7 Replies to “Woke Fantasy Land”

  2. As I read the article I was thinking that a standard revision is that every historical figure was gay. Then I read it in the last paragraph of the article as humour. Did they also bury a bunch of dead Indian kids at the historical steel plant?

  3. It has occurred to me that there is this new meme about blacks being superior to whoever.
    Ok, whatever.
    One could call it a racist competition.
    To claim one upmanship on constant bases seems to be an error in gene.
    While the person and those like her can claim whatever she wants, it does not follow that it is so.
    As is often, in the “socials science” circles, you can throw out on the paper whatever bullshit pleases you and you get the notice. The trouble with that is that there is no blowback to demolish completely and utterly the meme if it is not true, for fear of racism.
    While the academics will oppose it, they give certain credibility to the meme as though it is something to ruminate about.
    It is somewhat of a conundrum, once the bullshit is out, its there and there are those that will pick up on it, as you may have observed a lot.

  6. Just where does the BS start and stop when your entire premise is based on BS.. The goal is not historical accuracy but smashing the (enter grievance here) game.. If they are lucky the people getting slighted will get annoyed and they can then be called racists.. Double bonus :)..

    I imagine if the Nazi’s had just erased the jews without putting up posters nobody would have noticed.. Funny (not funny) now that works, eh.. Armbands, bad.. Equity programs, good.. Steal all their bagels and take their jobs and they can F.O. on their own time..

  7. Intellectual Yet Idiot, and apparently fascist, racist, Marxist but most of all like the rest – with no skin in the game.

    “The Intellectual Yet Idiot is a production of modernity hence has been accelerating since the mid twentieth century, to reach its local supremum today, along with the broad category of people without skin-in-the-game who have been invading many walks of life. Why? Simply, in most countries, the government’s role is between five and ten times what it was a century ago (expressed in percentage of GDP). The IYI seems ubiquitous in our lives but is still a small minority and is rarely seen outside specialized outlets, think tanks, the media, and universities  – most people have proper jobs and there are not many openings for the IYI.”

    The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are “red necks” or English non-crisp-vowel class who voted for Brexit. When plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducated”. What we generally call participation in the political process, he calls by two distinct designations: “democracy” when it fits the IYI, and “populism” when the plebeians dare voting in a way that contradicts his preferences. While rich people believe in one tax dollar one vote, more humanistic ones in one man one vote, Monsanto in one lobbyist one vote, the IYI believes in one Ivy League degree one-vote, with some equivalence for foreign elite schools and PhDs as these are needed in the club.”

    https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/09/intellectual-yet-idiot/

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