* Based on the blog post from whence the picture was posted, the Harvard deal is run by a Ghanian Muslim, an Arab Muslim who hates dogs, let it be known I hate Muslims, and a gay White Texan with a thing for Black men.
That’s it. That’s who is running it. They sense weakness and are seeking to run the whole place. Their classmates seem terrified to step in. Do anything. Future masters of America bum rushed by two Muslims and a gay.
Weakness has a price. This is it.
* I graduated from an Ivy League school a decade ago, and back then there was a group of black radicals on campus that was protesting basically the same exact things as all these black protesters in the news this year. But they were more or less ignored by the vast majority of people on campus. For all practical purposes, they didn’t exist. This was before social media was a big deal – when Facebook and Youtube had just started and before Twitter came along. This campus “crisis” this year seems to be a completely social media driven phenomenon. A small group of black radicals who would have gone unnoticed before social media, now has their antics shared and broadcast across the entire country by blacks and others on social media, This then gets picked up by the mainstream media and becomes big news, and the process feeds upon itself endlessly.
* I remember back in the 90s, a study group of Black students at Columbia Law decided to take action. They decided to go out side and document taxi bigotry.
Except, the taxi drivers stopped and picked them up. So, they moved further away from campus and still got picked up. And the drivers agreed to take them to places like the bad parts of Brooklyn. They were perplexed. How could this be?
Finally, it hit them. They were dressed for law class. They put on their urbanwear (or whatever it’s called these days), and bam! The cab drivers began to act as they expected, refusing to stop for them. Fortunately, as one wag from NR (IIRC) put it, it didn’t start an urban craze for wearing Ivy League sportswear …
* The blond girl slightly right of center is holding an ‘Amandla’ sign. ‘Amandla’ is Zulu for ‘Power’, and back during the Apartheid protest days in South Africa, the leader of a group would repeatedly call ‘Amandla!’ and the rest of the crowd would yell, ‘Awethu!’ (‘to us’). So the equivalent in English in “Power!” – “To The People!” – “Power!” – “To The People!”, etc.
Like you often ask: aren’t people embarrassed by anything anymore? One would hope that analogy stretching and exaggeration to this degree – “an ongoing holocaust!” – would finally break through any reasonable person’s absurdity shields, but alas it is not the case. There really is no level of grievance that is so trivial that it isn’t susceptible to ‘affront recalibration’ if the high prestige press pretends to take it seriously and won’t call them out on it.
* It’s driven by social media. Everyone wants to be seen & become famous. I was at a social event last night & most of the people in their 20s & 30s were glued to their phones. Whole tables of people typing away not engaged in any meaningful conversations with the people they’re seated with. Strange times.
* I might add that my personal observation of multiple protests around the world is that crowd numbers are almost invariable exaggerated. The instigators, the police, the media, often the authorities, have different reasons for bigging them up.
Canny protest leaders try to pick their sites to enhance the crowdedness of the scene; ignorant observers also contribute by guessing wildly rather than calculating numbers carefully (there are ways to do it).
The Yugoslavian Otpor people were masters at this.
The current situation seems comically to have extended this to the point where great institutions quivver at the anger of a “crowd” of 10.
* I too see this phenomenon at professional conferences and trade expositions where networking is a key explicit raison d’être. During breaks and lunches, tables which in years past would have been engaged in lively discussion are today silent. The same thing happens within corporations where the primary goal of a cafeteria on-site was to promote cross-silo communication. Today the cafeterias are largely silent (except for the always noisy Africans) and one wonders if the revolution in personal communications has only sent everyone everywhere into virtual silos of the like-minded.
* Black chick is holding a sign: “Built From Slavery”
I thought Harvard was built by the Puritans circa 1636 or something.
Besides if slavery led to great prosperity Africa would be one of the wealthiest places in the world and Mauritania would be one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
* What needs to catch fire is a social network site that attacks the non-professionalism of “journalists” and the media, with just such pictures of “movements.”
* How do you read (black law prof) Randy Kennedy’s op-ed on the subject? As trying to signal, furtively, that the whole thing is bullshit? And if so, what does it say that he needs to write in code?
* Simple English translation of Harvard law Prof Op Ed: There’s no reason to believe that the taping incident was done by a white racist, and even that was the case, it’s pretty meaningless, but it has gotten us to talk about race, and that’s always good.
Talking about race is always good, because we don’t talk about race enough. Over to you, Starbucks.
* I somehow got the impression from reading that link at the other thread that the guy from Ghana is an “affirmative action” student at HLS. Now, I think “affirmative action” is a complete abomination and contrary to the “equal protection” clause of the U.S. Constitution and should have been ruled unconstitutional back in 2003 instead of upheld by a 5-4 vote (courtesy of Sandra Day O’Connor). But to extend that dubious principle to a man from Ghana is totally preposterous, since there is no way he could be said to have been harmed by the institution of slavery and later segregation in the U.S. I don’t think being black is a disadvantage in Ghana. And to think an American student lost a spot at one of the top law schools in the country because someone thought this idiot should be admitted to HLS boggles the mind.
* I don’t hate Muslims. Most of the ones I know are fine (of course, they practice an immensely watered-down form of the religion.) I don’t think we should import millions of them into our country right now, but I don’t hate them.
Immigration should be a matter of public policy and of what’s best for the country.
* The pictured group looks like a coalition of the socially poor and lonely. A sort of Social Marxism if you will.
* I rarely go out anymore to social events outside of in a business context. I went to an adult neighborhood Halloween party with my wife this year. Most of the hausfraus spent most of their time at the party taking and posting pictures to Facebook. It was ludicrous. Nobody knows how to converse anymore.
* Any black man can get a taxi ride if he dresses like a Mormon missionary: black pants, white shirt, and a cheesy polyester tie. Unfortunately, he will also get the sh!t stomped out of him at his ghetto destination for not “keepin’ it real”.
* Maurice Howie, star quarterback at Buffalo’s South park HS was convicted (2014) of second degree murder in the shooting death of a Buffalo cab driver. Howie, still in HS, and a friend decided to rob a taxi driver as an easy mark, after the robbery they forced the driver into the backseat of the cab and shot him to death. I am sure all Buffalo cabbies shook this aberration off and went cruising for young, black, male fares.
* They obviously don’t teach the basics at Harvard – eg fat lasses shouldn’t wear skinny jeans.
* The original NYT reporter’s article on the subject sent a semi-coded message that The Narrative couldn’t be trusted on this case. Now they are doing it again via the op-ed page.
* Social media may well be driving an increase in Protest about Nothing groups on campus, but 90% of HLS students are study machines with no time for social activism. Many look visibly aged by constant sleep deprivation. An atmosphere of panic is palpable in Hilles Library during all hours throughout the semester. The kind of students with time for lame SJW campaigns are the same ones who stroll into the library, dump a big pile of books and crap on a table, and then walk away almost immediately for water, bathroom, food, and chat breaks. Maybe they peek into one or two books for a few minutes now and again. Obviously, they like the idea of receiving a prestigious law degree but they have neither the heart nor talent to earn it.
* Once again, Hussein Obama is announcing his intention of grabbing for assault weapons, and not handguns, because (in no particular order):
1. The vast majority of shootings in this country are perpetrated by young urban black males (against other young urban black males), a tiny fraction of the population, using handguns…and handguns are not “assault weapons.”
2. Only a tiny number of murders are committed every year with “assault weapons.” “Mass shooters” with “assault weapons” kill under 100 people a year.
3. The press ignores 1.
4. The press trumpets 2.
5. Yuppie white owners buy handguns, and not “assault weapons,” to protect themselves from 1.
6. Hussein Obama has been the greatest salesman for “assault weapon” vendors in history, so why should he stop now?
7. While Hussein’s political allies favor handguns, which are used in the vast majority of gun crime, his political enemies, suburban and rural white Republicans and independents love to buy “assault weapons,” and commit very few crimes with them.
8. He loves getting his ass kicked by the gun lobby.
9. Hussein agrees with the media that Black Lives Don’t Matter.
10. Etc.
