THEN YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT: You’re Making Social Engineers Cry, Sarah Hoyt writes.
Let’s ask the social engineers and SJWs a question:
Archive for 2017
November 19, 2017
IS NORTH KOREA too hungry to fight a war?
STILL ON SALE: Glencairn Crystal Whiskey Glass, Set of 2.
PEOPLE KEEP PICKING FIGHTS WITH TRUMP, BUT IT USUALLY TURNS OUT BADLY: Kathy Griffin Comes Unglued: Not ‘One Single Paid Day Of Work In Front Of Me.’ “The D-list comedian, who was blasted for releasing a photo of herself holding a bloody severed head that looked like President Trump, posted another bizarre video to her YouTube page on Saturday. . . . I would love to be on a television show. And I want to be paid what the guys are paid.”
WHEN WE HAVE WOMEN CEOS, SEXUAL HARASSMENT WILL BE A THING OF THE . . . PRESENT: Sexual-Harassment Claims Against a ‘She-E.O.’ Plus, this shocker: “Despite the company’s feminist branding and mission, the women who worked there felt exploited by low pay and substandard benefits.”
DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS: Lois Lerner and her deputy at the IRS, Holly Paz, say they fear physical harm from enraged public, want IRS testimony sealed permanently.
GETTING YOUR AUDIENCE TO RETURN, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt Insults Millions Who No Longer Watch It.
As Glenn noted last month, “So in ESPN we see an institution that is recklessly alienating its prime customer base, and only now — much too late — beginning to dimly sense that it’s in trouble.” And like the rest of the Ruling Class, “their loyalties are essentially tribal. They care more about what their peers think of them than, basically, anything else, including the success or failure of the institutions they manage. Thus, they are prone to suicidal levels of virtue-signaling. And — because they are socially and intellectually isolated from non-ruling-class Flyover America — they often have no idea how badly their actions resonate.”
NEWS FROM TODAY’S PRE-GAME WOKE OLYMPICS: “The Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots are playing in Mexico City today, but the kneeling protests did not stop at the border. Oakland’s Marshawn Lynch, who has been kneeling for the U.S. national anthem all year long did so again Sunday afternoon, but then he stood up while Mexico’s national anthem played in the stadium.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
CHANGE: The anti-regulatory environment that Trump promised just got a big boost. “In all, it’s been a definite lurch forward for one of the three prongs in Trump economic’s plan of lower taxes, less regulation and more infrastructure spending.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Oxford college introduces compulsory classes on ‘cultural appropriation’ for students.
Jimmy Page, who spoke at Oxford late last month got in just under the wire apparently, considering he made his vast fortune culturally appropriating the daylights out of a number of oppressed African-American musicians in the south and Chicago. Curiously, none of the uber-woke students there or his interviewer asked him about that aspect of his career. But will he even be allowed to speak at Oxford again?
(Don’t get me wrong, I still love Led Zeppelin, but it’s always fun to culturally appropriate Saul Alinsky’s fourth rule for radicals.)
2107, MAN: The Latest @LenaDunham Debacle: Feminist Becomes ‘Rape Truther.’ “A 17-year-old girl wakes up with a drunk 35-year-old man on top of her — allegedly, I hasten to add — and suddenly Lena Dunham forgets all about her feminist principles, accusing the girl of lying?”
TEST-DRIVING THE 2018 Mercedes-AMG GLC63.
WELL, ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES IT WAS ELIMINATED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence?
The great liberal English barrister John Mortimer called this presumption the “golden thread” running through any progressive idea of justice. And it’s a thread that is being weakened in the febrile post-Weinstein climate.
It is now astonishingly easy to ruin a celebrity or near-celebrity. You can do it with a social media post. Spend five minutes writing a Facebook entry about how so-and-so in Hollywood once did something bad to you and — boom — that person is done for. You can dispatch him from polite society with a press of a button on your cellphone.
Some big hitters, including Weinsten, Toback and Kevin Spacey, have been brought low by numerous similar accusations. Few would doubt that these men deserve the “predator” brand, or lament the fact that they likely won’t find work in Hollywood ever again. Spacey is being erased from Ridley Scott’s “All The Money In The World,” replaced with Christopher Plummer like an out-of-favor commissar airbrushed from a group photo with Stalin. But not all accusations are equally well-substantiated.
In a few hours, George Takei went from a hero of the liberal Twittersphere to a “pervert,” from cultural icon to the object of chortling and finger-pointing. His downfall was authored by a single accuser regarding a single incident in 1981. That someone can be so tarnished on the basis of an allegation older than half of the people on Earth is astounding. In the U.K., the situation is darker still.
Well, I don’t think George ever said a nice word about the presumption of innocence in sex-abuse cases before. Maybe he appreciates it now.
THAT’S NOT AN ACCIDENT: Andrea Peyser: #MeToo has lumped trivial stuff in with legitimate sexual assault.
Conflating these serves two agendas: It dilutes genuine assaults by powerful Democrats, while supporting the feminist agenda that all men are abusers.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO . . . OH, HELL, I GIVE UP: Married cheerleading coach busted for having sex with student.
MSNBC PANELIST: WHITE MEN ‘POSE THE BIGGEST THREAT TO AMERICANS’ [VIDEO].
Yes, on the surface, this quote by Jamira Burley, the former “National Deputy Millennial Vote Director” for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign sounds remarkably racist. But considering she’s working in the same building with Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell, Joe Scarborough, Brian Williams, and Chuck Todd, I could easily see how that would distort her view.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Yale School of Art Launches New Art and Social Justice Initiative.