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Some Nth-level virtue-signalling:

Via Farnsworth M Muldoon in the comments.

Comments

[Rafi]

I recommend an "observe, like, and share" approach because we whites ruin things

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[Uma Thurmond's Feet]

She also hates middle america and brags that she only hires "native American speakers."

https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/san-francisco-ceo-calls-rural-americans-racist-institutes-xenophobic-hiring-rul.html

[David]

As so often with these displays, I had to check that it wasn’t some on-the-nose parody, but it’s quite sincere, and consonant with the lady’s broader worldview. Ms Byerley, who seems oblivious to what her tweets convey to the rest of us, is fond of the word “diversity,” the implications of which can perhaps be divined from the attitude above.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Melinda Byerley, the founder of TimeShare CMO, wrote an offensive tweet on Saturday, calling people in "middle america" [sic] stupid and saying that's why there are not as many jobs there. Please read it for yourself:

I didn't feel like tweetstorming, so here's a screen shot. "What middle America can do to get more jobs in their area."

I'm guessing Don't Be California was not among her recommendations.

[David]

I post so many of these things that I sometimes get blasé, and then once in a while I’m struck by the eerie uniformity of the affectation. And in keeping with so many of her equally woke peers, Ms Byerley has been busy blocking vast swathes of Twitter, including people she’s never interacted with, in order to silence any deviation from her pieties.

[R. Sherman]

It has been noted before the similarities between the current SJW project and religious orthodoxy. It seems for Ms. Byerley, only Caucasians suffer from "total depravity" in the form of melanin deficiency. It is for her (and others like her) the Original Sin. Query, does she believe her "salvation" is a result of the "irresistible grace" afforded the "elect" like her, or is such grace "prevenient" and available to all of us if we can just see the light? When, then, is the altar call?

[Pat]

Her "blocking" policy is why she is so sure in her opinions -- she doesn't allow other thought to enter her safe space.

[R. Sherman]

BTW, David, thanks for highlighting this link from Farnsworth and not the bit about Laura Aguilar. We appreciate it.

[Joan]

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[Jonathan]

http://twitter.com/LaloDagach/status/936294901955858432

via Philippe Lemoine. (well worth a read)

[David]

BTW, David, thanks for highlighting this link from Farnsworth and not the bit about Laura Aguilar.

I promise nothing.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

BTW, David, thanks for highlighting this link from Farnsworth and not the bit about Laura Aguilar.

That is about what I would expect from some racist xenophobic lesbianophobic hick from the Midwest who thinks a velvet Elvis is the epitome of fine art and can't understand the nuances of her art that shows she is at once part of the American land, and the viewer’s eye, and apart from them: in her own words, both present and persistently unseen.

At least unseen from the next county, besides, it is not as if I didn't warn you.

[Sporkatus]

I recommend an "observe, like, and share" approach because we whites ruin things

Sounds like... a dark approach to Twitter use.

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[David]

I recommend an “observe, like, and share” approach because we whites ruin things

She’s veering at great speed towards Gorillas in the Mist territory. Which, in so many ways, is not an ideal destination.

[Sporkatus]

Also, doesn't leaning heavily on "Black Twitter" offer a heavily sanitized and condensed form of the Black Internet Experience? Hie thee to WorldStar, wench. Go big or go home.

[Sporkatus]

She’s veering at great speed towards Gorillas in the Mist territory.

If she starts wrestling at any point we'll know she's gone full Steve Irwin. Not better as an approach to blacks-as-exotic-wildlife, but at least funnier.

[Darleen]

I'm guessing Don't Be California was not among her recommendations.

Born, raised & living in SoCal. Same with hubby.

We will be leaving in 4-5 years, if not sooner.

Cali has one third of the nation's welfare recipients, bouncing near the bottom for our school systems, our crime rate has gone up because of our criminal coddling betters in Sacramento and our cost of living is about 36% higher than most other states.

And the homeless?

So why are so many business headquarters here? For the upper management, those with salaries in the high 6 figures, it is guarded, beautiful neighborhoods with beautiful weather and a chance to stumble across celebrities when dining or shopping.

We are a feudal state.

[R. Sherman]

That is about what I would expect from some racist xenophobic lesbianophobic hick from the Midwest who thinks a velvet Elvis is the epitome of fine art...

*Sniffle*

That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. I feel so...so validated.

[pst314]

Joan, what the heck is that photo???

[Joan]

Game of Thrones. :-)

[R. Sherman]

BTW, Farnsworth, I cannot recommend a trip to Graceland in Memphis highly enough. Forget the the house, simply spending two hours watch the supplicants at Elvis's grave is worth the price of admission. From personal experience, however, a note of caution: Try not to display any lack of reverence for the experience. It's great training for developing the necessary lack of emotional display if you ever want to enter a high stakes Texas Hold 'Em tournament.

[R. Sherman]

I think it was the Charley Pride impersonator which put it over the top.

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Her tweet's now got over 25,000 likes.

[David]

Her tweet’s now got over 25,000 likes.

Education in action. Embrace the fear.

[pst314]

Thanks, Joan, I know very little since I don't watch it. Bodysurfing her worshipers? :-)

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

BTW, Farnsworth, I cannot recommend a trip to Graceland in Memphis highly enough.

For we Sons of the South that is not unlike the hajj, however, I also had the great distinction of having dined in the Elvis Presley mess hall at Ray Barracks where the lovely fraulein of Freidberg maintain a memorial to him.

[pst314]

Thanks, Joan.

[svh]

She’s veering at great speed towards Gorillas in the Mist territory. Which, in so many ways, is not an ideal destination.

That.

[Forse]

I went to #blackTwitter. It's a cesspit of victimhood, sneering and often vicious anti-white racism and juvenile gifs. This is what we're supposed to "observe, like and share"?
No Thanks

[R. Sherman]

...where the lovely fraulein of Freidberg maintain a memorial to him.

There were a lot of German faithful at Graceland when we visited. Additionally, there were quite a few flower arrangements from Germany at the Graveside. My wife and I developed a game: "European or Jackson, Mississippi?"

After we left, my wife--the very continental, European sophisticate--who was not enthused about my cultural diversion from our trip noted, "Well, that didn't totally suck."

'Merica, dammit.

[Alex deWinter]

I went to #blackTwitter. It's a cesspit of victimhood, sneering and often vicious anti-white racism and juvenile gifs. This is what we're supposed to "observe, like and share"? No Thanks

I lean toward replacing "observe, like, and share" with "point and laugh," though that may be due to my entire experience with Twitter being limited to here and the occasional Twitchy clickbait. I suppose it's possible there's worthwhile stuff on that platform somewhere. Maybe.

[Spiny Norman]

Maybe

There are a few genuine wits on Twitter, Dave Burge (@iowahawkblog) in particular. Finding them, though, is like picking the wheat from the chaff.

[Liam]

Black Twitter

we whites

Funny how these woke people sound a lot like racists.

[Jon Powers]

Whatever happened to Laurie Penny. Is she still a thing? Asking for a friend.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Meanwhile in the everything is racist department...

In case you think that is a one-off:

Replying to @kylegriffin1
Whites only.

Replying to @kylegriffin1
Trump wouldn’t dump on the same seat as a black man. Obviously.

Replying to @kylegriffin1
I bet anyone its because obama used it

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

This could muddy the waters a bit.

Brown University is implementing a change to its graduate school application that will allow applicants to “self-identify” as persons of color.

Probably white administrators coming up with this stuff.

And in recent years, several all-women’s colleges have permitted men who identify as women to apply. Some sororities have followed suit.

Damnit, why hadn't they thought of that 40 or so years earlier ?

[Squires]

David, what a coincidence! Just last week I was going to suggest "zookeepers" as a fitting term for the hierarchs of the egalitarian pecking-order establishment. Ungood minds think alike, as they say.

[WTP]

Brown University is implementing a change to its graduate school application that will allow applicants to “self-identify” as persons of color.

Lou Reed was so far ahead of his time...
https://youtu.be/4ehoomjQjfI

[David]

Just last week I was going to suggest “zookeepers” as a fitting term

There is a strain of leftism, a broad one with a long history, that seems to regard the rest of us as something close to livestock.

See also this.

[Alex deWinter]

And in recent years, several all-women’s colleges have permitted men who identify as women to apply. Some sororities have followed suit. Damnit, why hadn't they thought of that 40 or so years earlier ?

And people thought Bosom Buddies was a comedy.

[David]

Darleen,

I moved your reply to the Ephemera thread after spotting that I’d posted my own comment in the wrong thread.

[Seth]

'because we whites ruin things'

Yes, like inventing Twitter.

[Farnsworth M. Muldoon]

Yes, like inventing Twitter.

To be fair, I am not sure that is one you want to put in the win column.

[champ]

Uh oh, looks like we have another one...

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/11/30/pooping-amazon-home-sacramento-video/

[Farnsworth M. Muldoon]

Uh oh, looks like we have another one...

California being California, it is not much of a surprise that a lot of commenters are excusing this as I guess there are no gas stations, stop-n-robs, fast food joints, or other places with restrooms anyone can use.

[R. Sherman]

Uh oh, looks like we have another one...

Guess what's available for the back of the Amazon delivery driver's van.

[Farnsworth M. Muldoon]

Guess what's available for the back of the Amazon delivery driver's van.

But wait ! That's not all ! Order now and get the bumper attachment so you don;t have to go in the van !

All these fine products are available at David's Amazon links for all your Christmas, Hanukkah, and Festivus giving !

[R. Sherman]

And don't forget this! For the modest among us.

[champ]

All these fine products are available at David's Amazon links for all your Christmas, Hanukkah, and Festivus giving !

And, it's only $94.95 plus $10.99 shipping! (Of course, taking a dump in the street is cheaper...)

[Farnsworth M. Muldoon]

(Of course, taking a dump in the street is cheaper...)

Too expensive - then try this !

Only $59.96 and Prime eligible. Amazon is a veritable (but not literal) cornucopia of outdoor bathroom needs.

[champ]

Too expensive - then try this !

Gift-wrap available. (Yaaaay!)

[Farnsworth M. Muldoon]

Navy hardwood Christmas tree ornament, sure to delight the whole family.

[Fred the Fourth]

Farnsworth: I'd buy a dozen if I knew the revenue would go to the pilot.

[Alice]

The Twitter thread is hilarious.

https://twitter.com/SinothandoYena/status/935740477579694080

[David]

The Twitter thread is hilarious.

It’s all getting rather surreal. (“That goat is stylish, is it yours?”) But it does add to the mountain of evidence that when people ostentatiously signal their wokeness, credulity and obliviousness are likely to follow. And the obliviousness isn’t some random aberration; it’s oddly uniform. And it’s uniform because it’s been taught, either formally or in terms of peer-group cues.

[David]

If only she could reach out and touch their hair.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

...credulity and obliviousness are likely to follow...

You left out condescension as thick as Mississippi delta mud.

Melinda Byerley @MJB_SF

Just let it wash over you. There will be things that confuse you. Be at peace with it. You don’t have to be the audience for everything. Over time you see themes emerging. It’s then you start to grow.

One day we can only hope to be half as Woke™ as she is, and she is truly a saint for deigning even to try to spread her Wokeness™ to we trogloditian mortals.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Meanwhile, back at our favorite Canadian university, the WLU Rainbow Center makes demands. Among them are:

1. Issue a public statement naming that transphobia is a problem at our institution that is impacting trans, non-binary, and gender diverse students, staff, and faculty...

3. Immediately implement safety measures that have already been requested by the Rainbow Centre, including the installation of a panic button and reinforced windows in all DEO centres and offices...

6. Hire a trans person of colour as a full-time counsellor within the Diversity & Equity Office to provide mental health supports to individuals who are being impacted by our campus climate...

8. Hire a trans faculty member to serve as a Canadian Research Chair on transphobia in post-secondary educational institutions...

Whole list here. [Link goes to Facespace for those who prefer to avoid Zukerberg's soul destroying mess]

I am a bit surprised for number three they didn't want full body armor and an MRAP to get to classes, seeing as how WLU is literally Mogadishu for the "trans, non-binary, and gender diverse" students

[David]

the WLU Rainbow Center makes demands.

I’m still processing the idea that someone sufficiently hysterical and dishonest to meet the expected standards of wokeness would be in a position to dish out “mental health supports.”

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

I’m still processing the idea that someone sufficiently hysterical and dishonest to meet the expected standards of wokeness would be in a position to dish out “mental health supports.”

Speaking of dishonesty, or at least self-delusion, I don't think there are enough genuine "trans" people in Canada to fill all the billets for which they demand a "trans" person.

[Atempdog]

But are you woke enough to recognize that the 'homonormative whiteness' of LGBTQ Centers? I guess the LGBTQ centers are too gay. (And too white, of course, but that sort of goes without saying.)

[R. Sherman]

'homonormative whiteness' of LGBTQ Centers

I fear we are approaching critical mass of absurdity. Yet again, we find that the victim group du jour's distress is not predicated on any overt act of exclusion or discrimination, but upon the group's own internal emotional hang-ups. Thus a gymnasium open to all becomes a problem because it supports fitness thereby marginalizing the less-fit. Where they get the idea that the universe owes them a reality which caters to their emotional well-being at all times is not clear to me.

[David]

Yet again, we find that the victim group du jour’s distress is not predicated on any overt act of exclusion or discrimination, but upon the group’s own internal emotional hang-ups.

And is therefore insatiable. There’s no way to please the compulsively, competitively, neurotically indignant, and any effort to appease such creatures is likely to encourage further scolding and demands. As illustrated, for instance, here and here.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Thus a gymnasium open to all becomes a problem because it supports fitness thereby marginalizing the less-fit.

Regarding the gym,

The school gym can also marginalize LGBTQ students, Pryor discovered, saying that although the school gym is open to all students, it is not “not particularly accessible” for gay students because of the “pressure to be fit” and the “expectations of manliness.”

Let us pass over for a moment the fundamental absurdity of someone crying and blowing snot because he is troubled by the fact that a gym is a place to get fit, this guy seems to be pushing the stereotype that all gays should be delicate and effeminate, which, we discovered lately, is not an ideal.

This, however, raises idiocy to an art form.

After interviewing eight LGBTQ students, Pryor learned that Greek Life was a source of particular consternation, noting that the presence of Greek Life flags in the student center and the proximity of Greek houses to campus made some students especially uncomfortable.

One student, Jackson—identified as a queer, black, trans man—pointed out to Pryor the strong presence of Greek Life flags hung in the school’s student center.

“By featuring these organizations in such a visible way, the campus is communicating the importance of fraternity and sorority membership,” Pryor lamented. “What would it mean for the campus to hang all the LGBTQ pride flags in that space? Questions likely not considered in such a heterogendered environment.”

According to the UMKC website, only 6% of their students live in frats or sororities, so Jackson is FOS (to no one's surprise) if he is taking the vapors because campus organizations hang their banners in the student center, and personally I am shocked that a frat or soroity would dare locate close to campus, that is unheard of. If they had any decency they'd be in Raytown.

Wait till Jackson finds out there is ROTC on campus.

Oh well, it is UMKC, after all.

[PiperPaul]

"If only she could reach out and touch their hair."

[Whispering] "They're absolutely fascinating in their natural environment. Shhhh! Careful, don't let them notice us or they might scatter and ruin this anthropological expedition."

[MC]

I’m still processing the idea that someone sufficiently hysterical and dishonest to meet the expected standards of wokeness would be in a position to dish out “mental health supports.”

'Hey now, show us on the doll where the white patriarchy touched you.'

[Tim Newman]

The school gym can also marginalize LGBTQ students, Pryor discovered, saying that although the school gym is open to all students, it is not “not particularly accessible” for gay students

He ought to try the CMG gym in Paris I go to. Sometimes I think I’m the only straight man in there.

[MC]

@Tim N - I used to be a member of the YMCA gym in London. Same story.

Didn't notice any of the gays having a problem with 'manliness' either. Many of the lads there, if they were any more masculine they'd have to go and live up a tree.

[Alex deWinter]

Why in all the hells is 'support' pluralized? Is it some Brit/Canadian thing like 'maths' or yet another sample of the socjus fetish for loading down perfectly viable words with superfluous letters?

[W Krebs]

Just last week I was going to suggest "zookeepers" as a fitting term for the hierarchs of the egalitarian pecking-order establishment.

Hate to say this but Charles Murray has you beat by about 25 years. See the last chapter of The Bell Curve.

[David]

The spam filter’s being moody and quarrelsome again. If anyone has trouble with comments not appearing, email me and I’ll liberate them.

[W Krebs]

If only she could reach out and touch their hair.

In the rubric, this is where she would traditionally mention what good singers and dancers they are.

[Pogonip]

I spent some time in gyms while losing the 60 lbs. Everybody I had occasion to talk to was friendly. Some exercises require concentration or you'll hurt yourself. Maybe the complainant du jour mistook concentration for unfriendliness?

He could also try the martial arts. Martial artists and target shooters are the two friendliest groups on the planet, although the shooters like to talk about technical gun stuff, foot-pounds and trajectories and whatnot.

[a different james]

Melinda Byerley

Surely another Godfrey Elfwick production?

[Spiny Norman]

Probably not, and I don't think this is, either (but should be):

[Jacob]

She’s veering at great speed towards Gorillas in the Mist territory.

"Somewhat relevant", as our host would say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTkedIUX8U

[Patrick Chester]

If only she could reach out and touch their hair.

So... an evil version of Mantis from Guardians of the Galaxy?

"May I pet your puppy?"

[Surreptitious Evil]

“Is it some Brit/Canadian thing like 'maths' ”

It’s not actually _our_ fault your education system is so defective that none of you appear to realise that as “mathematics” is plural, the shortening should be too.

As in arithmetic and algebra and calculus and graph theory and transifinite number theory and ... Plural.

[Pogonip]

Fart proudly!

[Sporkatus]

Surrep, I prefer to think of it as we Americans choosing to abbreviate exactly what and as much as we like without irrational constraint. Abbreviating "mathematics" and/or "mathematical study" as "math" I'd call mere recognition that nobody in their right mind would ever say "a mathematic", a simpler reason for never recognizing the plural. It's a plural noun behaving much as a singular collective noun, and deserves to be treated as such.

[pst314]

testing...

[PiperPaul]

Economics ≠Econs

[Farnsworth M. Muldoon]

Economics ≠Econs

Indeed, and physics sure isn't is not the plural of physic...

[WTP]

It’s not actually _our_ fault your education system is so defective that none of you appear to realise that as “mathematics” is plural, the shortening should be too.
...
I prefer to think of it as we Americans choosing to abbreviate exactly what and as much as we like without irrational constraint.

At moments like this, before things get too heated and we go all color/colour center/centre and shit, I like to remind everyone that we all still hate the French, right?

[Flubber]

Something completely different - Hunting with golden eagles, an African black eagle and whippets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivvVcBMqDMc

[jabrwok]

I like to remind everyone that we all still hate the French, right?

Huzzah!

[Spiny Norman]

WTP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUKEVU-TwM

[Pogonip]

Why DO we hate the cheese-eating surrender monkeys? Is that just something all right-thinking folk do, regardless of race, creed, or color?

[WTP]

Well, they did give us Voltaire, Bastiat, and Maurice Chevalier, but beyond that...

[Spiny Norman]

Why DO we hate the cheese-eating surrender monkeys?

Because they're insufferable snobs.

[Daniel Ream]

I don't think this is, either

Good Lord, I work there.

I could really do with my little corner of one of Britain's forgotten colonies being a little less internationally f*cking famous for being batsh*t insane.

[David]

At moments like this, before things get too heated and we go all color/colour center/centre and shit, I like to remind everyone that we all still hate the French, right?

I’ll just leave this here and then walk away, quite briskly.

[fnord]

6. Hire a trans person of colour as a full-time counsellor within the Diversity & Equity Office to provide mental health supports to individuals who are being impacted by our campus climate

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Trans person of colour???
What about the lefthanded Laotian lesbians huh? What about them you exclusionary b*stards?

It's interesting that in all lists of demands you will find things that boil down to 'give us money and 'jobs'.

Also (pet peeve alert) it's 'affected'. 'Impacted' as a verb is reserved for meteorites and artillery strikes, although in this case......

[Jonathan]

Why DO we hate the cheese-eating surrender monkeys?

Never forget.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

'Impacted' as a verb is reserved for meteorites and artillery strikes, although in this case......

You left out one for which one would need a physic, though not physics, if it got that bad one would really be in the deep...kimchi.

[Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA]

'Impacted' as a verb is reserved for meteorites and artillery strikes, although in this case......

You forgot impacted molars.

[Daniel Ream]

And bowels.

[Chester Draws]

Never forget.

Not sure the Normans were
a) French
b) much into surrendering.

I assume they ate cheese.

[Zionist Overlord #73]

The Tapestry explicitly identifies them as FRANCI.

I've read an interesting article which argues that King Harold is actually two men over to the right, and that the one who appears to be struck with an arrow in the eye is actually holding a spear. The text is emended to "IN TERRA IACTUS EST" instead of "INTERFECTUS EST".
18th century engravings of the tapestry show that this section has undergone considerable reconstruction. The arrow in the eye may be one such, matching an account in Malmesbury, iirc.

[neo]

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i'm waiting for islamic twitter

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