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For newcomers, some items from the archives. Further to this recent item, readers may detect a theme of sorts.
Don’t Oppress My People With The Way You Walk.
Whitey’s hegemonic walking must be disrupted. Along with everything else.
However, perhaps a few atoms of sympathy are in order. It occurs to me that if your immediate environment is one in which race-based claims aren’t subject to challenge or scepticism, even when sweeping and rather dubious, it must be quite unnerving to encounter these things for the first time.
Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries.
Librarian Sofia Leung rails against the White Devil and his books.
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.”
Don’t Oppress My People With Your Acceptance And Compliments.
The Guardian’s Natalie Morris juggles humblebragging with contrived downtroddenness.
Ms Morris tells us that in her youth not being white and not looking like the women seen most often in media and advertising made her feel “insecure.” And yet now, when women who resemble her, racially, are all but ubiquitous in media and advertising – way out of proportion to actual demographics, and even added anachronistically to historical dramas – this is also a cause of unhappiness and resentment, and an excuse for convoluted theories of racial victimhood.
Don’t Oppress My People With Your Big Hooped Earrings.
Not just earrings, mind. Lip-liner, too.
But it is a strange thing, this combination of assumed superiority and infantile emoting. Remember, Ms Martinez and Ms Aguilera emailed the entire campus, repeatedly and quite vehemently, with their views on hooped earrings and who should be allowed to wear them. It does, I think, take a particular chutzpah to publicly claim to be oppressed – by other people’s earrings – while spending more than the median household income at a glorified holiday resort.
Don’t Oppress My People With Your Norms Of Punctuality.
Being expected to arrive for work on time is “systemic white supremacy.”
A “polychronic” culture, since you ask, is one in which chatting and distractions are both commonplace and encouraged, and in which “issues such as promptness” – and reliability and productivity – are not prioritised. As favoured in, say, sub-Saharan Africa, that engine of civilisational blossoming and human betterment.
Oh, and we mustn’t forget this one:
Don’t Oppress My People With Your White Devil Science.
On the hurling of lightning. And the smearing of human faeces.
Other allegedly oppressive phenomena, including departmental acronyms and branded headphones, can be found in the archives.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
It’s the lack of oppression that has made much of the public space untenable.
As the Fish out of Water Advocacy Society, we want you to know that (1) we’re very complicated and we intend to entangle you in our complications, (2) we hate and resent you, and what we hate more than anything are your attempts to be kind to us, (3) the children of Fish out of Water are still Fish out of Water, only with more complicated complexes and deeper seated hatreds of you. (4) Since it”s your job to make it good for us, we expect you to make a commitment as deep as our hatred of you in order to deliver a package of remedies as complicated as our own self-estimation. (5) Takeaway point: there’s no, repeat no, simple obvious humane way of dealing with Fish out of Water.
From the HuffPost comes the tale of a relationship dysfunction in process. Two they/thems who appear to not know what they want…
He’s 34 years old and still lives with his parents. Color me shocked at his criminal behavior.
From the link:
“Evolved.”
The sociopaths who push this rot always couch their inability to form a close pair-bond in terms of enlightenment vs stultifying convention. It was no different during the counterculture revolution, when the line was “nobody can own anyone else.” As if commitment to a deep relationship were “ownership.”
Multiple shallow relationships != freedom or “getting needs met” or endless possibilities.
Unless you’re borderline, in which case you aren’t going to get what you need from any arrangement, because you’re mental.
Well, the cossetting of inadequates has not, on the whole, been a positive thing. And so, we get insufferable narcissists such as Mr Kenny Allen, a beneficiary of racial favouritism in admissions at Northwestern University, and whose blatantly racist outpourings are tolerated, even applauded, by that same institution, as when he rails against white people walking wrongly.
And Mr Allen does this while failing to provide any evidence for his claim, any evidence at all, and while simultaneously explaining that if all white people suddenly began walking in a way of which he approves, this would still be insufficient to ease his delusions of persecution. Because “every aspect of our society” must be corrected. Until the voices in his head stop muttering.
You’d think that even middle-class progressives might eventually tire of this routine. This tedious trajectory.
Also, the crushing racial oppression of wearing trousers and sitting on chairs.
In which we learn that “White-ness” – which is bad, obviously – is the result of “an energetic imbalance caused by a loss of spinal fluidity and awareness of the lower body.”
According to a “genderqueer therapist of colour” who charges $200 an hour.
And let’s not forget those racist pedestrian crossing lights.
What struck me about it all was an absolute unwillingness/inability to commit to anything. Even to gender (they have trendy they/them pronouns). Even to non-commitment (they started out polygamous, became monogamous, and now they’re poly again). I mean. It’s a relationship. It just doesn’t sound like it will be one for much longer, is all.
Fabulist pronouns are a pretty reliable indicator. A blinking red light. I mean, you might as well just have a facial tattoo that says, “I lie.”
Endless possibilities. Infinite love. Yet happiness eludes her. Sorry, eludes them.
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
Still laughing, still not sorry.
Or he could just f*ck off somewhere else.
Well, indeed. That would seem to be the more practical option. It’s not unlike having a houseguest who starts fiddling with the thermostat and bitching about your taste in furnishings.
And this mindset, this obnoxiousness, is actively encouraged as The Path To Importance. Thanks to the racial neuroticism of white, middle-class progressives, students are essentially being told that the way to gain status, the way to become interesting, is to be captious, whiny, and ungrateful.
And to be habitually dishonest.
dicentra: “It was no different during the counterculture revolution…“
I rather miss the hippies of the Sixties. So much more wholesome than their modern equivalent.
Meanwhile, in the obstetrics and gynaecology journal Birth.
The words heteropatriarchal and colonialist are used. Because of course they are.
By the way, should any of you be gin drinkers, I can recommend this:
Not cheap, but quite moreish.
By the way, should any of you be gin drinkers, I can recommend this:
Suitable for G&T or better as the star of a martini?
Oh, very good with tonic. I visited their distillery last year. Sampled some freebies and came back with a couple of bottles.
“was arrested Monday morning at his parents’ $1.1 million home“
So, a self-styled “scholar-activist” who wants to “abolish” the police, and who sees “white supremacy” everywhere, and who brings a hammer to a protest, turns out to be psychological marginal. And indeed dangerous.
Well, goodness. Fancy that.
And speaking of the psychologically marginal.
Another “marginal” person. AKA “Good Humor Man encounters bad humor man”: Man shoots food cart vendor when told price of an ice cream.
I have witnessed this phenomenon: Grown men who go ballistic when disappointed in any way. Chicago’s South Side is full of them. You can deploy armies of “deescalation experts” but what you really need is more incarceration or other forms of segregation.
TBF, this is a $1.1 million home in California.
Liquid nitrogen.
So long as they continue to benefit, to gain from it, why would they tire of it? It is what success via “being smart” means to them.
The grift is strong with this one.
This.
Brilliant.
Census data: Median household income: $138,000. Median per capita income: $65,000. Median home price: $960,000. Median rent: $2,400.
By report, the druids practised human sacrifice for various occasions. Mayhap it’s time to revive a custom and get some use of the otherwise useless Just Stop Oil lot.
And let’s not forget those racist pedestrian crossing lights.
When my sons were quite young we emphasized how important it was to wait for the signal to change before crossing the road. One day when the signal changed they both exclaimed, “White man walking!” Now everyone in the family says it when we’re at a crosswalk.
Will no one warn the public about the sinister meaning of “Red man standing”?
Or the minatory “red hand of no crossing street”?
All of the same complaints would be found by these people if they lived in Japan or Singapore. It is a complaint about civilization. Yes of course civilization imposes on you–but you get the benefits too. The praise of non-white timeframes is pretty hilarious if you are praising, as noted, sub-saharan Africa as a good social system.
Lol. It’s a university. You can’t go around asking for evidence.
Quite. A university where students frame gentle mockery and requests for evidence as “violent feedback.” A claim that is also expected to pass unchallenged. And so, like many of his peers, Mr Allen assumes that he can insult, in print, every white person on campus, and air his racial bigotry, all with impunity, without pushback of any kind.
Only deference will do.
On the topic of racist sitting –
Is that why we see so many videos of ghetto queens twerking? They’re just getting the chakras in order? Limbering up the lower spine? They seem pretty in touch with their lower bodies to me. I dunno what this $200 an hour grifter is on about.
If anyone starts twerking, I’m fetching the fire extinguisher.
You shoulda been here earlier with the hamster urine for Darleen’s photo.
She’s such a tart, that one.
[ Checks escape pod is on hot stand-by. ]
[W]here so many left-wing has-beens end up.
She’s such a tart, that one.
Didn’t Judge Dredd have high rise housing for the dregs of society?
Now, now, these things always go to plan.
I believe that is the plan.
Civilization is boring. We all at times wish to be more animalistic, to say fuck it to rules and niceness. The cost of giving in to those desires is catastrophic. It gives genocide and riots and murder. Deteriorating standards of living. Just look at Haiti right now. Gang leaders are insisting they get a seat at the gov table. Note that the media refuse to cover Haiti anymore. In Mexico, local mayors get murdered. The current mexican president campaigned wearing a bullet proof vest.
Dostoevsky said something related to that.
Challenge accepted.
Brilliant.
There’s something very Canadian about the Munk Debates. If you’re a Canadian and of a certain age it’s who you thought you were. You were open to discussion, debate and argument. It’s part of what defined being Canadian for those of us of a certain age. Unfortunately, given legislation before the House of Commons and the Senate, all that is at risk. This Munk Debate, if the legislation passes, could end up putting you in jail if you argue the “wrong” side. We are no longer a serious country.
Wait. Sloopy is a girl?
Also, that ain’t twerking. It’s too fluid, the movement is side-to-side (no-front-to-back), and they aren’t presenting like mandrils.
I figured it has enough Shake That Thing to provoke David into reaching for the fire extinguisher.
Nobody listens to the lyrics anymore.
Wait. Sloopy is a girl?
I saw the video. I’m pretty sure Sloopy is a girl. As the man said, “it must be jelly, ’cause jam don’t shake like that.”
Though today…who knows.
Hat tip to lead singer/guitar player in that video Rick Derringer who went on to write and perform a Pop/Rock classic, Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo.
Iowahawk introduces us to
Harry Potterone of the Stonehenge idiots. His description is spot on…You mustn’t call them that. They’re totally awesome people who’ve been “justice impacted.” You see, the justice, the prison sentence, just impacted them, like a car accident or some random bolt of lightning. As if it could happen to anyone. As if it were merely bad luck.
Having failed to master a basic, quite important life skill, they have somehow, rather conveniently, evolved beyond such things.
Hence the tears and anxiety, of course.
I think Mr Kaufman’s outpouring – on those supposedly racist pedestrian crossing lights – is quite instructive, albeit in ways he doesn’t seem to comprehend. He is, we’re told, bombarded with such “everyday racism” – again, traffic lights – and hence, one assumes, his rather captious and precarious mental state. And so, he demands a “reckoning,” one that “begins with traffic signals.”
And this man, our New York Times contributor, the one who can detect racism in all manner of mundane things, somehow fails to see his own, rather more obvious racism, or the sheer weirdness of his own pronouncements. And he is clearly resistant to the idea that his own relentless and rather determined misconstrual – his own perversity – is the thing that torments him and makes him unhappy.
He’s probably a Cluster B piece of work, as usual, but he’s also just following incentives. They pay him to suss out racism, they pay him to stir up hate-clicks with audacious statements, they pay him to problematize ordinary things.
All of us thrive on outrage — he’s merely supplying material to meet the demand.
Yes. His role, his function, is to be disaffected. Forever.
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera, laughs at rather niche, bawdy joke. ]
One more time: He and the editors at the New York Times are not fellow Americans.
Whenever you read about a racially motivated murder of a white or asian person, remember that Kaufman and the New York Times bear some responsibility for cultivating such hate.
Well, no. Some of us enjoy it. I was, at one time, perfectly happy to spend my days immersed in the innocent joys of my profession and hobbies. But then I found out what leftists were up to.
People like Kaufman are not just meeting a demand, they are creating it. Stirring it up, if you will. Think of them as serpents who wish to turn every Eden into Hell.
And we are supposed to thrill at prospect of allowing vicious felons into our homes.
Their victims were the ones who were impacted.
Or my father. Who would say, “I told you so.”
Sometimes their victims impact them so severely that they are never again a problem.
Reilly Gaines with a good one-minute spot on protecting girls and women’s sport and spaces.
Unless you’re in California.
Demanding equality while at the same time demanding different, separate treatment (however necessary) gives the argument to the alphabet brigades.
[ Prepares meatballs, grates cheese. ]
The same thing happened with the CHIPS portion of that trillion dollar boondoggle. Premise – get chip building back on American soil. Fine. The catch – same thing – hire union, DIE, criminals, preferred Pantone shades only. And climate mandate crap on top of it. The firms trying to set up chip building in the US gave up – there was no one skilled enough to do the skilled labor, and they weren’t allowed to bring in trained personnel from the home office, and so most gave up. It would cost too much to trained unskilled, undependable, untrustworthy people and produce the quality of chips needed.
The Didn’t Earn It crowd is going to find out that there are some things you actually need merit for and you can’t just wedge in useless and/or malicious people and expect this to magically produce quality products. Actually they may never find out unless they themselves get impacted.
And by then the damage is likely irreparable.
Think of the Third World countries where nothing gets done without first bribing the government officials. What we have in America are just different varieties of the same sorts of payoffs. And I think the percentages diverted rival those in Africa and elsewhere. Only the strength of our economy and culture have insulated us till now, but not for much longer.
I’m having trouble reconciling those two comments.
Note that I have never, never been anything but a paragon of dignity and probity.
I’m complicated. I have facets.
[ Revisits niche bawdy link, laughs again. ]
A thread on academia’s Clown Quarter and its claims.
[ Note to self: Search archives for niche bawdy memes. But not too niche. ]
King Canute?
The other’s got bells on.
Gender-affirming story.
Brings a tear to the eye.
Not quite.
Inclusivity, baby.
“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Gender-affirming story.
Well that was uplifting. Probably literally.
Disney and DIE: my friend from Iran was pouring his heart out to me. He is in software (don’t remember specifics). At age 32 he is being passed up for promotion over and over in favor of POC and women. Apparently Iranians are not POC. He is tall and somewhat dark and handsome. I suggested he wear white shirts and get more tan to emphasize his skin tone. I was joking sort of but what else could I say?
My friend worked at a small manufacturing facility. They had 2 DIE hires who spent all their time hiding in the stockroom and flirting with each other. When they moved them to sit next to the boss, they both just vanished–didn’t even have the dignity to quit.
King Canute?
The other side says equity=excellence to the point where “academic excellence” is becoming a recognizable euphemism like “teen’ or “in the wrong place at the wrong time”, and he feels the need to reinforce that theme by saying excellence=equity. It’s doubtful he believes it himself, it’s disprovable by looking at teams/peoples who’ve achieved anything worthwhile, he’s fooling nobody by imagining that he can pass off his concept of “diversity” (division of labor with the right man for every job, access to mentors and consultants, just the right amount of pushback/loyal opposition/devil’s advocacy) as their concept of “diversity” (representative racial carveup, with our lot trying to take a bit more off the top).
I was joking sort of but what else could I say?
Regardless of his persuasion, he should bring in a prayer rug and other appropriate trappings. If the DIE crowd can play the game, he can too.
Great googly moogly – this utter rubbish was actually in a show.
this utter rubbish was actually in a show.
I saw that earlier. I thought it was satire.
Gender-affirming story.
I’m not buying it. Implants – sure. But estrogen alone, from nothing? Unless he had some massive moobs to start with.
Why are these shouty AGP types always LARPing clown versions of women?
Why are these shouty AGP types always LARPing clown versions of women?
Because, fundamentally, they hate women. Mostly because they get all the cute, straight guys.
he’s also just following incentives
A local radio station swtiched formats three times within a few years, resulting in the exact same morning crew smoothly segueing from gonzo two-fisted-drinking hard rock groupies to mellow avuncular easy listening hosts to shitkicker-wearing country DJs. If they take the King’s Shilling…
Demanding equality while at the same time demanding different, separate treatment (however necessary) gives the argument to the alphabet brigades
I’ll make the ladies a deal – you can have your sports back when we can have our private clubs, gyms, and golf foursomes back. Fair?
And by then the damage is likely irreparable.
Bezmenov tried to warn us.
It’s doubtful he believes it himself, it’s disprovable by looking at teams/peoples who’ve achieved anything worthwhile
You’re missing the point. He’s playing the “Islam is right about women” card. Agreeing with his statement requires rejecting all of the DEI set-asides. Disagreeing with his statement implicitly rejects the statement “No group has a monopoly on excellence” which is a tacit admission that some groups are better than others. It’s a clever rhetorical trap. I think his mistake is thinking this is still 2005; the progs have been dismantling the “merit is color-blind” defense for more than a decade.
A few months later, Quinn went to their first kink party without me, where people who weren’t me might spank them, tie them up, or touch their soft skin
It is always, always, always about childho- aw, you know what? **** it. We’re already past the Bezmenov Horizon. It doesn’t matter. There are too many of these people and no one left to ensure the next generation doesn’t suffer the same fate.