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The MacArthur Genius grants were announced and they’re the usual weird collection of legitimate nice white lady scientists, such as microbe researcher Diane Newman of Caltech, and hilariously shameless race hustlers, such as Genius T. Coates last year and this year, Claudia Rankine, a poetry professor at Pomona College, who won for her collection of microaggressions she and her friends say they have suffered. From the Wikipedia article on her award-winning 2014 book Citizen: An American Lyric:
The book consists of seven chapters interspersed with images and artworks. The first chapter details microagressions that have occurred to Rankine and her friends. The second chapter discusses the YouTube character Hennessy Youngman created by Jayson Musson, and discusses racial incidents in the life of Serena Williams and her public image. The third chapter features more microagressions and the nature of racist language. In the fourth chapter Rankine writes of the transition of sighs into aches, the nature of language, memory, and watching tennis matches in silence. Chapter five is a complex poem on self-identity, interspersed with more microagressions. Chapter six is a series of scripts for “situation videos” created in collaboration with John Lucas on Hurricane Katrina, the shootings of Trayvon Martin and James Craig Anderson, the Jena Six, the 2011 England riots in the wake of the death of Mark Duggan, Stop-and-frisk, Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt of Marco Materazzi in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final, and the verbal error during Barack Obama’s first inauguration as President of the United States. The seventh chapter ends with “Making Room”, a script for a “public fiction” about finding a seat on the subway, and a list of African-American men involved in recent police shooting incidents that concludes with the phrase “because white men can’t police their imagination black men are dying”. The seventh chapter is a complex meditation on race, the body, language and various incidents in the life of the author.
… These factors, subtly and metaphorically penned in the first paragraph grants these citizens a means to press forward against the subtle microaggressions, which, metaphorically speaking, is a wake for them in the very wake of the book. … The first chapter immediately transfers the reader into a black persona who is quickly becoming invisible by the harassment of microaggressions. The necessity of tolerance ascribed by blacks, that is, in these occurrences even are subjected to children in grade school. Still consistent with second person perspective use of you, the short narration is of a child: “You”, who experiences a microaggression by first a student who is copying her work throughout the school year, and secondly, from Sister Evelyn, who never acknowledges the blatant incidences. “…… The microaggression described here is that, you are unworthy of a genuine acknowledgment of gratitude.
Chapter 3[edit]
This chapter, similar to Chapter 1, is composed of events in the form of micro-aggressions. … This form of micro-aggression reference is common throughout Citizen. …Rankine refers to her own personal micro-aggressions and others of importance in real world situations that might have seemed flagrant. … Then continues to describe more moments of micro-aggressions. … ‘Did he just say that?’ ‘Did I just hear what I think I heard?’” (Believermag). These questions refer to responses made by Rankine throughout Citizen after instances of microaggressions. The way in which both the black body and the heads hold a history of racism and question instances of microaggressions supports Rankine’s purpose of relating the history of slavery and racism to the present form of racism in the form of microaggressions. …
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) winner[11][12]
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) finalist[11]
2014 California Book Awards Poetry Finalist[13]
2015 PEN Center USA Poetry Award[14]
2015 New York Times Bestseller[15]
2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry[16]
2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry[17]
Did you just blog that? Did I just read what I thought I read?
Can you see me?
Can you even see me?
Me Me Me…
Rankine, appropriately, has moved on to Yale University this fall. I wonder if she got recruited as a reaction by the administrators to last year’s campus protests about microaggressions and such, in order to placate the mob?
Well, colleges seem to have been adjusting the curriculum lately to match the intellect of their "genius" professors and all the "genius" students they're turning out:
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29106/
She came to the US from Jamaica at age 7, attended Catholic schools then Williams and Columbia. Her parents worked in hospitals as an orderly and nurse's aide. Rankine is married to a white man, documentary photographer John Lucas.
https://news.usc.edu/83689/poet-claudia-rankine-to-join-english-department/
When does Jerelyn Luther get her Genius Grant?
The most appropriate date for
http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/09/meet-the-privileged-yale-student-who-shrieked-at-her-professor/
would be October 31, 2017, which is the 500th anniversary of the church-door publication by her namesake of his 95 Theses demanding safe spaces and the abolition of indulgences for microagressions.Replies: @jimmyriddle
[Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt of Marco Materazzi in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final]
So a very light-skinned Berber becomes black on the strength of committing one counterproductive violent act?
I’m waiting for the MacArthur Foundation to give an award to a cow when it complains about living a life of nothing but hay and suction.
Really, this is what happens when rich do-gooders have too much money lying around.
So they lavish over-praise on a mediocrity plucked from a thin pool. Look at the list of awards cited at the end of the post: seems to indicate a non-competitive field.
Not sure why I do this to myself but I’m reading through Goodreads’ collection of quotes from Citizen:
Okay "Not sure why I do this to myself but ..." was a clue but still.
You might have warned us.
For those of you who have never interacted intimately with Blacks over extended periods of time, this sort of imperious command may seem bizarre and exceptional. Let me assure you that it is the norm. Just as every black claims to be descended from some Royal African Chieftain, so to the same degree do they sincerely believe that their natural station in life is to rule over Whites.
That's why they're so d*mn resentful and why they always conjure up elaborate excuses for why they're NOT ruling. They sincerely believe that they ARE superior and that some chance, some element of Luck and if not that then some ruthless evilness on the part of whites, their privilege, systemic racism whatever, has turned the natural order on its head. This is, of course, the rich vein of resentiment that Farrakahn's Nation of Islam taps into. Jeremiah Wright's name can be added to that roster as well and that of his disciple, Barack Obama, who also mine this same inexhaustible lode.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Desiderius, @Desiderius, @hhsiii, @Neil Templeton
what’s her point? That microaggressions cause black people to score badly on their SATs? That never stopped ashknezi jews or north east asians from scoring well.
OT: While I don’t expect Steve to draw attention to this via a dedicated post, I would encourage those with reddit accounts to upvote this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/53y52d/soros_is_mobilizing_the_global_us_citizen_vote/?st=ite8wwo8&sh=a78c4198
While it was on the front page at Breitbart recently, it would help to have some additional help and targeted action by reddit. The idea is that there are nearly 8 million US citizens who are not registered to vote. If we can get them to vote, then it could prove to be a decider. And now, the Eye of Soros has cast its baleful gaze at the problem. From what I understand, the overseas voters are more likely to vote Republican, so a general raising of awareness of this is good. Our side has nothing to lose by advertising this.
The registration and counting of the votes is according to the last state you lived in. So if you last resided in anything approaching a swing state, it’s very important to register.
from the wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._and_Catherine_T._MacArthur_Foundation
https://mellon.org/programs/diversity/
https://mellon.org/initiatives/our-compelling-interests/
The thought that part of his fortune was squandered by his daughter in law bankrolling John Edwards Presidential Campaign also had to have him rolling over in his grave.
More like Narcissism grants.
My God, look at this one… where are they finding these people? Racist, sexist beaded jewelry? When will the madness cease?
“Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. In handmade works ranging from elaborate, over-sized neckpieces, to two- and three-dimensional figurative sculptures, to installations, Scott upends conceptions of beadwork and jewelry as domestic or merely for adornment by creating exquisitely crafted objects that reveal, upon closer examination, stark representations of racism and sexism and the violence they engender.”
This is her ‘art’:
Btw I don't usually reply to your posts but I really enjoy them.Replies: @Marie
I'd call them good folk art, often cute or clever. No need to hate on her just because some foundation wants to give her a million dollars and call her a top artist.Replies: @Marie
She is very light skinned black with a mop of curled orangish hair.https://goo.gl/qgvEmP
On the plus side, at least she is not ripping off the taxpayers via a public university sinecure.
Many blacks seem to think that white people don’t experience rude and inconsiderate behavior.
And really, how often do white students copy from black students?
When I read, “Rankine refers to her own personal micro-aggressions and others of importance in real world situations that might have seemed flagrant” I thought Rankine might have engaged in some self-criticism, at least about her own unintended offenses to people of greater intersectionality, but apparently not.
Getting a seat on a subway – is that hard for a black person? Three black guys entering together a mostly empty subway car (not talking men in suits here) tend to declare a third of it their territory, triangulating aisle seats with about five spaces between them, and man-spreading in a shoulder-tailbone slouch.
Ms. Rankine, there are plenty of not-nice white ladies who won’t move their coats for nice white ladies either. Your hue, gentility and need matter not a whit to them. They want their space but at least they are satisfied with one extra seat.
Philanthropic foundations should be required to disburse their funds within 20 years of the bequest. If they are truly charitable endeavors there is no need to have them exist in perpetuity for the benefit of their boards and preserve the original intent of the donor.
As a note aside, requiring charitable foundations to disgorge their holdings would boost ‘aggregate demand’ ,the holy grail of liberal economists, as large foundations had to liquidate and spend their assets
OT:
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Ah, yes… another “genius” college professor of color.
Well, colleges seem to have been adjusting the curriculum lately to match the intellect of their “genius” professors and all the “genius” students they’re turning out:
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29106/
I’m trying to figure out whether the author is actually making a–subtle–dig at Genius Claudia.
No. That entry was written by a black. Subtle digs are a white thing.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Truth
Claudia Rankine should have moved to Northwestern. Apparently, we are now lunatics in addition to being deplorables.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/21/northwestern-president-critics-of-safe-spaces-are-lunatics/
“You, who experiences a microaggression by first a student who is copying her work throughout the school year,”
Hm. When that happened to me, I figured it was because the kids knew I was smart and didn’t know the answers for themselves. Silly white girl that I am, I never knew race had anything to do with cheaters looking over my shoulder.
Is that Wikipedia entry expected to encourage people to buy her book?
On the other hand, school, college and public libraries are probably the only target customers, and that description is like catnip to their purchasers.
The history cited by anonymous nephew was interesting.
I suppose the lesson is that if you somehow become mega-rich, don’t set up a foundation dispensing your wealth in the form of prizes to worthy beneficiaries. Once you die, and you will die, the foundation will be taken over by the usual suspects and direct your money towards what they want, which might not be what you want. The history of the Nobels also indicates this.
""Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing."
http://www.isegoria.net/2008/07/robert-conquests-three-laws-of-politics/Replies: @Anonymous, @Desiderius
My third grade teacher Miss Ivanovna had a standard reply: If you keep complaining for nothing, I shall give you a good whacking so you will have a real reason to complain. OK, she was an evil Russian Communist and believed in corporal punishment.
Almost all of the huge foundations of severe capitalists are doing work their founders would find abhorrent.
Clockmed doesn’t seem to be on the list, even though he invented the clock. Just because he is black and muhslim
Ouch!
What about the constant onslaught of microaggressions blacks unleash against the English language?
Claudia Rankine
Wikipedia____Born: 1963 · Kingston, Jamaica
IOW she came here to be microaggressed against, to make a lucrative university career of bellyaching about the country she *chose* to immigrate to. Forced to no doubt by American colonialism, imperialism, etc., etc., she would have much preferred to be picking mangoes and coconuts for two dollars a day in Jamaica mon.
and the beat goes on
I suppose the lesson is that if you somehow become mega-rich, don't set up a foundation dispensing your wealth in the form of prizes to worthy beneficiaries. Once you die, and you will die, the foundation will be taken over by the usual suspects and direct your money towards what they want, which might not be what you want. The history of the Nobels also indicates this.Replies: @Thirdtwin, @Jim Don Bob
Conquest’s 2nd Law:
“”Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.”
http://www.isegoria.net/2008/07/robert-conquests-three-laws-of-politics/
http://www.isegoria.net/2015/09/osullivans-first-law/
“I’m trying to figure out whether the author is actually making a–subtle–dig at Genius Claudia.”
No. That entry was written by a black. Subtle digs are a white thing.
No. That entry was written by a black. Subtle digs are a white thing.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Truth
It’s all good. Now it’s unintentional hilarity.
This isn’t uncommon. I seriously doubt this is what Andrew Mellon would have wanted done with a foundation setup in his memory.
https://mellon.org/programs/diversity/
https://mellon.org/initiatives/our-compelling-interests/
The thought that part of his fortune was squandered by his daughter in law bankrolling John Edwards Presidential Campaign also had to have him rolling over in his grave.
Apparently there is now an African American set-aside for MacArthur awards. It appears that the criteria for winning is is similar to that for Acadamy Awards, i.e., “Never go full retard.”
In the case of the MacArthurs, full retard would be, ““Burnin’ down shit ain’t going to help nothin’! Y’all burnin’ down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit! We need our weaves. [Pause] I don’t wear it. But we need it.”
The winning approach would be the one followed by Genius T. Coates and Claudia Rankine. Just retarded enough for black studies.
Yes Weave Can!
What about the constant onslaught of microaggressions blacks unleash against the English language?Replies: @bomag
I believe that, and all other Black activity, qualifies as macro-aggression.
I am now officially living in Bizarro World. It’s almost as if this is true:
https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/778811992190558208
OT – Steve Did you see that Diblasio criticized Trump’s suggestion that stop-and-frisk be extended elsewhere in the USA?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/22/politics/bill-de-blasio-trump-stop-and-frisk/
Really, this is what happens when rich do-gooders have too much money lying around.Replies: @bomag, @Olorin, @Mr. Blank
…and nothing good to spend it on.
So they lavish over-praise on a mediocrity plucked from a thin pool. Look at the list of awards cited at the end of the post: seems to indicate a non-competitive field.
I have to say, my reaction to reading this sort of stuff is like walking into a gymnasium where a a 35 foot tall house of cards built by my worst enemy has collapsed: At first I laugh at the flimsy structure and the predictable fate which has befallen it, but then I realize everybody outside a tiny fringe of the deplorable alt right takes this stuff very seriously, or at least pretends to so they don’t have their careers ruined. So now the joke is on me, and it’s up to me to painstakingly put the whole thing back together again just to show these people how flimsy and unsubstantial this thing was in the first place and not the great edifice they claim it was. I just don’t have the time and energy to do it. So I lose.
If this is the best we can expect of a Black “genius,” then, like it or not, the stereotype of Blacks as being less intelligent is true.
In the case of the MacArthurs, full retard would be, "“Burnin’ down shit ain’t going to help nothin’! Y’all burnin’ down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit! We need our weaves. [Pause] I don’t wear it. But we need it.”
The winning approach would be the one followed by Genius T. Coates and Claudia Rankine. Just retarded enough for black studies.Replies: @Jonathan Silber
“We need our weaves…I don’t wear it. But we need it.”
Yes Weave Can!
Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors, NY Federal Reserve, Sara Horowitz, an Obama crony from Chicago, is a 1999 winner of the MacArthur Genius Award.
Horowitz was granted $517 million in low-interest federal loans to create Obama CO-OP, Health Republic, and two other CO-OPs, more than one-fifth of the total $2.4 billion in federal loans available to build all 23 CO-OPs.
Two of the CO-OPS are now bankrupt and doctors and hospitals are owed 100s of millions of dollars and Horowitz remains on the board of directors.
Everything is political and along with that comes corruption. I have more examples, but what the hell is the use of pointing them out.
You can read it all Horowitz here:
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160417/HEALTH_CARE/160419890
Relevant from the old Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/article/macarthur-genius-grant-goes-right-up-recipients-no-4248
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of money for Genius T. Rankine, didn’t Yale promise like this enormous sum of money to recruit minority professors last year after the costume crisis. I wonder how much superstar professors like her get at an ivy league school. $500,000 dollars a year is my guess. Plus I hear there are a lot of perks, I’ve heard of colleges paying half of the mortgage on a house.
She’s also married to a white dude, which I found surprising. Both the “white” part and the “dude” part, if you know what I mean.
I’m considering writing a book about all the microagressions committed by black people. Remember when urban black males walked around with giant boom-boxes on their shoulders blasting rap? Thanks for sharing, yo.
Wonder if I’ll get a MacArthur grant?
What will Rankine decide to wear for a Halloween costume?
I propose we stop with the “micro” part, and start showing them “macro” aggression.
From her wikipedia page, Deep Thoughts by Claudia Rankin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Rankine
I don’t think many of us have enough Ivy League degrees even to begin to grasp such penetrating and subtle reflections.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1lWxHdzwL0
Answer: academic prose.
“a black persona who is quickly becoming invisible by the harassment of microaggressions”
LOL @ this gibberish
Blacks always see the world through the lens of race. Always. Everything they write. Everything they do. However, whites don’t. It must be ‘torture’ for them to compare themselves to something they envy, hate, and can’t be. I doubt this is so much the case in all black countries.
Aren't any public black intellectuals interested in ideas? Are they only interested in being black? Do they understand what a frigging bore they all are?Replies: @Kylie
As bad as the MacArthur Awards have always been, it now seems to be collapsing into a black hole of political correctness.
Of the 23 recipients, only 2 may be said to be white males (one other who at first blush might seem to be one, Daryl Baldwin, is a Native American doing research on the language of his tribe): Bill Thies and Josh Kun.
And what do they do?
Bill Thies is part of Microsoft Research in India, “creating communication and digital technologies to advance the social and economic well-being of low-income communities in the developing world.”
Josh Kun got his Ph.D. from Berkeley in Ethnic Studies, and is plying his trade in various racial/ethnic projects.
The MacArthur grants have now officially violated the rule: Never go full retard.
https://www.eecs.mit.edu/people/alumni/alumni-eecs-connector-2014/bill-thies-01-meng-02-phd-09
Subhash Khot, a very capable theoretical computer scientist was also named a Fellow this year. He's from India, but like Bill Thies, decided that his talents were best employed on the other side of the world.https://www.macfound.org/fellows/960/
All this micro-aggression stuff is just a way to purge every remaining White male out of any job that BLM types want, and most White women too. White women go along with it because it helps purge White males and they figure they’ll do better by going along with the more aggressive types.
Thus the future is a a bunch of incompetent BLM types running everything, with outsourced foreigners doing the actual work. Leaving White men to do what?
If the genius BLM people wanted to create a violent revolution, pushing the most talented and dangerous group to have zero interest and investment in the current system could not be more direct.
The people pushing microaggressions are sentimental mediocrities acting in total sincerity. There's no surreptitious will to power, it's just the elevation of Hallmark politics to a level of stonefaced seriousness not possible without the internet.
Think about how your spinster aunt reacts to Family Circus cartoons (or insert schlocky old lady shit here). That's what politics are now.
Of the 23 recipients, only 2 may be said to be white males (one other who at first blush might seem to be one, Daryl Baldwin, is a Native American doing research on the language of his tribe): Bill Thies and Josh Kun.
And what do they do?
Bill Thies is part of Microsoft Research in India, "creating communication and digital technologies to advance the social and economic well-being of low-income communities in the developing world."
Josh Kun got his Ph.D. from Berkeley in Ethnic Studies, and is plying his trade in various racial/ethnic projects.
The MacArthur grants have now officially violated the rule: Never go full retard.Replies: @candid_observer, @ogunsiron, @PiltdownMan, @Lurker
Oops, I did miss Vincent Fecteau, who is a sculptor, and doesn’t seem to be part of some politically correct enterprise, so there is that.
So a very light-skinned Berber becomes black on the strength of committing one counterproductive violent act?Replies: @ogunsiron, @Expletive Deleted
that’d be news to most berbers, especially Algerians ones, who have not much love for what they call the “kehls”. Pathetic.
After Pomona College, Rankine was at USC for the 2015-2016 academic year.
She came to the US from Jamaica at age 7, attended Catholic schools then Williams and Columbia. Her parents worked in hospitals as an orderly and nurse’s aide. Rankine is married to a white man, documentary photographer John Lucas.
https://news.usc.edu/83689/poet-claudia-rankine-to-join-english-department/
Wonder if I'll get a MacArthur grant?Replies: @Lurker
You haven’t got one already? For shame!
Excellent!
It’s not reflection. It’s word salad performance. It’s cargo cult philosophy. It’s slam. It’s spoken word poetry and it’s not even intended to make sense and yet we stoop so low as to call these “people” geniuses and thinkers. Maddening.
Of the 23 recipients, only 2 may be said to be white males (one other who at first blush might seem to be one, Daryl Baldwin, is a Native American doing research on the language of his tribe): Bill Thies and Josh Kun.
And what do they do?
Bill Thies is part of Microsoft Research in India, "creating communication and digital technologies to advance the social and economic well-being of low-income communities in the developing world."
Josh Kun got his Ph.D. from Berkeley in Ethnic Studies, and is plying his trade in various racial/ethnic projects.
The MacArthur grants have now officially violated the rule: Never go full retard.Replies: @candid_observer, @ogunsiron, @PiltdownMan, @Lurker
The foundation is fully converged, as Vox Day would say. Whatever its original purpose was doesn’t matter anymore.
What in hell was this person doing at Cal Tech of all places? Yale, a breeding ground for off-the-charts pseudo-intellectual drivel of the type being propagated by this twit, is a more appropriate venue.
I’m sure none of the white people reading this blog have the habit of always viewing the world through the lens of race.
Ron Unz–Thank you so much for the “commenters to ignore” feature. I have gotten good use out of it. What would be even better is if there were also be an option to ignore the responses to those commenters we ignore. That would help me clear up the waste of space occupied by Tiny Duck and those who find him worth debating.
Rankine bears a very weird resemblance to Julian Bond.
Good analogy. And when you’ve painstakingly put it back together to demonstrate the flimsiness, your worst enemy will claim you neglected one small detail that would have rendered the thing robust, but since you think bad thoughts you can’t see the critical detail, so off to the gulag with you.
Jeez Louise! That hurt. You might have warned us.
Okay “Not sure why I do this to myself but …” was a clue but still.
You might have warned us.
Even better. Just ban the TD for life. That would save even more time in your hectic life. You wouldn’t have the buttons so much.
"Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. In handmade works ranging from elaborate, over-sized neckpieces, to two- and three-dimensional figurative sculptures, to installations, Scott upends conceptions of beadwork and jewelry as domestic or merely for adornment by creating exquisitely crafted objects that reveal, upon closer examination, stark representations of racism and sexism and the violence they engender."
This is her 'art': Replies: @Kylie, @Front toward enemy, @SFG, @Lot, @sayless, @Clyde
There’s no end to it and no escaping it, is there?
Btw I don’t usually reply to your posts but I really enjoy them.
This didn’t occur to me until Rod Dreher pointed this out in a blog post today, but the riot in Charlotte probably helped Trump lock up NC. Thanks BLM!
I suppose the lesson is that if you somehow become mega-rich, don't set up a foundation dispensing your wealth in the form of prizes to worthy beneficiaries. Once you die, and you will die, the foundation will be taken over by the usual suspects and direct your money towards what they want, which might not be what you want. The history of the Nobels also indicates this.Replies: @Thirdtwin, @Jim Don Bob
The John M. Olin Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Olin_Foundation) showed how the founder’s wishes could be observed. This ought to be the law. Our country would be better off without the corrupting influence of Ford, Pew, McArthur, etc.
To no-ones surprise, the foundations had concluded that war was the best way to achieve societal change, hence, one is coming soon near you.
https://archive.org/details/DoddReportToTheReeceCommitteeOnFoundations-1954-RobberBaronReplies: @Jim Don Bob
The amount of cant in the MacArthur winner descriptions deserves its own award.
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/class-2016/
I particularly enjoyed this one:
Perhaps our host, or his host, could consider hosting an annual award like the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
The Unz-Sailer Award recognizing hyperbolically turgid social justice rhetoric. The award being the top 20 entries posted somewhere hereabouts, all resultant fame and fortune deposited into a sidebar to inspire the PC-oppressed.Replies: @C. Van Carter, @Bill Jones
Really, this is what happens when rich do-gooders have too much money lying around.Replies: @bomag, @Olorin, @Mr. Blank
You and bomag laser in on the hamartia in fiat-currency-speculation-based, debt-slavery-producing, casino-owned-and-operated globalismo:
Once people have enough money to buy anything people could possibly want, they have no real use for the rest of it.
So they have to invent things. And being the type of people who do the best in the globalismo noted above, they don’t have much practical experience of anything but stroking their own egos. Inflating their own whims into crises or mandates. Inventing phantoms to fear or get others to take seriously.
The so-called “genius” grants reward frivolity, but even more the capacity for sustaining the philanthropic LARPing of these super-rich people and their foundation staffs.
Her point is that she hates academe so badly, and it’s been so horrible and traumatic to her, that she wants a job in it forever and never to leave it.
Look at the board of directions for the MacArthur grant, and you will see a demographic problem.
https://www.macfound.org/about/people/board-directors/
Way too many women. That’s what gives rise to bullshit like this.
Just looking at the selection of "geniuses", I'd have to say that it appears to be an exercise in the grand to correct "stereotype-threat".
I can't imagine why something that can't be made to work reliably in experiments should fail in the real, complex world.Replies: @Triumph104
“When does Jerelyn Luther get her Genius Grant?”
The most appropriate date for
http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/09/meet-the-privileged-yale-student-who-shrieked-at-her-professor/
would be October 31, 2017, which is the 500th anniversary of the church-door publication by her namesake of his 95 Theses demanding safe spaces and the abolition of indulgences for microagressions.
I’m wondering what non-black, non-white Americans are thinking about this mess. The Hispanics I know, who were all born here, think BLM are crazy & dangerous. I don’t hear any sympathy. Is it different with Millenials in those demographics?
Note there is an immigration angle on this as well. Claudia is from Jamaica. We brought her from Jamaica to America, not because she brought any critical skills we needed, or because of her STEM achievements, or whatever other benefit, but because she would come here and lecture us about how bad we are, all while living off of white American (mostly male) taxpayers. We need to stop all third world immigration. Third world immigration is like being robbed, raped and publicly humiliated all at the same time.
She has a country she can go to where nearly everyone is black. It’s Jamaica. I pray that Trump wins, and as one of his actions, goes through and audits the naturalization papers of scammers like Claudia, and if there are falsehoods in her naturalization documents, she should be denaturalized and returned home. Oh that would be beautiful.
"Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. In handmade works ranging from elaborate, over-sized neckpieces, to two- and three-dimensional figurative sculptures, to installations, Scott upends conceptions of beadwork and jewelry as domestic or merely for adornment by creating exquisitely crafted objects that reveal, upon closer examination, stark representations of racism and sexism and the violence they engender."
This is her 'art': Replies: @Kylie, @Front toward enemy, @SFG, @Lot, @sayless, @Clyde
“….a potent platform for commentary…” Beads? Beads? You gotta be shotting me. Genius? There are going to be a lot of hungry “geniuses” come the apocalypse.
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/class-2016/
I particularly enjoyed this one:Replies: @Olorin
“Repositioning beadwork.” I did that once with some wainscotting in our bathroom. Decided not to put it behind the potent porcelain platform, but on the opposite wall, where it could be…more lengthily observed and appreciated so to speak.
Perhaps our host, or his host, could consider hosting an annual award like the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
The Unz-Sailer Award recognizing hyperbolically turgid social justice rhetoric. The award being the top 20 entries posted somewhere hereabouts, all resultant fame and fortune deposited into a sidebar to inspire the PC-oppressed.
“If this is the best we can expect of a Black “genius,” then, like it or not, the stereotype of Blacks as being less intelligent is true.”
Very few Negroes like to write about things that have nothing to do with their Blackness. That’s why there is no Black version of Stephen King and J.K Rowling for example.
Ta-Nehisi Coates will never write a book or article that is not about Blackness and neither will Barack Hussein Obama.
That’s what I like about White people, we are way less monolithic than Blacks when it comes to subjects we are interested in.
It's all the arts. All black, all the time. So boring.Replies: @Jefferson
So a very light-skinned Berber becomes black on the strength of committing one counterproductive violent act?Replies: @ogunsiron, @Expletive Deleted
Strange … I have achieved the power of the dupe post. Disregard this.
I like to consider myself prepped on all the silly contrived scandals of the past 10-15 years but on this one I was totally blanking. I’m guessing it’s about Roberts omitting the “faithfully” during the swearing-in? Actually there’s some fun to be had with it retrospectively — so much water under the bridge — but it’d be a surprise to say the least if Rankine followed that from a Constitution-thumper angle; instead I’m guessing it just offended her? i.e. The white man tripping up Barry-O, in other words, with the microaggression. Holy geez, is “micro” even minute enough for such finely tuned sensors
"Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. In handmade works ranging from elaborate, over-sized neckpieces, to two- and three-dimensional figurative sculptures, to installations, Scott upends conceptions of beadwork and jewelry as domestic or merely for adornment by creating exquisitely crafted objects that reveal, upon closer examination, stark representations of racism and sexism and the violence they engender."
This is her 'art': Replies: @Kylie, @Front toward enemy, @SFG, @Lot, @sayless, @Clyde
Once photography made copying nature really easy artists had to find something else to do. With my phone I can make a picture that looks more realistic than any Rembrandt or Vermeer.
I can’t say I’m all that impressed with what they came up with. Interestingly, the one really vital visual medium, film, often shows things that can’t happen in real life. There’s something deep in this, but I don’t know what it is…
Modern art has nothing to do with technology and "realism". It is Gnostic religious iconography. (The founders of it, e.g., Malevich and Kandinsky, never hid the fact that they're making a religious statement, not a technological one.)
Can you see me?
Can you even see me?
Me Me Me...Replies: @Anonymous
Is it me, for a moment… ♪♪
“Non-profit” grant and awards crap is just more of our Dear Ruling Globalist Open Borders Sellout Establishment Elite using the Bottom against the Middle.
It’s more today than just épater la bourgeoisie – today it’s pour écraser la bourgeoisie.
""Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing."
http://www.isegoria.net/2008/07/robert-conquests-three-laws-of-politics/Replies: @Anonymous, @Desiderius
Technically O’Sullivan’s Law:
http://www.isegoria.net/2015/09/osullivans-first-law/
Really, this is what happens when rich do-gooders have too much money lying around.Replies: @bomag, @Olorin, @Mr. Blank
Yeah, it’s because of stuff like this that I’ve gradually warmed to the idea of socking the rich with higher taxes. I’m no socialist, but if all these rich clowns are gonna do with their money is dream up ways to demolish the very foundations of our culture, well, that money would be better spent giving folks EBT cards to use at strip clubs.
I still remember when I first heard ab0ut “microaggressions.” I was certain it had to be a right-wing parody of SJW looniness. Heck, for the longest time, I was half-convinced that it was just right-wingers making a mountain out of a molehill, as I never seemed to encounter any leftists who used the term sincerely.
Well, that’s changed in the past couple of years. And now, “microaggressions” get the imprimatur of the MacArthur Genius Grant.
We’re doomed.
The story was about a hoax by some "academic" named Madonna Constantine.
Well, that's changed in the past couple of years. And now, "microaggressions" get the imprimatur of the MacArthur Genius Grant.
We're doomed.Replies: @ogunsiron, @CCZ
I think I first heard about them through Steve.
The story was about a hoax by some “academic” named Madonna Constantine.
Rankine bears a very weird resemblance to Julian Bond.
“From her wikipedia page, Deep Thoughts by Claudia Rankin:”
Rembrandt and Vermeer aren’t “realistic”. They painted highly stylized (from the point of view of real-world physics and optics) pictures that nevertheless tricked your eye and mind to perceive them as real. That’s why they are geniuses.
Modern art has nothing to do with technology and “realism”. It is Gnostic religious iconography. (The founders of it, e.g., Malevich and Kandinsky, never hid the fact that they’re making a religious statement, not a technological one.)
Well, that's changed in the past couple of years. And now, "microaggressions" get the imprimatur of the MacArthur Genius Grant.
We're doomed.Replies: @ogunsiron, @CCZ
After I very consciously and conscientiously “micro-aggress,” I hand-out the below:
If so, Yale administrators are fools. Of course, they were when they surrendered in the 60s, too. But at least back then it was to Scary Blacks instead of Whiny Blacks.
""Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing."
http://www.isegoria.net/2008/07/robert-conquests-three-laws-of-politics/Replies: @Anonymous, @Desiderius
Maybe it’s time to retire the Washington Generals’ (and, not coincidentally, that of Soros and friends) definition of right and left.
The saddest part of this bit of doggerel is ‘the philosopher Judith Butler’. How often since Socrates’ execution has the discipline suffered such an insult?
The nice white lady scientists are usually very good picks (in the natural sciences, at least). The few that I have known have been legitimately at the top of their fields.
I mean, their minds are so infatuated by all these absurdly esoteric candidates in soft specialties, yet they seem to be knowledgeable and hard-headed enough to pick a few high quality people in the hard STEM specialties each year.
How are the people who fall in love with Claudia Rankine or the beadwork lady able to properly size up a theoretical computer scientist who works on P ≠ NP computability?
"Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. In handmade works ranging from elaborate, over-sized neckpieces, to two- and three-dimensional figurative sculptures, to installations, Scott upends conceptions of beadwork and jewelry as domestic or merely for adornment by creating exquisitely crafted objects that reveal, upon closer examination, stark representations of racism and sexism and the violence they engender."
This is her 'art': Replies: @Kylie, @Front toward enemy, @SFG, @Lot, @sayless, @Clyde
Well her bead dolls and Murano style glass sculptures may not be great fine art, but it is better than 95% of the post-1970 garbage that sells for a million dollars at auctions.
I’d call them good folk art, often cute or clever. No need to hate on her just because some foundation wants to give her a million dollars and call her a top artist.
-her privileged racial class
-her politically fashionable decision (in the postmodern method of mediocre artists everywhere) to bank on the profitable niche of SJW art
I don't doubt she put a lot of time into her pieces, particularly with the laborious tasks of hand-stitching and glassblowing - but come on, this is a (supposedly prestigious, wholly merit-based and extremely competitive) MacArthur Fellowship and Genius Grant! Classical visual artists who also applied, undoubtedly more aesthetically talented in their work than this woman, were rejected in favor of this affirmative-action choice and her social-justice art.
She obviously got it because of the blackness/SJWness.Replies: @Clyde, @Lot
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/21/northwestern-president-critics-of-safe-spaces-are-lunatics/Replies: @Altai
Those all seem so progressive and universalist, except that last one…
Oh lookie, a liberal who gets it.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/rfk-trump-2016-democratic-party-speechwriter-214270
Claudia Rankine* is called a “poet” by her promoters because her prose is reprehensible, something between unintended jabberwocky** and word salad which makes the writing of Genius T. Coates seem lucid by comparison.
By praising and rewarding Claudia Rankine (and implicitly the craven college faculties and administrations who employ her) the MacArthur folks are simply repeating their tactics to humiliate all the writers in the world who might be tempted to hope that competence could be esteemed above skin color and tedious race-hustling. It is essential to the MacArthur Foundation that Claudia Rankine be obviously incompetent so that everyone who envies her rewards will be utterly degraded thereby.
* No apparent relation to William J. M. Rankine.
** “It seems very pretty,” [she] said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand! …somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas–only I don’t exactly know what they are!”
Don’t buy that just-so story. Photography may have put some artists out of business, but it wouldn’t cause the remaining ones to become degenerates. It’s a ridiculous argument, anyway, given the exact same nonsense happened to literature, music, and every other branch of High Art.
Cui bono from there.Replies: @guest
Whoever told you, by the way, that the chief aim of Rembrandt or Vermeer was to be realistic. They weren’t photographers in paint. If you’re seeking for those artists truly displaced by photography, look further down the chain. The guy handing out pictures of the canal to tourists in Venice, for instance.
Well this shouldn’t be surprising at all. Genius and diversity go together about as well as Peanut Butter and Leprosy. Did you know that peanut butter was invented by the Aztecs? Probably not because until White men put it in jars and sold it, no one had heard about it. The blacks claimed they discovered it. I think they found it at a store they looted.
He said that? He got what he deserved. To have his name linked with Marxist clowns and race-baiters.
Riddle: I am meaningless, but you can see me. Put me in your brain, and I’ll make it lighter. What am I?
Answer: academic prose.
I like the fact that microaggressions are quoted in a place called Believermag. I live in America, I believe, I really do believe.
But would Socrates be able to contribute to this critically needed intellectual perspective on “white supremacy” the way “philosopher” scholar Judith Butler can?” Also good to know that Ms. Chadderton draws her salary from a British public university, but this is fodder for social justice warriors in the US also. Anyone interested in de-funding university departments of “social sciences?”
To those who feel the emotional pain of verbal micro-aggressions…
Screw all ya’ll. Have a nice life.
Notice how Serena’s command to the ref “Really, don’t even look at me. Don’t look my way. Don’t look my way,” she repeats” is so similar to the black b*tches command to the poor sap during the confrontation at Yale. The parallels are striking.
For those of you who have never interacted intimately with Blacks over extended periods of time, this sort of imperious command may seem bizarre and exceptional. Let me assure you that it is the norm. Just as every black claims to be descended from some Royal African Chieftain, so to the same degree do they sincerely believe that their natural station in life is to rule over Whites.
That’s why they’re so d*mn resentful and why they always conjure up elaborate excuses for why they’re NOT ruling. They sincerely believe that they ARE superior and that some chance, some element of Luck and if not that then some ruthless evilness on the part of whites, their privilege, systemic racism whatever, has turned the natural order on its head. This is, of course, the rich vein of resentiment that Farrakahn’s Nation of Islam taps into. Jeremiah Wright’s name can be added to that roster as well and that of his disciple, Barack Obama, who also mine this same inexhaustible lode.
For those of you who have never interacted intimately with Blacks over extended periods of time, this sort of imperious command may seem bizarre and exceptional. Let me assure you that it is the norm. Just as every black claims to be descended from some Royal African Chieftain, so to the same degree do they sincerely believe that their natural station in life is to rule over Whites.
That's why they're so d*mn resentful and why they always conjure up elaborate excuses for why they're NOT ruling. They sincerely believe that they ARE superior and that some chance, some element of Luck and if not that then some ruthless evilness on the part of whites, their privilege, systemic racism whatever, has turned the natural order on its head. This is, of course, the rich vein of resentiment that Farrakahn's Nation of Islam taps into. Jeremiah Wright's name can be added to that roster as well and that of his disciple, Barack Obama, who also mine this same inexhaustible lode.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Desiderius, @Desiderius, @hhsiii, @Neil Templeton
There is a scene in Updike’s The Coup where the African narrator, a Barack Obama Sr. like individual, is visiting his white girlfriend’s sheepish parents in 1958, and he notices how their queenly black maid appears to order them around through the sheer regalness of her demeanor.
Life is competition. White people have been trained to forget that.
Schoolteachers mispronouncing a student’s name to be considered a microaggression in this school district.
No. That entry was written by a black. Subtle digs are a white thing.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Truth
After 10 years here, you know that’s not true, Sportette.
And.....of course.......you pop up here where the topic is "blackness" - the only topic you care about.
https://www.macfound.org/about/people/board-directors/
Way too many women. That's what gives rise to bullshit like this.Replies: @candid_observer
I see that Claude Steele — pioneer of the “stereotype-threat” notion — is on the board.
Just looking at the selection of “geniuses”, I’d have to say that it appears to be an exercise in the grand to correct “stereotype-threat”.
I can’t imagine why something that can’t be made to work reliably in experiments should fail in the real, complex world.
I love this navel gaze through a glass onion-kind of humanities scholasticism.
It’s like how New Criticism became a joke in the 1950’s when you’d argue over a criticism of the critic rather than getting to the author.
This idea of trying to conduct research as an outsider while fighting for her cause is like how anthropologists in the 60’s argued if Jane Goodall was corrupting her subjects by engaging with them, when the real argument is about whether National Geographic’s pics of her in those shorts were corrupting the readership.
They’re well on their way to the fate of monasteries under Henry VIII.
There are many things that can be done to cut the Left off the government tit. Let the bobos keep NPR and kill EPA, Education, Energy, etc.
Lead the way, Dirty Harry.
My compliments. Very “Jerzesque!”
While disdaining the entire micro-aggression enterprise, I did think that it was a poor performance on the part of John Roberts, C.J., to muff the administration of Obama’s oath of office. As I recall, it was pure hubris that he didn’t bring a copy of the oath with him and then his memory failed him at the critical moment. Given that the oath is specified in the Constitution, perhaps this anti-Constitutional lapse on Roberts’s part was an omen of things to come.
No, she’s right. There’s nothing subtle about you, Pravda.
Those kids won’t last a minute in Basic Training, where drill sergeants routinely butcher recruits’ names.
Bullies. The only way to deal with them is to push back.
Life is competition. White people have been trained to forget that.
I’d prefer my researchers to solutionmatise some issues.
Look up “problematize” in a dictionary–which I have unfortunately done–and you find it means to regard something as a problem that needs a solution. Which sounds roundabout but comprehensible. Problem is (excuse the terminology), most of the things they’re talking about are already seen as a “problem,” at least to the kind of person who could say the word “problematize” without choking. So why speak of making something into a problem? Why not cut to the solution?
Because they’re not interested in solutions to these “problems.” This is pure Critical Theory. The aim is to tear down, not build up. (They have one, big solution, which is the New World Order, but in the meantime they have to create problems to get there.) You take that which normal people view as normal and turn it into a problem. This “recontextualizes” it, or “defamiliarizes” it, or whatever. Point is to confuse them, and while they’re distracted you lift their wallets.
Normal people won’t ever get to read this, you say. Well, yes, but it’s not for them. It’s verbal masturbation, mostly, but it’s also fun for these people to share nonsense with eachother, like they’re in a Mystery Cult. Where it becomes meaningful is a few branches down the line. Professors influence eachother, they eventually train teachers and journalists, they in turn instruct portions of the masses with or without their knowledge to think of perfectly normal things as problems.
DM with the video and stills of the white man attacked in Charlotte (and many other shots). So weary of “white supremacy” and “white privilege”, just a poor white homeless man who tried to tuck himself away in a garage.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3802230/War-zone-Charlotte-White-man-begs-mercy-beaten-reporter-nearly-dragged-fire-rioters-people-told-stay-home-work-police-shooting-black-father.html
Auster’s First Law of Majority-Minority Relations goes something like this: The worse the behavior of a minority, and the poorer its performance, the higher its pedestal.
For those of you who have never interacted intimately with Blacks over extended periods of time, this sort of imperious command may seem bizarre and exceptional. Let me assure you that it is the norm. Just as every black claims to be descended from some Royal African Chieftain, so to the same degree do they sincerely believe that their natural station in life is to rule over Whites.
That's why they're so d*mn resentful and why they always conjure up elaborate excuses for why they're NOT ruling. They sincerely believe that they ARE superior and that some chance, some element of Luck and if not that then some ruthless evilness on the part of whites, their privilege, systemic racism whatever, has turned the natural order on its head. This is, of course, the rich vein of resentiment that Farrakahn's Nation of Islam taps into. Jeremiah Wright's name can be added to that roster as well and that of his disciple, Barack Obama, who also mine this same inexhaustible lode.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Desiderius, @Desiderius, @hhsiii, @Neil Templeton
Our skin didn’t get to be white from the lack of sun in the Olduvai Gorge. Someone’s ancestors kicked someone else’s to the curb somewhere along the way.
This won't happen today, because governments/health centres can recommend synthesised vitamin D, so incomers to northern regions will stay dark.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36846894Replies: @Desiderius
That stuff, like Coates’s writing, is the literary equivalent of pimp suits and pimped-out cars. Gaudy excess, showing off, little sense.
What better way to de-legitimize the very idea of high and low.
Cui bono from there.
For those of you who have never interacted intimately with Blacks over extended periods of time, this sort of imperious command may seem bizarre and exceptional. Let me assure you that it is the norm. Just as every black claims to be descended from some Royal African Chieftain, so to the same degree do they sincerely believe that their natural station in life is to rule over Whites.
That's why they're so d*mn resentful and why they always conjure up elaborate excuses for why they're NOT ruling. They sincerely believe that they ARE superior and that some chance, some element of Luck and if not that then some ruthless evilness on the part of whites, their privilege, systemic racism whatever, has turned the natural order on its head. This is, of course, the rich vein of resentiment that Farrakahn's Nation of Islam taps into. Jeremiah Wright's name can be added to that roster as well and that of his disciple, Barack Obama, who also mine this same inexhaustible lode.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Desiderius, @Desiderius, @hhsiii, @Neil Templeton
The most appropriate date for
http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/09/meet-the-privileged-yale-student-who-shrieked-at-her-professor/
would be October 31, 2017, which is the 500th anniversary of the church-door publication by her namesake of his 95 Theses demanding safe spaces and the abolition of indulgences for microagressions.Replies: @jimmyriddle
And, appropriately, the German pronunciation is, I think, “looter”.
I want a MacArthur Award given to the discoverer of cure for “Negro Fatigue,” which seems be incurable and untreatable. Maybe a lapel ribbon and an awareness month until a cure is found.
Of the 23 recipients, only 2 may be said to be white males (one other who at first blush might seem to be one, Daryl Baldwin, is a Native American doing research on the language of his tribe): Bill Thies and Josh Kun.
And what do they do?
Bill Thies is part of Microsoft Research in India, "creating communication and digital technologies to advance the social and economic well-being of low-income communities in the developing world."
Josh Kun got his Ph.D. from Berkeley in Ethnic Studies, and is plying his trade in various racial/ethnic projects.
The MacArthur grants have now officially violated the rule: Never go full retard.Replies: @candid_observer, @ogunsiron, @PiltdownMan, @Lurker
Two guys in the list seem to have traded places. No borders!
Bill Thies is a capable computer scientist.
https://www.eecs.mit.edu/people/alumni/alumni-eecs-connector-2014/bill-thies-01-meng-02-phd-09
Subhash Khot, a very capable theoretical computer scientist was also named a Fellow this year. He’s from India, but like Bill Thies, decided that his talents were best employed on the other side of the world.
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/960/
Perhaps our host, or his host, could consider hosting an annual award like the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
The Unz-Sailer Award recognizing hyperbolically turgid social justice rhetoric. The award being the top 20 entries posted somewhere hereabouts, all resultant fame and fortune deposited into a sidebar to inspire the PC-oppressed.Replies: @C. Van Carter, @Bill Jones
There are too many deserving examples and not enough judges with the mental strength to read them.
Perhaps our host, or his host, could consider hosting an annual award like the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
The Unz-Sailer Award recognizing hyperbolically turgid social justice rhetoric. The award being the top 20 entries posted somewhere hereabouts, all resultant fame and fortune deposited into a sidebar to inspire the PC-oppressed.Replies: @C. Van Carter, @Bill Jones
Bead board
A lofty term to apply to machine-routed wainscotting I realize, but whaddaya whaddaya.Replies: @Bill Jones
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/53y52d/soros_is_mobilizing_the_global_us_citizen_vote/?st=ite8wwo8&sh=a78c4198
While it was on the front page at Breitbart recently, it would help to have some additional help and targeted action by reddit. The idea is that there are nearly 8 million US citizens who are not registered to vote. If we can get them to vote, then it could prove to be a decider. And now, the Eye of Soros has cast its baleful gaze at the problem. From what I understand, the overseas voters are more likely to vote Republican, so a general raising of awareness of this is good. Our side has nothing to lose by advertising this.
The registration and counting of the votes is according to the last state you lived in. So if you last resided in anything approaching a swing state, it's very important to register.Replies: @anon
Actually, apart from military, the overseas voters are much more likely to vote dem. That is why Soros is behind this.
I feel microaggressed today.
Thus the future is a a bunch of incompetent BLM types running everything, with outsourced foreigners doing the actual work. Leaving White men to do what?
If the genius BLM people wanted to create a violent revolution, pushing the most talented and dangerous group to have zero interest and investment in the current system could not be more direct.Replies: @Anonitron2
Another clumsy attempt to make PC stuff sound more deliberate than it is.
The people pushing microaggressions are sentimental mediocrities acting in total sincerity. There’s no surreptitious will to power, it’s just the elevation of Hallmark politics to a level of stonefaced seriousness not possible without the internet.
Think about how your spinster aunt reacts to Family Circus cartoons (or insert schlocky old lady shit here). That’s what politics are now.
After micro aggressions can only come nanoagressions.
“Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture. Cultural appropriation is seen by some as controversial, notably when elements of a minority culture are used by members of the cultural majority; this is seen as wrongfully oppressing the minority culture or stripping it of its group identity and intellectual property rights.” (Wikipedia)Replies: @guest, @PiltdownMan
“Very few Negroes like to write about things that have nothing to do with their Blackness. That’s why there is no Black version of Stephen King and J.K Rowling for example.”
It’s all the arts. All black, all the time. So boring.
Even within the arts it always has to revolve around Blackness.
10^6 micro-aggressions = 1 aggression = 1 punch in the face
~10 aggressions = 1 death (scholars continue to debate)
9/11 = ~3000 deaths = ~30 kilo-aggressions = ~3 x 10^10 micro-aggressions
communism = ~100M deaths = ~1 giga-aggression = ~10^15 micro-aggressions
for what it’s worth…
Who is financing that elevation? They do not lack for power nor the will for more, and they’re anything but sentimental about it.
Just looking at the selection of "geniuses", I'd have to say that it appears to be an exercise in the grand to correct "stereotype-threat".
I can't imagine why something that can't be made to work reliably in experiments should fail in the real, complex world.Replies: @Triumph104
Well, the MacArthur Foundation did stereotype the black recipients, all were in the arts not one scientist. Although, that woman who repositions beadwork is priceless. There was variety among the Asians, three were in STEM, one attorney, and one graphic novelist. Even the Hispanic recipient worked in community-based financial services.
We Wuz Kangz does not extend to science.
This is not a new problem: back in the mid ’50’s the Reese commission looked at this, here’s the Dodd report that resulted.
To no-ones surprise, the foundations had concluded that war was the best way to achieve societal change, hence, one is coming soon near you.
https://archive.org/details/DoddReportToTheReeceCommitteeOnFoundations-1954-RobberBaron
“How to be a MacArthur Genius”
I take it ‘genius’ is now one of those liberal-redefined terms that means whatever they want it to.
Also called beadwork by this master cabinetmaker I knew and others of his ilk North Jersey/NYC. Referred to the carved thin rounded stuff on William and Mary chests and such. I think it was called cockbeading in the Chippendale style.
A lofty term to apply to machine-routed wainscotting I realize, but whaddaya whaddaya.
For those of you who have never interacted intimately with Blacks over extended periods of time, this sort of imperious command may seem bizarre and exceptional. Let me assure you that it is the norm. Just as every black claims to be descended from some Royal African Chieftain, so to the same degree do they sincerely believe that their natural station in life is to rule over Whites.
That's why they're so d*mn resentful and why they always conjure up elaborate excuses for why they're NOT ruling. They sincerely believe that they ARE superior and that some chance, some element of Luck and if not that then some ruthless evilness on the part of whites, their privilege, systemic racism whatever, has turned the natural order on its head. This is, of course, the rich vein of resentiment that Farrakahn's Nation of Islam taps into. Jeremiah Wright's name can be added to that roster as well and that of his disciple, Barack Obama, who also mine this same inexhaustible lode.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Desiderius, @Desiderius, @hhsiii, @Neil Templeton
What makes you think they’re NOT ruling?
“Well, the MacArthur Foundation did stereotype the black recipients, all were in the arts not one scientist”
We Wuz Kangz does not extend to science.
It's all the arts. All black, all the time. So boring.Replies: @Jefferson
“It’s all the arts. All black, all the time. So boring”
Even within the arts it always has to revolve around Blackness.
That is devoutly to be wished under President Trump.
There are many things that can be done to cut the Left off the government tit. Let the bobos keep NPR and kill EPA, Education, Energy, etc.
To no-ones surprise, the foundations had concluded that war was the best way to achieve societal change, hence, one is coming soon near you.
https://archive.org/details/DoddReportToTheReeceCommitteeOnFoundations-1954-RobberBaronReplies: @Jim Don Bob
Agree completely. Jonah Goldberg pointed out repeatedly in his book Liberal Fascism (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W917ZG) (which is quite good) that Progressives have been invoking the moral equivalent of war since Woodrow Wilson. Short translation is that what we are doing is too important to be left to the votes of the plebes who might disagree out of ignorance.
Hell is no place to look for morals.
Cui bono from there.Replies: @guest
I’ve heard the argument that it was capitalism. Modern art is easy to produce. You don’t have to train anyone to do it, and since there’s no real difference between good and bad you can just tell people what’s good and they’ll buy it. And it’s true, Rockefeller and related varieties of Big Money supported modernism. So did the U.S. government, to counter Socialist Realism. That’s why poop on a canvas can sell for $15 million dollars.
But that doesn’t explain it. There’s always more money to be made, and modernism never sold to the masses. They know Pop Art a little, and maybe surrealism, plus a few big names like Picasso. Mostly, though, they remain blissfully unaware. Mass production of the Old Masters sell, up to and including the Impressionists. Believe me, if captains of industry could find a new Raphael they’d snatch him up.
That won’t happen, because the degenerates are in charge of the art world. So I say capitalism is merely taking advantage. The rot came first. Something in the Western mind broke in the latter half of the 19th century.
Luckily for us, we have a God who isn't very good at staying dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8
How to be a MacArthur Genius
1) be a NAM preferably foreign
2) don’t be cisgendered
3) be telegenic
4) master the art of academic gobbledy-gook by using words like “intersectionality”, etc.
5) focus all your scholarly work on yourself and how the world has mistreated you
6) have a bad attitude towards criticism. because raaaaacism.
Of the 23 recipients, only 2 may be said to be white males (one other who at first blush might seem to be one, Daryl Baldwin, is a Native American doing research on the language of his tribe): Bill Thies and Josh Kun.
And what do they do?
Bill Thies is part of Microsoft Research in India, "creating communication and digital technologies to advance the social and economic well-being of low-income communities in the developing world."
Josh Kun got his Ph.D. from Berkeley in Ethnic Studies, and is plying his trade in various racial/ethnic projects.
The MacArthur grants have now officially violated the rule: Never go full retard.Replies: @candid_observer, @ogunsiron, @PiltdownMan, @Lurker
They left the ‘t’ off the end of his name, clearly a microaggression that needs investigating.
War is hell.
Hell is no place to look for morals.
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
Luckily for us, we have a God who isn’t very good at staying dead.
Jonah Goldberg is such an ass as a commentator I’ve been wondering if he actually wrote that book.
I am surprised he, along with people like Kevin Willliamson at NR, got on the NeverTrup band wagon. The only explanation that makes any sense is $; these people fear that a President Trump won't need them and their "conservative" ideas and think tanks. I'll bet Trump has a long memory.Replies: @Neil Templeton
Doesn’t need one.
to olorin: my thoughts exactly, having restored several old yankee homes. laughed so hard almost soiled myself! oh the genius of repurposed beadwork.
For those of you who have never interacted intimately with Blacks over extended periods of time, this sort of imperious command may seem bizarre and exceptional. Let me assure you that it is the norm. Just as every black claims to be descended from some Royal African Chieftain, so to the same degree do they sincerely believe that their natural station in life is to rule over Whites.
That's why they're so d*mn resentful and why they always conjure up elaborate excuses for why they're NOT ruling. They sincerely believe that they ARE superior and that some chance, some element of Luck and if not that then some ruthless evilness on the part of whites, their privilege, systemic racism whatever, has turned the natural order on its head. This is, of course, the rich vein of resentiment that Farrakahn's Nation of Islam taps into. Jeremiah Wright's name can be added to that roster as well and that of his disciple, Barack Obama, who also mine this same inexhaustible lode.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Desiderius, @Desiderius, @hhsiii, @Neil Templeton
In all fairness, I doubt Ms. Williams discriminates by race with regard to whom she speaks that way. Maybe, but I doubt.
All this stuff about microaggressions being unique to blacks is so much bullshit.
This is life for everyone.
From parents to grade school to high school to service to college to graduate school to jobs to relationships and so on, there are always mean, inconsiderate, stupid, selfish, petty , authoritative assholes that have to be dealt with and overcome. Hell, we are all that way ourselves to others. This is not the Garden of Eden. It is the human condition. These things can never be totally eliminated.
A lofty term to apply to machine-routed wainscotting I realize, but whaddaya whaddaya.Replies: @Bill Jones
I do it myself with a fluted dado-head on the table saw, any sizeable length is bead board.
Making the beading used to be a high-skill aspect of woodworking. Decades ago, my school wood-shop was all manual, except for a lathe. I foolishly picked a project that required me to create a simple beaded border and learned how very hard it is to do.
Inspiration flourishes at the intersection of fantasy, Truth, and greed.
Four in ten with both parents foreign?
The first order would be to quit filling the EBT card.
I’ll accept that as an apology, Truth, that the appropriation of “micro” with respect to aggression is either mistaken or disingenuous.
This is life for everyone.
From parents to grade school to high school to service to college to graduate school to jobs to relationships and so on, there are always mean, inconsiderate, stupid, selfish, petty , authoritative assholes that have to be dealt with and overcome. Hell, we are all that way ourselves to others. This is not the Garden of Eden. It is the human condition. These things can never be totally eliminated.Replies: @Neil Templeton
Apparently you’ve never been to a Hillary rally. Have you never seen the movie, “Where the Votes are”?
I’m having a hard time figuring out how the MacArthur grant search process works.
I mean, their minds are so infatuated by all these absurdly esoteric candidates in soft specialties, yet they seem to be knowledgeable and hard-headed enough to pick a few high quality people in the hard STEM specialties each year.
How are the people who fall in love with Claudia Rankine or the beadwork lady able to properly size up a theoretical computer scientist who works on P ≠ NP computability?
The Allied landing at Normandy was “macro.” You decide.
It reminds me of the arguments I read in medieval philosophy, or the statements of Mr. Kissinger circa 1970 “…the negotiations will be very delicate.” Some moral persuasion is accompanied by a swelling surf of sophistic mantra intended to disable logic and critical thought.
Apology accepted.
Man oh man Harry Baldwin’s comment (number 31) is hilarious. Pick on Kylie all you want, but you gotta admit, little fella, that is comedy gold.
"Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. In handmade works ranging from elaborate, over-sized neckpieces, to two- and three-dimensional figurative sculptures, to installations, Scott upends conceptions of beadwork and jewelry as domestic or merely for adornment by creating exquisitely crafted objects that reveal, upon closer examination, stark representations of racism and sexism and the violence they engender."
This is her 'art': Replies: @Kylie, @Front toward enemy, @SFG, @Lot, @sayless, @Clyde
“Scott upends conceptions of beadwork and jewelry as domestic or merely for adornment by creating exquisitely crafted objects that reveal, upon closer examination, stark representations of racism and sexism and the violence they engender.”
Can we look forward to her beadwork interpretation of the Channon-Newsome murders?
Blacks always see the world through the lens of race. Always.
Aren’t any public black intellectuals interested in ideas? Are they only interested in being black? Do they understand what a frigging bore they all are?
Yes.
No.
Not the ones that rich and powerful whites are interested in hiring.
"Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. In handmade works ranging from elaborate, over-sized neckpieces, to two- and three-dimensional figurative sculptures, to installations, Scott upends conceptions of beadwork and jewelry as domestic or merely for adornment by creating exquisitely crafted objects that reveal, upon closer examination, stark representations of racism and sexism and the violence they engender."
This is her 'art': Replies: @Kylie, @Front toward enemy, @SFG, @Lot, @sayless, @Clyde
A $600,000 genius grant for this pretentious crap? Her jewelry is junky folk art, images can be found on the www.
She is very light skinned black with a mop of curled orangish hair.https://goo.gl/qgvEmP
On the plus side, at least she is not ripping off the taxpayers via a public university sinecure.
Why don’t rich paleoconservatives hand out money to support what they think of as important and deserving science and arts people? Enough with the whining, let’s have some positive action.
I don’t know science, alas, but I know the arts well enough to vouch for the fact that deserving people are out there: novelists doing story-centric fiction; poets, painters and composers using traditional forms; architects and urbanists working in classical and local styles … You won’t learn much about them from the usual outlets, of course. To them, this stuff is either silly or the enemy. I used to pitch story ideas about artists working in trad ways to editors in NYC and got shot down 99.9% of the time.
Hey, another thing rich paleoconservatives might think of financially sponsoring: an online publication or outlet that brings together, covers and cheerleads for worthy cultural work in trad forms.
Our skin got to be white because we moved north and paler skins could make more vitamin D, so our darker-skinned forebears slowly died out or were outbred, as people with rickets weren’t of high mate value.
This won’t happen today, because governments/health centres can recommend synthesised vitamin D, so incomers to northern regions will stay dark.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36846894
Do you imagine we moved north because our inherent pathological altruism led us to decide to leave the best land to the ancestors of today's blacks out of the kindness of our hearts?Replies: @Anonymous Nephew
I'd call them good folk art, often cute or clever. No need to hate on her just because some foundation wants to give her a million dollars and call her a top artist.Replies: @Marie
She would be resigned to selling her work on the regional art and craft fair circuit were it not for:
-her privileged racial class
-her politically fashionable decision (in the postmodern method of mediocre artists everywhere) to bank on the profitable niche of SJW art
I don’t doubt she put a lot of time into her pieces, particularly with the laborious tasks of hand-stitching and glassblowing – but come on, this is a (supposedly prestigious, wholly merit-based and extremely competitive) MacArthur Fellowship and Genius Grant! Classical visual artists who also applied, undoubtedly more aesthetically talented in their work than this woman, were rejected in favor of this affirmative-action choice and her social-justice art.
She obviously got it because of the blackness/SJWness.
Btw I don't usually reply to your posts but I really enjoy them.Replies: @Marie
Thanks! What with the daily Cultural Revolution and its outrages, you just have to wonder if Herbert Marcuse is in the grave watching it all, cackling with glee and reveling in the destruction of the West.
-her privileged racial class
-her politically fashionable decision (in the postmodern method of mediocre artists everywhere) to bank on the profitable niche of SJW art
I don't doubt she put a lot of time into her pieces, particularly with the laborious tasks of hand-stitching and glassblowing - but come on, this is a (supposedly prestigious, wholly merit-based and extremely competitive) MacArthur Fellowship and Genius Grant! Classical visual artists who also applied, undoubtedly more aesthetically talented in their work than this woman, were rejected in favor of this affirmative-action choice and her social-justice art.
She obviously got it because of the blackness/SJWness.Replies: @Clyde, @Lot
She looks barely black ….about 20%. Still she gets them racial set asides and bennies from the MacArthur Foundation. Her art is convoluted bag lady level junk. Many at home artists do such for self-satisfaction, fine. But they not elevated and given $600,000 rewards.
She looks exactly like the type I imagine Rachel Dolezal (in her heyday) would’ve wanted to bring along to the NAACP picnic in the role of fake mom.
Entitling a book “Liberal Fascism” proves that he doesn’t know what fascism is. Liberals (as we use the term in contemporary America) are not fascist. The word fascism doesn’t simply mean “any political movement I don’t like”. Goldberg is a light-weight.
It’s evident from everything you’ve ever written, cockroach. Subtlety doesn’t seem to be a black specialty. It certainly isn’t yours.
And…..of course…….you pop up here where the topic is “blackness” – the only topic you care about.
We never made it into a shakedown business. We never called the Smithsonian Institute the European-American Institute. We didn’t call the National Gallery the Gallery of European Art, nor the American Museum of Technology the European-American Museum of Technology. Etc., etc., etc. BTW, the opening of the Smithsonian’s African-American Museum is tomorrow, Sep. 24, 2016. This is huge.
What also comes next is “cultural appropriation” (along with more diversity and cultural sensitivity re-education and indoctrination no doubt).
“Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture. Cultural appropriation is seen by some as controversial, notably when elements of a minority culture are used by members of the cultural majority; this is seen as wrongfully oppressing the minority culture or stripping it of its group identity and intellectual property rights.” (Wikipedia)
Yeah, because why should it matter the other way? Blacks have so few things of their own that they need every little bit. Like a kid with his blankie.
Was that an entry in the "How many times can you say 'culture' in one paragraph" contest, by the way? Because I could have done better, but only on purpose.
There is reason to chill, based on the comments on that article in the Cornell Daily Sun. Note the comments from Hispanics.Replies: @Desiderius
I met Jonah Goldberg at a small gathering about 5 years ago and he was quite personable, though he did quite forcefully defend NR’s sacking of The Derb for his Talk column. The next day he gave a speech to about a hundred people and was quite good.
I am surprised he, along with people like Kevin Willliamson at NR, got on the NeverTrup band wagon. The only explanation that makes any sense is $; these people fear that a President Trump won’t need them and their “conservative” ideas and think tanks. I’ll bet Trump has a long memory.
I don't know science, alas, but I know the arts well enough to vouch for the fact that deserving people are out there: novelists doing story-centric fiction; poets, painters and composers using traditional forms; architects and urbanists working in classical and local styles ... You won't learn much about them from the usual outlets, of course. To them, this stuff is either silly or the enemy. I used to pitch story ideas about artists working in trad ways to editors in NYC and got shot down 99.9% of the time.
Hey, another thing rich paleoconservatives might think of financially sponsoring: an online publication or outlet that brings together, covers and cheerleads for worthy cultural work in trad forms.Replies: @Desiderius, @guest
See also: jumbo shrimp, military intelligence
This won't happen today, because governments/health centres can recommend synthesised vitamin D, so incomers to northern regions will stay dark.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36846894Replies: @Desiderius
You’ve missed the point with uncommon verve and precision.
Do you imagine we moved north because our inherent pathological altruism led us to decide to leave the best land to the ancestors of today’s blacks out of the kindness of our hearts?
You may be right (difficult to prove), though I suspect the motive was more likely that people wanted to see what was over the next hill, if there was more room/game/fish/women/whatever and just kept going. The Pilgrim Fathers for example weren't exactly having their butts kicked when they headed for the Americas, although they were religious exiles in Holland. Nor were the first English colonists in Africa. And as for the Spanish in South America ...Replies: @Desiderius
Aren't any public black intellectuals interested in ideas? Are they only interested in being black? Do they understand what a frigging bore they all are?Replies: @Kylie
No.
Yes.
No.
Was Truth picking on me? I didn’t notice.
-her privileged racial class
-her politically fashionable decision (in the postmodern method of mediocre artists everywhere) to bank on the profitable niche of SJW art
I don't doubt she put a lot of time into her pieces, particularly with the laborious tasks of hand-stitching and glassblowing - but come on, this is a (supposedly prestigious, wholly merit-based and extremely competitive) MacArthur Fellowship and Genius Grant! Classical visual artists who also applied, undoubtedly more aesthetically talented in their work than this woman, were rejected in favor of this affirmative-action choice and her social-justice art.
She obviously got it because of the blackness/SJWness.Replies: @Clyde, @Lot
I agree with all that except that she didn’t apply for the fellowship, they do not have nominations or application, just a mysterious internal process then a call saying you get a million dollars.
Precisely. Study the beadwork on William and Mary drawer or carcase fronts for instance. Now reproduce or recreate it by hand, with sharp tools. Now add several different methods of construction (scratch, cock, applied…).
Every last millimeter of the run possesses at least twelve cosmic dimensions of potential f-up. It’s uncanny really, and one of the many reasons I’ve always perceived woodworking as one of the quintessential time-and-space-travel disciplines.
The gentlemen to whom I earlier referred were assigned that sort of carving as part of their apprenticeships…in their early teens. They had mastered it at a younger age than today’s teens have detached from the teat. Producing it was part of earning their keep.
A million dollars ought to buy a lot of sex from a “genious” young woman, newly grateful for her award!
Thank you, Desiderius! Laughter is the best medicine.
Do you imagine we moved north because our inherent pathological altruism led us to decide to leave the best land to the ancestors of today's blacks out of the kindness of our hearts?Replies: @Anonymous Nephew
Are you arguing that those who left Africa were the people who couldn’t cut it as “big men” back on the equator?
You may be right (difficult to prove), though I suspect the motive was more likely that people wanted to see what was over the next hill, if there was more room/game/fish/women/whatever and just kept going. The Pilgrim Fathers for example weren’t exactly having their butts kicked when they headed for the Americas, although they were religious exiles in Holland. Nor were the first English colonists in Africa. And as for the Spanish in South America …
The dominant don't go looking for greener pastures, which was the original question. This suggests it may not be the most prudent thing in the world to treat blacks as innocent little children just waiting for superior whites to lift them up.
Progressivism is the last bastion of (a false) white supremacism.
I don't know science, alas, but I know the arts well enough to vouch for the fact that deserving people are out there: novelists doing story-centric fiction; poets, painters and composers using traditional forms; architects and urbanists working in classical and local styles ... You won't learn much about them from the usual outlets, of course. To them, this stuff is either silly or the enemy. I used to pitch story ideas about artists working in trad ways to editors in NYC and got shot down 99.9% of the time.
Hey, another thing rich paleoconservatives might think of financially sponsoring: an online publication or outlet that brings together, covers and cheerleads for worthy cultural work in trad forms.Replies: @Desiderius, @guest
Rich people get their brains rotted by the culture, too. If they haven’t, they can be ripped off by wolves in sheep’s clothing (see the conservative movement). Or if, against all odds, they manage to set up actual, true-blue traditional institutions, leftists take them over in a generation.
You may be right (difficult to prove), though I suspect the motive was more likely that people wanted to see what was over the next hill, if there was more room/game/fish/women/whatever and just kept going. The Pilgrim Fathers for example weren't exactly having their butts kicked when they headed for the Americas, although they were religious exiles in Holland. Nor were the first English colonists in Africa. And as for the Spanish in South America ...Replies: @Desiderius
All your examples are of second sons at best.
The dominant don’t go looking for greener pastures, which was the original question. This suggests it may not be the most prudent thing in the world to treat blacks as innocent little children just waiting for superior whites to lift them up.
Progressivism is the last bastion of (a false) white supremacism.
I am surprised he, along with people like Kevin Willliamson at NR, got on the NeverTrup band wagon. The only explanation that makes any sense is $; these people fear that a President Trump won't need them and their "conservative" ideas and think tanks. I'll bet Trump has a long memory.Replies: @Neil Templeton
Maybe, but I doubt it. My read on Mr. Williamson is that he believes in open borders / free trade, he doesn’t have much sympathy for the underclasses (because a good share of failure is explained by poor choices / lack of effort), and he just plain doesn’t like Mr. Trump.
“Liberal fascism” was coined by H.G. Wells, I believe in earnest. Maybe you’re a lightweight.
“Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture. Cultural appropriation is seen by some as controversial, notably when elements of a minority culture are used by members of the cultural majority; this is seen as wrongfully oppressing the minority culture or stripping it of its group identity and intellectual property rights.” (Wikipedia)Replies: @guest, @PiltdownMan
“notably when elements of a minority culture are used by members of the cultural majority”
Yeah, because why should it matter the other way? Blacks have so few things of their own that they need every little bit. Like a kid with his blankie.
Was that an entry in the “How many times can you say ‘culture’ in one paragraph” contest, by the way? Because I could have done better, but only on purpose.
“Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture. Cultural appropriation is seen by some as controversial, notably when elements of a minority culture are used by members of the cultural majority; this is seen as wrongfully oppressing the minority culture or stripping it of its group identity and intellectual property rights.” (Wikipedia)Replies: @guest, @PiltdownMan
Perhaps we shouldn’t be outraged by the “outrage” over the “outrage.”
There is reason to chill, based on the comments on that article in the Cornell Daily Sun. Note the comments from Hispanics.
There is reason to chill, based on the comments on that article in the Cornell Daily Sun. Note the comments from Hispanics.Replies: @Desiderius
One way out of this mess is for minorities to recognize that they’re being used by one group of whites to give noogies to another.
The connection here is that Rankine spent most of her career at Pomona College. Cecilia Conrad, past Dean at Pomona, now essentially runs MacArthur Foundation. They were long time sjw type activists together. So this isn’t just a black award, its in insider crony reward your fellow black friends award.
Maybe H.G. Wells was a light-weight, as you yourself are.
For the record, Goldberg I consider middling for his profession. Up until recently, when he descended to become an outright hack.
That spanking I promised you is years past due.
I don’t doubt I am. Wells definitely wasn’t.
For the record, Goldberg I consider middling for his profession. Up until recently, when he descended to become an outright hack.
KW wrote this fairly sympathetic piece on Appalachia – http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367903/white-ghetto-kevin-d-williamson
It’s been a long long time since Liberal meant liberal.
I notice that I get less satisfaction from, and therefore do less, woodworking as by collection of power tools has increased.
By the way, I don’t remember enough about that book to say how much of it was “liberals are fascists,” though there was a lot of it. There was also a lot of confusion over the origins of fascism, and just what it meant. However, Goldberg did score some very excellent points. One concerns the reaction of liberals to fascism, which was more admiring and envious than we’ve been led to believe.
Another follows from that envy. Liberals saw what the fascists were pulling off and said, “Why aren’t we doing that?” So they set about to do their own version; fascism with a smiley face, if you will.
The book was not Dems R the Real Nazis. I remember him going double-barrels on Hillary and Pat Buchanan at the end. Which helps explain why this election is so painful to Conservatism, Inc. water carriers like Goldberg. Because Hillary is the same Hillary, and Trump is Buchanan, only more liberal.
It’s similar to poetry writing in that respect. The harder it is the easier it is.