Meme - Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn: "As I said, a blueprint to destroy Literature."
Meg Pillow @megpillow: "And yes, I understand that sometimes we write characters who are awful ppl. But if those characters have reductive, hateful attitudes, those attitudes must be I challenged somewhere in the text. Otherwise, the only conclusion is that those attitudes are also shared by the writer"
Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn: "I've never seen a post that so succinctly details a plan to destroy Literature."
Thread by @AmericanGwyn on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "What Meg’s got ain’t nothing new. It goes all the way back to Plato, who argues, in The Republic, that dramatists should be kept out of his ideal city. He said they stirred up too many dangerous emotions in audiences. And actors were allowed to literally play gods on stage. The interesting thing is that Plato identified a real concern: if an actor can perform divinity, what does that say about being divine? Were the gods just actors, pacing the stage of Olympus? This is, of course, the same logic that got us advisory labels on records. This debate rushes down through Western Philosophy & Literature, sweeping up Horace ("Art should delight and instruct") and many others. Victorians worried about educating young Englishwomen on the novel (so many feels, so many corrupting ideas!). It isn't until Henry James's essay "The Art of Fiction" that we get a new argument: "the only responsibility of fiction is to be consistently interesting." Badly as I hate to agree with Henry James, he's right."
J.K. Rowling on X - "A novel is not a Human Resources training manual. If it has any merit at all, a novel is about humanity as it is, not as it should be. If you want sermons, go to church."
Billy Bragg on X - "They want to turn the whole world into a HR training manual, and to be able to punish anyone who objects. They are the Utopia builders, and they are very, very dangerous. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C. S. Lewis"
Thread by @wokal_distance on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Leftists can't get everyone to agree with them, so they made an entire lexicon of terms to explain why people don't believe their theories:
-false consciousness
-implicit bias
-epistemic violence
-motivated ignorance
-white fragility
-internalized racism
-cultural hegemony
They can't persuade people to become leftists by using the facts, or logic, or reason; so they spend all their energy trying to claim that everyone who disagrees with them is blinded to the truth. They can't persuade people to agree with them, they pour all their energy trying to come up with theories to explain why people aren't persuaded."
Meme - Candidly Tiff @tify330: "As a reminder, House leadership is a Black man, a Latino man and a white woman. There are no white men. Cheers to that!"
Left wingers are always sexist and racist
Toronto Star on X - "Queer rights are in danger in Canada. Pierre Poilievre owns some of the blame. The Conservative leader is playing politics with the lives of trans Canadians. #Opinion"
Jonathan Kay on X - "What is a “queer right”? If u mean gay marriage, everyone is in favour of that, including @PierrePoilievre. To make this attack on him work, u have to expand the defn of “queer rights” to include sterilizing kids, destroying women’s sports, & drag queen dildo hour at the library"
Zachary Tisdale 🇨🇦 on X - "Justin Ling means "politically queer", which means the right to be a total degenerate in public and force everyone to celebrate it."
Meme - *Knock knock*
"Hello Mr. Thompson, As you know there are conflicts ongoing with Russia, Iran and China, and Congress has instituted the draft. You are hereby ordered to active duty in the US Army"
"It's okay to be White"
"I'm sorry sir but that kind of extremism isn't tolerated in the Army, you are hereby disqualified from all military service."
"lol"
"That's the 88th guy this week..."
Meme - Eric Gewlas @JustErics: ""you know I'd like to celebrate Christmas right now but these Muslim are stopping me" said nobody ever."
Jon Jafari @JustErics @JonTrons...: "Berlin: At least 12 dead after truck crashes into Christma... indiatoday.intoday.in"
Cynical Publius on X - "I've been in a white/black interracial relationship (and then 30+ year marriage) since 1988. My wife and I agree that race relations in the USA in 2024 are the worst they have been since the day we first met. Realize please that I'm talking about something different than what is discussed below--I said "race relations" and not "racism" (although the two obviously are intertwined). In 2008 America was as close as it would ever be to stamping out its original sin of racism. American brotherhood and sisterhood without regard for race was in sight. It had been a long, hard slog, but we could see the finish line. Then Barack Obama got elected and he set out, quite deliberately and with malice aforethought, to drive racial wedges in our society at every turn. Why? Because Democrats gain and maintain power by pitting identity groups against each other. Obama knew this and he set back race relations to the 1970s. It was a crime--maybe not a legal crime, but surely a moral crime. American has not yet recovered, in large part because Obama's Fascist Democrat devotees truly learned the power of divisiveness. Let's place blame where it belongs."
Vatican Apologizes After Pope Francis Says There’s ‘Too Much Fa***try’ In Seminaries - "Pope Francis reportedly railed against the number of gay priests-in-training during a private address to Catholic bishops... He reportedly said that he was opposed to letting in candidates who were leading a “double life” by claiming to be celibate while secretly being gay"
Clearly, if you oppose Catholic priests-in-training who are supposed to be celibate having sex, you're a homophobe
The left wingers just seize on that to hate him further. But they hate everyone, including each other, anyway
Meme - soul khan @soulkhan: "staggering how many vulnerable people, particularly impoverished black people often already routinely traumatized by every level of existing in america, are ruined or killed by just not having money to pay for their pretrial freedom. morally diseased nation."
wanye @wanyeburkett: "This is the guy who has spent the entire week ridiculing Jews in NYC for feeling nervous about the fact that so many of their neighbors have revealed themselves to be antisemites over the last year"
Meme - Grummz @Grummz: "LOL. @GenshinImpact is F'ing based. The majority of these complaints are from people who can't distinguish fiction from reality, and see offensive things in everything."
haunted @hauntedfaee: ""Genshin is not real life" @Genshinimpact What kind of response is this when a player submits feedback about the racism and colorism? Embarrassing, unprofessional behaviour from a company of grown ups and supposed mature, well-read developers. #WhyAreTheyWhiteHoyo ?"
"Customer Service Customer Responded: Dear Traveler, Thank you for your feedback. Please be kindly reminded that Genshin Impact is a work of fiction and is not related to actual people, events, groups, or organizations. We do really hope for your understanding. Kind regards, Genshin Impact CS Team"
Left wingers have problems distinguishing fantasy and reality, which is why they insist on left wing politics being shoved into media
‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford - "In the same way that you don’t notice the specifics of your own culture until you travel elsewhere, you don’t really notice your social class until you enter another one. As an undergraduate at Yale a decade ago, I came to see that my peers had experienced a totally different social reality than me. I had grown up poor, a biracial product of family dysfunction, foster care and military service... I often found among my fellow students what I call “luxury beliefs”—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class but often inflict real costs on the lower classes. For example, a classmate told me “monogamy is kind of outdated” and not good for society. I asked her what her background was and if she planned to marry. She said she came from an affluent, stable, two-parent home—just like most of our classmates. She added that, yes, she personally planned to have a monogamous marriage, but quickly insisted that traditional families are old-fashioned and that society should “evolve” beyond them. My classmate’s promotion of one ideal (“monogamy is outdated”) while living by another (“I plan to get married”) was echoed by other students in different ways. Some would, for instance, tell me about the admiration they had for the military, or how trade schools were just as respectable as college, or how college was not necessary to be successful. But when I asked them if they would encourage their own children to enlist or become a plumber or an electrician rather than apply to college, they would demur or change the subject. In the past, people displayed their membership in the upper class with their material accouterments. As the economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen famously observed in his 1899 book “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” status symbols must be difficult to obtain and costly to purchase... Today, when luxury goods are more accessible to ordinary people than ever before, the elite need other ways to broadcast their social position. This helps explain why so many are now decoupling class from material goods and attaching it to beliefs. Take vocabulary. Your typical working-class American could not tell you what “heteronormative” or “cisgender” means. When someone uses the phrase “cultural appropriation,” what they are really saying is, “I was educated at a top college.” Only the affluent can afford to learn strange vocabulary. Ordinary people have real problems to worry about. When my classmates at Yale talked about abolishing the police or decriminalizing drugs, they seemed unaware of the attending costs because they were largely insulated from them. Reflecting on my own experiences with alcohol, if drugs had been legal and easily accessible when I was 15, you wouldn’t be reading this... A well-heeled student at an elite university can experiment with cocaine and will probably be just fine. A kid from a dysfunctional home with absentee parents is more likely to ride that first hit of meth to self-destruction. This may explain why a 2019 survey conducted by the Cato Institute found that more than 60% of Americans with at least a bachelor’s degree were in favor of legalizing drugs, while less than half of Americans without a college degree thought it was a good idea. Drugs may be a recreational pastime for the rich, but for the poor they are often a gateway to further pain. Similarly, a 2020 Yahoo News/YouGov survey found that the richest Americans showed the strongest support for defunding the police, while the poorest Americans reported the lowest support. Consider that compared with Americans who earn more than $50,000 a year, the poorest Americans are three times more likely to be victims of robbery, aggravated assault and sexual assault, according to federal statistics. Yet it’s affluent people who are calling to abolish law enforcement. Perhaps the luxury belief class is simply ignorant of the realities of crime. Most personal to me is the luxury belief that family is unimportant or that children are equally likely to thrive in all family structures. In 1960, the percentage of American children living with both biological parents was identical for affluent and working-class families—95%. By 2005, 85% of affluent families were still intact, but for working-class families the figure had plummeted to 30%. As the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam stated at a 2017 Senate hearing: “Rich kids and poor kids now grow up in separate Americas.” In 2006, more than half of American adults without a college degree believed it was “very important” that couples with children should be married, according to Gallup. Fast-forward to 2020, and this number had plummeted to 31%. Among college graduates polled by Gallup, only 25% thought couples should be married before having kids. Their actions, though, contradict their luxury beliefs: Most American college graduates who have children are married. Despite their behavior, affluent people are the most likely to say marriage is unimportant. Their message has spread. I noticed that many Yale students selectively concealed their opinions or facts about their lives. More than one quietly confessed to me that they were pretending to be poorer than they really were, because they didn’t want the stigma of being thought rich... It is harder for wealthy people to claim the mantle of victimhood, which, among the affluent, is often a key ingredient of righteousness. Researchers at Harvard Business School and Northwestern University recently found evidence of a “virtuous victim” effect, in which victims are seen as more moral than nonvictims who behave in exactly the same way: If people think you have suffered, they will be more likely to excuse your behavior. Perhaps this is why prestigious universities encourage students to nurture their grievances. The peculiar effect is that many of the most advantaged people are the most adept at conveying their disadvantages... If you ridicule the upper class as an outsider, they’ll ignore you. The requirements for the upper class to take you seriously—credentials, wealth, power—are also the grounds to brand you a hypocrite for daring to judge."
The left like to claim that if educated people are more likely to believe something, it is true. But that doesn't account for the luxury belief effect (especially when coupled with lived experience, like defunding the police)
Woke language changes fast because that's how insiders display their cachet
Yet more evidence that the left literally hate the rich
Big Tech’s big problem is also its ‘best-kept secret’: Caste discrimination - "America’s most prominent caste equity activist, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, was slated to give a talk at Google in April, for Dalit History Month. She was ready, she said, to explain to one of the world’s largest tech companies that caste oppression is a problem — and that it probably exists under its roof, too. She was armed with years worth of stats gathered through her civil rights organization, Equality Labs, which show that two-thirds of Dalits, those who have been historically oppressed under India’s caste system, have faced discrimination in their U.S. workplace. But as news spread of her impending appearance, not everyone at Google was happy. A handful of Hindu employees said that they felt “targeted” on the basis of religion, a company statement and several anonymous interviews confirmed. They appealed to Google leadership asking that the speech be canceled, and so it was... “It was very troubling that Google News management could not discern disinformation and bigotry,” Soundararajan told NBC Asian America. “We are seeing people who have multiple protected classes weaponize language of equity to avoid confronting the systems that have given them privilege.” In a statement to NBC Asian America, a Google representative said the company is against casteism, but Soundararajan’s speech would have been too divisive... It’s been two years since California sued tech conglomerate Cisco and blew open conversations about casteism in the U.S. (The lawsuit alleges the company failed to protect an Indian Dalit employee who was being actively targeted by his dominant-caste Hindu managers.)... While caste policies are sweeping some sectors, like academia, it’s still not an explicitly protected category federally or at the biggest U.S. tech companies. This means Dalits have little institutional support in the industry. It's difficult for their complaints about caste discrimination at work to lead to disciplinary action, especially if their co-workers claim religious discrimination in response. Religion, unlike caste, is a protected category in the workplace, and many non-Dalit coworkers aren't aware of the starkly different work environment they face, according to an expert... “Caste was the best kept secret at Google,” a current Google employee told NBC Asian America. “Nobody wanted to bring up the topic.”... co-workers have been reported to Human Resources as “Hinduphobic” for speaking up about casteism... Because of the field’s heavily South Asian makeup, experts say tech has the potential to be a leader in equity... Indian American Google CEO Sundar Pichai has long been vocal on issues of equality. In a note sent to the entire company in June 2020, he called out the “structural and systemic racism that Black people have experienced over generations.” He committed to improving representation in Google employees of all levels, starting anti-racism programming, donating money to racial justice orgs and supporting Black-owned businesses. But employees say when it comes to caste discrimination, the CEO, who is from a dominant caste, has been noticeably silent. “It’s very odd and malicious,” one of the anonymous Google employees said. "
It's racist to oppose discrimination
Weird. I thought rights were not like cake - more for one doesn't mean less for others
Of course, Google has no problems dividing their workforce along other lines
The same people who want caste (a foreign concept from a very particularly geographic area in the world) to be federally protected claim importing lots of people from a different culture has no downsides
30 female engineers from India ask Silicon Valley to do better on caste discrimination - The Washington Post - "Whenever Benjamin Kaila, a database administrator who immigrated from India to the United States in 1999, applies for a job at a U.S. tech company, he prays that there are no other Indians during the in-person interview. That’s because Kaila is a Dalit, or member of the lowest-ranked castes within India’s system of social hierarchy, formerly referred to as “untouchables.”... In more than 100 job interviews for contract work over the past 20 years, Kaila said he got only one job offer when another Indian interviewed him in person. When members of the interview panel have been Indian, Kaila says, he has faced personal questions that seem to be used to suss out whether he’s a member of an upper caste, like most of the Indians working in the tech industry... California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a landmark suit against Cisco and two of its former engineering managers, both upper-caste Indians, for discriminating against a Dalit engineer. After the lawsuit was announced, Equality Labs, a nonprofit advocacy group for Dalit rights, received complaints about caste bias from nearly 260 U.S. tech workers in three weeks, reported through the group’s website or in emails to individual staffers. Allegations included caste-based slurs and jokes, bullying, discriminatory hiring practices, bias in peer reviews, and sexual harassment, said executive director Thenmozhi Soundararajan... a group of 30 female Indian engineers who are members of the Dalit caste and work for Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco and other tech companies say they have faced caste bias inside the U.S. tech sector... The women, who shared the statement on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, argue that networks of engineers from the dominant castes have replicated the patterns of bias within the United States by favoring their peers in hiring, referrals and performance reviews... The tech industry has grown increasingly dependent on Indian workers. According to the State Department, the United States has issued more than 1.7 million H-1B visas since 2009, 65 percent of which have gone to people of Indian nationality. Close to 70 percent of H-1B visa holders work in the tech industry, up from less than 40 percent in 2003, says David J. Bier, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute... Big Tech’s annual company diversity reports typically don’t distinguish between East Asian or South Asian workers and do not delve into caste, class, or socioeconomic distinctions of any race or gender. And the immigration status of Dalit workers, including visas and green cards that require being sponsored by their employers, made it difficult for them to speak out against the discrimination they allege, says Soundararajan from Equality Labs, which is conducting a formal survey to follow-up on the claims they received this summer. “Just like racism, casteism is alive in America and in the tech sector,” said Seattle-based Microsoft engineer Raghav Kaushik, who was born into a dominant caste but who has been involved in advocacy work for years. “What is happening at Cisco is not a one-off thing; it’s indicative of a much larger phenomenon.”... Caste is often discovered through questions, not always through appearance. (Although Dalits may have a darker complexion, skin color is not synonymous with caste.) Questions about whether someone is a vegetarian, where they grew up, what religion they practice or who they married may be used as a “caste locator,” seven Indian engineers working in the United States said in interviews with The Post... Other tests include patting an Indian man on the back to see whether he is wearing a “sacred thread” worn by some Brahmins, the highest-ranked caste. (This gesture is sometimes referred to as the “Tam-Bram pat,” in reference to Tamil-speaking Brahmins.) Internal Microsoft emails from 2006 obtained by The Post indicate that caste bias is a long-standing problem within the industry. That year, after the Indian government announced affirmative action measures for marginalized castes, a debate broke out on a company thread about whether the bar was being lowered for Dalit candidates and about their inherent intelligence and work ethic. HR intervened but only to temporarily shut down the thread. No employees faced consequences for expressing bias against Dalits... The female engineers described Indian engineering managers from dominant castes who excluded them from opportunities for promotion, made inappropriate jokes about Dalit and Muslim women and about Dalit reservations (the Indian government’s term for affirmative action), and, in the worst cases, subjected them to sexual harassment. The Dalit women said they immigrated to the United States hoping to escape bullying and abuse they endured at India’s top engineering schools, where members of the dominant castes questioned their competence as developers. But elite academic centers, such as the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), also act as a feeder system for tech talent to Silicon Valley."
Internalised racism!
Meme - "Genuine question Why are almost all woke leftists so ugly?"
Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "People who perform badly within a successful existing society are more likely to want to destroy it. Obviously, lines like "4th Wavers/male incels are ugly" are to some extent just rude banter we shouldn't take seriously. BUT, there are 10+ very good studies that show that people who care intensely about movements of that kind tend to be "atypical" in psych profile, looks, etc. #spiteful_mutants"
Critics slam The Economist for 'racist' article calling Latin American workers 'useless' - "A recent article published in The Economist has drawn online backlash after its headline and heading characterized Latin American workers as "useless" and "unproductive."... The story, published Thursday in the London-based magazine that covers global and economic affairs, focuses on why Latin America, according to World Bank figures, is the world's slowest-growing regional economy. The article posited various factors, including governments' lack of investment in education, limited competition, a large informal economy and corruption. But scholars, journalists and historians pushed back online that the article's heading — “A land of useless workers,” and the headline, “Why are Latin American workers so strikingly unproductive?” played into racist tropes of Latin American workers as lazy."
Statistics are racist. Time to pretend it's not a problem and cook the books to prevent "racist stereotypes" from being "perpetuated". And then when their economic performance becomes even worse, blame US intervention in the 1960s
Some Americans claimed that the article must be wrong, because they were hardworking in the USA. As usual this was poor comprehension skills and being unable to conceive of the rest of the world, since the article was talking about Latin American countries, not Latin American immigrants to the US
Students defend professor after sit-in over racial climate - "students in the demonstration described grammar and spelling corrections he made on their dissertation proposals as a form of “micro-aggression.” “I have attempted to be rather thorough on the papers and am particularly concerned that they do a good job with their bibliographies and citations, and these students apparently don’t feel that is appropriate,” Rust said in the letter... Students defend professor after sit-in over racial climate - Daily Bruin - " Emily Le, a graduate student in the school who has known Rust for about 10 years, said she thought it was unjust for sit-in participants to accuse Rust of being part of a hostile environment because he is a supporter of intercultural learning and collaboration. “It is disturbing that students would make such unfounded accusations based on misperceptions of what they believe as racism,” Le said. Le said she thought the demonstrators should not have claimed to represent all students of color... Le said the sit-in organizers should have emailed the entire department, so other minority students could choose whether to participate instead of being grouped as in support of the protest because they are students of color."
Common Sense Extremists on X - "Phrases only white people utter: “I don’t see race!” “We all bleed red, white and blue” “As long as they share our values!”"
After JD Vance’s attack, who will stand up for British Muslims like me? - "During a speech at a rightwing conference last week, Vance said had been wondering which ‘truly Islamist country’ would be the first to gain access to nuclear weapons. Recounting a conversation he had with a friend, he told the audience: ‘Maybe it is Iran, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we finally decided that it’s actually the UK – since Labour just took over.’"
Condemning Islamism is Islamophobic. If you don't accept Sharia Law, you're a bigot
Meme - "Brown Man in car having fatally injured 5 people: Allahu akbar!!!
Dying Person 1: Don't mix everything together. Don't play the game of the far right
Dying Person 2: Don't fuel hatred.
Dying Person 3: Don't forget we colonized his country.
Dying Person 4: It is an isolated case, a crazy man.
Dying Person 5: He was manipulated by the system"
Leaked memo shows J.D. Vance’s anti-woke ideology on foreign affairs - The Washington Post - "Trump’s VP pick froze dozens of ambassador nominations over issues like gender transition care and diversity hiring, offering a glimpse into his anti-establishment views... For many conservatives, Vance’s oversight was a welcome response to long-standing concerns within the GOP that the United States has elevated left-leaning social values at the expense of American interests and alienating partners in more conservative regions of Africa, Latin America or Asia. Many liberals saw the move as a bid to prioritize his conservative agenda in a way that delayed qualified nominees from taking assignments critical to maintaining U.S. standing in the world."
This won't stop the left from pretending that the establishment isn't woke, and that SJWs are somehow anti-establishment
I like how not letting ambassadors impose a cultural agenda on foreign nations is somehow a bad thing. Cultural imperialism is good when it pushes the left wing agenda