Your tax dollars at work //

If a conversation about race can only start when I acknowledge a) that I am racist because of my race and b) use some profoundly stupid definitions, then I no longer see the purpose in talking, and I no longer see the purpose in caring to talk. Demanding that I engage in some sort of racial equivalent of a Maoist struggle session as the price for you thinking I’m not racist simply makes me want to tell you to f*** right off. It is not going to happen. The downstream effects are going to be something the clowns producing this propaganda will not like. //

So much of this is utterly ridiculous. Scientific method=whiteness? Wife is homemaker and subordinate to the husband is Whiteness? Planning for the future is Whiteness? Bland food is Whiteness?

This is not a list of cultural norms; it is a list of counterfactual nonsense and racial stereotypes that aren’t really racial at all. Most of them are the marks of most cultures across geography and time. Some, like conceptions of time, are products of the industrial age and arise wherever there are trains or factories. //

Rod Dreher at American Conservative observes:

What kind of neighborhood would you expect to have if most of the people in it devalued hard work, rejected the idea that they needed to be on time, refused to defer gratification, did not respect authority, sought out conflict, laughed at politeness, rejected the traditional family model, and so forth? You’d have communities that were beset by crime and generational poverty, without the cultural tools to overcome the chaos. //

Skeptical Techie
3 hours ago
Racist drivel no matter how you look at it.

A) Many of the points are long-gone aspects of American culture and most subcultures.

B) Many points are, due to (A) or for other reasons, simply racist, sexist or culturist tropes in and of themselves.

C) One of the easiest ways to highlight a racist position or statement, is to simply flip whom is being described OR the trait being described.

In this case, another method to unmask racism, sexism or culturism is to flip both those described AND to flip the trait(s) described.

Thus, if one is to have the chutzpah to take the chart and flip
from white to whatever and ascribe to them the opposite of the traits described
they would be painting a picture that nobody would wish to attribute to their
culture, race, whatever. //

Lee Norris
4 hours ago
There isn't another culture on the planet that spends so much time trashing the very principles that gave birth to it.
It's a form of insanity.

Getting right to the heart of the matter. //

“Here is my main problem with cancel culture, ripping down statues, and the whole like,” Conway pointed out. “How does it get one more kid of color who is in a failing school a better opportunity, a better education? These same people who are saying ‘cancel culture, rip down statues, take away statues from Statuary Hall, they always vote against opportunity scholarships in Washington, D.C., which help African American and Hispanic kids.”

Men without chests...didn 't someone once write an essay on that subject? ///

Esp. comments

People can still get fired for doing ridiculous things. //

civil_truth
6 hours ago edited
Ancient rabbinic wisdom from the Pirke Avot attributed to Hillel:

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am for myself only, what am I?
And if not now, when?

At one point, Fr. Stephen Schumacher of the St. Louis Archdiocese stood between them and the statue and tried to talk sense to them, explaining the history, that St. Louis when King of France had done good works for his people which is one of the reasons he’s a saint and the city is named for him. But the mob even tried to shout down a priest and showed they failed to understand history. They didn’t care what he had to say or the facts, they’ve been told to hate it so they must rip it down.

Nothing more heroic than standing, literally, in the face of the angry mob, with the calmness of truth. Notice how they also threatened the St. Louis Cathedral when he told them to go there and learn the history, one says, “Eventually, we’re taking that too, though.”

The Archdiocese issued a formal statement, defending the statue and St. Louis.

The Archdiocese said in their statement that the public “should not seek to erase history, but recognize and learn from it.”

They defended the statue of the saint and recounted his road to sainthood. When ruling Louis IX “focused on impartial justice, protecting the rights of his subjects, steep penalties for royal officials abusing power, and a series of initiatives to help the poor.” The Archdiocese also noted that Louis IX performed numerous charitable acts such as feeding the poor and creating hospitals.

“For Catholics, St. Louis is an example of an imperfect man who strived to live a life modeled after the life of Jesus Christ.” //

Claire Lehmann
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@clairlemon
· Jun 9, 2020
Replying to @clairlemon

Gro
ups of students at schools and universities appointed themselves as Red Guards. Many of them were as young as 13 years old. You can read about what they did here https://quillette.com/2018/12/18/the-children-of-the-revolution/ …
Claire Lehmann
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@clairlemon

A 1971 report from the NYT describes how sweeping the destruction of the “four olds” had been (Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, Old Ideas). E.g. It was common for Chinese homes to have altars to ancestors.
Red Guards entered homes & destroyed them https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/19/archives/china-transformed-by-elimination-of-four-olds.html …