I’m starting to think the anti-cancel culture Patreon/Substack/Gofundme grifterverse is some kind of elaborate money laundering scheme
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 21 February 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
Buy my Free Speech Thong!
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 February 2021 04:10 (three years ago) link
This is not a free speech issue, but a 'condition of employment' issue.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Sunday, 21 February 2021 04:13 (three years ago) link
Yea it's a disingenuous grift ploy and gross
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 February 2021 04:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC_n2_5EC5Q
The Lilith Fair to IDW pipeline
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 21 February 2021 04:53 (three years ago) link
Can’t imagine why her boss might have 86ed the rapping portion of the festivities.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:03 (three years ago) link
Any time you start talking about "unverified student allegation of racism," there's a 100% chance you've done some serious racism.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link
xp - yeah, Smith, in general, is an awkward place with a history of educating privileged white people (like pretty much all the other old NE private colleges) that is trying to foster diversity, cultural equity, anti-racism -- all the things that progressive schools are trying to do. I was actually offered a math scholarship to go there if I had chosen to major in math (I went elsewhere) and I could have been Jodi's classmate! ...
― sarahell, Sunday, 21 February 2021 06:29 (three years ago) link
and the thing with the "student allegation of racism" re the other staff member ... it's noteworthy that it's spoken of in a "political correctness gone crazy" way, as opposed to an issue about workers' rights and did that staff member belong to a union with representation and maybe that person was treated unfairly as compared to a higher status employee whose behavior would have been swept under the rug or handled more delicately ... like if she were that focused on the college as a toxic hostile workplace, it would lend more credence to her "sincere concern" if she were speaking about it in a context closer to class politics/labor politics.
― sarahell, Sunday, 21 February 2021 06:38 (three years ago) link
There's so much transparent projection in these kinds of statements.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 21 February 2021 07:07 (three years ago) link
And the more I think about it -- she was an alumna of Smith -- class of 1993 -- how the fuck can she sincerely believe being sensitive to racism, cultural appropriation, and white privilege are newfangled impositions when she was an undergrad at an elite New England college in the 1990s? Was she somehow able to ignore this at the time? Because I remember this era on those campuses and there was a lot of ~discourse~ about these topics. Some of the language and methods have changed/evolved, but not that much! I would be fucking astonished if as a Smith College student in 1992-1993 that the Rodney King incident and the LA riots (which put a lot of steam into student organizing about the racism of campus cops who should sure as fuck be prevented from having guns) and the "conservative lol at ebonics" stuff somehow escaped her notice.
― sarahell, Sunday, 21 February 2021 07:07 (three years ago) link
The difference is that there weren't big gofundme bucks to make back then out of performative outrage.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 21 February 2021 07:32 (three years ago) link
a kind of forgetting seems to be required for the whole PC/snowflakes/cancellation narrative(s) to work, like if you want to go over the same bullshit for decades it’s easier to retain attention if you pretend it’s something new every time- and if normal anti-PC discourse is too obviously associated with right wing bullies these days new terminology helps if you want to do the same old shit without sounding too much like one, while positioning yourself as a victim of some insidious new agenda
at the same time the history isn’t totally forgotten, because (real or imagined or distorted) incidents from the past will be referred to as early examples of this terrible new thing in action. but it’s always still new or at least uniquely bad now
― Left, Sunday, 21 February 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
https://reason.com/2021/04/07/microaggressions-uva-student-kieran-bhattacharya-threat/
This seems bad.
And fwiw, I listened to the recording and he seems like he is being more of a dick than the article lets on, but not doing anything that warrants any disciplinary action let alone banning from campus.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 12 April 2021 12:14 (three years ago) link
It doesn't surprise me at all that a writer for Reason would be unable to recognize when someone is coming off like a dick. That said, this does seem like bullshit and the lawsuit seems merited.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 12 April 2021 12:42 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think it would actually have made the article more credible if they had just acknowledged that, but then again he was p much just acting like every libertarian I went to college with so maybe they're deaf to it
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 12 April 2021 12:52 (three years ago) link
I mean I can also def remember being that kind of sexually frustrated, overeager know-it-all mansplaining dork a few times in college, not from a right/libertarian perspective but probably with similar effect.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 12 April 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link
Baffert: My horse is a victim of cancel culture pic.twitter.com/PgWWtiidAI— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) May 10, 2021
― Josefa, Monday, 10 May 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
Cancel Culture Killed My Dog
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
Cancel Culture is the NAME OF MY DOG
― sarahell, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
Yooooooo, who’s going to get their philosophy degree from Bari Weiss/Joe Rogan university?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 8 November 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
Was sure it would be about the framing of this shit.
pic.twitter.com/GJb8kCc7oj— Sally Hines (@sally_hines) November 8, 2021
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 8 November 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
Kathleen Stock is on faculty at the new university, so it all connects: https://www.uaustin.org/
Trying to imagine what these courses will be like. How many different ways can you be daringly racist?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 8 November 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
You have to get niche and use ethnic slurs not seen since the 18th century.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 8 November 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
What's Latin for "No Refunds"?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 8 November 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
Caveat emptorThat time a libertarian I met in China used that as the basis to argue against any regulation or certification of dentists, lmao. (He was ‘Murican of course.)
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 8 November 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
Isn't that why Rand Paul made up his own medical org for accreditation?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 8 November 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
the only thing that could make dentists worse is doing away with licensing. can you imagine. i always think of this https://abc13.com/thom-tillis-hand-washing-restaurants-comments/503061/
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Monday, 8 November 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
“I said I don't have a problem with Starbucks if they choose to opt out of this policy as long as they post a sign that says we don't require our employees to wash their hands after leaving the restroom," Tillis said to audience laughter. "The market will take care of that."
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 8 November 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
I remember those comments, I call him Poop Hand Thom now
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 November 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
it IS kind of interesting how willing conservatives are to embrace reactive policies like "wait for restaurants to get customers sick/killed, then the market will take care of it", whereas in terms of national security, they are ok with pre-emptively deporting people who just look the wrong way color.
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 November 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
It’s a one-fork flowchart - “is this a benefit to capital? Y/N”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 8 November 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
Ah, I wondered if there was talk of the Forbidden Courses University anywhere. Insane grifting from the purportedly cancelled.
― emil.y, Monday, 8 November 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
If they had the courage of their convictions — or if they had convictions — they'd locate in some libertarian paradise like rural South Dakota. Instead they get to make noise about moving to freedom-loving Texas, while settling in a liberal metropolis full of coffee shops and bike lanes.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 8 November 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
Who will be the Aaron Rodgers Chair of Doing Your Own Research?
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 November 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
Second major resignation from a key post at Bari Weiss' unaccredited grifter university since it went public this monthhttps://t.co/QT4gJxYDAj— Andrés Pertierra (@ASPertierra) November 15, 2021
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
Will he have to return his gold-plated skull calipers?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
Andrew Sullivan was on 60 Minutes this weekend - anybody know if it was a plug for Grifter U., or for Substack "conservatism" more generally?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
"calipers" is a fabulous word
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 November 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
but CALPERS is just another cryptic acronym
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 November 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
By mutual & amicable agreement, I'm stepping off the Board of Advisors of U of Austin #UATX, wishing them well. I'm concentrating on Rationality (the book) and Think With Pinker (the BBC radio & podcast series) & won't be speaking on this further. https://t.co/xgo7exT61C— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) November 15, 2021
Stinker out
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 05:39 (two years ago) link
he was revealing himself a bit too openly with that one
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 06:04 (two years ago) link
what is cryptic about CALifornia Public Employees Retirement System? It's not a particularly imaginative acronym
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 December 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
Thanks, sarahell. I never realized it before this moment, but now I see that if you expand CALPERS to show all the words it has abbreviated, suddenly it isn't even remotely cryptic! Anyone can figure it out! I'll try this with other acronyms and see if that trick works with them, too!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 16 December 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link
Sometimes I get it confused with CLASPERS, because I'm a shark pervert.
― peace, man, Thursday, 16 December 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
I put calpers on my pizza
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 December 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link
Skull CALPERS
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 16 December 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link
all I'm saying is that California is a very populous state with a lot of government employees and one of the main reasons people choose to work for the state government is benefits such as a pension, administered by CALPERS, from which they receive immense volumes of correspondence throughout their careers and retirement. This is not to be confused with CALSTERS -- the California State Teachers Employee Retirement System, which is separate.
― sarahell, Friday, 17 December 2021 02:39 (two years ago) link
oh, so that's what you were saying. sorry, that went right over my head. I'll try to pay better attention in the future.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 17 December 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
Or CALPIRG, those bright-eyed kids with the card tables.
― peace, man, Friday, 17 December 2021 11:09 (two years ago) link