In which we marvel at the mental contortions of our self-imagined betters.
The year began with an oddly specific medical diagnosis courtesy of the Guardian, where Afua Hirsch informed us that boob eczema is caused by “racist microaggressions.” Readers were left to suppose that the condition might only be resolved by lengthy grumbling about “structural racism” and the oppressive nature of “whiteness.” More prosaic solutions – say, a change of detergent, or indeed bra, were not explored. “Whiteness” also bedevilled Ms Cristina Beltrán, an associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, who was both mystified and aggravated by the existence of non-white Trump supporters, and who identified “multiracial whiteness” as the only conceivable explanation. For Ms Beltrán, non-white voters who prefer to be engaged with as individuals, as opposed to racial mascots, are merely surrendering to “whiteness” and “white supremacy.” And so, Ms Beltrán bemoaned racism and “the debasement of others” while casually erasing agency from anyone brownish who happens to disagree with her.
Meanwhile, academics at the University of York were rendered fretful and distraught by an image on the website of an art history conference – specifically, of the seventeenth-century Buddhist figurine, the three wise monkeys – which, via much focussing of intersectional lenses, was construed by our academics as a caricature of black people, and therefore oppressive. And denunciations of “whiteness” and “white supremacy” also featured in a mandatory course at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. On grounds that, in order to be a dentist, you must first submit to condescension and insults, and accusations of being either a bigot or an enabler of bigotry, based solely on unchangeable aspects of your appearance.
David, to hell 2021. It takes a special level of stupid to believe that we are going to go into a third year of a fake pandemic.
David does a remarkable job of reading this crap so we don’t have to. A service to humanity, David.
David.
And not of these intersectional Non-Cisgender bent LGBTQRTRANS22AAFKANYONE Woke imbeciles will ever learn:
How to change a Tire or their Oil/Filter
Frame a Basement
Clean out a pee trap.
Let alone wipe their own ass….
We’ve already gone over the top of the Democratic Bell curve…and things are definitely speeding up….
Our politicians have been imposing shit on us for decades now in the name of ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ but it is far from that as each and every one add another layer of restrictions on your actual freedom.
3 layers of politicians with laws and restrictions as well as any groups that our governments of the day favor.
Bankers/Insurance love this as they’ve paid substantial investments in our politicians to ensure laws and restrictions give them guarantees of investments and income.
The US Federal Reserves(private bankers but nifty name) control the US Reserve Currency Status which is a monopoly that can turn your currency to toilet paper if you don’t follow whatever they want our governments and politicians to impose.
Decades and decades of laws and restrictions imposed without your say so and very few actually are rescinded making you poorer and poorer as inflation cuts into the purchasing power of our currency.
Reduced to Plastic Money…Really?
I’m reminded of the fun and games in China that resulted from The Gang of Four over 40 years ago. It seemed that all of the country’s ills and shortcomings were blamed on them.
One wiseacre restaurant owner tried to wiggle his way out of a fine by blaming a defective exhaust fan on TGOF. That was one instance when it didn’t work and he had to fork over some money to keep out of jail.
The more I lern about Maoists in China, and their techniques, the more I see cancel culture as very similar techniques. I am right to call the advocates of these strategies Maolings.
The original Three Wise Monkeys were carved in the early 1600s by a man who had probably never seen a non-Japanese person. The monkeys themselves are Macaca fuscata, the Japanese macaque, also known as the Snow Monkey because it is the northernmost living non-human primate. It is pale of skin and hair, although the face turns to red as they age. The great daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi was knicknamed after them. The Three Wise Monkeys have faces painted white.
Macaques are widespread and native to Europe to this day, most notably in Gibraltar, where they have never been used, due to their Caucasian appearance, to symbolize black Africans, because that would be silly.
https://infogalactic.com/info/File:Macaca_fuscata_juvenile_yawning.jpg
But these are just icky facts.