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From Politico:
The Ticking Time Bomb in Biden’s ‘Record Player’ Answer
It’s not about his age. It’s about whether he has offended black voters.
By JEFF GREENFIELD September 13, 2019
…. moderator Linsey Davis posed this question to Biden:
“In a conversation about how to deal with segregation in schools back in 1975, you told a reporter, ‘I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather, I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation and I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.’ You said that some 40 years ago. But as you stand here tonight, what responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?”
There was a smile (some called it a “smirk”) on Biden’s face as he listened to the question. And he answered her this way:
“Well, they have to deal with the—look, there’s institutional segregation in this country. From the time I got involved, I started dealing with that. Redlining banks, making sure we are in a position where—look, you talk about education. I propose is we take the very poor schools, triple the amount of money we spend from $15 to $45 billion a year. Give every single teacher a raise to the $60,000 level. Number two, make sure that we bring in to help the teachers deal with the problems that come from home. The problems that come from home, we have one school psychologist for every 1,500 kids in America today. It’s crazy. The teachers are—I’m married to a teacher, my deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them. Make sure that every single child does, in fact, have 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds go to school. Not day care, school. Social workers help parents deal with how to raise their children. It’s not like they don’t want to help, they don’t know what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television—excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the—make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school, a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time we get there.”
The post-debate commentariat pounced on the “record player” comment, noting that it suggested a lack of familiarity with more modern-day devices, like the eight-track tape or Walkman. It was viewed mostly as a proxy for his age, a self-inflicted wound from a candidate stuck somewhere in the 1970s technologically. But by Friday morning, attention had begun to shift to the broader and far more culturally fraught implications of what Biden was saying: Did he mean that black parents depended on an army of white people with degrees to help them raise their kids?
Well, yeah, the post-2008 consensus in the New York Times and The Atlantic was that the Hart-Risley study had proven that the reason blacks don’t average high test scores is because they were raised in silent, taciturn homes and thus missed out on either 4 million words (as Biden put it) or 30 million words or 32 million words. Therefore the solution was for the government to hire the unemployed college graduate children of NYT and Atlantic subscribers to talk to black children.
Eventually, the economy finally picked up and we didn’t hear so much about this anymore. But here are some of my endless number of posts on this now forgotten obsession of The Establishment:
The Language Gap
STEVE SAILER • APRIL 16, 2009 • 600 WORDS • 77 COMMENTSOne element of the conventional wisdom about racial achievement gaps that has become particularly popular in recent years is the idea that the gap is caused by the fact that the parents of poor children tend to have small vocabularies and generally don’t engage their children in mentally stimulating discussions. Much of this tracks back to a project several decades ago by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley, who recorded 1300 hours of 42 families during various in-home sessions over 2.5 years, and then tabulated every word they said.
Not surprisingly, they found that professional class parents spoke to their children with larger vocabularies, had more interesting things to say, and tended to speak more encouragingly to their children along the lines of “Why, that’s a very interesting observation, honey; why do you think that is?” In contrast, the welfare moms’ tended to more often interact with their children in the “Shut yo’ mouth” mode.
Eventually, however, this mutated in the Conventional Wisdom from the idea that the poor black children’s caretakers have a smaller English vocabulary than rich white children’s caretakers (but what about Juanita from Honduras?) to the funnier assumption that the problem is that black people don’t talk much.
The Gap: Nobody Is Even Trying to Make Sense Anymore
STEVE SAILER • OCTOBER 6, 2012 • 1,000 WORDS • 115 COMMENTSNew NYC Gifted Test Expected to be Easier for African Americans Because It Emphasizes “Abstract Spatial Thinking and Largely Eliminates Language”
STEVE SAILER • OCTOBER 9, 2012 • 900 WORDS • 85 COMMENTSDr. Betty Hart, RIP: Scientifically Proved Blacks Don’t Talk Enough or Watch TV Enough
STEVE SAILER • OCTOBER 25, 2012 • 1,500 WORDS • 37 COMMENTSNYT: Black People Don’t Talk Enough
STEVE SAILER • APRIL 11, 2013 • 1,500 WORDS • 132 COMMENTS
That’s why so few poor black youths grow up to be rappers. Society must do whatever it takes to close the Rap Gap.Hart-Risley Hypothesis: “Somebody Grab My M**********’ Baby!”
STEVE SAILER • APRIL 13, 2013 • 300 WORDS • 56 COMMENTSDestination 8 Months and 29 Days Before Birth
STEVE SAILER • OCTOBER 21, 2013 • 300 WORDS • 51 COMMENTSNYT: “Skill Gap Among 1-Year-Olds Adds to Push for Pre-K”
STEVE SAILER • OCTOBER 22, 2013 • 100 WORDS • 13 COMMENTS
Eventually, NYT subscribers’ humanities major children started to get jobs again and the craze tapered off:
NYT: Maybe Black and Latino Preschoolers Don’t Need to be Kidnapped from Their Parents and Raised by Teach for America Recruits After All
STEVE SAILER • AUGUST 26, 2016 • 1,000 WORDS • 102 COMMENTS [=0/0]
The funny thing is that everybody assumes poor old Joe is going senile and can’t remember anything, but the reality is that Joe remembers the conventional wisdom of just before the Great Awokening just fine, while his critics are baffled by his references. From Politico:
Anand Giridharadas, an author and editor-at-large at TIME magazine, helped trigger a Twitterstorm about the nature of Biden’s comments. “Right now, somewhere, in some newsroom, some brilliant journalist ought to be pitching a big analytical story parsing Joe Biden’s statement and explaining why it was so troubling—and ignored by so many people. It is a textbook example of the racism that is still respectable.”
There’s some anecdotal evidence that other journalists are already on the case. New York magazine writer Rebecca Traister wrote:
“Yes. Syntactically this reminded me of the viral Miss Teen USA answer from years ago. But the substance of what he was trying to say was much worse.” Journalist David Rothkopf wrote: “This is an important and accurate thread. I don’t believe Joe Biden is a bad person. I just think this once again reveals that he is not of this era or suited to lead for nearly the decade ahead.” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie joined the thread as well, while also noting the meandering nature of Biden’s words.
They’ve completely forgotten what they no doubt assumed was true in 2012.
English
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See how hip Biden is? He knows that vinyl is making a comeback with the millennials, so the young folks all have access to record players.
That campaign from 7 years ago was surely well intentioned, because everyone knows that Children of Color cannot possibly learn without access to a sufficient supply of White words. But I never understood why there wasn’t a movement to collect and recycle words from college campuses to poor neighborhoods of color.
This is how we got our big, wide-open vocabularies out West:
Weird—I find them sufficiently loquacious, particularly on matters related to the coiffure.
That’s what I was thinking. Last time I stepped foot in Barnes and Noble, there were records all over the place for no apparent reason. Also isn’t it a bit unfair to make fun of a guy for being stuck in the past when he was just explicitly asked about something he said in the 70s?
People change their minds
Demographic change is inevitable
Your descendants will be Of Color
Get over it
Beto is going to take your guns
He's no dentist, my gums are safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdMdboymT8
In George Orwell’s book “1984” wasn’t there a standardized “dictionary” that listed all the words you were allowed to say (and not?) Seems that the NYT is the incarnation of that bible of “The Party.”
Just seven years ago these guys were selling us a bill of goods about the word gap. So much so that Steve spent a lot of time covering the issue. Now, not only have they forgotten what they pushed, they attack Biden for remembering.Replies: @Kronos
The great mass of black voters vote the way “black leaders” tell them to vote. They don’t care about any of the above. And right now, it’s vote for Biden, due to the association with Obama and the precipitous fall of Harris. Things may change, but all Biden is to do is keep a few dozen black leaders in his camp. When you see John Lewis or Jesse Jackson criticizing Biden, that’s the time to sell Biden stock.
Larry McMurtry grew up on a cattle ranch with raconteurs, taciturn cowboys and ornery women. Then he went to Stanford and maybe tried LSD.
To create a black or brown Pulitzer Prize winner, all 21st century children should be supplied with cattlemen, cowboys, ornery white women, menial ranch work, and when they are of age, LSD and graduate school.
Anand Giridharadas, …….“Right now, somewhere, in some newsroom, some brilliant journalist ought to be pitching a big analytical story parsing Joe Biden’s statement and explaining why it was so troubling—and ignored by so many people.
What? Ignored for 10 minutes? Old Joe barely had time to catch his breath before this dude and his rabid ilk were all over him.
The left media is going to do the near impossible: make Joe Biden a sympathetic figure.
Biden is a doddering fool who is trying to remember the lines his speech writers wrote for him and not doing a very good job of reciting half-remembered ideas, but this is actually a good point.
My daughter who is almost 7 years old now, stated, when she was about 2 3/4 years old that she was now ready to go to school and that she expected us to obtain a school bag and uniform for her and arrange for her to attend classes. So we did, and she went to school, and was the star of her class’s Christmas show, leading the chorus line in her group’s rendition of Jingle Bells, and earning plaudits for her diction for “talking just like a teacher”.
She tended to fall asleep on the bus on the way home, and sometimes had to be carried to our front door by the driver, so that was a downside of starting school before she turned 3.
This however, was when we were living overseas, and she was talking Spanish, not English, like a prof.
When we moved to the US, after she had completed a year of school, she was red shirted for the whole of the next year, as she was still too young to attend pre-K in Florida.
However she attended a day-care two days a week, and basically taught herself to speak English fluently within 6 months, with a certain amount of assistance from Peppa Pig, so by the time she turned 4, she was coming home and saying in English that she was learning about Mount Fuji, a volcano in Japan.
Anyway, long story short, she is now in First Grade and doing very well, but it is regrettable that she had to miss a whole a year of school when she was very school ready. Also, she has completely forgotten how to speak Spanish, except for the numbers 1-10 and a few songs.
So bring it on, Joe!
And here's one of our resident immigrant Socialists, Mr. Mason, to buy all of Mr. Bidet's bullshit. Listen, Mason, I'm glad your kids are smart. That's probably got to do with your wife's genes, or do you follow Steve at all? You just got done writing that the little girl learned no matter what, day care (shame on you!) and then at home with your help.
You may not be as far gone as doddering Uncle Joe, but I'd like to know. Did you just want the taxpayers of Florida to pay for your kids' school from whenever age you wanted it, or do you want it to be mandatory for all kids? For the former case, how can you come on this very blog and discuss how white people are being replaced, diversity is being forced on us, etc., when you are all for forcing them to work that many more hours to pay for loads of diverse kids to be given free day care and food at at least $10,000 year a pop. I thought you Socialists were for the working man? No? Not so much?
Oceania could really use a guy like you, Mason. It's about 4,200 miles northeast.
Jamelle Bouie once wrote an article for the Daily Beast claiming black-on-black violence didn’t exist because black people just murder whoever is nearest.
Seriously. That was his point.
The way I would have put it is "I shit you not", but I know what you mean, jellybean.
How many more questions are we going to get about things that candidates said 50 years ago?
Linsey Davis was not even alive in 1975
Nobel Prize winner Jim Heckman says the government should raise “disadvantaged” children in America, starting as soon as possible after birth. He says that would cost tons on money, but that it’s worth it, since the kids turn out so much less rotten than when raised by their own families.
He has a project pushing this idea:
The Heckman Equation
https://heckmanequation.org/
Also it turns out that your parent's level of education is not really determinative (although their genetics are). Andrew Yang mentioned in the debate that his father grew up in a dirt floor shack. My father was illiterate in the Roman alphabet because his family couldn't afford to spare his labor in order to send him to school.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252444/
They say the Third Amendment is the only one of the Bill of Rights the federal government hasn’t abrogated.
Yet.
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/07/07/a-misguided-third-amendment-case-in-nevada/
>Anand says some journalist should write something
Isn’t Anand a journalist?
It’s racist not to know that black kids perform poorly. And it’s always been super racist to blame black genes. But since the Great Awokening it’s also racist to blame black culture.
So, by process of elimination, black kids not being smart can only be caused by white people . . . acting via the bad ju ju force of “legacy of slavery” or “institutional racism.”
If Biden isn’t aware of this it’s his own fault for not reading the New York Times.
The imprecations to talk/sing to your infant have now extended beyond PSA’s during radio commercial breaks and come straight into the baseball broadcast booth. I figured Hall of Famer Jon Miller would have the juice to resist this stupidity, but apparently not. He now gives us the nanny treatment to start the Second inning.
The funny thing is, you often run across blacks, both men and women, who have quite a florid vocabulary and are very adept at using it, but they don’t seem to be generally any smarter or more capable for all that. Even in unquestionably smart men like Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell, there remains, perceptible only to the finest feelings, an ineradicable residue of blackness that strikes a discordant note.
Blackness is deeper than what education and acculturation can reach. This is why it’s not a good idea to harp too much about IQ. Thomas Sowell has an IQ higher than probably 98% of all white people, but that ineffable discordancy will always remain.
The only really useful development ever to come to this benighted subject will not occur until white people finally realize that it is not their job to go about remaking blacks in their own image. They are what they are; just accept it and then deal with that.
Counterinsurgency
He has a project pushing this idea:
The Heckman Equation
https://heckmanequation.org/Replies: @Cato, @Jack D, @William Badwhite
Heckman is the kind of ethnocentric white who wants to transmute little black children into little white children. Ironically, he he doesn’t view himself as ethnocentric, or racist, but just as someone who wants good things for little children who were so unlucky as to not be born as white children. In other words, he views himself as a saint, who deserves that Nobel Peace Prize he so desperately wants to add to his Economics prize.
What I’ve noticed about blacks is that they never stop talking, are always glued to the cell phone, and have the TV on all the time. Blacks actually watch more TV than whites do, so they get plenty of educated vocabulary (spoken with a non-ghetto accent) from outside the household thrown at them. They use TV as a babysitter for their kids.
Don’t most, if not all liberals, believe this? Isn’t it the goal of good Whites to uplift blacks? Good Whites get their validation from helping blacks and putting bad Whites in their place. I think it was the late Lawrence Auster who said modern liberal America is like a morality play in which good Whites protect blacks, who have no agency, from evil Whites.
Counterinsurgency
All true. Meanwhile, Biden also said:
Where? Huh? Where is it? Because I want to go to there.
You’ll recall from 1984, “The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
Just seven years ago these guys were selling us a bill of goods about the word gap. So much so that Steve spent a lot of time covering the issue. Now, not only have they forgotten what they pushed, they attack Biden for remembering.
Demographic change is inevitable
Your descendants will be Of Color
Get over it
Beto is going to take your gunsReplies: @M_Young, @anon, @Oleaginous Outrager, @Tex
LOL.
Tell me again who’s out of step with the times?
https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-set-outsell-cds-first-time-since-1986-2545781
Biden’s problem here isn’t that he’s parrotting seven year old conventional wisdom.
It’s that he’s stumbling all over–and crudely exposing–the fundamentally dependent and pathetic nature of minoritarianism, the it’s-your-job-to-give-me-stuff that’s baked right into it from it’s whiny you-aren’t-letting-me-into-your-country-club orgin.
There has been–and still is–real oppression in the world. Saying “i’m not going to build your effing pyramid” or “i’m not going to pick your effing cotton” or “let my people go”; or “i’m not your serf” or “this is our nation; get out, we’re going to govern ourselves” or even “mom, dad, i’m moving out and getting my own place” are nice manly responsible responses.
But “you must let me into your country club”, “your kids must go to school with my kids”, “you must hire me”, “you must bake me a cake”, “you must use my preferred pronouns”, “you must let me into your nation” are all just a bunch of pathetic whining.
The core ethos of minoritarianism–the majority owes us and must give us their stuff
–is just fundamentally dependent, parasitic and whiny. Not demanding freedom and taking responsibility, but demanding *other* people give you stuff.
Biden’s problem is that rather than cloaking this in whatever is the currently fashionable verbiage for blaming and abusing the white gentile majority, he stumbles and bumbles and exposes the dependent and pathetic stench of minoritarianism for all to smell.
Demographic change is inevitable
Your descendants will be Of Color
Get over it
Beto is going to take your gunsReplies: @M_Young, @anon, @Oleaginous Outrager, @Tex
Beto is going to take your guns
He’s no dentist, my gums are safe.
Indian reservations are your best bet.
That part about “more modern-day devices, like the eight-track tape or Walkman” had me wondering if Steve was playing games with us, quoting the Onion. And I’m still not 100% sure.
Record wreckers is more like it. If you want something that will play LPs and not tear them up in a couple of plays, you need to spend serious money and learn how to set up the tone arm for a number of things. The record “players” they sell in mainstream outlts are universally destructive junk.
My MP3 collection is stored om this PC, I just browse to the file I want and play it while reading UR. I tried using FLAC files instead but could here no difference. All the files come from pirate sites in accordance with my policy of starving the corporate giants such as Apple.
Blackness is deeper than what education and acculturation can reach. This is why it's not a good idea to harp too much about IQ. Thomas Sowell has an IQ higher than probably 98% of all white people, but that ineffable discordancy will always remain.
The only really useful development ever to come to this benighted subject will not occur until white people finally realize that it is not their job to go about remaking blacks in their own image. They are what they are; just accept it and then deal with that.Replies: @Counterinsurgency, @Pericles
IQ can be an important _disqualifier_, but it is very far from being a qualifier. Try taking a high IQ person and trying to get them to learn a subject that other high IQ people have learned, but that they personally don’t want to learn and you’ll see what I mean.
Counterinsurgency
It’s been that way since the Civil War, with slightly varying levels of intensity, always driven by people with no personal experience of Blacks or other POC, or (in some cases) using Blacks and POC as weapons.
Counterinsurgency
Just seven years ago these guys were selling us a bill of goods about the word gap. So much so that Steve spent a lot of time covering the issue. Now, not only have they forgotten what they pushed, they attack Biden for remembering.Replies: @Kronos
Yeah, that’s a better fit for this article. I remember reading how Winston found an old photo that would “smash the party to atoms” or something along those lines. The photo provided objective proof of the last alliance amongst 2 of the three superpowers. That violated the “always been at war” message.
Biden will end up in the care of the Ministry of Elderly Love if he’s not careful.
Prediction: The record player thing won’t hurt Biden with black voters.
Turning the record player on in the evening is smooth.
FGS don’t start a sub-thread on hi-fi. It’ll end with a flame war about the merits of $5000 oxygen-free cables.
Seriously. That was his point.Replies: @Twodees Partain
“Seriously. That was his point.”
The way I would have put it is “I shit you not”, but I know what you mean, jellybean.
Lol, “Vote for Joe Biden, the vinyl candidate!”
Steve, do you realise that Sunday is World Afro Day?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-49695560/world-afro-day-kids-takeover-for-big-hair-assembly
https://www.facebook.com/events/480206016108353/
“The Big Hair Assembly will raise awareness about hair bias through discussion, drama, dance and interactive activities. Students will learn critical thinking, empathy and empowerment. “
“8 went, 50 interested”
But Woke Capital is on the case. Ogilvy is a big UK advertising agency, retail chemist Superdrug wants to sell its hair products. My emboldening.
https://ogilvy.co.uk/news/ogilvy-partner-world-afro-day
https://pressroom.journolink.com/worldafroday/release/world_afro_day_launches_the_big_hair_assembly_supported_by_superdrug_on_september_13th_5525
What happens when World Afro Day collides with Black Awareness Month?
Will LIGO detect an immense gravitational signal from the Heart of Darkness?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49675083
Blackness is deeper than what education and acculturation can reach. This is why it's not a good idea to harp too much about IQ. Thomas Sowell has an IQ higher than probably 98% of all white people, but that ineffable discordancy will always remain.
The only really useful development ever to come to this benighted subject will not occur until white people finally realize that it is not their job to go about remaking blacks in their own image. They are what they are; just accept it and then deal with that.Replies: @Counterinsurgency, @Pericles
“Yo, we don’t want to be denigrated, we want to be renigrated!”
Demographic change is inevitable
Your descendants will be Of Color
Get over it
Beto is going to take your gunsReplies: @M_Young, @anon, @Oleaginous Outrager, @Tex
I still can’t believe my last reply to Tiny Dunk got banjaxed by the Granny Grunt moderators. It was freakin’ perfect.
Joe Biden’s Vinyl Solution.
So what is being insinuated is that blacks are actually not superior?
“helped trigger”. Klaxons are sounding. Blue bedbugs are coming to the rescue!
Explain, because I can’t. I’m just editing here. And if there were woke journaille who could do “big analytical stories” that would be useful – Won’t someone help me lift that burden!
“Ain’t nobody got time for that”.mpg
Where are those textbooks listing examples of still-respectable racism?
Biden whipping a chained guy in blackface as (((merchants))) perform a musical scene on cotton bales in the background and the Betsy Ross flies above and a Democratic speaker submits a loquacious proposal for Jim Crow laws.
Oh?
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1172363758758445058
Sleepy Joe has had conventional liberal leanings since his youth and has kept up with the Overton Window as it shifted left, but neither he nor anyone else had 2019 levels of wokeness in 1969. No one of Joe's age is going to be able to satisfy Anand's shit test, which I suppose is the point.
A favorite Leftist virtue signaling tactic (Mad Men is full of this) is to show people living in the past behaving in ways that were completely normal back then (e.g. smoking all over the place - watch an old TV talk show or Edgar R. Murrow documentary - they really did smoke on camera) and we are supposed to be shocked and titillated because we know better. But until time travel is invented, there's no way to go back to 1959 and tell Murrow to put down that death stick - he's not being immoral or stupid, he's just behaving in accordance with the norms of his time. In 2089, people will be horrified at the stuff that Anand does and label him a reactionary because he didn't write with 2089 level wokeness in 2019. I have no idea what wokeness will consist of in 2089 - no one does. Maybe (per Woody Allen) it will consist of smoking constantly and people will be shocked to see old video of Anand going 5 minutes without a cigarette - didn't he know how dangerous that was?Replies: @Anonymous
He has a project pushing this idea:
The Heckman Equation
https://heckmanequation.org/Replies: @Cato, @Jack D, @William Badwhite
This has been tried in the past. There were these places called “orphanages”. It turns out that they were really miserable places because humans need to be raised by people who love them and that large bureaucratic institutions really suck at child rearing. You might think that nothing is worse than being raised by a crack whore, but the government or the Church could make a crack whore look good by comparison – at least the crack whore isn’t going to rape you.
Also it turns out that your parent’s level of education is not really determinative (although their genetics are). Andrew Yang mentioned in the debate that his father grew up in a dirt floor shack. My father was illiterate in the Roman alphabet because his family couldn’t afford to spare his labor in order to send him to school.
Oh?https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1172363758758445058Replies: @Jack D
Don Draper is a Korean War veteran which makes him a generation older than Sleepy Joe. If Don was still alive he’s be in his late 80s or early 90s like all of the other Korean vets who are still alive.
Sleepy Joe has had conventional liberal leanings since his youth and has kept up with the Overton Window as it shifted left, but neither he nor anyone else had 2019 levels of wokeness in 1969. No one of Joe’s age is going to be able to satisfy Anand’s shit test, which I suppose is the point.
A favorite Leftist virtue signaling tactic (Mad Men is full of this) is to show people living in the past behaving in ways that were completely normal back then (e.g. smoking all over the place – watch an old TV talk show or Edgar R. Murrow documentary – they really did smoke on camera) and we are supposed to be shocked and titillated because we know better. But until time travel is invented, there’s no way to go back to 1959 and tell Murrow to put down that death stick – he’s not being immoral or stupid, he’s just behaving in accordance with the norms of his time. In 2089, people will be horrified at the stuff that Anand does and label him a reactionary because he didn’t write with 2089 level wokeness in 2019. I have no idea what wokeness will consist of in 2089 – no one does. Maybe (per Woody Allen) it will consist of smoking constantly and people will be shocked to see old video of Anand going 5 minutes without a cigarette – didn’t he know how dangerous that was?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-49695560/world-afro-day-kids-takeover-for-big-hair-assemblyhttps://www.facebook.com/events/480206016108353/
"The Big Hair Assembly will raise awareness about hair bias through discussion, drama, dance and interactive activities. Students will learn critical thinking, empathy and empowerment. "
"8 went, 50 interested"
But Woke Capital is on the case. Ogilvy is a big UK advertising agency, retail chemist Superdrug wants to sell its hair products. My emboldening.
https://ogilvy.co.uk/news/ogilvy-partner-world-afro-day
https://pressroom.journolink.com/worldafroday/release/world_afro_day_launches_the_big_hair_assembly_supported_by_superdrug_on_september_13th_5525Replies: @El Dato, @YetAnotherAnon
[[[Regrets at having prevailed in WWII intensifying]]]
What happens when World Afro Day collides with Black Awareness Month?
Will LIGO detect an immense gravitational signal from the Heart of Darkness?
That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it…
Hi Jonathan,
I appreciate your comments about your incredible young daughter, congratulations-you are blessed! However, I will never forget what a very wise, elderly gentleman, formerly in some level of responsibility in the US Dept. of Education, told me about 40 years ago (which prompted my wife and I to home school our 8 kids), “The sooner you institutionalize your children, the sooner they will institutionalize you.”
I agreed with you for about 3 seconds, Jonathan, as long as it took to read the first sentence. Yes, I agree – Mr. Bidet is a doddering old fool who realized he made a boo-boo. It wouldn’t have been a boo-boo even 10 years back, but it is now. Then, he tried to make the coaching and memorizing pay off as he struck out on course of “here, we’re gonna give you this. Then, we need to give you that. Racism! Redlining! Give the teachers more! Give the students more! …”
And here’s one of our resident immigrant Socialists, Mr. Mason, to buy all of Mr. Bidet’s bullshit. Listen, Mason, I’m glad your kids are smart. That’s probably got to do with your wife’s genes, or do you follow Steve at all? You just got done writing that the little girl learned no matter what, day care (shame on you!) and then at home with your help.
You may not be as far gone as doddering Uncle Joe, but I’d like to know. Did you just want the taxpayers of Florida to pay for your kids’ school from whenever age you wanted it, or do you want it to be mandatory for all kids? For the former case, how can you come on this very blog and discuss how white people are being replaced, diversity is being forced on us, etc., when you are all for forcing them to work that many more hours to pay for loads of diverse kids to be given free day care and food at at least $10,000 year a pop. I thought you Socialists were for the working man? No? Not so much?
If it’s the latter (that you’d like this to be mandatory), then I can’t be as civil as the admirable Yeoman Farmer – homeschooling 8 makes you a hero, man! No, I think this is the reason we are keeping our guns, Mr. Mason, no matter how much you want us to give them up.
You brought this stuff to your country, it’s now in ruin, and then you move to North Florida and bring your shit there? Couldn’t you at least move down to South Florida to fit in a bit more with the Socialists?
Oceania could really use a guy like you, Mason. It’s about 4,200 miles northeast.
At least they know how to conjugate verbs—-I be-you be – we be-they be …etc
Look, Hitler, how are our low-wage, low-IQ H-1B Indian journalists supposed to know what happened in this country prior to 2012? They live in our coastal media bubbles, and grasp only their privilege to scold native white Americans about their privilege, and lack of morality. that is as it should be.
But I’ll admit the deft observation, “This is an important and accurate thread” is a laugh riot. And I feel like such a schmacist for admitting that. Mostly I try to get through life merely being a good decent anti-semite.
Sleepy Joe has had conventional liberal leanings since his youth and has kept up with the Overton Window as it shifted left, but neither he nor anyone else had 2019 levels of wokeness in 1969. No one of Joe's age is going to be able to satisfy Anand's shit test, which I suppose is the point.
A favorite Leftist virtue signaling tactic (Mad Men is full of this) is to show people living in the past behaving in ways that were completely normal back then (e.g. smoking all over the place - watch an old TV talk show or Edgar R. Murrow documentary - they really did smoke on camera) and we are supposed to be shocked and titillated because we know better. But until time travel is invented, there's no way to go back to 1959 and tell Murrow to put down that death stick - he's not being immoral or stupid, he's just behaving in accordance with the norms of his time. In 2089, people will be horrified at the stuff that Anand does and label him a reactionary because he didn't write with 2089 level wokeness in 2019. I have no idea what wokeness will consist of in 2089 - no one does. Maybe (per Woody Allen) it will consist of smoking constantly and people will be shocked to see old video of Anand going 5 minutes without a cigarette - didn't he know how dangerous that was?Replies: @Anonymous
In Korea and the early days of SAC pilots would take off their oxygen masks and light up in flight all the time. If they forgot to turn the regulator lever from 100 percent oxygen the cigarette would go “poof” and go to ash in an instant.
One of the hallmarks of dementia is to remember things from decades ago but not from last week. So don’t be surprised if Joe remembers 10 or 20-year old controversies.
The media are trying to get Biden out of the race. But they know that can’t happen unless his support which currently has him in the lead in most polls and places collapses. And they know that support has a strong foundation of elderly black women.
So what they’re doing is trying to convince elderly black women that Biden is bad for them and was on the wrong side of crucial issues when they were younger.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-49695560/world-afro-day-kids-takeover-for-big-hair-assemblyhttps://www.facebook.com/events/480206016108353/
"The Big Hair Assembly will raise awareness about hair bias through discussion, drama, dance and interactive activities. Students will learn critical thinking, empathy and empowerment. "
"8 went, 50 interested"
But Woke Capital is on the case. Ogilvy is a big UK advertising agency, retail chemist Superdrug wants to sell its hair products. My emboldening.
https://ogilvy.co.uk/news/ogilvy-partner-world-afro-day
https://pressroom.journolink.com/worldafroday/release/world_afro_day_launches_the_big_hair_assembly_supported_by_superdrug_on_september_13th_5525Replies: @El Dato, @YetAnotherAnon
The BBC has more! I must admit I didn’t anticipate World War H as the next big thing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49675083
Dude: Get with the times. It’s racist not to blame whitey for black kids’ poor performance.
Kind of like the Apollo I astronauts. Things that burn slowly or only smolder a little in atmospheric air will burn like gasoline in a pure oxygen atmosphere
Elderly black women are low information voters and are not keeping up with the latest breathless missives from Daily Kos.
Elderly, black, and women are all indications of low information voting.
Blacks generally just vote how their Big Man says to. Nothing else influences them very much.
Not sure if this is good or bad in the long run.
Blacks generally just vote how their Big Man says to. Nothing else influences them very much.Replies: @Yngvar
One of the first things the Trump Administration did was to legalize politicking in houses of worship. Before the God Emperor came on the stage, to be exempt of taxes, they had to appear neutral. Not anymore.
Not sure if this is good or bad in the long run.
Demographic change is inevitable
Your descendants will be Of Color
Get over it
Beto is going to take your gunsReplies: @M_Young, @anon, @Oleaginous Outrager, @Tex
You almost made me spit my racist coffee over my demographically doomed monitor. Good one!
He has a project pushing this idea:
The Heckman Equation
https://heckmanequation.org/Replies: @Cato, @Jack D, @William Badwhite
Yeesh. At least he’s honest. The problem is if you fast forward a few decades, we’ll hear complaining about white people stealing babies and the racism of assuming ghetto women can’t raise babies just as well as white helicopter ladies, then you get Rabbit-Proof Fence movies and the cycle starts all over.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252444/
America, Canada, and Australia all institutionalized aboriginal children.
Much apologizing followed later.
The Liberian model generated much less heat.