The Violation Of Others
And in expensive and statusful education news:
It’s protest, you hear. Albeit of a gratuitous and self-serving kind.
Because in order to titillate pinhead students and their pinhead lecturers, you need to frame selfishness and moral squalor as sexy and upscale, and ever-so daring. It’s “radical ethics,” you see.
Unlike modish Manhattan universities that applaud themselves as “a place for fearless progress,” and whose lecturers glamourise shoplifting and the self-satisfied violation of other, better people.
The seminar, since you ask, is the work of Cresa Pugh, a woman who lives in Brooklyn, obviously, and who boasts of “decolonising” and “interrogating” many things, while arriving at entirely predictable conclusions.
You see, being a grubby, antisocial prick and stealing from a library or grocery store is giving it to the man, man.
At which point, readers are invited to imagine Ms Pugh being robbed in broad daylight – a bag-snatching or phone-snatching or possibly a mugging – and her subsequent search for some aesthetic in the experience.
And because sometimes the punchlines just write themselves:
Previously – on needless, habitual mooching as a radical lifestyle thang.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Who’s the thief again?
This came to mind:
Or do our betters only disdain other people’s property?
Laurie Penny totally harshed her vibe.
From the replies,
Heh.
If you like flash mobs and Queen.
I Am NEVER Leaving This App,
The New School for Social Research was founded over 100 years ago as a consciously leftist leftist institution.
Leftists: You think you hate them enough but you don’t.
How to deal with “migrants”.
A leftist has a thought.
[ Insert ‘heat map’ meme here. ]
Today’s word is supervision.
White supremacy is a terrible thing. /sarcasm
And yes, the regime news organs largely ignored this barbaric crime and suppressed the details showing just how savage it was.
How transgressive.
Though, I wonder what they might have to say regarding vigilante violence, if someone else (me, say) objects to their stealing library books or whiskey? Would those “aesthetics” be acceptable?
Of course. At the same time there’s the reality that a kid’s ability to climb out of a crib and manipulate locks in the wee hours of the morning while mom and dad are asleep always manifests itself before parents know the child can.
Child-raising is an adventure. Heh.
WTF does that even mean? How do grocery stores “hoard capital”? Or a museum? And “contested value”? Contested by whom?
ARGH.
Can any organisation taking large sums of money from leftists be all bad?
If he doesn’t like deportation, suggest defenestration or decollation.
Who knew that more criminals on the street = more crime?
I was roughly the same age when I ventured into what was laughingly referred to as the ‘dining room’, which was largely unused except for storage, and discovered an old writing bureau, which wee seedling me found fascinating. Oh, and an aerosol can of silver paint.
After several minutes of suspicious silence, my parents came to see what I was doing.
There was some commotion, as I recall.
From Darleen:
Of course, the question almost answers itself. “Contested” has its meaning within a campus Marxist context, of course. It means “desired by any Leftist who wishes to steal”.
Wouldn’t that be accesory before the fact?
I can see the lawyers salivating to sue them after the first arrest.
Only if the professor specifically teaches them how to steal.
The course description only talks about inventing excuses for stealing.
Yet another rapper.
Why not do that with hip hop “artists”? 😁
Clearly he is a member of the 3% who should be permanently removed from society.
Oh yeah, that! When the usual din goes silent, mischievousness is afoot.
There was this one time when #1 (2 y/o) who got into the refrigerator — woke up to her sitting in the living room happily eating (and covered with) bologna and whipped cream.
#2, at 4, somehow found a permanent marker (navy) and proceeded to scribble lines along 3 walls of her bedroom like some bizarre chair-rail border.
… and the list goes on …
I sometimes think the first step when starting a family should be to put everything of value into storage.
However, I maintain I was adorable with it.
Artist’s impression, for reference.