Odd, odd, isn't it, that the Usual Suspects who are always so ready to carefully examine every police shooting victim for past transgressions, never did that with Ms. Babbitt. Huh. Guess we'll never know why. *shrug*
Looking at the timeline, we know we went from "Mob aggressively attacking the Capitol" to "Mob sheepishly leaving the Capitol, some with a helping hand down the stairs from the cops they were previously attacking." Can we identify the turning point? Might it have been the moment when at least some of these knuckleheads saw that this shit could get you killed? Because they sure didn't get that message before the unfortunate Ms. Babbit took one for the team.
Sadly Roy I think you’re way too optimistic. AP AA Studies being something like this would still be way too woke. I expect it will be more like. “How White People Ended Racism But The Blacks Weren’t Grateful Enough So We had To Reintroduce Slavery To Teach Them A Lesson.”
I've seen an excellent point made by many Black intellectuals about DeSantis, Rufo, Matt Walsh, and the whole motley crew who are targeting Black and/or gender studies. They have simply found a new code word they like. So when they criticize something as "woke" merely replace "woke" with "Black" or "gay." It brings everything into a very clear focus, explaining their ubiquitous use of that word and why they apply it to everything they dislike and disagree with.
I feel like we're just a few short years away from "Argle-bargle" or maybe "Rutabaga". When I need to make some angry mouth-sounds, I'm not too particular what "words" I use for the purpose.
Of course, their opposite code word/phrase to "woke" is Western Civilization, and more Western Civ courses are being called for by both DeSantis and Rufo. Because they haven't quite got the balls to come right out and say "white history." Yet.
If you go back to the early 20's, when eugenics was a widely respected scientific theory and European immigration was being hotly debated (specifically, which kind of Europeans should we allow in) the Greeks were considered the lowest of the low, perhaps tied with the southern Italians (and people with names like DeSantis) in the threat they posed to racial health of our nation. As others have said, we live in the United States of Amnesia.
There was a bunch of crazy theorizing (by Ivy-League professors, no less) about how the ancient Greeks were actually Nordic. I recommend Daniel Okrent's book "The Guarded Gate" for anyone interested in the full story.
This, as we used to say. Reminds me of a Republican lady interviewed back, I think, during John Kerry's run for prez. When asked why she didn't like Kerry, she said, "Socialist agenda." For all she knew, "socialist agenda" might have been a colloquial expression in Norwegian. The orc army cheering derisively at "woke" couldn't define it with a gun to their heads. Hey, that's not a bad idea! Who's got a gun?
Interesting choice on her part, with Kerry she also could have gone with "Swift boat" or "Purple Heart" from her list of right-wing conjuring words that don't mean anything either.
Oh gosh, tell it to the relative who over Christmas 2022 assured me, "Kerry faked a purple heart to get out of Vietnam -- he's absolutely disgusting!" (RELATED: this relative will also tell you Vietnam was a huge mistake, and in 1991 said that if there was a draft to fight Iraq, I better dodge it, and gave me suggestions how.)
Reminds me of that old joke about the prisoners who have all memorized the jokes, so someone has to just shout out the number and everyone falls about laughing. I think that's how all this ends, all the liberals in prison while right-wingers shout "Thirty Six!" at us and then angrily complain that we don't have any sense of humor.
Whenever I see that movie, I think that the ONE person who's better off that George Bailey was never born was Nick, who owns the bar instead of just being Mr. Martini's bartender. But nobody in Bedford Falls ever thinks, "Hey, what's best for our old pal Nick?" If they did, they'd throw George off that bridge.
But remember also kids are a buncha snowflakes and we can't have good education any more because you gotta be too careful not to hurt anyone's feelings. Any questions? Yes? Well, I'M NOT GOING TO ANSWER THEM.
One wonders why we attempt to teach the little bastards anything, given, as the TERFs/GC folks love to point out, the brains of children are a roiling unformed mass barely capable of speech and motor skills, much less thinking. We need to wait to teach them, preferably once their brains have settled down, around 23 or so.
This course would never pass muster in Florida since in Desantisland anyone who so much as makes one think about race is promoting racism. All the names on the class’s list are guilty of that as well as anyone in Florida who is dark but not tan. At New College the only class touching on race from here on will be about the fallacy of “race,” based on DNA and Stephan Colbert’s admission many years ago that he doesn’t see color, so there, libs, gotcha twice!
When, at along about age 12, I first encountered the insidious concept "dark but not tan" (I led an early life so sheltered it was bomb-proof) I realized that – let's face it – there are colorful people and there are colorless people. And I knew I fell in the latter group, not necessarily from pigmentation but from character.
A substantial portion of the succeeding 5+ decades has been spent breaking outta that shelter...
Precisely. And a fundamental reason I assert the added categories in the decennial census are so important. In 2020, many people chose to claim the more nuanced self description because they no longer saw an advantage to aligning with whiteness, or perhaps more precisely, saw a direct disadvantage to being so aligned/identified. It's the "get me offa this bus!" theory.
Also good to know that the way we learned that racism was over was when we saw that Black people can be murdered by Black cops too. I believe this is the world of equal opportunity that Dr. King dreamed of, that all of our children, no matter the color of their skin, can grow up to murder Black people (provided, of course, they're willing to go to police school first.)
Apparently the College Board has folded to DeSantis and his fellow fascists, and is removing numerous authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, from its A. P. Curriculum for African-American studies. Absolute cowards.
Because history shows us that the best way to defeat fascism is to...back down. That always works well.
Look, I don't like the guy either, but you've got to admit he does have a legitimate complaint about the Sudetenland. Let's just hand it over and that will calm things down.
Technically the Abraham Lincoln Brigade went and fought -- over 3,000 American volunteers. Sure they were hound by Hoover after WW2 and Reagan said they were on the wrong side, but they fought for the Loyalists
There's a scene in Blackboard Jungle where Glenn Ford, in a conversation with Sidney Poitier, cites Ralph Bunche as an example of a black man who didn't let racism get him down. Sidney seemed unconvinced.
I hadda OOF at "What about Karon"...
Just wait three hours; it'll be another name.
Reluctant upvote, 'cause it's true, goddamnit.
Yeah, me too.
DC Metro madness this morning...
Alt. Title:
"The Future of Re-education"
Ow!!
Brilliant.
Only Wednesday, my vote for the only post this week to unlock.
You mean...this is the LAST WEDNESDAY??!! We're DOOOMED!
I never liked Wednesdays much anyway.
Put Woden back in Wednesday, godless libs!
Goddamn Calendrical Correctness.
The silicon chip inside his head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
he's gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said he was good as gold
And he can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?
Oh oh oh
Read closer: only Wednesday at present. Nothing says it’s the last.
And now you have SteveB confused as well.
Confusing Steve does not count.
Ah, that's funny, because "Confusing Steve" is what my students call me. I tell them it's my job.
We could add you to the Monty Python bit:
"Confuse-a-Cat
Stump-a-Stoat
Bewilder-beast"
"Misdirect-a-Maths Prof"
"Feelings of confusion mean your mind is working" doesn't fool anyone.
Too harsh yet SteveB looks cool with it so...
Dammit, now you're reminding me the True Wednesday just passed away (can't recall the actress' name). I haz sad.
Lisa Loring
Lisa Loring.
The boss really musta liked Lisa Loring.
Dylan's Mom, with her bullhorn and Liberty and such is one of my least favorite kinds of American.
Dylan's mom was Ashli Babbitt.
Does that make her a slightly less least favorite?
We are ALL Ashli Babbit, being murdered by cops... no, wait, I put that wrong, being murdered by the Deep State, yes, that's better.
Odd, odd, isn't it, that the Usual Suspects who are always so ready to carefully examine every police shooting victim for past transgressions, never did that with Ms. Babbitt. Huh. Guess we'll never know why. *shrug*
Looking at the timeline, we know we went from "Mob aggressively attacking the Capitol" to "Mob sheepishly leaving the Capitol, some with a helping hand down the stairs from the cops they were previously attacking." Can we identify the turning point? Might it have been the moment when at least some of these knuckleheads saw that this shit could get you killed? Because they sure didn't get that message before the unfortunate Ms. Babbit took one for the team.
Sadly Roy I think you’re way too optimistic. AP AA Studies being something like this would still be way too woke. I expect it will be more like. “How White People Ended Racism But The Blacks Weren’t Grateful Enough So We had To Reintroduce Slavery To Teach Them A Lesson.”
I've seen an excellent point made by many Black intellectuals about DeSantis, Rufo, Matt Walsh, and the whole motley crew who are targeting Black and/or gender studies. They have simply found a new code word they like. So when they criticize something as "woke" merely replace "woke" with "Black" or "gay." It brings everything into a very clear focus, explaining their ubiquitous use of that word and why they apply it to everything they dislike and disagree with.
I feel like we're just a few short years away from "Argle-bargle" or maybe "Rutabaga". When I need to make some angry mouth-sounds, I'm not too particular what "words" I use for the purpose.
Just wake me when the rhubarb pie is done.
Yeah this.
And since no one is listening for nuance anyway. . . it becomes "Will no one rid me of those turbulent Blacks?"
Of course, their opposite code word/phrase to "woke" is Western Civilization, and more Western Civ courses are being called for by both DeSantis and Rufo. Because they haven't quite got the balls to come right out and say "white history." Yet.
If you go back to the early 20's, when eugenics was a widely respected scientific theory and European immigration was being hotly debated (specifically, which kind of Europeans should we allow in) the Greeks were considered the lowest of the low, perhaps tied with the southern Italians (and people with names like DeSantis) in the threat they posed to racial health of our nation. As others have said, we live in the United States of Amnesia.
The very folks that invented Western Civilization.
There was a bunch of crazy theorizing (by Ivy-League professors, no less) about how the ancient Greeks were actually Nordic. I recommend Daniel Okrent's book "The Guarded Gate" for anyone interested in the full story.
and yet Africa is straight South of Europe, so just as Western
Oof.
This, as we used to say. Reminds me of a Republican lady interviewed back, I think, during John Kerry's run for prez. When asked why she didn't like Kerry, she said, "Socialist agenda." For all she knew, "socialist agenda" might have been a colloquial expression in Norwegian. The orc army cheering derisively at "woke" couldn't define it with a gun to their heads. Hey, that's not a bad idea! Who's got a gun?
Interesting choice on her part, with Kerry she also could have gone with "Swift boat" or "Purple Heart" from her list of right-wing conjuring words that don't mean anything either.
Oh gosh, tell it to the relative who over Christmas 2022 assured me, "Kerry faked a purple heart to get out of Vietnam -- he's absolutely disgusting!" (RELATED: this relative will also tell you Vietnam was a huge mistake, and in 1991 said that if there was a draft to fight Iraq, I better dodge it, and gave me suggestions how.)
Your relative rivals Whitman in the number of multitudes they contain.
Reminds me of that old joke about the prisoners who have all memorized the jokes, so someone has to just shout out the number and everyone falls about laughing. I think that's how all this ends, all the liberals in prison while right-wingers shout "Thirty Six!" at us and then angrily complain that we don't have any sense of humor.
--and we gently inform them that they told it wrong, because conservatives don't know how art, comedy, or entertainment works.
I'll leave that to you, should we be be fortunate enough to share a cell, I've heard what they do to smart-ass liberals up in "Hydrotherapy."
It's the verbal equivalent of three parehtheses
*That* Sheldon Leonard? I did not know that!!
The very same. Interesting dude. Everything from "The Thin Man" to "Linus the Lionhearted"(!)
"Out you two pixes go, through the door or out the window!"
"293...
...next May"
I adore his slinking, oily menace.
Whenever I see that movie, I think that the ONE person who's better off that George Bailey was never born was Nick, who owns the bar instead of just being Mr. Martini's bartender. But nobody in Bedford Falls ever thinks, "Hey, what's best for our old pal Nick?" If they did, they'd throw George off that bridge.
I've seen a theory here (http://bobbyriverstv.blogspot.com/2012/03/black-folks-in-bedford-falls.html) that Pottersville turned out to be a racist little town. Nick and the other juke joint owners would have been the only ones happy.
See, now, THIS is the kind of education we're allowed to have. Class dismissed.
Ron DeSantis has clearly identified the most important component in any AP African-American History curriculum: not making white people feel bad.
As MLK himself once said, "reverse racism is the worst racism." Oh wait, that was Christopher Rufo.
Hearted for "himself". What a weight has been hung from that innocent term.
But remember also kids are a buncha snowflakes and we can't have good education any more because you gotta be too careful not to hurt anyone's feelings. Any questions? Yes? Well, I'M NOT GOING TO ANSWER THEM.
One wonders why we attempt to teach the little bastards anything, given, as the TERFs/GC folks love to point out, the brains of children are a roiling unformed mass barely capable of speech and motor skills, much less thinking. We need to wait to teach them, preferably once their brains have settled down, around 23 or so.
Have taught middle school, can confirm.
One of the "revisions" is undoubtedly a class on why MLK was actually a conservative.
This course would never pass muster in Florida since in Desantisland anyone who so much as makes one think about race is promoting racism. All the names on the class’s list are guilty of that as well as anyone in Florida who is dark but not tan. At New College the only class touching on race from here on will be about the fallacy of “race,” based on DNA and Stephan Colbert’s admission many years ago that he doesn’t see color, so there, libs, gotcha twice!
When, at along about age 12, I first encountered the insidious concept "dark but not tan" (I led an early life so sheltered it was bomb-proof) I realized that – let's face it – there are colorful people and there are colorless people. And I knew I fell in the latter group, not necessarily from pigmentation but from character.
A substantial portion of the succeeding 5+ decades has been spent breaking outta that shelter...
To quote Frank Zappa: “You know something, people? I’m not black, but there’s a whole lotta times I wish I could say I’m not white.”
Precisely. And a fundamental reason I assert the added categories in the decennial census are so important. In 2020, many people chose to claim the more nuanced self description because they no longer saw an advantage to aligning with whiteness, or perhaps more precisely, saw a direct disadvantage to being so aligned/identified. It's the "get me offa this bus!" theory.
Maybe, but when the cops pull you over...
Whiter shade of pale...
Like the Tom McGuane character who tells people he's Catholic "because it makes me feel like less of a white man."
Jamaal and Aisha, you're wanted in the Principal's office.
Also good to know that the way we learned that racism was over was when we saw that Black people can be murdered by Black cops too. I believe this is the world of equal opportunity that Dr. King dreamed of, that all of our children, no matter the color of their skin, can grow up to murder Black people (provided, of course, they're willing to go to police school first.)
Don't just go trollin' fer oofs, son.
Naaah, racism ended when A) Oprah Winfrey and B) Tiger Woods.
You know, like when homophobia ended when Ellen DeGeneris.
That's the funny thing about racism, it's ALWAYS ending and never beginning.
And her sister, Sui DeGeneris, or maybe it was her brother, a boy named Sui DeGeneris.
Bill, er George – anything but Sui!
Imam Jamil Al-Amin is 78 and in federal prison in Tucson on a bogus Georgia murder conviction. Still kicking.
Well this one was a gut punch.
Apparently the College Board has folded to DeSantis and his fellow fascists, and is removing numerous authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, from its A. P. Curriculum for African-American studies. Absolute cowards.
Because history shows us that the best way to defeat fascism is to...back down. That always works well.
"The best way to preserve funding is to back down." Fixed!
Brings new meaning to follow the money -- all the way back to the Antebellum period.
We refused to help fight fascism in Spain in 1936, and the fascists never caused trouble again.
Look, I don't like the guy either, but you've got to admit he does have a legitimate complaint about the Sudetenland. Let's just hand it over and that will calm things down.
Once Chamberlain had a polite chat with Adolf in Munich, that put an end to the business.
Geez, just buy the damn painting and let's get outta here!
OTOH neither Britain nor France were ready to go to war in 1938. They weren't in 1939 either but were much closer to readiness
Technically the Abraham Lincoln Brigade went and fought -- over 3,000 American volunteers. Sure they were hound by Hoover after WW2 and Reagan said they were on the wrong side, but they fought for the Loyalists
The original "premature anti-fascists".
I thought he stacked the board already – with not-backdowners, but fine upstandingers!
Your teacher forgot to mention that the KKK were Democrats. Pretty sure Desantis is going to require her to say that.
That's its own WEEK in the new syllabus.
And leave us not forget it was that Republican dude that freed the ... oh, wait.
Crap. Get me rewrite.
Ralphe Bunche, one of Adam-17's honorary Aquarian parents!
There's a scene in Blackboard Jungle where Glenn Ford, in a conversation with Sidney Poitier, cites Ralph Bunche as an example of a black man who didn't let racism get him down. Sidney seemed unconvinced.