Richard Vedder on a ratio of note:
I recently read in the Wall Street Journal that Stanford University had more administrative staff and faculty than it did students. Specifically, there were 15,750 administrators, 2,288 faculty members, and 16,937 students. The paid help of 18,038 (administrators plus faculty) outnumbered the customers (students) by 1,101. […]
Patrick Dunkley, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access and Community, has a “Director for Positive Sexuality” who “aims to transform the cultural conversation to more fundamentally level-up on both the challenges and possibilities of sexuality” — whatever “fundamentally level-up” means. This sounds like expensive gobbledygook to me. And why do universities even have “sexuality” administrators, especially in a school that has 46 history professors, none of whom teaches a basic survey course in Western Civilisation?
Ah, but once you’ve conjured into being an Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, for instance, someone – most likely several someones – will have to run it, or at least sit around in a designated office while waiting to be paid.
Robert J Morris on race and medicine:
There is a growing belief in medical academia that identifying the race of the patient or prescribing race-specific treatments may lead to “systemic racism” on the part of healthcare professionals… In the past, race was used in presentations precisely because it was helpful to the patient. Now, any mention of race in a case presentation is strongly discouraged in medical education… This is not simply an abstract point about political correctness — the exclusion of race as a variable when determining patient susceptibility and treatments may leave medical practitioners unable to provide black patients with optimal care.
And the ladies at Reduxx once again visit the world of the unwell:
Kara Lynne, the now-ex community manager of [games distributor] Limited Run, was reportedly fired following complaints from a trans activist on Twitter who had dissected Lynne’s social media history. Jonathan “Jessica” Blank, a trans-identified male better known in the
My Little Pony fan community as Purple Tinker, published a Twitter thread on January 6 accusing Lynne of “transphobia” and tagging Limited Run Games in an apparent effort to have her penalised.
The so-called infractions Blank levelled against Lynne included that she had been following popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok, and had posted a tweet expressing opposition to self-identification laws in 2016. Other alleged examples of transphobia included that Lynne had expressed support for the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy video game.
If you think the above sounds a little unhinged, do read on. It turns out that Mr Blank – a self-styled “bully” who declares his own “monstrous and indiscriminate anger” – has a history of, shall we say, questionable behaviour, on many fronts, including an enthusiasm for the prospect of children being exposed to pornography. But hey, pride.
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It turns out that Mr Blank – a self-styled “bully” who declares his own “monstrous and indiscriminate anger” – has a history of, shall we say, questionable behaviour, on many fronts, including an enthusiasm for the prospect of children being exposed to pornography.
[Pretends to be shocked.]
According to Mr Blank, when small children are exposed to pornography – say, while searching for My Little Pony toys – this merely warrants the words “Who gives a fuck?” Mr Blank goes on to boast that he himself was exposed to transgender pornography as a child, supposedly without consequence. Which perhaps isn’t the rebuttal he imagines it to be.
Which perhaps isn’t the rebuttal he imagines it to be.
LOL. Today’s word is understatement.
Well, the whole thing is just a wee bit through-the-looking-glass.
For instance, the games company is supposedly creating an “inclusive culture” – from which one may not demur, even slightly, and in which everyone is caring and sensitive and, like, super-tolerant – by firing any employees who dare to question whether mentally unstable men should be allowed in women’s toilets, changing rooms and rape shelters. It seems that in order to be “inclusive,” one must pander to the spiteful preoccupations of dysmorphic men with serious personality disorders.
They love making lists of wrong-thinkers to get fired.
Among trans activists, it seems to be quite common and something close to a badge of in-group status. What that says about the psychology of those involved, I leave to the reader.
And so, a terminally online, porn-addled misfit gets a woman fired simply for suggesting that some men will abuse effectively unisex toilets, a fact of which evidence abounds, and for liking a Harry Potter game.
Because this, we’re told, is “transphobia.”
By the way, Mr Blank has subsequently issued a statement on his triumph. Inevitably, the first thing to be invoked, at some length, is his own victimhood. Oh, and if you should find Mr Blank’s behaviour malicious or deranged or in any way suboptimal, “You just hate transgender people.”
including an enthusiasm for the prospect of children being exposed to pornography
Some Twitter archeology revealed that he has alluded to having been the victim of statutory rape at the age of 14.
It is always, always, always, always, always about childhood sexual abuse.
Shush, Daniel. Shush. You’re not supposed to notice the patterns.
a fact of which evidence abounds,
Ugh. That was worse than I expected…
It’s not for the faint-hearted. Again, patterns.
a trans-identified male better known in the My Little Pony fan community as Purple Tinker,
And that’s not even the worst bit.
Better make it a large one, barkeep.
One Fuzzy Navel coming up.
a trans-identified male better known in the My Little Pony fan community as Purple Tinker
Just the fact that he is obsessed with My Little Pony should be a warning sign.
This sort of crap is why 87% of my ilk don’t belong to this stupid organization. The problem is when the specialty boards (as noted in the article) buy into this hogwash as it is tied into certification, licensing, and practice privileges.
The fundamental idiocy, though, is that unless blindfolded exams become mandated, it becomes pretty obvious whether the patient is, for example, black, hwite, or East Asian, so why anyone would care if it stated in a presentation is a mystery.
The thing that also needs to be addressed, regardless of phenotype, is where the individual is from if not one’s particular area – e.g., the black guy from Boston is probably not going to have the same problem set as the guy from Uganda.
Of course I am sure asking that will be racist if it isn’t already.
Not completely unrelated in the world of dubious medicine, Lysenko is alive and well in Australia.
“the nation’s leading physicians voted to adopt two new policies today recognizing race as a social construct…”
In this case, “leading” means “the commissars who run the AMA”–bureaucrats, opportunists, careerists, mediocrities who drifted into administration, and depraved political maniacs.
So why can’t I identify as Maori again?
survey course on western civ: The industrial revolution was rather a miracle. We could all still be stuck riding in wagons and without electricity. So this is certainly something everyone needs to know about. We have a system of government & social order rooted in western civ. Failure to teach it is part of our problem.
Too many administrators is one of the big reasons for high cost of college. Schools also compete for students by having the latest gym equipment, amenities, fancy dorms, pretty campus. When I went to state school in 70s everything was minimal but that made it cheap.
Race and medicine. There are genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia that are entirely confined to or mainly found in a particular race. If you have a case describing symptoms without the race info it may not make sense and you cannot prescribe a cure.
There are also problems that a certain minority will not seek medical care even if free, leading to untreated glaucoma, hypertension, and diabetes way out of proportion to their 13% of the population. That is, blindness and death. But of course, the doctors suffer no consequences for other people going blind.
Oh this…last Friday I had a dermatologist appointment. At the checkin they asked me to do the usual verify your information thing. One question that was either new or that I had failed to answer before was ‘Race’. Normally I disregard such things but it being a dermatology appointment, I thought I ought to. Click the box and a drop down list of apparently hundreds of choices appeared. So I start scrolling, scrolling, scrolling down to ‘White’ while it occurs to me maybe I’m ‘Caucasian’. So I ask the 20-something girls there, and I do mean girls, which race I might be to save me the scrolling. I get giggles and “You don’t have to answer that one”. At which point I had finally got down to the ‘White’ area of which there were four choices. The only two I remember where ‘White Mountain’ and ‘White Wolf’. Just plain ‘White’ was not an option. Still curious I scroll back up to search for ‘Caucasian’ which itself was not there. Stunned I ask if this is new or if other people had questioned this. Again, giggles and “You don’t have to answer that one”. Absurd. And the nearly $600 bill for a checkup and a couple biopsies didn’t help matters.
Race and medicine. There are genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs and sickle cell* anemia that are entirely confined to or mainly found in a particular race.
Many such cases, and why this…
…is not only weapons grade bollocks, but flat irresponsible IMNSHO, as is this comment from the NEJM.
A) The only “growing recognition” is among fellow
commieswokesters**;B) In over 30 years the only “racism” I have ever seen is the occasional patient who didn’t want to be seen by, for example, a black or Indian doc. It is, obviously, more “racist” to put a patient at higher risk by ignoring well known risks. “Yeah, that pain in your leg is just a cramp, not at all a sickle crisis.”
Of course there are racist docs (or anything), but the insinuation that, for example, the hwite guy will get a knee transplant for the same thing the black guy gets aspirin, is bullshit.
*(It would be racist to point out that HbS protects one from malaria)
**(An interesting comment on the woke from the offspring of John and Yoko)
The paid help of 18,038 (administrators plus faculty) outnumbered the customers (students) by 1,101.
Someone has to provide employment for the unemployable.
That.
Grown men with a kink about My Little Pony may be weird but what harm can it do?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9485387/FedEx-shooter-Brony-obsessed-Little-Ponies.html
(slowly backs out of room).
Grown men with a kink about My Little Pony may be weird but what harm can it do?
Grown men and women with childish obsessions is a warning sign, although not necessarily a sign of anything dangerous. In my experience most of them turn out to be merely (1) tiresomely childish in their tastes and behaviors, and (2) childish and/or simpleminded in their thinking about serious matters. Thus, they are people to avoid not because they will harm you but because time spent with them is time wasted. Besides, if you train yourself to tolerate and embrace childish adults you will end up warping and degrading your own thinking.
Medicine: natives of the Himalayas have genetic tolerance of thin atmosphere (maybe those from Andes also). Europeans have been found to carry Neanderthal genes for disease resistance. Blacks from certain regions of Africa have a calf structure that makes jumping easier. The black sprint winners are almost all originally from West Africa whereas the distance runners winners are from Ethiopia/Kenya. American Blacks much higher risk of high blood pressure (genetic? Cultural?).
Yes, socially race is constructed but it is a flaw of logic to claim it applies to medicine.
Back when I worked for a “major defense contractor”, on a project about 10 years ago doing work specifically for the UK’s MoD, one of these guys worked there. I didn’t work with him but it creeped me out somewhat. Yes, he was harmless…mostly…I presume…but many pedos are very personable and do not seem dangerous. Especially the groomers. It is only recently that they have been feeling emboldened to be more “out there”. Pretty sure the guy I worked with had to have some sort of a security clearance though the area was not explicitly classified as “Secret” or even “Confidential” (assuming they still have that one). Yet OTOH, a guy I worked with ~35 years ago at KSC, who had a Secret clearance, a married guy with two kids, whom I played basketball, who introduced me to a friend of his who was a utility player in major league baseball, and who was quite personable, funny, whom the women at work all mostly liked was arrested for dropping pants outside of a Catholic elementary school playground. Repeatedly. The kids “knew” him.
Sigourney: “Why do I have to carry a weapon?”
Director: “Because it’s not Sigourney Weaver, it’s Ripley. And she wants to survive.”
Classic Grauniad from 2018.
I’ll just leave this here.
I’ll just leave this here.
I thought that screenshot looked familiar.
In the DSM-5, a Grauniad subscription is a stronger indicator of serious cognitive dysfunction than is attending Brony conventions.
@Karl
By the way, I finished watching The Devil’s Hour. It more-or-less held my attention, and the last episode is the most engaging, but I think the premise is better than the execution. The actor playing the little boy, Isaac, is good, but I wasn’t entirely convinced by Jessica Raine as Lucy. And as she’s the main character, and presumably being set up for a sequel, that wasn’t ideal.
Exercise: yes there is a link. Being fit translates into feeling less need for government to “take care of you” so it makes sense.
Exercise: yes there is a link. Being fit translates into feeling less need for government to “take care of you” so it makes sense.
Certainly can’t have that, comrade!
ccscientist, WTP, Daniel Ream, Farnsworth, JuliaM, Darleen: Some day we will all meet each other face-to-face, in a DEI Reeducation camp.
Unless it is done by physical force or deception I ain’t getting in no boxcar.
pst314: I’ve already had to take DIE training and even though it was one of the “better” ones, it was awful. I’ve also had someone create a wiki page of me that was half true and half insults. And some other stuff. So, scars to show.
Unless it is done by physical force or deception I ain’t getting in no boxcar.
Just my attempt at a joke.
I am done being polite to DEI advocates, and no longer have any reluctance to tell them that they are fascists, with limited intelligence and zero morals. There is no advantage to remaining “friends” with these sorts of vermin.
I’ve also had someone create a wiki page of me that was half true and half insults.
My sympathies. May that someone get what he deserves.
Hard drive check for Mr Blank please.
Ack! I live in California! Ack!
1. The biggest reservoir, by far, in the South SF bay area, is Anderson. Drained to about 30% of capacity about 2011 due to earthquake concerns. Rebuild plans delayed again because the feds added another agency (FERC) to the approver list. maybe work will start in a few more years. Meanwhile, we get both rain and water rationing.
2. Big Tujunga reservoir, North side of LA, which is vital to preventing mudslides and floods, has been seriously overfilled with debris (gravel and boulders) since an arson fire in 2009 burned huge swaths of the Angeles forest. It needs at least 1 million cubic meters removed to be functional. A initial plan, involving 20 state and federal agencies, may be approved soon. Work may start in 2 years, only 17 years after the fire.
3. The new deYoung art museum in SF Golden Gate Park, is depressing and underlit on the inside, and outside looks like a prop from Star Wars – a Fascist First Order command center. Grotesque. And Of course every other art item has a label reminding me that I am an evil colonist and descendant of evil colonists.
4. The rain, by the way, is a bit more than I’m used to, but has resulted in widespread, repeated power outages. Because maintenance isn’t sexy, and PG&E and the Public Utilities Commission have been run by mendacious tools for 50 years.
My dog, though, likes it here.