Apparently, black men are the new white men and should be scorned and silenced accordingly:

It’s strange just how often this “intersectionality” business looks an awful lot like a caste system, in which a person’s standing and moral significance, and their ability to take part in discussions, is determined entirely by their race and gender, and other attributes over which they have no meaningful control.

The author of the above, Harvard-educated sociology professor Crystal Fleming, has been noted here before. Via Neontaster.

Tardis take-off caught on camera. || Cat love. (h/t, Damian) || When vortex rings collide. || Levitation. || When lava puts its foot down. || Alice and her pig. || The unexplained dancing plague and other epidemics. || In praise of sweatshops. || An archive of film posters. || On great films that you don’t actually like. Feel free to share your own. || Too many vitamins. || Old Earth. || Modern derp. || Why dogs don’t rule the Earth (yet). || Tulip ballet. || Burger in a can. A taste test ensues. || It’s an ordinary bolt; it’s a tiny hunting knife. || Being woke ain’t easy. || Fight the patriarchy. || The museum of forgotten art supplies. (h/t, Coudal) || And finally, three professional wrestlers in a tug-of-war with a lion cub.

Further to the first item here, on the academic taboo of affirming bourgeois values, Ben Weingarten interviews the woman at the heart of that particular storm, law professor Amy Wax:

Ben Weingarten: There was controversy over your first piece and maybe it’s in part because, while many of your critics would say that every culture is different and who are we to judge which one is superior… they would also say the bourgeois culture that you support is actually inferior and retrograde and regressive — something interesting, I think, in their position.

Amy Wax: Except that they exemplify many of the bourgeois values themselves. And as I point out to them – which only infuriates them more – they try to inculcate those values into their own children. I’m not sure why they do that if they think those values are worthless… They practice what they preach against in many instances.

The whole thing is worth a listen.

To get a sense of the pretension Professor Wax is describing – the laughable perversity of it – try to imagine some of those pretenders – say, tenured academics at Harvard and Yale – aping underclass chav culture in their own comfortable, middle-class homes, with their own comfortable, middle-class children. Apparently, we’re expected to believe that these Woke Denouncers Of Bourgeois Values would be thrilled by their own offspring being involved in burglary or getting pregnant at 15.

You almost have to admire the gall of these clowns.

Meet the academic left, part 3,047. In which a Cambridge lecturer in “postcolonial studies” complains, publicly and at length, about being addressed by a college porter as “madam,” as is the custom.

This is the crucial tweet, but the whole thread is worth a read.https://t.co/Spo4WN19Tj

— Damian Counsell (@DamCou) June 18, 2018

It’s racist, apparently.

Update, via the comments:

Cambridge porters, who see hundreds of people a day, including students, staff, faculty and visitors, tend to address people as “sir” or “madam.” It is in fact the custom. For obvious logistical reasons, Porters are not expected to remember the names and formal titles of every member of staff and faculty, numbering in the thousands, at Cambridge’s 30 or so colleges.

Contrary to Dr Gopal’s hysterical and self-serving tirade, this courtesy – being called madam – is not obvious and damning proof of “aggression,” let alone “racial profiling and unconscious bias.” A more obvious explanation is that Dr Gopal is a preening, delusional cow.

Those who dare to disagree with Dr Gopal’s latest persecution fantasy, including the head of the campus visitor service, are currently being dismissed by her as “presumably white.” So no racism there, obviously.

Readers may wish to ponder whether someone well-adjusted and secure in her intellectual status would engage in a protracted hissy fit over not being immediately recognised and referred to as a Being Of Immense Importance.

And then of course there’s the adage that you can tell a lot about someone by how they treat waiters, checkout assistants, porters, and so forth – anyone that they imagine to be of lower social standing.

Readers are also invited to speculate as to whether Dr Gopal, our high priestess of hair-trigger indignation, knows the name of the porter.

Time, I think, for a visit to the pages of Everyday Feminism, where Ms Ixty Quintanilla is turning her mind to matters ectoplasmic:

I spoke with several individuals who each channel their ancestral spirituality in different ways and asked them how to use spiritual practice as a form of healing and resistance, now during this difficult Trump era and beyond.

You see, when your preferred candidate loses an election, what you really need is some channelling of ancestral spirituality. As opposed to say, a sense of proportion. And so Ms Quintanilla lists some “spiritual practices” in order to enable fellow feminists to cope with the unutterable trauma that is their lives.

Suggestions include Call On Ancestors – which is to say, the dead – and Burn Herbs Mindfully. The latter is surprisingly fraught with complication, as we’re told, emphatically, that we must avoid setting fire to white sage and various endangered plants, and that it is “vital to recognise and respect the ancestors of the land you stand on.” Exactly how one fathoms the particulars of these things, at any given point in history, and how one should respect the relevant no-longer-living parties, assuming one has been able to identify them, is not made clear.

Other recommendations are more prosaic – feeling the breeze, watching trees grow, and, er, pushing up against said trees. No, I don’t know either. But apparently, if your psyche has been exploded and rendered unto dust by the election of someone other than Hillary Clinton, you should immediately find a tree and push up against it. It’s the feminist way.