Jade Haney on blatant indoctrination and replacing facts with pretentious guilt:
Jack Flotte, a member of Regis University’s Social Justice and Spirituality Committee, opened the session by scolding his white peers and professors on their state of “white fragility,” saying, “Like it or not, we are already accomplices. The question becomes: to what end are we partners in the crime of continuing to perpetuate these systems that dehumanise and oppress people?” Flotte also advised white students and faculty to “spend less time being upset about accusations that you’re complicit and that white people are bad and spend more time being mad at the racism and suffering,” adding, “Stop changing the subject when race does come into a conversation. Not that you understand this concept of white fragility. You’re going to be made uncomfortable as white folks when the conversation of race comes up. But, just get over it and then channel that energy. Channel that guilt into activism.”
I just looked in the mirror. White. No guilt that I could see. Used some Windex. Still no guilt.
Your title is fantastic. I’m just not sure if I should feel good or bad that I immediately knew the reference.
Regis University is a Jesuit-run institution in Denver, Colorado. Of course they have a “Social Justice and Sprituality Committee”, and it should be no surprise that Jack Flotte is a member of it. Pope Francis would be proud.
I guess I’m a hard case, I still only see three lights.
Maybe I’ll write a story where Winston Smith chokes that guy to death before they finally kill him. That would be sweet.
fiction imitating real life.
I immediately knew the reference and I feel great!
Swing and a miss, Phantom….
I have to remind my college graduate children, repeatedly, of their “white privilege”. Their “white privilege” of; a two-parent family, a white culture that demanded homework be done, a white culture expected top grades, a white suburban upbringing free from gang and drug crime, a white culture where their parents had jobs, a white culture that taught personal responsibility, a white culture that received no government benefits, a white culture that read books to our children at bedtime, a white culture that didn’t allow our children to waste their lives with useless college majors, a white culture that required our kids to get jobs to pay for their personal “wants”, a white culture that exposed them to Christian faith.
All in all … my kids have SO MUCH privilege to apologize-for.
Great reference!
Friggin’ rights, THERE… ARE…FOUR…LIGHTS!!!! And NO amount of brainwashing by leftards and their evil MSM minions will convince me to deny the truth, either.
Exceptional reference, since I often feel I’m subjugated by leftist lies and misdirections intended to make me disbelieve my own eyes.
So, is it now OK to be a redneck?
Part One Chapter 7 of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four has the political exercise making Winston Smith say that 2+2=5.
The Four Lights scene was obviously plagiarized from there.
Does this newer generation ever think of anything original?
sigh.
Morgan Freeman said it best of the topic of race and racism.
“stop talking about it”.
developments and trends point to a sector that definitively do NOT want to stop talking about it.
this sector, being ALL about race, are the new racists.
“Obviously” and “plagiarized” are a bit subjective in this context.
And besides, the reference was pure ST:TNG regardless of its progenitors…
“And besides, the reference was pure ST:TNG regardless of its progenitors…”
Yeah, sure.
An obscure TV episode is the equivalent of a political book written 68 years ago which is referenced several times a year on every conservative political blog.
I’m widely read. However I didn’t get David Thomson’s reference because I didn’t watch that particular TV episode, I didn’t even watch the series. It wasn’t important enough.
I’m 57 years old.
Nineteen Eighty Four was important enough that I read it when I was 18 years old.
No, It wasn’t required reading for a course.
You, RN, didn’t get the Phantom’s Winston Smith reference. That says a lot.
I am 52 and no doubt at least as well read as you. I’ve been aware of the “1984” vs “Chain of Command” rip-off argument since the first day that episode aired, in fact I discussed with my pals as soon as the episode ended. Your last post makes you sound like an arrogant ass, full of assumption about me and what I think of the merits of comparing these two works. Quite simply, the phrase “there are four lights” does not appear in 1984, so I don’t know what you’re on about. I was going to apologize for my tongue-in-cheek “swing and miss” reparte, but I think I’ll just end with “F off, I’m moving on”.
“Quite simply, the phrase “there are four lights” does not appear in 1984″
SO obtuse, or vain, or both.
It’s all about the number 4 and the torturer insisting that 4 is to been admitted as 5.
Could be 4 chickens or 4 silly girls, it matters not. The number is the same, the exercise is the same; to make the subject deny reality.
Plagiarism is the “wrongful appropriation” and “stealing and publication” of another author’s “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions” and the representation of them as one’s own original work.
I may not be posting again of this thread, but I won’t be moving on.
Up-thread:
“Swing and a miss, Phantom…” ~RN
the Phantom was referencing 1984. the Phantom made the connection, But You did Not.
From this, your own statement RN, I logically infer that you have not read 1984.
Nothing arrogant or asinine about it.
Go ahead, try to explain what you said to the Phantom in light of you having read 1984.
I don’t think you can even read. Let me repeat – “moving on”.