Not Entirely Similar
For those with an interest in recent history, and indeed surrealism, a catalogue of progressive cancel culture.
Among the sins punished with both swiftness and eyebrow-raising severity – questioning the benefits of rioting; questioning overt racial favouritism at the University of California, Los Angeles; saying that George Floyd wasn’t actually a moral exemplar; liking tweets in support of Donald Trump; questioning the methods of Black Lives Matter; showing the 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s Othello to students at the University of Michigan; and teaching students of Chinese how to pronounce Chinese words.
And regarding the above, this:
And also, from recent comments, this by Mr Wanye Burkett:
Maybe the principle here is that this is so unbecoming of a public school teacher [to publicly exult in the murder of someone with different political views] that not only should they lose this specific job, but maybe they shouldn’t work in another public school ever again. Maybe they’re just not suited for that kind of work.
That’s not punitive. That’s much more logical, instrumental. The idea in this latter case is that people have revealed themselves to be unsuited for a particular kind of employment.
Readers may wish to ponder whether the sins mentioned above – expressing doubts about rioting, or teaching Chinese pronunciation to students of Chinese – exist on the same level of inaptness as, say, a public-school teacher showing ten-year-olds shockingly graphic video of a man being shot in the neck, and killed, in front of his family, and showing that footage repeatedly, “numerous times,” while hectoring those same ten-year-olds on the merits of so-called “anti-fascism.”
Answers on a postcard, please.
Update, via the comments:
Regarding the example immediately above, John D adds,
It does, I think, invite questions as to the vetting of public school educators and the kinds of personalities the job seems to attract in high concentrations. It also invites questions as to what kind of environment, what kind of workplace assumptions, might make a teacher of ten-year-olds think that such behaviour would be considered acceptable.
I mean, if nothing else, and even absent any conventional moral inhibition, you’d think that one of the obvious considerations for a teacher of ten-year-olds might at least be the assumption that parents will find out. In this case, when their children arrive home bewildered and distressed. And to therefore behave accordingly. And yet.
Update 2:
Regarding this,
Liz adds,
Or sufficiently sympathetic, politically, to not mind too much, or maybe just accustomed to politicised overreach and inapt behaviour in general. Those would seem to be among the more obvious inferences. And as so often, it appears that shocked parents, rather than colleagues, were the ones to object.
On the subject of parents being shocked to discover, belatedly, what their children are actually being taught, these three incidents came to mind. Among many others. Note, in the third link, the casual invention of a fake curriculum – yes, a fake curriculum – so as to deceive any curious parents.
And all while insisting, “This is not being deceitful.”
In light of which, the “anti-fascist” snuff-video session mentioned above doesn’t exactly scream anomaly or aberration, or some unfortunate misreading of the room, so much as a ratcheting upwards.
With a hat-tip to Darleen.
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Jesus wept. These people don’t just need firing, they need medication.
It does, I think, invite questions as to the vetting of public school educators and the kinds of personalities the job seems to attract in high concentrations. It also invites questions as to what kind of environment, what kind of workplace assumptions, might make a teacher of ten-year-olds think that such behaviour would be considered acceptable.
I mean, if nothing else, you’d think that one of the obvious considerations for a teacher of ten-year-olds might be the assumption that parents will find out. In this case, when their children arrive home bewildered and distressed. And to therefore behave accordingly.
And yet.
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That.
Where were these people who are outraged by these cancellations when, for example, I lost a job opportunity explicitly because I stated that I was not willing to support Black Lives Matter? The actual organization, not the concept? Oh, that’s right….they were supporting my being cancelled. Explicitly. Even a “conservative”
friendformer coworker. Fuck these people. And there’s a lot of them. Especially when you count their not-so-silent supporters.No, they need firing. Medications is how many of them got to this point. Maybe not this specific teacher. Hard to say. But these psychological meds are a big part of the problem. Not just directly with those taking them, but also what those meds have done to the broader society. And WTF are people in the medical profession going to be held accountable?
Meanwhile, here on Rocky Top: “”The world is better off without him in it. Even those who are claiming to be sad for his wife and kids….like, his kids are better off living in a world without a disgusting psychopath like him and his wife, well, she’s a sick fuck for marrying him so I dont care about her feelings.”
Buh-bye. It’s not as if the university will collpase with the absence of someone with a speciality in queer anthropology.
Go Vols!
Accusing others of disgusting psychopathy while exulting in murder, publicly taunting a widow very recently bereaved, calling her a “sick fuck,” and insisting that her small children are “better off” without a father, is… quite the thing. A bold look to go for. In the expectation of applause.
Just what you’d hope for in someone employed to educate your children.
The people doing the vetting prefer these monsters…because that’s what they are.
I believe we have talked about that many times here: Evil people are attracted to jobs where they can most exercise their evil proclivities, whether it be graft, child grooming, or indoctrination in monstrous ideologies.
What struck me over the last few days was just how many of the gleefully unhinged and spiteful outpourings were coming from teachers. Teachers who chose to record and then share publicly their displays of wildly inapt behaviour. Along with their evident contempt for any students whose views might differ from their own, and over whom they have power.
Temperamentally, by nature, I’m not a very censorious person. I’m not easily shocked and I tend to allow latitude, as, for instance, in the comments here. I’ve very rarely banned commenters – maybe five in two decades – and then for trolling or tediousness, rather than for being offensive or controversial.
But if parents should object to their ten-year-olds being hectored and abused by teachers like the one in the post above, people in positions of trust and authority, and if those parents should subsequently make efforts to have that teacher removed, as well they might, on grounds of, say, gross misconduct or being a malign influence, then that’s another matter entirely. The overstepped boundary, the difference in kind, should be pretty obvious.
Maybe they count on most of the kids failing to say anything. As I recall, I never actually complained to my parents about the Black Panther and Leroi Jones incidents that I mentioned in the previous thread. At that age I tended to just silently accept whatever the teachers said and did, in a childish acquiescence to adult direction. On the other hand, not all kids are like that: My freshman English teacher’s syllabus included the Bible as literature (along with 20 other books.) It was quietly dropped, almost certainly due to a complaint by a parent.
Medication? Seriously? Like the SSRIs and anti-psychotics that a generation of mass shooters and emotional incontinents has been on for years?
Because a lot of the people they work with are exactly the same?
Or sufficiently sympathetic, politically, to not mind too much, or maybe just accustomed to politicised overreach and inapt behaviour in general. Those would seem to be the obvious inferences. And as so often, it seems that shocked parents, rather than colleagues, were the ones to object.
Is it now the fashion for women to try and look like trans-women? A bold look to go for indeed.
And when you can do all three in one setting . . .
In a time of universal deceit . . .
Regarding which, these came to mind.
Note, in the third link, the casual invention of a fake curriculum – yes, a fake curriculum – so as to deceive any curious parents.
I lost a job opportunity because I pointed out a difference in behavior of academics between men and women and a feminist took offence, long before cancel culture (ironically, when this woman came up for tenure later they were not impressed with her publication record and denied tenure, at least the first round). I had pointed out that men were 3 times more likely to engage in disputes (like writing a rebuttal on a topic). I did not even argue that getting in disputes was superior.
I nearly was fired over my work on climate change and had to retool the topics I worked on. I have met 3 state climatologists fired for their views on climate change.
Yeah, cry me a river. Advocating for the death of people is just just like having an academic disagreement.
And all while insisting, “This is not being deceitful.”
In Left wing world, it is so common to advocate for the extermination of men or whites, to laugh at vandalism of churches, that celebrating the Kirk assassination is just another day of the week. They see no difference. They cheered when trump was shot. They are also so used to their favored minority being allowed to misbehave that they are offended by accountability. So used to irrational angry public venting (like melting down online after both Trump victories) that they don’t even think twice about posting horrific views about a killing. They got away with it in the Mangione case in NYC. It is just so unfair to suddenly change the rules….hahahaha
“You need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed when they go to events”
Oh hey, another way to be a martyr for the cause.
Richard Fernandez on NVE: Nihilistic Violent Extremism:
Jordan Peterson describes many on the left as being enraged by having been brought into existence, for which they rail at God.
Someone once wrote a book titled, as I recall, On Strike Against God.
Is George Zinn any relation to the anti-American commie Howard Zinn?
Like these two pieces of garbage. The one got a degree in psychology and hung out her shingle as a “behavioural specialist.”
As much as I agree, it’s not just these most extreme people who are the bigger part of the problem. It’s the others, more normal types who agree that it was wrong to murder him but…
As a friend/former coworker whom I suspect had a thing for my sister-in-law back in high school just said on a FB thread on her wall said, “I think what disappoints me most is seeing people I believe to generally be good hearted Christians rationalizing the murder of a young father and destruction of his family, before he’s even been buried or his family given a chance to grieve. All because he *might* have said something, maybe recently or maybe when he was 16 or 18 years old? This is what justified taking his life and the celebration that followed?”
Seeing that on LinkedIn now.
‘Destiny’ has nervous breakdown in 3…2…
Destiny, aka Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, is someone whose idea of an unassailable moral stance entails excitedly, almost gleefully, disdaining an innocent firefighter who was killed while trying to shield his family during an attempt to assassinate a presidential candidate.
Apparently, those killed and seriously injured by the gunman were to “reap what they sow.” For daring, one assumes, to support Mr Trump. Mr Bonnell announced – again, with some satisfaction – that he was “here to watch the harvest.” Because watching random people being shot and killed is such a jolly lark, you see.
So not, I think, someone to be trusted with car keys.
Well, Marxism did always entail a rather queer perspective on life.
(via Perry de Havilland)
Screen shot in case the original gets made private:
The ignorance on display when you put a “gays for palestine” or “trans communist flag” is remarkable. Communist countries and islamist regimes have never been friendly to gays or trans or feminists. Never. In islamist regimes rooftops are used and I don’t mean for getting a tan. China has been and is still notoriously prudish. Russia banned western music/movies as decadent. The belief that a communist takeover of the West would be paradise for all the misfits and pink-hairs is…absurd. Insane. Wrong. Foolish.
Islamic regimes, if I have it correctly, do use trans as a form of gay conversion. Gay men get the rooftop treatment, but if one of them gets the surgery and “becomes” a “woman”, then it’s not two men bumming anymore and therefore they get a pass. I think Islam fundamentalists treat trans as the lesser evil when compared to gay, not as a positive thing like the alphabet crowd would have you believe.
Something to remember is that it’s basically impossible to fire a teacher in Ontario, Canada. And they know it.
In 1990, a senior (i.e. 12th grade) English teacher told me “a teacher would have to rape a student on the Director’s desk in front of the Board of Trustees before anything would be done”[1] about a problem teacher.
Earlier this year I was introduced to a lady friend’s parents, both retired teachers. There was some reminiscing about their career days, during which her father mentioned, casually, that as a principal he had fought hard to save the career of a teacher who had thrown a desk at a student during class.
Successfully.
After the party, when I mentioned that no one seemed to think that an act of criminal aggravated assault with a weapon against a minor by their caretaker ought to be a career-ending move, and that no one should be trying to excuse that, I got quite an earful.
They literally believe they are above judgement. And practically, they are.
[1] Her words, verbatim
A reminder that “queer” does not mean “gay or bisexual”. It means violating every norm of civilization.
A good illustration of narcissistic psychopathy?
“He wanted to leave the streets and pursue a rap career.”
Rap doesn’t seem like a very effective way of “leaving the streets”.
Better to leave the ‘hood and break all ties with hoodrat sorts of people.
The current state of academia:
The paper:
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Posted here in the previous thread. A good, succinct discussion.
The SF publishing industry has declined in this way, with authors accepted or rejected according to their adherence to leftist ideology.
Which likely explains, in part, the demise of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction after 75 years.
I’m on SSRIs. Well, SNRIs. I’m one of the 30-40% of depressives that benefits from them.
As it turns out, when people start acting a little screwy, they put them on meds. Maybe the meds take the edge off; maybe they don’t. Whatever the case, the meds don’t stop them from going off the deep end.
In these cases, the SSRI-to-mass-murderer relationship is pure correlation, with the bad behavior making the meds more likely to be present.
There is also a small percentage of people who have bad reactions to the SSRIs. Sometimes what happens is they had debilitating depression, then the meds give them enough oomph to do bad stuff they wanted to do but didn’t have the mental energy to do.
Do you blame the meds? Or do you blame the underlying problem? Like fixing the broken leg of the thief so he can go out and steal.
Who resided at 505 Karen Dr.
God has a really sick sense of humor sometimes.
Or a way for other gay men to have a beard with a… beard.
I don’t know, but the cops took a look at his phone, and now he’s being arrested for something not related to the murder.
IYKWIMAITYD
UPDATE: In the article, we get this:
Of course he was.
There really needed to be a flying body check within the first second after she daubed the first bit of paint.
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