bit more universal (cf. the Balkans, the Middle East).
Yes, but Thomas Sowell did say that redneck “honor” culture came from those poorer, more isolated parts of England.
Easier to protest against those who called out the problem than protest against those who are the problem.
Safer too.
What people want is for violent criminals to go away without them having to deal with them, or even acknowledge violent criminals or the crimes they commit exist.
Because the mere existence of crime and criminals forces them to acknowledge that reality proves their entire external worldview wrong.
And THAT’S an existential threat.
We do seem to be witnessing a lot of what looks like displacement activity. Bizarrely inapt pissing-about that’s both ostentatious and absurd, and engaged in so as to avoid, or at least defer, addressing the actual issue at hand, the root threat or discontent. A way to persist in being unrealistic.
And so, for instance, we get woke women in Finland sharing their please-don’t-rape-me dance moves. While they and their peers champion indiscriminate immigration on an unprecedented scale.
See also Bay Area commuters and their magic cardboard.
I mean, if it wasn’t actually happening, it might even be funny. In a sort of black comedy way.
It is funny. It is also appalling. You could say it’s non-binary.
Solingen murders…
gotta love the Minister who said ” not likely to learn much from this incident because h e wasn’t under observation. We can’t monitor everyone. ”
– The suspect had a deportation order. Too much trouble to track those guys, I guess.
– The history of East Germany suggests that German government can monitor everyone. Or does that scheme only work on ethnic Germans?
The history of East Germany suggests that German government can monitor everyone. Or does that scheme only work on ethnic Germans?
Tbf, there were punishments and rewards for compliance/non-compliance. Our undesirables live a mostly consequence free life.
As was mentioned in another thread, 2% of the population commits almost all of the serious crime. Our society knows who they are, they just don’t want to lock them up. So instead of 2% living in jail, all of us do.
Caveats: The Stasi were able to compromise/coerce a large fraction of the population, so that everyone had neighbors informing on them. In contrast, it’s impossible to get more than a tiny fraction of Muslims to inform on other Muslims.
Furthermore, East German dissidents were peaceful people, while about 20 percent of immigrant Muslims are terror supporters or sympathizers–and the great majority want to eventually subject the entire West to Sharia
lawtyranny. Surveillance of peaceful dissidents does not require the same level of scrutiny as monitoring of potential terror supporters.Finally, there are far fewer intelligence police today than in East Germany, I’m confident.
Retired Colonel Robert Mastrion, quoted in The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words, by Larry Smith:
I have no idea where I originally ran across that quote. Was it here?
In this case, I think the aggressor is likely a psychopath who wanted to take out a competitor in the nastiest way possible. That he was doing exactly what he monstered her for is inherent to the disorder — Cluster Bs invariably accuse you of what they’re doing.
So reliable is this trait that any time a Cluster B makes an accusation, poke around in their life and you’ll find them doing exactly that.
As an aside, I noticed that you changed your avi away from the giant metallic bug eyes.
And yet, when I pasted the link to this article in Twitter, I still got the bug-eyes.
I changed the site icon, which, as I understand it, should have put an end to the bug eyes. Unless the bug eyes are being cached somewhere and take a while to flush out. It’s possible there’s some other sub-menu setting I need to poke at, but we’re teetering on the very precipice of my technical expertise.
Contrary to rumour, and all appearance, I’m not hugely brilliant at everything.
[ Continues pulling at wires randomly. ]
Cut the red wire with a swift, smooth motion.
But first, throw the knife switch into the off position and ground the green wire.
And in burning-money news:
$4.1 million, since you ask.
ISN’T THERE A SINGLE ADULT THERE WHO KNOWS HOW TO SAY NO?
sigh
Forgetting how to say no – or indeed, No, Now Fuck Right Off And Then Some – does seem to be a recurring feature of our gloriously progressive age.
I hope there’s a preference cascade in our future, where en masse people find the courage to say NO to these Cluster B nightmares.
Robby Starbuck has been having success pressuring conservative-coded businesses into dropping ESG and DEI bollocks. The speed with which some have shed it might suggest they didn’t really like the apparatus and were glad for an excuse to shed it.
But the need for an excuse. I seem to spend an awful lot of time marvelling at how other people’s minds work.
Careful who you welcome.
It’s such an utterly bizarre pretence – as if there were no parts of town that you’d be unhappy to leave your car in, and no people who are sketchier than anyone else.
And the pretence is equally bizarre in its implications. I.e., that someone who, for instance, chooses to mug an elderly woman while she visits the grave of her late husband, and the people who engage in carjacking, burglary, and recreational looting, are somehow, implausibly, just like you. As if any of the people here, reading this, and any of the people you care about, would be equally likely to do the same.
As if those who indulge in such activities, and who do so repeatedly, had no attributes of note, no profound personal shortcomings.
As encouraging as recent news and his hard work is, I cannot help but be concerned that conservatives, their very nature being…conservative, are yet again spiking the football on the 40 yard line. The Overton Window has shifted hard, very hard to the left with this crap. Apologies without significant firings and public shaming still leaves that window much further to the left than when this idiocy started. I do not believe that conservatives have the will to keep pushing and finish the job.
No. I mean yeah, there’s a few of us. But it gets rather exhausting having to be the only one in the room all the bloody time. Especially when other “conservatives” shake their heads at your persistence and/or unwillingness to get-with-the-program.
Heh. I thought that was some manifestation quirk of being one of the few (I think) who views this site mostly on iPad/Chrome. I kinda liked the bug (owl) eyes better. Now what I see, well on this platform anyway, is a black background with “N, blog” visible. Not that it matters to me but for a minute there I thought you might have been some other David given your taste for aesthetics.
Still fiddling, largely in ignorance.
Oh, and this week’s Ephemera has been scheduled.
Obligatory reference.
Perhaps David is going for a more “professional” (i.e., bland) look. 😉
One objective advantage of the bug eyes icon is that the browser tabs stand out.
Again, careful who you welcome.
If you’d said ‘intelligent’ I’d agree.
As for ‘intelligence’ police, there are likely many many more than when East Germany was a thing – they’re just not called that anymore.
One objective advantage of the bug eyes icon is that the browser tabs stand out.
I agree, but given the current state of monitoring by the Metropolitan Internet Listening Flying Squad, it may now be illegal to have a distinctive browser icon. They probably have to be registered with and approved by the Ministry of Digital Non-Offensiveness.
Lawlessness now extends to gov not just thugs. The Supreme Court ruled that Jack Smith was appointed illegally and yet here he is filing another indictment. It ruled that student loan forgiveness was illegal, yet Biden continues to do it as a “delay” in making payments. The French gov lost the election and then did monkey business to deny the loss and not give up power. There was essentially a coup to install Kamala.
New trend detected.
Yes, well, the bouncers have all been made redundant & the door’s off the hinges.
The British courts really don’t take criminality seriously.
IIRC, it was a district judge that ruled he was appointed illegally. The Supreme Court ruled Trump had broader immunity than Smith allowed for in the earlier indictments.
Mark Steyn touched on governmental lawlessness.
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. One might, for instance, aspire to the role of gracious host, as it were, of making newcomers feel welcome. But this ideal presupposes an immigration policy that is limited and selective, and in which newcomers have good reason to feel lucky – and grateful.
The graciousness of the locals, the ideal, depends on the notion that the host country is regarded as something special, a desirable thing, something worthy of respect.
But massive, indiscriminate immigration undermines that ideal. If seemingly anyone can walk in and demand goodies, any ill-mannered flotsam of the world, and if they can do so with no discernible sense of gratitude, or any expectation of such, and with no apparent regard for the norms and values of the host society, as if they were unimportant, then the indigenous population may feel they have little reason to be gracious. Indeed, being gracious may be something of a struggle.
I realise that even the idea that the locals might dare to think in such terms – of being the gracious host – is, for some, anathema, a basis for tutting and scolding. But the sense that the value of one’s society – one’s home – is being pissed away, sold off cheap, is not a promising basis for coexistence.
And yet here we are.