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I call bullshit on chocolate covered locusts.
Insects are eaten throughout Africa and Asia, but when I saw them in street markets there were fried or toasted. I doubt chocolate would be lavished upon them.
And local traditions regarding which species were kosher have largely been lost with the mass expulsion/repatriation of Jews from the Levant, Ethiopia, and other areas. The Hasidic Jews who run the kosher hostels in India are largely Ashkenazi and probably have not really explored the matter, IYKWIM
“No Banned Books” and “Science Is Real”
Uh-huh. Sure
There is only one permitted script for those who get degrees in sociology.
Here. David says the beans have not passed through the alimentary canal of a civet cat.
It’s interesting how, like so many of his peers, Mr Gurmendi has learned to frame what is essentially spite as moral sophistication and a basis for in-group status.
This.
The olde-tyme liberals were going to (unintentionally, I’m sure) kill us all with kumbaya kindness. And they came up in a generation where the universities still taught them *something* along with the indoctrination. The nasty, ruthless core of Marxists still kept themselves well hidden.
Now the mask has dropped and the entire Left has taken on that hard, nihilistic character – their abysmal ignorance of all that came before supports willful, gleeful denial/perversion of reality and normal human nature.
I used to be delicate when talking to Liberals… I have no hesitation to rub this current crop’s pierced noses in their own ignorance, and call them on their lies and hypocrisy.
Malice is the essence of leftism.
He also Fellows in Human Rights(wtf that means) at LSE. One of his later tweets he notes:
This is how they think. This is what is important to them. Volume and reach are all they care about.
The question is how many of his followers follow because his tweets are assigned reading and how many are pointing and laughing at him.
If he thinks “followers” is a measure of influence, Iowahawk has twice that and Catturd 4.1 million so less than sardonic innerweb comics, IOW, he is not exactly major league.
Glad I wasn’t the only one. I thought maybe it was a European affectation.
There is no way that you can guarantee that.
This. And the stronger the language, the better.
BenDavid: these weren’t from street markets; my wife’s coworker would get shipments of them from her mother. And by the way, if you visit the Biblical Museum of Natural History, they sell locusts that they certify as kosher, and suggest that they can be coated with chocolate.
Expulsions certainly account for some of the loss of tradition, but not necessarily all of it. To take one example, R. Chaim ibn Attar, in 18th-century Morocco, maintained (and eventually convinced the community there) that none of their local species were kosher, even though they had a longstanding tradition that some of them were.
And yes, the Lubavitchers who run the Chabad Houses and much of the rest of the Jewish infrastructure in India are Ashkenazic Jews, who don’t possess such traditions about the identity of the kosher locusts, so they don’t serve or eat them. (The fact that the Yemenite Jews have such traditions is, according to the mainstream view of halachic authorities, not enough to allow others to do so, though the folks at the BMNH mentioned above evidently disagree.)
Permission granted.
Ancestral sin (colonization): Thomas Sowell put it well–if you personally could not have prevented a thing, you cannot be guilty of that thing. This racial guilt and desire for revenge is understandable but false and dangerous. We can hold a grudge for 1000 years or choose to move on and act decently. As someone pointed out, yes, slavery was awful, but blacks in America are so much better off now than blacks in Africa.
Dems are making “affordability” a key platform this year. This is hilarious because it is Dem policies (restricting housing supply, rent controls, higher taxes, importing migrants who push wages down) that cause the affordability problem, especially for housing. BUT voters don’t do a good job of tracing who caused their woes so it appears to be working as a slogan.
Spite makes right?
One parting shot before the moment totally passes:
Ever think the anger is about the ending of the opportunity to enslave others?
I’m guessing we’re supposed to forget who, exactly, did the capturing and selling. And as noted before, the number of people enslaved within Africa, by Africans, vastly exceeds the number transported to the Americas. And the African slave trade long predated – and outlasted – the exploitation of that unhappy custom by White Devils.
“Allergy advice: Crustaceans”
Everything old is new again.
[ Fetches butterfly net, heads for kitchen. ]
When I was a kid, Pier 1 Imports had an entire display shelf of chocolate covered bugs–ants, bees, etc.
Plenty of meat on a bee.
You first, David.
“The British people do not realize they are in a war.”
Pity they went under. It was a fun place to visit.
Choc grasshoppers–that one is $800/lb. Not exactly ready for being your main protein.
“large, unruly teen gatherings”
Sometimes the right way to handle them is to shoot the little shites
Illustrating that some people are beyond help.
Today’s World Cup lesson: The Norwegians are not an attractive race.
Also, how to make Belgians cry. Well, there’s probably a good number of other ways. But still.
And the amount of spite, callousness, and pure sadism is immeasurably large.
In this link, an “Urban Studies” lecturer says:
In other words, he wants to create slums.
Note that “socially-rented” means government-owned and government-administered. Which means that you will live in the tiny, shabby, poorly maintained apartment assigned to you rather than in the neighborhood you prefer. In the UK today, this means that low-income people are forced to live next door to people of other religions and ethnicities (not to mention generic criminals) who regularly terrorize, assault, and even murder them.
Leftists are not, and should not be treated as, fellow humans.
I’m sorry, but the government of Burkina Faso already called dibs on intervening in this merger.
Treason.
Simon Webb has also taken note of what is happening.
OK, one more.
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/2073904113692106988
America the Beautiful.
Dr Matthews is wildly incoherent and seemingly driven by spite. An urge to inflict some random malice on people about whom he knows nothing, but whose homes are nicer than his own.
And hence his desire to “demolish large areas of high-value owner-occupied housing and replace it with high density, socially-rented housing” – a process he refers to as “physically radical intervention” and “deliberate urban degeneration” – while simultaneously noting that such “mixed communities” don’t actually help those he deems most “marginalised.”
With transplanted proles experiencing “some of the worst outcomes and intense feelings of dislocation and inferiority around their new affluent neighbours.”
And yet he still finds the idea titillating, a thing to be done regardless – as do many Guardian readers, as quoted in the post. (The quoted reader comments being a very small sample of those I could have chosen.)
Dr Matthews spends quite a bit of time enthusing about forcibly creating these doomed and dysfunctional “mixed communities” in posh areas by demolishing homes that he, a sociology lecturer, cannot afford. Presumably on grounds that at least it would make some rich people feel unhappy too.
That’s it. That’s his leftist piety.
And the Guardian thought his ideas worth publishing rather than rejecting them as repellently malevolent. That reveals the true nature of the Guardian, despite any pieties its editors and contributors may voice.