Reheated (122)
On a theme of leftist librarians, some items from the archives:
Can You Not Feel The Progress?
Middle-school librarians want 11-year-olds to know that whoring is empowering.
Ivy League librarians demand things, struggle with logic, causality.
But really, it’s the same doctrinaire horseshit we’ve seen a hundred times. And according to which, the world will be enormously improved by the “abolition of policing in all its forms.” If that isn’t sufficiently unambiguous, our Ivy League librarians insist that their “ultimate goal” is, and I quote, “the complete abolition of law enforcement… everywhere.” Because “a world without policing” will somehow, rather conveniently, be a world without crime.
And because helping people find the books that they’d like to borrow is just too boring and insufficiently high-status for minds such as these.
Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries.
I bring you the mental exertions of Ms Sofia Leung.
Readers may also wish to ponder the implications of a librarian and self-styled educator, schooled at the University of Washington and Barnard College, New York, and who is offended – something close to enraged – by the existence of “white ideas” and the “so-called ‘knowledge’” of “white dudes.”
Having dismissed as tiresome the entire breadth and history of “white men ideas” – from Ptolemy to Babbage, Tesla to Solzhenitsyn, Turing to Shakespeare – these “white dudes” and their “so-called ‘knowledge’” – Ms Leung then makes clear the kinds of feedback she is willing to entertain: “I still have some thinking to do around this topic, but curious to hear what others think. I’m less interested in hearing that you don’t buy it, so don’t bother with those types of comments.”
That Ms Leung’s overt racial animus and eye-widening ignorance haven’t been mocked out of her or resulted in any kind of censure or career impediment – indeed, quite the opposite – suggests that she’s not entirely without the “privilege” she denounces in others, based solely on their melanin levels.
I’m now trying to imagine a white librarian, employed by MIT, mouthing comparable noises about the history and literature of non-white people, and their obviously malign inclinations, and surviving the day with the approval of their employer, and their peers, and their job, intact.
For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.
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At least she got one bit right.
Heh. That one I think we’d have to allow. Grey area, at least.
Unlike the whole eleven-year-olds-as-sex-workers thing. And the belief that said eleven-year-olds need to know that whoring is valid and empowering, and a prestige occupation, especially if you need cash for some lovely cross-sex hormones and affirming mutilations.
As Mr Muldoon quipped in reply, “That empowering heroin isn’t going to pay for itself, you know.”
It’s like there’s some self-ratcheting dynamic, in which progressive credentials are asserted by a kind of competitive contrivance and perversity, with people trying to out-do each other in their professed tolerance of – or enthusiasm for – life-ruining degeneracy.
If this is an open thread… Trump’s State of the Union highlights.
I tend to think of all threads as open threads. Have at it, me hearties.
Heh. What’s not to like?
Revisiting that post, I see that Ms Leung has taken her site private.
I don’t think she processes disagreement very well. Or factual correction.
So you can imagine her suffering.
Solution: Empower her by forcing her to go out whoring. How could she object?
And hope for more.
I think of Mr Trump as a kind of plaque discloser. He reveals who they are. And he does it seemingly without effort.
I’m still faintly amused by this world of tomorrow in which the new, near-silent washing machine sends me a notification to let me know the laundry is done.
You wish you had my glamorous life.
[ Looks at pile of ironing. ]
On the making of diverse sausage.
I know that melanin apologists will claim that the lack of “great ideas” and literature south of the Sahara is due to slavery something something but dude, that only happened in the 1600s. What about before then? Where was the black Socrates? And don’t give me the black Egypt crap. Nubians ruled Egypt for only a brief period.
Rejecting “dead white guys” is to reject basicly all knowledge. With nothing to replace it. Yeah, that’s the basis for a civilization.
Read an account of Germany where prostitution is legal and if you are on welfare and a job comes open as a prostitute and you refuse it you lose your benefits. hahaha. Cannot verify.
In other library news, there was a big stink a while ago in a couple of Canadian cities. Various young children complained to their parents about the smell and the “creepy” adults that scared them there.
Assuming their children were exaggerating in order to avoid studying, the parents went with their children to the libraries. They discovered that yes, the homeless drug addicts sleeping in the hallways did have a pungent body odour, and in fairness to the children, the participants of the library’s Drag Queen Story Hour were objectively creepy as hell.
They also discovered a shortage of books, as the library’s budgets weren’t enough to cover it being a homeless shelter, an LBGTQ+ outreach program and recruitment center and buy books.
Something had to give, and it was obvious in town hall discussions that while parents had mistakenly believed that the purpose of libraries was to archive knowledge, the city administrators and and librarians made it clear that was a very low priority.
Librarians were shocked to find in the next election that the public voted not to increase the libraries’ budgets.
Unexpectedly™.
Verification?
Other sources indicate it’s not the case.
The shock may well be as performative as the niceness.
It does seem curious how quickly Canadians will accept any outcome, no matter how horrid, as long as it’s labelled ‘the nice thing to do’.
What myths, in some far distant future, will be told of these times?
How in God’s name do these people get hired in the first place?
Ideological capture, I would guess. And behold the result.
And so, we’re to be scolded by emboldened racist dolts who imagine that Paul Dirac, Shakespeare and Isambard Kingdom Brunel were just interchangeable “white dudes,” possessed only of “so-called ‘knowledge.'” Useless “white ideas.”
I mean, it’s like falling into a pit of spiteful morony.
No, wypipo have done nothing, the current wisdom is that they either stole the ideas from POCs, or were secretly stronk POC wymyn. Who can argue with that? The towers of both the Clifton and Royal Albert bridges would look at home in ancient Egypt, after all.
The cameraman deserves a raise.
The towers of both the Clifton and Royal Albert bridges would look at home in ancient Egypt, after all.
Wasn’t ancient Egypt built on slave labor? I know most of the Roman Empire was, but then Romans are just evil wypipo, although so were their slaves, in large part.
Heck a lot of the ancient world, in any area, was built on slave labor, I think. No machinery, just lots and lots of hands forced to do the work. Just lives that didn’t matter because there were always more where those came from should any current slaves die in harness.
Yep, we watched the whole thing … it was long but it went faster than normal because Trump really didn’t meander off into the woods like he tends to do in the middle of such speeches. This was chock full of stuff the whole time.
AND it was like the Democrats had their marching orders not to stand for ANYTHING and Trump not only got them to sit through stuff that any decent person should have stood for but then he got to glare at them and say “shame on you” to their face!
And that he just talked right over the hecklers was great.
Another suggestion is the isolation of sub-Saharan Africa from the rest of the world: The Sahara desert to the north, and poorly navigable rivers which inhibited transportation by water.
But when I look at an equal-area map of the world, I see that sub-Saharan Africa is larger than the Europe which managed to accomplish a lot even aside from communication with East Asia and South Asia.
I suppose that disease should be considered, and then there is the contention that sub-Saharan Africa was so fertile that life was too easy. I’ll leave that aside for the moment as I’m very unsure about it.
The welfare part of the government attempted to impose such a rule, but withdrew it after public condemnation. Speaking personally, I would be pleased to learn that the officials responsible were all forced to work in brothels. Even if it didn’t teach them a lesson, it would make them suffer.
And this is why I so strongly favor an “all leftists are scum” attitude, because it is so extremely rare for someone on the left to object to these evil policies.
But someday it may send you a notification that your washing cycle has been shortened due to your failure to promote Correct Thoughts.
It is all fun and games till your machine gets hacked, the water temperature cranked to Chernobyl, and your blogging thongs shrunk.
That’s what I was taught in school, but then later I was taught in school that such wasn’t the case. Then I learned that that was a lie, that the white Egyptians enslaved others. Then I learned that the Egyptians were actually black and of course didn’t enslave anyone. But then I learned they did chop off a bunch of penises of those they defeated and then enslaved. Then I saw that Egypt did make use of slavery but it was only here and there. Short of learning hieroglyphics, flying to Egypt and reading the walls myself, I decided that there is no way to really know. Not sure what good that knowledge would do for me anyway.
@pst314’s spiritual home?
Oops.
The dem’s alternative SOTU highlight.
Out of context.
Not quite sure what context would make
less false or less vile.
Has he picked the bridge?
Canadian nice: combining the express lane with self-checkout.
But they never are.
Well, indeed. Which does rather suggest that their so-called activism, their professed righteousness, is nothing of the sort. I mean, the objections one might raise are so obvious, so hard to miss, that one would have to make considerable effort to ignore them, to not consider them, somehow, over and over again.
Which may explain Ms Leung’s preconditions regarding feedback. All those things with which she doesn’t wish to be bothered.
And so, it seems much more likely that Ms Leung and her peers, all those bad-tempered inadequates with weirdly uniform blind spots, things they mustn’t think about, are in fact animated by something else. Something much less edifying.
Oops.
New niche victimhood unlocked.
“Karefa-Johnson did not detail the microaggressions she claimed to have suffered.”
“She also declined to explain the ‘substandard service’ she received.”
Smells like bullshit.
Well, in my experience, when people have actually been treated shabbily, for real, they’re generally willing to share at least some specifics. The reluctance to do so, despite the sweeping and rather dramatic claims of downtroddenness, does rather invite suspicion.
I mean, she can hardly claim that she’s motivated by discretion or not wanting to make a fuss.
And madam’s history, noted in the article, doesn’t exactly suggest good faith either.
Maybe it’s time for flight attendants to start wearing bodycams.
Ex-congressperson, now a freedom fighter, with a message sure to win hearts and minds. (language, of course).
Another day ending in Y.
Deep Thoughts™ about hockey.
This one is disappointed with the men’s team.
from the link:
from Wikipedia:
Sf writer Ursula K LeGuin also imagined such a cyber future in one of her books, and her fans were not merely blind to its faults but wildly enthusiastic.
[ Muffled chuckling. ]
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
It’s all toil, toil, toil, you know.
[ Wipes sweat from brow. ]