The Person That He Is
Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading, of course:
It was an act of celebration to be finally able to put myself out there confidently, to forgive my past and to own my present, to manifest my future, and to ultimately feel good about the person that I am.
Said the man flashing his arse to elementary-school children.
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So much of what leftists have told me fits this pattern.
And much of the rest is outright lies.
Guillotine.
Via Darleen Click: The horrible racist truth: How blacks are excluded from jogging.
I am full of fish.
[ Wipes residue of garlicky skordalia from chin. ]
Response of note.
Your daily history lesson.
How blacks are excluded from jogging.
https://archive.is/awpZA
A lot of trouble would have been spared if the white race had taken out universal statement insurance in 1776. Yes, when we make casual statements about how an activity is suitable for everybody, we implicitly mean people more or less like us, and we don’t intend to be contractually or constitutionally obliged to make it true for every exception. This makes us no better and no worse than any other race. Moreover, we’ve been informed by racial supremacists of other races that anything we’re interested in is dorky and lacking in vibrancy and rhythm, so we’re surprised more than anything else when representatives of other races not only want to do the dorky white thing but do it among the dorky whites. We don’t have a patent on jogging, but, yes, it’s an invention of high-trust white communities in the mid to late 20th century, and your mileage may vary in other racial/urban contexts.
Just watched the first episode of Amazon’s new show “Ballard” which is about LAPD officer Renee Ballard (books by Michael Connelly that take place in the Bosch world). I enjoyed about 3 seasons of Bosch so I decided to give this a try.
The initial episode was quite good, intriguing and Ballard is well-played by actress Maggie Q (crazy ninja chick from Live Free and Die Hard). I’m willing to keep watching for now.
It’s one of those New York Times articles in which you soon realise the author has learned to beg the approved questions and become selectively stupid as and when required by her own ideology. And so, the low rate at which people of a certain demographic engage in a given sports activity, one with no meaningful barriers to access, is taken as proof of the cruel “exclusion” of that demographic. No other explanations being conceivable.
And the readership that consumes this poorly-argued racial propaganda, over and over again, in eerily similar articles, is apparently immune to logic, or curiosity, or indeed embarrassment. And so, we get things like this, also from the New York Times, in which the defining triumph of our time is a black woman going for a walk, taking selfies, and remembering to take a coat:
And despite such omissions, the readers nod. And the editors nod. And the quoted academics nod. And everyone applauds themselves, while nodding.
It’s on my give-it-a-spin-and-see list.
That one’s very funny.
*snort*
But it’s all so risible. It’s a genre of article in which the conclusion – the only conclusion deemed permissible – has been earmarked well in advance of any mental activity. Should any be attempted.
I mean, there must be black women out there – perhaps even black women who jog or go for an occasional walk – who see this claptrap being rolled out every few months and shake their heads in bewildered despair.
Many post-op trans”women” have their man-tunnels created with a section of bowel (it’s self-lubricating), which unfortunately retains its odor despite no longer transporting solid waste.
So the idea was to show solidarity with their “sisters” by enjoying the smell or something.
It’s not pretty. None of this is pretty.
Oh, and let’s not forget those allegedly racist traffic cameras:
And it’s perhaps worth noting the extent to which this kind of contrivance and racial neuroticism underpins progressive politics. Or rather, progressive posturing.
It’s astounding how easily some people are gaslit.
Professor says “your parents pushed gendered toys on you,” and they accept it because they don’t seem to know that you can’t force kids to be interested in anything they’re not already interested in.
Seriously, was there a time someone shoved boring toys in front of you, but you thought, “oh, I better play with these, because otherwise I’ll disappoint mommy”?
He posits that such people don’t have kids (and they probably don’t), but neither do I, and I seem to get that kids play with what interests them, and that the interest isn’t externally imposed.
The Sting, without Redford and Newman or Scott Joplin.
Some puns are permissible.
Heh. Wait 20-30 years for when they find out that the exclusivity of jogging was really a plot by the KKK to destroy black people’s knees. The future is gonna be lit!
And then there’s the root assumption. The idea that conjuring elaborate but unconvincing excuses for some people’s behaviour, unilaterally, based on their pigmentation, as if they had no agency or responsibility of their own, were a kindness. A thing that a good person ought to do, continually.
As if it weren’t condescending, or perverse.
Hard to tell, what with all the jump cuts, if this is real, Maynard G. Krebs with problem glasses opines on the Florida detention center – “Alligator Alcatraz, nah, bro, Alligator Auschwitz, amirite?”
So many libtards who need antipsychotics.
Choose wisely.
I think Ms Harrington means high-trust, but still.
I should start a charity, modeled on the smarmy Humane Society and Save the Children.
Ms Malaprop.
I wonder how far The Institute goes before Climate Change™ or any of the other leftist pet subjects are mentioned in the correct manner. I.e., The Message.
Many problems in academia could have been prevented by this attitude.
Heh. It seems to me that threats of disrupting classes – and displays of student brattishness more generally – should be taken as the personal insult that they obviously are.
Every honest parent (or grandparent) has at least one story of the toy they picked out to gift their child only to watch said child be more interested in playing with the box than the toy. (usually it’s some toy the adult may have enjoyed as a kid)
Early child raising is not just children discovering their own interests but parents trying to discover those interests, too.
Recall, too, the time (80s? 90s?) when there was this push by all The Best People to give girls toy trucks and boys dolls so has not to perpetuate gender stereotypes — resulting in yet another set of observations from parents that the girls talked to the trucks, tucked them into doll beds and generally treated them as dolls while the boys used dolls as weapons or balls.
[ Checks time, eyes rhubarb and ginger gin in fridge. ]
[ Checks UK weather report. ]
With extra ice?
You can fault her. I fault her significantly. But just like the American woman who lost so embarrassingly at Wimbledon yesterday, it’s not totally on her. When you engage with the typical white westerner, man or woman, especially the leaders, it is clear that they fail to expect women, should they pursue domains traditionally…for centuries even…exclusively belonging to men, to toughen up and conduct themselves with the mental attitude required for the previously men-only kinds of task.
Women in the spotlight need to do that, and they need to expect other women to do that. If today’s women cannot even rise to the sort of Scarlet O’Hara 19th century backbone of “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again”* then they need to STFU and get back in the kitchen. Really, really tired of this pretending crap. People’s lives are on the line here. Not that there’s anything new there either but FFS can the problem be any more bloody obvious?
*Yes, I know it’s fiction but at least it conveyed a resilience that at least some women had and set an example.
I didn’t expect to like this stuff, but it’s… not half bad.
[ Slurping. ]
So, tell me how he can’t “be the person he is” while he’s in a jail cell?
There are PLENTY of people in jail who might actually appreciate him – and dare I say, reward him – for expressing his genuine self.
That is a capital idea! If only I had sufficient capital…and connections…what is Dr. Phil up to? Jordan Peterson? Dr. Drew Pinsky could be better spending his time on that idea rather than wtf health BS he seems to be pushing.
I hadn’t been aware of the re-purposing of bowels; the explanation I’d heard, such as it was, was that bacteria from there ‘somehow’ colonized the neo-vagina, thus producing the noxious smell.
I’m not a gin person, but I’ve had very tasty rhubarb wine. And rhubarb pie is delicious.
There have a lot of these types of drinks come out in the last couple of years. Some of them are really very good. Bacardi makes a great Paloma and an excellent Mojito. My favourite though is made by a more local company. It’s a gin greyhound. It’s Gin and Grapefruit Juice.
A familiar, perniciously wrongheaded cornerstone of the progressive worldview.
Previously and very much related.
Regarding the mojito, The Other Half has nodded approvingly.
Black joggers: in a similar vein, the high numbers of blacks who go blind from glaucoma or get a stroke from high blood pressure, is, of course, due to racism, when both conditions are easily treated if you just go to the doctor. With many many blacks on medicaid, so free care.
I have it on good authority that much of the stress is mostly due to living in a domicile with persistent fire alarm low-battery chirps.
Kids and toys: My 4 yr old nephew with 3 older sisters was visiting. We have girls so there are dolls. He came in from the living room carrying a doll. My wife got a horrified look…and he got to the top of the stairs to the family room and threw it down the stairs and laughed.
Anyone could have been born blah blah. Interesting study showed that the longer a region had agriculture, the easier its people have adapted to modern civilization, using several measures of “adapted” to. In parts of the world that still did not have agriculture in the modern era, there is an almost complete failure to come to terms with city life and modern culture. There is probably a genetic basis for this, with 8 to 11 thousand years being long enough for this to occur.
I don’t think I understand the implications of the argument, “You didn’t choose where you were born; you could have been born anywhere/anytime.”
Well, let’s say that’s true.
And?
[Is the veil of ignorance the thought experiment where you get to design a society but where you’re born into that society is random, so you better make sure all the ranks and echelons are bearable?]
Are they saying, “You could have been the one born in a horrible country, and you’d want to migrate here”?
Well, yes. If that were the case, yes I would.
That has nothing to do with whether the U.S. should enforce its borders. It’s not a statement on whether I should be deported if I were to cross illegally.
We’re all born into wherever we were born, and we play the hand we’re dealt. There’s nothing wrong with saying, “I would like people born into rough circumstances to have a better life.”
But there might be a problem with how you try to make that happen. Encouraging millions of unvetted people to stampede in, and then giving them freebies, has negative consequences.
Providing legal pathways to enter is much better.
Toccata, no fugue.
It’s a rather smug conceit, usually aired glibly. Yet it’s heaving with obnoxious implications. Wicked uses to which it can be put. And as a cornerstone of a worldview, it requires one to become unrealistic and absurd.
Again, from this:
As a conceit, it’s common use is to dissolve normal boundaries and bonds. To undermine and demoralise. By people who want you to believe that your children aren’t really yours, that your attributes and intelligence aren’t really yours, and that your earnings and belongings, your territory, aren’t really yours – that’s it’s all somehow random, and unfair, and should therefore be taken away.
The objective is to diminish the target’s sense of meaning and territory, to make them feel undeserving, disidentified, and to leave them emotionally vulnerable to policies that may diminish them further. Hence the conceit’s popularity among those driven by spite.
As the cornerstone of a worldview, it’s also quite literally stupefying. As noted in the original thread:
Bad medicine.