Eventually the only matching partner available to people will be themselves.
The West's cultural revolution is over
The return of censorship, speech codes and taboos suggests society returning to normal
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
Eventually the only matching partner available to people will be themselves.
Eventually the only matching partner available to people will be themselves.
I suppose that explains why they often seem to be a long way up their own arses.
Eventually the only matching partner available to people will be themselves.
And with their level of narcissism, this will be more than enough.
This is not some dark new age of cancel culture, however, it’s just a return to normality. Those who grew up in the late 20th century were living in a highly unusual time, one that could never be sustained, a sexual and cultural revolution that began in 1963 or 1968. But it has ended and, as all revolutionaries must do after storming the Bastille, they have built Bastilles of their own. The new order has brought in numerous methods used by the old order to exert control — not just censorship, but word taboo and rituals which everyone is forced to go along with, or at least not openly criticise. You might call it the new intolerance, or woke extremism, but all societies need the policing of social norms.
The return of censorship, speech codes and taboos suggests society returning to normal
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
Suburban America's self-proclaimed racial oracle returns with a monumentally oblivious sequel to "White Fragility"
DiAngelo is a unique writer, being dishonest, dangerous, and moronic in magnificent quantities, probably in that order. If you’re trying, which she clearly isn’t, a good trade rule is, “If you’ve already written a book once, don’t write it again.” Nice Racism is the same book as the 2018 bestseller White Fragility , and by “the same” I don’t mean generally, but word-for-word, line-by-line, chapter-by-chapter the same, a thunderous, admirably brazen exercise in self-plagiarism.
Telling affluent white progressives they’re racists and explaining they can buy absolution for $24.95 is fishing for cash with dynamite. DiAngelo is monetizing white guilt on a grand scale, and there’s an extraordinary irony in the fact that she’s got a home-field advantage in this game over someone like, say, Ibram Kendi, because she’s more accessible to people like herself, the same phenomenon she decries.
We’ve already enjoyed this one over on the KenDiangelosim thread…
I started a thread on this particular idea a few months back. It didn’t get much traction. The UnHerd article ranges a bit more freely than I did - I was concerned mostly with the destruction of Science and Reason - but I think there’s some sensible points in there. Superstition, ritual, strongly-enforced social mores (logical or otherwise), are all historically normal. Humans can’t live without these things, and if they’re deconstructed then they will invent replacements.
Say hello to the ‘Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey’
A London library is apologizing for hosting an event where a "Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey" reportedly entertained children.
A modernization project for service areas on the New York State Thruway is expected to usher in a number of new restaurants along I-90. But one of the potential newcomers to the rest stops is drawing some criticism from some state leaders. As...
mmm, Chick fil a.
In my first 10 years of college teaching, from the mid-60s to mid-70s, I modeled myself on my best teachers—men and women who questioned my ideas vigorously. They let me know that I mattered to the…
long read.
Damn…
Toward the end of the meeting I raised my hand and asked how, given reading and preparation levels, we could possibly increase grades and graduation rates without lowering standards. “What do you teach?” he asked. “English,” I offered. “You don’t teach English,” he corrected me. “You teach White Studies. ”
long read.
Good share, worth the read for those of us who genuinely care about education.
Well that’s how they want you to see it too. Less individualism means less focus on the words that got us to this point. What they think will happen next is the scary part.
What they think will happen next is the scary part.
What do they think will happen next?
More Douglas Murray.
The site has distorted our perception of reality
Part 2 of a Series on 'Social Justice' Research (Part 1 here) Ever since the most blatant forms of racism and discrimination in America faded, what are called microaggressions have, in the view of lef
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A new book explicates the escaped slave and renowned orator's argument that the Constitution is "a glorious liberty document" that justified ending slavery. From Reason: Last year, The New York Times published "The 1619 Project," an immensely...
Join us in the middle everyone! We’re, uh, pretty ‘meh’ I guess by definition…