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It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the massive food fight that erupted among the worst people over how the allegedly best people cheat like crazy. Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard, was supposed to be a proof of concept for the egalitarian blank slate religion of the Cloud People. In reality she was as synthetic as their empathy for people of color. Claudine Gay was a modern lawn jockey. Instead of standing on their lawn with a lantern, she held up her diplomas.
Then we have Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund guy who started this when Gay made unpleasant noises about Israel. He first threatened to withdraw funding and when that did not work, he went after her credentials. In a world of credentialism this was a declaration of war on the system. Soon the internet dug into Gay’s background and found examples of alleged plagiarism. Harvard then demoted her to being a million dollar a year political science instructor.
In response, MIT decided to get into the fight, and they leaked dirt to Business Insider about Ackman’s wife, who supposedly had a cut and paste problem too. It is ironic that people who are immune to the charge of hypocrisy thought they could use the charge of hypocrisy against people famously immune from the charge of hypocrisy. It is an example of how the hive mind operates. Once Ackman was declared outside the hive, he was no different from Trump or Hitler to the hive.
For his part, Ackman has declared a jihad against MIT. He is asking for volunteers to scan the academic work of everyone at MIT. He has also offered to fund the use of technology to expedite the process. Interestingly, the MIT president said all the same things as the Harvard and Penn presidents about Israel, but she has been immune from criticism to this point. Perhaps she thought the force field was not enough to protect her, so she launched this preemptive strike.
Again, it is hard not to enjoy this poo-flinging contest, but it obscures a reality at the heart of the whole thing. That is the logic of the egalitarian religion must lead them to these self-destructive ends. The reason for that is there is no way to reach the stated goals of this new religion without dismantling the standards and practices of the Western society that made the modern university possible. In other words, to dismantle whiteness they must dispense with the rules of whiteness.
The only reason Claudine Gay can exist is if the rules of the academy are changed to make it possible for her to exist. All along the way her mostly white advisors cut corners for her so she could move along through the system. They do this because it was the path of least resistance, but also for self-interest. They could subtly mention how they were once the advisor of this shining example of the new religion. This is social capital an academic can use for status seeking.
Systemic rule breaking is not confined to the grievance studies areas. The need to acquire totems of the new religion is everywhere on campus. The chemistry department at Rice University, for example, spends scarce resources on thirty different diversity and inclusion programs. The department now offers a for-credit course in Afrochemistry, which is taught by this woman. She will no doubt be lifted up on the shoulders of academics and socially promoted into a leadership role.
This all sounds fine except that when you populate your new system with people who are both incompetent and entitled, the results of that system will reflect this. The long running discussion about the decline of elite universities is centered around the fact the graduates are often astoundingly incompetent. The truth is, they may be incompetent at traditional things, but they are stars at the rules of the new system. The products of dismantling whiteness are good at dismantling whiteness.
The reason we have a crisis of competence in America is the managerial system is slowly being taken over by people who are only good at gaming the system to produce diverse, equitable and inclusive results. The managerial system is slowly being bent to the goal of denying its own existence. No one would dare hire Brooke Johnson to do chemistry, but she plays a role in who gets hired to do chemistry. Get enough Brooke Johnsons and Claudine Gays and the system begins to fail.
All of this was inevitable as soon as the moralizers of the mid-twentieth century declared a fatwa against nature. Once it was immoral to notice natural inequality and the fixed nature of people, the old system was doomed. The only permissible explanation for the persistent inequality was to blame the system and that meant destroying the system was the only moral path forward. The social promotion system is about maintaining the myth of egalitarianism.
That also means there is no way out for these elite colleges. Bill Ackman can expose all of them as plagiarists, cheats, and fools, but nothing will change because nothing can change as long as the core tenets of the faith remain. Unless Bill Ackman has a new religion for these people to embrace, they will burn the whole system to the ground before abandoning diversity, equity, and inclusion. This means the collapse of the university system is inevitable.
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I have know idea what sort of procedure Lloyd Austin underwent, and it’s probably none of my business. Still, I’m hoping that for his first public appearance since the procedure he doesn’t show up wearing a dress.
Who had the secretary of defense going AWOL and Orthodox Jews climbing out of tunnels in NYC on their 2024 bingo cards?
I remember Z man wrote a column a couple years ago on Taki Mag along the lines of “Revenge of the Bitter Mutants.” That is what comes to mind when I think about the people in all these DIE places. Whether it be college or the workplace. They are all genetic poison to mankind, but since we lived in a once-prosperous time, they had the unfortunate luck to spread like a plague. I can’t tell you how much I hate sharing this country with these people.
*raises hand*
Can we talk about tunnels now? Pretty please!
Lost in this is the personal aspect. Obama was a big Gay backer (insert joke here) and was obviously the mover behind the Business Insider and MIT leaks about Ackmans’ wife. I fully expect SEC investigations into Ackman, followed by DOJ prosecutions. It is personal for Obama and he seems to be the guy really in charge in the White House. For some reason Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin kept his hospitalization, including five days in intensive care, secret from everyone, including the White House. Supposedly the chair of the JCS was told, after a day. Personal stuff like this is… Read more »
I’m sure Obama has his say in all this, but I’m not convinced that he’s the main player behind this. He’s too lazy and incompetent. Probably someone like Jarrett or Rice.
For the record, Susan Rice is ackshually (((Susan Rice))). She is descended from a South Carolina chattel-slave-trading j00, named “Suber”, who enjoyed dipping it in the chocolate shiksa p00nt@ng on his plantation. Susan Rice, born November 17, 1964 Daughter of Emmett J. Rice, born December 21, 1919 Emmet J. Rice, daughter of Sue Pearl Suber [dates unknown] Very similar to the ostensible genealogy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who claims to be the descendant of a dipping-it-in-the-chocolate-shiksa-p00nt@ng chattel-slave-trading j00 of the West Indies. If you put a picture of Susan Rice next to a picture of AOC, then it’s like you’re looking… Read more »
Even after all these centuries, AOC still has the Khazarian Milkers to go with the hook nose:
http://tinyurl.com/2ys8w452
Susan Rice, OTOH, tends to hide hers beneath pseudo-maoist business jackets:
http://tinyurl.com/2t8mjyp6
The belief that Obama has this degree of influence is a residue of Civic Nationalism, which argued who was elected or in office mattered. Obama is no doubt bent out of shape because Gay’s ouster, to the degree it is an ouster, alarms him and other affirmative action puppets and puts their grift at risk. Obama may be the front-line lawn jockey for a behind-the-scenes hit on Ackman, but he is playing a role assigned to him. If Obama’s ol’ finance marses decide he’s a liability, we will hear a shit ton more about his sexuality and drug abuse. It… Read more »
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin kept his hospitalization, including five days in intensive care, secret from everyone
Did anyone notice or care?
Who do they think believes that story? As if the SecDef could be in ICU in Walter Reed without the White House hearing about it. It’s so preposterous that I could believe the people saying he’s dead in Ukraine and this is the cover story.
I believe it 100%. As much as it boggles the mind, I believe it.
Austin felt no compunction to inform Biden, because Biden is not in charge. Put yourself in Austin’s shoes. Why would you bother to inform Biden?
Biden is a moron illegitimately installed because the story of Biden, a moderate Democrat, beating Trump could be sold to normiecons. He is the human embodiment of Max Headroom.
Yes. No point in informing Biden because Tater Joe is just a figurehead. He’s not in charge, heck even Silly Jilly has more clout in DC than Tater Joe.
Whether or not the SecDef office informed the WH directly or “properly,” I’m saying he can’t be there in ICU in Walter Reed, in Bethesda MD, for 4 days, without the WH hearing about it.
I’m sure whoever is functioning as the ACTUAL Defense Secretary was on the job every day last week.
Did the shadow SECDEF know Austin was in the hospital? Probably.
Did he care? Not a bit.
Even the Pentagon has its Claudine Gays.
Barry is still running the show, correct.
Only money?
The essence of power is money.
Take away their money Soros, Musk, Gates, Zuck et al, they are powerless.
The status seeking mentioned in the article is a natural aspect of human social groupings. When professors retire, they become “professor emiritus.” They hang onto a shred of their professional dignity. When military men go out to pasture, they’re called Col. James Toughguy (ret.) They get to keep their title as long as they append a retired suffix to it. The lesson is that we don’t want to let go of our hard-earned social renown. Just because one is older, it doesn’t mean one is free of vanity. In fact, it’s possible to argue that age makes one MORE vain,… Read more »
Ackman’s going after the entire Ivy League and talking about how AI will find all their lies.
Thanks Progress – a ruthless and vindictive Billionaire is now the de facto ally of the peasant uprising.
We should get some Gold Plated Pitchforks as Peasant Bling… 🤑
Actually Ackman is talking AI startup to find plagiarism and coming for them all
He would appear to be something of an enthusiast.
AI or whatever it was called years ago was already in use for finding plagiarism in student papers. My department used it extensively. I forget the name of the service, there was more than one, however the service we used took a digital student submission—say a Word document—and compared it to a database of other papers on like topics as well as Wikipedia entries and the like. Out popped a report that rated the “originality” of the student paper/essay and outlined “suspicious” prose used by the student. The essential value of the analysis (IIR) at the time was in their… Read more »
Gay is back teaching ordinary classes. I wonder what she’ll say when she detects plagiarism in one of her student’s work?
Without the software Compsci discussed, detection would require a great deal of familiarity with the source material (and the software requires the ability to use it or to be familiar enough with it to have the program run). I’ll go out on a limb and suggest Gay could be presented a colorized, Woke version of Hamlet and think it was original work. Like Biden, her stupidity, mediocrity and ignorance are assets to those who wanted her to fill the role.
Wouldn’t she first have to actually read their work? And then compare it to other sources? Unless they are plagiarizing her plagiarisms, my guess is it’s too much work for that dindu nuffin.
“Claudine Gay was a modern lawn jockey.” I witnessed this woke shit firsthand over 20 years ago when I was a tenure-track professor at a community college and got thrown out on my ass after a year. I had my PhD in hand so I was overqualified for the job, but I took it because I came from a blue-collar background and simply needed a job with state benefits. Back then I actually had some good students — one even transferred to Cornell after she got her Associate’s degree. Stupidly, I thought that I had been hired form my qualifications… Read more »
Wasn’t Thomas Sowell’s old line something like if they could somehow genetically engineer a parrot-jellyfish crossbreed that it would be indistinguishable from a college administrator?
If there was a parrot-jellyfish community – it would be insulted by that comparison.
Xman, after you wrote that you were “a tenure-track professor at a community college and got thrown out on my ass after a year,” I hoped that you would tell your story. Thanks for telling your tale and I’m sorry that it turned out the way that it did. You went down a path that I strongly wished to travel for but was unable to begin. I love teaching and I taught at the college level after I completed grad school. I tried to land a teaching job but was unsuccessful and instead joined the private sector. This was about… Read more »
College isn’t about teaching. It’s about administrators stroking each other off with bullshit while stuffing their wallets with cash from make-work “jobs.” Colleges will put any live body with a pulse in front of a classroom and pay them pennies while the diversity coordinators knock down six figures.
I spent the rest of my “career” as an adjunct making less than $2000 per course. I actually taught college credit classes in a prison to convicted murderers for $2000 a semester. (The murderers were actually the best students, the drug dealers were the worst).
One fails to consider “grantsmanship” in your analysis. Having spend a career at a top 20 research institute, I agree that administration is a plague. However, in the STEM fields there, one published or perished and no one advanced without a track record of securing grants. Indeed, our last department head—brought in specifically because of this ability—addressed the faculty and stated that every faculty member needed to be submitting one $300-400k grant application per year. This was to allow for rejections and such, but the assumption was good faculty would get one of those every couple of years or so.… Read more »
Yes. Well, there is certainly a significant difference between a STEM-oriented research university and an undergraduate teaching college. I worked at several examples of the latter. Grants were a non-issue, and publishing was either not required (at junior and community colleges) or minimal at 4-year state teaching colleges. There were a lot of things I probably would have liked to publish, but my primary goal was just to get a steady JOB with benefits first. Plus, I enjoyed teaching. However if you don’t a steady tenure-track position and you’re always hustling adjuncts gig and commuting and fixing your own cars… Read more »
Xman: “The murderers were actually the best students, the drug dealers were the worst” I’d tell you to write us a 5000 word effort poast about that topic, but I’d much rather you wrote a 500 page book about it. It sounds absolutely fascinating. Are you any good at padding your writing to elongate it? This could easily expand from essay to novel to j00vie/ta1mμdvision script. SRSLY. It sounds absolutely fascinating. PS: It’s all the little anecdotes & vignettes which will bring it to life [plus, once you move from fact to fiction, you get carte blanche to embellish &… Read more »
I fully intended to be a prof, but what I saw while in grad school convinced me that no history department would be hospitable to me. Therefore, even though I did snag the Ph.D., I never even sought a professorship. Given academia’s horrendous decline since I got my doctorate (2005), I made the right decision.
Watched The Grrls take over the community college eng. dept. I attended almost 50 years ago. The leftist/feminist women made it clear they’d only be hiring other females thenceforth. Equality, you see. Balancing the pendulum! I spent most of the Eighties working for a state supreme court, and attached administrative agency. Same phenomenon applied. The female department heads would use endless tactics to alienate and force-out the males on staff. Often, they then hired THEIR GIRLFRIENDS as replacements. No I am not kidding. Who’s gonna tell them no . . . H.R.? It’s been a slaughter. Everybody wants to pretend… Read more »
“The leftist/feminist women made it clear they’d only be hiring other females thenceforth.”
Just like to dots in IT/tech for the last 20 years.
What an interesting story. Not unlike what happened to me although I became a white guy going his own way fairly early and benefitted economically much more than if I had stayed. It has been nice not having to deal with diversity bosses. I had a string of women and POC managers who were dumb and sometimes evil. The multibillion dollar company I worked for was 150 years old and at the top of its game when it drank the diversity poison. Now it’s gone. Bankrupt first by lack of talent and finally financially. They screwed their pensioners who were… Read more »
Related to the DIE hierarchy signaling system, what kills me is the simple efficacy of the pogrom:
1. Sterilize the next heritage generation with the vaxxing
2. Bring in the future anchor baby makers, surrounded by their male protectors*
*(who increasingly reign in the cities because the local policing is outmanned, in both the civic and enforcement sense)
p.s.- when a black Congolese told me “But I’m French! I was born in Paris!”, I thought, “oh yeah, that’s an anchor baby.”
Ain’t just America.
Well after years of resentment not having been accepted into any of the elite universities I was supposedly qualified for, I have to say I’m intensely enjoying the schadenfreude of watching them self-destruct through infighting and bleed out every last droplet of legitimacy. It’s also a bit of absolution now with it being quite out in the open that the admissions are completely political in nature and all their academic work is equivalent to middle schoolers copy pasting wikipedia entries for their homework. It was always obvious that the negroid and hispanic students were just there as diversity props, but… Read more »
My sister hates traditional whites (and loves abortion more than life itself) so it was funny to watch her go back to school for an MBA and complain about how almost all of her grades were based on group projects and how stupid and lazy some of the students were. In spite of herself, she revealed that the ones who frustrated her the most were black women. When she complained to the dean about her grades being dependent on these students, nothing changed. Of course, she learned nothing from this and would be angry at me if I pointed out… Read more »
As mentioned previously, “group” projects were designed to promote minority success. The best students hated such projects and avoided them if at all possible. In some cases, the instructor allowed a group of *one*. 😉 One rather good instructor we had took great pains to design group projects where each one in the group was specifically responsible for a particular aspect of the project and therefore could be monitored for contribution. However, this often was subverted as the *group* readily discovered that the project was in danger of not being completed successfully on time, so they finished their part and… Read more »
Oh lordy, the group projects while doing my Master’s. Worst were the classes where they combined the undergrad and grad students, and getting those little peckerfart late millennials (early zoomers?) to do any work was impossible. Like they wouldn’t even pretend.
This is on top of dealing with all the damn Pajeets and Ching Chongs who on top of being lazy also couldn’t speak English. Sometime it would be the professor too, ugh.
Afrochemistry? Elsewhere I had shared that famous Negro biochemist Dr. Gaston “Rip” Colon discovered the critical nutrient for flatulence, which he dubbed Bustassium 💩
When busting a move, make sure the stall door is latched.
Here I be sittin’, broken hah-ted, paid muh dime, but….
He desires knighthood for his discovery – thus making it noble gas.
I’d not heard or understood the use of “perceptor” but found it quite alarming, so looking it up brought this–A preceptor is an experienced practitioner who provides supervision during clinical practice and facilitates the application of theory to practice for students and staff learners
The application of theory to practice. The map of decline; explains everything.
Boeing update in brief:
-Stan Deal, Boeing’s commercial airplanes chief, and Mike Delaney, the company’s chief safety officer, urged staff to ask “ourselves what we can do individually and collectively to make safety and first-time quality the priority in all aspects of our business.”
No doubt – this will cause them to reconsider and scale back commitments to DEI, & ESG
(Man, I crack myself sometimes, and now, I too need a pliers to pull my tongue out of my cheek)
If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.
Saw this the other day, thought it was clever:
Bits
Of
Engines
In
Neighbors
Gardens
Credit is due to Apple: reportedly one of the phones that fell to earth still works. Fall from 16,000 feet and relatively undamaged? Pretty good engineering, guys.
I get jittery and uncomfortable each time I board a 737. Bombardier (Canadian) – okay. Embraer (Brazilian) – okay. Airbus (European) – okay. Boeing – not okay.
737s have been around since the 1970s. They’re a true workhorse and very reliable. The problems with the latest iteration are atypical.
But haven’t there been problems with the 737 Max?
The 737 first flew in 1967 and almost 12,000 of them have been built. Overall they’re a very good, safe, reliable airplane.
The Max is the latest iteration, introduced in 2011. If I am correct most of the problems have been with the Max-9. The one that the door blew out of last week was literally a new airplane, it was delivered from the factory to the airline in October.
The Diversimax 2020 Floydorado with the gold spinner rims has been problematic…
You guys will probably find this analysis quite worthwhile. It’s by actual pilots and A&Ps and the comments are make by people with hands-on knowledge of the Boeing “plug door” system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhfK9jlZK1o
This is a key point. DIE on campus is irritating and annoying, but no-one gets killed. When these maniacs get into air traffic control, flight crews and the military, then we’ll see some serious damage.
Afrochemistry! hahahahahaha. I love it. So blatantly ridiculous, fake, empty.
Things seem to be coming to a head, with more and more people awakening to the decline of everything valuable/legit and the rise of overpaid, incompetent ideologues who destroy everything they touch. For more on this, see Gaius Baltar’s excellent Substack article, “Why is the West so Weak (and Russia so Strong)?”
Very good article.
Slow collapse or rapid?
Will we gently glide down into something like Greece or Brazil?
Or, will something snap and crash it all at once?
Sadly, the second option gives me more hope.
“Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemmingway
We seem to get through the civilizational cycles more quickly these days. Maybe that’s because we social media to fan the flames. The only hope is for the system to crash completely so that we can build back something better. Voting in November ain’t going to change a damn thing.
‘Unless Bill Ackman has a new religion for these people to embrace, they will burn the whole system to the ground before abandoning diversity, equity, and inclusion. This means the collapse of the university system is inevitable.’ Obvious to me in the early Nineties, when I was still naive enough to take some night grad classes at San Francisco State. Feminist-homo heaven, from faculty to stoonts. Everything was about Deconstruction and Oppression and Empowerment. Couple old white profs still wandering around the department, like the last bull bison in Montana. Despite elite reputation, the creative output of their masters students… Read more »
Ray, I sure wish that I could have observed you in grad school classes in San Francisco. I imagine some of the shocked and disgusted expressions that probably flashed across your face. Did you speak out or bite your tongue?
Thanks for asking LITS. Well it was fiction writing so I got to torment them pretty good. It’s all about wounding their hearts, and I know how. I was the lone voice, standard. Realized quickly they weren’t at my level and weren’t my kinda folks. Vamoosed. But that was around 1990, when I first began cogitating whether to shitcan my (excellent) career and strike forth into ?. Work enviro was moving rapidly and heavily towards Total Fem, anyway. Like the nation. Few years later I fled CA and transitioned to my new ‘career’ which basically was informing boys and men,… Read more »
We’ll know it’s over when ambitious students go abroad to get their degrees, and US companies prefer those credentials to the home grown variety. STEM universities in China, Japan, even some in Europe, for example. Anecdotal evidence that China has enough STEM colleges that the “prestige” of sending their “little princes” to US schools has disappeared. They’re sending their dumb kids to pay full tuition for the fake degrees for $$$ signaling to their neighbors, but it’s only a matter of time. US Universities are NOT going to like losing full fare idiots from abroad coming to their “safety school”… Read more »
Andrei Martyanov likes to compare Russian engineering school requirements to American. Our entire education system has been taken over by propogandists who turn out mediocrity.
He also talked about how the U.S. Secretary of Energy is an idiot politician with polysci and law degrees (Jennifer Granholm). Her Russian equivalent has advanced engineering degrees in electric transmission.
In US national politicians generally have a law degree. In the business world typically an MBA. You know the country is doomed just because of this. In China and Russia typically they have engineering or hard science degrees. Putin is a bit of an anomaly in that he has a law degree (I think).
At one point a few years back the Russians switched to the, “Bologna System,” of higher education when EU integration was still a possibility.
Within a couple years of that switch the Russians noticed a significant decline in the quality of their university grads.
Their (correct) solution was to totally dump the EU system and return to their prior Soviet system of higher education.
If you look at the Soviet-era math and physics books, they’re phenomenal. I don’t know about the post-Soviet texts since I haven’t seen them but I wager they’re just as good.
Arshad,
You took the words out of my mouth. Landau & Lifshitzs’ volumes? Phenomenal.
Dover publications reprint many old books, and you’ll find some old gems in there… my book on Tensors was by a Russkie – great book.
From reading an article here and there over the years, many of the world’s universities are basically diploma mills. In certain cultures, having an ancestry one can brag about is very important, and thus an industry exists to concoct imaginary genealogy to taste. Apparently a university degree is little different. For enough money, !Mbembe-Ngogo or Abdullah can be awarded the degree of his or more likely, his father’s choice. This, to a large degree, is (perhaps make that “was”) the reason that so many furriners came to America for a “real” University program.
One of my nephews’ kids on the wife’s side had an opportunity to attend Caltech for his PhD, full ride essentially, and demurred n favor of pursuing his doctorate st a local university in Yokohama. A lot of Japanese apparently are doing the same thing. I don’t know the exact reasons, but it’s a significant departure from the past. A Jap STEM student with upward ambition practically had to go overseas for advanced ed 30 years ago.
The social promotion system is about maintaining the myth of egalitarianism. I doubt that this is really the case. Egalitarianism served as a catchword that inspired earlier generations of liberal revolutionaries, but back in those days it had a very different connotation. The idea that political equality before the law implies the literal equivalence of all people in every respect, is a bit of a stretch even for staunch Leftists. The actual question of whether and how abilities differ between racial groupings is of very limited interest to most people and it in no way accounts for the extreme degree… Read more »
Intelligent Dasein: I hesitate to respond to you, because I really don’t want to encourage your further commenting. However, your main point (that it’s ultimately about power and even accepting the reality of racial differences wouldn’t change the battle plan) is quite true. Your proposed solution, however, is from another time and place. The money men (such as Ackman) have already threatened to take away their lucre in order to bring their foot soldiers to heel. Even if that works in the short term, it will ultimately fail. The darker hued have the bit between their teeth and . .… Read more »
Based on the body of Z-Man’s work he understands this. He said it is about maintaining the myth. It must maintain that myth as a first principle and first priority. Sharing that priority is the myth that inequality exists because of oppression – oppression carried out solely by white people and their civilization. Those are done as a pretext to expand and entrench The Regime’s patronage/spoils system that you correctly point out. Without those myths there is no justification for the spoils/patronage system. The War On Poverty was the Left’s old moral argument. That war failed. In fact, it created… Read more »
HBD is for white consumption, not black, because it demonstrates to whites that there is no end to the DIE regime, no day when the mission will be accomplished. Blacks will always be behind no matter what you do. If they were too dumb to realize that already, which unfortunately many apparently are.
“This is a step in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go. . .”
Said after every craven white concession to black shakedown.
True. Theoretically, one might be able to eliminate “structures of oppression.” There is no eradicating instrinsic stupidity. The reality of genetic difference in intelligence is profoundly portentious, and that is why the Power Structure so monomaniacally pushes the egalitarian fantasy.
“Doin’ right ain’t got no end”
Captain Redlegs
“They could easily shift from, “Blacks are held down by a legacy of slavery, therefore they need affirmative action to help them” to “Blacks are genetically less intelligent than whites, therefore they need affirmative action to help them” without missing a beat.” These arguments are equivalent only if you think that the only purpose of any person’s role in society is that person’s greater glory and, more importantly, prosperity. In other words, if the former were true, society is missing out on valuable potential contributions from Blacks. If the latter is true, there *are no* such contributions (at least in… Read more »
I would argue that 60% of “Americans” actually believe all peoples are intrinsically equal (yes, they’re that stupid), and 95% of the Power Structure believe it. If I am correct, there is no point in agitating for racial spoils because everybody who’s anybody is already more than willing to transmogrify socioeconomic reality in order to put flesh–negroid flesh–on the egalitarian fantasy. Belief in racial equality is very real; it puts the E in the Leftist DIE blueprint.
“organized minority groups agitate for a bigger slice of the pie” Your explanation of the cause of the state of higher education is inadequate. As the current conflict on campi about Israel-Palestine has revealed, these minority groups can be shut down when the elites choose to do so. Therefore, these minority groups have insufficient power by themselves and whatever that they may accomplish is only because it is permitted by the elites. The controlling elite includes almost no one from the dark races and dispossession of traditional whites is their highest goal. In closing, can you show me an example… Read more »
This, a thousand times this. It is why I chafe a bit at the term “Judeo-Puritan.” The latter is fully in charge, and always has been. While our racial kin, they also are our greatest enemy. Much of the Pali-Big J rumble both here and abroad is being orchestrated by the Puritans’s idiot children slumming at State and on campus. It also is a flex, which Ackman seems not to understand. Find a way to checkmate Big Puritan, and Jews, blacks, sexual deviants, or whatever groups or peoples used as weapons go away as a problem. I will admit up… Read more »
i’ve always wondered how you can make hbd more palatable to normies. One thing I say is “isn’t it possible that there’s no malice involved and it’s how the cookies crumbles. No one is saying that the lack of white punt returners in the nfl is a result of racism or the lack of male kindergarten teachers is a result of sexism. Things vary”.
It’s a way to smuggle in hbd without setting off people’s “racism terrain warning systems”.
You make it more palatable by *leaving out race*! I never mention race, only that there are those who are less able to perform to “White” standards. I leave out “White” and simply say, “your standards”. Talk about incompetency, unearned promotions, and acclaim. Competent folk have seen DIE in action and will come to their own conclusions. As to where the bulk of the problem lies wrt “race”. Of course, you need to guide them to that conclusion. It’s not a one discussion thing. But you plant the seed. Also, It’s helpful that incompetence wrt HBD is *not* simply minority… Read more »
Decided to spin up the final season (6) of The Americans last night with my lady. Did it on Hulu. Big mistake. They have ads. I’ll keep it short. Only one white guy – a buffoon on for 2 seconds before being curbstomped out of a doorway. Nearly every actor is fat and ugly; they don’t just have diversity, they use their specific accent (eubonics; Carribbean; every variant of SoAmerIndian and mestizo spanish) In commercials you can max out on diversity. No refineries will blow up due to AfroChemistry. It is painful to watch though. Always on that show you… Read more »
RealityRules: Just fwiw – my younger son’s Christian textbook – about 15 years ago – made no mention of Pierre L’Enfant at all (the earlier edition of the same book, which my older son used about 10 years before, did). When I complained to the teacher (Christian teacher at private Christian school) she made a kinda sorta apology/excuse and said she mentioned him in class. Per the book which all students accepted as ‘truth’ and ‘authority,’ DC was designed and laid out (in the fashion of a formal French landscape garden) by L’Enfant’s black assistant, Benjamin Banneker. Needless to say,… Read more »
Wow! These people are shameless. Looks like William Penn’s statue is coming down in Philadelphia. We have 13 days and some hours to comment on the proposal. Get everyone you know to tell them to keep the founder of Pennsylvania’s statue.
We are in a bad way. We have enemies that will invent any lie that chisels away at our culture and our identity. Worse, they are enabled by gaggles of traitors. This is being done by Deb, “Land Acknowledgement” Haaland at the Dept. of Parks.
https://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?documentID=133425
It’s unlikely I’ll ever return to Tubman D.F. but if I do, I shall not be surprised if L’Enfant Plaza has been rechristened Banneker Plaza. It’ll be a hoot to see how they’ve repurposed all the old marble that was named after long-dead White slave owners.
Since when has integrity ever been an issue for the trybe?
The problem for libtards is that their minority pets can’t do it for real; so they fake the appearance of success for them, pat themselves on the back for making a minority make it and then, eventually everyone dies in a plane crash.
The European communist plan(by infiltration and subversion) to take down the American Republic seems to be on the verge of total success.
If they have lost people like me, an admittedly a former brainwashed USA!USA! Back the Blue patriot then this is past the point of saving. From my perspective, the takedown is complete and has been successful. The engines have stalled and we are just gliding in. Assume crash postition. I never imagined this level of corruption and rot in our institutions was possible. What is public knowledge is disgusting. I shudder to think what is going on that we don’t know about.
Lately I’ve been thinking about how I used to get together regularly with some friends from my church back in the early 90s. We were all pretty much normiecons but there was a fairly high level of what you would now call “race realism”. One of our gang was an electrical engineer who worked directly for DoD down in NoVa. He would tell us stories about the affirmative action hires they had. There was this one pathetic black girl who was an intern from Howard University (regionally famous 90+% Black school). She was was one of these people who are… Read more »
In the places I’ve worked, afro-engineering has been a thing for a long time. It relies heavily upon duct tape and bailing wire.
Yes, afro-engineering has been around forever. It just went by a different, less polished name for most of its existence.
Sebara Dildiy bridge. The picture of the rope crossing is priceless.
KGB: Life as a cargo cult. How I wish it were not so.
Cargo cult is good analogy. Strange White men once were on the scene, bringing many benefits to others. Then, for some reason the White men no longer come. We must create the rituals so that the Whites will come again with their gifts. Unlike the island primitives with their replicas of control towers and aeroplanes made out of reeds and wood, seeking to welcome back the mysterious foreigners, our present DEI regime does not want the Whites to return. Talk about ineptitude: they can’t even do cargo cult correctly.
I dunno how you define collapse of the university system. I dunno if anybody does. As long as they have their big endowments, and as long as the currency those endowments are denominated in has value, (which also keeps the student loan program going), then there is no collapse. There is just a transformation into something stupid, silly, meaningless, and useless, which we are witnessing. So long as the cheap Chinese junk keeps showing up on the shelves, the idiocracy can keep running right along. I think we’re more likely to see pogroms organized by screeching university indoctrinated harpies than… Read more »
Well, I don’t know. When the Ivies and ilk have succeeded in turning themselves into a latter day form of HBUs through the complete excision (and voluntary abstention) of normal whites, that may be the equivalent of collapse.
I think what’s likely is that the university system will resemble tomorrow’s military: highly diverse, more female, and stocked with people who would’ve not been let in in prior ages. With few exceptions, the uni system is now a system of “monasteries” to paraphrase Z.
To look further ahead, wanting to go to university will be akin to a Medieval townie wanting to join the local abbey. People will be like, “Okay, sure, if you want to dedicate your life to superstition go ahead, just don’t be a judgmental dick about it.”
I think what’s likely is that the university system will resemble tomorrow’s military: highly diverse, more female, and stocked with people who would’ve not been let in in prior ages.
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And undependable, which is the root of the issue. Business outsourced their screening to the university system after Griggs, but if the university system becomes the same, or (probably) less dependable than just relying on dumb luck for hires then the bottom will fall out as it’s reason for its existence goes away.
The collapse of the university system will probably be part of a more general collapse. I’m reminded of Dmitry Orlov’s of some years ago, titled “The Five Stages of Collapse.” His thesis was that US collapse will be cascading. The five stages will be financial, commercial, political, cultural, and social (I hope I have the order right). Subsequently, in fact a few years later, he corrected himself, arguing that in the US it will occur on all five fronts simultaneously. Regardless of which version you go for, the collapse of the educational system will be part of a more general… Read more »
In a society as materialist (and atomized) as ours, a financial/commercial collapse and a cultural/social collapse are the same thing. Political collapse too, since the regime’s primary instrument of power is the fedbucks it prints. It’s questionable if it has any other way left to wield power.
Well we have already experienced a cultural collapse, so my vote is the rest are downstream from that.
“Blackrock will be laying off 600 employees, mostly from ESG division.
ESG is the system used by Blackrock and Vanguard to blackmail companies into adopting woke practices”.
Hopefully the tide is really changing. And it doesn’t help DEI that Jewish billionaires are turning against them.
Anna: Funny that, since Jewish billionaires were DEI’s biggest boosters until it started to affect their own. It doesn’t matter how many of the faux blaq middle class they lay off. The slow-motion decay will continue – sometimes faster, sometimes not. Perhaps the Jewish billionaires should have considered this prior to their war on Whites. They suddenly realized they don’t all want to decamp to Israel when there are no more White’s engineering things for them to buy. Cheap Chinesium is supposed to be only for the cattle, after all.
Do you actually think the ‘Cheap Chinesium’ display you’re looking at as you type was designed or engineered by Whites? Do I need to talk about routers and laptops, let alone internet backbone infrastructure? Whether or not some Whiteys ‘invented it all’ at PARC or not back when Adam delved and Eve span is utterly irrelevant in Current Year. It’s Chinesium all the way down… and if the bits you possess are ‘crap’ then it’s because you didn’t buy the good stuff at a fair price. Cheap crap is cheap crap always. Do you think there is a White alive… Read more »
How upset you are when someone dares to accurately describe Han manufacturing, Zaphod.
I do recall you being less than complimentary about white ethnic groups.
I doubt you have enough knowledge about white enginners across the globe to intelligently dismiss their abilities to operate technology they created.
Enjoy your celebration on Feb 10!
Yo Dude. Funnily enough I’m white and an electrical engineer by edumacation.
Unlike you I’ve been to China, lived in and around it, and done business there. So also unlike you, I know what I’m talking about.
I’m not a Han supremacist or total slavish fan. I just have a realistic clue. That is all.
Like I said above… shitting on the ‘Other’ doesn’t do anything to solve our problems. Quite the opposite sometimes.
“Unless Bill Ackman has a new religion for these people to embrace, they will burn the whole system to the ground before abandoning diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
I suspect Ackman himself is a devotee of the second oldest religion. The one that brought a serpent to the garden.
“The department now offers a for-credit course in Afrochemistry, which is taught by this woman.”
Good lord. And that’s the photo she *wants* us to see. It looks as if it has been deliberately Photoshopped to make her look as unattractive as possible.
Yeah that didn’t even click until you said something: usually when I see a photo that ‘shopped it’s a man trying to pretend to be a woman. There’s a slightly better picture of her elsewhere on the site and I’m almost of a mind that they touched it up to try and age her so it didn’t look so much like what they were doing: having a no-nothing kid teach a college class in order to score diversity tokens.
Now why would someone named Kornbluth be exempt from the Jewhad? Hmmmm…checking the personal life section of Wikipedia…and there it is.
To further the incompetence theme in the post, you can look up Boeing’s position on DIE, as long as you aren’t sitting next to the windows on their new 737 Max planes when entire panels blowout mid-flight. When you google this though, you will need to spell out “diversity”, because if you enter “Boeing DIE”, you get the literal results.
https://www.boeing.com/principles/diversity-and-inclusion/
Morgoth nailed this one: https://morgoth.substack.com/p/the-competency-crisis-flying-blind
I do love Morgoth but planes falling out of the sky is a *lesser* sign of cultural collapse than smart men substituting “competency”—ironically, a disfluency adopted from overpromoted black women—for “competence.”
The collapse of the university system is inevitable!…. And I get to keep the T-shirt too right?
Afrochemistry?
“But, but…that’s unpossible.”
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A million years ago I was for a brief time a public school teacher in in a lilly white college town. The few ethnic children were ridiculously fawned over. Every teacher and administrator had this deep ceded fantasy that they would be that special influence that pulled the kid out of his oppression. It starts early and it’s been going on for a long time.
CFOmally: White women love to fetishize blaq children. Even when I was a idiot liberal teen, I never understood (and was never able to share) White mothers’ admiration for the first blaq children at our neighborhood pool. They’d “ooh” and “ah” over these incredibly dark kids next to their blond and blue-eyed youngsters, and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what they thought they were seeing (and praising). It really is a form of mental illness, this idolization of the alien.
Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Everything That Rises Must Converge” is very instructive on what happens to white women who coo over pickaninnies.
KGB: I’ll look into it, thanks. Haven’t read much Flannery O’Connor for some reason.
Estelle Parsons reads “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83HEGMU_N68
If one must pick a ninny, the odds are indeed best if one chooses the Negro.
These are they dynamics that I think are at play here:
-women like following/mouthing the rules of the rulers
-the showy “ooh and aahing” is actually throwing shade; these women don’t want black kids of their own (usually)
-testing to see how agrees disagrees
-showing the prescribed moral virtue give them a weapon to advance over any “bad white” who isn’t as happy. Diversity creates intra-racial conflict.
Just so. Back in 1976 I was a little kid on a youth soccer team. The team was entirely white with the exception of a pickaninny named Bobby Williams. My God, you cannot imagine–or perhaps you can–how all those young white mothers were slobbering over Williams, telling him what a marvelous athlete he was and whatnot. The other kids on the team resented the hell out of it. And this was in West Texas, BTW, not Massachusetts or San Francrisco.
I wasn’t entirely immune to it at the time either. I saw it resurface in my coaching days for my own kids. One particular example was adopted by a wonderful, loving, although naive white family. 20 years later and multiple opportunities ignored and the kid is still a do nothing, whiney bun , who nearly destroyed the family that took him in.
Not being rude will be the death of White people, something I’m “guilty” of as well.
There was a youth soccer team in West Texas in 1976? And mostly White kids?
Sure was. My team was called the Pirates. Gray jerseys, black numerals.
Sure, the mexicans all play futbol, just as canadians all played hockey.
Thus, Texmex soccer, Detroit hockey.
Sounds like a certain Supreme Court justice-ette.
It’s just the standard Northern European Whypeepo need to be seen by every other Ditto as a ‘Good Person’. ‘Bad People’ got booted from the cave when food stocks ran low in February. An evolutionarily useful trait rapidly becomes pernicious as soon as aliens are added to the equation.
Also there’s something about the broad mass of White Women and Blacks — whether picaninnies or bucks. Like it or not, it’s most assuredly a Thing. And should make one think twice before listening to them on any other topics.
Segway to the Boeing Max issues. The Max may be the first DEI aircraft, as Boeing has been reaching for any non-white star they can find years. They probably thought that they’ve now built so many redundancies into their planes that peppering their staff with unqualified people wouldn’t result in a lemon of a plane. If you’re unqualified in some Blackness Studies program, it’s not life and death. But now these people are being put into important positions.
JR Wirth: reason 100,000,001 why we no longer fly. The TSA, the passengers, the pilots and air traffic controllers, and the Boeing engineers. Diversity = the death of White civilization. I’ll wait it out in my rural White backwoods, thank you.
i find this dei stuff disheartening because I haven’t flown since 2012 since i’m afraid of heights. I felt that eventually I would start getting up the courage to learn to fly. By that I mean not actually flying the plane but learning to fly without hyperventilating.
The stories of the past year or so have really made me think that I waited too long to learn to fly without fear.
If you need to buck up your courage, just watch the Twilight Zone episode, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.”
Phobias can be tough to overcome. Juice might not be worth the squeeze unless there are otherwise inaccessible parts of the world you really want to see. Back in the day, Lufthansa ran print ads showing a blond pilot checking the undercarriage with a torch in the night in the rain. Accompanying text was: “Lufthansa, the World’s Most German Airline.” Cathay Pacific then subsidiary DragonAir used to run TV commercials showing just the pilots in the cockpit while some VoiceOver blah about ‘service’. The real message was that the pilots were Caucasian and not Chinese. While I take exception to… Read more »
krustykurmudgeon: I’m sorry you’re afraid of heights and that made flying so uncomfortable for you. I never had that issue – took my first flight in 1963 and many times after. Was spoiled for a bit flying business class when working for the government, although that didn’t help a bit on a 15 hour flight with my frustrated and uncomfortable and screaming toddler. The last time I flew was in 2007, and I found the TSA security theatre tiresome and worthless. The plane was cramped and filled with diversity. We didn’t have lots of spare cash to take distant vacations… Read more »
The only way this will work is if companies that routinely hire Harvard, MIT and other ivy league graduates simply stop hiring them.
Just like “go woke go broke” wiped out beer sales, any conservative company that’s tire of this nonsense simply refuses to interview or hire these people.
From what I understand, boycotting still works in America. But maybe that’s only for blue collar and not elites who need to prop each other up in order to keep up the masquerade
I don’t see it. The corporate boardrooms have been taken over by the same people.
Exactly, Zoar, and uni is where you go to skip a long apprenticeship on the shop floor.
The Yuppie MBAs killed craftsmanship and experience as a hierarchy of merit.
Small addition to your post: add the word “black” after “hire” in your first sentence. Unless they are legacies, white graduates from these programs must be incredibly talented. OTOH, whites need to learn to shun these schools, so maybe your post is perfect already.
Adding to the absurdity is that these phd dissertations have always been verbal diahrrea making the same point over and over again and often missing the real point! These “academics” smelling their own farts anyway.
Ecclesiastes 6:11:
The more words you speak, the less they mean.
I can confirm. I got my PhD in a STEM field. And even in the STEM disciplines, there is too much jargon and superfluous information. I loved the research, but I hated the write-up process. It was antithetical to my desire for efficiency. Often, I simply wanted to: 1. briefly describe what I was doing 2. show the data 3. explain what the data means But no, I had to fluff everything up as per academic standards. Even my thesis was a slog to write as only 30% was truly useful information, the rest was just extra information that everyone… Read more »
Now, there’s an excellent idea.
How to kill of the ridiculous “publish or perish” mandate?
It’s just adding all noise, no signal.
Why, replication of results.
There is a butt-ton of material that needs to be verified or shown in practical demonstration. R&D stipends and patents beckon.
It’s Managerialism All the Way Down ™. Whatever fixes we might implement to mitigate the dysfunction and gaming of the system would themselves be gamed. Immediately. So Burn it All Down. And some @#$%ers will game *that*, too. Welcome to the Human Race… Aren’t we a pretty sight? Ed Dutton and others think Science has gone off the rails since the age of gentlemen Natural Philosophers of independent means and Church of England clerics with comfortable livings (same thing more or less) passed. Note that even then it was a ‘Game’… just that the prestige had to be fairly earned… Read more »
Restated a slightly different way, it’s almost as if public funding of research at industrial scale created new problems. Now, beyond all doubt, government funding gave the world things good (space travel, electronics, etc.), bad (chemical, biological and nuclear weapons) and indifferent (your choice) that probably would never have been developed by 100% private endeavor. On the downside, all that money of necessity created entire ecosystems wholly dependent upon continued public funding. The scientific discovery that in the 18th century might have come as a result of a wealthy gentleman’s hobby interest today requires entire university departments, dozens of staff,… Read more »
STEM graduates don’t seem to be what the used to be. Here’s a Christmas story. Son and I talking about folks that are basically not grounded in “first principles” of understanding in their disciplines. In short, they don’t know what they don’t know and therefore fail in their efforts. My area is statistics, so I cited an example of a video made by an individual proclaiming he could beat the house at roulette. He demonstrated all sorts of betting schemes with multiple placement of various bets on the table. Claiming of course an overall win to be had in the… Read more »
As a personal anecdote, when I was a teen my dad bought a portable dehumidifier for our humid basement. I was a reasonably smart lad. I’d seen how a window a/c unit worked. I groked the concept of drying out the air by cooling it. At first it drove me nuts trying to understand how what seemed to me to be a modified air conditioner unit would condense water out of the air, yet the air was recirculated within an enclosed space. It was only with a bit more wisdom and learning that I understood that a room dehumidifier didn’t… Read more »
Another excellent article. I was a bit concerned that leaving the daily exposure to diversity provided by Lagos would cause you to lose some of your edge. Thankfully, you are still firing on all cylinders. Unfortunately for the world, the resources required to fund this drivel are not scarce. The endowment for Rice University is just under $8 Billion, which does not even place it in the top twenty university endowments in the US. An $8B endowment can fund a lot of DEI mischief, particularly when it is treated as a non-profit for tax purposes. The solution is simple: tax… Read more »
Guest: Distance from diversity does not dull one’s edge if one has already been marinated in it, up close and personal. It merely grants one blessed relief from affliction, but one is still easily able to see it and loathe it all the more once removed from its immediate reach.
Diversity is like the Scarlet Letter on Hester’s chest. Even in the woods, it shines like a beacon of societal misery.
I’ve said for a while university endowments are like their own little money printers.
On top of that, they completely distort the surrounding local economies.
The most egregious example is probably Grinnell and its $1 billion plus endowment in an Iowa town of 9000 people.
Very familiar with Grinnell–actually lived in Grinnell when I was a toddler. Known as a college for rich, dumb kids. To pick a nit, Grinnell’s endowment is between $2.5B and $3B, depending upon the source you consult. Most of it is courtesy of Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel.
I bet he’s not a very noyce guy…
Noyce was pretty noice, by all accounts. His co-founder Andrew Grove (name changed, early-life check indicated) was a right @$%^ who published a book titled “Only the paranoid survive”.
Don’t know enough about Intel to know who let all the Indians in and @#$%ed up the joint and don’t really care. At this point it’s like arguing about which of the Diadochi pooped in Alexander’s soup.
Guest-
Nit well-picked.
My increasingly fuzzy memory failed to recall that Grinnell’s endowment had grown so large.
So the universities are where the rich hide their money; then they make more loaning that untaxed money at interest.
Plus, their corporations get cheap R&D, including R&D in social and political experiments.
Nah, they get confirmation bias on demand, ‘cuz they paid for that. And when thwarted, as with Ackerman, there will be hell to pay.
Daughter wanted to go to Grinnell. At that time it was $40k+ plus other crap like board. I asked a simple question, why? What was it that she wanted to study and what were Grinnell’s rankings wrt that particular discipline. She had no answer, well she did have *an* answer, “You sent (older brother) to a named/fancy school. I want to go to one too”! Yeah, sure, you must think I’m stupid… She went to my university on full ride. She was put in a dorm and had to pay that with a job. Otherwise her choice was to come… Read more »
If it’s exposure to Lagos one needs, all one need do is fire up the boob toob.
Lookt to post-apartheid South Africa for the end result of all this nonsense. However, the Afrikaner – born and bred to adversity – continues to thrive in a sea of darkness.
I don’t like the South Africa analogy due to the stark numerical differences, but, yes, the end result will be the same: a parallel white society that will not be dragooned into the vibrant madness after a point. The open border is both an act of war and an act of desperation because this fragmentation and dissolution is unavoidable now. It is hard to get Normie worked up over even Muh Military at this point. The die is cast.
Good lord, thank you Jannie, I needed that.
Maybe the Culling is the Maker’s mercy; our weak and stupid are culling themselves, what will remain is the white-hot forge of destiny, a White Tribe as implacable and formidable as those who assail us.
Watch the recent Rugby World Cup final to see the kind of man South Africa is producing. The same kind who led the Great Trek and fought the mighty British Empire in two wars.
All the Afrikaners I know are flying planes for Cathay Pacific. Another ex colleague of mine ran for a while a kind of Schindler’s Ark operation getting his un-credentialed White SA buddies starter jobs in the UK whilst somewhat defrauding his (admittedly amoral at best) employer to do so. Would that there were more like him! But I dread to think of the fate of their dumb fraction (used to be employed by South African Railways, etc. back in the day). I guess a remnant will survive in the Western Cape. With all this Afrikaner sentimentality, one should still recall… Read more »
It is not just academia that will collapse, but civilization in general. Civilization, after all, is built around white standards of attainment and behavior no less than academia. Civilization is whiteness, and because whiteness must go, so too must civilization. Goodbye Beethoven, hello rap. Goodbye Smolnyi Cathedral, hello mud huts. Goodbye Shakespeare, hello Amiri Baraka. Goodbye Kant, hello Towson debate team.
Ostei: Excellent exposition, which clearly demonstrates that those who maintain we’re already living through the collapse are correct. I skim the triumphant conservatard headlines proclaiming the supposed looming ‘triumph’ of the anti-immigrationists, and I wonder what lies they tell themselves. It was too late 20 years ago, given differing racial fertility rates. And yet still, people think that somehow we can pull back from the brink. Saw something yesterday using Khazakstan as an example. Shakin’ mah non-nappy haid.
It was too late when Reagan made a deal with the Dem’s and they granted amnesty to those IA’s here for 5 year or whatever. We might have assimilated them at that point in the next 30 years.
I haven’t checked for a while but last I heard Baraka was being ejected from the current_year canon because despite his eventual race-based social rejection of them, he remained aesthetically bound to his old friends in the “Second New York School,” who’ve come to be regarded as a sort of last stand of whiteness—textual density and allusiveness—in poetry. (That’s not how they thought of themselves, of course.) Basically, the vanguard of poet-academics don’t rate Baraka’s stuff anymore because even his dumbest “blackity black” material has traces of obsolete literary artfulness in it. Everything must go.
Soon they’ll be toppling statues of those nuggras who had even the faintest whiff of civilization about them. Duke Ellington is bound for the slagheap.
Benin Bronze Futures looking like a good investment.
Inquiring minds want to read the Sheboon PhD’s dissertation. Magic 8 ball says it would be a hilarious read.
‘Scuse me missah, yo wanna read my d’shirt-aaaay-shun?
You have to read the dis’ in the original ebonics to get its full measure. I know ebonics was an elective course at one point, but surely it is a fullscale program now.
Most unis require passing at least six credit hours in Ebonics in order to graduate.
Even better, as I said the other day, all we have to do is get Ackman onto Michelle Obama’s case for some perceived anti-semitism and ‘her’ thesis will be in the public domain faster than you can say “Never Pay Retail”.
Jogga, please…
“Plagiarism” is such an ugly, patriarchal, White supremacist concept. The more enlightened among us refer to the practice by its rapper slang, “sampling”. All the cool kids are doing it. Claudine Gay’s boosted street verse, righteously speaking truth to power, is surely just a case of great minds thinking alike rather than venal cut ‘n paste.
Now if you will kindly excuse me, I must go and try to pull my tongue out of my cheek where it appears to have bored a hole through the side of my face.
I would like to introduce a question in the context of today’s posting. Given the systemically-driven declines in both our society and culture, is it better to fail in slow-motion (as is now the case) or to speed things up and get to the bottom as soon as possible? Slow death buys time, and allows you to remain on the couch longer and open up some more beer and Doritos. This is the ethos of “muddle-through” and “vote harder” mentality. Kick the can and pray for natural causes while coasting on entitlement fueled government gravy. Not exactly a noble way… Read more »
Depends on your age. If you’re young and fit, better face the crisis now than later. If you’re elderly, better the slow decline so the crisis happens after death.
If you’re middle aged, you’re just fucked.
I don’t think age has anything to do with it. If I can sever the carotid artery of some bastard with my bare teeth and last breath, that is a preferable way to go rather than stroke out on the couch watching TV. What ails us is a small cadre of pathogens inducing systemic disease. For about a billion years, Mother Nature has addressed this problem by sending forth antibodies to cure the illness. Antibodies don’t need highfalutin leaders to do their job, they just get the job done or the body dies. When the house is on fire, nobody… Read more »
To extend your biological example, the body dying quickly via a “cytokine storm” is still a win of sorts as a dead body does not spread the disease. Hence the reason novel diseases tend to evolve/mutate into less fatal versions in order to survive. Taking one of the bastards with you sounds like a win, particularly if you are old and the bastard is young.
I’ve done some thinking as applied to one’s own personal life: is it better to die suddenly or gradually? Short of doing ourselves in, we seldom have much choice. Persuasive arguments may be made for either scenario. Advance notice of death gives a better opportunity to get one’s affairs in order. It occurs to me that, to varying degrees, the latter option is available when one is still in good health. These might be as simple and practical as having a will and trust in place. It’s telling that in most cases that option would only cost a few hundred… Read more »
The “fast-crash” advocates believe this would speed up the ultimate recovery of AINO to actual America. They seem unaware that the reason for the failure is the lack of human capital. The entire society is brainwashed in DIE and equality. Any fixing of this would have to be imposed. But who is going to do this imposing? There simply is not a large number of alternate elites who could inherent the reins and right the ship. We turned the elite educational institutions into propaganda mils and created generations of people indoctrinated into the state religion. We did the same exact… Read more »
Successful revolutions are virtually defined as an exchange of elites. Everything else is just a peasant revolt. One thing the institutions have done very well is prevent the rise of such a counter elite. Theoretically, it is possible to imagine a triumvirate consisting of, say, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Tucker Carlson, but ultimately they conspicuously lack the necessary hard power to succeed. Caesar had his legions, after all.
Erik Prince?
> There simply is not a large number of alternate elites who could inherent the reins and right the ship.
This is why the “slow crash” is the better approach. Nothing will fix this until there are larger numbers of independent-minded, high-energy white males. The only way to get more of those is to have outsized birthrates among based white families, and that is a process that will take 30-40 years minimum.
Hopefully civilization can hold out that long…
How do you get more White Males in a system that is actively taking them out…The longer this system holds on the less White Men you are going to have when it does collapse…
From his comment regarding circulation of elites, I suspect Tarl Cabot might be follower of Academic Agent’s channel. These guys are into the idea that it’s necessary to form a low profile selective cadre of people to carry the flame forward through the approaching chaos and dark times and hopefully eventually provide a vanguard when it’s time to make a move. Might be that there’s a bit of inside baseball as well… but the core idea is that it’s going to be a long multi-generational game. Even if there are elite defections and a circulation of elites ‘soon’… it’s unlikely… Read more »
Forgot to mention that they harp on a lot about how much is possible for an Organised Minority during chaotic times. Just something to keep in mind. That plus the motto of the Boy Scouts (to channel the late great Jerry Pournelle… and obviously not the present year degenerate Boy-bonking Scouts of America).
It is not a matter of choice. Whatever will be will be. Maybe it all goes down in smoke and ash next week, or perhaps there is a three-decades decay. We really have very little say in the matter.
Exactly. Intervention is futile.
I concur.
Don’t give up, just let go.
Demographics is destiny. It’s the only thing that matters over the long term. Thus, you need to define what “crash” means, because we are now witnessing crises on multiple fronts. Would a fast replacement of Whites by diversity be better than a slow replacement? No, but it doesn’t matter, because the result will be the same. OTOH, would a fast total economic and political collapse be better than a slow one? Most likely yes, but we can only wish for that. That all being said, on a civilizational level, we are already experiencing a fast collapse. The only thing that… Read more »
Hun: This. Well said.
“Demographics is destiny” is literally true, but I think the jury is still out on this as it relates to societies. At this point, demographics wouldn’t matter at all without immigration. Every country with supposedly bad demographics is sitting at record population levels. We don’t have any examples, at least that I am aware of, of a population that has turned the corner and is falling quickly to dangerously low levels. We have low birthrates in societies with record numbers of people. People act like when something changes, it doesn’t have other effects. A rapidly falling population would have other… Read more »
I was specifically talking about race/ethnicity. If the population is replaced by invaders, it’s game over.
Low birthrates are not s big deal if it weren’t for replacement migration. (I think we are in agreement)
Re: China (or any place with low birth rates) – I don’t think the low birthrates are caused by expensive housing or tough economy. Or at least, it’s not the primary reason. People used to be much poorer in the past and often lived in very challenging conditions and they still had children.
They didn’t really have a choice before. Today they have a choice. They chose not to marry and not to have children even when they do marry. I have a very hard time buying that people have fundamentally changed in 4 generations. We have yet to see a population voluntarily extinguish itself. Will they chose not to have children when times are much easier in important ways? And can this choice be taken away if they still chose not to have children? In a sane society like Japan or China, I say the answer is yes. Ban birth control. Ban… Read more »
People had limited choices in the past, but they did have faith and their faith was very pro-natalist. They also lived in a small world, with a lot of certainty about the nature of the world, and they were close to their extended families.
Today, they live in a demoralizing, faithless, skeptical, information-overloaded, overstimulating world of seemingly limitless possibilities. Cheap housing will not fix that.
In the case of Iberia, later Spain, I have some historical knowledge due to my useless MA of Spanish Lit. Yes the good Spaniards drove out the Moors and other non-Catholics but it was anything but “trivally* easy.” It took them centuries. It’s also worth mentioning that once Spain had been unified, they had a very effective anti-immigration policy. In those days if one was allowed to leave the country alive, that should have been considered a blessing. If one had been banished and returned illegally the penalty was often death. *I’d mispelled this word. Spell checker offered as suggestions:… Read more »
In China, due to the “One Child Policy”, coupled with a cultural preference for male children, and further linked to easy access to abortion militating against female births, there is a pronounced deficit if females for all of those males to form unions with. Government at work again.
Already that has been reversed. So far, the offered incentives for children are abysmal. Forced abortions were common in the 1 child era. The 2 child era is a misnomer. It wasn’t a 2 child era so much as a ‘if you beg and pay us, you can have a 2nd child’ era. It takes time to propagandize children in the joys of motherhood and for them to grow up and get married and have children.
One woman is capable of producing 8-10 children no problem. 4-5 is cake. Demographic decline can be reversed in 1 generation, at least physically.
I was a student at one of this country’s more traditional institutions of learning in the 1980s and 1990s, located in a very large New England city, headed by a man who was passionate about the liberal arts, merit, and possessed of one of the sharpest tongues of any person I’ve met in my life since then. Much of this he saw coming, and would often hold forth to us in his office during rare moments of leisure about the crisis that would befall the US after he was gone. If we — meaning Gen X — did not correct… Read more »
If we — meaning Gen X — did not correct the course”
There was NO chance of that happening. GenX was so brasinwashed/marketed it to beyond belief. The girls were uber Feminists shrills.
It’s just been a snowball for generations. Greatest Gen/Boomers taught us point in life is killing Hitler and kissing MLK’s big black ass. GenX was all in with addition of porn and action figure collections.
Lauren Boebert and Prager University will set the ship right!
Boebert is going down on the ship. Prager is over insuring it.
In other words, to dismantle whiteness they must dispense with the rules of whiteness. This is key I think. Despite DEI and diversity worship, the people in charge are still “acting white”. Even the POC. The whole DEI thing, thus far, is trying to make POC “act white” and to shoehorn them into a lifeway and organizational model that was created by old dead Anglo-Saxons. I’ll bet that Brooke Johnson doesn’t speak Ebonics. Claudine Gay sounds like every AWFL. I’ll bet all those POC “chemists” and “engineers” at Forbes 500 companies aren’t hired just because they’re POC, but because they’re… Read more »
For leftism, diversity is a black person behaving as a white progressive, a Muslim person behaving as a white progressive, a Latino person behaving as a white progressive, an Asian person behaving as a white progressive and so on and so forth. You can be diverse in unimportant things for them: religion (because they think it is BS), clothes, food, etc. In all things that matter, you must be a white progressive and enforce uniformity of thought and behavior. Their rationale is that leftism is the default mode of the human race. Everybody would be leftist if it had not… Read more »
White progressives have lost control now, I think, to their dusky monsters. The white progressives will be expected to speak ebonics soon enough if not now.
What tribe do they think they will be in. They do not look like the tribe being promoted as the new ideal.
As always a well thought out plan by the progressives.
Fukuyama’s “End of History” bullshit.
JJ further thought.
The Original Gangsters of “End of History” are the Muslims with their prophet supposedly being the final, capstone revelation. Talk ’em out of it…
My dad, a based 20th century American WWII vet – was sure that the hijabis who started arriving in Brooklyn in considerable numbers during the last decade of his life “wouldn’t put up with it”- that they’d embrace our “way” once they got a taste of it.
He assumed that their kind of (hard) Mohammedan Tribalism would play out just like the (soft) Urban-Ethnic Tribalism of the 19th/20th century Big Eastern City: i.e., “there,” but not at all insurmountable: patriotic assimilation first, St. Pat’s day a distant second.
(They are not Greeks…)
01/1925-12/2009
What you describe was once the case but no longer is. The deal was that negroes would be socially promoted so long as they at least aped civilized behavior. That is no longer true. Even that minimal baseline requirement is being jettisoned as an artefact of white supremacy. When you have somebody named Ketanji on the Supreme Court, the jig is well and truly up.
The movement you are describing is well underway in large corporate and academic organizations, at least on the West Coast. It started in earnest with the movement to ban discrimination based on hairstyles, after which every manager damn well better have a few people in dreadlocks on his team, or face the wrath of HR. It has now moved on to dialect in the spoken word and written word. Don’t you dare point out that DaJamarius can’t write a coherent sentence, much less a paragraph or an entire memo. I have an acquaintance who manages a team of developers for… Read more »
“It’s an odd thing, too: kind of like the old soft British caste system. Your accent and comportment is what determines your success in life, above all.”
One of the big stories of the 20th century was the ‘British’ Empire moving back to America.
It never fully left. Cecil Rhodes was a leading fanboi, and pushed the program.
Marko: They’re mere simulacrums. Just give it a little bit more time; their inherent nature bursts forth and will be celebrated by all the denizens of AINO. Like the mayor of Dolton Village, Illinois. Claudine Gay may take vacations in Rome, but she will be forever be a barbarian, product of an alien and inferior race, gaping at the creation of something far beyond her ken. In the end, it will be mere trinkets and gewgaws adorning savages amidst the ruins.
It is so delicious, and it is escalating now. Bill Ackman funded a lot of DEI via Pershing Square Capital Management prior to October 7. He claims ignorance of what that all entailed. Many young white males were harmed in the production of his religion, and money from Pershing paid for NGO’s to bring a lot of the border jumpers near you. Ackman now claims DEI a failure and alternatively he dindu nuthin’. Abe Foxman, the former head of ADL, corrected the current head, the repellent Nosferatu doppelganger, when the latter suggested a fix to DEI that put Jews (officially)… Read more »
Jack: That last brief paragraph is golden. I’m stealing it.
Your plagiarism would be as welcome as it would be ironic.
Jack: But of course. I would be “sampling.” Irony indeed.
I believe the proper term is now “duplicative writing”
The department now offers a for-credit course in Afrochemistry, which is taught by this woman. “Dr. Johnson is passionate about the intersection of science and social justice and using her unique experiences to teach, support and inspire diverse students”.
The intersection of science and social justice must look like a Saturday night crime scene on the south side of Chicongo.
The attack on DEI from Ackman and other powerful Jews is interesting, but it doesn’t need to be fatal to the university system. It’s mostly Ackman throwing a temper tantrum. Powerful Jews don’t really have a problem with DEI. They have a problem with DEI that doesn’t give Jews a special exemption. The elite still need a system for vetting future members of the elite and the college system remains the best way to do that. Indeed, as Ron Unz has shown, Jews almost certainly are over-represented at elite universities even after accounting for their high school performance, i.e. Jews… Read more »
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You hit this one out of the park. Congratulations.
As another writer observed, if the university thinks it is immortal, it may want to have a talk with the monastery…
I believe that Ed Dutton talked about how even Cambridge and Oxford lost their luster back in the day as they became just finishing schools for the elite’s spoiled children. They only regained their prestige when they started demanding better students.
Point is that Harvard being respected isn’t ordained by God.
The entire Ivy League, and Harvard in particular, in terms of status is roughly where Cadillac was in the late 1980s/early 1990s: Churning out crappy, substandard, out of touch product while living on the fading glories of the brand’s past.
As proof, ever heard someone say that “X is the Cadillac of (certain product)” recently? Cadillac, like Harvard, was held up as a gold standard of excellence.
What’s Cadillac now? What’s Harvard now? Do you get what you pay for with either?
With Harvard, maybe. You are paying for connections and networking which it still can deliver. Just don’t go there expecting to improve your education.
It’s easy to see how this happens. > Why do blacks lag so badly in academics? > White supremacy > Well, we’ve moved heaven and earth to fix that as a cause > See? It’s just that sneaky and powerful! It’s literally everywhere I was talking with a guy (data scientist, as they call themselves these days) and the subject of black financial performance came up. I pointed out the obvious facts – in some fairly neutral context – and he simply observed that the data are biased against blacks and that’s another way in which sneaky White supremacy infests… Read more »
“All the things blacks can’t do are because the concepts, themselves, are unjust.”
The reason this line of thought has such staying power is because it’s true. It is unjust that blacks on average have lower intellectual capabilities to operate within white concepts. The mistake is thinking we can force people to be smarter than their biological limits, and that pretending they are somehow advances society.
They usually get the premise right and manage to draw the insane conclusion.
Meanwhile, Righty mixes his premises up, because otherwise he’ll draw the right conclusion.
Drives one nuts.
“For his part, Ackman has declared a jihad against MIT. He is asking for volunteers to scan the academic work of everyone at MIT.” The pettiness and the pride of these people is one thing that does – although it ought not to – surprise me. This action is the height of pettiness and just serves as a good reminder of the attributes that make up a wealthy and powerful individual is these times (perhaps all times). Then again, so what? On a trip to Boston, I had a handful of memories, none particularly great: 1. Black guy shaving using… Read more »
“One only need look at bureaucratic scientists over the last century to see that they are a highly cowardly set of individuals.”
Cowardly and evil (see Fauci, Anthony).
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I am consistently amazed by how many bad Current Year ideas originate in and around Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is no longer deserving its former reputation as, “the Athens of America.”
I feel a lot of the clash in massachusetts politics is between the universities vs the townies (think bill burr)
After more than five decades of affirmative action bullshit, the room is really beginning to smell. It took a while for the rot to work its way into vital areas of technology, but here we are. How many times did we go to the hospital dreading to find out who was going to be on the other end of the scalpel? How many times did we board a plane and nervously glance into the pilot’s cabin to see who was there? And how many times have we slammed our phone down after some incompetent boob failed to even understand our… Read more »
Mean girls are funny.
PS I still suspect Sandusky was a takeover operation. PSU taught me some based shit, shut down the Confucius Institute, etc. Could be sour grapes though lol.
You don’t bring in Louis Freeh to investigate, you bring in Louis Freeh to cover up. Probably some of the wild rumors flying around in those days were true.
Right lol. We all know the feds run a tight ship.