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From the Wellesley News:
FREE SPEECH IS NOT VIOLATED AT WELLESLEY
by STAFF EDITORIAL
If you say so …
Looks nice!
Many members of our community, including students, alumnae and faculty, have criticized the Wellesley community for becoming an environment where free speech is not allowed or is a violated right. Many outside sources have painted us as a bunch of hot house flowers who cannot exist in the real world. However, we fundamentally disagree with that characterization, and we disagree with the idea that free speech is infringed upon at Wellesley. Rather, our Wellesley community will not stand for hate speech, and will call it out when possible.
Okay …
Wellesley students are generally correct in their attempts to differentiate what is viable discourse from what is just hate speech. Wellesley is certainly not a place for racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia or any other type of discriminatory speech. Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech.
Indeed.
The founding fathers put free speech in the Constitution as a way to protect the disenfranchised and to protect individual citizens from the power of the government. The spirit of free speech is to protect the suppressed, not to protect a free-for-all where anything is acceptable, no matter how hateful and damaging.
Somebody needs to compose a Broadway musical about how James Madison was black, Hispanic, Jewish, immigrant, Muslim, and gay … STAT!
… We at The Wellesley News, are not interested in any type of tone policing.
Madison was short. Is that good enough?
The emotional labor required to educate people is immense and is additional weight that is put on those who are already forced to defend their human rights.
Commenter Jack D notes:
THREE SJW memes in 1 sentence – a record!
1. “Emotional labor” – Being a SJW and being around all you racists is hard work that I should get paid for (as others have mentioned in their comments),
2. “Required to educate people” – this is the “I don’t have to educate you (you stupid redneck)” meme – you should be woke already and if you are not woke, I shouldn’t have to keep explaining it. I explained this whole SJW thing to you once and you should just accept it and not question it any further. Are you stupid or something? This is how the Gospel was spread throughout the world – NOT.
3. “Forced to defend their human rights” – When I am being aggressive toward you, I am just defending myself – -I’m oppressed and my aggression is defensive so it’s OK.
There is no denying that problematic opinions need to be addressed in order to stop Wellesley from becoming a place where hate speech and casual discrimination is okay. …
This being said, if people are given the resources to learn and either continue to speak hate speech or refuse to adapt their beliefs, then hostility may be warranted.
“Projection” was Freud’s best insight.
“Protect the disenfranchised”
And nobody is more disenfranchised then the enfranchised staff at the Wellesley News and if you don’t believe us then we will drive you from the Wellesley campus and destroy you!!!!!!
[The founding fathers put free speech in the Constitution as a way to protect the disenfranchised]
Actually, they did it to protect the enfranchised.
I can always tell when parts of a tirade are written by a black person. The stilted phrasing, misuse of certain words and sense of righteous fury in illogical defense of a tangential cause give the game away.
Why doesn’t the writer just come out and say what they really mean? Those who disagree with the writer will not be allowed to speak and still less, be heard.
One thing you have to credit black people with is their excellent ability to imitate other human beings. In any social interaction they are quick to discern what they should ape in order to advance their interests.
Bingo! I thought exactly the same thing when I read YOUR comment.
Now, on the subject at hand, the SJW's at Wellesley, exactly like their Alt-Right "Fake News" counterparts, believe their ideological position is absolute truth. Based on that position alone, there is no need further debate. Which, of course, both of their stances are fundamentally anti-intellectual.Replies: @whorefinder
Something tells me that if you were to read the Wellesley student paper from roughly 1969 you would find much more cogent expression and perhaps even the occasional flash of intelligence. The quality of our radicals has really declined, perhaps because they’ve been almost fully embraced by the establishment.
It’s almost as if the Wellesley class of 1969 has been embraced by the Establishment.
IOW:
“…hostilities will continue.”
I find it quite sporting that the Gals at Wellesley will give everyone the opportunity to get their minds right before declaring them un-persons. I wonder if they’d offer some sort of camp where this could take place on an accelerated basis under intense instruction and observation?
FUND IT!
Many years ago, Florence King offered that Hillary Rodham was a fine example of a social type she’d known ca. 1955 – the ‘Great Girl’. The Great Girl was organizationally minded, made liberal use of crepe paper in her many projects, and at pains to be moving in the direction she perceived everyone else was. I suspect seven sisters colleges are great collecting pools of the terminally other-directed, when they’re not overrun by lesbians.
Why doesn't the writer just come out and say what they really mean? Those who disagree with the writer will not be allowed to speak and still less, be heard.
One thing you have to credit black people with is their excellent ability to imitate other human beings. In any social interaction they are quick to discern what they should ape in order to advance their interests.Replies: @slumber_j, @BB753, @anonymous, @Dumbo, @Corvinus
I had the same reaction. That’s some spectacularly bad writing.
Shorter version – once we seize power, it’s up against a wall for the deplorables.
It becomes increasingly hard to argue, these days, with the idea that all the pretty words were just pretty words, a fig leaf thrown over the old who-whom struggle. Sad.
“Christians to Beirut—Alawites to the wall!”
Why doesn't the writer just come out and say what they really mean? Those who disagree with the writer will not be allowed to speak and still less, be heard.
One thing you have to credit black people with is their excellent ability to imitate other human beings. In any social interaction they are quick to discern what they should ape in order to advance their interests.Replies: @slumber_j, @BB753, @anonymous, @Dumbo, @Corvinus
“In any social interaction they are quick to discern what they should ape in order to advance their interests.”
Please add trigger warnings! I didn’t get in time to my safe space!
“Twisted Logic 101” must be one of the most popular courses at Wellesley…
P.S. the Snowflake 501c archipelago will welcome those Wellesley young “scholars” with open arms and paltry paychecks when they graduate with their huge Wellesley debt.
Behold our future legislators and judges.
Heaven help us.
Actually, they did it to protect the enfranchised.Replies: @Barnard
It is surprising they would cite the authority of the Founding Fathers, the phrase alone implies an exclusion of women. Plus they were all every type of phobic the editorial condemns as eliminating your right to speak in the previous paragraph.
Please add the term “tone policing” to the Style Book and “hostilities may be warranted” to the Play Book.
The column is boldly splashed: STAFF EDITORIAL. Sounds all phallic and mansplainy. Get ye with the Current Year, bitches!
Newspeak is real.
The beatings will continue until obedience comes.
In other words: Shouting ‘FIRE!’ in a crowded theater actually means accepting an invitation by the University to speak about a controversial issue that SJWs find uncomfortable.
Do they not realize what they wrote there? I guess cogent english prose is no longer valued at Wellesley. Perhaps it’s too cisheteronormative.
Funny, that describes you too.
This is a classic inside-the-bubble argument. It kinda holds together when you already know what conclusion you want to reach and you’re not going to think too hard about arguments that lead there, but it falls apart utterly (and sounds silly) as soon as anyone reads it from outside that bubble.
How can these people have so little self-awareness?
Took a look at the Editorial Board. A couple of token blacks, but a surprising number of South Asians to go with the usual NE Asians.
The South Asians seem to have figured out this racket pretty quickly, as Steve has noted, and look to be positioning themselves to gooble the goodies while it lasts. They have the flair that NE Asians lack and the ruthless, market-dominant minority mentality that whites lack. I’ll be the look-out for South Asians to become more and more common in the SJW world as this generation moves from the classroom to the boardroom.
Free speech is basically a white supremacist ideology used to protect the privileged white male. It has got to go.
Once again, in response to black folks’ fears, people choose to be ignorant. They choose to be blind.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article139303003.html
Wait.....wut!
1. Affirmative Action for women
2. Generous 8A government set-aside business contracts for female owned businesses
3. No required military service or selective service for women
4. Government anti-discrimination laws for women
5. Title VII and Title IX laws for women
6. Rape shield laws protect female liars in court
7. Generous government benefits for single mothers
8. Men get screwed in child custody cases
9. Taxpayer financed Abortion on demand
10. Government sponsored homeless and rehab shelters for women
11. All health insurance policies require universal coverage for female-specific problems
12. Ridiculous feminine political correctness studies and speech codes in public colleges and universities and government offices
13. National Women’s history month
14. Sexual harassment laws for women
15. Special Violence against Women Laws
16. Most cushy government jobs employ women
17. Equal Pay Act of 1963 for women
18. Lowered physical standards by law for female policemen and firemen and soldier
19. Female-only institutions allowed by law, male-only institutions outlawed
20. Battered woman defense allowed in first degree murder court cases
21. Hate speech laws protecting women and other federal protected class groups
22. Women are a majority of voters in a totalitarian democracy
23. Men pay 96% of all alimony, women pay 4%
24. Paycheck Fairness Act
25. Paid family and maternity leave for women
26. Single Payer Health Insurance for Women and Children
27. Living Wage for women, increased federal minimum wage
28. Enhanced Social Security benefits for women with children
29. Federal Health Insurance for illegal alien women
30. Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood
31. Mandatory health insurance plan coverage for women’s issues, including affordable contraception, preventive care, child care, and safe and legal abortion
32. Foreign wars and intrigues to promote female entitlements across the globe
33. Special federal and state monitoring and enforcement of laws prohibiting violence against women
Don't forget about Afro-Black entitlements, again courtesy of American white supremacy:
1. Government enforced Affirmative Action for Afro-blacks
2. Government 8A set-aside contracts for Afro-black owned businesses
3. Deliberate broadcast media and government misrepresentation of violent felony Afro-black crime wave
4. Frequent mass Afro-black rioting, assaulting, looting and arson without prosecution or suppression
5. Afro-Black terrorists organizations operate freely in public (Black Panthers, NBPP, BLM, BLA, Crips, Nation of Islam)
6. Servile government support for historically black colleges and afro-black scholarship programs
7. Unprosecuted afro-black Panther intimidation of voters at polls
8. Politically partisan Afro-black churches and associations granted tax exempt status
9. Most Afro-black children’s welfare financed by taxpayers
10.Government anti-discrimination laws for Afro-blacks
11.Hate speech law prosecutions in favor of Afro-blacks, and other protected classes
12.Preferential immigration, asylum, and citizenship for Afro-blacks
13. Disproportionate number of Afro-blacks in cushy federal government employment
14. Afro-black voters not required to display photo ID
15. Unrealistic portrayal of Afro-blacks in movies and TV
16. Afro-black civil right organizations financed and led by filthy rich protected class people
17. Election of the most unbelievably stupid members of the US congress
18. Afro-black dominated city's bailout by county, state and federal taxpayer
19. Afro-black history month
20. Ridiculous Afro-black studies in public schools and colleges
21. Astronomical Afro-black STD and HIV rates are not a controlled public health hazard
22. Banks forced to give loans to Afro-blacks with bad credit
23. White supremacists blamed for Afro-black false flag hate crimes
24. At least 70% of afro-black children are bastards
25. Afro-black Caucus in the US congress
26. Sanctuary cities for Afro-blacks, and other protected classes
27. Afro-black diversity scheme imposed on white majority nations
28. Afro-black athlete and rapper thugs glorified by mass media
29. Afro-black on white people crime rate is lopsided and extreme
30. President of the US promotes undue entitlements for Afro-blacks and other diversity people
31. Afro-black only organizations allowed by law, white-only organizations outlawed
32. BLM terrorist demand and receive reduced policing in black majority areas
33. Feds assist Afro-blacks to extort money and concessions from local city tax payers
34. White Privilege crap taught in public schools and universities.
35 Afro-black wilding assaults, flash mob robberies, mall riots, and knockout game is rampant and unprosecuted.
36. Black scholarships allowed in public colleges, white scholarships are illegal.
37. Feds give tax money to immigrant negroes to bribe them not to join ISIS.
38. Lowered academic standards for afro-blacks and other diversity people in public service jobs
39. Federal government coerces private businesses to implement diversity policies, or else suffer federal prosecution, denial of tax breaks and business licenses, and denial of federal contracts.
40. Criminal blacks conspire to assassinate police, no hate crime charges and no domestic terrorism label
41.Obama signs EO forcing public schools to stop disciplining black thugs in school
42. Blacks commit hoax hate crimes, and never are prosecuted for doing it.
43. Blacks receive government sponsored grants to attend college, white Christian people get primarily loans.
You can stop posting links to Pitts' columns, Ducky; if you've read one Pitts screed, you've read them all.
Wellesley has a lovely campus, and their information sessions are exceptional in that they are held in a more intimate setting than at the typical college, with a group of 12 or so prospective students seated around a conference table, their parents relegated symbolically to the background. The discussion is led by a current student or recent grad who is an exemplar or the proud, intelligent, confident woman that Wellesley seeks to develop. The effect is mesmerizing if you have been to the more conventional, tedious, lecture-style info sessions that most colleges hold in auditoriums or large rooms.
Walking around the campus, it is hard not to get the feeling that you are in one of the most privileged places on Earth, and who wouldn’t want their daughter to go there if they can afford it.
Bonus: While the school is considered highly selective and elite, it’s a lot easier to get into than similarly ranked coed liberal arts colleges.
Do Mummy and Daddums really fork over major coin to get Buffy and Muffy indoctrinated, or is that all an act to queue up for a Town & Country photo spread appearance at the appropriate point on their curated life story arc?
OT, but could be huge:
A Female Muslim (possibly Pakistani?) doctor in Detroit has been arrested and charged with performing female genital mutilation in her practice.
Two of the victims identified so far were transported by their mothers from Minnesota for the procedure, and were instructed on how to lie about it to teachers and other adults. There could be a lot of serious felony charges coming here against parents and others for transporting across state lines for sexual abuse. There could have been dozens of total victims.
If this blows up it could force American feminists to come down one way or another, and we know which way they’ll come down. FGM will be justified as a cultural practice, with lots of obfuscating analogies to male circumcision, and we will probably see the first efforts to legalize it in the US. Right now I would give even odds for this doctor actually seeing any prison time, even though her alleged crimes theoretically carry life without parole.
It IS a cultural practice and I have no problem with it.
So long as it is done among those similarly cultured.
There is no reason for search alien cultures to be here in the first place but as a cultural practice, leave em be.
Once these folks have been inexplicably allowed to settle and collect welfare here we have no more business stopping their practice than we have of stopping the practice of Male Genital Mutilation.Replies: @englishmike
In other words, when you graduate from Wellesley College, you will know how to signal virtue, but you won’t know how to construct a sentence.
I think emotional labor is my favorite nutty feminist concept. For the insufficiently woke, emotional labor is what we used to call being a nice person.
Spend a few minutes listening to your husband complain about his boss? Coax your toddler into trying the broccoli? This is now emotional labor and should be considered real work and compensated accordingly. Women apparently do huge amounts of onerous emotional labor. Presumably feminists discovered there wasn’t enough inequity and needed to invent some.
I hadn’t realized it had spread to the larger sjw movement.
In conversations with elite young women, I'm often struck by their preference for holistic, varied, nurturing service that stands apart from the system of market remuneration, like "working for a global health NGO". Well, we used to have something like that, I think to myself, and it was called "being a housewife".
In fact, if you consider how many high-status women's jobs amount to being a housewife for other people's kids, the picture snaps into focus with horrible clarity.Replies: @Marina, @Brutusale
This sounds like the feminist, journalistic version of the old adage: “Beatings will continue until morale improves.” Hectoring will continue until you come to the right way of thinking.
I like how they admit that they are accused of being hot house flowers, and then proceed to confirm that accusation.
Whenever I see this type of thing from an all women’s college, I always think of the grandmothers of these students. What is their opinion of this tripe? Are they aghast? Are they supportive? I think that young women today are in such bad shape in large part because mothers, in particular, have abandoned almost any notion of disciplining their daughters. Admittedly, fathers aren’t much better.
A camp where one can concentrate on the beliefs that have to be adapted so that hostility may no longer be warranted?
FUND IT!
Jedem das Seine!
Problematic opinions
Refuse to adapt their beliefs
Emotional labor…
Really this is the same tripe that was in the Daily Cal newspaper I read in college back in the 80’s. Crazy, heart-broken college students haven’t changed much since then. Demand, demand, demand. Someone please love me!
Also, why would any woman choose to attend an all-women college? Excepting lesbians, of course.
So many convolutions, twist and turns, illogical and contradictory wording as to baffle the man-o-sphere.
Everyone has the right to free speech except….
You may speak freely, but only within specific guidelines…
In response to ordinary people’s ideas and free speech, proglodytes used to exclaim, “You can’t be serious!”
Today they say, “Shut up, you haters, or, ‘by any means’ we deem ‘necessary,’ we intimidate and pummel you into abject silence.”
This is what proglodytes call, “Progress.”
The rest of us call it what it is: coercive fascism wearing a “woke” mask.
The overwhelming odor of upper middle class female assholery emanating from Wellesley is out of control. The young women of Wellesley are an affront to patriotic women everywhere. The distaff arrogance of this Wellesley broad who wrote this crap about stifling speech is infuriating.
White women who love America reject the inane nonsense coming from the upper middle class boob females of Wellesley. Hillary Clinton learned how to cloak her own greed for money and power at Wellesely. Wellesley is just a place that greedy broads learn to use words to attack other women. Feminism and all the other crap is an attack on regular patriotic White women.
Patriotic White women have had more than enough of the filthy guff coming from these upper middle class broads at Wellesley. Patriotic White women know damn well that Wellesley rats such as Hillary Clinton are money-grubbing scum who preach about the glories of mass immigration and multiculturalism while they live in mostly White towns like Chappaqua, New York.
https://twitter.com/RedStateReasons/status/850503566397767684
So, are leftist students too stupid to see the obvious moral hazard baked into their cake, their professors too cowardly to point it out, etc?
It’s not exactly rocket science. The fig leaf of opposing hate speech creates a huge incentive to get speech you oppose categorized as hate speech. There is no real reward: they’re throwing out something good, free speech, and all they’re getting in return is (ostensibly) some (supposed) spared feelings in people who need to work on their coping skills (to put it charitably) instead of being enabled in their immaturity. So they’re giving away something good (freedom of speech), to get something bad (morally stunted people).
They put freedom of speech in there because they liked freedom of speech. In and of itself. I’m sure some of them did so because they liked the freedom to be able to offend powerful people. Like, say, King George for instance. The Founders’ reasons for enshrining free speech in the Constitution aren’t particularly relevant, except as laid out in the text.
The exception test for free speech pretty much amounts to finding an actual crime. E.g., contracting out a murder is illegal, so verbally conveying the order isn’t protected speech. Huwting weftist widdle feewings isn’t a crime, so speech that hurts weftist widdle feewings isn’t a crime, either.
George Soros gives an awful lot of money to leftist college groups. I think I would have heard if he opposes the kind of crap that college leftists (and company) are getting up to these days. Soros can certainly withhold funding from offending groups. The only logical conclusion is that Soros supports the oppressive measures being cooked up by the left; that Soros supports the suppression of free speech, the use of violence and criminality to achieve leftist ends, etc. Of course, Soros isn’t the only one…
Like leftists give a crap about disenfranchisement, per se. Nope, their concern is entirely through the lens of “who-whom?”
That’s the way a lot of leftist think, but they’re just mental children. Deplorables would beat up the left and take all their lunch money, once the fighting shifted from kulturkampf to kampfkampf.
It’s kind of ingrained in the female psyche that all the jive they go through (from feathering their nests, to riding herd socially), because they want to go through it, is stuff that Must Be Done. But it isn’t. It’s just crap they want done.
Re: the embrace of Wellesley ’69 by the Establishment — in case any readers missed Patrick Harris’ and Steve’s allusion.
Yeah, but liberals want to take your guns to protect their kids from gun violence.
It has nothing to do with the would be Red Guards wanting badthinkers disarmed when they show up to deliver warranted hostility.
> when you graduate from Wellesley College, you will know how to signal virtue, but you won’t know how to construct a sentence.
Ms. STAFF inadvertently said what xhe meant.
Yes, it is. When who is shutting down whom, it’s goodhatespeech.
“Projection” was Freud’s best insight.
Certainly Freud was wrong about a lot of stuff but he was insightful about a few things. Given where porn genres are trending these days, he was on to something.
Why doesn't the writer just come out and say what they really mean? Those who disagree with the writer will not be allowed to speak and still less, be heard.
One thing you have to credit black people with is their excellent ability to imitate other human beings. In any social interaction they are quick to discern what they should ape in order to advance their interests.Replies: @slumber_j, @BB753, @anonymous, @Dumbo, @Corvinus
“Ape?” Whoa Nellie!
Coincidentally, it was in 1969 when a Wellesley grad–none other than Our Hillary–made her debut (much to the embarrassment of then-Senator of Massachusetts and Establishment Negro, Edward Brooke).
What’s fascinating about this is how it sounds absolutely nothing like Hillary, not in 2016 or as far back as I can remember. I know people’s timbre changes with age, but still. She actually sounds earnest, and she hasn’t picked up the fake drawl yet.
The most depressing and revealing part: “We must recognize that during this growth process mistakes will happen and controversial statements will be made.”
Because, of course, if anything controversial is said on a university campus, a mistake has clearly been made. Once we get to the end of our “growth process,” though, that won’t happen anymore.
Also, the site is down now. Did this boneheaded editorial get too much traffic?
Even with Trump apparently morphing into GWB II, I wake up every day thankful that HRC is not the president.
“Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech.”
I don’t think that sentence means what the author thinks it means. I thought Wellesley was an elite institution.
“I don’t know what this is supposed to be. It’s almost as if you have no education at all.”
Seriously, though, if this is what passes for a "Staff Editorial" at Wellesley, better to make every op-ed piece signed, so that the guilty won't escape whipping. That is some awful writing: just the repeated uses of the passive voice made my head hurt. (The passive voice construction is generally a tip-off that the writer either (i) has no idea what he or she is talking about, (ii) is trying to avoid making a simple declarative statement that some person or thing is doing something to some other person or thing, or (iii) both. As a result, you get veritable linguistic abortions like "The emotional labor required to educate people is immense and is additional weight that is put on those who are already forced to defend their human rights." That's three uses of the passive voice in a single sentence. And, of course, there's the soon-to-be-classic "hostility may be warranted." Does no one read Strunk & White [The Elements of Style] anymore?)Replies: @ScarletNumber
At least they got that right – hostility toward the progtards of Wellesley.
Sounds like they’re feeling the heat, so there’s that.
OT:
Should we tell them?
Not good. Keep away from daddy's girl's Prince Charming! And both Steves (Bannnon and Miller) owe our one and only Steve megabucks for inspiration.Replies: @Jack Hanson
White women who love America reject the inane nonsense coming from the upper middle class boob females of Wellesley. Hillary Clinton learned how to cloak her own greed for money and power at Wellesely. Wellesley is just a place that greedy broads learn to use words to attack other women. Feminism and all the other crap is an attack on regular patriotic White women.
Patriotic White women have had more than enough of the filthy guff coming from these upper middle class broads at Wellesley. Patriotic White women know damn well that Wellesley rats such as Hillary Clinton are money-grubbing scum who preach about the glories of mass immigration and multiculturalism while they live in mostly White towns like Chappaqua, New York.
https://twitter.com/RedStateReasons/status/850503566397767684Replies: @Buck Turgidson
“upper middle class female assholery….”
Charles Pewitt, you are killing me. LOL x 10. I am going to borrow that awesome phrase in future conversation.
As for the rest of your comments, could not have said it any better myself. That is 350 yds right in the middle of the fairway (golf analogy for Steve-o).
Why doesn't the writer just come out and say what they really mean? Those who disagree with the writer will not be allowed to speak and still less, be heard.
One thing you have to credit black people with is their excellent ability to imitate other human beings. In any social interaction they are quick to discern what they should ape in order to advance their interests.Replies: @slumber_j, @BB753, @anonymous, @Dumbo, @Corvinus
“Black people”… “ape”… That’s Racist!!!!!!!!!!!
Such Splendid Ignorance.
Walking around the campus, it is hard not to get the feeling that you are in one of the most privileged places on Earth, and who wouldn't want their daughter to go there if they can afford it.
Bonus: While the school is considered highly selective and elite, it's a lot easier to get into than similarly ranked coed liberal arts colleges.Replies: @Ivy
Wellesley feeder schools scattered around New England and Manhattan must have fascinating curricula and committed faculty! That is likely replicated for the other Six Sisters and various fellow traveler institutions.
Do Mummy and Daddums really fork over major coin to get Buffy and Muffy indoctrinated, or is that all an act to queue up for a Town & Country photo spread appearance at the appropriate point on their curated life story arc?
Spend a few minutes listening to your husband complain about his boss? Coax your toddler into trying the broccoli? This is now emotional labor and should be considered real work and compensated accordingly. Women apparently do huge amounts of onerous emotional labor. Presumably feminists discovered there wasn't enough inequity and needed to invent some.
I hadn't realized it had spread to the larger sjw movement.Replies: @lambdaphagy
The really odd thing is that the same people object to the neoliberal project of extending market logic to all spheres of life.
In conversations with elite young women, I’m often struck by their preference for holistic, varied, nurturing service that stands apart from the system of market remuneration, like “working for a global health NGO”. Well, we used to have something like that, I think to myself, and it was called “being a housewife”.
In fact, if you consider how many high-status women’s jobs amount to being a housewife for other people’s kids, the picture snaps into focus with horrible clarity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freada_Kapor_Klein
Is it a bug or a feature that this feminist engaged in the old-school tradition of banging the boss?
It’s striking how poor the quality of English usage is here, given that Wellesley is supposed to be a good school.
Once again, in response to black folks’ fears, people choose to be ignorant. They choose to be blind.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article139303003.htmlReplies: @fish, @Unladen Swallow, @Joe Franklin, @Brutusale
LIAR…….there wasn’t anything about “Black Bodies” in that column!
Wait…..wut!
I laughed when I read that sentence. My first thought was Freudian slip, but upon reflection I think that’s too generous. More likely the writer thought she would get all fancy and slip in a semicolon to prove her intellectualosity. Too bad the ability to mentally retain the relationship between pronoun and antecedent–and write a sentence accordingly–is just a tad beyond that writer’s pay-grade.
“Disenfranchised” usually referred to those who couldn’t vote back in the early days of the Constitution, not those who couldn’t speak, and the founding fathers made sure a whole lot of people couldn’t vote in the early days of the Constitution. Trying to turn free speech into a sort of affirmative action effort by 18th century America is just another in the long list of historical lies we’ve come to expect from the left.
Free speech for the founding fathers was all about overturning the concept of seditious libel held by the British Crown. And no free speech issue of the modern era resembles seditious libel more than restrictions against so called, “hate speech,” in large part because “hate” is a very subjective term.
Wellesley is ranked third among national liberal arts colleges, based I suppose on the idyllic surroundings and the fantasy that students are learning to do something other than adapt their beliefs from unwitting “hate speech” into “free speech,” in order to avoid the fully warranted hostility or their moral and intellectual overseers.
As someone of Madisonian height, I would like to thank Steve for bringing attention to our plight. It is well-known short men earn less than tall men. We are also the victims of discrimination by white women like those at Wellesley. I’d like my reparations now.
You don’t get stultifying conformity to this degree in European Universities because students either stay at home with their parents or rent independently . They don’t, by and large, ” stay on campus.”
Nobody takes much notice of student newspapers in Europe. My own Alma Mater has the oldest student newspaper ( in the world ) and every Thursday I got a free copy from a student hack I knew. It was useful when you ran out of toilet paper.
The conformity produced reminds me of certain English Public Schools. It stems from the same principles: You live in College/School Accommodation. You often share a room with one or more student. You hang about campus/are confined to school most of the time.
Of course, it has been going on for a long time. You read pieces about American establishment figures and it is casually mentioned that they were so and so’s roommate at Harvard. You think: he went to Harvard. Why’s he sharing a room like some pauper ?
Fortunately, once the economic collapse sets in later this decade, many, if not most, of these private colleges will close as a result. Some relief is on the way.
See cults do the same thing, they keep their followers together 7x24, they work, eat and study together. The guru and his enforcers make sure they don't stray or start having bad thoughts.
By keeping them altogether it creates a vast echo chamber effect where everything but gurus edicts are drowned out. After awhile a homogenization of thought occurs and the followers all become interchangeable minions.
Idyllic surroundings, yes. Fantasy, no. The P.C. brainwashing you describe is the *reason* they have such high rankings among the likewise brainwashed intelligentsia. I wish conservatives would get it into their heads that North America institutions are not at present run by grownups at any level that matters.
I feel as if I am reading an editorial out of the DPRK.
Not just the ideology, but the stilted prose as well.
The equivalent of the intelligent girl who went to Wellesley in 1969 would be at Yale, Brown or Harvard these days, maybe even MIT. The seven sisters have really declined since the Ivy league went co-ed, as the quality of writing in this piece demonstrates.
Advocates against anti-white policies have been going about this all wrong. It is much easier to ruin something than to protect or foster it. Charles Murray, Milo, McInnes, Spencer, et al keep organizing affirmative platforms which they then try to foster and protect. And antifa, student activists and other smelly people come in and ruin it easily. Because it is easy to ruin things.
Spencer, Milo and McInnes should be organizing their own protests of things like the annual White Privilege conference in Madison, WI. Simply shouting hatefacts at the catladies gathered there would ruin their time. Make them feel foolish. Make them feel afraid. It needs to work both ways for anyone on their side to make any concessions about free speech and assembly.
That’s a good point. Something similar has happened in education: a lot of the smart women who would have been teachers 40 years ago are in medicine, law or business now, and the school systems suffer from the brain drain.
OT
A liberal makes a good argument for an immigration moratorium (no, he doesn’t actually, but it would be a logical extrapolation)
“Stephen Miller has managed to endear himself to the man emerging as the president’s most indispensable adviser: son-in-law Jared Kushner.”
Not good. Keep away from daddy’s girl’s Prince Charming! And both Steves (Bannnon and Miller) owe our one and only Steve megabucks for inspiration.
Why doesn't the writer just come out and say what they really mean? Those who disagree with the writer will not be allowed to speak and still less, be heard.
One thing you have to credit black people with is their excellent ability to imitate other human beings. In any social interaction they are quick to discern what they should ape in order to advance their interests.Replies: @slumber_j, @BB753, @anonymous, @Dumbo, @Corvinus
“I can always tell when parts of a tirade are written by a black person.”
Bingo! I thought exactly the same thing when I read YOUR comment.
Now, on the subject at hand, the SJW’s at Wellesley, exactly like their Alt-Right “Fake News” counterparts, believe their ideological position is absolute truth. Based on that position alone, there is no need further debate. Which, of course, both of their stances are fundamentally anti-intellectual.
Once again, in response to black folks’ fears, people choose to be ignorant. They choose to be blind.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article139303003.htmlReplies: @fish, @Unladen Swallow, @Joe Franklin, @Brutusale
Oh duck, that is really transparently trolling even by your low standards. Fears, not facts are what matter, glad you spelled it out
In other words: Shouting ‘FIRE!’ in a crowded theater actually means accepting an invitation by the University to speak about a controversial issue that SJWs find uncomfortable.
That’s basically what the phrase meant originally:
As always, ye goode olde days existed more in fantasy than reality.
Anyone with misapprehensions about the period is invited to read HL Mencken.
This is the whole “America’s always been great” triangulation brain-stroke-of-genius that happened at Clinton HQ around the middle of last summer. The idea was to create an invincible FDR-style ruling coalition by padding the Democratic fringe core of blacks, single moms, etc. with squishy, Republican-leaning suburbanites turned off by the Donkey Party’s traditionally anti-patriotic attitudes.
This would of course require a significant amount of retconning of our culture and history, but that’s what academia, Broadway, for-profit television, non-profit television, foundations, Hollywood, Internet megalopolies, etc. are for. I’m sure Doris Kearns Goodwin is up for writing an intersectional and properly woke biography of Guvernor Morris that is still nonthreatening enough to put on the typical nice white lady’s coffee table- heck, I’d bet at least 60% of it would be non-plagarized.
So anyway that was the plan; guess the snowflakes at Wellesley are a bit late in getting the notice that that talking point memo from “Brooklyn” is no longer operative.
Currently at the link:
The web service to this account has been limited temporarily!
This whole FGM Terror is silly from the get-go.
It IS a cultural practice and I have no problem with it.
So long as it is done among those similarly cultured.
There is no reason for search alien cultures to be here in the first place but as a cultural practice, leave em be.
Once these folks have been inexplicably allowed to settle and collect welfare here we have no more business stopping their practice than we have of stopping the practice of Male Genital Mutilation.
From Catholic Online, 3rd March 2008:
"But when Senator Edward Kennedy asked, 'Would waterboarding be torture if it was done to you?' Attorney General Michael Mukasey readily replied, 'I would feel that it was.' "
The first thing that popped into my head when reading this sentence was that old line from The Blues Brothers: “Use of any unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers … has been approved.”
I think the issue would split the left. A lot of women aren’t going to buy into the explanation you have outlined for justifying FGM. I haven’t read any white liberals defending the practice yet, but that could still be coming.
It's not exactly rocket science. The fig leaf of opposing hate speech creates a huge incentive to get speech you oppose categorized as hate speech. There is no real reward: they're throwing out something good, free speech, and all they're getting in return is (ostensibly) some (supposed) spared feelings in people who need to work on their coping skills (to put it charitably) instead of being enabled in their immaturity. So they're giving away something good (freedom of speech), to get something bad (morally stunted people).They put freedom of speech in there because they liked freedom of speech. In and of itself. I'm sure some of them did so because they liked the freedom to be able to offend powerful people. Like, say, King George for instance. The Founders' reasons for enshrining free speech in the Constitution aren't particularly relevant, except as laid out in the text.The exception test for free speech pretty much amounts to finding an actual crime. E.g., contracting out a murder is illegal, so verbally conveying the order isn't protected speech. Huwting weftist widdle feewings isn't a crime, so speech that hurts weftist widdle feewings isn't a crime, either.George Soros gives an awful lot of money to leftist college groups. I think I would have heard if he opposes the kind of crap that college leftists (and company) are getting up to these days. Soros can certainly withhold funding from offending groups. The only logical conclusion is that Soros supports the oppressive measures being cooked up by the left; that Soros supports the suppression of free speech, the use of violence and criminality to achieve leftist ends, etc. Of course, Soros isn't the only one...Like leftists give a crap about disenfranchisement, per se. Nope, their concern is entirely through the lens of "who-whom?"Replies: @res
Yet. Two birds with one stone and all that.
Speaking of 1969 or so:
“What we have he-ah, is ah FAILURE … to… COMMUNICATE!”
Once again, in response to black folks’ fears, people choose to be ignorant. They choose to be blind.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article139303003.htmlReplies: @fish, @Unladen Swallow, @Joe Franklin, @Brutusale
Look at what America’s white supremacist ideology has garnered for women’s entitlement:
1. Affirmative Action for women
2. Generous 8A government set-aside business contracts for female owned businesses
3. No required military service or selective service for women
4. Government anti-discrimination laws for women
5. Title VII and Title IX laws for women
6. Rape shield laws protect female liars in court
7. Generous government benefits for single mothers
8. Men get screwed in child custody cases
9. Taxpayer financed Abortion on demand
10. Government sponsored homeless and rehab shelters for women
11. All health insurance policies require universal coverage for female-specific problems
12. Ridiculous feminine political correctness studies and speech codes in public colleges and universities and government offices
13. National Women’s history month
14. Sexual harassment laws for women
15. Special Violence against Women Laws
16. Most cushy government jobs employ women
17. Equal Pay Act of 1963 for women
18. Lowered physical standards by law for female policemen and firemen and soldier
19. Female-only institutions allowed by law, male-only institutions outlawed
20. Battered woman defense allowed in first degree murder court cases
21. Hate speech laws protecting women and other federal protected class groups
22. Women are a majority of voters in a totalitarian democracy
23. Men pay 96% of all alimony, women pay 4%
24. Paycheck Fairness Act
25. Paid family and maternity leave for women
26. Single Payer Health Insurance for Women and Children
27. Living Wage for women, increased federal minimum wage
28. Enhanced Social Security benefits for women with children
29. Federal Health Insurance for illegal alien women
30. Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood
31. Mandatory health insurance plan coverage for women’s issues, including affordable contraception, preventive care, child care, and safe and legal abortion
32. Foreign wars and intrigues to promote female entitlements across the globe
33. Special federal and state monitoring and enforcement of laws prohibiting violence against women
Don’t forget about Afro-Black entitlements, again courtesy of American white supremacy:
1. Government enforced Affirmative Action for Afro-blacks
2. Government 8A set-aside contracts for Afro-black owned businesses
3. Deliberate broadcast media and government misrepresentation of violent felony Afro-black crime wave
4. Frequent mass Afro-black rioting, assaulting, looting and arson without prosecution or suppression
5. Afro-Black terrorists organizations operate freely in public (Black Panthers, NBPP, BLM, BLA, Crips, Nation of Islam)
6. Servile government support for historically black colleges and afro-black scholarship programs
7. Unprosecuted afro-black Panther intimidation of voters at polls
8. Politically partisan Afro-black churches and associations granted tax exempt status
9. Most Afro-black children’s welfare financed by taxpayers
10.Government anti-discrimination laws for Afro-blacks
11.Hate speech law prosecutions in favor of Afro-blacks, and other protected classes
12.Preferential immigration, asylum, and citizenship for Afro-blacks
13. Disproportionate number of Afro-blacks in cushy federal government employment
14. Afro-black voters not required to display photo ID
15. Unrealistic portrayal of Afro-blacks in movies and TV
16. Afro-black civil right organizations financed and led by filthy rich protected class people
17. Election of the most unbelievably stupid members of the US congress
18. Afro-black dominated city’s bailout by county, state and federal taxpayer
19. Afro-black history month
20. Ridiculous Afro-black studies in public schools and colleges
21. Astronomical Afro-black STD and HIV rates are not a controlled public health hazard
22. Banks forced to give loans to Afro-blacks with bad credit
23. White supremacists blamed for Afro-black false flag hate crimes
24. At least 70% of afro-black children are bastards
25. Afro-black Caucus in the US congress
26. Sanctuary cities for Afro-blacks, and other protected classes
27. Afro-black diversity scheme imposed on white majority nations
28. Afro-black athlete and rapper thugs glorified by mass media
29. Afro-black on white people crime rate is lopsided and extreme
30. President of the US promotes undue entitlements for Afro-blacks and other diversity people
31. Afro-black only organizations allowed by law, white-only organizations outlawed
32. BLM terrorist demand and receive reduced policing in black majority areas
33. Feds assist Afro-blacks to extort money and concessions from local city tax payers
34. White Privilege crap taught in public schools and universities.
35 Afro-black wilding assaults, flash mob robberies, mall riots, and knockout game is rampant and unprosecuted.
36. Black scholarships allowed in public colleges, white scholarships are illegal.
37. Feds give tax money to immigrant negroes to bribe them not to join ISIS.
38. Lowered academic standards for afro-blacks and other diversity people in public service jobs
39. Federal government coerces private businesses to implement diversity policies, or else suffer federal prosecution, denial of tax breaks and business licenses, and denial of federal contracts.
40. Criminal blacks conspire to assassinate police, no hate crime charges and no domestic terrorism label
41.Obama signs EO forcing public schools to stop disciplining black thugs in school
42. Blacks commit hoax hate crimes, and never are prosecuted for doing it.
43. Blacks receive government sponsored grants to attend college, white Christian people get primarily loans.
In conversations with elite young women, I'm often struck by their preference for holistic, varied, nurturing service that stands apart from the system of market remuneration, like "working for a global health NGO". Well, we used to have something like that, I think to myself, and it was called "being a housewife".
In fact, if you consider how many high-status women's jobs amount to being a housewife for other people's kids, the picture snaps into focus with horrible clarity.Replies: @Marina, @Brutusale
There’s a huge segment of the labor market devoted to replacing the non-compensated labor housewives used to do: restaurants, dry cleaners, day cares, nursery schools, a certain amount of K-12 schooling, after school programming, elder care, cleaning ladies, convenience foods, etc. And a lot of those jobs are “pink collar” ones done mostly by women. Kind of depressing. The minute you pay someone to do this stuff, it boosts The Economy, which is obviously the most important thing ever.
You quoted no errors, but you produced some (e.g., either you’re missing an object possessed by SJWs, or you erroneously inserted an apostrophe. I think they teach this one in…wait for it…grammar school. E.g., you forgot the preposition “for” between “need” and “further.” And I’m not sure how to describe the error in your final sentence (it might just be clumsy diction), though I think it would be corrected by substituting “And” for “Which.”
Your argument is crap too, of course. Leftists run Big Media, for example, while Rightists are stuck with a tiny alternative media, bringing us back to your eternal obsession with not-even-specious balance that wouldn’t fool a child.
ELENA KAGAN, wise Latina
If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action ‑‑ which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate ‑‑ then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un‑skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.”
THEODORE DALRYMPLE
When words become the test of virtue, they also become the masks of vice. That is why sanctimony and ruthless self-interest are such powerful allies.
Number three
You have the right to free speech
As long as
You’re not dumb enough to actually try it
For example, feminist sociologist Lisa Wade has extensively defended FGM. If the name rings a bell, it’s the same Lisa Wade who wrote this gem https://www.unz.com/isteve/or-is-this-the-most-2016ish-thing-of-2016/ Perhaps it’s not so visible in the media, but FGM apologism is quite open in the academic circles people like her run in.
yes – it’s one of those things that the media have to try really hard to keep buried because out in the open it would be so triggering to westerners.
Diversity uber alles.
The South Asians seem to have figured out this racket pretty quickly, as Steve has noted, and look to be positioning themselves to gooble the goodies while it lasts. They have the flair that NE Asians lack and the ruthless, market-dominant minority mentality that whites lack. I'll be the look-out for South Asians to become more and more common in the SJW world as this generation moves from the classroom to the boardroom.Replies: @Anoni, @Diversity Heretic
South Asians are moving in fast to the SJW racket. The wonderful thing is they are all descendants of upper caste Brahmin types. So taking a leadership role over the less genetically gifted comes natural.
Anyway, if South Asians are cynical abou this and plays the game, I think the more earnest East Asians swallow SJW-ism hook, line, and sinker. Look how Maoists in China went totally batty with Leninism-Maoism. A bunch of rabid dogs.Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country
>>This being said, if people are given the resources to learn and either continue to speak hate speech or refuse to adapt their beliefs, then hostility may be warranted.
Can’t say we weren’t warned.
As a friend mentioned, it’ll be even better if all sexual encounters was under the auspices of prostitution, because then it can be formally billed and the government can take their cut. What wonders will GDP give us!
When you read stuff like that, it’s obvious that the problem is less ideology than the Fanatical Style of Progressive Politics. The self-righteous hysteria runs too high for any reasoned, sensible, or critical debate. The emotions run ahead of the mind. Instead of mind controlling emotions, it’s the other way around. Mind is led by emotions of self-righteousness, self-aggrandizement, holier-than-thou sanctimony. It’s like a dog that wolfs down food without chewing. These people are possessed and infected. They are incapable of reasoned debate and blind to their own hypocrisies and contradictions because they are so full of themselves. They have no brake in their minds. They don’t obey traffic signals. For all their talk of ‘intersectionality’, only one road allows all the traffic while other roads(at intersection) must be always on red-light. They want green-lit speech for themselves and red-lit traffic for others. But the funny thing is even they don’t have free speech since their PC-infected minds won’t allow honesty and truth to be discussed. Also, they are delusional because they ignore this is the age of the internet when contrary ideas are available all over. They are conserving a bubble that is growing less and less relevant. They refuse to deal with reality of social changes and contrary ideas(that are coming not only from the right but from the left).
Also, their statement sounds so much like some PC computer software. I mean how many times have we heard that line of reasoning? The very notion of ‘hate speech’ is anti-free-speech since it says the Power should decide what is ‘hate’ and suppressed.
So, even as it pretends to protect the weak, it’s about using power to favor the Official Truth above all else.
It’s Narrative Supremacism and Ideological Supremacism.
THREE SJW memes in 1 sentence – a record!
1. “Emotional labor” – Being a SJW and being around all you racists is hard work that I should get paid for (as others have mentioned in their comments),
2. “Required to educate people” – this is the “I don’t have to educate you (you stupid redneck)” meme – you should be woke already and if you are not woke, I shouldn’t have to keep explaining it. I explained this whole SJW thing to you once and you should just accept it and not question it any further. Are you stupid or something? This is how the Gospel was spread throughout the world – NOT.
3. “Forced to defend their human rights” – When I am being aggressive toward you, I am just defending myself – -I’m oppressed and my aggression is defensive so it’s OK.
Wow, just wow.
The South Asians seem to have figured out this racket pretty quickly, as Steve has noted, and look to be positioning themselves to gooble the goodies while it lasts. They have the flair that NE Asians lack and the ruthless, market-dominant minority mentality that whites lack. I'll be the look-out for South Asians to become more and more common in the SJW world as this generation moves from the classroom to the boardroom.Replies: @Anoni, @Diversity Heretic
Nikki Haley comes to mind.
I think South Asians are a bit more savvy about this. They tend to be a cynical bunch. Under 200 yrs of British, they learned a lot of trick. Also, they have tons of social/class problems in India, so they want distract their own kind from their own problems by sticking it to whitey. But Latin whites do the same thing in Latin America. Make the brown hoi polloi overlook the fact of Latin history of oppression by making ‘gringo’ or ‘yanqui’ out to be the bad guy.
Anyway, if South Asians are cynical abou this and plays the game, I think the more earnest East Asians swallow SJW-ism hook, line, and sinker. Look how Maoists in China went totally batty with Leninism-Maoism. A bunch of rabid dogs.
What I like about the South Asians is my suspicion that most of them don't believe for a minute the BS that they're espousing.
Blacks are too stupid to realize that this is all BS. NE Asian Americans are too conformist to think about it at all. Whites are too earnest to allow themselves to think about it. Only Abu types full understand the opportunity in front of them in full color.
Good for them.
A culling of the white herd is coming, I suspect.
So, even as it pretends to protect the weak, it's about using power to favor the Official Truth above all else. It's Narrative Supremacism and Ideological Supremacism.Replies: @Daniel Chieh
Honestly, I think that it would take very little effort to rewrite this into a pious Catholic denunciation against the destructive influence Protestant heresy. SJWism is the new religion for a post-God world.
Yup. And gloriously self-destructed. I sincerely hope that the new wave of East Asian SJWs go the same way.
Alas, this does not give me much hope that much of East Asia will hold out against the progressive wave, but hope springs eternal and all.
Not good. Keep away from daddy's girl's Prince Charming! And both Steves (Bannnon and Miller) owe our one and only Steve megabucks for inspiration.Replies: @Jack Hanson
Lmbo just when I think the secret master back patting can’t hit a new level, here it is.
Don't you at least agree that the winning Trump campaign should send a couple of hundreds Steve's way?
Why read Steve Sailer at all, Jack, if you think his work is worthless?
Can't say we weren't warned.Replies: @Jack Hanson
Look at the British Raj if you want to see the last time Brahmins tangled with the West.
In other campus news, Harvard is in the process of minimizing its origins as an organ of the Puritan anglostate.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/4/6/fair-harvard-lyrics-change/
Till the stock of the Puritans die . HURRAH!
I think that’s the other one.
Orwell was so dang right about the Left.
Bingo! I thought exactly the same thing when I read YOUR comment.
Now, on the subject at hand, the SJW's at Wellesley, exactly like their Alt-Right "Fake News" counterparts, believe their ideological position is absolute truth. Based on that position alone, there is no need further debate. Which, of course, both of their stances are fundamentally anti-intellectual.Replies: @whorefinder
And like a troll, faced with the fact that he can no longer call the Soviet Union, er, SJWs “the good guys” he now shifts to a false moral equivalency, claiming that the USA, er, the Alt-Right is just as bad.
It didn’t work then, son, and it ain’t working now. But thanks for the lulz.
War is peace!, etc.
Orwell was so dang right about the Left.
I thought you were leaving the interweb, it says so right on your homepage. So who be trollin’ now, Willis?
“he now shifts to a false moral equivalency…”
BOTH SJW’s and the Alt Right believe they are benevolent, that the extension of its influence brings freedom to those people subject to political and social domination. When, in reality, each Coalition of the Fringe Group generates memes, creates Fake News Stories, and leaves a trail of propaganda in their wake for their own demonic ends. You’re too far gone with your confirmation bias to bear witness to this truth.
Go back to spending your shekels in your local red light district.
But it's a trade-off. The alternative is we get so many people coming that the country becomes unrecognizable. It becomes the corrupt society the people are fleeing.
Rather, for the new Right, it's a desperate attempt to hang on to the society we have.
In fact, many of us are socially liberal and without the mass immigration issue we'd still be the leftists we used to be.
*I'm not using the phrase alt-right because some people think it means you're a white supremacistReplies: @whorefinder, @guest, @Dieter Kief, @Corvinus
Boomer leftist Paul Berman has a lot to say about this regarding the French left intelligentsia whom in this house we call Soixante-Retards, and the left Establishment in general.
Three of his books form a sort of trilogy on the development of the generation you note:
A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
Power and the Idealists: or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and its Aftermath
Terror and Liberalism
He notes in general the left’s intellectual weaknesses (including poor reading and reasoning skills), and demonstrates especially in the third title its worship of totalitarian violence.
There’s also his book on the Muslim Brotherhood (expansion of his New Republic piece on Tariq Ramadan):
Flight of the Intellectuals: The Controversy over Islamism and the Press
We might be at a good moment to review all that.
To mangle the original Wellesley badly “one may be born a man in a Republic but in fact turn out to be an ass.”
Copyright ceded of course but attribution is welcome (unless I’ve cited someone else in error).
Nice gloss on, if I’m not mistaken, the Seinfeld episode in which Kramer actually “works” in an office job for a week before his co-workers catch on. He writes a report for his supervisor, who looks at it, and says to Kramer (I’m doing this from memory) something like: “I don’t know what this is supposed to be. It’s almost as if you have no business training [or “business experience”] at all.”
Seriously, though, if this is what passes for a “Staff Editorial” at Wellesley, better to make every op-ed piece signed, so that the guilty won’t escape whipping. That is some awful writing: just the repeated uses of the passive voice made my head hurt. (The passive voice construction is generally a tip-off that the writer either (i) has no idea what he or she is talking about, (ii) is trying to avoid making a simple declarative statement that some person or thing is doing something to some other person or thing, or (iii) both. As a result, you get veritable linguistic abortions like “The emotional labor required to educate people is immense and is additional weight that is put on those who are already forced to defend their human rights.” That’s three uses of the passive voice in a single sentence. And, of course, there’s the soon-to-be-classic “hostility may be warranted.” Does no one read Strunk & White [The Elements of Style] anymore?)
See what you made me do? If you hadn’t been a racist deplorable, I wouldn’t have to put my boot to your face.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/4/6/fair-harvard-lyrics-change/Replies: @Jack D
I can fix it with one word.
Till the stock of the Puritans die . HURRAH!
I do not think the “new” Right* considers itself particularly benevolent. I understand that, for example, closing borders may make some people suffer.
But it’s a trade-off. The alternative is we get so many people coming that the country becomes unrecognizable. It becomes the corrupt society the people are fleeing.
Rather, for the new Right, it’s a desperate attempt to hang on to the society we have.
In fact, many of us are socially liberal and without the mass immigration issue we’d still be the leftists we used to be.
*I’m not using the phrase alt-right because some people think it means you’re a white supremacist
I'd go as far as to state that it is not necessary at all, to understand and / or estimate part 1 of the Sailerian Imperative (hey: no bad term, this one, is it?!) "don't invite the world", to be either on th right - or on the left.
See - Thilo Sarrazin and Gunnar Heinsohn - the two most prominent German immigration-restrictionists (=critics) are both old leftists.Replies: @Frau Katze
The Alt Right is "humanitarian" in that it views itself as saving whites and Western Civilization from the destructive elements known as Cultural Marxism, which is the ideological du jour of elitists, SJW's, and Jews.
Anyway, if South Asians are cynical abou this and plays the game, I think the more earnest East Asians swallow SJW-ism hook, line, and sinker. Look how Maoists in China went totally batty with Leninism-Maoism. A bunch of rabid dogs.Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country
Yeah. I thought of her.
What I like about the South Asians is my suspicion that most of them don’t believe for a minute the BS that they’re espousing.
Blacks are too stupid to realize that this is all BS. NE Asian Americans are too conformist to think about it at all. Whites are too earnest to allow themselves to think about it. Only Abu types full understand the opportunity in front of them in full color.
Good for them.
A culling of the white herd is coming, I suspect.
Seriously, though, if this is what passes for a "Staff Editorial" at Wellesley, better to make every op-ed piece signed, so that the guilty won't escape whipping. That is some awful writing: just the repeated uses of the passive voice made my head hurt. (The passive voice construction is generally a tip-off that the writer either (i) has no idea what he or she is talking about, (ii) is trying to avoid making a simple declarative statement that some person or thing is doing something to some other person or thing, or (iii) both. As a result, you get veritable linguistic abortions like "The emotional labor required to educate people is immense and is additional weight that is put on those who are already forced to defend their human rights." That's three uses of the passive voice in a single sentence. And, of course, there's the soon-to-be-classic "hostility may be warranted." Does no one read Strunk & White [The Elements of Style] anymore?)Replies: @ScarletNumber
Here is the Seinfield clip.
Nobody takes much notice of student newspapers in Europe. My own Alma Mater has the oldest student newspaper ( in the world ) and every Thursday I got a free copy from a student hack I knew. It was useful when you ran out of toilet paper.
The conformity produced reminds me of certain English Public Schools. It stems from the same principles: You live in College/School Accommodation. You often share a room with one or more student. You hang about campus/are confined to school most of the time.
Of course, it has been going on for a long time. You read pieces about American establishment figures and it is casually mentioned that they were so and so's roommate at Harvard. You think: he went to Harvard. Why's he sharing a room like some pauper ?
Fortunately, once the economic collapse sets in later this decade, many, if not most, of these private colleges will close as a result. Some relief is on the way.Replies: @Rod1963
You just described one of the foundations of cult indoctrination.
See cults do the same thing, they keep their followers together 7×24, they work, eat and study together. The guru and his enforcers make sure they don’t stray or start having bad thoughts.
By keeping them altogether it creates a vast echo chamber effect where everything but gurus edicts are drowned out. After awhile a homogenization of thought occurs and the followers all become interchangeable minions.
But it's a trade-off. The alternative is we get so many people coming that the country becomes unrecognizable. It becomes the corrupt society the people are fleeing.
Rather, for the new Right, it's a desperate attempt to hang on to the society we have.
In fact, many of us are socially liberal and without the mass immigration issue we'd still be the leftists we used to be.
*I'm not using the phrase alt-right because some people think it means you're a white supremacistReplies: @whorefinder, @guest, @Dieter Kief, @Corvinus
Frau, don’t bother with Corvy; he’s a paid troll, through and through, as he proves on almost everything he posts. Better to needle the little turd a bit and watch him flail out in response; he’s a typical SJW type in sheep’s clothing.
More free speech fiasco.
Spencer got guts.
That's basically what the phrase meant originally:Replies: @Moshe, @guest
Good catch!!
As always, ye goode olde days existed more in fantasy than reality.
Anyone with misapprehensions about the period is invited to read HL Mencken.
Apparently you have to subscribe to The Wellesley “News”, or I’m hitting a bad link:
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That’s what I call “free speech”.
Of course it is.
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That's what I call "free speech".Replies: @Larry A. Singleton
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
Of course it is.
Gotta have their Self-Righteous Space.
Ducking debate and discussion lest their bubble be pricked.
But it's a trade-off. The alternative is we get so many people coming that the country becomes unrecognizable. It becomes the corrupt society the people are fleeing.
Rather, for the new Right, it's a desperate attempt to hang on to the society we have.
In fact, many of us are socially liberal and without the mass immigration issue we'd still be the leftists we used to be.
*I'm not using the phrase alt-right because some people think it means you're a white supremacistReplies: @whorefinder, @guest, @Dieter Kief, @Corvinus
We care about “some people” why?
New Right won’t work, because that’s what the Buckleyites were called back when. I might be tempted to say it’s been long enough, but alt-righters are too explicitly anti-Buckley.
On the other hand, New Right was also the name they gave to an alt-right-y movement in France, characterized by Alain de Benoist. But that was even more heavily associated with Nazism than the alt-right, if possible.
That's basically what the phrase meant originally:Replies: @Moshe, @guest
At least it’s a generally recognized truth that the first casualty of war is truth. Most people don’t know that university campuses are truth-free zones.
“Freedom of speech is not just one among many values; it really is the master value because it’s the only corrective to human stupidity.”
— Sam Harris
But it's a trade-off. The alternative is we get so many people coming that the country becomes unrecognizable. It becomes the corrupt society the people are fleeing.
Rather, for the new Right, it's a desperate attempt to hang on to the society we have.
In fact, many of us are socially liberal and without the mass immigration issue we'd still be the leftists we used to be.
*I'm not using the phrase alt-right because some people think it means you're a white supremacistReplies: @whorefinder, @guest, @Dieter Kief, @Corvinus
In Steve Sailer’s nomenclature, there’s no room for white suprematism, – because HBD is nothing good or bad – it’s just there. – Would that be about right (=correct)?
I’d go as far as to state that it is not necessary at all, to understand and / or estimate part 1 of the Sailerian Imperative (hey: no bad term, this one, is it?!) “don’t invite the world”, to be either on th right – or on the left.
See – Thilo Sarrazin and Gunnar Heinsohn – the two most prominent German immigration-restrictionists (=critics) are both old leftists.
Classic liberals used to be called "left" but now they've become "fascists" because they support freedom of speech, including "hate" speech.
Those favouring mass immigrants can leftists (invite the world because we're such great humanitarians) or right (invite the world because we can hire them cheaply. Nothing matters more our short term profits).
Certainly Freud was wrong about a lot of stuff but he was insightful about a few things. Given where porn genres are trending these days, he was on to something.Replies: @Dieter Kief
Huh! – Are you challenging Camille Paglia?!
I see your point. I tend to decide somewhat momentarily which one of Freud’s (and his daughter’s Anna) defense-mechanisms of the neurotic kind is the best (=the most useful tool to disentangle entangled claims/ words/ thoughts/ theses/ sentences/ stances/ texts / interactions / phantasies (…).
If I try to overlook the last ten years, say, I’d hold that if you were right about “projection” being No. 1, then it would be a photo-finish and the second place would got to – tatataaaa: “rationalization”.
(sigh)
The working part of Freud’s arguments is situated at the core of human behavior. They could only be overcome by – machines (double sigh – – laugh!).
The illiteracy and stupidity of this screed is absolutely stunning — 50 or 60K in tuition per year so you can be trained to talk like a good little Stalinist and find a comfortable spot to vegetate on the dole.
But it's a trade-off. The alternative is we get so many people coming that the country becomes unrecognizable. It becomes the corrupt society the people are fleeing.
Rather, for the new Right, it's a desperate attempt to hang on to the society we have.
In fact, many of us are socially liberal and without the mass immigration issue we'd still be the leftists we used to be.
*I'm not using the phrase alt-right because some people think it means you're a white supremacistReplies: @whorefinder, @guest, @Dieter Kief, @Corvinus
“I do not think the “new” Right* considers itself particularly benevolent.”
The Alt Right is “humanitarian” in that it views itself as saving whites and Western Civilization from the destructive elements known as Cultural Marxism, which is the ideological du jour of elitists, SJW’s, and Jews.
“Both the Soviets and some hermit in a cave in Tibet believe that they know the one true way bla bla bla” so what? False equivalence (of behavior, in an attempt to obfuscate the power imbalance) is still false equivalence, and your arguments still suck. In other words, the globalist left has had power for a long time, and been screwing the pooch for a long time, while Nationalists have not. I keep replying to this because I’m gobsmacked by your stubborn stupidity.
Just ignore him like the rest of us and quit feeding the troll.
Lol, I kinda missed what a gem this is earlier, I was in a rush:
Cue the French guy in True Lies:
“Who wrote this shit? C’est la merde.”
Why the bad attitude, Jack? Do you really believe Bannon and Miller have never read and never been influenced by Steve Sailer?
Don’t you at least agree that the winning Trump campaign should send a couple of hundreds Steve’s way?
Why read Steve Sailer at all, Jack, if you think his work is worthless?
Does the Berkeley stabber’s trial counsel have a subscription to the Wellesley News? They are spilling a lot of fine-hewn affirmative defense options here
What’s gobsmacking about it? That’s what he’s paid to do.
Just ignore him like the rest of us and quit feeding the troll.
I can’t help but hear it in Nelson Muntz’s or Jimbo Jones’s voice.
“Stop facebooting yourself!”
BTW, “Faceboot” is what the love of my life calls that one social media platform.
I’ll continue to sweep him off my driveway like I would any turd.
Yep, his response is pretty lame. I’ll mark him as troll.
I'd go as far as to state that it is not necessary at all, to understand and / or estimate part 1 of the Sailerian Imperative (hey: no bad term, this one, is it?!) "don't invite the world", to be either on th right - or on the left.
See - Thilo Sarrazin and Gunnar Heinsohn - the two most prominent German immigration-restrictionists (=critics) are both old leftists.Replies: @Frau Katze
The old left/right dichotomy doesn’t make sense with a lot of modern politics.
Classic liberals used to be called “left” but now they’ve become “fascists” because they support freedom of speech, including “hate” speech.
Those favouring mass immigrants can leftists (invite the world because we’re such great humanitarians) or right (invite the world because we can hire them cheaply. Nothing matters more our short term profits).
Once again, in response to black folks’ fears, people choose to be ignorant. They choose to be blind.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article139303003.htmlReplies: @fish, @Unladen Swallow, @Joe Franklin, @Brutusale
Black folks’ fears are mostly other black folks.
You can stop posting links to Pitts’ columns, Ducky; if you’ve read one Pitts screed, you’ve read them all.
In conversations with elite young women, I'm often struck by their preference for holistic, varied, nurturing service that stands apart from the system of market remuneration, like "working for a global health NGO". Well, we used to have something like that, I think to myself, and it was called "being a housewife".
In fact, if you consider how many high-status women's jobs amount to being a housewife for other people's kids, the picture snaps into focus with horrible clarity.Replies: @Marina, @Brutusale
Many of these Wellesley girls will owe a huge debt of gratitude to the woman who created the most lucrative Pink Ghetto in business today: Freada Kapor Klein, the Original Human Resource Lady.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freada_Kapor_Klein
Is it a bug or a feature that this feminist engaged in the old-school tradition of banging the boss?
From Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass:
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master— that’s all.”
It IS a cultural practice and I have no problem with it.
So long as it is done among those similarly cultured.
There is no reason for search alien cultures to be here in the first place but as a cultural practice, leave em be.
Once these folks have been inexplicably allowed to settle and collect welfare here we have no more business stopping their practice than we have of stopping the practice of Male Genital Mutilation.Replies: @englishmike
It IS a cultural practice and I have no problem with it.
From Catholic Online, 3rd March 2008:
“But when Senator Edward Kennedy asked, ‘Would waterboarding be torture if it was done to you?’ Attorney General Michael Mukasey readily replied, ‘I would feel that it was.’ ”