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...the wearying, juvenile need to be seen as transgressing bourgeois proprieties...
Actually, I quite agree with that. I hereby nominate "tenure" as the bourgeois value that could use some serious transgressing at this university. Fire these jackals. Force them to obey their own values, for once.
Elsewhere (256)
Heather Mac Donald on a certain newspaper of record: The day after the New York Times informed its readers about the “professional” world of astrology, it ran a front-page story about ICE agents’ alleged reign of terror in Atlanta, Ga., under the Trump administration. This reign of terror consi...
What I think most people outside this little ecosystem of sanity that Mr. Thompson so kindly provides for us, is that the term "postmodernism" isn't an area of academic study of anything at all. When writing something, or describing something, or creating "postmodernist art, the postmodernist isn't demonstrating mastery of a subject or producing anything. Rather, the postmodernist is demonstrating his power to subjugate the reader/viewer/listener to his will: "I, the postmodernist, have the power to force you to pay deference and respect to something that you know is utter crap. I can force you to act in a way that is directly counter to your self-respect, your dignity, your culture, your religion, and indeed, your very freedom of thought. And there's nothing you can do about it."
Therefore, the further from reality postmodernism is, the more effective it is at demonstrating that power. Understood properly, what these academics are doing is demonstrating their power to force the university to act against its interest as a university. The only proper reaction to these postmodernists is to dispatch them with prejudice. Fire them from the faculty, remove the cancer from the institution and never let it return.
Elsewhere (256)
Heather Mac Donald on a certain newspaper of record: The day after the New York Times informed its readers about the “professional” world of astrology, it ran a front-page story about ICE agents’ alleged reign of terror in Atlanta, Ga., under the Trump administration. This reign of terror consi...
And we’re not just talking out of our ass, like we’re smart as fuck, you know what I mean? We read books, and we know shit;
Uhm, yes, you are, in fact, talking out of your ass.
You are, as a group, and as individuals, a strikingly banal gaggle of ass-talkers. In fact, listening to you, I can tell that you can't actually *do* anything, except talk out of your ass.
You don't belong in university, at all. The only reason you are in university at all is because it makes a certain class of overly-credentialed white women and soft-as-silky-pajamas white men feel better about themselves. Well, that, and your skin color is currently fashionable. You are a drag on society. You add nothing and subtract a considerable amount.
You don't belong in a trade school, either. They'd kick you out for being an arrogant pecker-headed moron who can't learn.
You belong in a care home for illiterate sub-morons.
You deserve to be ignored and/or scorned until you produce something that someone else is willing to pay for. Until then, fuck off.
Sow’s Ear
Lifted from the comments, some scenes from the University of California, Irvine, where great minds reveal themselves: Resistance is saying “fuck this,” you know, “fuck the police,” or whoever the fuck you invited over here and then listen to us, listen to what we’re saying. And we’re not just t...
Has anyone bothered to look at his photos?
Lots of photographers take pictures of street kids. Here, for example: http://www.michaelsegalphoto.com/world-gallery/
But, this guy's real genius is using his vacation to take pictures of middle class local kids in poorly composed, low contrast, digital black and whites. He is clearly pushing the boundaries - literally daring his audience to fight off bouts of narcolepsy while looking at his pictures.
I mean, really, could you get ANY more pedantic? A black professor, in a made-up field, with no academic publications, who styles himself as a cross-fit competitor, a narcissistic clothes horse, a pretentiously shitty photographer. Sheesh.
You Mustn’t Stop The Hysteria
In other academic news, it turns out that if you dare to punish students who use coercive mob tactics to threaten and intimidate non-leftist speakers and those who wish to hear them, then you are creating “an unsafe and threatening environment” for students who want to use threatening and coerci...
David - I too am constantly amazed at the uniformity of the liberal fascists. It is so curious to me that if you engage a group of conservatives (or, indeed any group of normal people) on some issue, you're likely to get a variety of thoughtful responses. But, when you engage a Liberal Fascist - and it doesn't matter if its a group or alone - the level of uniformity is absolutely creepy. They say the same things, in the same mind-numbed way, almost like they're reading from a script.
I dated a girl, way back in college who was one of these mind-numbed types. Smart as a whip in real life, but when it came to anything political, it was like her reading comprehension regressed to a 2nd grade level. Couldn't formulate her own rational arguments, couldn't summarize an opposing argument. All she could do was spout slogans. In the end, it came down to her admitting that when she actually took time to listen to and understand my arguments (as above, she couldn't formulate a rebuttal) ...it meant she would have to change her mind (not necessarily to agree with me, but to give my argument some credence instead of simply calling me a poor-hater) or she had to give up the pretext of being a reasonable person.
Her ego couldn't allow her to do it - change her mind that is. Last time I checked (decades ago) she married wealth and spends her time expressing concern for the poor by attending fundraising galas. I've since concluded the creepy, shallow uniformity is a defensive mechanism - a similar thing is built in to all humans at some level when faced with a threat. Liberal Fascists just use it for ego protection. Protecting the ego by refusing to engage ideas that have the power to force a person to change their mind. It's much easier to understand them if you view them as not particularly sophisticated religionists. Which, explains why their vitriol towards Christians.
There Are Witches In The Library
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a conservative student at a small, low-key meeting of College Republicans in a space you’ve booked in advance, in the campus library, when suddenly a crowd of indignant leftists force their way in and start shouting and behaving hysterically, and randomly calli...
This identity politics nonsense is in a contest with enviro-nutbag-ism to see which is the world's dumbest religion
All Types. But Not Yours, Obviously
Speaking, as we were, of clown-shoe identitarians: Update: Somewhat related, this: This statement is in response to an upstanding community crack dealer and career criminal, a self-declared “gang banger,” choking on his own stash while resisting arrest, and whose associates decided to ex...
Quite frankly, if I were running this police department, I would *encourage* this kind of behavior. Think of the cost savings alone. Whenever Abi shows up for work, you can pay her 30% less than when Callum is on the beat.
And Who Are We Today?
I’m not entirely sure how one might go about interacting with someone – say, a police officer, a supposed authority figure - whose identity is apparently so unstable that on any given day they could turn up for work, or to court, as a man or a woman, complete with different names. At some point,...
Oh look! They is fat, talentless, and needing of attention. How very precious and rare.
And The Wonders You Can Do
“As a queer artist I seek to create a temporal historical rupture,” says Texas-based performance artist Sarah Hill, while describing her - sorry, their - 2014 opus They Wonder. “During the performance,” we’re told, “I repeatedly spin around and around in circles.” The reason being that, as an ar...
The sad thing about this young lady's rant is that it's distracting her from solving her problem. She's spending all her time justifying her self-pity and surrounding herself with people who enable and reward that self-pity rather than challenging her to improve and innovate and succeed. Placing all the blame on uncontrollable "others" and complaining about a situation, instead of solving her problem.
I too graduated with a mountain of debt. I rented a shitty little room in a group house for several years. I too lamented and felt helpless under a mountain of debt, filling myself with doubt and fear.
And then I grew the fuck up and stopped whining and started thinking about how to improve my economic situation. I'm no longer poor. Imagine that.
Poverty And How To Get There
It’s time to turn, once again, to the pages of Everyday Feminism, where Ms Hannah Brooks Olsen wants to educate us about “the real face of poverty” – specifically, Millennial poverty, as experienced by herself: As a white, 22-year-old college graduate in a second-hand dress, I did not look like...
But, Lancastrian Oik if the Left did *any* of that they'd be individualists, instead of collectivists, now wouldn't they? And, once you place primacy on individual rights and responsibilities, one loses the ability to blame "men" or "whites" for the problems of women and minorities. And, once you're there, the entire edifice of graft and corruption that undergirds the Left collapses.
The Lamentations Of The Women
Morning, all.
The modern world really has done an enormous disservice to women like Ms. Fab. Our culture has made it so easy to attain a certain level of luxury that humans with very little natural ability or skill can do quite well by themselves, despite their narcissism. We have effectively cordoned these people off from the natural process whereby dysfunction is punished and adaptation is encouraged. Effectively, we've subsidized her anti-social tendencies and allowed her to self-isolate from any feedback which might help her bring value to the civilization she lives in...which, sadly, means that she'll never gain any true satisfaction in her life.
An Intellectual Being
Via the comments, AnotherFred steers us to an outpouring of note by Melissa Fabello, managing editor of Everyday Feminism. In this potentially classic piece, from September last year, Ms Fabello rails against those who presume to question her feminist gospel and its charmless lamentations: If yo...
Seriously, WTF is *anyone* going to actually DO with a degree in "Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies." It's not a scientific degree in any sense of the word. Nowhere does it appear to involve any study of biology or chemistry. One needs no background in logic, philosophy, or reason before beginning or completing this "major." And, quite frankly, no one with a degree in this field has ever produced ANYTHING that some other human on this planet would willingly purchase. Accordingly, I conclude that NO university in its right mind has ANY legitimate educational purpose in allowing such an overtly hostile and anti-intellectual movement to operate under its auspices and with its backing.
This entire academia-wide enterprise of "ignorance and grievance studies" is nothing less than the work of several generations of liberal fascists (think Bill Ayers, Noam Chomsky, etc.) to build a "revolutionary vanguard" of weaponized ignorance they hope to manipulate into fomenting open revolution. These students' belief in the slogans they chant is so shallow they can't even form coherent thoughts, yet they appear willing to sacrifice their futures for this dangerous ideology they are too stupid to truly understand. That is the hallmark of indoctrination, not education.
Someone in the West is going to have to understand that these students and their masters do NOT and will NOT respond to reason or persuasion. They've been propagandized to understand force and force only. Until the enemies of this fascist threat (me among them) are willing to use force to stop them, we will continue to see this threat grow. These universities need to be forced by the legislatures in their respective States to shut these programs down and to fire these pseudo-intellectual charlatans who staff them. If the States aren't capable, Congress and our next President MUST understand the threat and use any and every legal means at his disposal to evict this menace from our campuses.
My Air Horn Proves My Righteousness
No doubt inspired by this defining moment in intellectual discourse, Milo Yiannopoulos is continuing his tour of US campuses. Last night the venue was the University of Minnesota, where Milo was joined by Christina Hoff Sommers, whose work has been mentioned here previously, to have a debate opt...
Dr. Hollins doesn't appear to have included Prof. Shahjahan in her white privilege scheme.
She's clearly doing her part to insure that her offspring don't face status or academic competition from the brown kids and their uppity desire to better their situations in life. She's busy handicapping them in order to reinforce white privilege and to insulate her children's social and class standing. How better to that than to ensure the poor brown dears can't read or write?
Except, well, by teaching them that punctuality and rational thought are to be shunted behind dancing and incense.
None, really. Or at least, none that doesn't involve an even more overt expression of racism.
These people are to human progress what termites are to woodframe homes.
Slacking for Social Justice
It’s the latest thing, according to Riyad A Shahjahan, an assistant professor at Michigan State University, and whose areas of expertise include “social justice theory” and “pedagogies of dissent.” In recent years, scholars have critiqued norms of neoliberal higher education by calling for embod...
The primary purpose of language is to communicate information. Sophisticated users of language communicate large volumes of sophisticated and nuanced information in a relatively short time - allowing listeners to benefit from the collected knowledge transmitted by the speaker in a condensed fashion. This promotes intelligence, progress, efficiency, and, ultimately, a wider dissemination of value (useful information).
Leftism, obviously, has decided to forego the wide dissemination of such valuable information, preferring instead to strip language of much of its information-conveying function. Which, in turn, ensures that the key egalitarian function of language (wide, efficient, distribution of valuable information) is controlled by an elite group of politically-correct, illiberal clergymen instead of by us unreliable (and un-controlled) individuals.
To me, these leftists are seeking nothing less than a complete reversal of the effect Martin Luther had on the church. Except instead of limiting it to the Bible and the clergy, they're seeking to control ALL information, by controlling and limiting the information language is allowed to convey. Instead of democratizing knowledge and information by taking the sacred texts out of the hands of the clergy, these fascists want to restrict the transmission of knowledge and information (language) to an ever-smaller set of "approved" quasi-religious authorities.
They're losing the argument, so instead of adapting their argument to the facts, they're seeking to change the rules.
But I Am Not Androgynous
Let’s call everyone “they”: Gender-neutral language should be the norm, not the exception. So writes Silpa Kovvali, an exquisitely progressive she-person, in the pages of Salon: We are forced to… give in and refer to our co-workers, students and friends as “he” or “she.” The result is that our...
The two guys in that video seem like quite the pair of poofters.
Think Good Thoughts
Peter Hasson discovers that questioning the premise of microaggressions is itself now deemed a microaggression and therefore impermissible: The phrase “politically correct” is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The university’s “Just Words” campaign is the...
Good Golly, by Jeebus, nearly every comment on that linked page appears to have been left by a blithering moron-grade dipshit. Yeah, like the Dark Ages were called that because not everyone had a built-in Sub-Zero refrigerator and a Wolf Range.
I mean, these people claim to have been educated...but by whom and under what definition of education? The Fidel Castro chair at the Hugo Chavez school of economic growth and worldwide toilet paper shortages?
Socialist Economics
This just in: Poverty is not a naturally occurring germ or virus; it is anthropogenically created through wealth extraction. So says the Guardian’s Zoe Williams, coughing up another entry in our series of classic sentences. With reckless disregard for his own mental wellbeing, Tim Worstall atte...
Feminism: Busily proving to men that the worst thing a man can ever do for a woman is to listen to her and take her seriously.
With Each Thrust
From the New York Times, Jennifer Medina on sex education for teenagers: Consent from the person you are kissing — or more — is not merely silence or a lack of protest, Shafia Zaloom, a health educator at the Urban School of San Francisco, told the students. They listened raptly, but several did...
Our precious correspondent blew it - and in the most lesbo-phobic manner possible. That wasn't a criticism or even a conversation starter...it was a pick up line: What she meant was, "you look sweaty and delicious, can I get a taste of that?" And, being the overly sensitive little lesbian-hater that she is, she felt shamed. When, in reality she was doing the shaming. And now there are two ladies in their cars crying about being shamed. But, alas, only one of them has a Grauniad column to cure that ill.
L.
When Starbucks is a Hate Crime Scene
Sweat-shaming is when someone points out your sweatiness as a way to signal disapproval. Like its counterparts, slut-shaming and fat-shaming, sweat-shaming is aimed mainly at women, who are actually not supposed to sweat at all. Well, it’s been a while since we’ve had a classic Guardian sentence...
The thing I find most fascinating is the innate need of all humans to find a religion and a deity to worship. Yes, with the enviro-mental-ist crowd, the hypocrisy is interesting, the magical thinking is fun to dissect and laugh at, and the complete lack of introspection and self-awareness is awe-inspiring, actually. But, at the core, these people feel a deep and almost instinctual need to engage in a series of ritualistic cognitive and physical activities that they believe will provide order and meaning for their lives. And yet, with all of the options available, they choose to invent a new one that is somehow worse by being more egotistical, more apocalyptic and less rational than all that have come before it. An ancient religion (Christianity) lead us out of the Dark Ages, a new one will lead us back.
Achieving Collapse
A few words from the borderline personality cult Deep Green Resistance: The third lady to speak, the one with all-natural, not-at-all-technological adult braces, is Ms Lierre Keith, a former radical vegan and now self-described “gender abolitionist” whose strange mental adventures have previo...
Since my very first listen to Mahler 1 (Chicago Symphony under Solti) in 2005, not a single day has passed without my listening to at least one complete Mahler symphony. And every time I listen I discover something new, something innovative, something wondrously beautiful.
All that to say that the nitwittery on display here is absolutely world class.
You May Clap When Moved
I know, I know. I’ve been starving you of updates from the world of performance art. By way of apology, here’s a short yet challenging piece by a gentleman named Reed Altemus, captured for posterity at the Mobius art collective’s Something Else Fest in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earlier this mont...
I love the asininity of the commenters like this member of the young Comsomol: "To the naysayers: it causes a reaction. Mission accomplished =)"
Drawing Mohammed causes a reaction too, you conformist bastards. I didn't see any of your kind standing up for Charlie Hebdo or Pamela Geller.
Because that would take intelligence and moral courage.
Just Don’t Mention the Giant Vagina
I’m not entirely sure what’s happening here. Via Joan. Update via Franklin. Brace yourselves:
I could give a FLYING FUCK if anyone is the "victim" of this kind of alleged "racism." If you are so incapable of dealing with some jerk who slights you based on your race that you need help from Penny are her pinhead friends, you DESERVE to suffer.
I mean, really. Could you be a bigger wuss? Is there a clearer indication that you are a mentally enfeebled idiot who needs to be institutionalized? I think not. Get a life. Move. Grow up. Excel in school. Do something to insulate yourself from jerks. Whatever it takes. But sitting around and waiting for help from the very same people whom you claim are irredeemably racist, is not just stupid, it's transparently obvious that you are more interested in whinging than you are in improving your life.
Headdesk, She Replied
While we cower in the shadow of Laurie Penny’s mind, here’s another bite-size agony for our ongoing series: The article Laurie finds so inspiring – Racism is to White People as Wind is to the Sky – can be found here. Its profundities include, In the outpourings of grief and anger about the Zi...
My grandmother was the head cook at a public school for 35 years. While she was lacking in formal education and job opportunities, she insisted on sending her children to private school and it had nothing to do with the quality of the food. She didn't like the indoctrination that providing food entailed. To her, it was the duty of every family to provide for their own. And the food sucked too. But, more importantly, she knew that providing food REPLACED the family and taught children to expect things for free. She had the courage to act on what she and every other sentient individual human instinctively knows, but is afraid to acknowledge.
I’m Sorry, But Your Utopia is Just a Little Creepy
Ed Driscoll quotes Rich Lowry on ‘progressive’ parenthood: As the ultimate private institution, the family is a stubborn obstacle to the great collective effort. Insofar as people invest in their own families, they are holding out on the state and unacceptably privileging their own kids over th...
Two levels of Man of Steel: On the cinematic level, it was a bit too frenetic (not unlike another film I thoroughly enjoyed for similar reasons - "The Avengers" ).... On a cultural level it was a HUGELY refreshing experience. There was an unabashed celebration of individuality; manliness; self-sacrifice; liberty; personal responsibility; loyalty to family; and the exceptionalism of Western morality.
No wonder the left hates it.
Louder Than a Speeding Bullet
If review aggregators are anything to go by, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has offended professional critics much more than cinemagoers. Quite a few critics, perhaps those of a certain age, seem to be pining for Richard Donner’s decidedly non-threatening film from 1978. A film I also remembered f...
Is it as obvious to everyone else as it is to me that what these people are doing is creating gigantic mental and psychological distractions for themselves in order to avoid looking at the dismal failures they are? All of their blather is nothing more than an elaborate self-deception to protect their egos from the dismal reality of their shitty little lives.
Your Host’s Idea of Hell (2)
In my nightmare I’m sitting in this audience of socialists and communists, unable to leave, while other socialists and communists - more statusful socialists and communists - spend an hour telling me how “serious” they are, and how important and “dangerous” their ideas are. Amid references to Le...
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