For a long time, Bull Connor was the symbol of southern racism, because he famously used fire hoses and dogs on civil rights agitators in Birmingham Alabama. Like most white people in the 60’s, he opposed the idea of racial integration, but it was his way of doing it that got him labeled as the ultimate racist. It was one thing to believe that integration was a terrible idea. It was another to take pleasure in a hatred of blacks for no other reason than their race. Hatred, even of that which should be hated, always has an ugliness to it.
Today, the ugly face of racial hatred is directed at whites and worn by social justice warriors, claiming to be fighting white supremacy. In reality they are just anti-white bigots who compete with one another over how much they hate white people. One difference between the anti-white bigots of today and guys like Bull Connor is he was happy to live his life in obscurity. He never set out to be a famous racist. Today’s social justice warriors see racial hatred as a path to fame and glory. It’s the easy way into the high culture.
An example of this is Brandeis associate professor Dorothy Kim. She is someone passing herself off as a medievalist. In reality, she is a white-hating bigot and a social justice warrior, who lives to harass white people. Her current crusade is an attack on Rachel Fulton Brown, a tenured professor at the University of Chicago. Kim’s reason for attacking Dr. Brown is that she is a conservative white women, who does real scholarship, rather than agitate for nutty causes. Kim thinks she can get ahead by hating the white woman.
Rachel Fulton Brown is a serious scholar who has written award winning books on arcane medieval topics. She has written this book and this book. Even if you are a fan of medieval European history, these are esoteric subjects, but that’s how the stock of knowledge is developed and expanded. Dorothy Kim is a ridiculous person who writes nonsense like this. The only people talking about white supremacy are liars and lunatics. It does not matter which applies here, either should be disqualifying for an academic in civil society.
Dorothy Kim is not just focusing her attention on Rachel Brown. Kim is an all purpose white-hater who whores herself out to the daffy girls of Progressive media, hired to popularize academic racism. Not content with attacking white people in real-time, the social justice warriors are now determined to rewrite history to make Henry VIII into soul brother number one. In that Daily Beast post, Mx. Kim goes out of her way to fall for the Cheddar Man hoax, suggesting she is dumber than her sparse work product suggests.
That’s just the thing about the people like Mx. Kim. They are not just content to publicly attack white people for being white. There’s a suicidal nihilism to the modern racist. Their project is as much about decreasing the stock of human knowledge as it is chasing white people from the white societies that welcomed them. What’s offensive about Mx. Kim is not that she does not know things, it’s that she knows wrong things and demands that the rest of us, as a matter of social justice, accept falsehoods as fact, fiction as truth.
That’s another thing you see with the social justice warriors. They seek to replace accomplishment with moral fanaticism. Rachel Brown has reached her status by a long career of being good at her specialty. Mx. Kim is just not bright enough or willing to do the work, so she is attacking white people, in order to establish her bona fides as a culture warrior. Everything about Mx. Kim’s career to this point is a claim that she is a victim, by virtue of her DNA, and therefore must get free stuff from white people or else racism.
That’s why these people are so vicious. Being a virtue signalling loon is a highly competitive racket. There’s always someone out there preparing a nuttier claim than the most nutty claim of the moment. Because the ideology of the social justice warrior is completely empty, a pure negative ideology, the result is a version of the mob screaming “Goldstein” in 1984. It’s not enough to hate white people. What matters is that you are seen hating whitey and doing so with an enthusiasm that is without rival.
That is the ugliness that Mx. Kim shares with classic racists like Bull Connor from half a century ago. It was not that he opposed integration that made him ugly. It was that he was willing to abandon decency and order in his opposition to it. The willingness to sacrifice everything for a principle is fanaticism and it is just as much an enemy of civil society as the barbarian. That’s what you see with people like Mx. Kim. She is a fanatic, ready to burn it all down in the name of social justice. There’s nothing uglier than a fanatic.
Addendum: A commenter asked how people like Mx. Kim get into the academy. The reason the social justice warrior has success is that Progressives are always fighting themselves. By that, I mean they are are always at war with that which they fear about themselves or that which they are currently doing. The Left’s rage against Russian meddling corresponds with their own collaboration with Russian oligarchs in an effort to rig recent elections. Google the phrase “Opposite Rule Of Liberalism.”
In the case of the academy, the people hooting about racism and white supremacy are relying on the innate racism of the modern academy. “Oh look! We have an Asian applicant in medieval European studies!” The white liberals in the field are so desperate for multicultural status points, they fall all over themselves to find and embrace non-whites, purely on racial grounds. They embrace anti-racism, because they hate their own racism and the result is more of the self-loathing that drives the Progressive.
Multiculturalism has created a vast market for dull-witted grifters like Mx. Kim. She gets the attention that women naturally crave, but she gets to make a career out of it, thus making herself both a hero of feminism and multiculturalism. Her choice was working in a cubicle somewhere as a clerk or going into the promising world of social justice. it’s not hard to see why she chose to be a SJW. It’s also easy to see why she is so bitter and nasty. At some level, she knows she is a fraud and she hates herself even more.
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My question is, how does a person like Kim get tenure at a college? The quality of humanities inquiry has fallen so low that it has become a non-subject. They are actively whittling down the educated set of American life so that few can compete with the nonsense peddlers of contemporary society. STEM subjects are a high bar for cognitive power, but its practitioners are essentially technicians, without worldly power. Verbal intelligence and historical grounding are the bedrock of political discourse. That’s why historically grounded commentators such as Buchanan and Z are the best.
A big question particularly for us is how do we take it back the humanities as it’s overwhelmingly converged throughout the entire Western world, some parts of Central/Eastern Europe and Russia notwithstanding. By any objective standard our’s is the side with truth and data on its side but the Progs are legion. Short a decline of the US Empire, or some sort of insurgency the Poz still holds the instiutions of culture.
I think some areas are simply not worth saving. Sociology comes to mind. The coming college collapse will hose off most English departments. In order to survive, the nonsense fields like gender studies will be purged. That said, I think the West is headed for a dark ages. Imagine non-whites squatting in the Museum of Natural History, using display items for kindling.
Oh god, I can see that coming. “We must destroy the contents of these museums because they are a constant source of unmerited pride to white peoples. These are the reservoirs where white privilege is stored. Words like terra-cotta and chiaroscuro are purposely used to demoralize people of color.”
Red, it is as likely they will use it for kindling because that’s all they will have, or out of complete ignorance, rather than because they will be consciously burning up the evidence of the patriarchy. I recall this sort of thing was not uncommon in the Dark Ages and in other tough times.
Z, I agree a reckoning is coming, one that will be triggeed by the coming financial collapse (looks to be 2 to 3 years out), but I think this will force our government to activate full military control of the nation as that will be demanded to keep such a scenario from occurring.
It could mean the US will split and places like California will be left to their own devices, but who really knows…
“That said, I think the West is headed for a dark ages. Imagine non-whites squatting in the Museum of Natural History, using display items for kindling.” This could be half-serious exaggeration, or meant to be understood as a genuine forecast. It’s hard to decipher the rhetoric of fringe leaders such as yourself, from their real thoughts on the future. Since you’ve just predicted a disturbing scenario in some detail, I’d like to know when we or our beloved descendents can expect to be living in such a way. 2045? 2318? 2505? Or so far off no one can truly claim… Read more »
Actually, I find it hard to decipher the rheteroic of “mainstream” leaders — their real intent — moreso than that of “fringe” leaders such as the Z-Man. He states it rather plainly: This place is doomed. I see this reality daily in the smallish sized forrmer “littlest city in the world” in which I’ve lived for 40 years and am now leaving. The place is no longer recognizeable, between the hordes of Californians moving in, and unimpeded immigration into this state with the fifth (?) highest Hispanic population per capita. The tension is expecially apparant in the booming local construction:… Read more »
No, it’s probably more realistic that corrupt you know what politicians will realize the value of these artifacts and sell them to China or Japan or somewhere.
You have a majority minority future in two decades or less. 2031, thirteen years from now? We can count the number of 10 year olds. We can only estimate the births from immigrants, but it’s not decreasing. Add in the numbers retiring, on disability, on welfare, addicted, convicted, bankrupt, homeless, underwater, or dropped from unemployment. Next add in the exponential growth rate of frauds and grifters like Mx. Kim, as well as Snitch State bureaucrats and enforcers. Count the number of affirmative action hires and electees, the Bull Connors. If the Left wins the next round of elections, we might… Read more »
As you know, the only thing keeping most State U’s afloat at this point is Chinese kids paying full freight. Ironically, Trump’s so-called “trade war” with China might do the trick — if the value of the yuan drops 15%, it’ll no longer make sense for CCP bigshots to send their spare sons to American day cares. Your Ohio States will, at that point, be a few lab disciplines squatting around the football stadium.
Spot on. Have one kid at a “public Ivy” and not only do they have rep offices in China—but run all sorts of “acclimation” programs and other add-ons specificallly for those students. All at a hefty mark up, course. But it is pretty clear the economics are falling apart. Get a good view into that with another son who left may alma mater after a year (loved engineering, hated the politics of the liberal arts part of the campus) and talked his way back into a very small, fully endowed engineering school. They take no federal money, provide full scholarships… Read more »
Ah yes, the “acclimation” programs. I get a kick out of those. The only way these “students” get admitted is by “passing” the Engrish proficiency exams… which they hire ringers for, as they do for ALL their work, because the universities’ rep offices in China are the only people on earth who don’t know that the Chinese cheat at everything, all the time, even when cheating is actually counterproductive (it is this, and this alone, that will keep the People’s Liberation Army from our shores). It’s one hell of a scam — the pay’s great and the bennies can’t be… Read more »
What is this school? I can’t believe it exists!
It does. Grants one dual BS degree. The google machine will tell you. Other hint. It’s in Derbyshire’s backyard.
Sev; Very encouraging news. It has always seemed to me that the key to collapsing the Prog empire was to cut off their cash flow from their various interlocking slush funds, particularly those located in NGO World, of which Big U is a leading member. It would be lovely if collapsing the China Trade Scam also blew up Big U. Also, who knew that keeping your security clearance after retiring from govt. work was worth big bank. The epic squealing about Brennan losing his post-retirement CIA clearance is a giant flashing red light ‘tell’. It will be pretty easy to… Read more »
Z, we’re already in the Dark Age. Most people just don’t know it.
What we know as high culture will be gone by late century. When I attend a 18th or 19th century symphony or operatic performance that is the glory of Civilization, it strikes me that such magnificence will likely be unknown in a very few decades. Our heritage squandered for the sake of progressive ideology and virtue signaling.
The answer to that question is that the political right (and center) have to begin our own long march through the institutions to take them back from the commies. It begins by removing the leftists and Marxists from control of public education institutions and infrastructure in Red states. Most private colleges are a lost cause–let them go. One of the top priorities of every Republican governor should be reforming the state Department of Education and the Board of Regents to make these institutions accountable to the population of the state they serve. Cut useless degree programs. Slash administrative budgets. End… Read more »
Mr. Market is already starting to do that. At Missouri what you could figure out pretty quickly between the enrollment decline and the reported revenue shortfalls is that the bulk of the kids opting not to go there were full(er) tuition out of state kids. That had an outsized impact on revenue. Similarly, Oberlin is making massive cuts and has frankly stated that the long term viability is in question. Mitch Daniels has turned Purdue into the “hot” school by freezing tuition for the past five years. One of my cousins is a full professor there (animal geneticist) and has… Read more »
Saml Adams, If a few more schools start be-bullshitting themselves, showing fiscal restraint, and freezing (or reducing) tuition, it will make competition for students and funds that much more pointed for the rest. It could turn from a rarity, to a trend, to a stampede. Schools that don’t adapt would end up closing their doors.
I guess you covered that in your reference to Mr. Market.
Also, it’s a very apt term you used, “de-bullshitting.” It’s the right word at the right time. I hope it gains some currency.
My spelling error, obviously. I guess be-bullshitting themselves is what they have been doing for years
If I were President Trump I would eliminate the Dept. of Education all together. For starters. I would also end federal funding of any kind for colleges. It is immoral to force a house painter supporting a family in Kentucky to pay taxes to send the son of a lawyer to college in New York. Pay your way or don’t go. .
Jordan Peterson comes out and states that universities are doomed and not worth attending anymore when you factor in costs and being exposed to Cultural Marxism/Post Modernism on campus. He actually advocates trade school in many cases.
The fact is you don’t need college to get a grounding in the liberal arts and humanities. That can be done via computer. If it doesn’t need a lab it can be done on-line.
Now if you’re a credential seeker that doesn’t work well, But learning was never about getting a credential and then forgetting about everything you learned.
Good friend of mine owns an HVAC contractor in a neighboring city. He runs “apprentice” programs with the the local (mostly minority)—really a chance to learn basics, have a place to study after school. Lot of the kids go to college b/c that is what they are told they have to do—but get some useless degree—and several have come back and gone to work for him. Suddenly learning a real trade that can make you 80-100k around here doesn’t look so bad after a year pulling lattes at Starbucks.
The skilled trades are still an awesome way to make a living and a damn good one. And the more obsessed everyone is with going to college the better the trades look. College is nothing but a debt mill anyway. The federal government is the one who is issuing the student loans, issuing the actual debt and so you can start off Life as a debt slave to the federal government for a hundred K or more. The high schools encourage everybody to go to college so that they can go into debt to the federal government. It’s a horrific… Read more »
Kim is an assistant professor, so she does not have tenure.
She’s a (((Brandeis))) University. Need we say more?
Of course she’s an SJW whore. The academy rewards her for it.
Once again..a Korean female. The craziest, most batshit insane Asian SJWs are always Korean females, and often those who chase white dick.
“it’s that she knows wrong things and demands that the rest of us, as a matter of social justice, accept falsehoods as fact, fiction as truth.” I ran into this last week. My wife works for a charity that provides camps and events for this citys foster kids; who are mostly comprised of sun peoples. It’s founded and lead by Jewish people and we are Christian but that’s another story. Last weekend my wife had a foster parent over who have five kids in this program, they are sun people whose ancestors did not voluntarily cross the Atlantic. Her boyfriend… Read more »
I’ve heard a million of such lectures, from not only every variety of sun people, but from white foreigners and American subcultures as well. Everyone carries a secret history in their heart, a Truth that fills them up with pride and wonder at hidden glory. It’s a narrative of roots, manuevers, and identity. Of a People. It can be broad-based, such as a mainstream religion or sportsball, or substream, such as Emili Baraka varients (what TuNeCede heard), Hell’s Angels politics, Bismaili Islam, Zairen juju, Sikh rebellion, MittelEuropa empire, and many, many more. (I try not to disagree or interrupt them,… Read more »
Meant to say ‘the interlocking denominations of fraud and grift’ in the Leftist religion.
The iron rice bowl believers.
With capitalism you can count the inventory, labor hours, and growth rate for a reasonable estimate.
How the hell do you guesstimate patronage and dark pools?
Will my retirement capital be based on percentage of intersectionality?
Any complaint about anti-white hatred in academia that omits the word “Jews” is chickenshit.
Truth. These truckling older guys flatter themselves that they are radical by carping about “Cultural Marxism.” They are literally too chickenshit to look at what that term really signifies.
Spot On … “Their project is as much about decreasing the stock of human knowledge as it is chasing white people from the white societies that welcomed them.” This sentence is the summation of all truth in the essay. Dumb folk are threatened by superior intelligence and those who have leveraged their intellect to produce wealth or increase “the stock of human knowledge.” So generally they’re threatened by white culture, what we’ve come to know as Western Civ. The threatened illiterati have only two tools in their toolbag, to mouth off about inequality or resort to violence. Those of superior… Read more »
The infiltration of homosexual priests was a marxists plan of purposeful corruption of the Church. Look up Bella Dodd. This conspiracy has worked itself all the way to the top and corruption in the Church is much larger and more dark than most realize. A reckoning is coming and it will appear as if the Church will collapse from it. A new Armageddon is coming and if it is the true Church as we (myself and other Catholics) state it is it will emerged cleansed. With recent exposure of the smoke of Satan in the Church it may be that… Read more »
Yep
It is also worth it to point out that Bull Connor’s foolhardy tactics were used as a means to galvanize the support of his enemies. We on the dissident right would be wise to emulate our foes…However in this age of fractured media (and attention spans) this will prove to be a difficult undertaking
The YouTube site “Oppressed Media” posted a good one on August 7th entitled “The Left’s beef with white people explained.” Compliments this post by Z. It addresses the “beef” from a Cultural Marxism perspective and the insidious CM agenda of rewriting history. It’s a good tube and many here would find it worthy of the little more than 30 minutes it runs. Even offers the “solution”.
The growth and intensity of the SJW movement is a symptom of the cancer that has afflicted society. This is not a case of a few loons operating on the fringes and curable via commitment to a mental hospital. Rather, this behavior is a leading edge indicator of the rapid degeneration of the species. In our current evolutionary environment, lunacy is rewarded with success, and thereby reinforces the lunacy trait. This is why the cancer is growing.
This is why I retired. Academia was never my main gig anyway, and while I felt like I was doing the Lord’s work being the one (deep cover) non-lunatic voice in my department, one can only do the King Canute routine for so long; eventually the ulcers get you. It’s actually worse than Z Man makes it out to be. Yes, deep down they know they’re talentless grifters, but the entire ivory tower ecosystem is designed to help them suppress it. E.g. one of the places I worked had an applicant threaten legal action — he alleged the program blackballed… Read more »
Almost as if someone is actively hunting to find every switch in the brain and heart that can be dialed from positive to negative, from suppressed to overdone.
Someone with an interest in psychology, perhaps? Someone with incredible reach.
Enough reach to reward and promote that which is denied by all common sense and goodwill, as if they have done this before.
I’m still struggling to define clearly something that Dutch brought to Friday’s podcast.
He mentioned that social ‘currency’ can be debased or skewed like trade currency.
“Storehouse of value” and “full faith and credit” come to mind, a kind of social usury.
Jacques Derrida comes to mind. He promoted a pathological hatred of Western Civilization in his works and sought to tear down the patriarchy and hierarchy.
Sadly he was embraced by Western intellectuals and academia – Yale invited him over from France to teach.
I remember when I used to read Dkos and all the other major s**tlib sites in the early 2000’s. Derrida was a poster boy of the Lefty elite and they mourned his passing as well as one of the greatest thinkers the world has ever seen.
His works now power the SJW’s.
Another strong entry, Z. Thanks not only for your insights but for the energy you expend to keep the light on. I alternate between hopefulness and despair. There is no doubt that opposition to cultural Marxism is more pronounced — at least on a verbal level — than in the ’90s, when the loony Left’s long march through the institutions scored victory after victory. But the pushback remains almost entirely among outsiders. The anti-white, anti-rational forces still rule. Those of us who can be categorized as alt-right (a vague term, but perhaps better that way to avoid hardening into another… Read more »
Multiculturalism has created a vast market for dull-witted grifters like Mx. Kim.
Fauxcahontas, anyone??
I find it particularly awful when East Asians like Kim or Jeong get into this racket. At least when it comes to the black feminists, we can generally assume that they are (a) native to the USA and (b) not particularly smart. They don’t deserve the kind of privileged positions they have, but they’re basically just acting on instinct, and as a society we have a responsibility to find SOME place for them to fit in. The Asian SJWs, however, come from groups that are privileged in every conceivable way – high IQ, high income, AND the benefits of Affirmative… Read more »
Asians are just as tribal as the Jews and even more ruthless, they even prey on their own people as seen in China where they carve up political prisoners and sell their organs on the black market. They are the apex of ruthless SOB’s. Look at China today, they are flooding the U.S. with Fentanyl and other designer opioids like “Pink” that you can even buy over the net and sent via e-packet to your home. If you’re really frisky you can order Carfentanyl which is so deadly, one microgram can kill you. It’s perfect for terrorists and you can… Read more »
The problem with rewarding dysgenic traits is that eventually you get to the tipping point where dysgenic people try to outdo each other.
“There’s a suicidal nihilism to the modern racist.” I am becoming convinced that the racism inherent to modern SJW’s is actually merely a symptom, one of many, of their nihilism. I am no philosopher but here goes anyway… there is no other way for me to explain mass self-hatred. There is no other way to explain a desire to destroy everything. If you believe in nothing then nothing should exist, and everything that is something needs to be destroyed. If you examine the actions of the modern extreme left this explains them all. Many people seem to struggle with white… Read more »
“But it’s not fair”
“Who’s the fucking nihilist, you bunch of crybabies”
Wonder if many of these are more the LARP’er version of nihilists. Just watching things unfold at Oberlin as funding starts to get cut to cover for enrollment and donation drops. Lot of “oh, but I never thought my little destroy the racist institution thing would destroy my well paying, do little job”
J*ws and non-whites want to commandeer white countries. It’s that simple. “Racism” is the inventive they hurl against whites for what every other group does. All groups are “racist” and tribal. The great disadvantage of whites is that we are the least tribal and most universalist and naive. We practically beg the other races to steal our lunch money.
“I knew Bull Connor. And you, sir, are no Bull Connor.”
Sorry. I just had to get that in here.
You forget that he fought the same institutional power that Kim now enjoys the favor of. White men will never be able to defend themselves if they decry those who resisted before them as monsters.
Bull did nothing wrong.