The Gadfather has a list…
The rate at which our society is sinking into madness is truly bewildering:
1) It is now racist for a white person to translate the work of a black person
2) It is now homophobic for a straight actor to play a gay character
3) It is now racist for a white therapist to treat a black client
4) It is now racist to have advanced high school programs
5) It is now transphobic for biological females to reject having to compete against trans women (biological males)
There’s lots more.
And a big red pill here.
Just one more – we are all terrorists now.
httpss://www.facebook.com/260119990759156/posts/3827039250733861/
Ain’t it the unfortunate flippin truth. Sometimes I’m glad I’m old.
My elementary public school teacher wife is being told by her “urban” UNION that if she doesn’t display the BLM logo on her Zoom Lessons … she doesn’t deserve to teach.
And … she had one parent question why she failed to teach her 1st Graders about all the GOOD things done by The Black Panthers … during Black History month.
Yes. It is accelerating … FAST into the abyss.
Next? They’ll be DEMANDING that she masturbate in front of her students once a month. Right? Why not? Seems the lunacy is headed in that direction.
This isn’t new to me.
Around 20 years ago, while I was still at Armpit College, I was threatened with severe disciplinary action if I didn’t immediately cease and desist from having my students address me as “Dr. Rupertslander” after I received my Ph. D.
The lame excuse I was given was that it would “intimidate” the kiddies so that they would be afraid to ask me questions and, thereby, wouldn’t learn anything. (It certainly didn’t prohibit them from being rude and abusive to me if I didn’t do as they demanded or if they didn’t get the grades they “deserved”.)
Worse was the fact that I had plaques made of my degrees, which I ordered from my alma mater’s alumni association, and hung them on the wall of my office. Then there were the membership certificates of certain societies I belong to, Mensa being one of them.
Yeah, I really terrified them with the displaying of my credentials. I didn’t create a “safe learning environment”, after all.
My refusal to play along got me into a lot of trouble at my former employer. I legitimately earned my degrees and my memberships and I had every right to show and use them.
That rubbish was one reason I quit.
Perhaps if you had replaced your hard-earned degrees and plaques with … ‘Participant’ trophies and ribbons … you wouldn’t have threatened anyone.
All those white people degrees are “divisive” aren’t they? They separate out the WINNERS from the LOSERS. They separate out the people who WORK and TRY from those who are SLACKERS and LAZY. How divisive … Right?
Goodbye beautiful culture. Welcome to Hell on Earth.
With all due respect to your accomplishments, I know a large number of PhDs in various fields and pretty much all of them are of the opinion that anyone other than a medical doctor who insists on being called “doctor” is being a pretentious twat. Certainly not a single one of the professors I met in 8 years of postsecondary ever did, nor any of the PhD engineers I worked with afterwards.
Father Wahl did insist on being called “Father Wahl”, but I think he probably earned that one.
medical doctor who insists on being called “doctor” is being a pretentious twat
And many physicians think they have exclusive right to that title and only a physician may be called as such. Not so. There’s a point in the convocation ceremony during which the graduands become graduates. That’s when their degrees are officially bestowed, along with all the titles, rights, privileges, and obligations that go with them.
I did introduce myself to my students as “Doctor”, though I never insisted that my colleagues address me as such. I, however, addressed my professors as “Doctor” as a show of respect for their office.
The issue at AC was because I had the degree. My detractors didn’t like me and were looking for excuses to persecute me. (There’s a long story behind that. I won’t go into details, but the matter wasn’t my doing.) A few years earlier, one of my colleagues received his doctorate and nobody had any problem with his students addressing him accordingly. That was because they liked him.
Besides, why shouldn’t a working class kid from the old country who earns a Ph. D. in an engineering discipline be called “Doctor”? Believe me, it was a great source of pride to my tradesman parents.
Had I completed a doctorate, I would have shoved it in everyone’s face. My daughter, in jest, usually introduces me as Doctor BlahBlah. Some times I correct her. People who criticize etiquette in academic titles universally lack what they are criticizing. Kind of like every pick and shovel man thinking they know more than engineers.
In the context I originally mentioned, the odd thing was that I was teaching in an educational institution at the time. The title “Doctor” is derived from the Latin “docere”, which means “to teach”, so being addressed as such was wholly appropriate.
More on it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(title)
Retaliate with some fine Shakespearian quotations
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I have a book of Shakespearean insults, taken directly from the Bard’s works. Rip-roaringly hilarious!
So do I. It is called the complete works of William Shakespeare.
I especially enjoy King Lear, which Will wrote during a plague.
Lear’s true son reminds him that life is a miracle.
Etc.
But English profs these days would prefer to read the dreck featured during black history month.
I am at least thankful that they chose the shortest month.
And now, white history month! Wherein we celebrate everything that was good, true, beautiful, but now deemed supremacist and racist and all that woke horse manure.
Peace
I’ve got 3 copies of all his works plus the aforementioned book.
And, by the way, March is Women’s History Month. Imagine: 31 days of being ashamed of being a man. Really gives you something to look forward to, doesn’t it?
Oh, thanks for reminding me, B.A.
31 days with the ides of March in between. And no taming of the shrew.
That is not meant to be a blanket misogynist statement, by the way, as I love my wife and many sweet sisters. It is aimed at ideology and third wave feministic idiocy…you know what I am getting at I am sure….
Oh, and I know armpit college. It would be all the Albertan colleges.
In my former life, I knew all the colleges in Alberta all too well.
Oh, thanks for reminding me, B.A.
I’m sure that we’ll all be incessantly reminded of it.
Oh, and I know armpit college.
I won’t mention which institution AC was or where it’s located. It has a reputation of being quite vindictive, even after one has left its employ.
But, yes, the Alberta post-secondary system leaves a lot to be desired and not just the colleges.
While on the subject of things going down the drain:
https://bit.ly/3kxlbZ6
G’bye, western civilization….. it was nice knowing you.
I think the tranny thing is the most insane part. Not many people agree with cross dressing freaks and pervs being classified as “women”. I still laugh at them as I did before. These “people” are mental cases. If we don’t stop here the homosexual pedophile movement will try to make kid diddling another victim class.
Unfortunately, what the UBC med school is doing is typical of what is commonly called STEM nowadays.
I’ve mentioned several times how displeased I was about the American Association for the Advancement of Science becoming full-blown SJWs. A year or so ago, one of its executives mentioned that the AAAS received a lot of negative comments about its shifting political inclinations, mine included. His response was that it meant that the organization should become even more involved in the political debate.
One sign of that is a number of editorials not just criticizing Trump, even after he left office, but openly insulting him. In addition, the number of the articles in Science supporting the left’s fruitloopery has gone up. Everything Trump did was the antithesis of science but I, Napoleonism, like “climate change” were indisputable realities.
Also Dr. Seuss is racist: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/26/loudoun-county-schools-cancel-dr-seuss-racial-unde/
It is not the list that bothers me, it’s the fact that there are some who actually take it seriously, that’s the biggest problem.
” it’s the fact that there are some who actually take it seriously”
Most fellow Canadians seem to take neo-nonsense seriously, so that simplifies the problem.
Life Follows Art dept.
Fermat’s Room :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ9y4SCLvNc
The same people who condemn homophobia and Islamophobia openly suck the tiny genitals of the leaders of the People’s Republic of China, where faggotry and Islam are recognized at the threats to national survival that they are.
It is of course the height of “racism” to dare criticize the Han. To point out that they are every inch the avaricious, heartless, godless monsters your drunken Ukrainian grandfather accused the Jews of being. That everything Israel is accused of doing secretly, the Han do openly.
It is the height of wokeness, of course, to call Gad Saad a Zionist pig, just because his Jewish family fled the Lebanese civil war rather than let the PLO slaughter them like pigs and toast the Prophet with Jewish blood.
“The same people who condemn homophobia and Islamophobia openly suck the tiny genitals of the leaders of the People’s Republic of China, where faggotry and Islam are recognized at the threats to national survival that they are.”
That’s an oxy/moronic statement.
There is a cure for that bane in the
Life Follows Art dept.
In Your Mind :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3bIFppm5VI
So is it not,cultural appropriation,racist and demeaning to provide tax dollars to people NOT LIKE ME?
I must be stoking feeling of inadequacy with every piece of wealth I am forced to contribute to the clueless and useless whatever their chosen identity.
For them to accept dollars from me is to diminish them..to demonstrate how weak I believe them to be..
I cannot be party to such evil.
I cannot in good “Wokeness” continue to fund these atrocities.
Sorry no more from me,I have learnt my lesson.
I can only contribute to me and my tribe.
I am beginning to warm to these idiots.
For it is true.
Paying idiots to be idiotic diminishes them in all eyes,especially their own.
We are demeaning all these wonderful special people by feeding them.
So.
let us stop.
Time for…
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
(“Abbey Road” Version)
Carry that weight.
Oh, she studied metaphysical science
Sorry for the grammatical comment…just saying.
I now understand those who want to leave this planet and go to Mars.
Somebody once said “Now I have given up hope, I feel much better”
I do my utmost to ignore the whole silliness, just put my head down and do my own thing. If somebody doesn’t like me, or what I do – screw ’em!
Perhaps we need to seperate / Segregate society by
Color
Fagability
Stupidity
Gender dysphoria stupidity