Friday Ephemera (745)
Today’s word is proximity. || How to make the day exciting. || The wallet wins, I think. || House fire, interior view. || The thrill of saving up for one. || And every submarine should have one. || “Did you hear the music playing?” || Mushroom colour atlas. || Screw the kids, she gets to feel smug. || Question asked, promptly answered. || You want one and you know it. || “And they do bras as well.” || When everything is a latrine. (h/t, pst314) || Eternal TV, for niche streaming enthusiasts. (h/t, Things) || Misleading meme. || Answers on a postcard, please. || With four mallets. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Made of hemp and horse excrement. || How to deflate a cow. || For scale. || A UFO timeline. || For the fuller figure. || And finally, with effort, a journey to remember: “Do you need to take your pants down?”
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I distrust him, too. Not just for past behavior but for refusing to see that the excesses he decries about the Trans ideology aren’t ‘going too far’ but baked into it from the get go. He continues to insist that “trans kids are real, I was one” … which is like ‘anorexic kids are real, I was one’. Accepting that a mental illness is real doesn’t mean it has to be affirmed as *normal* and handing over hormones/surgery like handing diet pills to an anorexic.
If he is panicking about anything, it is that he realizes that the bullying and demands of his peers has only brought about wholesale rejection from the normies. Live and let live is off the table when AGP males demand access to women’s intimate spaces and activities.
Yes, Brianna, it really is emotional blackmail.
I haven’t flicked through a copy in years, largely for that reason. I recall an article claiming that advanced mathematics should be made more appealing to modern, diverse students by framing it in terms of “politics and social justice.” The term “social justice” was used several times, along with “privilege,” and readers were told that “social justice” is terribly important. But at no point were we told what “social justice” might be. Apparently, we were nonetheless supposed to regard it as something desirable and not at all loaded or question-begging.
I took this as another sign of withering standards.
So again, my earlier question: Once a cultural institution has been captured and corrupted by wokeness, does it ever fully recover? I’m still trying to think of an example.
That the question should need to be answered.
Fly the friendly skies . . .
Hiring the best, clearly.
Once you’ve given in to claim that “trans women are real women”, you’ve ceded much of the grounds to justify excluding them from women’s private spaces. Best to never cede any ground.
Not on its own, I expect. Recovery would require a radical house-cleaning, expulsion of all the wokies reversal of all their policies, a public repudiation of wokeness, and a absolute refusal to tolerate their presence in the future.
Would I be subject to arrest in Britain if I were to comment “Hood rat Airlines”? Not sure if it’s a crime to talk disparagingly about chavs.
Also from that Twitter account: Criminal prosecution for a tweet, but once again it seems that nobody is telling us exactly what the tweet contained.
There was a situation.
“Maybe you’re not autistic, you’re just an asshole.”
That the question should need to be answered.
Yet another demonstration that these gender cultists have zero idea about how any of this two sexes only thing works.
Fly the friendly skies.
Yet it is a mystery why is going bankrupt.
Criminal prosecution for a tweet.
Germany says “halt mein Bier” as they go full DDR. Oh wait, they already did that. Not sure how that recent rapscallion got through the net.
And, true to form, Deutsche Welle “forgets” to report the actual content of the posts. We’re supposed to be content with vague descriptions of the offending speech.
And, true to form, Deutsche Welle “forgets” to report the actual content…
Ahem:
Also…
Like the person busted for insulting this politician by the absurd comment of calling her fat.
But no specifics about the supposed racist posts; that’s what I really wanted to know. If they wanted their readers to be truly informed they would be very specific.
Few days back I mentioned California’s foray into legislating The Handmaid’s Tale via a law requiring that same-sex groupings (I guess we can’t assume coupledom, can we?) who can’t gestate a child must be furnished with a surrogate womb-person for that purpose … I had not considered the full implications at the time (my capacity for nightmare thought is sadly limited) but having checked out the Compleat Woman (Attention Ladies) I did wonder what would happen if any of those Complete Women were to proffer themselves as such surrogates, Would the would-be parents endorse/accept this as compliant with the law? If not, why not? Could any of the Completes be drafted, so to speak, for the purpose? Again, if not, why not? Promises endless hours of fun and idle speculation.
Just tell ‘her’ it’s down the road, not across the street.
Has there been an instance where a cultural institution has eliminated the corruption of wokeness?
It seems to me the above is broadly analogous to someone being revealed to be a chronic liar. Once trust is lost, it’s difficult to regain.
Likely because Pearson had the effrontery to expose them for the cowardly thugs they are.
Was that Lexi?
[ Fetches hose, chili paste. ]
But no specifics about the supposed racist posts; that’s what I really wanted to know.
Why?
The first BFO is that is they are going to bust someone for calling a fat person fat, or the redundancy of calling a Green politician an idiot, anything will be considered racist if they want it to be because BFO number two is that there is zero freedom of speech because BFO number three is that the Stasi doesn’t fall far from der Baum.
Oye! El sonic boom!
… I have questions.
At the very least, it would enlighten us as to what the accused was saying. For instance, there is a big difference between “all X are criminal savages” and “crime by X is a big problem and immigration should be restricted”. I know a lot of “liberals” who treat all evidence of black-white criminal offending statistics as proof of racism.
For instance, there is a big difference between “all X are criminal savages” and “crime by X is a big problem and immigration should be restricted”.
Once again, it doesn’t matter one whit when, as demonstrated, anything no matter how innocuous will be considered racist, sexist,_____phobic, or whatever.
Excellent job of tracking that.
Setting aside your opinion, I still want to know. Not only to know the nature of the accused, but also to know the nature of the accuser. If the specifics of the accused speech is frequently hidden it is difficult to track and document what the government is doing.
I’m a little bit surprised they reported the rapist’s name and immigration status at all.
Think that’s the idea
No worries. Ofcom’ll just have a word with them and they won’t make that mistake again . . . if they know what’s good for them.
Paging Emily Litella.
Must be the resveratrol.
Lowering standards: when life becomes easy, it is tempting to relax a little, not try so hard, make tests easier, everyone smoke a doobie and chill. But if anything, modern life is MORE demanding, and it is more critical that people do their jobs right. When people walked everywhere, the worst collision was bumping into someone. When you drive a big truck you can kill a bunch of people in a heartbeat. Or if an airplane mechanic, kill hundreds. We saw in this past year that a lowly software guy could shut down the WWW.
Certain jobs demand more. Too many demand less & less as technology is deployed to ameliorate the deficiencies of public education.
On good intentions.
Rimshot.
Such cultural changes can happen. Before The Spectator was a conservative institution, it was a Liberal one.
The real problem is not so much that progressives are capturing cultural institutions. It is that comparatively few people on the right go into cultural fields. You can’t have institutional influence if you aren’t ever involved in a cultural institution in the first place. And if anything, talk about getting rid of left wing influence will only make these institutions worse – it is the opposite of liberal tolerance, and oftentimes it is a mirroring of left extremism with a comparable right extremism.
When everyone at the party is a hall monitor.
Somewhat related.
It occurs to me that a platform teeming with neurotic scolds, all trying to out-do each other with displays of pretentious sensitivity, may not be a good place to park the car.
For the record there are two accounts monitoring Bluesky:
@libsofbluesky
@blueskyLibs
The preference cascade continues apace:
if any of those Complete Women were to proffer themselves as such surrogates, Would the would-be parents endorse/accept this as compliant with the law?
A Three Men in a Boat type situation
♪♫When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done,
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one, happy one♪♫
There must be a UK version of a Siberian gulag for these reprobates.
Meanwhile in the halls of justice “…a judge said he was not a direct danger to the public.”
30 counseling sessions and 180 hours community service, damn near the same as exile to Devil’s Island.
If Bluesky users had an in-person meeting.
Oh no!
[ Furry intrudes ]
To say nothing of the dog.
The right got pushed out of those cultural fields. The expansion of tertiary education has produced a large group of papered dimwits clamouring for situations commensurate with their exalted sense of self.
Think you just described most every Western college and university.
Exactly: Sometimes pushed out with formal policies excluding conservatives, sometimes by informal policies, and always by a culture of hostility in which conservatives are shunned and treated with disrespect.
Accidentally bought the Gen Z version.
Jailbreak!
I hope, against reason and experience, that that isn’t real.