Clowns With Poison

Or “equity transformation specialists”:

One might instead argue that this supposedly “white” “obsession” with “mechanical time” – which is to say, basic foresight and punctuality – or just adulthood – has very little to do with oppressing the negro, as Mr Moore claims, and rather more to do with courtesy and treating other people as if they were real, just as real as you, and no more deserving of delays, frustration, or gratuitous disrespect.

It seems to me that punctuality is not only about getting things done, about practicality and cooperation, but about getting over yourself. And presumably, Mr Moore – the one reducing black children to strange and otherly beings, unmoored by mere temporal concerns – would prefer his payments for this claptrap, aired to teachers and school administrators, to materialise promptly. Not, say, three weeks late. Or hey, whenever.

19 Replies to “Clowns With Poison”

  1. Yawn, we’ve wasted enough time and effort subsidising failed cultures.
    They need to crank up some Western values of success or fade away.
    The great irony is all political parties want to import failed cultures, for reasons they can’t articulate beyond “existential white guilt”, then they encourage them to glorify and sustain their failed values here.
    We voted for it, we deserve exactly what we get.

  2. I am always on time. I find people who are not to be incredibly annoying,

  3. I taught for few years. When it comes to handing in material, some students prefer a Salvador Dali clock.
    Seriously, I left teaching around the time they started integrating debased standards for POC.
    The last thing students need – any race – is an excuse for not succeeding. Or not even trying.

    1. I noticed similar things while I taught at Armpit College, particularly after it declared that it no longer had students but “customers”. It’s a miracle I lasted there as long as I did without becoming a lush.

  4. Moore directed us to a page in our training booklets: a list of white values. Along with “‘The King’s English’ rules,” “objective, rational, linear thinking” and “quantitative emphasis,” there was “work before play,” “plan for future” and “adherence to rigid time schedules.”
    Seems to me those are all virtues, some indispensable in industry, especially the last. I suppose he never had to face a due date for design reviews, and penalties if he failed to meet it.
    I find it sad that so many blacks who feel they are spokesmen and defenders for the blacks seem to tacitly agree that, yes indeed, blacks are inferior and incapable of all those “white values.” Does he have a black replacement for “The King’s (sic) English’ rules”? (It is still the Queen’s English.) The primary function of language is communication. A consistent grammar facilitates communication. If he really wants a different language, he can try Swahili. But he may want to know that Swahili is written in the Latin alphabet (in ex British colonies. It can also be written in Arabic script elsewhere.) To replace “objective, rational, linear thinking” and “quantitative emphasis” does he suggest subjective, irrational, muddled thinking, and conclusions not based on data from the real world? If he doesn’t like work before play and plan for the future, who does the work for him while he plays, and the future just takes care of itself?
    Add to all these contentions by other blacks that math is racist. Physics and technology are racist. Why they must be if blacks cannot do them. My best friend from college was a math major, and has worked for IBM his whole career. He was more than my equal in chess, and in fact taught me the concept of tempo for the end game. I have to ask him if he thinks math is racist. But unfortunately he may say yes. Somehow he feels that to be loyal to his race he must be a liberal, even if socially he was much more conservative than I was.
    As to clocks, he can instead use a sun dial, but it will still mark the passage of time. Personally, I demand very little from other people, except consistency and punctuality, as they affect me personally. Both are nothing more than demand for common courtesy. You cannot credibly argue out of both sides of your mouth, depending on where you are standing at the moment. And lack of punctuality simply means you feel your time is more important than your victim’s. I was cursed growing up to have two siblings who thought 15 minutes late is very punctual. I am sure my brother felt his time was more important, as he was a neurosurgeon and used to have people wait for his convenience. It was the only cause for rift, as he was really a great guy otherwise, until he finally made a great effort to correct that fault, at least with me.

    1. OB … you and I have previously spoken about …

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterraun_Verner

      Somehow a black kid from Bellflower HS … not the most privileged corner of LA … is able to not only do the “white mans” mathematics … but also slay the SAT with a top score and carry a 4.17 GPA. Oh! And be a good enough athlete to play NFL football. So … is he simply a FREAK of nature? Or did he “conform” his mind to the “white mans” world? In other words … is he a genuine black man … or just a fool who is denying his own natural ignorance?

      My son graduated in the same UCLA Applied Math class as Alterraun. They shared many of the same classes. I know my son was there … obviously … because of his white privilege. My son simply wrote on his application … “I am a privileged white kid” … and he got in to UCLA! Yeayyy … it’s so FUN being white! Right? Well … suffice to say that Alterraun and my son were the ONLY two non-Asians in UCLA’s math Department. As I sat through his graduation ceremony … the graduates names were read; “Wong”, “Ding”, “Chin”, “Ho”, “Li” … then some Jew girl … then my son with his Alsatian surname … “Ching”, “Dong”, “Fong”, “Nguyen” … Alterraun … then another male Jew …

      Yes … there is a SHOCKING amount of “Asian privilege” in math and sciences. BLM is charging the WRONG people with “privilege” and “racism”. BLM should be attacking the Chinese! Koreans! Japanese! And Vietnamese! Not innocent white people … who barely understand how math works 😉

      1. Oho, so you’re a Bruin Dad! Congrats. Maybe you told me and I forgot. That happens more and more.
        You meant the only two non-Asian, non-Jew, right? You mentioned at least two Jews. They are pretty damn smart, too. Probably more. The greatest physicist in the first half of the 20th Century was Einstein. In the second half it was Feynman. There were plenty others. While you’re telling the story, it didn’t occur to me until you mentioned it that your son was not Asian, duh. Not bad for a white boy. 🙂
        I am liberal enough to believe that Alterraun Verner, what a Bruin!, is an example to follow, not a freak. I am convinced that Asians are very good at classical music, for example, mostly because of the work ethic. It just takes a lot of practice. I mean why else is there an affinity for music half a world away, literally? Frankly, Asians went in STEM because they couldn’t compete in the humanities. Other Chinese told me that, and thought I was crazy to have seriously considered majoring in English. I’ll tell you something funny. Traditionally, it was true, Asians weren’t very good at writing, on the whole. So the geniuses at SAT thought of this great way to handicap the Asians, add another section that demanded writing, that’ll fix them! So what happened? Immediately after school/weekend SAT academies sprouted like mushrooms in the San Gabriel Valley, featuring special writing help. In about ten years, I think, the Asian scores in the writing section have surpassed the whites. I should thank them for forcing Asian kids to learn to write. They got so good I hear that SAT is dropping the section, since it didn’t serve its purpose, and probably made scores of blacks even worse. (Maybe they should have a choice of language, English, Spanish, Ebonics.)
        I have met enough very capable blacks in industry to not make a priori judgements. I have also met plenty of dumb Asians and whites who can barely hack it if you give them exact instructions. I am not saying that given the chance blacks will necessarily be as good, but they can be competitive. More competitive, say, than Asians are at basketball, which at one time was the thing I was the craziest about.
        As to your last point, that has been sticking in the craws of academics for a long time. The Ivies cannot impose a quota and still appear racially tolerant, so they came up with a better solution. They instilled interviews which revealed most Asians are lacking as a “whole person”, especially when compared to most blacks. Now THAT is the most racist thing I have ever heard. In any case, couching UC admit as a black vs. white thing is totally misleading. Whites are admitted just about at their California population percentage. The Asians are way over represented. So “affirmative action” is nothing less than a scheme to deny qualified Asians UC education because of their race. Of course I am talking about UC admit in general. If you talk about STEM, it gets really ridiculous.

        1. I forgot to compare and contrast with my daughters UCLA graduation ceremony … in History. For starters … her History/Humanities graduation ceremony was about 10x larger than my son’s Math graduating class. Because we NEED so many more History graduates, right? Ostensibly so we don’t forget and repeat our History … hmmm? … well that OBVIOUSLY cannot be the reason.

          And yes, by comparison, there was a dearth of Asians at her History graduation. Although my daughter DID take ONE Asian History class while at UCLA! I recall the course title was something like … “Misogyny in traditional Asian cultures”. My daughter said that class really honed her creative writing skills as she struggled to regurgitate all the garbage her alt.feminist Asian professor expected her to learn.

          1. A couple of interesting vignettes concerning my son’s academic career.
            The National Merit Scholarship is based on the PSAT score. But at his time they had a slight twist on how it was used. They doubled the Verbal score and added it to the Math score. I guess that’s supposed to work in favor of whites over Asians. But not in the case of my son and one of his two best friends (still.) My son got a very good verbal score, but not as good in Math. His white friend was the opposite, and had a better combined raw sore, but not after putting in the twist. So my son became a NMS due to his superior Verbal score, and his friend didn’t. I remember his SAT score was no different. His Math score was somewhere just south of 500, which I thought was inconceivably bad.
            They were roommates in a four men suite at UCLA with two other Asians. My son was an English major, his friend a Math major, and the other two of course were also in STEM. The running joke in the suite was they had three Asians with STEM majors. The other guy was an English major.

          2. Hahaha ha … so your son lost his “Asian-ness” for being an English Major … too funny! National Merit Scholar! however … I am duly impressed.

            My son was initially passed over for our elementary schools GATE program … gifted and talented … because he was not a very “verbal” kid. He’s just not naturally talkative, which is how all the ladies would select GATE kids. But he was bored to tears in elementary school and way smarter (natural high IQ) than the vast majority of his classmates. I was finally able to talk the ladies into putting him in GATE. We joke that he was … “somewhere on the spectrum” … of autism … that he was a savant type kid … not a jabber box. Not to worry he is a well-adjusted adult … if not a bit OCD … anal retentive organizational freak. He visits us and rearranges our silverware drawers … stacking all the forks in perfect alignment.

          3. Don’t be too impressed. That NMS was his academic highlight. It turns out that his degree would have been better if he had gone with his first love, which is art. He then went to the Art Center in Pasadena, but did not finish because he said it really didn’t matter, and it was costing too much money.
            He is eking out a living as a storyboard artist. It pays very well per hour, but work is sporadic, and he has to pay an agency. (That English does help in that.) I think he should do real art, whatever it pays. I can appreciate that. I would have lived in a garret and written poetry if I thought I could survive. But he doesn’t really have to live in a garret. We do help him out there. We would help more but he is proud.
            Now that I am retired, I do politics (like here), poetry, reading literature and history, but hardly any STEM at all. I keep wanting to reread Feynman’s Lectures of Physics (for Cal Tech frosh) so at least I won’t make a fool of myself on freshman physics, what with my degree and all. But I have a lot of trouble getting started.

          4. That’s what I like about you OB … you’re a legitimate Renaissance man. You admire (and practice) both science and art. And … !! You’re a Chinaman!! (I hope you don’t mind my tongue in cheek racial “slur” … you know my true admiration for Asians). Chinamen are supposed to be robotic students of “solid” courses? Right?

            There is no doubt that the most “human” expression is artistic. From cave paintings to Banksy… ha aha ha ha … what an arc of artistic expression! I find music composition to be the most fascinating of artistic expressions … and there’s such a connection between high mathematics aptitude and musical expression.

            Storyboard artist! What a cool thing to do! He must get to read some really cool scripts and screenwriting. Does he have a few film scripts of his own? I hear the industry is starving for content! When I was at UC Berkeley, a classmate in my Major was an Asian kid whose pencil sketches were just jaw-dropping gorgeous. My work was cartoonish by comparison. You damn Asians do everything so PERFECT!

            What did my daughter do with her UCLA History degree? She’s an event planner. She inherited my artistic eye, and is an organized businesswoman who knows how to get what she wants. And yes, the profession can be up and down with the economy … but she learned that and went from a NYC design firm to an in-house event planner in a mid-sized corporation. Yes, she does the Christmas party every year … but also marketing, and employee recruiting, employee happiness and retention.

            My son’s math degree? He crunches numbers for a privately-owned real estate investment company that has somewhere between $10 and $50B in assets (All multifamily housing projects in Silicon Valley). They are literally the largest single customer of Fannie Mae Loans … and are sitting on incredible cash reserves.

            But I cannot reveal what I do … as it would narrow-down the search parameters, making it too easy to dox me. Hahaha ha … as if anyone would want to

          5. Some clarifications.
            My son mostly does his work mostly with commercials. Mostly they only took one day, and I think his longest was maybe five days. The good thing he tells me is that he works directly with the director, without bothering with the layers of chain of command.
            Yes, I have a myriad of interests, but with indifferent success. There is a Cantonese slang that says he’s got all kinds of knives, but not one of them is sharp. To me a true Renaissance man like da Vinci or Michelangelo or, yes, Jefferson, our great American Renaissance man does not only have different interests, but is among the best in everything he undertakes.
            When I was young my father quoted a Chinese intellectual’s criticism of the modern Chinese scholar, who talks about Li Po with the British and Keats with the Chinese. That made a great impression on me, and I was determined to talk about Li Po with the Chinese and Keats with the British. As far as that goes, I have succeeded to a degree, but I don’t know if either my English or Chinese poetry can stand on its own, without saying oh you know he writes in the other language too, or you know he actually has a degree in physics. That is the true test.
            I have a lot of curiosity about the reason behind things, be it history or technology. And I can work very hard in research when my interest is piqued. But I am basically lazy (my brother’s on point criticism) and have no staying power. I have trouble doing the really gritty work. For example, I think I could have been a great chess player, I could do seven move combinations in the middle game. But I didn’t want to study all the openings and endgames that any serious chess player knew. I had the eye and timing to hit deep chops by really good defensive table tennis players, but I wasn’t very strong and couldn’t last a whole tournament. But I didn’t want to do all that work with weights to improve my endurance. So I exemplified a dilettante in those games. Those are only games, but I am afraid that was my modus operandi in everything. I know there were a lot of other managers who questioned my dedication as chief engineer, when it looked like I only did it for fun. And to some extent, they were right.
            It would be false modesty to deny the abundant grace of God. Anyway, it isn’t anything to be proud of, since it took no effort on my part. One should only be proud of the gifts if one did something with them. And my objective opinion is that I have largely squandered them due to my laziness, which is on me. I coulda been champeen.

  5. Pretty standard leftwing thinking: Bring everybody down to the lowest level, theirs.

    Liberal losers can’t get their shit together enough to do anything on time so they declare that punctuality is a sin.
    They couldn’t pour piss out of a rubber boot if the instructions were printed on the heel so they declare that competence is a sin.
    They can’t compose a coherent sentence so now they declare that grammar is a sin.

    A lot of punctuality simple rests on respect: If I say I’ll be somewhere at a certain time I try to be there. To make somebody wait just because I can’t be bothered to arrive on time shows a lack of respect for them.

  6. “it is not only the student that has to be on time, but also the teacher,”

    Liars! In reality, school admin and teachers/profs have freedom to take however long they believe they want it to take, while a student must be on time, regardless of circumstances. This is especially true of universities. You must submit your work at midnight sharp, and being 1 second late due to the web site taking long to process the upload is no excuse. But then it takes months to check the tests, and we go onto the next term, without knowing whether we passed or failed. But we have to pay! But it is refundable. But we have to come up with $$$. But… But… But… The system is always rigged against the small guy.

  7. I’m pretty sure ‘payday’ is a White man concept. I would hate to see him burdened with that sort of oppression.

  8. Oh, and if the ‘oppressed negro’ wants to have anything at all to do with flying jet aircraft, he better own a good watch and know what the numbers mean.
    Not having an “obsession with mechanical time” will get you killed in that occupation. Then again, with that attitude ‘ol buddy is going to get failed out quick time.

    So many idiots so little time.

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