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Nov 9, 2019
The last I heard, Mr Livingstone was still hiding in a disabled toilet with a crowd of journalists outside shouting questions about Hitler.
Has he flushed himself yet?
This Is My Shocked Face
Attention, citizens. A hate crime has been detected at Salisbury University: The image, found April 10 on a whiteboard in Blackwell Library, showed a stick figure being hanged and labelled with a racial slur. Underneath was the hashtag “#whitepower.” That’s this image here. After much wailing ...
Re the young woman pictured above - the one constantly interrupting, screaming “fuck you!” and waving her big arms about – our budding intellectual - I very much doubt her passion is driven by the finer points of free speech or social equity or whatever.
Little Miss Cliché Mountain
Well, the Tumblr Tank got the attention she was so desperately seeking...
He’s Being Rugged, And We Can’t Have That
In the pages of the Guardian, masculinity is once again being piously disdained. This time by Mr Grayson Perry, a part-time transvestite and maker of unattractive pottery: The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his sights on the survivalist [Bear Grylls] and his exceptionally rugged version...
...at risk of seeming unkind, readers are invited to compare the mugshots of Mr Perry and Mr Grylls, these two contrasting expressions of modern masculinity, and ponder which is likely to attract the more widespread and vigorous sexual attention.
On a related note, Iowahawk has this to say about a certain aspect of "modern" masculinity.
He’s Being Rugged, And We Can’t Have That
In the pages of the Guardian, masculinity is once again being piously disdained. This time by Mr Grayson Perry, a part-time transvestite and maker of unattractive pottery: The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his sights on the survivalist [Bear Grylls] and his exceptionally rugged version...
wtp,
I used to work for an imaging company in San Diego that did that (among many other things), and I assume they still do. I have a scanner and could do it myself, but if I were to pay someone to do the drudgery of scanning them en masse, that's who I'd call. They seem to have survived the last two recessions, but they're in a much smaller, but nicer facility than when I worked there. I'm guessing that the photographic lab department I was a part of no longer exists.
Friday Ephemera
Apollo 17 in real time. // Real-time Titanic sinking. // Thrill small children with an E.T. barbecue. // The bohemian coffee bars are coming. (1959) // The museum of talking boards. (h/t, Coudal) // Lovely, nasty molecules. // 100 years of memorable shots. // Overly dramatic moray. // Sid James ...
Ms Kai Cheng Thom is, of course, a social worker and an aspiring therapist.
Oh, great. Just what the Narcissist needs: a steady supply of vulnerable, easily manipulated victims.
Unhappy Camper
My whole life, I had struggled with patterns of behaviour and emotion that I knew were “bad,” but couldn’t seem to control. I lied compulsively about things that didn’t make sense. I was terrified of being abandoned, to the point that I became furiously, sometimes abusively, upset if I thought t...
David,
...logically, it’s hard to see how encouraging black students to plan ahead and turn up on time gives some crushing advantage to white students.
It doesn't, in itself, give whites an "advantage" so much as they (the Educators™) do not believe black students are capable of it. They are (unwittingly?) employing the same overtly racist concepts the Klu Klux Klan used a century ago, ergo, blacks are inherently savage and can never be truly civilized.
Elsewhere (196)
Via Bobby in the comments, Michael Wolff on the visions and follies of former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger: If selling had been part of his job description, Rusbridger, who never met a pound he had to earn that didn’t disgust him in some visceral way, would have been disqualified long ago. I...
Tanker,
Why are SJWs so racist as to encourage non-whites to be utter failures, good only for the plantation?
Because they're "Progressives" who really have always been Eugenicists. They've never quite given it up; thanks to their erstwhile fellow travelers in Germany c. 1933-45, they just can't admit it publicly anymore, so they invent foggy euphemisms that they believe might fly over the heads of us peasants.
Elsewhere (196)
Via Bobby in the comments, Michael Wolff on the visions and follies of former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger: If selling had been part of his job description, Rusbridger, who never met a pound he had to earn that didn’t disgust him in some visceral way, would have been disqualified long ago. I...
Jeff Goldstein shoos people off his front porch...
Of course, an Instapundit link to that beautiful rant drew in the Trumpsters, who proved Jeff to be absolutely correct.
Friday Ephemera
Your very own coffee shop ambience. // Chewable coffee cubes. // I’m pretty sure they drugged him. // Sensible advice for the inexperienced gardener. // They were photographed on arrival and again after three glasses of wine. // My hovercraft is full of eels. // Talk to a random Swede. // Remind...
Muphry's Law strikes again.
Friday Ephemera
Your very own coffee shop ambience. // Chewable coffee cubes. // I’m pretty sure they drugged him. // Sensible advice for the inexperienced gardener. // They were photographed on arrival and again after three glasses of wine. // My hovercraft is full of eels. // Talk to a random Swede. // Remind...
Heather Mac Donald on the anti-rational horseshit that is “critical race theory.”
Somewhat related, I suppose: SJWs want to train whites as monkeys.
Friday Ephemera
Your very own coffee shop ambience. // Chewable coffee cubes. // I’m pretty sure they drugged him. // Sensible advice for the inexperienced gardener. // They were photographed on arrival and again after three glasses of wine. // My hovercraft is full of eels. // Talk to a random Swede. // Remind...
Jonathan,
I bet she's told all her comrades how she totally owned two oppressive white males
Some of the comments at the Hypeline link appear to claim that very thing.
Charm School
I don’t want to have a civil discussion. I want to call you assholes. For those who missed it in the comments, here’s a brief but telling video of a delightful exchange of wits, in which Ms Sarah O’Donnell, a student of creative writing and environmental studies at Denison University, berates a ...
It's not like people would fake these things to get attention on social media. Wait...what?
Have any of these "racist incidents" of recent years turned out to be genuine?
You Can Either Concur Or Agree
Some thrilling developments at Edinburgh University: Ms Imogen Wilson, 22, was subject to a “safe space complaint” over her supposedly “inappropriate hand gestures” during a student council meeting. Thug life. No, wait. It wasn’t that kind of gesture. Ms Wilson said she raised her arm in disag...
Apparently, they just laughed when Jamie and Adam said "Don't try this at home."
Today’s Word Is Juxtapose
Laurie is doing her riot girl routine again: And inches above, pinned as important, there’s this:
How did the aggrieved students vote? Did they raise their hands? Perhaps they nodded or shook their heads.
I assume nodding one's head in agreement is still acceptable.
You Can Either Concur Or Agree
Some thrilling developments at Edinburgh University: Ms Imogen Wilson, 22, was subject to a “safe space complaint” over her supposedly “inappropriate hand gestures” during a student council meeting. Thug life. No, wait. It wasn’t that kind of gesture. Ms Wilson said she raised her arm in disag...
I used to think she was just an over-indulged child with the internet as a plaything. Now I think that's too generous.
Today’s Word Is Juxtapose
Laurie is doing her riot girl routine again: And inches above, pinned as important, there’s this:
RY,
Do any these students take time out of protesting and being offended to, you know, *study* anything?
I think it's a safe bet that they're all Grievance Studies majors, so I'd wager they get class credit for their protesting/disrupting/beclowning.
You Can Either Concur Or Agree
Some thrilling developments at Edinburgh University: Ms Imogen Wilson, 22, was subject to a “safe space complaint” over her supposedly “inappropriate hand gestures” during a student council meeting. Thug life. No, wait. It wasn’t that kind of gesture. Ms Wilson said she raised her arm in disag...
Oh, Hi there, Sam!
Next time I'll refresh the page before posting.
You Can Either Concur Or Agree
Some thrilling developments at Edinburgh University: Ms Imogen Wilson, 22, was subject to a “safe space complaint” over her supposedly “inappropriate hand gestures” during a student council meeting. Thug life. No, wait. It wasn’t that kind of gesture. Ms Wilson said she raised her arm in disag...
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Where was I?
I think you were finished.
You Can Either Concur Or Agree
Some thrilling developments at Edinburgh University: Ms Imogen Wilson, 22, was subject to a “safe space complaint” over her supposedly “inappropriate hand gestures” during a student council meeting. Thug life. No, wait. It wasn’t that kind of gesture. Ms Wilson said she raised her arm in disag...
It’s one of the reasons I don’t have a Twitter account.
The only reason I have a Twitter account: This old-school master of internet snark.
A Very Brief Moment Of Triumph
The perils of identity politics, summarised in two-step Twitter form: First: And then, 13 minutes later: Via Cathy Young.
Microagression has reached a new level of absurdity.
(I thought it might be parody, until I scrolled down their Twitter feed. Oh dear lord.)
Lofty Beings
In the pages of Everyday Feminism, creative colossus Katherine Garcia is attempting to justify her suboptimal life choices and their suboptimal consequences: I am – and always have been – a daydreamer. There is proof of this in my school records, which contain copious notes from teachers, commen...
Hedgehog,
Really a transparent ploy to get at least some of the advocates of the changes some employment when they graduate...
Exactly... and all too predictable. They think they're being "progressive" and "revolutionary", but they haven't changed their tune in decades.
Lofty Beings
In the pages of Everyday Feminism, creative colossus Katherine Garcia is attempting to justify her suboptimal life choices and their suboptimal consequences: I am – and always have been – a daydreamer. There is proof of this in my school records, which contain copious notes from teachers, commen...
Well, I know what my name would have been: my parents claimed I was conceived in the back seat of a '49 Mercury... maybe that's why I've been a "car guy" as long as I can remember.
Elsewhere (194)
Heather Mac Donald pokes at the ongoing rot of academia: Earlier this week, several dozen Emory students barged into the school’s administration building to demand protection from “Trump 2016” slogans that had been written in chalk on campus walkways. Acting out a by-now standardised psychodram...
Burnsie,
Odds are her mother didn't know what the word meant, just that it sounded "pretty". In American urban black culture, there almost seems to be competition to come up with the most unique (pronounced yoo-nee-kwa) girls' names (sometimes boys' as well); the one with the most "creative" and unpronounceable spelling wins. Perhaps it began as a rejection of "dominate white culture", but who knows...
(Too be fair, something similar exists in the yuppie/hipster white culture as well. Surnames as first names have been en vogue since the 1980s at least -- and spread to middle class suburbia -- for long enough that it's become almost a cliché.)
Elsewhere (194)
Heather Mac Donald pokes at the ongoing rot of academia: Earlier this week, several dozen Emory students barged into the school’s administration building to demand protection from “Trump 2016” slogans that had been written in chalk on campus walkways. Acting out a by-now standardised psychodram...
mojo,
But that's running into that annoying supply/demand thingie.
Which is why the self-styled "social justice warrior" types have been loudly demanding since the 1970s that these programs be expanded.
Lofty Beings
In the pages of Everyday Feminism, creative colossus Katherine Garcia is attempting to justify her suboptimal life choices and their suboptimal consequences: I am – and always have been – a daydreamer. There is proof of this in my school records, which contain copious notes from teachers, commen...
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