Meme - "You don't belong in this School. Filthy BlackBlood! And keep your filthy monkey hands away from Lily! Snigerrus!"
Hang im upside down james! Teach dat monkey!"
"Grand Wizard James P."
Bit Paine ⚡️ on X - "I’m once again reminding you that people don’t hate racially diverse casting; they hate 1) double standards, 2) badly made films, and 3) the injection of the leftist political messaging in every single piece of media. The racebending of Snape and Hermione checks all the boxes, but is most egregious because of 3:
1) Hermione spends the majority of the films being called a “mudblood” by the blond white kid.
2) Snape is likewise bullied, ostracized, and distrusted. Accused of crimes he did not commit. Literally strung up and tortured by a bunch of white boys after being rejected by the white girl he had a crush on.
Casting a mixed-race girl to play Hermione and a Black guy to play Snape inserts obvious modern racial political overtones into all of these interactions that distract from the story and the characters. That these two characters in particular were race-bended while others were recast as virtual carbon copies means this decision cannot credibly be given the benefit of the doubt. People don’t want everything to be about leftist politics. They’re sick of it. It cheapens the writing, which already addressed the themes of eugenics, slavery, totalitarianism, propaganda, discrimination, and social ostracism, but did so using world-building and metaphor in a politically agnostic way. It examined themes in the abstract rather than being one step removed from a political yard sign. This is what good writers and filmmakers do because it universalizes the message and doesn’t insult the intelligence of the audience.
WHEN HERMIONE IS CALLED A MUDBLOOD, IT’S AN ALLEGORY FOR EUGENICS
Yeah, no shit, everyone with a brain already got that. They didn’t need it spelled out by casting a mixed girl. (By the way, the American South is not the only time in history that people have cared about bloodline purity, so you haven’t deepened the allegory by underlining it in red marker; you cheapened and provincialized it) People just want good writing and filmmaking. They don’t want everything everywhere to be a vessel for hack writers and leftist propagandists. And they’re not racist for wanting that. But you’re making them racist by making everything about race and politicizing beloved media in the process."
livviepope: Book moments: 1/? - "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, chapter 14. ‘I told you to shut up about my dad!’ Harry yelled. ‘I know the truth, all right? He saved your life! Dumbledore told me! You wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for my dad!’ Snape’s sallow skin had gone the colour of sour milk. ‘And did the Headmaster tell you the circumstances in which your father saved my life?’ he whispered. ‘Or did he consider the details too unpleasant for precious Potter’s delicate ears?’"
If you don't think Snape can be black, you're racist
dataconny on X - "Deathly Hallows, Chapter 32, "The Elder Wand." 'And now Snape looked at Voldemort, and Snape’s face was like a death mask. It was marble white'"
Greg on X - "1. "Professor Snape, the Potions master, was a thin, greasy-haired man with a pale, sneering face." (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8)
2. "Snape's pale face was twisted in a snarl." (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 13)"
Brody on X - "Snape-the-teenager had a stringy, pallid look about him, like a plant kept in the dark. His hair was lank and greasy and was flopping onto the table, his hooked nose barely half an inch from the surface of the parchment as he scribbled." Order of the pheonix ch 28"
Ryan Kinel - RK Outpost on X - "I've actually read all of the books, unlike you, so I'll help you out. Snape is described several times as "pale", multiple times as having "pallid" and "sallow" skin, once as the "color of sour milk", and since even that isn't enough, it's described quite literally as "marble white" during his last confrontation with Voldemort in Deathly Hallows. Hope that helps, you retarded fuck."
Meme - Christina Hoff Sommers @CHSommers: "If the whole industry had been rapidly expanding at the time, you could perhaps have pulled this off in a graceful way. But it was at best stagnant, so what we got was exactly what Savage says - a brief but intense period when the hiring bar for white men became very high. One of the big flaws of affirmative action as a framework is that nobody ever wants to say "colleges discriminated against Asian applicants and that was good" or that "elite media did a young white man hiring freeze and that was good.""
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias: "One of several fatal flaws with affirmative action as a paradigm is that when it happens, its proponents don't ever really want to make the case for it - you're supposed to deny it's going on."
Thread by @HistoricHive on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - [On race swapping] "A collective groan, the predictable 'why do you even care?'—and then memory-holed within a week. Why do they keep doing this, and what should the response be? Short 🧵
History enthusiasts will scoff, but this is of little concern to streaming platforms, who cater to a large, impressionable audience. This audience, mostly unfamiliar with Cleopatra's Ptolemaic lineage, the ethnic composition of London in 1940, etc. are treated to 'docuseries'. Here, intriguing yet mostly inconsequential figures are playfully reimagined as black, in a format often resembling a drama... But the viewer is allowed, and indeed persuaded, to believe that what they see is accurate. An array of 'historians', with credentials to match, provide compelling testimony to Cleopatra's blackness: (That this was included in the trailer is entirely intentional.)
Occasionally, a figure of great renown is begrudgingly covered. Unable to deceive the viewer in appearance, the protagonist is reduced in other ways:
Napoleon: abusive, petulant cuckold
Alexander: part-time conqueror, full-time homosexual
Caesar: compared to Trump (?) ⬇️
In Britain, such media is complemented by a wider state-funded effort to assure the public that black people have not only 'been here from the start', but indeed built Britain. ⬇️ Aired on CBBC, the British government's channel for children.
The indoctrination continues through to higher education... Terms like 'Anglo-Saxon', which dare to suggest the existence of an English ethnicity, are bravely dismantled... The ambiguous “Early Medieval English” is the preferred alternative.
So what is the goal? To assuage the head-spinning changes to the ethnic composition of Europe & America? Or to instil in ethnic minorities the sense that they have a greater stake in their host nations? Perhaps more importantly, what is the appropriate response to the deliberately subversion of your history? Few comparative examples exist. In 20th century Germany & Russia, the perceived subversive forces were purged. History is being reimagined as truth to shore up legitimacy of the real world status quo, but the distortion of facts has consequences. A younger generation, inquisitive in thought and independent in the search of truth, will not forget the subversion of their heritage."
Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers on X - "The AP is concerned that there are too few Somalis snowboarding for the Swedish Olympic team. Every time you think the media has evolved to be more sophisticated and serious since the 2012-2020 era, you get an item like this."
Delta flight attendant works with all-Black crew for the first - "A Delta flight attendant captured a special moment in her career - the first time she's worked with an all-Black crew during a flight. It was a regular work day for Felicia Kaye at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. She had picked up the flight last minute to get extra hours and was preparing to fly from Atlanta to Kansas City... Although a first for Kaye, this isn't the first time an all-Black crew has operated a Delta flight, according to the airline... The Delta employee said she's excited to see it happen more often. "The company is so progressive. Delta is so diverse, and it just really, really made me feel Delta proud," Kaye said."
Considering that this is statistically much less likely than an all-white flight if it were a random draw...
Meme - Some dude @NWordBiden: "In 2024 black people committed 80x more murders than tornadoes did"
Feru @ferupity: "White people really not scared of shit but diversity omg."
Brandon Copic @BrandonCopicWx: "Congrats to @BryceShelton01 and @tornadopaigeyy. on their engagement! *proposal with tornado in background*"
Meme - "HELLEN FROM 'TROY' (2004) *Diane Kruger*
HELLEN FROM 'THE ODYSSEY' (2026) *Lupita Nyong'o*"
Race aside, this face would only launch garbage ships
Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "I don't remember an extended period of time in which black actors consistently played three-dimensional characters in movies. Prior to the 60s, they barely existed. In the 60s, they became pets for liberal screenwriters. The 70s brought a mixture of stereotyping, condescension, and saintliness. In the 80s, black lead characters tended to be charismatic but one-dimensional. By the 90s, there was an introduction of some nuance and realism in the roles they played, but by the 2000s, black actors generally reverted to a second-fiddle presence and were once again too often imbued with white guilt-generated nobility and saintliness. They were almost never the bad guys or incompetent or violent. If anything, independent moviemakers of the last decade or so are doing work in which black characters have a fuller range of characteristics and situations, even though the progressive impulse to make sure they don't fall into "stereotype" remains."
Coddled affluent professional @feelsdesperate: "Paraphrasing Walter Kirn: I’m old enough to remember when black people had good roles and interesting characters in movies and weren’t two dimensional ideological props."
U of A staff, students speak out against move to axe EDI from hiring policy - "The University of Alberta is proposing to eliminate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy. The move comes a year after the school’s president announced the U of A was moving away from the term, saying it had become polarizing for some. In the current university recruitment policy, the recommendation is when two candidates are similarly qualified for a position, hiring panels should favour candidates from historically under-represented groups. A draft recruitment policy heading to the board of governors for approval removes that practice and eliminates references to the university’s commitments to correct employment disadvantages... some members of the university say they worry it shows a lack of transparency and walks back commitments... “EDI statements are sometimes creative works of fiction — not really how people run their research groups,” one respondent said. “Being worried or scared to say a joke or comment that will come back at you. Wanting to be yourself but also not offending people,” another participant told facilitators. A note from another respondent shared that some feel left out."
Left wingers get very upset when you ban racial and sexual discrimination, and other forms of discrimination
Thread by @Afinetheorem on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Wild Canada fact: they established a "Canada Research Chair" program to hire top global researchers. Added new rules so that makeup must match Canada's domestic gender/racial makeup (though most candidates are intl!). Result: you *literally* can't hire a white guy for a CRC. I mean that, literally. At U Toronto, until 2030 you can't even put a white guy up - no matter if it was a Nobel Prize winner. And to be clear, this was the federal government's *main policy* to recruit top researchers from abroad. Interesting to see challenge from Calgary...
And yes, I really do mean literally: Put this in the set of "policies that will cause political blowback when they become more salient". We don't have to do this!"
Jan Jekielek on X - "“Every single NIH employee had to write… a loyalty oath to DEI principles.” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reveals that the woke ideology infected science over the past 20 years. “None of it actually translated over to better health for anybody.” It’s worse than we think. “Over the last 15-20 years, the NIH incorporated into its agenda things I can only characterize as political agendas rather than scientific agendas.” “Probably the most prominent example of this is DEI.” “If you’re a researcher outside the NIH, the ticket to getting extra, relatively easy funds was to promise to do DEI research.” “Much of that research had no real scientific basis at all” and did not translate into better health outcomes for minorities or anyone else. And here’s what worse: “At the end of the year, the NIH would often have some money left over.” “The NIH program officers would go to the people who were doing these projects… and say, ‘look, we have some money left over, if you propose a diversity supplement,’—meaning essentially some DEI add-on that wasn’t actually good science—‘then you can get access to extra money for your research.’” “It was basically wasting taxpayer money that had no chance of improving the health of anybody.” “We’ve gotten rid of all that.” @NIHDirector_Jay @DrJBhattacharya"
The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University
arctotherium on X - "Brazilian study finds that affirmative action has a strong negative effect on the wages of non-affirmative action admits (19% more AA-admits => 14% lower wages of highly-ranked students). Why? Less enrollment in top firms, less networking, and less measured learning."
GeroDoc on X - "👇When people call the DEI craze “race marxism” it’s not just done to call up the spectre of communism in people’s heads. It’s because it’s precisely a racialized version of the ideology that literally rotted out the USSR from the inside. Soviet Russia installed mediocrities and idiots into positions of power because they were the “proletariat” who mouthed the right things about the anti-capitalist struggle, who then proceeded to make sure nothing worked for anyone. The HBO miniseries “Chernobyl“ has an unforgettable scene in it which features a party functionary - a sneering corpulent deputy secretary named Garanin whom it is revealed that prior to the communist revolution worked in a shoe factory. Yet, in the HBO series, he wielded power to the degree where he made life or death decisions about nuclear safety. It’s worth noting that many historians see the Chernobyl disaster as a key event that eventually brought down the Soviet Union"
Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 NOW: DC and Maryland Democrats are STILL pumping raw sewage DIRECTLY into waterways leading to the Potomac River, with NO end in sight Where the hell are the environmentalists??! Oh that’s right — they don’t care, b/c this isn’t politically expedient"
End Wokeness on X - "DC Water Chair Unique Morris Hughes: "The disruption work that I'm doing is I am on a mission to make sure black & brown kids" get careers They just had a historic sewage spill"
Meme - End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "The worst sewage spill in U.S. history. but at least DC Water's staff is 82% "BIPOC""
"WATER EQUITY FOR ALL. Employee Equity. 82% BIPOC Representation. 32% Female Leadership"
Clearly, diversity improves performance. Imagine how much worse it'd be without DEI?
Meme - Bob Grotz: "Group photo reflecting the community that is responsible for the massive sewage spill into the Potomac."
End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "The worst sewage spill in US, history, but at least DC Water's leadership is "diverse""
DC Water CEO: 'We Had Too Many White Men in Charge' - "every time we hear stories about companies that have sacrificed competency for skin color, disaster strikes. "
Curtis Houck on X - "Here we go, folks. The left and the media are going to turn this spring and summer's putrid-smelling Potomac into Trump's fault and no one else's. Not D.C. Water, not D.C. government, not Maryland. Trump."
White Papers Policy Institute on X - "Lee Kuan Yew tried to reverse engineer the norms of Anglo-Protestant society and discovered you can't within a diverse environment. As a result Singapore is one of the most paternalistic states in the world with a lot of race based laws and system designed to 'manage' diversity. The presidency is rotated based on race, where you can live is determined by race, part of your paycheck is given to official state sanctioned racial 'self-help' organizations. You can go to jail for hurting the feelings of other racial groups. If Singapore is the best example of how to run a diverse society you should not want to live in a diverse society."
Meme - "Western culture portrayed by Westerners *Black man in King and Conqueror* *Black Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn with Black Paapa Essiedu as her brother George* *Black Earl Morcar of Northumbria and Black sister [?]* *Black King Edward VI in My Lady Jane*
Western culture portrayed by the Japanese *Frieren: Beyond Journey's End ballroom dance*"
Meme - Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry: "Every year they create a fake competition to show an immigrant making the best baguette. Obviously it's not impossible for an immigrant to make a good baguette but as a reference here are the most recent winners of the Meilleur Apprenti de France contest, craftsmen who are judged by actual professional peers on merit and not an unknown fake jury."
meilleursouvriersdefrance: *photo of mostly white people*
Embassy of France in the U.S. @franceintheus: "Congratulations to Sithamparappillai Jegatheepan of the Fournil Didot bakery for winning the Best Baguette in Paris Competition (aka the Grand Prix de la baguette de tradition francaise)! Jegatheepan now has a one-year contract to supply daily bread to the Elysee Palace."
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en: "3.8 on Google. Lmao"
"Fournil Didot 3.8"
Trust the Experts!
Crémieux on X - "The Nazis dismissed scientists who were Jewish or considered "politically unreliable" This persistently negatively impacted the number of scientific publications written by affected departments By contrast, bombing effects on department physical capital were small and transient"
Crémieux on X - "Just as the Nazis' dismissal of Jewish scientists reduced their scientific productivity, dismissing Jewish medical doctors hurt Germany. Jews were 17% of physicians and 0.7% of the population in 1933. When Jewish physicians were booted from their jobs, infant mortality rose:"
Clearly, this proves that if you don't fire white men to promote unqualified black women, you get worse results
Living Room Enjoyer on X - "If you go to campus tours of the top 25 universities today, admissions officials will *brag* about how they reject students with perfect scores in favor of accepting 'well-rounded' applicants (read: minority NGO-aspirants) with average scores."
Living Room Enjoyer on X - "Almost all scholarships are explicitly restricted to specific minority groups and thus de jure unavailable to bright American teenagers. The menial share of scholarship funds open to all applicants are presided over by boards who favor minorities anyway, AND they are the subject of intense competition from oriental striver types who tailor their children’s lives to be optimally competitive in the college admissions process. White kids who aren’t immersed in coastal striver culture, no matter how bright, are never in the running."
Budman on X - "I remember being young and believing in equality. Then I started looking into college and I couldn't apply to 75% of scholarships because I was white and male. They still had access to my 25%. And I started wondering: if they need that much help, are they really equal to me?"
Chris Brunet on X - "The @UofT just posted a job opening for a tenure-stream professor of Computational Biology and Data Science no white men allowed "Selection will be limited to candidates who identify as members of one or more of the four federally-designated groups: women and gender minorities (those who identify as women, trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender fluid, based on the gender identity that best describes applicants at the current time), racialized persons/visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities.""
Lucy Hargreaves on X - "what most people don't know is that the Canada Research Chairs program has already EXCEEDED it's 2029 equity targets makes you wonder why these discriminatory hiring practices remain in place"
Jonathan Kay on X - "if you’re wondering why a generation of Canadian academics has been encouraged to identify as “gender fluid” or “non-binary,” completely meaningless terms that are basically astrological signs for upper middle class neurotics, it’s because it’s the only way they can get a job"
Jonathan Kay on X - "BC’s public broadcaster reserves 50% of its funded documentary slots for BIPOC producers. 25% is reserved for Indigenous producers alone. But it shot past that benchmark. The real figure is 42%. (In the 2021 census, 6% of BC identified as indigenous)"
Defiant L’s on X - "Michelle Obama: "All my scores said I did not belong in Princeton… and people saw my skin color and they said 'you are aiming too high'""
When she ironically made a case for why affirmative action is bad for black people. Of course, she goes on after the excerpted bit with the usual left wing dogma to claim that athletes and legacy admissions are affirmative action too
