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.
Progressive wrongness is, it seems to me, often of a particular type. It isn’t just unrealistic or factually incorrect or logically or morally incoherent. There’s very often a sense of contrivance and perversity, of wrongness via effort, suggesting a psychology one might find worthy of study.
Prelude to the stabbing. There’s no conflict, no lunatic ranting, no reason anyone would be noticing him at all. That’s why she is so relaxed sitting right in front of him. He just stands up and slashes her neck. She seems confused by it.
And yes, the regime news organs largely ignored this barbaric crime and suppressed the details showing just how savage it was.
Not here in Knoxville, it isn’t.
One thing this crime did teach was this: if someone orders you to “get in the car” . . . don’t. Even if they have a gun trained on you. Resist and fight because most assuredly, once you’re in the car, you’re not going to live much longer.
[ Has traumatic flashback of bewildered woman ripping open tea bags. ]
If you suffer from colonial memory, she is here to haunt.
Yes. And here is a video much longer than any I saw yesterday.
This is what George Soros and his friends means by an “open society”.
Would that he had died during WWII.
The field works hard to exclude anyone who might want to study that.
Just as it excludes those who want to honestly study crime and dysfunction.
That is often the way it works: A horrific crime which should get national attention is only covered locally–a crime which would get endless national attention if the races of criminal and victim were reversed.
Fortunately, it looks like enough hue and cry is being generated about this crime to force the national organs of deceit to at least minimally cover it.
I went once, in the 80’s. Sure, they have some good museums and art galleries and so on. But they also have San Franciscans.
I made the mistake of walking back to my hotel after dinner one evening–the old “see a city best by walking around” idea. Accosted not just by pan handlers but also by barkers outside strip joints whose conduct seemed calculated to drive people away rather than lure them in.
I never felt any desire to go back.
NYT goes with a ‘conservatives pounce’ article.
But at least that means they must admit the crime occurred.
And we can use their “spin” to further discredit them as servants of evil.
She? That hairline is in full retreat.
As so often with the type, I hear no evidence of autonomous mental activity. I hear only the programme running.
Putting the ‘learned’ into ‘helplessness’.
And of all the possibilities available to her – madam doesn’t strike me as underprivileged and is mouthing The Script Of The Expensively Educated – that’s what she chose to become…?
IKR? The Germans murdered 6 million but they missed that guy. Stupid Germans.
Another thing that I try not to think about… All the money, billions? wasted on those degrees and the glaringly obvious things that should have been studied they turned a blind eye to. It’s like the observational (and other) comedians of the current day. There’s oceans of material waiting to be explored but they don’t want to go there. Of course both sociologists and comedians…and psychologists…who have the same problem…are generally cut from the same cloth.
She? That hairline is in full retreat.
I am making a SWAG based on the shaved head which makes the actual hairline a bit of a guess, and the lack of shoulders.
Meanwhile, “been divorced more times than she has been married…”
New footage shows 90 seconds later, a man tried to staunch her wound (which hit an artery, so she was doomed).
It was a black man.
I wonder what additional enlightening footage will become available today.
NPC is a meme for a reason.
Indeed. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to attempt a civil, good-faith conversation with the person barking at their phone or webcam, and whether the issues that animate them might be explored. By which I mean, discussed in an open-ended way. More often than not – much more often – it seems likely that all they want, and all that they would tolerate, is a pretext to lecture and scold, with escalating vehemence.
In the case above, based on how wickedly pale I am.
Heh. I’ve told my younger sister that she’s not allowed to get married more times than she’s been baptized. Currently holding steady at three.
I had posted this in 2019…or maybe I found it first here. Incredibly funny, though in some ways not intentionally in a 2019 sense so. At the end, when he speaks of judging people on the subway…
I’m just going to leave this here.
Via Tacky Raccoons.
CNN leftist talking head: “He’s hurting, he’s obviously hurting.”
Other CNN leftist talking head: “He’s mentally ill.”
Trump: “We’re bringing back insane asylums.”
CNN leftist talking heads: “YOU CAN’T DO THAT!!!!!”
That would be far-left racist Van Jones, I assume, using a favorite euphemism.
He claims we “don’t know what to do” with such people. But we do; it’s just that he objects to us doing what must be done.
My LinkedIn blocks are going to outnumber my connections at the current rate.
How to burn a towel.
Surprised the author wasn’t arrested for reporting a crime.
Perhaps basing a philosophy of governance on fiction isn’t wise.¹
¹Terry Pratchett excepted.
I KNOW, LET’S DO EVERYTHING WRONG.
People tend to forget how bad crime got by the early 90s. This kind of advice was given ALL THE TIME in any legit self-defense lecture. It was all about 1) awareness of your surroundings 2) How best to flee
None of this ninja-chick crap of some 120 lb girl putting down a couple 250 lb guys with a flying kick or two.
Most criminals have no clue how to fire a gun, so if you run away odds are even if they fire at you, they’ll miss or maybe just wound you. If you get in the car, 100% you die.
Only to a limited extent. Terry did, for instance, have an irrationally rosy view of multiculturalism.
Doing the jobs Americans won’t do.
So much for grilling Babel fish.
I’ll take Sir Terry’s irrationally rosy view of multiculturalism over Ayn Rand’s irrationally rosy view of human rationality.
I just had the time to watch the full 18 minutes (?) of the link pst posted. It’s from above, looking down at the exit door she was sitting in front of. Different angle from what I saw before. Two white guys, at least one with a bicycle, get on and are standing there the whole time. Even as blood is streaming down the steps. But they don’t seem to react at all. I think they were possibly the ones who the perp is talking to about cutting a white girl. Hard to tell from the angle but I don’t think they noticed. They go out the forward door tho. There’s probably more video than hasn’t been released. Other angles. And of course here we are almost three weeks later and there has been no information from the more than half dozen people on the train.
Added: so there is of course other video from other camera angles that I just saw on Wiki. No time to dig further into this and maybe I’m the only one in the dark here but…the more I see, the less I trust anything.
Speaking, as we were, of fare-dodgers, I miss the concept of shame.
An animated chap.
Frankish colonialism.
Speaking, as we were, of fare-dodgers, I miss the concept of shame.
https://archive.is/zJsEX#A%20Taste%20for%20Entitlement
[…] in a galaxy far, far away….
If we start comparing the irrational views of famous authors we’ll be here all day.
In fact, David could set up a separate blog just for that.
And please don’t ask me about the libertarians I knew who got everything they know about libertarianism from Ayn Rand’s novels.
See also Washington DC and Seattle.
Note the progressives who very much object to certain realities being perceived.
Isaac Asimov mentioned doing a lot of fare-dodging as a youth in New York City. His excuse, I suppose, was that it was the Great Depression and the family had little money, but in truth I don’t remember if he bothered to offer excuses. Nor do I remember if Fred Pohl said anything about this in his autobiography.
“Oh boy, a new puzzle to study!” say all the scientists to themselves.
“I was born and raised 5 kilometres from a nuclear power plant.”
Related.
[ Pictures readers now staring at their eyes in the mirror. ]