Meanwhile, in academia:

After all, as this Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge notices, South Asians like her win just as many Olympic running medals as people of sub-Saharan descent. https://t.co/UaINXN7Psd

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) August 23, 2026

To say nothing of differing susceptibility to various diseases, blood and organ donation, and numerous medical treatments.

And that’s before we get to anything too swoon-inducing.

Dr Gopal is currently restricting replies to those who already agree with her, while calling – well, pretty much everyone – “dumb” and “racist.”

Sharp-eyed readers will note that Dr Gopal didn’t check her own very public assertion for basic grammatical errors, possibly on account of being far too busy deleting her own earlier pronouncements. Among which, “White lives don’t matter,” and, inevitably, this:

Abolish whiteness

— Priyamvada Gopal © (@PriyamvadaGopal) June 23, 2020

She’s an educator, you know.

Dr Gopal and her strange mental adventures have entertained us before, with her somewhat ambitious redefinition of violence so as to include anything with which she disagrees, and her belief that being referred to as “madam” by a college porter is racist, proof of “racial profiling,” and a basis for a lengthy and very public persecution drama.

Lifted from the comments, which of course you’re reading:

A thread ensues.

I particularly liked, “Albinos do not have gold nuggets stored inside their skulls.” Though the reminder that “In the UK, we do not shit in the street” also has a certain relevance. Oh, and if the one about public masturbation seems too outlandish, I have news.

And remember, dear reader. This is where we are.

Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly:

Elite opinions change fashion faster than elite wardrobes.

When you express a luxury belief, you are communicating your level of education, your income, and your sociopolitical sympathies. It is an expression of what the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called cultural capital.

You… pic.twitter.com/1UgebJRJT1

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) July 23, 2026

Mr Rob Henderson, speaking above and in this longer interview, has been mentioned here before.

The role of status-seeking in political opinionating, whereby a person’s professed beliefs function as a kind of social jewellery, the latest must-have, has cropped up here quite frequently over the years. Along with the inadvertent social gaffes that can arise if you’re not particularly interested in whether your views are perceived as suitably modish and high-status:

Oh, and this came to mind – on the unhappy siting of adverts – lots of adverts – for assisted suicide:

Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

Mr Burkett tries to explain something to Cathy Young:

It means quite straightforwardly that natives have less political power, because their votes are a smaller share of the overall electorate.

Newcomers do not merely “coexist” alongside you. They form political coalitions. They vote.

Even physical space in a city is to some… https://t.co/jAoNacBKWX

— wanye (@xwanyex) June 27, 2026

For those of you without X accounts:

Needless to say, a thread ensues.

If the subject of queuing, mentioned above, should need an illustration, this grim hint of things to come may reward a revisit.

And from which, this passage seems apposite:

In the replies, regarding Ms Young, someone uses the term feigned obtuseness. Which doesn’t seem unfair.

But hey, it’s just people coexisting.

Ms Young has, of course, been baffled before.

Also, deploy the meme:

And no, it won’t be the last time.

I bring you the deep thoughts of Ms Lily Kaplan. Or more precisely, the thoughts of her peers and educators, regurgitated wholesale in a Valley-Girl vocal fry:

Angry Leftist woman publishes negative review of a restaurant because she thinks it’s too “White”

She says it gives off vibes of “racism, misogyny, and ped*philia” because two White men own it.

If you live in the Phoenix area, consider supporting this restaurant. pic.twitter.com/wDGr0rKzpf

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 16, 2026

Quizzed on her assumptions, Ms Kaplan, a “social media consultant,” says,

And so, not knowing or caring, Ms Kaplan felt entitled to smear a local business, for likes and online clout, with a pre-emptively “unfriendly review,” in which she somehow associates the selling of tacos and carrot cake with “racism, misogyny and paedophilia,” and while describing the opening of a restaurant by two white men as representing “centuries of patriarchy,” and “such a bummer.”

For those of you sturdy enough to endure more of her voice, Ms Kaplan replies to her critics here. Albeit in a rambling and immensely self-flattering manner:

Her latest video doubling down. She’s beyond a misandrist and an absolute moron. pic.twitter.com/e2MXMibxXS

— TC (@tcgoldrush) June 16, 2026

Disdaining strangers, especially men, for being white, as if it were some invalidating condition, isn’t racism, you see, all appearance to the contrary. It’s “punching upwards,” and therefore virtuous, indeed heroic. It’s “speaking truth to power.” And white men as a notional group – including unsuspecting restaurant proprietors – are, it seems, in need of some punching.

Those who suggest otherwise are, and I quote, “fucking idiots.”

Readers may wish to try downing a shot of tequila every time she says “white” in a weary, sneery, but in-no-way-racist way. Inevitably, Ms Kaplan is keen to tell us how she’s “so for real.” “I definitely speak my mind,” says she.

Or at least someone else’s.

Update, via the comments:

Chow Bag quotes this:

And adds,

Indeed. Throughout madam’s rote and modish regurgitations, I kept feeling an urge to shout, THOSE AREN’T YOUR THOUGHTS. THAT ISN’T YOUR MIND.

It’s just the programme running.

Though I suppose the fundamental obnoxiousness is quite sincere.

The real deal, as it were.