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.
[ Muffled chuckling, clicks schedule. ]
24 hour rule, but it would be similar to the cretin who shot the kids recently.
Hybristophilia
The usual suspects have done as expected, but best of all for me was the brains trust that tweeted ‘no-one mourns the wicked’, which proved that if he’d seen the musical or film, he didn’t understand it at all…
It’s just as likely one of the ATF agents dropped some ammo.
Money was describing himself.
She was fired.
“Canoeing through other people’s excrement since 2007”
[ Slides inadequately wiped canoe paddle to Rafi. ]
[ Washes hands thoroughly. ]
I wonder what would happen if, when one of these people who consider a conservative debater a mortal threat to the Republic, stood up at the microphone. I wonder what would happen — not that I’m advocating for it, mind you — that someone let off a few firecrackers. Maybe three, spaced equally apart.
And I also wonder if it’s considered hate speech to suggest that people who advocate violence as a political solution be forced to realize that they too are vulnerable to the same final solution.
It certainly beats the alternative.
Agree on both ends of the 24-hour rule thing. On the one hand it is important, yet also difficult, to refrain from taking initial information to seriously or accepting it too deeply. OTOH, there is nothing wrong with early speculation. Especially if you keep in mind that it’s speculative. Those who keep their “mouths shut but minds open” are piggybacking their later perceptions on the backs of those who dared to speculate. When they later jump in with their cowardly superiority, it kinda pisses me off. Especially when the f****g lawyers do it. As time eventually reveals more information there is never a distinct point when you would know when you had the full, or as full as necessary, picture. That point is only clear, if ever, with 20/20 hindsight.
Oh really now? Just as likely? It is just as likely that the shooter got away and the ATF has conjured up some elaborate conspiracy in just 12 hours that they are hoping will stand up in court months from now in order to pin this on some antifa-trannie conspiracy, THAT is just as likely as they are actually uncovering real evidence from a real crime scene? Like p(A)=0.5 and p(B)=0.5? Or do you mean some other definition of “just as likely”? Like George, I am curious. Because, bookmark.
My first thought on hearing of the shooting was the shooter was trantifa.
The ATF has a long history of deception & grandstanding, often both at the same time. All government agencies should be treated with skepticism, but the ATF has earned outright distrust.
Yeah. ATF can’t be trusted in the past. At this specific instant in flexing history, I’m willing to give them another chance. Especially…well…like I said. But to your point,
It is best to use the 24-hour rule on this latest information as well, seeing as CNN, etc. has seen fit to…umm…clarify…that those were phrases associated with cultural issues. Think Culture War. And who are the nasty, nasty leaders of the Culture War? Who recently in the news has been most closely associated with the Culture War? It’s a ponder.
Better I Am Curious (George) than I Am Curious (Yellow).
Irrelevant historical trivia: Ancient sling stones were often stamped with words such as “strike” or “catch” or “take that”. Images of thunderbolts, even.
I would hope that the investigators are not leaking any information, lest it endanger the investigation.
My first thought was merely “leftist”.
I’ll acknowledge that we’ve been seeing a lot of murderous trannies lately, but I expect them to usually fall into the “incompetent nutjobs likely to be apprehended at the scene” category.
I’ve also noticed that a large fraction of Antifa “activists” seem to have criminal records–even sex offender records. Everyone Kyle Rittenhouse shot fitted that profile.
I never saw either the musical or the film. Can you clarify?
I heard that they portrayed the Wicked Witch in a very sympathetic light.
On a roof – in those heels?
Two commentaries worth reading – this really is a watershed moment.
https://www.facebook.com/larry.correia/posts/pfbid0aP3vy8au6zVvP1tewn1t6i5oN9D3KtVBj5A8k5aDZahGvQ3L2fNrSsT9er95RHDpl
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/the-changing-of-the-tides
For the Left, “put criminals in jail” = hate speech
“not open borders”= hate speech
“voter ID”= hate speech
“no trans in locker rooms or sports”= hate speech
and thus you are a nazis and deserve to die
This is reminiscent of Monty Python. Specifically this:
What the hell? Wanye Burkett’s Twitter account is gone.
I just searched Twitter, and Wanye seems to have a new account.
… But why?
The most important words in Correia’s post are:
so they don’t get eaten too
I’ve gotten the impression the bien pensants have re-infiltrated the platform.
pst314: “I never saw either the musical or the film. Can you clarify?
I heard that they portrayed the Wicked Witch in a very sympathetic light.“
Yes, that’s precisely it, in the work despite the jubilation of the munchkins, the witch isn’t wicked, and Glinda is clearly mourning her in that number.
Thank you!
That fad for turning villains into heroes really bothered me, no matter how skillfully done. It always got me thinking about the left’s canonization of criminals and terrorists and genocidal tyrants.