Reheated (108)
For newcomers, more items from the archives:
Embezzlement, magic blackness, and intersectional complications.
I know. You’re tempted to invest.
In the comments, Mags notes the claim that Mr Anderson committed “the perfect crime,” on account of those he robbed being much too busy fretting about “the way that police treat masculine-presenting black people.” She adds, not unfairly, a plausible definition of the perfect crime: “Suckering wokies?”
Well, it’s a nonprofit whose employees gratuitously announce their pronouns, and who regard as some kind of injustice the fact that criminal activity often results in arrest, or as they put it, “police terror.” And so, they’re “building a life-affirming world where police are obsolete.” I think it’s fair to assume there’s quite a bit of unrealism and credulity to exploit.
Culture for the implausibly delicate.
When cleverness is unfair, inegalitarian, something to be corrected.
The practised doublethink in play, in which precocious interest in advanced material is actively discouraged, and in which “access” is invoked while gleefully denying it, has been noted here before. Along with educators’ hostility to students and parents who dared to complain about the downgrade, and whose concerns were dismissed as perpetuating “systemic racism.”
As in California, where differences in “school experiences,” i.e., differences in ability and achievement, are something to be eliminated by holding back high-achieving students, with curriculum guidelines based on “social justice,” and educators who are visibly “committed to social justice work.”
And likewise, we have Jennifer Katz, a professor of education at the University of British Columbia, scolding parents who question the conceit that bright children will somehow flourish if taught more slowly and in less detail in a more disruptive environment. While implying, quite strongly, that any parents who complain must be racist.
And then there’s San Diego, another bastion of progress, where teachers are instructed that in order to be “anti-racist,” they must “confront practices” deemed inegalitarian and which result in “racial imbalance” – say, norms of classroom behaviour, a disapproval of tardiness and cheating, and oppressive expectations of “turning work in on time.”
There’s a through-the-looking-glass quality. A fun-house mirror malevolence.
For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.
This blog is kept afloat by the tip jar buttons below. Just sayin’.
Dignity comes from within; it cannot be bestowed.
And some people are naturally contemptible.
I imagine she was bewildered wondering when her alleged boyfriend had started estrogen, but I’d bet Gospodin Weepy is fine with bird chopper windmills,
Meanwhile in the Great White North, a street name is changed to something unspellable and barely pronounceable to appease some clots “…forced to speak English…” (wonder why the French get a pass, this being Canada) according to a guy whose “people” never developed writing and spoke different languages then the other Siberians clans who got lost crossing the Bering Strait.
I have to wonder if he could read the sign with out the yte devil’s glasses.
On another note, trapped in the Spam-no-Mor (Ausf. G) is a sad tale of woe. I know it is a fickle suka, but is there anyway to predict what will get caught in it’s ravenous maw?
Liberated. No idea why the bloody thing has taken exception to you, on an intermittent and seemingly random basis. Are you generating some kind of electrostatic aura again?
[ Fetches rubber matting. ]
No idea why the bloody thing has taken exception to you…
Well, the sunspots are bad here, but more likely it is just plain old racism.
Betting that marriage contract would make a Wittelsbach blush.
Move over Warren Wilhelm Jr.
A ground wire might be in order.
So you’re saying there’s still hope? For WWIII that is? Well, I did say may be over. But you do you. Either way, looks like for right now, even as much as everyone is so hopeful regarding Iran’s last salvo at Israel, Iran is pretty much spent. And maybe a regime in crisis. Insert inert Joe Biden joke here. No American boots on the ground, China, Russia, and…Pakistan show no interest in nor reasonable capacity for getting involved. Just empty rhetoric. Just the Dems whooping it up from the safety of the US. No WWIII, just the usual ME killing each other. Odd that.
A ground wire might be in order.
Tried it, even went so far as to try a positive “earth”, as they so quaintly say, given this is a British blog, and given WordPress uses coding from the antediluvian days when positive “earth” was the fashion over there.
Hard cheese, though, the problem may be the punch card with my name has a hanging chad, or racism.
[ Fetches moose-hair amulet, waves it about. ]
WTP:
So you’re saying there’s still hope? For WWIII that is?
No but IMO this cease-fire declaration won’t end it. I think this is more misdirection.. The text of the cease fire announcement is somewhat pollyanna-ish and not at all like Trump’s typical businesslike style.
Trump throws out red herrings/trial balloons all the time to stay ahead of the media and political establishment and keep them from framing the issue. Remember Greenland?
It is also unclear how much the loyal Persian diaspora has been involved, or if they are only now getting organized. Both Trump and Bibi understand that regime change cannot be (seen to be) imposed externally – and Trump’s base is serious about sticking to Jacksonian principles and avoiding a foreign entanglement.
In the West, we have only just in the last 100 years or so, stopped regarding children as ‘mini adults’… But we are now… going backwards.
Someday the corpses of our “progressive” intellectuals should be dug up, ritually mutilated, and burned at the stake.
To whom do you allude, and in regard to what event?
Mental illness is not a virtue.
(or is it just emotional incontinence)
In which case a diaper is in order.
We could talk past each other here but this is the problem with a rapid news cycle, accelerated much more rapidly by everyone having an opinion on the internet (nttabt), expectations that a ceasefire will happen immediately, on all fronts, especially when one party is in a state of unknown practical leadership, are an unrealistic absolute that can be used to refute any progress. Nobody, not Trump nor Netty nor the Ayatollah knows if a ceasefire will hold. Even Hirohito had a couple of loose cannons still plinking away in the Philippines 30 years later. These things tend to wind down rather than stop like turning off a faucet. A big problem with the West is an irrational fear of being wrong about success. This leaves the discussion space open to naysayers to manipulate public opinion. The guy who guesses success wrong gets taken to the woodshed for years, decades even. Those who predict failure, something many times more likely than success, generally get a pass. Because failure always has hope.
Was there ever any doubt?
That, as they say. It’s how you know they’re just having us on.
As one wag, in the comments put it: “I believe that translates to English as Trutch Street.”
The “Chief” is standing there in native costume, decrying Bad Bad Western Civ, while wearing corrective eyeglasses … a 13th century Italian invention. Irony is lost on these nitwits.
Stephen Fry & his marriage to a man 30 years younger.
Showing us why you shouldn’t wear your headdress to bed.
Self-awareness is the first sacrifice of the anointed.
I mean, who or what does Wittelsbach refer to? Wikipedia has multiple entries.
The House of Wittelsbach.
But what is it about it that you allude to? Some specific event? The Wikipedia entry is quite long. I know nothing about it.
, a street name is changed …
This is presumably deckchairs on the Titanic with respect to the dwindling hope of shaming the Canadian citizenry into giving your people generational payouts and favored status when a higher and higher proportion of Canadian citizens are able to say proudly that their people made no contribution at all to the founding of the nation. But the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language will surely continue to be spoken deliberately by enthusiasts in Zoom classes using its very rational and easy to understand with a little bit of effort script, in which every symbol is a sound, unlike the bastard scribbles of the Saxon conqueror.
Trutch is bad because he belonged to a confident and energetic people who believed that their time was now, that the world was better for their flourishing and expansion, that given the chance they could run other people’s lands better than those people themselves – in fact Trutch described the natives as lazy and ugly. This is shocking to everybody, most of all to energetic immigrant communities.
Trutch was part of a second wave, the smaller first wave represented by his predecessor Douglas who married a native woman and signed a set of treaties which respected the traditional authorities and claims of the natives, and granted concessions to the settlers which were modest compared to what they took later. A generation later, Trutch was able to take the view that there are more of us now, we want and need that land, we don’t intend to be hemmed in forever by Douglas’ treaties, we no longer have to jump through these people’s hoops and smoke their pipes, our law is the law now. What should we learn from this about how small groups of newcomers behave when they’re not so new and not so small?
Calvin and Hobbes should inspire us to make more creative comments.
I’m assuming you know most royal marriages are contractual, with duties and responsibilities spelled out.
The Wittelsbachs, being related in various degrees to most royal houses in Europe, would have long experience with the drawing up and implementation of such contracts.
With a thirty year gap between spouses it seems likely a contract – pre-nuptial agreement if you prefer – was established prior to marriage.
Yes. I just assumed there must be something special about the House of Wittelsbach to make you specifically mention them.
I come to you, with tears in my eyes: White women, PLEASE don’t try and stop fights. One day you’re gonna get your man killed by doing that.
And then there are the stupid women who get their men hurt by provoking fights.
Just when you think you’ve seen it all from California …
Emotional age: kindergarten.
I long ago gave up trying to trace out the meanderings of my thoughts.
Keep the illegals, deport the
protesterspoliticians.Here, try this huge ball of thread that Ariadne gave me.
Stephen Fry and his boy problem. And on Threadreaderapp.
Good Lord. Not just Fry, but the many intellectuals who embraced him and the failure of the “intellectual community” as a whole to condemn and ostracize him. Monsters.
One of the comments in that thread asks “What is it with the bloody French?” although the thread mentions more than enough guilty Brits.
Exhibit “A” from from 1978: “Men Loving Boys Loving Men.*” Conflating gay sex with minors as a cornerstone for Gay Rights. It’s just as clear today as the T’s & Q’s in the LGBTQetc panoply attempt to hijack the system to hide kinks, fetishes mental illness, and psychoses. When it’s clear to most that these “advocates” are anti-gay (homophobic), anti-woman (misogynistic), anti-lesbian and anti-bi.
*This article was written from the perspective of what is the legitimate age of consent–18 vs 21–but became a primary plank for those who advocated sex with minors.
I know I ran across a few things back in the 70’s, but can remember few details and fewer names. I mostly retain a general impression of glibness, resort to emotion, bold assertions presented as “obvious” and thus not in need of substantiation, and avoidance of any evidence that would undermine the libertine ideology of “sexual liberation”–this in spite of the pretense that at least some of the writers were engaged in serious intellectual study.
Looking back, I wonder how many of these people would have been better cast into the sea with millstones around their necks.
I was a first year journalism student in downtown Toronto when that article came out. Gay liberation was a central social issue. The 12-year-old child Emanuel Jacques had been sexually abused and murdered the year before so the timing of an article called “Men Loving Boys Loving Men” couldn’t have been any more provocative.
It was easy to polarize the issue, which a lot of people did, and discredit a movement that legitimately sought to destigmatize homosexuality. I tried to approach the issue from an unbiased position. Several of my fellow students in a small class of 135 were openly gay and the city had a burgeoning gay “scene”. My focus as a journalism student was on opinion (editorial) writing and arts criticism. I covered theatre, movies and art, so I ended up getting a first hand glimpse of the “emerging culture.” Sex with children was never a part of it. I was never exposed to the really dark shadows where it could be found.
That doesn’t mean there weren’t small groups of intellectuals who sought edgy credentials and “theoretically” supported abhorrent ideas and practices. The type who followed Foucault and Sartre et al.