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I had a heated discussion with my daughter the other day about race and racism. I told her that I had recently heard a person who commented that they wished we could go back to when he was a child (the 80’s, I think). He grew up with black and white kids in his neighborhood … Read more
Commenter Alex at Ann Althouse has this to say. He’s not wrong, you know:
Since 1968, when my essay “The Crisis of Our Times” appeared in the Congressional Record, I have written several books warning of the pernicious and subversive influence of the university-bred doctrine of moral and cultural relativism.
The #woke-a-saurus will come for it, whatever it is, and it has come for lactating moms. The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) has raised the white flag, declaring that it will henceforth (except in countries where that flag may not fly) stop calling it what it is.
Rudyard Kipling understood Afghanistan: “When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.”
In the interest of inclusivity, a group of realtors has made a decision. No, they’re not giving up their commissions to charities or to help jump-start minority businesses. They have banned the term Master Bedroom.
If you follow the logic from The Incredibles, once everything is racist, nothing will be, but that’s not true. In the everything is racist universe, everything is racist, and there is nothing you can do or say to change it. It is an original sin Secular-Communist-Humanist style, void of any hope for redemption.
In the original 1984 version of the movie Red Dawn, the communist invaders were actively looking for individuals who trained in a paramilitary organization. That was the Boy Scouts of America. Forty years later and the Left has infiltrated them, #Woke them, and broke them.
When I was a criminal investigator, I had the pleasure of working with a sociologist on staff. I learned a lot from him about human interaction at the group level. I had a firm grounding in personal psychology, but crowd psychology is very different.
Culture can often be everything. One absorbs the culture in which they grow up and once they pass into adulthood, absorb that culture as well. For most of us, though, it is that culture in which we came of age – elementary, high school, college – the culture in which one is stewing counts the most.
A few years ago, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) had a riot. Some uptight social justice warriors were triggered by students culturally appropriating Mexican attire.
I went to June 29th’s SwampBat game to observe the popup vaccine clinic, announced to start at 5 pm, the game starting at 6:30. I also wanted to have supper there – senior entry $3, a good deal, supported by volunteers.
New Hampshire’s White Mountains are beautiful and accessible. So, I understand why Enjoy Travel.com picked them as “the most scenic place in the United States.” But in this hyper-sensitive culture, that also means we have to make fun of it.
The use of “I’m offended,” like much of the Left’s linguistic machinations, is meant to shut you and the conversation. The “Uber” of silencing in which the responsibility of how someone “feels” is up to me and I have to protect them.
“How come no trans-men are competing in the 100-meter dash anywhere or the 1,500 meters? Why is that, I wonder?” Yes, Beta males that couldn’t hack it in, you know, actual biological mens’ sports
Most analyses of social and economic intergroup differences focus on the immediate surroundings in which people live. Sowell’s writings exposed the limitations of that approach. He concluded that it isn’t the immediate environment per se, but cultural values and human capital – skills, work habits, saving propensities, attitudes toward education and entrepreneurship, developed sometimes over … Read more
My daughter had a doctor’s appointment today. we go to the hospital in [redacted] (La La Land). Every single doctor and member of the staff was wearing a rainbow mask on their face.
More of a “real” Data Point type post. I’ll just lay it out here and feel free to change my mind. It’s all about The Culture. And it’s all about the Meritocracy within families and failing Meritocracy within Government Schools. As Government schools continue to orient themselves about emotions and ideology indoctrination (e.g., Critical Race … Read more
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, is a bit of a mess. I won’t get into details, you can go here for that, but the result of that decline in culture is this. An email from a conductor for the Cate Park Band. He’s vaccinated but promises to wear a mask, even though he’ll be outdoors.
You want to be like the other #woke School Boards, but the people who elected you aren’t having it. They get insulted when you change Columbus Day to “Indigenous People’s Day.” They don’t like it. They storm the meetings. What’s a #woke school board to do?