@gjohnsit Please understand: I don't enjoy this stuff; my involvement in politics is driven by mental illness (like Joan of Arc and John Brown, among others; I don't want to be like them); I...CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE. I'm autistic, I'm vulnerable, I have PTSD, I am struggling to have ANY life for myself whatsoever, my degree has nothing to do with my career aspirations, and I have spent the last decade-and-a-half going from ambitious prodigy to something far too reminiscent of one Boo Radley...or Arthur Fleck; I am inferior in practically EVERY way to what I used to be half my lifetime ago. Nobody would believe my story...especially not now. If you're going to share that stuff, please include some factually-sound reassurance as to why/how this can be overcome.

On a less personal note: You know what this all seems like? Anti-Semitism warmed over and diabolically repackaged. JudenHass is a tricky form of racism; it operates completely differently from Afro-centric doctrines about "race" - and yet, Jews and blacks (I'm sorry, I won't be capitalizing that, we need to be working on dissolving nationalisms, not building new ones) have managed to cooperate beautifully and for the good of all since FDR. This, then, is another attempt to nuke the once-mighty New Deal coalition - but I digress. What this...diarrhea a la Hitler does with its "privileged so-and-sos" is scapegoat not Jews (Israel would have opinions about that - truth be told, it would be a little bit interesting if America suddenly started going after Jews precisely because it would finally show who really 'wears the pants' in the Israel-US relationship), but the most Jewish-like people they can find they can get away with persecuting while still having those nifty Jewish bully-magnet properties: Weirdness, smallness, intelligence, and enviable, somewhat mysterious, success.

On a related note: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/06/return-of-nerd-culture
Something similar from The Federalist...: https://thefederalist.com/2015/08/24/the-hugo-awards-why-the-waronnerds-...
...and The Daily Caller, which can be good despite some very dubious funding sources: https://dailycaller.com/2015/05/12/the-media-is-losing-the-waronnerds/

What's really awful is that this feels like an actual incentive to want Trump to stay in office; he'll oppose this shit for ALL the wrong reasons (and he'll probably catch one or two of the right ones, as well), but AT LEAST he'll oppose it. I'll be surprised if a Biden Regency does anything other than go absolutely hell-crazy with it. A divided Big Brother is a preferable Big Brother.

At least I have my kike-card (50% off though it may be) to ward these vampires off with; pity those who cannot wriggle free of the "White" epithet.

Shall I start wearing what Donny-Boy assures me is a "sheriff badge" in public now...?

#3 link

A core principle of the academic movement that shot through elite schools in America since the early nineties was the view that individual rights, humanism, and the democratic process are all just stalking-horses for white supremacy. The concept, as articulated in books like former corporate consultant Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility (Amazon’s #1 seller!) reduces everything, even the smallest and most innocent human interactions, to racial power contests.

It’s been mind-boggling to watch White Fragility celebrated in recent weeks. When it surged past a Hunger Games book on bestseller lists, USA Today cheered, “American readers are more interested in combatting racism than in literary escapism.” When DiAngelo appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon gushed, “I know… everyone wants to talk to you right now!” White Fragility has been pitched as an uncontroversial road-map for fighting racism, at a time when after the murder of George Floyd Americans are suddenly (and appropriately) interested in doing just that. Except this isn’t a straightforward book about examining one’s own prejudices. Have the people hyping this impressively crazy book actually read it?

DiAngelo isn’t the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual horseshit as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race theory. White Fragility has a simple message: there is no such thing as a universal human experience, and we are defined not by our individual personalities or moral choices, but only by our racial category.

If your category is “white,” bad news: you have no identity apart from your participation in white supremacy (“Anti-blackness is foundational to our very identities… Whiteness has always been predicated on blackness”), which naturally means “a positive white identity is an impossible goal.”

DiAngelo instructs us there is nothing to be done here, except “strive to be less white.” To deny this theory, or to have the effrontery to sneak away from the tedium of DiAngelo’s lecturing – what she describes as “leaving the stress-inducing situation” – is to affirm her conception of white supremacy. This intellectual equivalent of the “ordeal by water” (if you float, you’re a witch) is orthodoxy across much of academia.

So White = Original Sin

And now for something less stressful

@MrWebster

because they won't ban hate speech. Who decides what is hate speech anyway? We are seeing more congress critters starting with Harris calling for Twitter to ban the president of the US. And more of them are backing her. Twitter did hide one of his tweets that said that when the looting starts then the shooting starts. But they let his tweet saying he'd nuke North Korea stand. Violence is bad unless it further US hegemony right? Then it's good.

Beautiful site tonight as we see missile after missile land in Syria. Brian Williams.

Keep cheering you dumbf*cks on the left. It will come for you one day. How can you forget the saying that you constantly post for other issues?

First they came for....and I didn't speak up....

#5 There has always been censorship but this new era of censoring social media started with Russiagate. Russiagate made social media/Internet censorship acceptable and even necessary as the Russians were accused of ruining America' perstine viginial elections. You know, worse than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor combined. I would say the Alex Jones censorship and Sen. Warner threating Zuckerburg were the compelling events. From there it was not a slippery slope but a sheer cliff of censorship.

Totally deranged that people defending free speech are the ones being attacked.