Since 2004, the year that film culture split along moral and artistic lines, political and class biases have been exhibited in films that became more and more partisan. This rift was furthered by a compromised media, where critics praised movies that exhibited cynicism along with political bias.
Not just entertainment, the 20 films listed here effectively destroyed art, social unity, and spiritual confidence. They constitute a corrupt, carelessly politicized canon.
1) Good Night and Good Luck (2005) — George Clooney, president of the corrupt canon, directed and acted in a dishonest fantasy biopic of TV-news icon Edward R. Murrow to revive blacklist lore as part of a liberal agenda.
2) The Dark Knight (2008) used the Batman myth to undermine heroism, overturn social mores, and embrace anarchy.
3) Ocean’s Twelve (2004) — Steven Soderbergh salutes land of the greedy and home of the depraved in a reboot franchise sequel, scoffing at the post-War conviction of Sinatra’s Rat Pack original.
4) 12 Years a Slave(2013) distorted the history of slavery while encouraging and continuing Hollywood’s malign neglect of slavery’s contemporary impact.
5) Wall-E(2008) — Nihilism made cute for children of all ages who know nothing about cultural history or how to sustain it.
6) Manderlay (2005) — Lars Von Trier’s Dogville sequel sold American self-hatred back to us, and critics fawned.
7) United 93(2006) reduced the pain and tragedy of 9/11 to the inanity of a disaster movie.
8) Frost/Nixon (2008) — Political vengeance disguised as a dual biopic that prized showbiz egotism over conflicted public service.
9) Knocked Up (2007) — Judd Apatow’s comedy of bad manners attacked maturity and propriety.
10) The Social Network (2010) — David Fincher’s new Horatio Alger tale glorified technocrat Mark Zuckerberg with chic, digital-era arrogance.
11) Precious (2009) coincided with Obama’s first year in office to revive racial condescension with the audacity of nope.
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* It seems like most Australians take Melbourne Cup day off, slackers! East Asians are only 10% of Australia’s population but it seems like they do 50% of the work. My mate down under says bring in another 10% and they can do 100% of the work and keep the whites around for comfort.
* A pathetic girlfriend of a few years back said to me, “You love me because I’m pathetic.” Ouch. She was right. I have this urge to rescue or to be rescued, symptoms of the same emptiness.
* The Jewish way to get wasted is to do mitzvos (transcend the self).
* Uncover to discover to recover.
* Compared to American girls, Israeli girls seem much more fit and better with guns.
Noxon’s childhood was mostly devoid of religion. He described his father as having some Quaker stock, though he identifies as Canadian and atheist. His mother, on the other hand, he described as “Buddhist and a lesbian and a feminist.” She came out when he was 10, and Noxon said the experience of growing up in an estrogen-fueled environment softened him. “I’m a huge girly man,” he said. “I wish I had more of that agro-male testosterone that needs to be curbed.”
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Israel’s policy toward African asylum seekers is to pressure them to self-deport or, as the former interior minister Eli Yishai put it, to “make their lives miserable” until they give up and let the government deport them. About 60,000 African asylum seekers have entered Israel since 2005, most of them Muslims from the Darfur region of Sudan, and Orthodox Christians from Eritrea; today that number is closer to 45,000.
The government and some media call them “infiltrators,” a word that for most Israelis evokes Palestinians illegally crossing into Israel to launch attacks, painting them as a threat. A law passed in 2013 requires male African asylum seekers already in Israel to be detained automatically and indefinitely in the open detention center, Holot, in the Negev desert. Detainees are allowed to wander the desert between three obligatory check-ins every day, and they must also remain in Holot overnight. If they miss a check-in, they can be transferred to the nearby prison. Their only alternative is to accept a sum of $3,500 to return to their country of origin, or a third country, usually Uganda or Rwanda, often without proper documentation to stay…
As the continuing refugee crisis in Europe demonstrates, Israel is not alone in trying to deter refugees. But according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, it has the distinction of having one of the lowest asylum acceptance rates in the Western world. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once warned that the arrival of African people poses a demographic risk to Israel: “If we don’t stop their entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000 could grow to 600,000, and that threatens our existence as a Jewish and democratic state.”
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I think John J. Mearsheimer is the most important political scientist of the past forty years.
John Derbyshire writes: After taping this weekend’s Radio Derb, with its segments about U.S.-China tensions and geostrategy, I was browsing through my blog roll when I came across this at Steve Hsu’s site.
The whole thing is over an hour and a half long, but well worth the time if you’re interested in the topic.
On the realist side, arguing that big nations will always seek supremacy and the U.S.A. will (and should) always act to prevent the rise of peer competitors, are Peter Brookes and John Mearsheimer. For the other side, arguing that a Metternichian (and Derbyshirean) balance of power is possible and should be sought, are Robert Daly and Kevin Rudd.
The Metternichians won on a TKO by the usual method of debate scoring, but Brookes and Mearsheimer made some powerful arguments that, I must admit, gave me pause.
Mearsheimer was particularly effective with both sabre and foil. This, for example, at 1h30m34s into the show.
They [i.e. Daly and Rudd] have a theory, and it revolves around agency, or diplomacy. They believe that the competition can be managed; and that’s very different from the way I think about the issue.
But I want to ask you this: When you look at American diplomacy over the past twenty years, does that give you confidence… [laughter]… seriously, does that give you confidence that American leaders can manage this relationship over the next thirty or forty years? [more laughter]
You know about Afghanistan; you know about Iraq; you know about Libya; you know about Ukraine; seems to me the United States has the Midas Touch in reverse.
I still prefer the Metternichian solution, but are our politicians smart enough to get us to it? Hmmm.
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Hah! Take this, racists: the top three runners among the men in today’s NY City Marathon were a Mexican, a Chinese person, and an Italian. Among the women, the top three were an Arab, a Jew, and a Samoan.
Just kidding! East Africans took all three top spots in both categories.
Chaim Amalek: “The race ends right in my amazingly white neighborhood, the Upper West Side, where I get a close look at who the non-elite runners are. Almost entirely white. When will the NY Times report on the racist policies and customs that are keeping African Americans away from such events? The race ends right in my amazingly white neighborhood, the Upper West Side, where I get a close look at who the non-elite runners are. Almost entirely white. When will the NY Times report on the racist policies and customs that are keeping African Americans away from such events? Lamarck and Lysenko taught us all the genetics any right-thinking person needs to know.”
Miriam: “Wasn’t it an Israeli official who commented on all the Ethiopians that were brought into Israel ‘now we can win some medals in running.'”
By contrast, all of the finalists since 1984 in the Olympic men’s 100 meter dash have been of West African descent.
It seems every time I check the news, some Jew in the nursing home business is getting attacked by government regulators and/or the media.
Why won’t the goyim leave us alone?
Chaim Amalek: “When my time comes I hope I will have the money to give to some torah yidden to take good care of me.”
The more successful you are, the more of a target you become.
Why do so many Torah Jews own/run nursing homes? I suppose that an education in Torah Judaism makes you more adept at navigating a legal system, such as the bureaucracy around senior care.
Not every Jew is smart enough to run a bank.
David Shirel with Shmuel Sackett, Ben Landa and Teddy Pollak
The state’s “character-and-competence” reviews are supposed to weed out operators with histories of violations and fines— but regulators don’t always act on the full story.
The nursing home is one of several in a group of for-profit homes affiliated with SentosaCare, LLC, that have a record of repeat fines, violations and complaints for deficient care in recent years.
Despite that record, SentosaCare founder Benjamin Landa, partner Bent Philipson and family members have been able to expand their nursing home ownerships in New York, easily clearing regulatory reviews meant to be a check on repeat offenders. SentosaCare is now the state’s largest nursing home network, with at least 25 facilities and nearly 5,400 beds.
That unhindered expansion highlights the continued weakness of nursing home oversight in New York, an investigation by ProPublica found, and exposes gaps in the state’s system for vetting parties who apply to buy shares in homes.
State law requires a “character-and-competence” review of buyers before a change in ownership can go through. To pass muster, other health care facilities associated with the buyers must have a record of high-quality care.
The decision maker in these deals is the state’s Public Health and Health Planning Council, a body of appointed officials, many from inside the health care industry. The council has substantial leverage to press nursing home applicants to improve quality, but an examination of dozens of transactions in recent years show that power is seldom used.
Moreover, records show that the council hasn’t always had complete information about all the violations and fines at nursing homes owned by or affiliated with applicants it reviewed. That’s because the Department of Health, which prepares character-and-competence recommendations for the council, doesn’t report them all.
By Michael Amon and Ridgely Ochs
Sept. 23, 2007 p.A4 to A8
Faced with a crisis over complaints about its treatment of Filipino nurses, Long Island nursing home group SentosaCare turned for help last year to a friendly politician it had supported in the past — Sen. Charles Schumer.
The Democratic senator then wrote four letters over the course of two months to Philippine government officials, including President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. They asked the officials to meet with SentosaCare’s executives or to “consider reviewing” the Woodmere company’s case after the country suspended the company’s affiliated recruitment operation. Macapagal-Arroyo’s former chief of staff said the Schumer letters were unprecedented.
Shortly after two Schumer letters sent the same day, the Philippine government lifted the suspension. SentosaCare’s Filipino recruitment pipeline was back in business. Over the next two months, a national campaign fund headed by Schumer received nearly $75,000 from investors, attorneys and vendors for SentosaCare-affiliated nursing homes.
The involvement of New York’s senior senator triggered a storm of controversy 8,500 miles away in the Philippines that also has reached Long Island. Amid the dispute, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota agreed to meet in private with SentosaCare’s principals and their lawyer. They asked him to investigate the 10 nurses at a Smithtown nursing home who were among 26 who prompted the uproar when they resigned abruptly from SentosaCare facilities in New York City and Long Island.
An investigation followed immediately, and 10 months later the Smithtown nurses were charged for endangering patients when they quit without notice. The indictment is apparently the first of its kind in the state.
THEY are recruited in their homeland with perks like free airfare. Some have been offered thousands of dollars in bonuses to relocate. And in the process, they have become a mainstay of the New York area’s hospitals and nursing homes.
They are nurses from the Philippines, and they are highly prized here because they speak English, are trained in American-caliber medicine and enjoy a reputation for tender care — the legacy of a society in which families tend to their own sick and aging relatives.
“We’re honest, industrious and don’t complain a lot,” explained Elmer Jacinto, 32, a registered nurse.
His voice, however, carried a palpable note of sarcasm. He and nine other Filipino nurses on Long Island did complain, and now they find themselves caught in what he called “a nightmare” — a disturbing new chapter in the upbeat story of one of this nation’s most successful immigrations.
The 10 nurses are under indictment in Suffolk County on charges of endangering the welfare of five chronically ill children and one terminally ill man. They are accused of walking off their jobs at the Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Smithtown in April 2006 without providing sufficient notice for the nursing home to replace them on coming shifts.
Although their resignations were prompted by a seemingly commonplace dispute with their employers over what the nurses say were broken promises and shabby working conditions involving a total of 26 Filipino nurses and a physical therapist, the 10 defendants could each be sentenced to a year in jail and lose their nursing licenses….
The case has drawn wide attention and outrage in the Philippines, where legislators have held hearings into how the nurses were treated by the company that recruited them. Filipinos there and in the United States have rallied to support the nurses, joined by the American Nurses Association, which has said in a statement that “the real patient endangerment lies in the deplorable conditions that led the nurses to leave.”
The pushback has even taken on a political tinge. Commentators in both countries, citing an investigation by Newsday, have questioned whether favoritism was shown the nursing home owners because of their political influence and campaign contributions, and because of letters written to the Philippine president and other officials by Senator Charles E. Schumer. The senator and the owners have denied exerting any unusual pressure.
But what no one denies is that the case is a startling anomaly in what has been a remarkably successful migration of people seeking to work in a single occupation. More than half of American nurses trained abroad are from the Philippines, and they alleviate a perennial shortage of nurses in this country.
Of the New York area’s 215,000 Filipinos, 3 out of 10 work as nurses or other health-care practitioners, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by Susan Weber-Stoger, a Queens College demographer. Many of the rest are their spouses, children or aging parents. That migration explains the large colonies of Filipinos in places like Jersey City and Bergenfield, N.J., a middle-class suburb, where Robert C. Rivas, mayor from 1999 to 2003, claimed to be the only Filipino mayor in the Northeast.
The indicted nurses pose a strange counterpoint to that success: the image of highly educated legal immigrants complaining about being exploited as green, overly trusting newcomers….
MR. Jacinto, a soft-spoken native of a small Philippines island, saw medicine as his ticket out of poverty. He not only received a nursing degree, but also graduated from medical school in the Philippines in 2004 with stellar board scores.
Deciding to leave one’s homeland is always wrenching, but American salaries were a large incentive. “You can earn here $3,000 a month in America while a doctor in the Philippines earns $400 a month and a nurse $200,” Mr. Jacinto said.
He came to New York in November 2005 with 21 other nurses who had been recruited by a Filipino agency that works mainly for SentosaCare, a network of 16 nursing homes with headquarters in Woodmere, N.Y., and operated by Benjamin Landa of Brooklyn and Bent Philipson of Monsey, N.Y. Mr. Landa owns eight other homes independently, and together with SentosaCare, the network of 24 homes has more than 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees. The 22 nurses who came over here in November 2005 say they were promised they would earn the same pay as American nurses and would quickly receive green cards giving them the status of permanent residents.
But Mr. Jacinto says he soon got some surprises: for two months, he was paid as a clerk, at a salary far below that of a nurse. It took more than half a year to get the green card. And he was not assigned to the SentosaCare-affiliated home in Queens that had sponsored his entry, but to Avalon, 40 miles east.
For weeks, he said, he slept on a couch in a frigid living room of a nurses’ staff house in Smithtown where the only toilet was frequently clogged. When he finally received nurses’ pay, he said, it was $24 an hour instead of the $34 that federal law requires immigrant nurses be paid to prevent undercutting of American workers’ salaries. He did not receive the same health insurance and workers’ compensation benefits as other nurses, he said, and was not paid for sick days or holidays.
Ms. Anilao said Avalon employed so few aides on the night shift that she regularly had to change soiled diapers and sheets and cart them away. The nurses complained that raises they were promised were wiped out by a reduction in work hours from 37.5 per week to 35.
Howard Fensterman, SentosaCare’s lawyer, denied that the nurses were mistreated or shortchanged, and rejected complaints that staffing was inadequate. SentosaCare, he said, had successfully employed 350 nurses from the Philippines over the years and had never experienced a wave of resignations.
The nurses say that when their complaints went unaddressed, they turned to the Philippines consulate in New York, which put them in touch with an immigration lawyer, Felix Vinluan. Mr. Vinluan concluded that their contract had been breached and on April 6, 2006, he filed a discrimination complaint with immigration officials in Washington. He also advised the nurses that one option was to resign.
BY MICHAEL AMON AND RIDGELY OCHS
Sept. 23, 2007 p. A7
Benjamin Landa and Bent Philipson have built the largest nursing home network in the state with good timing, smart business moves and the right contacts.
In 1987, Landa bought his first nursing home – a facility in Far Rockaway – from his late father’s estate. A few years later, as he acquired more nursing homes, he started raising money for political candidates from both major parties. By 1994, he was a top fundraiser for future Gov. George Pataki said Jeffrey Weisenfeld, a former Pataki aide.
Then in 1996, Pataki named Landa to the Public Health Council, a state board with broad powers to approve health care facility projects, including nursing homes. That year, Landa teamed up with Philipson, who was a supervisor in one of his nursing homes.
During Landa’s eight-year tenure on the council, Landa,Philipson or their wives secured the purchase of 20 nursing homes and became the state’s leading players in the nursing home industry. They now run 25 facilities.
“Their approach is new,” said Neil Heyman, president of the Southern New York Association, a trade group of 64 nursing homes. He added that nursing homes in New York historically had been family run businesses. “They are part of a general trend toward giving nursing home organizations corporate names and structures.”
SentosaCare does not own or run the facilities, which have about 80 investors with Landa, Philipson or their spouses as the common denominator. Rather, the company centralizes administrative functions and provides a brand-name marketing tool.
Their strategy is the only way to, in effect, form a nursing home chain in New York state, said health care experts. Legislation passed after Medicaid fraud and patient abuse scandals in the 1970s required all nursing home investors to be vetted by the state. The laws essentially banned publicly-traded nursing home chains because of the impossibility of vetting thousands of investors behind publicly traded companies.
As the group grew, many nursing home owners said Landa’s council position and friendship with Pataki helped his projects.
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Different groups, different nations, have different interests. Israel spies on America, America spies on Israel.
I still can’t stop hating what Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard did to America (stole its nuclear secrets, gave them to Israel, which traded them to the Soviet Union for the release of Jews).
JPOST: Channel 2 reported Sunday that the information security department, part of the IDF’s intelligence force, issued a call to its officers and soldiers to beware of recruitment attempts by the CIA.
The advisory called on soldiers to “be aware and report any unusual incidences.”
The warning was issued to all officers and soldiers of the IDF.
Attached to the warning was an article from Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot chronicling a phenomenon circa 2012 in which post-army youngsters, upon arrival in the United States, were taken in for extensive questioning by American authorities in an attempt to recruit their services.
“Every security body fears having its confidential information leaked,” an Israeli security source told Channel 2.
It remains unclear why the IDF chose to issue the warning now.
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Steve Sailer writes: Here’s a funny clip from MSNBC: the professional Hispanic named Alfonso praises Paul Ryan for being pals with arch-immigration advocate Luis Gutierrez and for being a “hard worker.” Professional (sort of) black lady Melissa Harris-Perry reads him the riot act about how the phrase “hard worker” is racist.
Don’t you know that Melissa Harris-Perry has to work twice as hard as Tim Wise?
It’s almost as if these folks don’t really like each other and if they didn’t have the cisgender straight white man to hate, they really wouldn’t get along.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* Melissa Harris-Perry, who easily passes the brown paper bag test, must work double-plus hard to demonstrate her affirmative action bona fides. Our beloved leader, BO, and all his affirmative action colleagues e.g., Eric Holder, all share the same predicament. They must out-Negro the Negro to retain their places. All this would be LOL amusing if it were not having such a corrosive effect on culture and society.
* I think there’s a certain psychopathy to many crusader types in that they feel a compulsion to tear others down to build themselves up, and on the other hand to turn every conversation into an opportunity to pontificate, and finally to have everything be about them and their concerns. People with such enormous egos (or ego requirements) tend to be avoided by sane people.
I’m not sure the typology for the kind of person Melissa H-P is acting out is completely satisfactory. “America’s most foremost public intellectual” (as TNC dubbed her) definitely ain’t it. I’m sure there are some names in psychology or elsewhere to apply to this kind of syndrome.
Meanwhile, thinking about it, it reminded me of a couple of characters I saw on SNL years ago when my kids were growing, I found a couple of clips for Kristen Wiig’s Penelope and Rachel Dratch’s Debbie Downer. These are just representative, not necessarily the best ones. In short, M H-P is kind of a cross between the two.
* Ya know, if ya really want to troll NBC/CNBC/MSNBC—-and any non-lefty going on those shows should know the only way you’ll come out ahead is if you realize they’re just one giant lefty propaganda machine and not a news organization, and therefore deserve trolling—–you should just start spouting off every micro-aggressive “triggering” word/phrase you can think of to set they amygdala on fire:
hard-working
ladylike
feminine
articulate
clean
civilized
savage
lazy
manly
gay
homosexual
male
female
normal
disordered
southern pride
IQ
etc. I’m sure the Stevosphere readers could come up with reams of more words that we’re “not supposed to say” around lefties. Then keep saying them around lefties till their heads explode. Seriously, these people are mentally diseased.
* From Harris-Perry’s website, writing about her own mother:
A white woman in a Mormon family [isn’t that redundant?], my mom was raised in the racially homogenous enclave of Spokane, Washington and in 1960 went off to college at Brigham Young University. People are typically incredulous when I share this part of my mother’s biography. After all, if they know me as an outspoken, progressive, feminist, black woman, it might be hard to believe that I am the daughter of someone with these beginnings. [Regression to the mean?]
But my mother, Diana Gray, possesses an unmatched commitment to fairness, an unflagging belief in hard work [RACIST!!!], and more than a casual relationship with profound personal transformations.
These people are insufferable. No wonder Trump gets great applause by denouncing Political Correctness. The Republican nominee needs to make make Black Lives Matter Hillary’s running mate, to paraphrase Lee Atwater.
* Yeah, we’ve all met those “hardworking moms” who don’t got no healthcare, who plop out 3 kids with 4 different fathers by their 21st birthday, who set on da couch all day watching Judge Judy and Family Feud and whose kids wander around the house making messes that don’t get cleaned up for years, if ever.
* Even at the sharper end of African-American socio-political analysis, there is an erroneous perception that everything must have come easy to those who succeeded in life.
Ultimately this thinking leads to Zimbabwe, where the blacks took over all the farms and factories and thought it would be easy to make big money that way, because, well, whites did it, so how hard can it be?
We’ve seen the results. South Africa is 3/4 of the way down that path, and in the not too distant future, so will follow the US and western Europe. Then its ‘goodnight nurse’.
* Here’s a hint for the Republican party: when professional ethnic grievance jockeys on MSNBC are touting a guy for Speaker of the House, maybe he isn’t the guy your constituents want.
* I must admit MHP is a guilty pleasure. The Sylvester the cat speech impediment, her stumbling bumbling attempts at reading the Teleprompter, her half white guilt or whatever the hell it is that makes her need to be the blackest person in the world. It is so spectacularly awful I can’t turn away.
* Did MHP forget to take her retainer out before she went on the air. That lisp is pretty distracting.
Cotton fields? Why doesn’t she keep a picture of a black welfare recipient with her six kids by eight different fathers on the wall, if that’s such hard work?
* The progressive left is trying to put together a society where people would have to tiptoe around not noticing things and only speaking in approved platitudes so as not to inadvertently micro-aggress. It sounds exhausting, to to mention completely fun-free.
* Making absurd claims is simply an another attention-gaining gambit in the very competitive libtard mediawhore sharkpool. It’s an attempt to one-up her colleagues, preen for her bosses, and make herself the sole viewer spotlight. Unfortunately, these mediawhores get paid a salary for spouting this Democrat party-line nonsense, which only encourages even more ridiculous statements.
* If you think that is narcississtic then you should meet Britain’s newest high profile feminist MP Jess Phillips. A Conservative MP (male) proposed a debate on men’s higher cancer, suicide and unemployment rates to balance the debates on International Women’s Day.
Ms Phillips chose to take umbrage at this, ignored the thrust of what he said and harrumphed at length about how there are still more men in the House of Commons than women.
Note the smirking and giggling she did at 4:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z60LUV3V0E
For another taste of her solipsism watch her speech in which she says it is disgraceful that her husband – an elevator engineer – got paid more than her when she was running a women’s sexual abuse charity.
* I have a thesis about this which I’m finding it difficult to articulate. If I try to put it into words, it’s going to sound sufficiently similar to many other things that have already been said that I’m afraid it will simply be taken as my own harrumphing assent to the general alt-right platform, and will not capture the subtle distinction I’m trying to express. However, let’s give it a shot. To sum the matter up in one pithy line:
The world is now run by former Student Council members.
In every arena upon which they have laid their befouling hand, but especially in mass media and education, the typical SJW crusader seems to me to embody the spirit of a high school student council member. And what are the distinguishing features of that spirit? It begins with the willingness to arrogate to oneself an entirely unmerited and excessive degree of social importance. The student council is important by definition, you see, not because it does anything that normal people would consider necessary or useful. This exaggerated self-regard needs some sort of field in which to operate, but that obviously cannot be any endeavor where skill, talent, or experience are required, where it would simply evaporate like the morning mist. Therefore it seizes upon “justice” and idle rule-making as its own particular gift to humanity; and, after gaining access to class time and to the PA system by representing itself as the organ of student life, busies itself by forcing a captive audience (the students) to listen to its edicts and pronouncements. Invariably these have to do with inculcating sensitivity and delimiting “abusive” (read: clear, expressive, and accurate) language. It’s not because these students are especially sensitive and high-minded themselves that they take this course; it is because inventing distinctions, assigning values to them, and crusading for a reordering of such values gives them something to exalt and feel engaged about. It is really just the outward extension of their ego. Thus, during Ramadan, the student council will tap its token Muslim member to inform the 2,000-strong student body via the PA system to be especially aware of the other Muslim students (which probably consist of half a dozen Somalians), because they will be weak and distracted from their fast (which they probably aren’t observing); and then, for good measure, will repeat the entire message in Arabic (which nobody, not even the Somalians, still less the teachers and administrators who are the principal enforcers of the sensitivity, understands).
From top to bottom this whole exercise was nothing but an ego trip. First of all, the spiritual value of a fast becomes void if you demand special treatment from others while enduring it. When you fast, you must keep it to yourself and “appear not to fast,” otherwise the attention you seek from others will be your only reward. Second, the only function of the Arabic version of the announcement was to showcase the speaker’s bilingualism. Since the intended audience of the message was ostensibly the “insensitive” white students and faculty who are unaware of the Ramadan fast, they could not possibly benefit from hearing it in Arabic. The content of the message was something quite the opposite of its iport, which was “Look at me, I’m different and I’m special.” O, how the teachers, such few sane ones as remain, must love having their class time commandeered for such high jinks!
And when you look at the media the student council chooses for its self-expressions (other than crashing the AV club to produce those 3rd period student news bulletins–another fine use of class time), you inevitably find wall posters, collages, and decorations as the preferred substrate. If battles are won on the playing fields of Eton, leftist ideas are first born and executed in the timeless media of Elmer’s glue and glitter. Natural propagandists all, the burgeoning leftists have an instinctive feel for the value of their gaudy displays. This childishness never departs from them. The modern news broadcast, in its content as well as its production values, is precisely what you would expect from the poster-makers once they finally got their hands on the expensive toys.
It eventually transpires that the individual members of the student council try to outdo one another in the application of their “fairness” ideology. The cleverer they can be in highlighting distinctions and asymmetries to be eradicated, the greater a claim they can lay to the true currency of their trade, viz. the ability to monopolize other people’s time and attention and extract tribute from them. Zany ideas like the transgender bathroom are the natural outcome of such a process–an internal leftist arms race to see who can be the biggest SJW.
If you’ve ever seen an activist judge in action, or if you can recall Obama’s first few months in office when he actually used to order Congress to have seminars and breakout sessions (there was a classic and highly illuminating video of this that I wish I could find), you will recognize this atmosphere of the schoolroom, the budding busybodies alongside the mature denizens of the faculty lounge, snickering to each other as they discoursed on fairness and justice, as if the real world ever paid the slightest attention to their theories.
* Social justice vectors colliding there. This is very telling, because it isn’t just any other fringeist co-traveler there but an Hispanic daring to use the W word. Melissa is nuts and impulsive but this outburst comes from the deep; she’s signalling him and his ilk that blacks are not pleased with them and their white defenders touting their work ethic, that blacks know just who it is they implicate by omission when they invoke this, and that they won’t be having any efforts by Hispanics to advance up the hierarchy either by overt or implicit suggestions they’re the harder working new brown folk. By bringing up slavery it’s as if she’s acknowledging this narrative but implying blacks, having had their turn, have earned a pass from “hard work”.
But how is it an executive of sufficient authority for this network doesn’t see this embarrassing display and immediately get on the phone to ask someone why in the f— is this crazy person on our network, already?
* Listening some days ago to a local NPR affiliate (?) I heard this clip, which I couldn’t locate on NPR, but tracked down.
The article, unfortunately, isn’t transcribed. It’s about the reduction of testing proposed by the Obama Administration. Around 2:00 into the audio they begin interviewing a teacher from a Title 1 school in Charlotte, NC. She makes some good points about how there is a lot of time spent prepping for tests. She says, perhaps correctly, that they must focus on teaching kids how to pass a test and thus aren’t spending enough time on teaching kids how to pass the biggest test, i.e. life. To prep them for college or the workforce.
Ok, no problems so far….
Around 3:20 into the audio she says that there is less time for literature and novels or things the students “enjoy” because they need to keep scores up. Regrettable, and understandable…
So around 5:00 we learn that she has taught in places without such time constrictions, starting from 5:36 we learn about “what actually matters” and what she would do with we learn what she would do when given time (and why I have no sympathy for, and I pray fervently for such a day, when nice white ladies all lose their jobs or insanely more demands and stress are placed on them).
One of her favorite unit/topic is diversity and stereotypes.
Ok, so basically, no quizzes. Just gripe sessions.
So, while No Child Left Behind was an exercise in colossal stupidity, one positive [most certainly] unintended consequence was preventing time for activities like this teacher would engage in.
* Yes that is pretty much the black narrative: only they have suffered slavery, only they can work hard – no one else has any idea what hard work is except a black who has never worked, etc.
No one else is allowed to claim these because blacks wouldn’t be unique and special in all the world.
It’s all about promoting BS narratives so one can practice emotional and monetary blackmail or extortion on others.
* Her chastising the Hispanic guy is to put Hispanics in their place. That blacks were, are, always will be, top of the racial grievance pecking order. Because only blacks were slaves (and worked damn hard! in the sun!!! picking cotton!) while Hispanics were not. And at any rate they just got off the banana boat.
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Chaim Amalek: “I really love these guys. Honest, and focused on advancing their group interests no matter what the idiot white goyim think.”
REPORT: Australia: Muslims complain that singing anthem is “forced assimilation”
“Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir decries ‘forced Muslim assimilation,’” by Ean Higgins, The Australian, November 1, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth):
Requiring schoolchildren to sing the national anthem, and the citizenship pledge supporting democratic values, are part of an oppressive campaign by Australian authorities of “forced assimilation” of the Muslim community, a conference heard this morning.
The conference held by Islamist activist group Hizb ut-Tahrir entitled “Innocent Until Proven Muslim” is taking place at Bankstown in Sydney’s west, attended by about 800 people.
Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar told the conference the Australian government “claims to afford freedom, but seeks to impose values and beliefs” on Muslims.
Muslims were expected to not just be gracious about Australian values, but publicly promote them, Mr Badar said.
This imposition of secular western values was reflected in the oath when taking out citizenship, Mr Badar said, with new citizens required to pledge allegiance to Australia “whose democratic beliefs I share”.
“It’s not enough that you obey the law, no, you have to adopt our values,” Mr Badar told the conference.
Similarly, Mr Badar said, schoolchildren were required to sing the national anthem, which he said, “reflects a disputed view of history”.
“If you don’t share those values, why should they be forced to sing it?” Mr Badar said.
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