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Richard Lapchick is a business school professor and diversity consultant who for decades has been the media’s go-to guy on furnishing the numbers on there aren’t enough black people in pro sports due to white racism.
“Huh?” you might say. “Last I looked, there were a lot of black guys in pro sports.”
But that’s Lapchick’s point, there should be as many blacks working in white collar jobs in the front office as there are blacks on the playing field. Why are, say, most of the Moneyball nerds running regressions in their cubicles either white or Asian? White supremacy, that’s why.
Lapchick makes decent money charging sports leagues for his “report cards” on how their diversity stats stack up. During the “racial reckoning” his standard speaking fee has reached $15,000.
A core part of his sales pitch for himself is his story of how as an obscure Vanderbilt professor in 1978 who was protesting against apartheid South Africa’s participation in the Davis Cup tennis tournament, he was attacked by two white American racists late at night in the Vanderbilt library who carved on his abdomen the name of a Sahelian country.
From Ethan Strauss’s House of Strauss Substack:
Richard Lapchick is the Robin DiAngelo of sports, with a backstory that reminds of Jussie Smollett
Ethan Strauss
7 hr ago… He is celebrated as a saint by mainstream publications like ESPN.com and Sports Business Journal, both of which he writes for. His local paper covers him with an almost-childlike awe.
His message is mostly a heroic biography, by his own repeated telling. The tale is literally unbelievable, but no matter. It’s a good story. Whether it’s true is besides the point. It’s part of a “truth to power” shtick that so appeals to the powerful.
“Diversity is a business,” says “racial conscience of sport”
The alleged 1978 assault on him was the making of Lapchick’s lucrative career:
… Just like that, the young professor had gone from relatively anonymous “Va. Activist” to someone on the minds of Kurt Vonnegut and Harry Belafonte. From there, Lapchick was off and running as a public figure, eventually attending Nelson Mandela’s inauguration as a personal guest of the president. Some would call such support earned, given what Lapchick purportedly suffered.
The problem with the story Lapchick’s retailed for years is that back in 1978, the authorities commissioned with investigating this incident didn’t believe it to be true. Their doubts were not hidden, and were well-represented in the local media at the time, even if the current media has totally lost track of this aspect when repeating Lapchick’s version.
Dr. Faruk B. Presswalla, the chief medical examiner for the Tidewater area, openly argued against Lipchack’s version of events.
You can’t get much more white supremacist of a name than Faruk B. Presswalla (i.e., presumably Parsi).
… Presswalla’s assessment kicked off a round of skeptical Lapchick coverage in the local press. Ironically, I’d be mostly unaware of such coverage if not for Lapchick’s own Broken Promises: Racism in American Sports, a 1984 work that, for about half its pages, dwelt on the incident and its aftermath. If not for that book, I’d be ignorant of the degree to which police disbelieved Lapchick, and I’d be clueless as to how he made strong skeptics of the local media.
Overall, Lapchick’s impassioned defense against these doubters has the opposite of its intended effect. He may be fortunate that so few people read it.
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Hmm… This Lapchick stuff reminds me of something…
Now, in fact, it reminds to to be reminded that some other, similar things remind me of something.
Something sacred.
Something unquestioned, unquestioned in some countries to the point that questioning it publicly can land you in prison…
… Can land you in prison while apparently nobody of the certain tribe concerned ever protests your imprisonment! (Yet they preach that they are the voice of freedom and enlightenment!)
Yes, this is something we are familiar with. This is yet another thing that does not surprise us.
What surprises us is that nobody here, not even our rightfully esteemed host, nor his most free commenters (except this one of a sort) ever (to my knowledge) draws this analogy.
We very careful what you say. Remember Rick Sanchez?
Yeah, me neither.
I like this new latter Buzz. Buzzed Buzz. Please continue.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Buzz Mohawk
I'm not smart enough to draw or understand your analogy. Don't be coy; this is Unz review ffs.Replies: @Dennis Dale, @Buzz Mohawk
He no doubt doesn’t like the fact that there are currently only three black NFL head coaches (four if you count McDaniel). But this situation is inevitable given that most teams, mainly because of how vital the passing game is to winning, want to have a head coach from the offensive side of the ball. Offensive scheme is more complex than defense or special teams, so the smartest, most creative offensive coordinators, who are the most likely to become head coaches, are overwhelmingly white.
If you look at the CVs of some of the recent, younger head coach hires it actually looks like having a substantial professional playing career is a hindrance rather than a help. They start right out of college as the "assistant to the defensive backs coach" at a backwater Division 1AA program for peanuts. They sleep at the facility and review tape and learn more and more, climbing the coaching tree in relatively small promotions from NCAA to low level NFL positions and then, hopefully a coordinator and then head coach job. The amount of football one would have watched and broken down and studied etc. will have been immense. The number of guys who never got out of the Division 1AA programs is also immense. In contrast, an NFL player is spending his career learning and perfecting usually one single position on one side of the football, in between working to prepare his body for the game.Replies: @njguy73
Now, in fact, it reminds to to be reminded that some other, similar things remind me of something.
Something sacred.
Something unquestioned, unquestioned in some countries to the point that questioning it publicly can land you in prison...
... Can land you in prison while apparently nobody of the certain tribe concerned ever protests your imprisonment! (Yet they preach that they are the voice of freedom and enlightenment!)
Yes, this is something we are familiar with. This is yet another thing that does not surprise us.
What surprises us is that nobody here, not even our rightfully esteemed host, nor his most free commenters (except this one of a sort) ever (to my knowledge) draws this analogy.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Tim, @Mike Tre, @Ghost of Bull Moose
Oops, I left this out:
Remind you of anything?
https://seed151.bitchute.com/lvlh76IW8FPZ/gY9CzlpGwSv8.mp4☮
“Lapchick”? The very name is sexist!
Seriously, Dad played with the Orignal Celtics in the pre-NBA days. Joe Lapchick was born in the 19th century, Richard after WW2. It’s a Czech name, like Dolezal. Slavs don’t have to be Jewish to be crazy.
Off-tropic: the sinking of the Brazizmarck. She wasn’t welcome in the Med.
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/against-advising-of-environmentalists-brazilian-navy-slated-to-sink-toxic
Brazil Proceeds with Sinking Aircraft Carrier Despite Protests
Oi, Mr iSteve, I have a bone to pick with you. You keep telling me that Spielberg is a genius director. I have just watched one of his films. Bridge of Spies – slow, corny, predictable rubbish.
A couple of decent quips in the script, a good turn by the chap playing the Russian spy, and a dull turn from Mr Hanks: these do not add up to a work of genius or even of middling competence. Pah!
And so we have the connection between those two tribes so different from each other yet simultaneously envious of us — and thus allies against us, one led by the other. Myths, distorted versions of history, linking them in their hatred.
The guilts and participations of their own ancestors (which often caused or facilitated the very history about which they complain!) left completely out of their descriptions of their mythological pasts.
Q: When are our Chinese overlords arriving, to put this clown car of a country out of its misery? A: Sooner than you think!
Can this even be real? I admit that a large part of me hopes so..
One of the themes (and tells) of these stories is that the attack itself makes no sense. For example, if you were drinking in a bar, became careless, and over-loudly announced a politically sensitive assertion, so somebody with a family connection to the issue decked you, I don’t think the most paranoid (=sensible) conspiracy theorist would dismiss the story, until people’s schedules that night started failing to line up. Instead they make the attack so elaborate that even a truthful storyteller with a sympathetic audience would be asked for evidence.
(Was the country Rhodesia? It would pretty much have to be, right? Why not say that? But is that really anywhere near the Sahel? Why would awful racists carve another country name —
Steve: “Remember, they’re American racists. They have no grasp of geography.”
Okay, then why write any country name at all?
Steve: “Because American antiracists also hate geography.”)
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OT — Our illegitimate and failing government notes with alarm a Chinese observation balloon (Good God man, the Tongs have mechanologically caught up with Vicki, whom God save!) over an American military base. Oh, so suddenly feds care about borders? Reminder that they were cool with Chinese buying farmland (legislation is being proposed only now prohibiting this) and specifically with Chinese buying farmland bordering our most important comms base. Why can’t we just skip the killing and get to the reverse Marshall plan?
A couple of decent quips in the script, a good turn by the chap playing the Russian spy, and a dull turn from Mr Hanks: these do not add up to a work of genius or even of middling competence. Pah!Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @J.Ross, @Graham
You are correct. That is Schpeelberg.
His Close Encounters and his E.T. could have been wonderful, thoughtful things, but of course they were not. They were his suburban, Disney interpretations at the elementary school level.
His Lincoln was a disgrace, oversimplified, with a Daniel Day Lewis pretending an accent of which no one knows anything — coming across as nothing better than a parody of a hillbilly sitting on his porch in the countryside.
Schpeelberg is Schmaltz.
OT — School board officials: violence is spiraling out of control.
Also school board officials: our advice to you is to enroll in a different school.
Warning: it is possible that after reading the following Russian disinformation, you will oppose vivisection and littering, you will want capital and labor to work together, and you will admire classical architecture. Just keep visualizing Grunwald and it’ll keep you straight.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/florida-girl-9-beaten-by-two-boys-in-school-bus-attack/
The parents of a 9-year-old Florida girl who was videoed being mercilessly beaten by two boys aboard a school bus plan to pursue criminal charges against her attackers, according to reports.
Footage of the stomach-churning assault shows two boys ferociously and repeatedly pummeling the third grader at Coconut Palm K-8 Academy in Homestead as she desperately tries to fend them off.
No adults intervene during the almost 30 seconds of the attack which was video recorded by a classmate.
The mother of the victim told Local 10 she will demand criminal charges against her child’s assailants.
She told the outlet that school administrators are overwhelmed by spiraling violence inside and around the school — and their response was to advise her to enroll her three children elsewhere.
The heartbroken mom noted her two older kids have also been bullied during their brief time at the school — and counselors and administrators have done nothing to address her complaints.
Meanwhile, three female Florida high school students — two 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old — were arrested this week for their role in yet another violent campus melee caught on tape.
That footage shows five girls relentlessly punching a student at West Broward High School in Pembroke Pines on Jan. 24.
The victim in the case suffered a concussion, Local 10 reported.
After the video circulated, principal Brad Fatout warned that students who filmed fights would be disciplined in the future, arguing the footage incites violence.
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End excerpt. Note the bit at the end. Like the South Park episode, “How do we stop these young boys from talking about it?”
It must be a good grift since he’s been running it since 1978. But there are tons of people who desperately want to believe this tripe.
Agree with Buzz that Close Encounters and E.T. blew dead dogs. That’s all I could understand from his posts. Too much fermented maple syrup, perhaps? 😉
Nah, Buzz is nothing if not loyal. Only Barack Palinka for him. Egészségedre!
A couple of decent quips in the script, a good turn by the chap playing the Russian spy, and a dull turn from Mr Hanks: these do not add up to a work of genius or even of middling competence. Pah!Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @J.Ross, @Graham
70s/80s Spielberg was easily among the best directors working, objectively, and absolutely changed the art form, and was affecting everybody else in the industry (cf HR Giger — you may not like Art Nouveau curves transposed into body horror, but notice that after Giger became known, absolutely everybody was ripping him off). Bridge of Spies (and, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess The Post as well) are regime propaganda, so even had they been done by young Spielberg (or, for that matter, Riefenstahl at any age), they are required to suck. See Jaws and tell me Spielberg isn’t on the ball.
I agree on Speilberg. Always have sort of a smarmy unreality to them. Like TV sitcoms in a way. I did like Minority Report, mostly, which had more of an edge to it.
Reminds me of when Morton Downey Jr claimed he’d been attacked in an elevator and had a swastika scrawled on his forehead. But it was clear the swastika had been drawn by someone looking at themselves in a mirror
Duel was good. Nothing beats early 70s TV
Go ahead, drive up US Highway 395 or similar routes if you dare.Replies: @njguy73, @Known Fact, @David In TN
This reminds me of some else.
Susan Estrich, the first woman head of Harvard Law Review, the first woman to lead a presidential campaign (Dukakis, 1988), law professor, and for many years, ubiquitous talking head on news shows, first entered the public arena as an expert of the subject of rape. Real Rape was the name of her book, published in 1987.
Conveniently, she said that some of her expertise was based on personal experience. In 1975 , just after she would have graduated law school, she herself was raped by an icepick-wielding assailant. According to her story, she never filed a police report of the rape, even though two police officers responded to her frantic calls for assistance. It seem that the police officers convinced her to just drop the matter because, well, you know, it’s really the female victims who are put on trial in a rape case, they’ll charge you with being a slut, etc.
So her story contains its own excuse for not doing the obvious – putting a report on file, perhaps helping the cops to apprehend a serial rapist in the area. Instead, this past editor of the Harvard Law Review took legal advice from two flatfoots?
Of course, filing a false police report is itself a crime so, maybe . . . I mean, I don’t know. But the story has sounded fishy to be since the first time I heard it.
This seemed as good a place as any to mention my long standing suspicion.
"While at Simmons College, Ifill interned for the Boston Herald-American. One day at work, she discovered a note on her desk that read, "N****r go home." After showing the note to editors at the newspaper, who "were horrified," they offered her a job when she graduated from college in 1977.[12][9] Ifill's close friend Michele Norris stated that Ifill said, "'That was really unfortunate, but I have work to do.' And that's how she got the job. She didn't get the job out of sympathy. She got the job because she didn't let that slow her down."
-walla means “-monger” or similar job. Presswalla is obviously a journalist. There is a family name like Sodabottlewalla out there, too.
https://nosh.northwestern.edu/
“White privilege” blood libel, such as was supported by Smullett’s act, has apparently driven a black man to fatally attack a white medical doctor.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/driver-mows-down-biking-doctor-before-stabbing-him-to-death-on-pch-cops/
I’m not even mad, I’m impressed.
OT — Scientists discover new corollary to Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702641/Unattractive-people-likely-continue-wearing-Covid-face-masks-study-suggests.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11708085/Bodies-three-missing-Michigan-rappers-Detroit-apartment-building-disappearing.html?ico=related-replace-2
Ok, Noticers, here’s a story with enough clues in it we should be able to make an educated guess at what happened to the three black men whose bodies were discovered under debris in an abandoned Detroit apartment building.
They were aspiring rappers, naturally, but, in this case, they were in fact on their way to perform at a club when they disappeared.
Lots of oddities, like their car covered in mud, and so on.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&q=chicken+on+lap&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWi4L6v_j8AhWBnWoFHXBLDGwQ0pQJegQIIxAB&biw=768&bih=954&dpr=2#imgrc=JlEQR_CBFI7TGM
With the price of eggs these days, the old saying should be “…but keep your chicks closer.”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/driver-mows-down-biking-doctor-before-stabbing-him-to-death-on-pch-cops/Replies: @Steve Sailer
Thanks.
Richard Lapchick goes back way further than that. His first public appearance as a declared ultra liberal was in Sports Illustrated in 1968.
here is the 6 paragraph letter he wrote to SI, published in the July 22, 1968 issue, part of an SI series on The Black Athlete:
Richard Lapchick comes out publicly as Diversity Man in SI
It’s a very bad sign the trailer for Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a thousand times better than the film (this is the one that from ancient memory includes a Frenchman dramatically walking (through a beach) and putting on sunglasses). Wasn’t an awful movie, but as you said below its potential.
E.T. though was bad, Jaws was well done but ugly although I was pretty young the one time I watched that when it came out, but Raiders of the Lost Ark hit it out of the ballpark (except note the awkward discussion with him, another Jew in that circle and Lucas about how the romantic interest should have been much younger pedobait when Jones first had a relationship with her). On the other hand not a film I’ve really wanted to rewatch.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was so very bad, to the point it was hard to believe it was done by the creative talent that I didn’t watch anything more he did. Was there anything else that reached the above two “significantly better than average” moves by my scoring? I’ve heard a lot about Jurassic Park and, hey, it features a Connection Machine 1. And Duel is also supposed to have been really good.
The one Spielberg I remember liking without reservation was Catch Me If You Can. Which, come to think of it, was probably the least Spielbergian of his films.
Similarly with Tarantino and Once Upon a Time… I’m not a fan of either director but I liked those movies a lot..
I tried watching the Hollywood movie but cut out after a few minutes. Seemed like the two male leads were mugging for the camera and movie seemed smug. Also, nothing happened...and I never got any "hook". (I don't need a car crash, but compare how Jackie Brown gets you right away, even in the intro credits.)Replies: @Jim Don Bob
Agree with Buzz that Close Encounters and E.T. blew dead dogs. That's all I could understand from his posts. Too much fermented maple syrup, perhaps? ;-)Replies: @kaganovitch
Too much fermented maple syrup, perhaps?
Nah, Buzz is nothing if not loyal. Only Barack Palinka for him. Egészségedre!
Most of the time, the trailer is the movie. The crap playing in the theater is just filler.
Even major critic Buzz Mohawk here said of it and E.T. which I'm much more critical of that "They were his suburban, Disney interpretations at the elementary school level." I'd up that to high school which I was conveniently in, and it wasn't a huge disappointment like the wretched plotting of Alien in 1979. Although, heck, these films, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica first TV season and movie, and a few low budget films like Silent Running were head and shoulders above Hollywood's general SF output in that era like the all but completely forgettable The Last Starfighter. We were hungry for good SF back then. See also Japan's anime output some of which made it over here dubbed fairly quickly as those things went back then, here as Starblazers and Robotech.
But if you look at the early Spielberg list of films today, The Sugarland Express after Duel was forgettable I think and "the lowest-grossing film of Spielberg's career" per Wikipedia although it make back 4X what it cost. 1941 after Close Encounters was a critical flop and a box office disappointment after the blockbuster of Jaws and the very big success of Close Encounters. Which I should repeat wasn't a terrible film, but, say, a thoroughly uneven but overall good one if you were at all into UFOs ,which were a big thing in the 1970s.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Stan Adams
Shoot it down? Why not just capture it for analysis and possible reverse engineering?
They’re probably all still on the road.
Couldn’t agree more. I don’t really like Spielberg movies, and I don’t really like Leonardo di Caprio’s frequently-smirking face, but I love that movie. It’s smartly-paced, glories in the glorious early-60s chic, and I admit Leonardo does a great job.
Why couldn’t a Parsi person be racist against blacks? Or even white supremacist?
A couple of decent quips in the script, a good turn by the chap playing the Russian spy, and a dull turn from Mr Hanks: these do not add up to a work of genius or even of middling competence. Pah!Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @J.Ross, @Graham
Oi, Dearieme! It’s a matter of taste. I enjoyed Bridge of Spies greatly. Subtle, engaging, believable.
Because it’s probably filled with Teh Covid, duh
More likely descended from a family that has owned a press. Perhaps, a printing press?
Now, in fact, it reminds to to be reminded that some other, similar things remind me of something.
Something sacred.
Something unquestioned, unquestioned in some countries to the point that questioning it publicly can land you in prison...
... Can land you in prison while apparently nobody of the certain tribe concerned ever protests your imprisonment! (Yet they preach that they are the voice of freedom and enlightenment!)
Yes, this is something we are familiar with. This is yet another thing that does not surprise us.
What surprises us is that nobody here, not even our rightfully esteemed host, nor his most free commenters (except this one of a sort) ever (to my knowledge) draws this analogy.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Tim, @Mike Tre, @Ghost of Bull Moose
Buzz Mohawk,
We very careful what you say. Remember Rick Sanchez?
Yeah, me neither.
Steve,
I am always surprised that some enterprising conservative activist has not picked up on suing public schools and HBU’s for having the widest gaps in sports participation between males and females. The suburban school that are majority white/Asian have sports like soccer, field hockey, lacrosse, volleyball, golf, tennis to increase female participation. Yet, urban schools do not, One of the complaints about many of the high schools in NYC is the lack of virtually all competitive sports teams.
Yet, I never see or hear any of the usual black activist standing up for black girls or young women.
Steve,
You should write a column about how name, image, and likeness along with the transport portal are affecting college sports. Some college football teams added over 40 new players in a single off season. What is not being reported is what the school is doing to create the sports for the new recruits, who are the players being forced out, and where are the forced out players going.
Now, in fact, it reminds to to be reminded that some other, similar things remind me of something.
Something sacred.
Something unquestioned, unquestioned in some countries to the point that questioning it publicly can land you in prison...
... Can land you in prison while apparently nobody of the certain tribe concerned ever protests your imprisonment! (Yet they preach that they are the voice of freedom and enlightenment!)
Yes, this is something we are familiar with. This is yet another thing that does not surprise us.
What surprises us is that nobody here, not even our rightfully esteemed host, nor his most free commenters (except this one of a sort) ever (to my knowledge) draws this analogy.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Tim, @Mike Tre, @Ghost of Bull Moose
Have you been into your cups Buzz? Because lately you’ve had two distinct moods coming across in your posts. One is the normal calm and polite Buzz, the other is ZFG and you can all KMA Buzz.
I like this new latter Buzz. Buzzed Buzz. Please continue.
And you're right. ZFG about sums up my attitude now.
Thanks.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Mike Tre
They’re probably all still on the dock.
You’re being too patient. The notion that a pair of police officers talked her out of filing a police report is not credible. (Marilyn French put a scene similar to this in one of her novels). Much of the feminist discourse of the era consisted of social fictions whose source was the imagination of the author.
The theme of the column was "conservatives use racism to defeat we Noble Liberals."
Michael Crichton walked out of the screening of Jurassic Park. The older I get, the more shallow Spielberg’s movies reveal themselves to be.
Nosh Contractor is my own favorite Parsi:
https://nosh.northwestern.edu/
“Richard Lapchick is the Robin DiAngelo of sports”
Yes, and Robin DiAngelo, (plus Ibram Xgenius and Ta-Genius Coats and the rest of the mob) is the Julius Streicher of everything else.
Duel, Jaws, Jurassic Park, the opening and closing 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan (See James Bowman’s review. Of SPR- he nails it, I think) are all outstanding- Spielberg’s a good action director, but is a pedestrian thinker with little sense of what the past was like- check out Amistad if you want to see a really bad movie. On the other hand his movies presumably make money…
Through at least the 1970s when Close Encounters was made that wasn’t generally true, at least for every other movie I watched in the theater in that decade. Also the actual movie wasn’t filler, lots of story and some bits of it were very good (wave ahead, mashed potatoes, the ending), it just wasn’t an exciting film like the trailer or Jaws which had really put him on the map two years earlier. Or Duel from everything I’ve heard. Also compare to the excitement of Raiders of the Lost Ark four years later.
Even major critic Buzz Mohawk here said of it and E.T. which I’m much more critical of that “They were his suburban, Disney interpretations at the elementary school level.” I’d up that to high school which I was conveniently in, and it wasn’t a huge disappointment like the wretched plotting of Alien in 1979. Although, heck, these films, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica first TV season and movie, and a few low budget films like Silent Running were head and shoulders above Hollywood’s general SF output in that era like the all but completely forgettable The Last Starfighter. We were hungry for good SF back then. See also Japan’s anime output some of which made it over here dubbed fairly quickly as those things went back then, here as Starblazers and Robotech.
But if you look at the early Spielberg list of films today, The Sugarland Express after Duel was forgettable I think and “the lowest-grossing film of Spielberg’s career” per Wikipedia although it make back 4X what it cost. 1941 after Close Encounters was a critical flop and a box office disappointment after the blockbuster of Jaws and the very big success of Close Encounters. Which I should repeat wasn’t a terrible film, but, say, a thoroughly uneven but overall good one if you were at all into UFOs ,which were a big thing in the 1970s.
A man who lives in a remote, small-town, normal place is seeing weird visions and thinks he's going out of his mind. Finally he realizes that the weird visions are real, and caused by aliens in a spaceship. Then he gets in the spaceship with them and flies off to where he really belongs... Hollywood. Hell, even the main scientist is played by a famous film-maker.
Didn't need to make The Fabelmans, he already made it, with spaceships too.
Just for the hell of it, I'll throw in a clip of the legendary Hong Kong dub of Locke the Superman (1984). They don't make 'em like that anymore.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FWmaTLrb8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TsKP4v7FcGg
Now, in fact, it reminds to to be reminded that some other, similar things remind me of something.
Something sacred.
Something unquestioned, unquestioned in some countries to the point that questioning it publicly can land you in prison...
... Can land you in prison while apparently nobody of the certain tribe concerned ever protests your imprisonment! (Yet they preach that they are the voice of freedom and enlightenment!)
Yes, this is something we are familiar with. This is yet another thing that does not surprise us.
What surprises us is that nobody here, not even our rightfully esteemed host, nor his most free commenters (except this one of a sort) ever (to my knowledge) draws this analogy.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Tim, @Mike Tre, @Ghost of Bull Moose
Well, Lapchick isn’t Jewish if that’s what you’re getting at. Type 1 error.
I’m not smart enough to draw or understand your analogy. Don’t be coy; this is Unz review ffs.
Plain speech is good speech Buzz.
The story was real in his imagination…
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Known Fact writes:
ABC was known for, even notorious, for its creepy made-for-TV movies in the 1970s. The recurring theme was about the dangers lurking in small-town eastern California, as a coastal version of Deliverance or Easy Rider. Fear of the other, of yahoos and cretins lurking outside the drugstore or behind the wheel of that old beater pickup following you on a lonely road.
Go ahead, drive up US Highway 395 or similar routes if you dare.
"Satan's Triangle" "Hustling" 1975
"Little Ladies of the Night" 1977
"Please Don't Hit Me Mom" 1981
"Who Will Love My Children?" 1983No, I didn't see if they had Wikipedia entries. I just picked certain titles.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
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2) As you might know by now Mannix is one of my very favorite series, but the episodes where he leaves LA and ventures out into the sticks are usually awful, and very biased against small-town folks
Susan Dey played the daughter of Weaver's character. She had a long scene wearing a bikini and being ogled by the bad guys. Weaver is supposed to be excessively mild-mannered but eventually fights back.
When the law finally comes, Weaver throws the main bad guy down and says, "They tried to kill us."
It was creepy.
The Head Coach in Football is an executive position much more than a football position – the measuring stick should be “chief executives” rather than “people who are really good at playing football.” If you judge by the latter, it looks like anti-black racism. But if you judge by reference to the former, it looks like blacks are over-represented as executives in football (as one would expect given their proximity to high level football).
If you look at the CVs of some of the recent, younger head coach hires it actually looks like having a substantial professional playing career is a hindrance rather than a help. They start right out of college as the “assistant to the defensive backs coach” at a backwater Division 1AA program for peanuts. They sleep at the facility and review tape and learn more and more, climbing the coaching tree in relatively small promotions from NCAA to low level NFL positions and then, hopefully a coordinator and then head coach job. The amount of football one would have watched and broken down and studied etc. will have been immense. The number of guys who never got out of the Division 1AA programs is also immense. In contrast, an NFL player is spending his career learning and perfecting usually one single position on one side of the football, in between working to prepare his body for the game.
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Seriously, Dad played with the Orignal Celtics in the pre-NBA days. Joe Lapchick was born in the 19th century, Richard after WW2. It's a Czech name, like Dolezal. Slavs don't have to be Jewish to be crazy.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/JoeLapchickGoudeycard.jpg
Off-tropic: the sinking of the Brazizmarck. She wasn't welcome in the Med.
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/against-advising-of-environmentalists-brazilian-navy-slated-to-sink-toxic
Brazil Proceeds with Sinking Aircraft Carrier Despite ProtestsReplies: @Bugg
His dad was the long-time basketball coach of St. John’s University in NY, waaayyyy back. So Lapchick traded on that in the sports media for a very long time. And really the sports media are the guys who love a good story and don’t really look too hard to verify things. Had his dad been a cop or a fireman, he never gets his foot in the door to the racial grievance industry. Dad’s back story plus a sketchy tale of RAYCESS violence, ergo, a career is made. Beats working.
Even major critic Buzz Mohawk here said of it and E.T. which I'm much more critical of that "They were his suburban, Disney interpretations at the elementary school level." I'd up that to high school which I was conveniently in, and it wasn't a huge disappointment like the wretched plotting of Alien in 1979. Although, heck, these films, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica first TV season and movie, and a few low budget films like Silent Running were head and shoulders above Hollywood's general SF output in that era like the all but completely forgettable The Last Starfighter. We were hungry for good SF back then. See also Japan's anime output some of which made it over here dubbed fairly quickly as those things went back then, here as Starblazers and Robotech.
But if you look at the early Spielberg list of films today, The Sugarland Express after Duel was forgettable I think and "the lowest-grossing film of Spielberg's career" per Wikipedia although it make back 4X what it cost. 1941 after Close Encounters was a critical flop and a box office disappointment after the blockbuster of Jaws and the very big success of Close Encounters. Which I should repeat wasn't a terrible film, but, say, a thoroughly uneven but overall good one if you were at all into UFOs ,which were a big thing in the 1970s.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Stan Adams
The thing about Close Encounters is that unconsciously, Spielberg was making his autobiography.
A man who lives in a remote, small-town, normal place is seeing weird visions and thinks he’s going out of his mind. Finally he realizes that the weird visions are real, and caused by aliens in a spaceship. Then he gets in the spaceship with them and flies off to where he really belongs… Hollywood. Hell, even the main scientist is played by a famous film-maker.
Didn’t need to make The Fabelmans, he already made it, with spaceships too.
I'm not smart enough to draw or understand your analogy. Don't be coy; this is Unz review ffs.Replies: @Dennis Dale, @Buzz Mohawk
I guess the analogy is with the holocaust.
Plain speech is good speech Buzz.
Even major critic Buzz Mohawk here said of it and E.T. which I'm much more critical of that "They were his suburban, Disney interpretations at the elementary school level." I'd up that to high school which I was conveniently in, and it wasn't a huge disappointment like the wretched plotting of Alien in 1979. Although, heck, these films, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica first TV season and movie, and a few low budget films like Silent Running were head and shoulders above Hollywood's general SF output in that era like the all but completely forgettable The Last Starfighter. We were hungry for good SF back then. See also Japan's anime output some of which made it over here dubbed fairly quickly as those things went back then, here as Starblazers and Robotech.
But if you look at the early Spielberg list of films today, The Sugarland Express after Duel was forgettable I think and "the lowest-grossing film of Spielberg's career" per Wikipedia although it make back 4X what it cost. 1941 after Close Encounters was a critical flop and a box office disappointment after the blockbuster of Jaws and the very big success of Close Encounters. Which I should repeat wasn't a terrible film, but, say, a thoroughly uneven but overall good one if you were at all into UFOs ,which were a big thing in the 1970s.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Stan Adams
The venerable Roger Corman did a so-bad-it’s-wretched dub of the classic coming-of-age anime Galaxy Express 999 (1979), chopping the film to pieces in the process. I was skeptical that it ever played in theaters, but I did some checking and it turns out that the Corman crapfest did receive a limited theatrical release around May 1980.
Just for the hell of it, I’ll throw in a clip of the legendary Hong Kong dub of Locke the Superman (1984). They don’t make ’em like that anymore.
I call him: “The Dork in Orlando With a Fax Machine.”
Grifter, fraudster parasites have been with us for eons.
But under minoritarianism, the demand for these racism! fairytales has lowered the skepticism bar–and so juiced the fraud level–10X or maybe 100X
Having the dumbest ideology in human history, we have the most open and ridiculous grifts and frauds treated seriously.
(Sad days for those of us who favor reason and logic and empirical evidence.)
Jackie Brown is my favorite Tarantino. And rather more of a normal plot than his norm.
I tried watching the Hollywood movie but cut out after a few minutes. Seemed like the two male leads were mugging for the camera and movie seemed smug. Also, nothing happened…and I never got any “hook”. (I don’t need a car crash, but compare how Jackie Brown gets you right away, even in the intro credits.)
Mosey on down to your library and read a few of his books. Few have done crime fiction better.
There is a dermatologist in Berkeley named Devika Icecreamwala
The XFL is going to challenge this with quite a lot of black head coaches/senior coaching staff. Will the black ones do worse or better than the white ones? Probably too small a sample size to tell either way but it’ll be interesting to see if any break into the NFL.
In reality the reason it is so lopsided in the NFL and NCAA has a lot to do with how small hardcore ‘football country’ is. While the NFL cartel does a good job keeping the professional game very small, if it wasn’t in effect you’d be surprised how small the real pro level would be. What it’s worth being paid to play professionally is higher than most sports due to the risks and extreme physical conditioning required. (And if you think physical conditioning is the area that will decline to match these conditions you’re wrong, it’s the one place that would survive the same, the modern fitness culture would ensure this. For example, every sport has a different “Here’s why” story about why athletes all started to become bigger and bulkier at exactly the same times, pro, amateur, the pattern is all the same. The culture, steroids, nutritional Flynn effect and internet changed it, the rules or incentives seldom did.)
As the sport declines in schools due to increasing awareness of the risks (Particularly as standards and physical development of teenage players grows at the same time) and former virtue of separate offensive and defensive teams allowing huge numbers of the school to be on the team (Thus boosting community and school engagement) making it ridiculously easy to have a situation of not having enough players to field a team; this will only increase.
And the true hardcore heartlands of football aren’t very non-white save some places in the South but the blacks in those places tend to be of a different socioeconomic origin to the kinds of people who become coaches versus players. The new breed are guys (Who often had coach dads who themselves were probably players back when it was more popular and whites had a bigger presence) who played in high school and maybe in college but who were obsessed with the game tactically and strategically. We’re beginning to see guys, often very young who were never serious players become coaches.
This has all the markings of another classic “Everything the US media says is about race is really about class”.
Why is a VA Tidewater prosecutor investigating an event alleged to have occurred in Nashville?
Go ahead, drive up US Highway 395 or similar routes if you dare.Replies: @njguy73, @Known Fact, @David In TN
I have my copy of the 1996 book “Total Television” in front of me. Here’s some more ABC movies from that decade and beyond:
“That Certain Summer” 1972
“Satan’s Triangle” “Hustling” 1975
“Little Ladies of the Night” 1977
“Please Don’t Hit Me Mom” 1981
“Who Will Love My Children?” 1983
No, I didn’t see if they had Wikipedia entries. I just picked certain titles.
They also used to make really creepy, scary PSAs (public service announcement commercials).
If you look at the CVs of some of the recent, younger head coach hires it actually looks like having a substantial professional playing career is a hindrance rather than a help. They start right out of college as the "assistant to the defensive backs coach" at a backwater Division 1AA program for peanuts. They sleep at the facility and review tape and learn more and more, climbing the coaching tree in relatively small promotions from NCAA to low level NFL positions and then, hopefully a coordinator and then head coach job. The amount of football one would have watched and broken down and studied etc. will have been immense. The number of guys who never got out of the Division 1AA programs is also immense. In contrast, an NFL player is spending his career learning and perfecting usually one single position on one side of the football, in between working to prepare his body for the game.Replies: @njguy73
Bill Belicheck, Andy Reid, Sean McDermott, Nick Sirianni, Zac Taylor. None of them ever played a down in the NFL.
Chad? Was it supposed to be a compliment?
I'm not smart enough to draw or understand your analogy. Don't be coy; this is Unz review ffs.Replies: @Dennis Dale, @Buzz Mohawk
I know Lapchick isn’t jewish, and that’s not what I’m getting at. He operates with an image of victimhood while running a victimhood racket pertaining to blacks, who also live with an image of victimhood.
In this way, Lapchick is analogous to jews, while Lapchick, blacks and jews are all analogous to each other.
There are two analogies with three participants: Two exaggerated or imaginary victims overlap each other in a Venn diagram with blacks, the third fake victim entity that they both promote and exploit, in the middle.
It’s “victims” all the way down.
And, to paraphrase Mark Twain, “Reports of their victimhood have been greatly exaggerated.”
You’re right, and I’m not a good enough writer to describe the gestalt to someone who doesn’t already see it.
-Lapchick's personal story sounds like complete bullshit to me. On the other hand, slaves were and are legitimate victims, as were the many people murdered by the nazi regime. This is a poor analogy.
-The Twain quote is inapt. He was being sarcastic, like when someone says they'e not smart enough to understand a retarded analogy. Unless you really think slavery and the nazi extermination program didn't happen.
This is not to say that people don't exploit black slavery or the Holocaust. Of course they do. One can object to the culture of victimhood and exploitation of it without denying that people have been victimized. This is a trap set by those who exploit victimhood: those who object to my exploitation are denying the realities of slavery, etc. Don't fall for it.
What you refer to as a 'gestalt' is really an attempt to simplify and make everything of a piece. For leftists, you see this in concepts like 'disparate impact' or 'unconscious bias.' It's not your writing. It's your reasoning.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
"Satan's Triangle" "Hustling" 1975
"Little Ladies of the Night" 1977
"Please Don't Hit Me Mom" 1981
"Who Will Love My Children?" 1983No, I didn't see if they had Wikipedia entries. I just picked certain titles.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
The two really weird, creepy TV movies that I remember from that era were “Bad Ronald” and “A Cold Night’s Death.” Brrrr. And the old show “Circle of Fear” was much weirder and creepier than Twilight Zone or Night Gallery, which were far too into cheesy moralizing and grade-school-level irony.
They also used to make really creepy, scary PSAs (public service announcement commercials).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702641/Unattractive-people-likely-continue-wearing-Covid-face-masks-study-suggests.htmlReplies: @p38ace
At science fiction conventions, they are required. Lots of ugly women at these events.
Go ahead, drive up US Highway 395 or similar routes if you dare.Replies: @njguy73, @Known Fact, @David In TN
1) That’s why Duel was such a standout — those 70s made for TV movies generally were horrible, especially the ones that were hoping to get picked up for a series. Right now I’m doing every MST3k, and the 70s TV movies are the most hilarious, even better than the Japanese monsterfests
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2) As you might know by now Mannix is one of my very favorite series, but the episodes where he leaves LA and ventures out into the sticks are usually awful, and very biased against small-town folks
I like this new latter Buzz. Buzzed Buzz. Please continue.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Buzz Mohawk
Yes, I’ve been drinking, fucking and lifting weights more lately. Gotten into shape. I think I have more testosterone and fewer brain cells now. Though I just took a reasonably good IQ test and scored 142, sober.
And you’re right. ZFG about sums up my attitude now.
Thanks.
I just read an article by a Ph.D. in neuroscience who randomly answered questions on three different online IQ tests and "scored" above 130 on all of them.
Every time I write something here now I regret it and go back and check things. The OCD is another thing that has increased lately, and that is why I keep thinking of quitting this place. You see? I'm addicted. At least I have enough self-awareness to know.
I recall reading a column by Estrich on her (supposed) experience of being raped. In the column she said the rapist was black and this made her understand how damaging the subject of Willie Horton would be to Dukakis’ presidential campaign.
The theme of the column was “conservatives use racism to defeat we Noble Liberals.”
And you're right. ZFG about sums up my attitude now.
Thanks.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Mike Tre
Ya know what? Scrap that IQ test. It was online and therefore suspect. I’m embarrassed to have even mentioned it.
I just read an article by a Ph.D. in neuroscience who randomly answered questions on three different online IQ tests and “scored” above 130 on all of them.
Every time I write something here now I regret it and go back and check things. The OCD is another thing that has increased lately, and that is why I keep thinking of quitting this place. You see? I’m addicted. At least I have enough self-awareness to know.
Go ahead, drive up US Highway 395 or similar routes if you dare.Replies: @njguy73, @Known Fact, @David In TN
I remember an early 70s ABC Movie of the Week, Terror on the Beach. Dennis Weaver was in it, playing a suburban California Dad with a wife and two children in their late teens going to a beach and being terrorized by a group of scruffy no-goods. The audience was probably supposed to infer they were Manson types.
Susan Dey played the daughter of Weaver’s character. She had a long scene wearing a bikini and being ogled by the bad guys. Weaver is supposed to be excessively mild-mannered but eventually fights back.
When the law finally comes, Weaver throws the main bad guy down and says, “They tried to kill us.”
It was creepy.
I remember the 1978 Vanderbilt incident. A South African team was playing tennis. Lapchick treated this as an international crisis. Those of us following the story a the time considered Lapchick a joke.
And you're right. ZFG about sums up my attitude now.
Thanks.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Mike Tre
Recently divorced. 47. Lifting weights and not giving a shit landed me a 23 year old knockout. Met her when she was 20. I think you’re on the right track.
Mike Mc Carthy played at an NAIA college. His successor at Green Bay Matt La Fleur briefly played semi-pro football.
Reminds me of Biden.
Yeah, I have the same long standing suspicion about the start of famed journalist Gwen Ifill’s career. From Wikipedia:
“While at Simmons College, Ifill interned for the Boston Herald-American. One day at work, she discovered a note on her desk that read, “N****r go home.” After showing the note to editors at the newspaper, who “were horrified,” they offered her a job when she graduated from college in 1977.[12][9] Ifill’s close friend Michele Norris stated that Ifill said, “‘That was really unfortunate, but I have work to do.’ And that’s how she got the job. She didn’t get the job out of sympathy. She got the job because she didn’t let that slow her down.”
I like this new latter Buzz. Buzzed Buzz. Please continue.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Buzz Mohawk
Ya know what? I like this one thing that I shit out, so I am going to keep it and frame it, with some emphasis:
If this is too hard for some to understand, then, as you say, ZFG.
I tried watching the Hollywood movie but cut out after a few minutes. Seemed like the two male leads were mugging for the camera and movie seemed smug. Also, nothing happened...and I never got any "hook". (I don't need a car crash, but compare how Jackie Brown gets you right away, even in the intro credits.)Replies: @Jim Don Bob
It helps to have good source material, and you can’t do much better than an Elmore Leonard novel.
Mosey on down to your library and read a few of his books. Few have done crime fiction better.
-‘Jew’ is a proper noun, or are you making a clever point like the people who won’t capitalize Trump?
-Lapchick’s personal story sounds like complete bullshit to me. On the other hand, slaves were and are legitimate victims, as were the many people murdered by the nazi regime. This is a poor analogy.
-The Twain quote is inapt. He was being sarcastic, like when someone says they’e not smart enough to understand a retarded analogy. Unless you really think slavery and the nazi extermination program didn’t happen.
This is not to say that people don’t exploit black slavery or the Holocaust. Of course they do. One can object to the culture of victimhood and exploitation of it without denying that people have been victimized. This is a trap set by those who exploit victimhood: those who object to my exploitation are denying the realities of slavery, etc. Don’t fall for it.
What you refer to as a ‘gestalt’ is really an attempt to simplify and make everything of a piece. For leftists, you see this in concepts like ‘disparate impact’ or ‘unconscious bias.’ It’s not your writing. It’s your reasoning.
-Lapchick's personal story sounds like complete bullshit to me. On the other hand, slaves were and are legitimate victims, as were the many people murdered by the nazi regime. This is a poor analogy.
-The Twain quote is inapt. He was being sarcastic, like when someone says they'e not smart enough to understand a retarded analogy. Unless you really think slavery and the nazi extermination program didn't happen.
This is not to say that people don't exploit black slavery or the Holocaust. Of course they do. One can object to the culture of victimhood and exploitation of it without denying that people have been victimized. This is a trap set by those who exploit victimhood: those who object to my exploitation are denying the realities of slavery, etc. Don't fall for it.
What you refer to as a 'gestalt' is really an attempt to simplify and make everything of a piece. For leftists, you see this in concepts like 'disparate impact' or 'unconscious bias.' It's not your writing. It's your reasoning.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
So now, thanks to my help, you caught on. Good job. That’s a fair little essay. You get a B-.