I have this dotard theory that being so full of shit makes many of these conservatives a little bit insane. I mean, it does actual harm to them. I mean saying things when you know deep down -- subconsciously -- are wrong drives many of them a little nuts. Including causing an excessive lack of self-awareness.
As for that position on affirmative action, I present in support of same: Ron DeSantis, John Kennedy, Josh Hawley and even, to a degree, (allegedly) Trump. The world could not be possibly worse if they lost their slots to people admitted via affirmative action. Not that, you know, rationality or whatever is relevant here.
Hope Roy feels better for the venting. Must say (not a criticism) that when I saw the post's headline I expected a humor piece. But that's on me.
For me, the epitome of the Rich White Guy Gets Pushback, Crumples Like A Wet Napkin was when Alan Dershowitz, after voluntarily placing himself in Trump’s corner, was bitching about how no one would eat bagels with him on Martha’s Vineyard anymore. Oh, the humanity! You know, if I could afford to summer at a swanky beach I’d regard fewer people speaking to me to be an acceptable trade off. I might even prefer it.
The thing with the people who run the NYT, WaPo, and the New Yorker is they are moderates with liberal leanings who consider themselves to be far, far more liberal/left than they actually are. Because of their economic and social class they are constantly rubbing elbows with Republicans and conservatives. In short, those guys are their pals. So when the real Left takes aim at their pals, it offends them on two fronts: one, since they consider themselves the standard-bearers of liberal values, anyone to the left of them must be a wild-eyed radical, and two, someone is attacking their friends, and their first instinct is to come to their friends’ defense.
So Rikki Schlott "felt like she had to hide" her Regenery Publishing book collection under the mattress. Did she really physically stash them there because Guy Montag and the Firemen could pop in for an inspection at any time? If it was the latter, NYU sounds like a pretty tough school! It's probably one of those smallish liberal arts places that has a limited demographic to draw from.
As I wrote earlier tis week, my brother-in-law feels himself a victim of cancelculture because the liberals will not allow him to say the n-word in public. And, really, that's pretty much what all this cancelculture crap comes down to: These people want to say incredibly offensive things, and then feel persecuted when nobody applauds and normal people shy away.
And I will bet that one very real victim of actual cancelculture is barred from attending those Criminal Minds wankfests: Phil Donohue. Remember him? Said he opposed the invasion of Iraq and was instantly actually canceled! Show yanked off the air and him barred from TV for life. But I Phil's thought crimes were of the wrong flavor or something.
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"Right. I had to go to the re-education camp in the Killing Fields an hour before I went to sleep, worked there all day making rainbow flags, and had 'D-E-I' branded on my penis!"
"And if you try to tell the woke young people of today that, they won't believe you."
"They perhaps identify as criminals because they have been caught at actions that normally carry consequences, and some have received rather gentle versions thereof. "
Or it could be the tired routine of cosplaying characters from "1984" and see, Orwell was a conservative and Soros is Big Brother and something something no I haven't actually read the book, why do you ask?
Gillespie has some weird conversations if they’re always about evil capitalism and how terrible America is. Not that I believe him for a minute. His conversations are more likely about what a bitch AOC is and what he did on his last trip to Mar-a-Lago. So these guys think there really is a Thought Police that monitors their babbling and makes them proud Criminals when they speak like a 1950’s Alabama redneck. Anyway, I came home to a month’s worth of New Yorkers so I haven’t read this Emma Green piece but I did get through her article about Hilldale College, which she tried to make sound half-way sane except that it’s hard to ignore that its President Arnn is a first class asshole hellbent on destroying America in the name of Classical Education.
What the college commencement this is about, I think, is that Daddy is TALKING TO YOU, sit down and LISTEN, as long as you're living in my hou- er, country, you obey MY RULES, this is FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, don't pull that face with me, mister, and don't you DARE walk away! There should be consequences for not wanting to be lectured by Your Superiors.
I imagine they surreptitiously pass around "samizdat" with stats on black-on-white crime intermingled with Bergdorf's summer fashion catalog. Since their communist enemies think capitalism is evil they could get on a deep state kill list if they were seen with this stuff, just like behind the Iron Curtain. Or worse, they might be banned from attending the Met Gala. So brave.
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I glanced at that article just to see what its angle might be, but saw that it went on and on and on forever about these preening dopes, so I closed it and finished Roy’s recap. I’m still not sure who it’s for, other than to be sympathetic to awful people in a Society Pages kind of way.
Between this and the NYT we need to shut down New York until we figure out what’s going on. Something is terribly wrong (yet somehow tedious at the same time!).
Well, this morning I'm not regretting that New Yorker subscription I allowed to lapse. Likewise with the Atlantic subscription that also went bye-bye, since Green wrote similar bullshit for the Atlantic before being hired by the New Yorker (Is that a move up? Or just laterally? A question being hotly debated in a salon somewhere.)
BTW: If you're looking for an easy way to reassess those online subscriptions you're auto-paying by credit card, some of whom you may have even forgot you have, a neat trick is to lose your credit card and be issued a new one, and then watch the aggrieved emails pour in: "There seems to be a problem with your payment...". Each one is a nice opportunity to ask, "Do I really need this?" And then, simply by doing nothing, it all goes away.
I'd prefer to think all the breadcrumbs Roy picked up in that article were dropped on purpose, both because I have a soft spot for the concept of the New Yorker and I don't want to believe any carbon-based life form could be dumb enough to believe that narrative. The genius of "cancel" and its little brother "woke" is that they are so gloriously vague, a hazy shade of victimhood allowing the pose of heroic truth-teller, like a kid tying a towel around his neck and jumping off the garage roof actually being considered Superman. To believe that this pose can be taken seriously enough to rate a supposedly serious essay in the New Yorker is depressing. It's as if white grievance has metastasized into a general privilege grievance, where being criticized for banging your student or serving up reheated 60 year old anti-affirmative action canards as a fresh hot take is to suffer the fate of Socrates and Galileo. It's just pathetic.
> Since they’ve stopped trying [to downplay the stuff they believe], one needs less labor
> to scrape the veneer off their ridiculous ideas and lay them bare. That’s good for me, of
> course, and who knows, maybe good for the Republic too — because maybe more voters
> will catch on.
What's the verdict on that? On the one side,there's the electoral fates of some of the worst in the Blue Trickle,on the other the presence in our population of people who actually believe that sincerity were a sign that the sincere person were right, or at least good. (For once I will both-sides it because I've seen plenty of that last on the Left,as years of WBAI, KPFA, KALW, and KPFK made plain—but I'll allow that it's much less of a problem because in a propertarian society the Left is structurally always further away from actual power than the Right…and, to be sincere about [so you just _know_ I'm right], because I like the Left a lot more than the Right.)
They're nothing, irrelevant.
Anyway.
I have this dotard theory that being so full of shit makes many of these conservatives a little bit insane. I mean, it does actual harm to them. I mean saying things when you know deep down -- subconsciously -- are wrong drives many of them a little nuts. Including causing an excessive lack of self-awareness.
As for that position on affirmative action, I present in support of same: Ron DeSantis, John Kennedy, Josh Hawley and even, to a degree, (allegedly) Trump. The world could not be possibly worse if they lost their slots to people admitted via affirmative action. Not that, you know, rationality or whatever is relevant here.
Hope Roy feels better for the venting. Must say (not a criticism) that when I saw the post's headline I expected a humor piece. But that's on me.
For me, the epitome of the Rich White Guy Gets Pushback, Crumples Like A Wet Napkin was when Alan Dershowitz, after voluntarily placing himself in Trump’s corner, was bitching about how no one would eat bagels with him on Martha’s Vineyard anymore. Oh, the humanity! You know, if I could afford to summer at a swanky beach I’d regard fewer people speaking to me to be an acceptable trade off. I might even prefer it.
The thing with the people who run the NYT, WaPo, and the New Yorker is they are moderates with liberal leanings who consider themselves to be far, far more liberal/left than they actually are. Because of their economic and social class they are constantly rubbing elbows with Republicans and conservatives. In short, those guys are their pals. So when the real Left takes aim at their pals, it offends them on two fronts: one, since they consider themselves the standard-bearers of liberal values, anyone to the left of them must be a wild-eyed radical, and two, someone is attacking their friends, and their first instinct is to come to their friends’ defense.
So Rikki Schlott "felt like she had to hide" her Regenery Publishing book collection under the mattress. Did she really physically stash them there because Guy Montag and the Firemen could pop in for an inspection at any time? If it was the latter, NYU sounds like a pretty tough school! It's probably one of those smallish liberal arts places that has a limited demographic to draw from.
As I wrote earlier tis week, my brother-in-law feels himself a victim of cancelculture because the liberals will not allow him to say the n-word in public. And, really, that's pretty much what all this cancelculture crap comes down to: These people want to say incredibly offensive things, and then feel persecuted when nobody applauds and normal people shy away.
And I will bet that one very real victim of actual cancelculture is barred from attending those Criminal Minds wankfests: Phil Donohue. Remember him? Said he opposed the invasion of Iraq and was instantly actually canceled! Show yanked off the air and him barred from TV for life. But I Phil's thought crimes were of the wrong flavor or something.
"Right. I had to go to the re-education camp in the Killing Fields an hour before I went to sleep, worked there all day making rainbow flags, and had 'D-E-I' branded on my penis!"
"And if you try to tell the woke young people of today that, they won't believe you."
"Aye, aye."
"They perhaps identify as criminals because they have been caught at actions that normally carry consequences, and some have received rather gentle versions thereof. "
Or it could be the tired routine of cosplaying characters from "1984" and see, Orwell was a conservative and Soros is Big Brother and something something no I haven't actually read the book, why do you ask?
Gillespie has some weird conversations if they’re always about evil capitalism and how terrible America is. Not that I believe him for a minute. His conversations are more likely about what a bitch AOC is and what he did on his last trip to Mar-a-Lago. So these guys think there really is a Thought Police that monitors their babbling and makes them proud Criminals when they speak like a 1950’s Alabama redneck. Anyway, I came home to a month’s worth of New Yorkers so I haven’t read this Emma Green piece but I did get through her article about Hilldale College, which she tried to make sound half-way sane except that it’s hard to ignore that its President Arnn is a first class asshole hellbent on destroying America in the name of Classical Education.
What the college commencement this is about, I think, is that Daddy is TALKING TO YOU, sit down and LISTEN, as long as you're living in my hou- er, country, you obey MY RULES, this is FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, don't pull that face with me, mister, and don't you DARE walk away! There should be consequences for not wanting to be lectured by Your Superiors.
I imagine they surreptitiously pass around "samizdat" with stats on black-on-white crime intermingled with Bergdorf's summer fashion catalog. Since their communist enemies think capitalism is evil they could get on a deep state kill list if they were seen with this stuff, just like behind the Iron Curtain. Or worse, they might be banned from attending the Met Gala. So brave.
I glanced at that article just to see what its angle might be, but saw that it went on and on and on forever about these preening dopes, so I closed it and finished Roy’s recap. I’m still not sure who it’s for, other than to be sympathetic to awful people in a Society Pages kind of way.
Between this and the NYT we need to shut down New York until we figure out what’s going on. Something is terribly wrong (yet somehow tedious at the same time!).
Well, this morning I'm not regretting that New Yorker subscription I allowed to lapse. Likewise with the Atlantic subscription that also went bye-bye, since Green wrote similar bullshit for the Atlantic before being hired by the New Yorker (Is that a move up? Or just laterally? A question being hotly debated in a salon somewhere.)
BTW: If you're looking for an easy way to reassess those online subscriptions you're auto-paying by credit card, some of whom you may have even forgot you have, a neat trick is to lose your credit card and be issued a new one, and then watch the aggrieved emails pour in: "There seems to be a problem with your payment...". Each one is a nice opportunity to ask, "Do I really need this?" And then, simply by doing nothing, it all goes away.
I don't know what I would do without Roy
I'd prefer to think all the breadcrumbs Roy picked up in that article were dropped on purpose, both because I have a soft spot for the concept of the New Yorker and I don't want to believe any carbon-based life form could be dumb enough to believe that narrative. The genius of "cancel" and its little brother "woke" is that they are so gloriously vague, a hazy shade of victimhood allowing the pose of heroic truth-teller, like a kid tying a towel around his neck and jumping off the garage roof actually being considered Superman. To believe that this pose can be taken seriously enough to rate a supposedly serious essay in the New Yorker is depressing. It's as if white grievance has metastasized into a general privilege grievance, where being criticized for banging your student or serving up reheated 60 year old anti-affirmative action canards as a fresh hot take is to suffer the fate of Socrates and Galileo. It's just pathetic.
Stalin knew about real "thought criminals".
If you gather Roy's essays for the week and posted a few cartoons this could be kinda like The New Yorker.
From the "Village Voice" piece on Barr
> Since they’ve stopped trying [to downplay the stuff they believe], one needs less labor
> to scrape the veneer off their ridiculous ideas and lay them bare. That’s good for me, of
> course, and who knows, maybe good for the Republic too — because maybe more voters
> will catch on.
What's the verdict on that? On the one side,there's the electoral fates of some of the worst in the Blue Trickle,on the other the presence in our population of people who actually believe that sincerity were a sign that the sincere person were right, or at least good. (For once I will both-sides it because I've seen plenty of that last on the Left,as years of WBAI, KPFA, KALW, and KPFK made plain—but I'll allow that it's much less of a problem because in a propertarian society the Left is structurally always further away from actual power than the Right…and, to be sincere about [so you just _know_ I'm right], because I like the Left a lot more than the Right.)