The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

Christopher Caldwell writes in this 2020 book:

Men took feminism as a straightforward indictment of their own attitudes. They were right to. Sexism as Bird defined it was everywhere. The succinct explanation that New York Times war correspondent David Halberstam gave in 1972 for the high-quality work he and his fellow journalists had done in Vietnam was that there had been no women in their lives to mess things up.

“Because only one of them was married,” he wrote of his colleagues, “there was no wifely pull to become part of the Saigon social whirl, to get along with the Noltings or the Harkinses, the kind of insidious pressure which works against journalistic excellence in Washington.”

Women meant compromise and intellectual mediocrity.

If you asked women to name the quality they most admired in women, “intelligence” ranked tops, at 57 percent. If you asked men, the best thing about women was “gentleness,” at 38 percent; only 1 percent of them cited intelligence. It is obvious what the consequences of such attitudes would be in any man-run workplace. Look at the TV commercial and marketing campaign that Eastern Air Lines ran in the summer of 1967. Entitled “Presenting the Losers,” it announced that the company had hiring standards so rigorous that only one in twenty applicants for a job as stewardess was hired. Rather than describe those standards, it paraded a dozen young women across the screen and invited the viewer to check them out, accompanied by a narrator’s contemptuous assessments: “She’s awkward. . . . Not very friendly. . . . She bites her nails. . . . She wears glasses. . . . Oh! . . . Aww, she’s married.” One is too tall, one too short, another chews gum. Eastern’s standards were wholly physical. Sexual.

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Discrimination Is A Good Thing (6-28-23)

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CJ: Thank the Rebbe’s Followers for Turning the Tide of The Russo-Ukraine War

Charles Johnson writes:

The reason you don’t understand what just happened in Russia is because you don’t understand Chabad, its players, and the power they wield around the world.

Every so often I am reminded that I live an exceptionally colorful life.

So it was past week I received text messages, direct TMs, and a phone call from my friends within Chabad. Why they even left a message with my bank. Thank you for the blessings.

Whilst I was initially apprehensive and even frightened these outreaches amounted to blessing — and as with all blessings, a harbinger of the future. “The war is going to end,” one of my friends told me. I knew that Chabad had long opposed the war in Ukraine and that Putin’s rabbi — Berel Lazar — was planning to be in the United States soon. I tweeted about their having contacted me.

At their urging I informed my friends within the U.S. government and — sure enough — Prigozhin and his Wagner Group moved out of Ukraine and into Russia. Prigozhin’s Wagner Group provides security for much of the Chabad society operations throughout Africa.

After all, this past week was a holy day for Chabad. It marked the 29th anniversary of the death of the Rebbe Menachem Schneerson.

You probably didn’t notice that President Biden has signed two proclamations honoring the Rebbe or that his son Hunter Biden spoke with Chabadniks about getting back their library.

But I did.

The U.S. government has aligned itself with Chabad in its quest to rollback some of the nastiness of the Russian oligarchs and regime. Chabad has been a willing ally insofar as its rabbis feel that Putin hasn’t done enough to bring about peace between Ukraine and Russia.

I’ve heard that that was a major discussion in Brooklyn this past weekend. The event in Brooklyn was exceptionally well attended. By some estimates as many as 50,000 attended a remembrance for the Rebbe. Why here’s Berel Lazar, Putin’s rabbi. In Brooklyn!

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Dennis Prager Is Proud To Have Fought Lockdowns & Vaccines

June 26, 2023, Dennis said to Julie: “During the pandemic, I said I want my grandchildren that pappy fought the lockdowns, that pappy did not get vaccinated. I will be proud that they have that memory of me when I have left this world. I will be proud that they know I have called out the evil of the American medical establishment… Just as the people who fought slavery would be proud to have their grandchildren know that they had fought slavery.”

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Putin Fears For His Life (6-26-23)

00:10 One man’s adventure beyond good & evil (5-15-20), https://rumble.com/vfss5j-one-mans-adventure-beyond-good-and-evil-5-15-20.html
09:40 Biodiversity Crisis Drives Eradication Campaign Against Super-Predators (6-10-22), https://rumble.com/v181y3x-biodiversity-crisis-drives-eradication-campaign-against-super-predators-6-1.html
17:00 Everybody hurts
23:00 Putin’s Speech Reveals New Weakness, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p18uCyKjer4
32:00 Interview with Jonathan Howard on Covid Contrarians, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/interview-with-jonathan-howard-on-covid-contrarians
47:00 Why does Amazon Music keep pushing Phantom of the Opera on me?
48:00 Why does Youtube keep pushing Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin videos on me?
1:08:00 WP: This photographer documents queer beauty in the South amid anti-trans laws, https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2023/06/26/trans-visibility-photos/

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