‘What The Hell?’: Jordan Peterson Reacts After Famed Woke Activist Seems To Mock Him In Captain America Comic - "Peterson’s emphasis on self-reliance brought him millions of readers, emboldening them to take responsibility for their lives and actions. When rap superstar Kanye West took the highly-controversial step of having the audacity to say complimentary things about former President Donald Trump, Coates bitterly attacked him, writing in an article titled, “I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye”"
Jordan Peterson trolls Marvel comics for depicting him as supervillain - "Peterson and his fans have published a number of videos in which Peterson discusses Nazism and fascism, including one particularly viral video titles "Why Hitler was Even More Evil Than You Think" and another where he dissects the Nazi propaganda film "The Eternal Jew.""
Nymdok on Twitter - "Just for fun, and to show the Godwin's Law level of absurdity here, I took some pictures of the Red Skull and put ACTUAL Jordan Peterson quotes on them. I hope they entertain you as much as they've entertained me."
"Dont compare yourself with other people. Compare yourself with who you were yesterday."
"Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to hell."
"It's very hard to find your own words -and you don't actually exist until you have your own words."
🇺🇸🧢Häxanäx☂️ (Minds: @haxanax) on Twitter - "I did the same with some Ta-Nehisi Coates quotes:"
"Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?"
"I 'moderately' prefer people of a darker hue compared to people of a lighter hue."
"A white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant"
"(9/11 first responders) were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature"
In New Captain America, Steve Rogers Swayed By Red Skull Videos To Take Responsibility, Clean Room | The Babylon Bee - "Red Skull is known for sharing dangerous and counter-cultural messages to young men-- telling them to take responsibility, order their lives properly, and clean up their rooms. Ta-Nehisi Coates has penned the gripping new storyline where America’s spandex-clad champion, who has historically stood for justice and democracy, is converted into the polar opposite of all that: an alt-right sympathizer who works on himself and refuses to use a person’s preferred pronouns. Captain America is basically a Nazi now. In the story, the villainous Red Skull is depicted as ensnaring the disaffected youths of a postmodern culture with evil alt-right messages like "tell the truth", and "pet a cat when you encounter one on the street." In one horrific scene, Steve follows the Red Skull’s nefarious and bigoted advice to “make something beautiful” and to “set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.” We see him whisper "Hail Hydra" as he organizes his closet. He then hangs a beautiful Monet painting on the wall of his recently redecorated home office. Experts say Captain America is only the latest to be sucked in by Red Skull's evil call to self-improvement and straddling the line between order and chaos. Marvel has hinted that in the next issue, Captain America will undergo diversity and anti-racist training at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, and be rescued from the dark path he's on."
Jordan Peterson on being Marvel's new Captain America villain - "Peterson had appeared to embrace the image, retweeting various fan-created images of Red Skull’s face contrasted with the academic’s more innocuous quotes, such as “clean your room” and “don’t lie about anything, ever.” Together with his daughter Mikhaila, Peterson said he intended to use the Red Skull images in an as-yet unspecified charitable endeavour and “determine if the whole surreal event could be transformed into something good instead of something underhanded and malevolent.”"
Ovid's Movement From Mythology - "While most works focus on the geographical religion of their time, Ovid writes an epic which breaks this model by diminishing the gods and moving towards the glorification of a Roman Empire standing on the foundation of its people, not the chaos of the gods. The Metamorpheses is an epic poem illustrating the transformations gods inflicted upon mortals, but Ovid’s central claim digs deeper than anecdotal story-telling; Ovid strengthens the Roman Empire by stating they can, and will, thrive without the gods' unnecessary antagonization the mortals are constantly pestered by for the entirety of their existence. This ideal becomes indisputable with each metamorphosis—being a change in the body, not the hard-driven Roman soul—and the final corollary of Ovid’s eventual immortality for his work in revealing the futile codependency the Romans have on the gods. Ovid urges the Romans to repel the gods' unedifying nature by focusing solely on rectifying the Roman Empire through analyzing the relationship between mortals and immortals, specifically, the wrathful hindrance the gods are to the Roman Empire. It is in this very nature the gods become a story-telling mystique rather than a belief system and Ovid furthers the exaltation of Rome. Ovid aims to influence the Roman people that they do not need the gods to succeed, but rather, self-reliance is the most important in helping their empire to flourish. This is seen throughout the epic when a mortal is wrongly persecuted by a god, to which the god claims is “their will.” Ovid mocks the Romans for idolizing the gods despite such great wrongs they are afflicting on their brethren... [Ovid's poems] actively represent the notion that it is the gods who are doing the horrific acts that follow. Ovid is simply compiling them so the average Roman may understand that the gods do not do enough to help them. Ovid asserts clearly, from the beginning, it is the gods who plague them so, and it is the gods we idolize"
Where Does the Myth of Medusa Come From? - "In the oldest surviving sources for the Medusa myth, she is seemingly born a Gorgon with the ability to turn people to stone at a glance, she is never raped by Poseidon, and she is never cursed by Athena... This story [of Medusa's rape] is not attested in any source before Ovid. It therefore seems highly probable that Ovid invented the whole backstory of Medusa himself...
It is in this context of the feminist reinterpretation of the Medusa myth that, in 2008, the Argentine-Italian sculptor Luciano Garbati created his sculpture Medusa with the Head of Perseus as a direct riposte to Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus with the Head of Medusa. The statue depicts the Gorgon Medusa standing nude with a defiant stare on her face, holding a sword in her left hand and the severed head of Perseus in her right hand... he chose to depict Medusa in a way that aligns very well with conventional twenty-first-century American ideas about beauty; she portrayed as young, tall, and extremely thin, without any trace of fat or body hair, and, for some reason, her genitals seem to be entirely missing.Not only does this image not comport with how the classical Greeks imagined Medusa, it doesn’t even align with how the Greeks imagined goddesses. All you have to do is look at any Greek statue of Aphrodite to see that the ancient Greeks imagined her as a lot more voluptuous than the Medusa we see in Garbati’s statue... Another problem I have is that, in Ovid’s telling of the story, Perseus is not the man who rapes Medusa; Neptune is the one who does that. Perseus is just a mortal pawn who is sent to decapitate her. If you want to use the statue as a commentary on the Me Too movement, it would be a lot more fitting if Medusa were holding the severed head of Neptune, rather than the head of Perseus. It’s not right for a male rapist in a position of power to get away with everything while a man in a much lower position takes all the blame... Finally, to me at least, it seems like it’s maybe not such a good idea to have a statue of a grisly beheading of any sort directly outside a courthouse. I understand the message that they’re trying to send about how the world is changing and men who rape and abuse women are going to start facing justice, but, in order to understand the piece, you really need to know the background about Ovid’s version of the Medusa myth, Benvenuto Cellini’s statue of Perseus, and the feminist rehabilitation of Medusa in the twentieth century.People who don’t know the complex history behind the sculpture are going to inevitably interpret it as nothing more than a glorification of violence. For this reason, I think that the statue really needs to be contextualized and it is better suited to a museum than the outside of a courthouse."
The Medusa #MeToo sculpture is a great commentary on how #MeToo persecutes innocent men
Newly unveiled Medusa statue is criticised by feminists - "it has drawn criticism from others who questioned why the work was done by a male sculptor... Activist Wagatwe Wanjuki wrote on Twitter: '#MeToo was started by a black woman, but a sculpture of a European character by a dude is the commentary that gets centred? Sigh.'"
Grievance mongers cannot rest because it is their raison d'etre
Identity politics means identity is more important than what you do
Cuomo’s New York Is Just Throwing Away Vaccines Rather Than Distributing Them Competently - "New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, is the main man to blame. On December 28, he signed an executive order rolling out strict penalties—up to $1 million in fines, plus loss of medical license—for medical providers who allow people to skip the state-issued vaccination line, even when those doses are about to expire."
Gov. Cuomo says NY isn't ready to follow federal advice on going maskless - "State Sen. Jim Tedisco (R-Glenville) invoked the state’s scandal over nursing home deaths from COVID-19 in saying that “our best bet as constituents is to always follow the CDC because we’ve seen what the ‘experts’ in New York state have provided.” “I don’t think anything this governor says about using experts in New York state is true”"
Cuomo’s Family Is Said to Have Received Special Access to Virus Tests - The New York Times
'These people and their f*cking tree houses,' Gov. Cuomo said of Jewish holiday Sukkot
Glenn Greenwald on Twitter - "CNN put Andrew Cuomo on their airwaves repeatedly with his brother so that the Governor could be heralded -- by his own brother, a CNN host -- as the Brave, Honest Leader that the country needed. Meanwhile:"
Chris Cuomo Advised Gov. Andrew Cuomo After Sexual Harassment Allegations - The New York Times - "The CNN prime-time host Chris Cuomo offered public-relations advice to his brother, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, after a series of sexual harassment allegations threatened the governor’s political career earlier this year, an unusual breach of traditional barriers between lawmakers and journalists. CNN said on Thursday that the conversations were “inappropriate” and that Chris Cuomo would refrain from any more similar discussions with the governor’s staff. But the network said it would take no disciplinary action against the anchor"
Inside Andrew Cuomo’s Toxic Workplace - "Andrew Cuomo’s governorship has been defined by cruelty that disguised chronic mismanagement. Why was that celebrated for so long?... In January, State Attorney General Letitia James released a report showing that his administration had underreported COVID deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50 percent. In February, liberal State Assembly member Ron Kim, who had criticized the governor in the wake of that report, spoke publicly about how Cuomo called him at home and threatened his career. Then the floodgates opened: His adversary Mayor Bill de Blasio called the bullying “classic Andrew Cuomo”; state legislators Alessandra Biaggi and Yuh-Line Niou began openly suggesting that the governor’s hard-knuckled approach to politics is simply abusive. And since last month, when Cuomo’s former aide and candidate for Manhattan borough president, Lindsey Boylan, published an article on Medium accusing him of sexually harassing and kissing her against her will, five more women have come forward with tales of harassment, objectification, and inappropriate touching... That Andrew Cuomo is being characterized by fellow Democratic politicians as a lecherous tyrant who empowers his staff to threaten and intimidate should not, in some ways, come as a surprise. During his decade as governor, he has often strutted his thuggish paternalism while his top aides disparaged those who challenged him. Two years ago, a Cuomo spokesman called three female state lawmakers in his party “fucking idiots.” In 2013, Cuomo created the Moreland Commission to investigate public corruption, only to shut it down abruptly less than a year later amid allegations that he had obstructed its work; one of Cuomo’s closest associates, Joe Percoco, is serving a six-year term in federal prison on bribery charges. But until now, none of this left a lasting mark on the governor. If anything, it burnished his reputation: Cuomo was a bully, but he was our bully... In speaking with 30 women about their experiences with Cuomo, almost all who worked for him commented on the extreme pressure applied by both the governor and his top female aides to dress well and expensively; some were told explicitly by senior staff that they had to wear heels whenever he was around... Both Cuomo and DeRosa, who heads New York’s Council on Women and Girls, regularly wield feminist language as a cudgel against feminist critics. On March 8, DeRosa took to Twitter to tout Cuomo’s high approval ratings with women as defense against allegations of harassment. And at the briefing when Cuomo first addressed harassment claims, DeRosa was at his side, spouting a word cloud of pseudo-feminist obfuscation about the administration’s work to “further women’s rights, to expand protections for women in the workplace, maternal health, reproductive health” (claims complicated by the administration’s cuts to Medicaid eligibility and long delays in pushing through the Reproductive Health Act). She touted the number of women appointed to senior staff, claiming that “we’ve promoted each other and we’ve supported one another.”But many women who worked with DeRosa recalled her as the opposite of supportive, describing her instead as territorial and unkind... “He makes things up like I’ve never seen anyone do before,” said Lipton. “He makes people who disagree with him feel like they’re crazy.” It’s a pattern that — like his narcissism, theatrical bombast, love of cameras, hatred of “experts,” and the fact that, as one national reporter who covered him said, “I don’t think he believes in much, except that he wants to be powerful”—makes Cuomo not the anti-Trump that many imagined him, but rather the 45th president’s Democratic twin. Or, as one person put it to me, they are “the same person” but for “two major exceptions: Fred Trump was Donald Trump’s father, and Mario Cuomo was Andrew Cuomo’s father.”"
Andrew Cuomo on Twitter - "Once again, the president has cruelly mocked and attacked a private citizen. This time, it was the woman who credibly accused his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault. Trump has a history of standing with abusive men. We stand with Christine."
"Elected leaders have a responsibility to stand up for survivors of sexual abuse. Senate Republicans must #BelieveSurvivors."
Former Aide Says Cuomo ‘Kissed Me on the Lips’ - The New York Times - "A former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo published an essay on Wednesday accusing the governor of sexual harassment, saying he jokingly suggested a strip poker game and gave her an unwanted kiss, among other unsettling episodes. The aide, Lindsey Boylan, said that she left her job as a special adviser to the governor shortly after the incident where he “kissed me on the lips.”... Ms. Boylan first publicly accused Mr. Cuomo of sexual harassment in posts on Twitter in December. Mr. Cuomo denied her allegations at the time... Ms. Boylan wrote that reprisals like that had a chilling effect on other victims of the governor’s behavior. “There are many more of us,” she wrote, “but most are too afraid to speak up.”"
Only "survivors" of Republicans must be believed
BREAKING: NY Governor Cuomo accused of sexual harassment by former government official - "Governor Cuomo has a controversial relationship with the MeToo movement. In 2019, Cuomo's office announced that "the TIME'S UP New York Safety Agenda is included in the 2019 Executive Budget," a "four-part initiative to amend New York law in an effort to prevent sexual harassment and assault from occurring and enable survivors to seek justice."The initiative involved removing the statute of limitations on second and third degree sexual assault and rape cases, "lowering the high bar set for employees to hold employers accountable" for workplace sexual harassment, requiring non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to contain clauses affirming the rights of alleged victims to report workplace sexual harassment claims, and forcing workplaces to set up anti-sexual harassment posters approved by the State Division of Human Rights."
The Tao of Kat on Twitter - Ah yes, the rapist Brett Kavanaugh. Add him to the list." - Jul 21, 2019
The Tao of Kat on Twitter - "DO NOT RESIGN. Innocent until proven guilty. That is the law." - Mar 12, 2021
