From academia, that hothouse of social progress:
Ah, the arts. Where it’s all thou-shalt-not.
Not really in the spirit of what music is, methinks. Sort of, “You only get to sing this if we think you look right. Because appearance – specifically, your racial classification – is what matters.” And hey, who wouldn’t love a game of Who May Sing What, Based On Their Skin Colour? How terribly uplifting.
Needless to say, no corresponding restrictions or accusations of “cultural appropriation” would be tolerated regarding minority students performing music deemed white. Say, as when the troupe performed the works of the Jonas Brothers and the very pale pop songstress Ariana Grande. But clearly, reciprocal principles would be too much to ask.
Fair point.
Being entirely reasonable, this didn’t go down well.
Yes, I know. The word irony scarcely covers it.
Despite the group’s policy of unilateral racial exclusivity in singing being somewhat dissonant with the university’s codes of conduct, which prohibit “discrimination… based on race,” Mr Phillips was warned that his expectations of fairness and merit might have dire consequences. And there followed exquisitely detailed conditions of any further discussion of the issue, with stern pre-emptive cautions against “aggressive wording.”
Vocal Intensity styles itself as the university’s “premier all-gender a cappella group” and claims to provide “an inclusive environment for all individuals who have a passion for music.” But obviously, not if you fancy singing Alice Smith and Miles Caton’s Last Time (I Seen The Sun) while being offensively white.
Update, via the comments:
Dicentra asks,
Germans or Englishmen?
Well, quite. And the reactiveness of the group’s board – their spluttering that anyone might notice the inconsistency and even dare to point it out – and their remarkably detailed conditions regarding any further discussion – does rather paint a picture of a certain mindset. A type.
As noted here more than once, it does save a lot of time and aggravation if pointed use of the words inclusive, cultural appropriation, etc., is regarded not as a welcome or reassurance, but as a warning of the kinds of personalities you’ll be likely to encounter, should you venture closer, foolishly.
Commenter Aitch quotes this,
And adds,
And hey, everything is so much more fun when it’s been racially organised.
See also, the thrill of ideologically corrected dancing.
But… but… we’re not supposed to acknowledge any conceivable downside, in aggregate, in any context, to any aspect of female psychology. It is, I’m told, the ideal to which all sentient beings must aspire. Even to suggest that there might be such a thing as female psychology, with patterns and traits differing, statistically, from those of men, is to chance one’s arm.
Might want to check on who is doing the telling.
[ Hides breakables, fetches bubble wrap. ]
Maybe riots are called for.
Or majority leftist.
Cryptic error messages are a par for the course.
No, I merely thought you might find it helpful to have an explanation before someone else complains.
[ Insert image of a blushing Elmer Fudd. ]
I’m with Inspector Kemp.
Related.
Consequences, what a concept.
Progressive metaphysics.
You may have to lean into it. Also, note the nodding.
That’s true:
He does do that a lot. I wish he’d push back more against guests with “dubious” opinions.
From the comments:
“It’s a shame that 90% of them make the other 10% look bad.”
Citing safety concerns
Backstory.
Via Mick Hartley
Metaphysics, said the late nineteenth-century idealist philosopher Bradley, is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct; but metaphysics has changed in the meantime, and is now the finding of bad reasons for what we cannot possibly believe however hard we try. — Theodore Dalrymple
“If Somalis get kicked out of America all the Africans will leave with us.”
One more time. Once you surrender to the lie, complications will ensue and rapidly multiply. Best not to give away the store in the first place.
Betting Elon stays.
Complication.
It seems inexplicable that supposedly smart people in US remain democrats in spite of Biden amassing $ from China (etc.), men in women’s sports, open borders, openly hating america etc. But I think the clue is that they just identify the gestalt of “democrats empathetic: therefore good” and “republicans racist” and that is all they need to know. Or want to know. All the talk about Hilary’s emails, lawfare, illegal aliens, etc is just too complicated to pay attention to and causes anxiety if they do. So they tune it out. And of course only watching MSM they never hear about most of it anyway.
Absolute smoke show.
[ Sounds of tiny adjustments, general faffing. ]
“It’s a shame that 90% of them make the other 10% look bad.”
Seems a good response to that Al Sharpton/Jacob Frey interview on organized Somalian crime linked above. The one where Mayor Frey says something about being Jewish but if he did something criminal all Jewish people would not be blamed for it.
Everyone conveniently forgets another nationality/ethnicity that was known for generations for their organized crime. Also, way back in the day, the gangsters who controlled the big cities were from that ethnicity, and if not, generally shared a certain lack of melanin with that ethnicity.
I’m sure there were more than a few innocent Italians that got colored by that broad brush. I also remember that it could be hard to tell which Italians had Mob ties and who didn’t, and sometimes it was just easier to just assume they did.
With an AWFL under each arm and I can die in peace.
No mirror ball? No glow sticks?
“The rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female.”
Oh, I remember that so very well. I was stunned that no one seemed concerned about it. I asked several people if they had seen it. This was when Harvard, which of course did have an egghead reputation, was still rather broadly respected. Those who had seen the story were rather meh. One professional told me that his daughter was studying…hell, I forget what but whatever it was washed out my point in his mind. It was at about this time that I had raised some issues with my doctor, my conservative Presbyterian doctor, concerning the diversity BS I was encountering at work that baffled me. How I got kept after diversity class for being visibly uncomfortable with having to listen for 2-3 hours to what were clearly lies. Things that had nothing to do with my job. When I pointed out this story from Harvard he told me “these things have ways of working out for themselves”. So…don’t worry about it. It’s no big deal.
From the Tim Burton Christmas decor collection 2025?
The young lady who washed my hair this morning was scandalised that I hadn’t yet put up the seasonal festoonery. When I got home, suitably chastened, I began rummaging for baubles and such.
The colour scheme is black and midnight blue. Since you ask.
Old idea, but nobody dreams of working in a coal mine.
For the true lair of evil look it should be all black.
Well, the midnight blue is very nearly black.
[ Admires handiwork, rewards self with large gin and tonic. ]
It gives the lair that festive, jolly atmosphere.
@Stephanie Richer: “coal mines…minecraft…”
That reminds me of another nuturing, child-centered meme:
This is my festive face.
[ Points to face. ]
[ Refreshes gin and tonic. ]
Re: the original post – Scott Adams said nothing wrong. The Bezmenovian Project is likely complete at this point; after two generations there simply aren’t enough people left who remember the original moral foundation of the West and can successfully vote to undo the damage that’s been done.
Like stop-and-frisk, much of what Trump is currently doing is likely illegal in the sense that the Presidency isn’t supposed to have that authority. But like stop-and-frisk it works, and without the people of the United States demanding that their elections be free, fair and transparent, and electing Congressmen and Senators to pass laws that do what Trump is doing now in the penumbra of his Presidential authority, it’s not going to stick.
Helen Andrews’ article may have triggered a preference cascade, but it’s a sign of the end, not a sign of recovery. It’s men, not women, who are in the main nodding along and thinking “maybe letting the women have their way wasn’t the best idea after all”. So all we’ve got is more balkanization, more factions, and they’re ever more hardened against each other.
On rehabilitation and good behaviour.
Y’know, laws against murder have a “disparate impact” on blacks.
The State and its lackeys as hostis humani generis.
This is how it starts. “They make me feel unsafe,” left unquestioned, can lead to “Well, we need to partition them off somewhere, away from the rest of us.”
Though I daresay that a few of the country’s 600,000 guns may have a vote. Even if the Untermenschen aren’t slaughtered at scale this time, it still won’t end well.
Given Africa’s size, I’m gonna guess that Ghanans, Congolese, Kenyans, Tanzanians, Moroccans, Libyans, Nigerians, Ugandans, Sudanese, and all the rest don’t give a rip about Somalians and wouldn’t stand in solidarity with them to guard a hot dog stand.
This chappie has a dry, monotonous delivery but it’s disguising wry humor and mostly based commentary.
The link goes to a horrific situation he analyzes with the mother/son enmeshment from hell.
More like 500 million guns. 107 million gun owners. But if they won’t even show up to the ballot box to do a simple thing like vote, I doubt most of them would ever have the guts to pull a trigger. Most gun ownership is a bluff. Look at how so many “conservatives” abandon people like Rittenhouse, Zimmerman, and even Daniel Penney who didn’t even have a gun. Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians in general are for the most part all hat and no cattle.
On the OP: So he just quit after a bit of pushback from the board? No escalation to the university? The university policies and executive orders are all there on his side. If the university do nothing then he can sue them for millions.
This gutless reaction is why none of this ever gets fixed.
Egggggzactly.