Problematic Pallor, Part 362
I want to share with people why I didn’t know I was white. Because I think a lot of people don’t know they are white.
I bring thrilling news from academia:
Professor of education and human development at George Washington University, explains how she needed “somatic embodied training” to “learn that she was white”.
These people are responsible for training new teachers. pic.twitter.com/yXBv2KV7VW
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) October 18, 2021
The speaker quoted above is Dr Julia Storberg-Walker, an associate professor of education at George Washington University. A teacher of teachers, of those who will in turn shape young minds, or try to, anyway. Our educator’s realisation of her own “whiteness” – and thus innate wrongness – was, we’re told, a result of “somatic, embodied training,” which is essential, apparently. In order to struggle with one’s “positionality” as a White Devil, a doer of “harm,” a devourer of souls.
Dr Storberg-Walker’s academic biography tells us,
Her activist/scholar work…
Because one can’t not be an activist, obviously.
is generative and aims to develop equitable and compassionate frameworks, models, and processes for the purpose of catalysing whole planet interdependence and flourishing.
Whole planet flourishing. Goodness. This feat is to be achieved by drawing on,
quantum field theory, and wisdom traditions spanning diverse cultures and historical moments.
Readers are invited to speculate as to exactly how quantum field theory might bear upon such topics as “critical race activism,” or “colonised words,” and how it might inform “deep learning” about the seemingly endless pathologies of being pale. Alas, Dr Storberg-Walker remains coy on the subject, merely teasing us, and instead offers the following:
I see my contribution as an [sic] leadership studies educator grounded in the the [sic] wisdom of the feminine—a voice long submerged and whose time is now.
And,
I have started to find more and more people who share this type of perspective,
An encouraging development, I’m sure.
and I see more and more people yearning for the profound, the wise, and the eternal.
Okay, then. So, the words intersectional woo are entirely inappropriate and should be banished from your minds, you doubting heathens. If racially neurotic women and pretentious ethno-masochism are your thing, we’ve poked this particular bag of crazy before. More than once. 
Quite the profound discovery. First thing I thought of…
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1971/07/15
And I notice Prof. Storberg-Walker has a possessive pronoun too. Has she realized she’s Cis yet?
and I see more and more people yearning for the profound, the wise, and the eternal.
It’s all whitey’s fault.
Readers are invited to speculate as to exactly how quantum field theory might bear upon such topics as “critical race activism,”…
See Deepak Chopra and “Quantum Healing”.
You can sell any stinking shit to liberals if you dress it up with fancy words. Sometimes even without fancy words.
Quite the profound discovery. First thing I thought of…
I’d forgotten that cartoon, thanks.
As one of the Twitter responses said: this is the voice of a cultist.
and I see more and more people yearning for the profound, the wise, and the eternal.
Back in the day, people like that just got religion.
On second thought, they still do, except the gods are just plain old humans. Kinda like cult leaders.
a voice long submerged
And from the looks of things the last 100 years or so, probably for a damn good reason. Her drivel being just one of the more benign examples.
Word salad. The ravings of the deranged. And yet universities view it as erudition to throw in “quantum” and they give such nitwits tenure. When you throw out all standards, this is what you get instead of scholarship.
Isn’t “drawing on wisdom traditions from diverse cultures” called cultural appropriation? Of course the conceit that people living a stone age lifestyle have wisdom to share is simply bonkers.
quantum field theory, and wisdom traditions spanning diverse cultures and historical moments.
Nope. Just nope.
Nope. Just nope.
It must be strange to inhabit an environment in which your peers won’t call you out on even the most eye-widening horseshit.
Lest the favour be returned, presumably.
Hang on!
Suppose I do draw upon wisdom traditions spanning diverse cultures. How do I avoid cultural appropriation™?
Sometimes even without fancy words.
It sounds better in the original Italian.
No comments allowed on the Youtube video. *shocked face*
It must be strange to inhabit an environment in which your peers won’t call you out on even the most eye-widening horseshit.
Lest the favour be returned, presumably.
This is more or less what is happening:
All these “Studies” departments are staffed with charlatans whose “scholarship” cannot meet the standards for publication in an honest scholarly journal. Therefore, they all founded new journals staffed with people just as dishonest as themselves. Then they all cite each other’s garbage “research” in an endless round-robin of fraud.
Prof. Storberg-Walker appears to have mastered the art of gobbledygook.
The professionally ignorant do have an inordinate fondness for terms they do not, & likely can not, understand.
The prof down the hall from me in grad school had a poster up that said “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull”–he meant it as a joke but modern academics have embraced this ancient wisdom.
In similar vein, I saw a clip of a fellow from Iran claiming that Muslims had developed quantum theory 1000 years ago. hahaha no.
I saw a clip of a fellow from Iran claiming that Muslims had developed quantum theory 1000 years ago.
We waz
kangscaliphs an sheet!“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, …
I had a high school AP history teacher who would tell us the same thing. While I did find it amusing, it kinda turned me off from anything non-STEM.
“somatic, embodied training,”
I see the words, know the individual definitions, and have no clue what she is babbling about. Looking it up:
Is Julia trying to tell us she discovered her “whiteness” through dance?
Geez, the years of snake oil and fake goldmine conmen seem transparently quaint compared to these grifters.
These days, one is frequently reminded of the following…
Dole Office Clerk: Occupation?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher.
Dole Office Clerk: What?
Comicus: Stand-up philosopher. I coalesce the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension.
Dole Office Clerk: Oh, a *bullshit* artist!
Quantum field theory? I’d like to sit her down in a chair and say, “you have sixty seconds to explain why the creation and annihilation operators are examples of a graded Grassmann algebra or I’ll shoot you in the head.” There’s gonna be some spatter.
Instalanche!
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/479993/
“you have sixty seconds to explain why the creation and annihilation operators are examples of a graded Grassmann algebra or I’ll shoot you in the head.”
I have read that in Classical Rome bridge builders were required to stand underneath the bridge when the temporary supports were removed. If the bridge collapsed they got what they deserved. Strong motivation for careful work.
I would like to require that those who push Diversity, Equity and Inclusion be required to get life-critical services and products *only* from people who got their degrees and jobs through quotas.
Instalanche!
Hide the good drinks! Put away the breakables and lay down extra sawdust.
People won’t take you seriously if you claim that something is magical. But you can say the same thing by invoking quantum theory. The only differences are: (1) Quantum theory sounds scientific, so it must be legit. (2) Nobody wants to admit that they don’t know what quantum theory is, so they just smile and nod.
But in cases like this, it means exactly the same thing. For the same reason, all the charlatans who called themselves palmists or fortunetellers when I was a kid are now calling themselves psychics. What they do hasn’t changed at all; they just found a new and fancier word for it.
Instalanche!
[ Sounds of document shredder kicking into overdrive. ]
I just see an academic trying to stay one step ahead of the campus Mao-lings who would roast her on a spit for the slightest provocation.
It’s like a hostage video the way she’s mouthing all the platitudes.
This is an affluent, privileged white woman swearing, “I’m one of you!” before the students in her classes declare, “She’s one of them!”
Change one word and see how it sounds.
“It’s all whitey’s fault.”
Whitey’s on the moon.
(Via Ace) Recognizing you have a problem is the first step: “I have to figure out why I’m such a defensive miserable bitch…Everything feels racist, everywhere we go…”
The original tweet has been deleted, but you can find it on the internet Archive Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210914002100/
Will this hyperlink display correctly? It looks badly mangled in the preview window.
Perhaps it would have been easier and quicker for her to have discovered her whiteness if she had merely established her positionality in front of a mirror.
No such luck. David, do you know why this is a problem, and if there is a solution that commenters can use?
David, do you know why this is a problem, and if there is a solution that commenters can use?
No idea, sadly. With Wayback links, it’s generally better to just paste in the url, but that didn’t work this time.
$3 billion for “tree equity” in Biden’s budget: I seem to recall this coming up in decades past, and reformers were surprised to discover that an important cause of “tree inequity” was behavior in “marginalized communities” that tended to kill trees.
No idea, sadly.
I suppose the wise course then is to post the original link along with a link to the Wayback Machine.
I wonder how long she would entertain such thoughts if she looked out her kitchen window one morning to see enemy tanks, followed by infantry, rumbling across the fields toward her town.
Kenyan citizens didn’t wait to find out if he was turning his life around: Escaped child killer who drank blood of victims is beaten to death by mob.
“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, …”
As my graduate advisor at GWC in Chicago used to say ‘You can slice boloney a thousand different ways, but it’s still boloney in the end’.
From “didn’t happen” to “highly ethical” in a microsecond. You can guess what variations of this the left will give us in the near future.
But nobody on the left ever explains how “building an open society” requires protecting criminals, dark-skinned racists, and violently intolerant Muslim fanatics.
Readers are invited to speculate…
It’s all meaningless words making the right animal noise. It is nothing. These people are nihilists, David.
With Wayback links, it’s generally better to just paste in the url, but that didn’t work this time.
Using tinyurl.com to turn the Wayback Machine link into a, well, tiny url generally works.
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Is Julia trying to tell us she discovered her “whiteness” through dance?
More likely through realizing like all white people that she has no rhythm and can’t dance.
What I always find humorous about “academics” who put themselves into debt earning useless credentials is how aware they are that parroting airheaded lefty platitudes is the only way to break into the club and earn a living. The more “hot” your take against capitalism/patriarchy/systemic racism/etc. is, the better your chance of competing for a lucrative paycheck in a mostly useless endeavor. I would like to think there’s a wink-wink awareness of the irony as well as a sense of comfort that no “radical” ideas from the academy are ever going to actually shake the “system.”
In Philadelphia, spouting trendy left wing bullshit and being armed with a PhD will get you tenure at Ivy League Penn, a sweet Victorian home near campus, and enough disposable income to send your kids to a toney upper-class private Quaker school. Meanwhile you’ll never have to do jack shit to lift a finger a sacrifice a minute or a dime to lift up the working class and poor black communities within spitting distance of your leafy campus. It’s the feels and the BS word salad that count and nothing more.
“why the creation and annihilation operators are examples of a graded Grassmann algebra”
Ah…. 4?
“…I didn’t know I was white.”
When a “professor” is too stupid to figure out how to use a mirror, you probably shouldn’t waste your time and money attempting to take her class.
“I want to share with people why I didn’t know I was white. Because I think a lot of people don’t know they are white.”
Rereading that quote, I was struck by the realization that she’s using the word “white” to mean “evil.” She’s saying that she didn’t know she was evil, and she thinks a lot of people don’t know they are evil, either.
If that is what she meant, then she is correct. But not for the reasons she thinks.
Because one can’t not be an activist, obviously.
Lol. It’s mandatory now.