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.
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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.