Reheated (103)
For newcomers, some items from the archives:
Mathematics is “saturated in whiteness.” Selfish inadequates hardest hit.
Even more frequent is use of the term “whiteness,” an alleged phenomenon on which the paper is premised. Though readers in search of some clear and convincing definition, or some compelling evidence of its existence, may find their hopes dashed. We are, however, assured that “whiteness” is something that gets in the way of black students “maintaining their Blackness.”
Readers will note how any feelings of incompetence and not being welcome are immediately blamed on external causes, on some ectoplasmic “whiteness,” that Befouler Of All Things. As if such feelings had nothing whatsoever to do with the choices and behaviour, and the personal shortcomings, of the students themselves.
Instead, Dr Jasien and her colleagues expect the teaching of mathematics to be driven by the goal of “healing… intellectual trauma,” by paying “attention to the minds and bodies of students.” The students being, it seems, much less obliged to pay attention to anything beyond themselves.
And so we’re told that “exclamations” and “cacophony” are “to be both expected and valued.” Because when you picture a maths classroom and people getting to grips with differential equations or vector calculus, the first thing that springs to mind is the word cacophony.
On the fare-dodging hipsters of San Francisco.
As one might imagine, this modish, habitual freeloading – now estimated at 20% of users, possibly higher – has had certain consequences, including the alienation of many paying customers. Say, those not impressed by orange-vested climate activists who repeatedly screw the law-abiding, and the taxpayer, while applauding themselves for their belief that “Muni should be free.”
Left unchallenged or actively reinforced, the disregard for paying bills may of course spill into other areas of life, and losses from municipal parking garages are also mentioned as a “concern.” The fiscal state of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is described by insiders as “incredibly dire,” with a deficit projected to rise from a mere $15 million to a rather more impressive $322 million.
Come, marvel at the world of politically radical tableware.
And so, Ms Burgher makes her unattractive tat, and calls it art, and treads on ceramic eggshells, and calls it performance art, while listing the hallucinatory evils of having pale skin. And while telling those sufficiently credulous that “whiteness is oppression,” the source of all that is wrong, a basis for eternal shame, and that white people should “not behave white.”
You see, we will purge the world of bigotry by embracing wholesale the mental habits of the bigot.
For those craving more, The Year Reheated is a pretty good place to start.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
If there was any doubt lingering, doubt no more. This isn’t rank stupidity, this is hostile action.
So “Blackness” is good (by definition) but “whiteness” is bad (by definition)? Good to know.
That would seem to be the gist of it, yes.
And the sum total of any intellectual content.
Enemy action. The ruling class chose to become our enemy. Deadly enemy.
From the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture:
It’s curious how so many black criminal monsters are diagnosed as schizophrenic and thus not responsible.
So “whiteness” (which is bad, remember) means understanding “cause and effect relationships”, thinking “hard work is the key to success”, “planning for the future”, and “being polite”…
Er, what the hell are they saying “blackness” is then?
In terms of sentencing, the inability to inhibit sociopathic impulses should of course be an aggravating factor, not a mitigating one.
Indeed.
The web page has been taken down, but it is still archived here.
And following its links yields this more compact graphic:
I don’t know who Judith H. Katz and Kaleel Jamison are, but I wish I could have the opportunity to fail to warn them to not step in front of the speeding bus.
Arthur. Big Shed. Jackson.
Subway scenes: The progressive public transit experience.
The Girls of Etsy.
Meanwhile in France, a punk gargoyle.
The Vancouver (Canada) rozzers are on the case:
Don’t need to get Renfrew of the Mounties on the case two pound rocks always are falling from the sky, no biggie.
Yes, but could you be just a little more high-maintenance?
When you have to drive past the terminally unhinged on your way to work.
Yes, but could you be just a little more high-maintenance?
What is stopping me from looking like that? Testosterone and sanity. Next question.
Meanwhile in Blighty…
OK, then, manslaughter and three hots and a cot in a hospital are totally appropriate.
The unwisdom of being nice to the “homeless”.
My freshman year, I was too busy partying and got bad grades. I dropped out for a year. When I came back, I was more determined but sadly still had bad study habits. Being a horrible yte person, I had no excuses except ignorance so I had to figure it out. Ended up Dean’s list (harder back then) and later got higher degrees. If I had been a special POC I would have not done what I did but would have blamed the white world.
I’d be more comfortable with his “indefinite hospital order” if it came with a minimum of at least 30 years. Given the state of the UK, he’s likely to be out very soon and will re-offend.
Dining scenes.
…if it came with a minimum of at least 30 years
For gouging out someone’s eyes and then beating him to death, yeeted from the planet sharpish.
Well, 30 was my minimum.
But I also want a change in the legal system whereby being high or crazy largely ceases to be a mitigating factor, and druggies and loonies know that they’d better do whatever is necessary to avoid offending because the consequences will be very severe.
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This would motivate not only them but their families.
A total no doubt achieved with irrational numbers.
Just for the record, come the revolution, dibs on the Hope Diamond.
Even more curious is how they’re only diagnosed after they’ve committed unspeakable acts.
Ever notice the most racist are the most committed anti-racists?
The Spectator is offering me a free bottle of gin if I subscribe. 😐
Some are diagnosed before. But almost never treated/dealt with properly. And just trusting outpatient schizophrenics and paranoids to take their meds seems, well, unwise.
That cannot be pointed out too often.
And they do seem prone to a practised dishonesty and some remarkable mental contortions:
For the scrupulously progressive Dr Stabler, thugs and budding sociopaths will flourish – and will educate us – by being granted ever-greater indulgence and race-based exemptions from normal consequences.
[ Enjoys sound of early evening birdsong. ]
Our host has a softer side… Didn’t see that coming.
When you have to drive past the terminally unhinged on your way to work.
If I had the money, I would be driving a Cybertruck. With a custom paint job to make sure they saw me.
Maybe I’ll have a fruit basket delivered to the people at my local Tesla dealer.
Dining scenes.
David, you don’t go to Waffle House. You end up at Waffle House.
Heh. I’m a total sweetheart, actually.
I live near woodland, so with the windows open, the birdsong is quite something, dense and layered. A sort of charming cacophony.
I’m sure I wouldn’t know.
“Nothing good happens after midnight.”
Some black people resent facing the consequences of their own behavior?
Maybe that suggests the need for a strict separation of hood rats from civilization.
When that separate “homeland” is established, Dr Stabler should be
invitedrequired to go there.Heinlein’s Coventry has a certain attraction….
Is this a denunciation of U.S. education?
Reading the comments, I ran across this:
That needs revision, given recent stories about people throwing their poo or even shoving it into victims’ faces. And now even smearing it on Teslas.
They’re not the most educated, but they may be the most “educated”.
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold
What do you think when you see this flag in a store window?
Or in front of a house.
Seen recently. Laughed.
‘Except you.’