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In the wake of regime change at the U. of Missouri, the campus police sent out this email today, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
“Reporting Hateful and/or Hurtful Speech.”
The email lists a process for students “who witness incidents of hateful and/or hurtful speech.” They are:
• Call the police immediately at 573-882-7201. (If you are in an emergency situation, dial 911.)
• Give the communications operator a summary of the incident, including location.
• Provide a detailed description of the individual(s) involved.
• Provide a license plate and vehicle descriptions (if appropriate).
• If possible and if it can be done safely, take a photo of the individual(s) with your cell phone.
The email states that, “Delays, including posting information to social media, can often reduce the chances of identifying the responsible parties. While cases of hateful and hurtful speech are not crimes, if the individual(s) identified are students, MU’s Office of Student Conduct can take disciplinary action.”
A lot of the push toward silencing argument by screeching at people attempting to appeal to reason is a consequence of the feminization of campuses.
Argument as sport is, like most sports, a mostly male hobby. As campuses become increasingly female-dominated, the culture naturally changes toward one where sports are first, marginalized as safe spaces for males, and then, eventually, sports will be drafted into the Dictatorship of Feelings along with everything else.
In 2012 a young theologian named Alastair Roberts explored with quiet but penetrating insight the differences between the old, male mode of argument as sport versus the increasingly dominant female mode.
What’s the justification for sending your kid to one of these institutions at this point? Maybe if they want do hard science courses and be at a top research institute? I don’t know.
Or is this just overblown…what would’ve happened if the internet had been around in the 60’s when they were burning bras and dropping acid?
Just when you think Americans can't show any more stupidity, they spring forth with new examples. The stupidity of Americans is boundless.Replies: @Cloudbuster, @dearieme
OT but Trump just shouted-out Eisenhower and Operation Wetback in an immigration answer at the FOXBiz debate (well, he didn’t SAY Operation Wetback, but that’s what he was referencing).
Where can I report hateful speech at Yale.
Or is this just overblown...what would've happened if the internet had been around in the 60's when they were burning bras and dropping acid?Replies: @Foreign Expert, @Realist
“Free Speech” was just a tactic to allow the Marxists to take power.
One of Roberts’s commenters pointed to a scholar named Robert J. Connors who argued that bringing women into higher education “feminized” the curriculum in the 19th century.
Here is a feminist arguing against Connors:
http://www.unm.edu/~sromano/english540/Bordelon%20Yost.pdf
Bonus: women and the welfare state:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~iversen/PDFfiles/LottKenny.pdf
But the accomplishments of Modern Man have, paradoxically, made life safe and easy for persons of the second rank, and this includes legions of females, who have become the new communist apparatchiks -- they demand, then seize, control of the wealth and technology created by men, then purge men from the ranks of the educated.
You do not know how terrifying this is unless it has happened to you. Trust me, saying the wrong thing in the university and then being hounded from your job into minimum-wage poverty by females of the lowest intellect does indeed happen, and it is utterly no different than what the Red Guards did during Mao's Cultural Revolution. No different at all.Replies: @Lamb, @Thomas Fuller, @AndrewR
Stasi anyone? It’s getting weird – getting weird in New Haven, too (probably because the kids weren’t counting on the American public to think they are pathetic)…wasn’t this a new El Nino year?
White students should call the police when their teachers say something hurtful about whites or Christianity.
“Provide a detailed description of the individual(s) involved.”
wait, isn’t that hate-thought? What if the description turns out to be a african-american transgender?
Power + Words = Hate Speech.
Therefore, black trans students can't Hate Speech.
They certainly have no interest in free speech in principle. They hate academic freedom too. Once these ideas have been exploited to attain power they’re dispensed with as a threat to themselves.
Burning bras happened in the ’70’s. Only verified example I’ve seen was at some demonstration in Atlantic City.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/nyregion/rosalyn-baxandall-feminist-historian-and-activist-dies-at-76.html
Discussed here at iSteve a couple weeks ago:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/was-1960s-feminism-a-front/Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Hateful and hurtful speech is not a crime, but disciplinary action can be taken against those who engage in it. Check.
I very much liked the article by Mr Roberts. The first thing it made me think of is that, I wonder if anyone is able to read Jonathan Swift in college anymore, and if they are, is it actually possible to read things like “The Lady’s Dressing Room” or “A Modest Proposal” without trigger warnings.
The one problem with Mr Roberts argument is that I think the binary split between “masculine sport” disputation and “consensus female” disputation is wrongly placed. For example, disputes and suspension of belief may have had an honored place among some intellectuals at all times, but the JS Mill thrust of Roberts’ argument wouldn’t exist were it not for the fact that people could still be prosecuted, imprisoned, and (not long before) executed, simply for engaging in “intellectual” arguments about ideas, namely, theological and ethical ideas.
So what I think is that we have a new set of tablets emerging, that stipulate such things as absolute natal equality among all persons, the fundamental injustice of unequal outcomes, the absolute natal equality of all genders, which, however, can be changed as a matter of performance and choice at a later age, but which, finally, is all predetermined genetically or epigenetically because, as we have been informed, all sexual proclivities are innate.
These are the absolute values of our time. Disputing any of these, even at several steps remove, is viewed as a kind of heresy, no different, really, than disputing the divinity of Jesus Christ a few centuries ago. Then, you might have your tongue or ears cut off, if you were lucky, today you are simply banished from polite society.
And of course these are not the only values of our time. There are values pertaining to all sorts of idiosyncratic things, such as the certainty of anthropocentric climate change (whatever that is supposed to mean since they changed the name from “Global Warming”), the certainty of atheism, the certainty of regnant interpretations of modern history, the certainty of “evolution”, which, in the mouths of its advocates means something like pure accident on the one hand and Leibniz’ Principle of Sufficient Reason on the other, so in effect we are talking about a theory of random mutations that were nevertheless caused. I could go on, but, that’s the way it is.
The accusations of “racism”, “x-phobia”, “misogyny”, “denialism” and the rest are simply registrations of the inability of the holders of “Today’s Values” to justify them either logically or theologically, and of their propensity to simply shut down any discussion and destroy their opponents. This isn’t “new” — all you have to do is go back a few centuries in various European locales, or to any number of Muslim or other third world countries today, to see it in all its glory. But it’s a dangerous undercurrent to our painfully evolved culture of freedom of expression and should be opposed just for that reason: the other reason being that the “New Values” that are often espoused are simply false.
I think Steve’s brain has crashed, for now. Well, folks, I just wanna talk about the debate, So far, Kasich, who my friends in the IT world are crazy about, is doing well.
Rubio, Fiorina, and Cruz did well. Rubio seems like he's now the establishment frontrunner, as he speaks well and knows how to articulate the basic conservative talking points (repeal Obamamcare, strong military, family values, etc). Rubio even was able to defend the child tax credit and come across as pro-family, while seeming anti-spending. Cruz hits the talking points well too. Fiorina seems tough and is articulate, but isn't likeable enough.
Carson and Trump were okay. Carson was able to hold his own and evade the controversies that have been dogging him lately. Trump was tough on illegal immigration and called for building the wall on the border. Trump also cited Operation Wetback (from the Eisenhower era) and talked about the Israeli border fence. Trump had good points on trade and the TPP too. Bush and Kasich were against Trump's immigration proposals, but neither man did well.
Jeb Bush was forgettable.
Rand Paul made very substantive points on foreign policy and military spending, but I think he's out of sync with the party.
I was disappointed that the candidates don't want to raise the minimum wage. I was also disappointed that the candidates are against regulating Wall Street. Rubio was smooth in positioning himself as anti-regulation and still positioning himself as anti-Wall Street.
A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room.
I don't think much changed from this debate, except that Rubio (and maybe Cruz) will continue to surge at Bush's expense.Replies: @Jefferson, @Mr. Anon, @Lagertha, @MarkinLA
Kasich would be a Tim Wolfe in the White House.
And this is one of Steve's most perceptive posts in memory. He cuts exactly to the crux of the matter (which has been aggravated by the black-on-white violence waves in Columbia and New Haven the women aren't allowed to talk about, nor is anyone else including the media).Replies: @Lagertha
First they came for the conservatives, and I did not speak out, because they are idiots.
Then they came for the Christians, and I did not speak out, because what the hell are they doing on campus, anyway?
Then they came for the frats, and I did not speak out, because they deserve it.
Then they came for the whites, and I did not speak out, because I don’t self-identify as white.
Then they came for the men, and I did not speak out, because patriarchy. And I am transitioning. And chopped it off.
Then they came for the cisgendered, and I did not speak out because see above. Sorry not sorry.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.
Finally! What took them so damn long!
I almost had to do it myself.
Elizabeth Warren is that you?
"They" never seem to come for the muscle that allows the "Theys" to muscle all the others.
No one ever comes for the cops or the TLAs.
Mr. Sailer: “A lot of the push toward silencing argument by screeching at people attempting to appeal to reason is a consequence of the feminization of campuses.”
I don’t think I agree with you here.
The same Red Guard tactics were used in the 60s and 70s and (in my experience dealing with groups of college grad students from SUNY Stony Brook University at town council and planning board meetings) also in the 1980s and 90s. The difference now is that the students and their enablers in the faculty and bureaucracy have much better political control and sponsorship, at the top level, then they did then.
The disgrace at Missouri State University is a pretty good example. I do not believe for one minute that the football team was responsible for the firing of the university president. This was a top-down conspiracy.
“Donald Trump said wages are ‘too high’ in his opening debate statement”
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-wages-too-high-2015-11
Throw sand in the gears of the machine. Call 911 every time you hear one black person call another by the N word or refer to women in a derogatory way. Say you feel hurt when a liberal says that conservatives are stupid. Hoist them on their own petard.
And out of the bronze of the image of The Sorrow that endureth for Ever he fashioned an image of The Pleasure that abideth for a Moment. --WildeReplies: @Jack D
Another function of the SJW fake-left is to perpetuate the apex fallacy by blaming all whites for the depredations of the few, likewise all men, Christians, etc... In this way the few who hire the SJWs and their enablers deflect attention from themselves.
side benefit- beating up on the middle class further erodes society making it easier to dominate-
The Social Justice Warriors are not useful idiots for communism. They're useful idiots for Wall Street and the neocons.Replies: @ben tillman
I bet if a student wore a Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” t-shirt and cap on the University Of Missouri, he or she would be reported to the campus police for promoting hurt/hate speech. And that student would be expelled from the school.
For those who enjoy paradoxes, consider that when the hurtful speech hens find an unlucky rooster guilty, they surround him and peck him to death.
What, specifically, did he do that merited an apology?
He wasn't specific...my guess is that he was advised by the administration that it was time to take one for the team to make the whole mess go away.
“The personal is political” said the feminists in the 60’s, so it’s not surprising that their successors think that “the political is personal”.
cause if we’re gonna get flypapered by drive-by medias we’re gonna need flywheels
…..And he took the image he had fashioned, and set it in a great furnace, and gave it to the fire.
And out of the bronze of the image of The Sorrow that endureth for Ever he fashioned an image of The Pleasure that abideth for a Moment. –Wilde
http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859452712/
Here is a feminist arguing against Connors:
http://www.unm.edu/~sromano/english540/Bordelon%20Yost.pdf
Bonus: women and the welfare state:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~iversen/PDFfiles/LottKenny.pdfReplies: @Dr. X
The feminization of education utterly destroyed the last vestiges of the Enlightenment. Nietzsche recognized the damage women can do to true learning 130 years ago. Western intellectualism was founded by Socrates, who died rather than capitulate to the sophists and slanderers who had him brought up on capital charges for questioning the myths of society. No woman has ever done that — for woman is a herd animal, not an individual. As Aristotle rightly pointed out, “the male is by nature superior, the female inferior.” ALL human accomplishment — ALL of it, from flush toilets to powered flight to air conditioning to open-heart surgery to iPhones — has been accomplished by great men on the far-right tail of the Bell Curve, a place where there are NO women.
But the accomplishments of Modern Man have, paradoxically, made life safe and easy for persons of the second rank, and this includes legions of females, who have become the new communist apparatchiks — they demand, then seize, control of the wealth and technology created by men, then purge men from the ranks of the educated.
You do not know how terrifying this is unless it has happened to you. Trust me, saying the wrong thing in the university and then being hounded from your job into minimum-wage poverty by females of the lowest intellect does indeed happen, and it is utterly no different than what the Red Guards did during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. No different at all.
This simply isn't true. Emmy Noether? Other female mathematicians and scientists. Not as frequent as males in this range, but there are quite a few of them.Replies: @Desiderius, @Olorin, @Mr. Anon, @dearieme
Seriously, you go too far. The under-representation of women in the fields you mention is due to various factors. Their brains are wired differently: in the Paleolithic men went out to hunt while the women stayed behind to mind the kids and gather plant foods. Women, being physically weaker, also had to be more conciliatory in order to keep things together and ensure that the men hung around long enough to support them in raising the children. Thus women are very good at gabbing while men tend to keep quiet. If your forte is social skills you are unlikely to be anal enough to solve abstruse or difficult problems, practical or theoretical.
Some women, a minority, have a masculine outlook well suited to STEM, and when such women are given a chance they do some pretty impressive work. The majority do not and it is little short of a tragedy that their traditional role has been trashed by the Frankfurt School and its loathsome disciples. That traditional role was arguably just as important in making progress as the single-minded application of their menfolk.
Women are not inferior to men: they are just different. The sexes were and should be complementary, yin and yang and all that. In this, as in so many areas of modern life, the Left has deliberately made people unhappy, barren and unfulfilled. More: it has set out to divide them, to set sex against sex and race against race and class against class, and your comment suggests to me that, in your case, it has, at least in part, succeeded.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
“Throw sand in the gears of the machine. Call 911 every time you hear one black person call another by the N word”
I bet the N word is publicly said everyday on The University of Missouri campus, 99 percent of the time coming from the mouths of Blacks. I am sure Black football players in that school all say the N word when they are chilling with their homeboys in the cafeteria or the dorm rooms.
The only type of Black people who do not say the N word on a daily basis sophisticated triple digit IQ white collar bourgeois types like Ben Carson and Neil deGrasse.
I wonder if saying the N word every 5 seconds is a sign of the limited vocabulary of most Black people.
“So far, Kasich, who my friends in the IT world are crazy about, is doing well.”
If elected, Kasich would happily sell them all out for a boatload of Indians.
Only immigration Trump (and maybe Sanders) are good on the H1b issue.Replies: @Mr. Anon
The “hurt feelings report” form is an evergreen of cubicle comedy. Maybe the University of Missouri Police needs to print some up and repurpose them for actual use.
(Safely Canadian to avoid any hurt feelings in America.)
Kasich did very poorly, especially when talking about banking. He even got booed.
Rubio, Fiorina, and Cruz did well. Rubio seems like he’s now the establishment frontrunner, as he speaks well and knows how to articulate the basic conservative talking points (repeal Obamamcare, strong military, family values, etc). Rubio even was able to defend the child tax credit and come across as pro-family, while seeming anti-spending. Cruz hits the talking points well too. Fiorina seems tough and is articulate, but isn’t likeable enough.
Carson and Trump were okay. Carson was able to hold his own and evade the controversies that have been dogging him lately. Trump was tough on illegal immigration and called for building the wall on the border. Trump also cited Operation Wetback (from the Eisenhower era) and talked about the Israeli border fence. Trump had good points on trade and the TPP too. Bush and Kasich were against Trump’s immigration proposals, but neither man did well.
Jeb Bush was forgettable.
Rand Paul made very substantive points on foreign policy and military spending, but I think he’s out of sync with the party.
I was disappointed that the candidates don’t want to raise the minimum wage. I was also disappointed that the candidates are against regulating Wall Street. Rubio was smooth in positioning himself as anti-regulation and still positioning himself as anti-Wall Street.
A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room.
I don’t think much changed from this debate, except that Rubio (and maybe Cruz) will continue to surge at Bush’s expense.
Mark Steyn said it best that it is way too soon to elect another Bush into the White House again, when it has been less than 7 years since the last time there was a Bush in office, not even a full decade yet. George W. Bush's presidency was not a trillion years ago like that of Ronald Reagan's and Jimmy Carter's. Dubya's presidency is still very fresh in people's minds. Even young Millennials remember his presidency.
This is how you know it has not been a very long time since the last time there was a Bush in office, the iPhone 3G came out during his last year in office and the young Millennial Taylor Swift was already a household name releasing her sophomore album.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123
I think Rubio is becoming that. He has won the backing of Paul Singer. Likely, a bunch of other billionaires will follow. I think pretty soon the Money is going to start telling !Jeb! to drop our and get lost. By the way, someone should ask Mr. Family-Values Rubio why he is now the favored candidate of Paul Singer, the guy who largely organized and bankrolled the legalization of homosexual "marriage" in New York state.
"A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room."
Yes, Trump and Paul are the only ones I would consider voting for. When it comes to foreign policy the rest of them seem to be - as you say - insane.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @dearieme
The correct conservative answer to raising the minimum wage is to remove the illegals and let market forces drive the wages up according to the need of the market and the ability of successful businesses to pay.
As would Rubio, Cruz, Bush, Fiorina, and Carson.
Only immigration Trump (and maybe Sanders) are good on the H1b issue.
Quite true. I won't vote for any of them either. Paul would probably be in favor too, though I don't know for sure.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123
“Then they came for the whites, and I did not speak out, because I don’t self-identify as white.”
Elizabeth Warren is that you?
What the country needs is a frank discussion on race. The Black people will do the talking and the whites and other losers will do the listening and nodding and taking notes. They need to realize who their masters are, going forward, and treat the Black Man with respect.
Trump is winning post-debate polls. Cruz and Paul are doing well too. Trump and Cruz have a lot of conservative support and usually do well in polls. Paul was more on the attack tonight, so maybe his supporters are rallying to it.
http://drudgereport.com/now2.htm
http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/11/poll_who_won_tuesdays_republican_2016_presidential_debate.html
http://www.breitbart.com/primary/#
http://fox5sandiego.com/2015/11/10/poll-who-won-the-4th-gop-debate/
That idiot John Kasich supports the TPP trade deal.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/10/john-kasich-tpp-trade-deal-critical/
Jeff Sessions (who is advising Trump on immigration) is against the TPP.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/10/sen-jeff-sessions-tpp-does-not-protect-interests-of-the-american-people/
Good for him.
“• Provide a detailed description of the individual(s) involved.”
But couldn’t it be considered triggering to report, say, the racial characteristics of the perp?
Or is this just overblown...what would've happened if the internet had been around in the 60's when they were burning bras and dropping acid?Replies: @Foreign Expert, @Realist
“What’s the justification for sending your kid to one of these institutions at this point?”
Just when you think Americans can’t show any more stupidity, they spring forth with new examples. The stupidity of Americans is boundless.
Only immigration Trump (and maybe Sanders) are good on the H1b issue.Replies: @Mr. Anon
“As would Rubio, Cruz, Bush, Fiorina, and Carson.”
Quite true. I won’t vote for any of them either. Paul would probably be in favor too, though I don’t know for sure.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2907072/rand-pauls-tangled-approach-to-h-1b-visas.html
http://www.vdare.com/letters/first-they-came-for-the-janitors
Campaigning for the liars.
Where is the union that supports immediate wholesale deportation? Not even the CBP's, one of the few that bother with enforcement issues (because it's their job), will go that far. Even Cesar Chavez wimped out on punishing employers, and his worshippers are the worst liars of all.
Where was the New Jersey teacher's union-- don't tell me they're weak-- when Viki Knox was hounded out of her job by an abusive school board for posting her religious views on Facebook? Apparently siding with the board!
By this standard, the NYC transit union, which represents rude minorities who can't be fired for anything, is the best in the land.
I've been in the immigration control movement for two decades now, and have yet to run into a union guy who presented himself as such.
Rubio, Fiorina, and Cruz did well. Rubio seems like he's now the establishment frontrunner, as he speaks well and knows how to articulate the basic conservative talking points (repeal Obamamcare, strong military, family values, etc). Rubio even was able to defend the child tax credit and come across as pro-family, while seeming anti-spending. Cruz hits the talking points well too. Fiorina seems tough and is articulate, but isn't likeable enough.
Carson and Trump were okay. Carson was able to hold his own and evade the controversies that have been dogging him lately. Trump was tough on illegal immigration and called for building the wall on the border. Trump also cited Operation Wetback (from the Eisenhower era) and talked about the Israeli border fence. Trump had good points on trade and the TPP too. Bush and Kasich were against Trump's immigration proposals, but neither man did well.
Jeb Bush was forgettable.
Rand Paul made very substantive points on foreign policy and military spending, but I think he's out of sync with the party.
I was disappointed that the candidates don't want to raise the minimum wage. I was also disappointed that the candidates are against regulating Wall Street. Rubio was smooth in positioning himself as anti-regulation and still positioning himself as anti-Wall Street.
A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room.
I don't think much changed from this debate, except that Rubio (and maybe Cruz) will continue to surge at Bush's expense.Replies: @Jefferson, @Mr. Anon, @Lagertha, @MarkinLA
“Jeb Bush was forgettable.”
Mark Steyn said it best that it is way too soon to elect another Bush into the White House again, when it has been less than 7 years since the last time there was a Bush in office, not even a full decade yet. George W. Bush’s presidency was not a trillion years ago like that of Ronald Reagan’s and Jimmy Carter’s. Dubya’s presidency is still very fresh in people’s minds. Even young Millennials remember his presidency.
This is how you know it has not been a very long time since the last time there was a Bush in office, the iPhone 3G came out during his last year in office and the young Millennial Taylor Swift was already a household name releasing her sophomore album.
Either Coulter or Sessions told him to say that.
Good for him.
Even better for us.Replies: @Danindc
And out of the bronze of the image of The Sorrow that endureth for Ever he fashioned an image of The Pleasure that abideth for a Moment. --WildeReplies: @Jack D
Also, it will be terrific fun when they try to explain to you that the hotline is not for ratting on racist black people or women, it’s only meant for white men, but of course they can’t say it in those terms. Play dumb and pretend as if you take their words literally and force them to explain why their own rules don’t apply in this situation. (BTW, this is Alinsky Rule #4).
well, that’s all of them D & R. So who is left? I told my husband that this may be the first time in my life that I may not be able to vote?!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/11/09/michelle-malkin-donald-trumps-immigration-policy-is-airtight/
Rubio, Fiorina, and Cruz did well. Rubio seems like he's now the establishment frontrunner, as he speaks well and knows how to articulate the basic conservative talking points (repeal Obamamcare, strong military, family values, etc). Rubio even was able to defend the child tax credit and come across as pro-family, while seeming anti-spending. Cruz hits the talking points well too. Fiorina seems tough and is articulate, but isn't likeable enough.
Carson and Trump were okay. Carson was able to hold his own and evade the controversies that have been dogging him lately. Trump was tough on illegal immigration and called for building the wall on the border. Trump also cited Operation Wetback (from the Eisenhower era) and talked about the Israeli border fence. Trump had good points on trade and the TPP too. Bush and Kasich were against Trump's immigration proposals, but neither man did well.
Jeb Bush was forgettable.
Rand Paul made very substantive points on foreign policy and military spending, but I think he's out of sync with the party.
I was disappointed that the candidates don't want to raise the minimum wage. I was also disappointed that the candidates are against regulating Wall Street. Rubio was smooth in positioning himself as anti-regulation and still positioning himself as anti-Wall Street.
A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room.
I don't think much changed from this debate, except that Rubio (and maybe Cruz) will continue to surge at Bush's expense.Replies: @Jefferson, @Mr. Anon, @Lagertha, @MarkinLA
“Rubio, Fiorina, and Cruz did well. Rubio seems like he’s now the establishment frontrunner, as he speaks well and knows how to articulate the basic conservative talking points (repeal Obamamcare, strong military, family values, etc).”
I think Rubio is becoming that. He has won the backing of Paul Singer. Likely, a bunch of other billionaires will follow. I think pretty soon the Money is going to start telling !Jeb! to drop our and get lost. By the way, someone should ask Mr. Family-Values Rubio why he is now the favored candidate of Paul Singer, the guy who largely organized and bankrolled the legalization of homosexual “marriage” in New York state.
“A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room.”
Yes, Trump and Paul are the only ones I would consider voting for. When it comes to foreign policy the rest of them seem to be – as you say – insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xymHtKjSZ_4
I hope Trump hits Rubio hard on immigration, as that's a point of vulnerability for him.
Paul is good on foreign policy and is against the TPP, but soft on immigration. Trump is good on most of the major issues (trade, immigration, foreign policy). I'll vote for him.Replies: @Lagertha, @Harold
Quite true. I won't vote for any of them either. Paul would probably be in favor too, though I don't know for sure.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123
Paul is pro-H1b too. How disappointing. Especially since he has so much common sense on foreign policy.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2907072/rand-pauls-tangled-approach-to-h-1b-visas.html
Michelle Malkin likes Trump on immigration.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/11/09/michelle-malkin-donald-trumps-immigration-policy-is-airtight/
Rubio, Fiorina, and Cruz did well. Rubio seems like he's now the establishment frontrunner, as he speaks well and knows how to articulate the basic conservative talking points (repeal Obamamcare, strong military, family values, etc). Rubio even was able to defend the child tax credit and come across as pro-family, while seeming anti-spending. Cruz hits the talking points well too. Fiorina seems tough and is articulate, but isn't likeable enough.
Carson and Trump were okay. Carson was able to hold his own and evade the controversies that have been dogging him lately. Trump was tough on illegal immigration and called for building the wall on the border. Trump also cited Operation Wetback (from the Eisenhower era) and talked about the Israeli border fence. Trump had good points on trade and the TPP too. Bush and Kasich were against Trump's immigration proposals, but neither man did well.
Jeb Bush was forgettable.
Rand Paul made very substantive points on foreign policy and military spending, but I think he's out of sync with the party.
I was disappointed that the candidates don't want to raise the minimum wage. I was also disappointed that the candidates are against regulating Wall Street. Rubio was smooth in positioning himself as anti-regulation and still positioning himself as anti-Wall Street.
A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room.
I don't think much changed from this debate, except that Rubio (and maybe Cruz) will continue to surge at Bush's expense.Replies: @Jefferson, @Mr. Anon, @Lagertha, @MarkinLA
I dunno. Kasich came out good for me; it is now, only about WAR. Wall Street is hard for everyone to understand, worldwide. But, we are (have been) at war, so money is gonna have to be spent…and Wall St., well, those banksters know how to “make it work.”
Mark Steyn said it best that it is way too soon to elect another Bush into the White House again, when it has been less than 7 years since the last time there was a Bush in office, not even a full decade yet. George W. Bush's presidency was not a trillion years ago like that of Ronald Reagan's and Jimmy Carter's. Dubya's presidency is still very fresh in people's minds. Even young Millennials remember his presidency.
This is how you know it has not been a very long time since the last time there was a Bush in office, the iPhone 3G came out during his last year in office and the young Millennial Taylor Swift was already a household name releasing her sophomore album.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123
Trump: “If you believe walls don’t work, ask Israel.”
Either Coulter or Sessions told him to say that.
Good for him.
Even better for us.
Robert’s distinction actually appears to be one between debate and demagoguery. The former is supposed to leave the best argument standing, but the latter is just pure propaganda. Demagoguery is not a ‘female’ style of argument per se. There have always been demagogues. Ancient Athens was plagued with them, and they did not allow female speakers in their assemblies.
Demagogues arise during periods of social upheaval, and this form of speech is favored by opportunistic sociopaths trying to take advantage of the chaos and seize power. It’s intended to sink into weak minds and quash all opposition.
What readers may be confusing here is demagoguery and ‘scolding’ or ‘nagging.’ The latter forms are a female style, and there is a marked difference between them and demagoguery. If you’ve been scolded and nagged, you know it, and you know you haven’t been demagogued ala Chairman Mao or Adolf Hitler.
But the accomplishments of Modern Man have, paradoxically, made life safe and easy for persons of the second rank, and this includes legions of females, who have become the new communist apparatchiks -- they demand, then seize, control of the wealth and technology created by men, then purge men from the ranks of the educated.
You do not know how terrifying this is unless it has happened to you. Trust me, saying the wrong thing in the university and then being hounded from your job into minimum-wage poverty by females of the lowest intellect does indeed happen, and it is utterly no different than what the Red Guards did during Mao's Cultural Revolution. No different at all.Replies: @Lamb, @Thomas Fuller, @AndrewR
“has been accomplished by great men on the far-right tail of the Bell Curve, a place where there are NO women.”
This simply isn’t true. Emmy Noether? Other female mathematicians and scientists. Not as frequent as males in this range, but there are quite a few of them.
Truthfully, that should read "Not nearly as frequent as males in this range, and there are not very many of them."
I hate it when big corporations in the U.S hire Indians who can barely speak English for phone customer representative positions. The Indian accent is so thick and heavy among most of them that I can not understand half or even most of what they say.
If I have to make a call to Target for example to dispute a charge on my billing statement, I cringe when they connect me with a customer service representative with a heavy Indian accent. I miss the days when they would mostly hire people with American accents for these jobs. Heck even hiring people with British accents for these types of jobs would be a vast improvement from the Apu accent.
Banksters know how to pick our pockets. More deregulation means more market manipulation, followed by bailouts. It’s ridiculous that these candidates want less regulation.
Trump is ahead in the November 6 Reuters poll.
http://polling.reuters.com/#!poll/TR130/type/smallest/filters/PARTY_ID_:2/dates/20150815-20151106/collapsed/false/spotlight/1
Trump: 29
Carson: 22
Rubio: 12
Cruz: 8
Bush: 7
what worries me about guys like Cruz and Rubio is that they are clueless about the Middle East. An intelligence officer I spoke with said that he had to explain to both of them at a routine splaynation meet-up for political people that the Taliban do not wear uniforms, Taliban/al-qaeda have no real insignia. Are C & R that stupid about the middle east? Do they know the difference about Shia and Sunni ?- I just can’t let another 20 years go by with yahoos at the helm. And, this is my hesitation for Hillary: The ME does not respect women. I may not vote for the first time in my life in 2016. International relations is my 1st concern.
Call the police immediately at 573-882-7201. (If you are in an emergency situation, dial 911.)
Would the sight of a frat boy wearing a sombrero and serape call for a 911 response or would the department number suffice? They don’t make clear what constitutes an emergency. I suppose under the subjective rule of feelings, an emergency depends on the degree of hurt the victim claims to feel.
If the sombrero-wearer attempts to flee, are police authorized to shoot him in the back? I understand that police are permitted to shoot a fleeing suspect if he presents a significant threat to others, and surely someone who wears a sombrero once is likely to do so again, causing untold hurt elsewhere.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/surge-in-robberies-on-capitol-hill-alters-residents-routines-lifestyles/2015/11/09/aeda2564-83b9-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html
BLM breaking down homo-gentrification shield.
http://polling.reuters.com/#!poll/TR130/type/smallest/filters/PARTY_ID_:2/dates/20150815-20151106/collapsed/false/spotlight/1
Trump: 29
Carson: 22
Rubio: 12
Cruz: 8
Bush: 7Replies: @Lagertha
don’t go back 4-5 days, dude.
I think Rubio is becoming that. He has won the backing of Paul Singer. Likely, a bunch of other billionaires will follow. I think pretty soon the Money is going to start telling !Jeb! to drop our and get lost. By the way, someone should ask Mr. Family-Values Rubio why he is now the favored candidate of Paul Singer, the guy who largely organized and bankrolled the legalization of homosexual "marriage" in New York state.
"A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room."
Yes, Trump and Paul are the only ones I would consider voting for. When it comes to foreign policy the rest of them seem to be - as you say - insane.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @dearieme
Rubio is clever at articulating the Republican party talking points. He’s very skilled at talking to both the base and the donor class.
I hope Trump hits Rubio hard on immigration, as that’s a point of vulnerability for him.
Paul is good on foreign policy and is against the TPP, but soft on immigration. Trump is good on most of the major issues (trade, immigration, foreign policy). I’ll vote for him.
I suggest Americans avoid travelling to those regions.Replies: @Mr. Anon
Kinda makes sense. After all P.C. Is extremely repressive, anti free speech. Good tool to gain control. Clever use of blacks and feminists as shock troops.
Foreign lobbies (Israeli lobby and Saudi lobby), Deep State, and war profiteers run our foreign policy. As long as this gravy train keeps on going, a lot of people will continue to be enriched, while Israeli and Saudi security interests will be advanced.
ok, I’m out; my dog is dying and I have a long night ahead, maybe a few days. Keep fighting the good fight, everyone, we just have to keep those candidates squirming.
Yesterday, I was boiling over with rage and indignation. Today, all I can summon is sadness: deep, deep sadness.
What has America become?
I know this, and it makes me sick, I’ve known it for years, decades. Now how do we stop it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xymHtKjSZ_4
I hope Trump hits Rubio hard on immigration, as that's a point of vulnerability for him.
Paul is good on foreign policy and is against the TPP, but soft on immigration. Trump is good on most of the major issues (trade, immigration, foreign policy). I'll vote for him.Replies: @Lagertha, @Harold
Rubio didn’t know that the Taliban fighters don’t wear uniforms.
wait, isn't that hate-thought? What if the description turns out to be a african-american transgender?Replies: @EvolutionistX, @Tom-in-VA
Don’t be silly.
Power + Words = Hate Speech.
Therefore, black trans students can’t Hate Speech.
In one of the few true things I’ve heard Lush Rimblow say, he decried the “chickification” of America.
A perfect term for where we are.
Couldn’t be more mistaken on both counts.
Kasich would be a Tim Wolfe in the White House.
And this is one of Steve’s most perceptive posts in memory. He cuts exactly to the crux of the matter (which has been aggravated by the black-on-white violence waves in Columbia and New Haven the women aren’t allowed to talk about, nor is anyone else including the media).
This simply isn't true. Emmy Noether? Other female mathematicians and scientists. Not as frequent as males in this range, but there are quite a few of them.Replies: @Desiderius, @Olorin, @Mr. Anon, @dearieme
There’s been so many you can only name one, and her t-level was higher than the entire Yale and Missouri administrations combined.
There was the Egyptian female philosopher/mathematician/anti-Christian, Hypatia, early A.D. era, whose gruesome end would have been discouraging to any bright girl of the era. The taliban throws acid in the faces of schoolgirls for the same reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
Rude, crude, opportunistic students and professors should just be told they can't act like that. Simple if you have standards and stick to them. Nowadays it doesn't involve murder, usually.
That’s one aspect.
Another function of the SJW fake-left is to perpetuate the apex fallacy by blaming all whites for the depredations of the few, likewise all men, Christians, etc… In this way the few who hire the SJWs and their enablers deflect attention from themselves.
Students are instructed to call the cops even when they know no crime has been committed! Outrageous.
But what the right will ignore is how much the cops encourage this kind of arrangement, wheedling their way into affairs that don’t concern them, assuming the role of armed social worker.
Either Coulter or Sessions told him to say that.
Good for him.
Even better for us.Replies: @Danindc
Wrong. I read that exact advice in the comment section right here! Anyone that’s in the know reads Sailer.
Really interesting. I had overlooked your article about Alastair Roberts; but I had worked out part of this for myself by observing the developments in my particular field of studies (“European Ethnology”).
I found two secondary advantages of the “male combative” approach to science. Firstly, it incites the scientists to “focus”: constructing central problems for which the rivalling scientists (or scjhools of scientists) propose different solutions. Secondly, it incites scientists to define rules of the game, methodologies.
The other way round, feminization makes the field of studies more unfocussed and more unruly.
It’s getting to be so embarrassing telling people I’m a college student.
By the way, am I the only one who’s getting sick of the abuse of the word “space” by the SJW types? The girl that shouted that professor down at Yale referred to the residential community in question as a “space” and IIRC said it was supposed to be a “safe space,” which is another term that gets bandied about these days.
When I’m at my mom’s and she has HGTV on they seem to have completely replaced the word “room” with “space.” One of my wife’s friends wrote her thesis on “How people occupy their space.” WTF is going on? Once you notice it, it’s everywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xymHtKjSZ_4
I hope Trump hits Rubio hard on immigration, as that's a point of vulnerability for him.
Paul is good on foreign policy and is against the TPP, but soft on immigration. Trump is good on most of the major issues (trade, immigration, foreign policy). I'll vote for him.Replies: @Lagertha, @Harold
There are terrorists cutting off people’s heads in the middle east? Oh noes!
I suggest Americans avoid travelling to those regions.
I emailed them with this hypothetical: Suppose I’m waiting in a locked bathroom stall for my contact to show up for anonymous gay sex; some awful person comes in and loudly makes a hurtful homophobic remark; I can’t talk too loudly, provide a description, or take a foto; even though my stall is locked, I feel hurt and threatened. Can this be seen as an “emergency situation”? Am I justified in calling 911?
Great hashtag trending on Twitter now: #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay&src=tyah
A good one:
Christina H. Sommers @CHSommers
Want to close wage gap? Step one: Change your major from feminist dance therapy to electrical engineering. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
The USA is a police state.
‘Penetrating insight’ – not a Freudian slip, one hopes.
Ros Baxandall, who thankfully croaked recently, noted this as one of the highlights of her life, according to her NYT obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/nyregion/rosalyn-baxandall-feminist-historian-and-activist-dies-at-76.html
Discussed here at iSteve a couple weeks ago:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/was-1960s-feminism-a-front/
I figure the campaigns are turning bots loose to game the media online polls, and Trump is exactly the sort of guy to buy top-flight bot talent.
But the accomplishments of Modern Man have, paradoxically, made life safe and easy for persons of the second rank, and this includes legions of females, who have become the new communist apparatchiks -- they demand, then seize, control of the wealth and technology created by men, then purge men from the ranks of the educated.
You do not know how terrifying this is unless it has happened to you. Trust me, saying the wrong thing in the university and then being hounded from your job into minimum-wage poverty by females of the lowest intellect does indeed happen, and it is utterly no different than what the Red Guards did during Mao's Cultural Revolution. No different at all.Replies: @Lamb, @Thomas Fuller, @AndrewR
Everyone makes generalizations and this must be stopped! We will not abide intolerance!
Seriously, you go too far. The under-representation of women in the fields you mention is due to various factors. Their brains are wired differently: in the Paleolithic men went out to hunt while the women stayed behind to mind the kids and gather plant foods. Women, being physically weaker, also had to be more conciliatory in order to keep things together and ensure that the men hung around long enough to support them in raising the children. Thus women are very good at gabbing while men tend to keep quiet. If your forte is social skills you are unlikely to be anal enough to solve abstruse or difficult problems, practical or theoretical.
Some women, a minority, have a masculine outlook well suited to STEM, and when such women are given a chance they do some pretty impressive work. The majority do not and it is little short of a tragedy that their traditional role has been trashed by the Frankfurt School and its loathsome disciples. That traditional role was arguably just as important in making progress as the single-minded application of their menfolk.
Women are not inferior to men: they are just different. The sexes were and should be complementary, yin and yang and all that. In this, as in so many areas of modern life, the Left has deliberately made people unhappy, barren and unfulfilled. More: it has set out to divide them, to set sex against sex and race against race and class against class, and your comment suggests to me that, in your case, it has, at least in part, succeeded.
Consider Broadway. The occasional hit composed by a woman-- "Princess and the Pea", "Whorehouse in Texas"-- but no consistently great female composer to be seen anywhere. But three of the greatest lyricists were women (all Jewish!): Dorothy Fields, Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden.
Women are very good at verbal stuff, and thus can reach the extreme of the tail. But it's still dominated by men, the weaker sex, because that's how bell curves work.
Nashville, however, is very open to women writers, as so little is asked of composers there.
Also very relevant is that Skull-and-Bones principle of training just your expected leaders to brush off personal attacks.
This simply isn't true. Emmy Noether? Other female mathematicians and scientists. Not as frequent as males in this range, but there are quite a few of them.Replies: @Desiderius, @Olorin, @Mr. Anon, @dearieme
Not no women, but relatively fewer out on the right tail. Women tend to cluster in the middle.
http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/2013/09/are-girls-too-normal-sex-differences-in.html
Let’s not oversimplify.
There are in fact many women at the right tail, with high intelligence and standards/behaviors of reason and decorum. Believe me, they love to argue just as much as any man–possibly because their minds may be more masculine (hormonally or developmentally).
The Bell Curve fatties act as they do in part to shout those women down, silence them, keep them from taking leadership on the grounds of merit.
Think about it. Colleges and universities are largely female-attended now. When a Bell Curve fatty mob is shrieking, a large portion of the population they want to bring down are highly intelligent women (like the reasoned, calm, intelligent Erika Christakis).
Bell Curve fatty women are as hostile to and bullying of very smart women as blacks are hostile to their intelligent fraction.
So this isn’t so much a gender issue as a BC fatty one. It’s just that more women reside at the fat part than the right tail, while men’s distribution is flatter.
I’m of the view that the women on the right tail should and must be allowed to compete–fairly and on the basis of merit, energy, and effort–in things like education and careers.
Most truly right-tail women are intelligent enough that they have (and know they have) many options, including marriage, family creation, and home making in addition to education, work, and career.
Bell Curve fatties generally have meager intelligence, fewer options, and far greater resentment. They have to get all upset about things like Halloween costumes, and they well know they are mediocre, white men don’t pay them attention, and they will never constitute the breeding/mating pool for alpha males. The big ticket stuff is, in fact, closed to them. The sense of unfairness must be intense.
And when they serve a police state, cops lives do not matter.
Where were the unions in 1964 when the immigration bill was lied about?
Campaigning for the liars.
Where is the union that supports immediate wholesale deportation? Not even the CBP’s, one of the few that bother with enforcement issues (because it’s their job), will go that far. Even Cesar Chavez wimped out on punishing employers, and his worshippers are the worst liars of all.
Where was the New Jersey teacher’s union– don’t tell me they’re weak– when Viki Knox was hounded out of her job by an abusive school board for posting her religious views on Facebook? Apparently siding with the board!
By this standard, the NYC transit union, which represents rude minorities who can’t be fired for anything, is the best in the land.
I’ve been in the immigration control movement for two decades now, and have yet to run into a union guy who presented himself as such.
What these theiving thieves need is a brand new super-Glass Steagall shoved down their throats to muffle their slick talk. Such laws are at least thinkable under Trump but one else.
Would the sight of a frat boy wearing a sombrero and serape call for a 911 response or would the department number suffice? They don't make clear what constitutes an emergency. I suppose under the subjective rule of feelings, an emergency depends on the degree of hurt the victim claims to feel.
If the sombrero-wearer attempts to flee, are police authorized to shoot him in the back? I understand that police are permitted to shoot a fleeing suspect if he presents a significant threat to others, and surely someone who wears a sombrero once is likely to do so again, causing untold hurt elsewhere.Replies: @Clyde
If Steve ever puts out an a line of iSteveWear, the hats should definitely be sombreros. You could micro-aggress galore just by walking down a busy street or through a college campus.
That’s certainly how the passersby in this police state feel about this cop’s life.
While Jeb Bush and Scott Walker would never do such a thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/nyregion/rosalyn-baxandall-feminist-historian-and-activist-dies-at-76.html
Discussed here at iSteve a couple weeks ago:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/was-1960s-feminism-a-front/Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Appropriately, her ex-husband was a big-time nudist.
Coulter reads Sailer and Trump reads Coulter.
What I find fascinating is that no one in charge, including the governor, is even asked to defend this policy.
Where is the media?
So the IT guys have moved from one liberal to the next? Kasich was awful, probably the worst performer IMHO.
The economic Marxists have never had power. The elites made a tradeoff by which neoliberal policies would dominate the economic sphere, and Marxism would dominate the cultural sphere. Hence why the left today strongly prioritizes identity politics over class politics. Through their vehemently antiwhite and antimale politics they ensure that working class white males never ally themselves with working class ethnic minorities and women, thus ensuring plutocratic hegemony.
wait, isn't that hate-thought? What if the description turns out to be a african-american transgender?Replies: @EvolutionistX, @Tom-in-VA
Whatever you do, don’t describe them has “hard-working.”
The only way Kasich can get my vote is if he deploys the Ohio National Guard to Mizzou and Yale.
Just when you think Americans can't show any more stupidity, they spring forth with new examples. The stupidity of Americans is boundless.Replies: @Cloudbuster, @dearieme
Yes, we get it. You think Americans are stupid. You feel the need to mention that frequently. Perhaps you could find another pastime?
And yet
“They” never seem to come for the muscle that allows the “Theys” to muscle all the others.
No one ever comes for the cops or the TLAs.
Kasich would be a Tim Wolfe in the White House.
And this is one of Steve's most perceptive posts in memory. He cuts exactly to the crux of the matter (which has been aggravated by the black-on-white violence waves in Columbia and New Haven the women aren't allowed to talk about, nor is anyone else including the media).Replies: @Lagertha
you’re right. I have been exhausted, lately – but my dog pulled thru: got some kind of horrid, messy infection drinking out of the brook again – he is very old, however. He is sleeping just inches away from my feet right now.
Forget what I said about Kasich earlier, he’s got no shot; everyone but Trump is a sell-out to someone.
I think I just don’t want to set myself up for disappointment if Trump does not get the nomination. He is the only one I would vote for. I just believe that Trump is going to be attacked so much, continuously in the nastiest ways possible, and, would he decide it’s not worth it? I’m not sure how serious he really is once the entire left is going to try everything to tear him down – he’ll have to have a bigger security detail. But, bright side: more and more people seem to (they secretly tell me) be in favor of him, people who formerly voted for Obama. H1B is the driver for this change. Like I said posts ago, mothers are getting worried that their kids can’t find work after their expensive degrees.
Agreed; after last night, K has no shot; immigration is the sink hole of all the candidates last night except Trump. . Will Trump survive the war party to take him out the next 10 months? That’s what worries me.
Seriously, you go too far. The under-representation of women in the fields you mention is due to various factors. Their brains are wired differently: in the Paleolithic men went out to hunt while the women stayed behind to mind the kids and gather plant foods. Women, being physically weaker, also had to be more conciliatory in order to keep things together and ensure that the men hung around long enough to support them in raising the children. Thus women are very good at gabbing while men tend to keep quiet. If your forte is social skills you are unlikely to be anal enough to solve abstruse or difficult problems, practical or theoretical.
Some women, a minority, have a masculine outlook well suited to STEM, and when such women are given a chance they do some pretty impressive work. The majority do not and it is little short of a tragedy that their traditional role has been trashed by the Frankfurt School and its loathsome disciples. That traditional role was arguably just as important in making progress as the single-minded application of their menfolk.
Women are not inferior to men: they are just different. The sexes were and should be complementary, yin and yang and all that. In this, as in so many areas of modern life, the Left has deliberately made people unhappy, barren and unfulfilled. More: it has set out to divide them, to set sex against sex and race against race and class against class, and your comment suggests to me that, in your case, it has, at least in part, succeeded.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Women will almost never reach the right tail in fields where men have one or another advantage. They are far more likely to appear there in fields where women have the advantages.
Consider Broadway. The occasional hit composed by a woman– “Princess and the Pea”, “Whorehouse in Texas”– but no consistently great female composer to be seen anywhere. But three of the greatest lyricists were women (all Jewish!): Dorothy Fields, Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden.
Women are very good at verbal stuff, and thus can reach the extreme of the tail. But it’s still dominated by men, the weaker sex, because that’s how bell curves work.
Nashville, however, is very open to women writers, as so little is asked of composers there.
Yes, something this. Steve posted on large Soros funding for BLM movement, a story which should have gotten more legs than it has. But Occupy has to be crushed!
I suggest Americans avoid travelling to those regions.Replies: @Mr. Anon
Indeed. There are Mexicans cutting off people’s heads in Mexico. And Marco Rubio wants to bring them here. Marco Rubio can hardly claim to be the anti-decapitation candidate.
Obama voters for Trump would be a useful group to organize, publicize. I am one.
Full disclosure, what the heck: I voted for Reagan; Bush; Clinton, Gore; Kerry; Obama 2x. And, now, Trump has my vote if he sticks with it. Being a EU citizen as well as US, I judge presidents on foreign policy first, environment 2nd. So, ergo my record as an independent.
I wonder if it would be possible to state that you are recording the call (and do so) under the guise of wanting to have a record of your complaint. I would pay to hear a recording of someone doing as you describe.
This simply isn't true. Emmy Noether? Other female mathematicians and scientists. Not as frequent as males in this range, but there are quite a few of them.Replies: @Desiderius, @Olorin, @Mr. Anon, @dearieme
“Not as frequent as males in this range, but there are quite a few of them.”
Truthfully, that should read “Not nearly as frequent as males in this range, and there are not very many of them.”
Is anti-homo speech ‘butthurt speech’?
What’s after Hurt Speech?
Sad Speech?
Dispiriting Speech?
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The sound of college discourse these days:
None of this should be surprising.
When colleges allowed Negroes to win debates by hollering and howling, Negroes got the message that volume works.
Negroes lost out to homo pageantry and propaganda funded and promoted by big government and big industry. Negroes couldn’t compete with such orchestration of public opinion via mass media owned by Jews and Urban White Libs into homo-led gentrification.
Libs thought they were throwing a bone to the Negroes by letting them win some college debates by hollering. But Negroes got the message that Black Voice be some powerful weapon.
So, Bernie Sanders got shouted down.
And now the Negro Hollering is out of control.
Negroes can’t win in funding, reason, facts, and sense. I mean Michael Brown got what was coming to him. Even Obama government concluded thus.
So, the only thing left is to Holler and Intimidate with muscle and numbers.
There was a time when people yelled loud to be heard.
Now they yell loud to silence other voices.
Some say the Free Speech Movement turned into PC, but the seeds of PC were in the Free Speech Movement from the beginning. It was led by radicals who were after power above all else. They invoked free speech but it was never their main goal.
Once they got the power, they preferred power over free speech for their enemies.
Also, the Free Speech Movement politicized speech on campus, which made it more difficult for objective academic discourse. It turned debate into us versus them, or “if you’re not with us, you’re against us.” True academism has to go beyond partisan politicking. But the Free Speech Movement opened the door for massive politicization of entire departments and even creation of new departments with no interest in academics: black studies and women’s studies were meant to be instruments of indoctrination, not free and objective discourse.
Allan Bloom noted as much in CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND.
The obvious response to this is to flood the number with petty complaints.
“Hello, dispatcher? I was just called a buttface doodoohead. The perpetrator is a black female about 19 years old. Please send help at once.”
But the accomplishments of Modern Man have, paradoxically, made life safe and easy for persons of the second rank, and this includes legions of females, who have become the new communist apparatchiks -- they demand, then seize, control of the wealth and technology created by men, then purge men from the ranks of the educated.
You do not know how terrifying this is unless it has happened to you. Trust me, saying the wrong thing in the university and then being hounded from your job into minimum-wage poverty by females of the lowest intellect does indeed happen, and it is utterly no different than what the Red Guards did during Mao's Cultural Revolution. No different at all.Replies: @Lamb, @Thomas Fuller, @AndrewR
Story time…
A conundrum for the U of Missouri sports fans….wouldn’t cheering for your team and against the other team be hurtful, after all they are Guests (see the score board) at your Home (again see the score board) And wouldn’t booing necessitate a 911 call? So, I guess, just sit on you hands and hope the home team understands.
http://chronicle.com/article/In-Missouri-the-Downfall-of-a/234164
This reminds me of Chris Rock’s bit about the fact that if Clarence Thomas looked like Denzell Washington, we would never have heard of Anita Hill. He said that basically Anita’s response to Clarence hitting on her was “Ooh he ugly! Call the police!”
If only Clarence had married Anita instead of that white woman, all this unpleasantness could have been avoided.
Most people can’t name any mathematicians, male or female.
There was the Egyptian female philosopher/mathematician/anti-Christian, Hypatia, early A.D. era, whose gruesome end would have been discouraging to any bright girl of the era. The taliban throws acid in the faces of schoolgirls for the same reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
Rude, crude, opportunistic students and professors should just be told they can’t act like that. Simple if you have standards and stick to them. Nowadays it doesn’t involve murder, usually.
Yes, think about it- they are going after the traditional enemies of internationalists/globalists – middle civic class- so you have the SJW beating up on mom and pop pizzerias – meanwhile ignoring the big banks and looting they economy – the banks wave the multicolored flag of sodom and billionaires like george soros have ‘hearts of gold’ according to NPR.
side benefit- beating up on the middle class further erodes society making it easier to dominate-
Just when you think Americans can't show any more stupidity, they spring forth with new examples. The stupidity of Americans is boundless.Replies: @Cloudbuster, @dearieme
“The stupidity of Americans is boundless.” I dare say. But the rest of the world copies American habits, though only the bad ones. So imagine the damage this will do in an invaded Europe.
As a few famous people said, only the Dead have seen the end of war. And YOU may not be interested in War, but WAR is interested in you.
Its human nature. Libertardian spergs think that a holiday from human nature works by magic dirt. America has magic dirt so it can take a holiday from history, and avoid War. Wrong.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
I think Rubio is becoming that. He has won the backing of Paul Singer. Likely, a bunch of other billionaires will follow. I think pretty soon the Money is going to start telling !Jeb! to drop our and get lost. By the way, someone should ask Mr. Family-Values Rubio why he is now the favored candidate of Paul Singer, the guy who largely organized and bankrolled the legalization of homosexual "marriage" in New York state.
"A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room."
Yes, Trump and Paul are the only ones I would consider voting for. When it comes to foreign policy the rest of them seem to be - as you say - insane.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @dearieme
“When it comes to foreign policy the rest of them seem to be … insane.” That’s quite important given that the Constitution gives the President power mainly over foreign policy. Next thing you know they’ll return to the idea that Congress declares war. Radical!
This simply isn't true. Emmy Noether? Other female mathematicians and scientists. Not as frequent as males in this range, but there are quite a few of them.Replies: @Desiderius, @Olorin, @Mr. Anon, @dearieme
“Not as frequent as males in this range”: yeah, yeah, Mme Curie. But by God there are few of them. They are easily outnumbered by the geniuses of Renaissance Italy alone.
Meanwhile, on ESPN’s front page:
Grad student Jonathan Butler was prepared to die to bring change to Missouri. With help from the football team, he lived to see his hunger strike succeed. Here’s how it happened.
http://espn.go.com/
In legal education, the Socratic method’s declining use coincided (was driven by?) the increasing number of women enrolled in law school.
If you don’t like my comments don’t read them.
True but the Europeans have allowed it.
Not a rooster, Mr. 7, more like a capon…like that House Master at Yale who wound up making a mewling apology to the screeching harpy who confronted him about Halloween costumes.
What, specifically, did he do that merited an apology?
He wasn’t specific…my guess is that he was advised by the administration that it was time to take one for the team to make the whole mess go away.
Probably the quintessential form of female argumentation is the medieval custom of charivari. To witness the evolution of style among its modern practitioners just watch any episode of Cops or Jerry Springer
http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859452712/Replies: @Grauniad, @Pat Casey
Well, that was certainly a waste of valuable seconds
Rubio, Fiorina, and Cruz did well. Rubio seems like he's now the establishment frontrunner, as he speaks well and knows how to articulate the basic conservative talking points (repeal Obamamcare, strong military, family values, etc). Rubio even was able to defend the child tax credit and come across as pro-family, while seeming anti-spending. Cruz hits the talking points well too. Fiorina seems tough and is articulate, but isn't likeable enough.
Carson and Trump were okay. Carson was able to hold his own and evade the controversies that have been dogging him lately. Trump was tough on illegal immigration and called for building the wall on the border. Trump also cited Operation Wetback (from the Eisenhower era) and talked about the Israeli border fence. Trump had good points on trade and the TPP too. Bush and Kasich were against Trump's immigration proposals, but neither man did well.
Jeb Bush was forgettable.
Rand Paul made very substantive points on foreign policy and military spending, but I think he's out of sync with the party.
I was disappointed that the candidates don't want to raise the minimum wage. I was also disappointed that the candidates are against regulating Wall Street. Rubio was smooth in positioning himself as anti-regulation and still positioning himself as anti-Wall Street.
A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room.
I don't think much changed from this debate, except that Rubio (and maybe Cruz) will continue to surge at Bush's expense.Replies: @Jefferson, @Mr. Anon, @Lagertha, @MarkinLA
I was disappointed that the candidates don’t want to raise the minimum wage.
The correct conservative answer to raising the minimum wage is to remove the illegals and let market forces drive the wages up according to the need of the market and the ability of successful businesses to pay.
Spot on. One of the things you’re not supposed to notice is that the actual Left no longer exists. Economic Justice has been replaced by Social Justice. Remember when Leftists were concerned about the poor and with preventing exploitation of workers? Those Leftists are long gone.
The Social Justice Warriors are not useful idiots for communism. They’re useful idiots for Wall Street and the neocons.
The Land of the Feels and the Home of the so Brave
Imagine how problematic the toxic masculinity of football would be if it was predominantly white.
Yes, I get it. However, we are still a small group with secret handshakes or like a witch’s coven as I said posts past, that are relieved when we find each other. I live in a small town and have one kid still in school, so have to be discreet.
Full disclosure, what the heck: I voted for Reagan; Bush; Clinton, Gore; Kerry; Obama 2x. And, now, Trump has my vote if he sticks with it. Being a EU citizen as well as US, I judge presidents on foreign policy first, environment 2nd. So, ergo my record as an independent.
The Social Justice Warriors are not useful idiots for communism. They're useful idiots for Wall Street and the neocons.Replies: @ben tillman
Wall Street and the Neocons *are* the actual Left, or at least part of it. The Left was never concerned about workers or the poor; the Left merely pretended to be concerned, which your own observation should make clear.
Now they don't even pretend. And that's scary because it means they know they no longer have to pretend.
Grad student Jonathan Butler was prepared to die to bring change to Missouri. With help from the football team, he lived to see his hunger strike succeed. Here's how it happened.
http://espn.go.com/Replies: @Desiderius
Newton seems a pretty safe bet.
Desperately trying to keep up with whose ass they need to kiss.
But what the right will ignore is how much the cops encourage this kind of arrangement, wheedling their way into affairs that don't concern them, assuming the role of armed social worker.Replies: @ben tillman
And criminal in any objective sense. It’s an attempt to conspire to deprive someone of his civil rights.
http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859452712/Replies: @Grauniad, @Pat Casey
lol. well that is what the song is about. stop dancin to my girl if you don’t like her. The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance is their best.
It was response to a claim that there were none.
I take your point and mostly I agree with you. The difference is that there was a time when Leftists made a few token efforts to help the poor and to help the little guy. You’re correct in saying that they never actually cared but they felt they had to make a small effort if only to consolidate their support base.
Now they don’t even pretend. And that’s scary because it means they know they no longer have to pretend.
I wonder how long it’ll be before there’ll be claims that he was really a woman, or “gender fluid”, or whatever.
He’s not the only one.
Hi Steve, thank you for linking to Alastair Roberts. I haven’t heard of him before but I checked some of his writings, and he’s quite impressive. If you haven’t had a chance to read his posts lately, he wrote a guest post this past September on Reformation 21 (an Evangelical site), discussing the refugee crisis in Europe and the proper Christian response to it (The Refugee Crisis and Christian Hope). I’m going to quote just a couple of key sentences: