Friday, October 20, 2017

It's really hard to parody these people

"But they're not the right kind of black, WE are!"
The BSU argued that “the Black student population at Cornell disproportionately represents international or first-generation African or Caribbean students. While these students have a right to flourish at Cornell, there is a lack of investment in Black students whose families were affected directly by the African Holocaust in America.”
There’s a contradiction here. For years liberal writers have blamed black poverty and undereducation on racism—the experience of being more likely to be pulled over by police, to be looked at suspiciously in department stores, to be discriminated against in schools and the workplace.
But it doesn’t seem to be the case, at least not to the same degree, among immigrants. “The more strongly black immigrant students identify with their specific ethnic origins, the better they perform [academically],” Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld observed in their 2014 book, “The Triple Package.” . . .
And that's very hard on the "Everyone of Colour is a VICTIM!" line.
That link's to Insty; the WSJ journal is behind a paywall, but he has a long excerpt.


"You can't have that opinion, we don't like it!"
Allow me to be a caveman for a minute: I've not been part of the party & bar circuit for a fair while, and maybe it's changed, but I think that dressing at least somewhat modestly(and how low a bar is that anymore?) and acting like a lady will give some protection from some difficulties.  You don't want to, fine; stop giving crap to someone for doing so, and daring to say so.


More on 'Higher' Education: write a paper with wrongthink in it, and the leftists will try to destroy you.  Including the gutless administrators.  "You can't have different opinions here, this is a university!"


"Please stay!  Forget the laws and regulations and threats, and stay here!  We really want you to!"
Right.  You make it more and more difficult to do business, and some of the threaten to steal the business, but you'll be nicer in the future.  Sure.


An old weapon stash from the French Resistance; interesting stuff.

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