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March 29, 2015 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This Week in Stupid (29⧸03⧸2015)
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid for the 29th of March 2015.
I've had a rather sore throat for the past few days, but I'll try not to let that impede our Odyssey of Idiocy.
So let's go.
Hello Pumpkin.
It has been a while.
So Jessica Valenti thinks that inconsistencies in Jackie's story do not mean that she wasn't raped at UVA.
The Charlottesville police admitted that they don't know precisely what happened to Jackie, they just can't corroborate the Rolling Stone story.
To anyone else, the story of how a woman was raped not being true would be proof enough that this woman was not raped.
But not to a feminist.
No evidence of a rape does not mean that a rape didn't happen.
But try telling that to any one of a number of media outlets who when the Charlottesville Police Department released their findings on Jackie, the University of Virginia student whose alleged rape was at the center of a widely disputed Rolling Stone article, essentially indicated to their readers that nothing happened to her.
To a normal person, that's exactly what that would mean.
But feminists can find rape everywhere.
So police chief Timothy Long told reporters that the police found inconsistencies in a story that Jackie had told the UVA dean, and what she had said to Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erderley, and that they could not find any evidence to support the story, either story, as reported in the magazine.
Small incongruities, like, oh, I don't know, maybe that the fraternity wasn't holding a party the night that Jackie alleged she was raped at a party at that fraternity.
Or the fraternity members she accuses of raping her weren't fraternity members.
Or the fact that the people who met her after she apparently was gang raped said that she didn't appear to be physically injured.
Or the number of men who allegedly raped her keeps inflating.
Or even whether the men she's accusing even exist.
But you know what?
I mean, you know, these inconvenient facts aside, I think that what you should do, Jessica, is completely double down on the opinion that Jackie is telling the truth.
Because Police Chief Long, for some reason abbreviated here as Longo, also told reporters that police findings don't mean that something terrible didn't happen to Jackie in 2012.
Probably, I'm going to guess, for fear of inciting a feminist lynch mob for him claiming that a rape didn't happen.
And Jessica jumps on this with glee.
Longo echoed what anti-rape experts have been saying all along.
While holes in Jackie's story might mean that she lied about some things, like the location, the people, their very existence, it doesn't necessarily mean she lied about being raped.
And you know what?
She's right.
She's absolutely right.
But this is what we call a reasonable inference.
But you know what?
I mean, according to research from the National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women, there are numerous reasons that real victims of sexual assault may omit, exaggerate, or even fabricate aspects of their report.
You know, like fabricating the man who led you to the place where there wasn't a party happening, where people who certainly weren't part of that fraternity and themselves may not even have existed brutally gang raped you.
She finishes by saying, the truth is that we don't know what happened to Jackie and likely never will.
She never wanted to make a police report and apparently still doesn't.
And given how she was thrown under the bus by Rolling Stone for lying to them, it's extremely unlikely that she'll ever trust the media.
And will the media ever trust Jackie?
But here's what we do know.
It's much more likely for a rape victim to lie about the details of her attack than a woman to fabricate a sexual assault whole cloth.
And here's another thing we know Pumpkin.
Jackie fabricated her assault ex-Nielo.
Unfortunately, my darling, you cannot use statistics to prove that Jackie was raped when the evidence proves that Jackie was not raped.
Everything about Jessica Valenti's career can basically be summed up with this meme.
World ends, women affected most.
Which is why the US government is going to sign it into law.
I'm not even joking.
A bill's been proposed called Recognizing the Disparate Impact of Climate Change on Women and the Efforts of Women Globally to Address Climate Change.
I think feminists are actually trying to give women's victimhood a legal backing.
It starts with, whereas women in the United States and around the world are the linchpin of families and communities and are often the first to feel the immediate and adverse effects of social, environmental and economic stresses on their families and communities.
That's right.
Stresses that are happening to other people most affect first world women.
So while feminists are busy getting feminist principles enshrined in law, record numbers of women are distancing themselves from feminism and that's really pissing feminists off.
Really pissing them off.
But this hate mob's angry feminist backlash is not enough to get young Hollywood star to change her views.
So about a year ago, actress Shaylene Woodley announced that she does not consider herself a feminist because she, quote, loves men, and then goes on to describe the movement as inherently flawed.
Feminists replied with, of course, we don't hate men, we just think they're pigs.
She goes on to say that not only did she assert that the effort to take men away from power is never going to work out because you need balance, to which feminists replied, we don't want to take men away from power.
We just want to ban them from our institutions.
Woodley, a person who clearly doesn't know when to shut up and be a good girl that the feminists want her to be, goes on and says, I don't know how women expect men to respect us because we don't even seem to respect each other.
There's so much jealousy, so much compassion and envy.
To which the feminists replied, check your privilege, shitlord, you're oppressing me.
So yeah, naturally the feminists reacted to this as if Woodley had just turned around, dropped her kecks and farted in their faces.
And Woodley obviously received vast amounts of criticism from the feminists.
But the problem the feminists are having with Woodley is that she is a strong empowered woman and their bitching and whining has apparently had no impact on her views.
Woodley responded by chiding them for wasting their time focusing on one individual's opinion.
I mean if we spent as much energy focusing on the genocide that's going on right now in parts of Africa as we spent on that one article, think about what we could accomplish.
Change is not going to come from focusing on the small things that actors say.
I think it's quite clear that Shaylene Woodley is simply not cut out to be a feminist.
She is of course clearly not a fucking idiot.
And speaking of fucking idiots, there is a certain strand of idiots who can't understand that people are allowed to have different and separate political views to their own without being molested.
And I'm not talking about Nigel Farage.
He hasn't really done anything wrong.
The people who decided to harass and attack him in a pub while he was there with his family based on his political views are idiots.
Okay, so let's take a look at what happened.
Nigel Farage and his family have been chased out of a pub in Kent and had their car attacked by protesters demonstrating against the UK Independence Party.
I guess they don't know what a protest is because that sounds more like a riot.
Farage said that his children were so scared that they had to hide from the protesters.
But I mean what kind of what kind of vile people?
What kind of absolute shitbags would go and attack a man eating dinner with his family just because they didn't like his politics?
You guessed it, social justice warriors.
I'm not even fucking kidding.
Young, annoying, blue-haired university dipshits who think Nigel Farage is about to implement some kind of faggot holocaust or something have actually attacked the man in a pub and driven him out and unbelievably are proud of doing so.
I mean take this one.
This was an amazing moment.
The Muslim call to prayer inside Nigel Farage's local pub for tolerance.
No UKIP con.
How very, very tolerant.
Allah-u-Akbar Allah-u-Akbar Allah-u-Akbar I mean just look at this tolerance And the Polish language class.
Emphasis on the class.
Oh, there's nothing but class here.
Farage drove off with Czisek Czech fucking learns English, Poland, whatever that word is, on his rear window.
Hashtag UKIPCon.
The protesters, who dressed as migrants and breastfeeding mothers to express their opposition to the UK Independence Party, sent messages to journalists boasting of jumping on Mr. Farage's car bonnet because they are apparently total dicks.
Dozens of protesters initially went to the Georgian Dragon where Mr. Farage has previously been pictured having a drink before realizing they were crap at stalking him and he was in a different pub nearby.
Protesters claimed to have gone to the Queenshead, chased the Farages out and then jumped on the UKIP leader's car bonnet as he drove away.
I think it's quite clear to everyone that these absolute cock knockers, whether you like Farage or not, were way out of line.
But at least they weren't as out of line as the woman who threw a Molotov cocktail at an anti-abortion prayer group outside of Planned Parenthood.
Well fuck me, that seems a little bit radical.
A woman is facing charges after police say she threw a Molotov cocktail at anti-abortion protesters who are standing outside of Planned Parenthood.
I'm not saying that I agree with the anti-abortion protesters, but at least they understand what a protest is.
But I think this is the best part about this whole story.
Multiple witnesses told the police that they saw Tony throw a flaming object outside of the passenger side window of her BMW SUV.
Wealthy, insane white woman firebombs a bunch of peaceful Christians is what this effectively is.
She'd even gone to the effort of covering her license plate before engaging in terrorism.
They never get old.
But I'll tell you what, thank Allah that these radical progressives are absolutely crap at everything they do.
Including this.
She actually made her Molotov cocktail out of a plastic bottle.
Needless to say didn't explode and she probably threw it really badly because it doesn't appear that anyone was injured.
Absolutely fucking barking.
But there we have it ladies and gentlemen.
The new face of terror.
Middle-aged mothers who have been absolutely brainwashed by feminism.
Fucking amazing.
Just events so stupid you couldn't make them up.
Like this one.
Lawmaker said that colleagues toddler feared her because she's black.
Isn't that just the most amazing thing you've ever seen?
I mean even if she went up to this toddler and was like hello and the toddler was like oh shit a nigga you would think that as a grown adult she'd laugh it off because it's a fucking toddler.
But apparently she didn't and now we have an article about it.
So apparently a Democratic lawmaker said that a Republican lawmaker's child was scared of her because she's black.
How do you know why the child was scared of you?
It could be that you were just insanely ugly.
He looked at me like I was a monster and turned around and cried.
And I told him, the lawmaker, you need to introduce your child to some people that are dark-skinned so he will not be scared, she said. without projecting onto that child in any way, shape or form.
And when asked whether this guy's son shied away from her because of her skin colour, she said, I truly believe so.
One of those evil right-wingers that I've heard so much about from progressives said, you'd like to think that we could have a professional discussion on the house floor and certainly be able to avoid having an 18-month-old in the discussion.
Which is absolutely typical of the right-wing.
I think this is actually rape culture.
The racist kid's fascist right-wing father went on to say, I can tell you that he reacted the same way he reacts with anybody brand new.
He buries his head in his dad's shoulder.
Jesus Christ.
Whoever it is, it's what he does.
He's an 18-month-old kid.
He's in a new environment up here in a place like the State House, but he doesn't know anybody.
I honestly don't remember anything out of the ordinary.
Jesus Christ.
Right, okay.
So now that we effectively have a middle-aged woman that's been triggered by a racist toddler, I think it's time for us to retreat to our safe space.
Because I mean, that's what safe spaces are for, right?
I mean, when you're a grown adult and you're confronted with ideas that you find scary.
So this begins with Catherine Byron, a senior at Brown University and a member of its sexual assault task force.
She considers it her duty to make Brown a safe space for rape victims, free from anything that might prompt memories of trauma.
Even though, how could that possibly be done?
What if someone was raped in a classroom?
What's she going to do?
Anyway, when she heard about a debate between Jessica Valenti, the founder of Feministing.com, and Wendy McElroy, a disgusting libertarian, and she knew that Miss Elroy was likely to criticize the term rape culture.
She knew that McElroy was likely to, against all evidence, of course, claim that modern and popular culture, as well as the state, don't quite endorse rape as much as feminists think they do.
Which is, of course, rape culture.
And somehow that this speaker would serve to invalidate people's experiences of having been raped.
And it could be, quote unquote, damaging.
After rushing to battle stations, Brown's president announced that the university would hold a simultaneous competing talk to provide quote research and facts unquote about the quote role of culture in sexual assault.
And meanwhile, student volunteers, who were apparently still pissing their pants in fear, put up posters advertising that a safe space would be available for anyone who found the debates too upsetting.
Hashtag triggered.
The safe space was intended to give people who might find comments troubling or triggering.
I'm not making this up.
The room was equipped with cookies, colouring books, bubbles, play-doh, cumming music, pillows, blankets, and a video of frolicking puppies, as well as students and staff members trained to deal with trauma.
But what they haven't considered is that there may well be racist toddlers in there as well, because that sounds like exactly the sort of place that a racist toddler might want to go.
So our author says, I'm old enough to remember a time when college students objected to providing a platform to certain speakers because they were deemed politically unacceptable, which frankly is something I don't agree with.
Outside of maybe naked hate speech, just a differing political opinion I think should be voiced and considered.
But now students worry whether acts of speech or pieces of writing may put them in emotional peril.
For example, two weeks ago, students at Northwestern University marched to protest an article by Laura Kipniss, a professor at the University School of Communication.
She had criticized, or ridiculed, probably rightfully so, what she had called the sexual paranoia pervading campus life.
So the hysterical feminists, after being accused of being paranoid about rape culture, sexual assault and just being complete babies about everything, decided that they would carry mattresses and demanded that the administration condemn the essay.
One student complained that Professor Kipnis was erasing the very traumatic experiences of victims who spoke out.
An organizer of the demonstration said we need to be setting aside spaces to talk about victim blaming.
Or you could try and rein in your crazy.
I mean let's take this as an example.
At Oxford University's Christchurch College in November, the college censors cancelled a debate on abortion after campus feminists threatened to disrupt it because both of the would-be debaters were men.
You see to most normal people that's not a good reason to do it.
But to self-avowed ideological man-haters, it's the perfect reason.
Or how about this?
A Hampshire College student group disinvited an Afro-punk band that had been attacked on social media for having too many white musicians.
And the vitriolic discussion had made students feel unsafe.
I can completely understand why.
I mean too many crackers, right?
I mean it is actually seriously hindering the ability to teach now.
For example, the president of Smith College apologised for calling students and faculty to be hurt when she failed to object to a racial epithet uttered by a fellow panel member at an alumni event in New York.
The problem, well the problem was a free speech advocate who had been arguing against the use of the euphemism the N-word when teaching American history or the adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In the uproar that followed, the Student Government Association wrote a letter declaring that if the college is unsafe for one student, it is unsafe for all students.
Which is just the most complete tosh I have ever heard.
But this is so completely symptomatic of the state of modern universities.
And is it any surprise why?
Kids are apparently being brainwashed into the social justice feminist crap way before they get to university.
I mean look at this.
High schoolers charge Jews more at a bake sale to highlight the pay gap.
Oh, wait, sorry, sorry, I left the men camp extension on.
It's actually they charge men more at a bake sale.
Because remember, we're not Nazis, we're feminists.
It's exactly as you imagine, but I'm going to go through it anyway.
The Young Democrats group at Jordan High School held a gender equality bake sale and charged their fellow students different prices, which really does highlight gender equality.
Boys had to pay a dollar for the baked goods, while girls only had to pay 77 cents.
The gap in prices reflects the earning power between men and women.
That the women earned 77 cents for every dollar men earned in 2012.
Because women, on average, decided to be lazier or go into vocations that were easier and therefore paid less than men, men have to pay more.
So not only is academia fucked, but the students going there are also fucked.
They have been pre-indoctrinated before they even arrive.
So is it any wonder at all that the new zeitzge in universities is that philosophy has to be about more than white men?
Just look at the picture accompanying this article.
Aztec thinking was all but erased from history after their defeat by the Spanish.
Which is true, but of all the people to use, I wouldn't use the ones who cut out their opponents' hearts while they were still alive as a sacrifice to their gods.
Anyway, across the country, students have been dismantling the master's house.
Uh-oh, I think we're gonna have to have a look at this.
Dismantling the master's house.
Made up of pillars of age, disability, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race and caste, and sex.
To the backdrop of a British flag.
Just magnificent.
That is, I'm so glad this exists.
Continuing on then, for some reason, they weren't smashing their principal's offices, but rather demanding a revision of the predominantly white and predominantly male curricula.
Because it doesn't matter what's being said, what matters is who is saying it.
Especially if that person is a white devil.
From UCL to LSE to York, Warwick, Nottingham and Kent, the student-led campaign, Why is My Curriculum White?, has attracted thousands of racists, concerned with the course content of universities across the country, reflects white dominance and underrepresents black people.
And what's the rationale for this?
Well, the rationale is that the demographics for Britain are changing.
Ethnicity, religion, heritage and language are increasingly part of the national discussion, because bigots won't stop talking about them.
These identity politics dipshits will just not shut up.
But this is of course all completely necessary.
I mean, if I went to university, they'd be like, excuse me, white devil, what are you doing in a class studying Confucius?
And I'd say, well, I'm here to learn to see what he has to say.
And they'd be like, yes, but you're white.
He was not.
Therefore, you can take nothing away from anything that he has said.
No, you can't empathise.
No, you can't try and listen and believe his lived experiences as a minority.
You literally will gain nothing from this, so get out.
Critics of the campaign argue that it undermines academic freedom.
But what those critics don't seem to understand is that there is no more academic freedom.
They say that all knowledge is of equal worth, but that's not true if it was written by a white man.
And they say that students ought to transcend cultural background in the interest of expanding knowledge.
But what they don't seem to understand is that social justice is on a mission to bring back segregation.
And finally, they say that there are very good reasons why a philosophy, economics, or history curriculum might be full of the works of dead white males.
Yes, in Europe, you would think there would be good reasons, but none of these reasons are actually good enough.
Because ultimately, these people will still remain dead, white and male.
I think you're going to enjoy this reasoning.
When it comes to philosophy, for instance, a particularly important discipline as our world is built on ideas, the work of white males, dead or alive, dominates the field.
And this is not simply because white males have contributed profound work, but also due to the glaring yet tacitly silenced relationship between power structures and knowledge.
In this case, time travel.
This is why philosophy professor Angela Davis's complex body of work on the social justice system has not influenced contemporary philosophical studies on prisons in the way Michael Fouquet's work has.
Well, he did start 20 years before she did, when she was in fact six years old.
I mean, all white Ethiopian philosopher Zera Jakob, who long before Nietzsche declared God is dead, daringly criticised organized religion in his 1667 treatise, Hatata, where he also said, he who investigates through pure intelligence will discover the truth.
But despite promoting reason this way, he was not dubbed the father of modern philosophy.
Descartes says.
Possibly because Descartes died 17 years before Zera Jakob wrote his treatise.
But you know what?
What am I thinking?
It's of course the white supremacist patriarchy.
After all, this is why Eriki, performative, spiritual, and philosophical African praise poetry about a plethora of universal topics, is considered mythological, while Homer's mythological poem, The Iliad, is philosophy.
Except, who has ever considered the Iliad to be philosophical?
As the author states here, it's an epic mythological poem.
In short, it seems that when a white male thinks about the meaning of things, any things, it's philosophy.
While philosophers like those above are rarely discussed in British universities, how dare British universities want to discuss the Western intellectual tradition.
I mean, we all know that that's dying a slow and painful death.
But this bit's the best bit for me.
To be sure, we should not dismiss white Western or male thinking simply on the premises that it is white, western or male.
But we are going to.
Kind of strikes me that they've forgotten that they began this article by asking why is my curriculum white?
But no, that's fine.
I mean, I'm just fine with the dismantling of the Western intellectual tradition because it involves too many white men.
Just too many, too many white men, and that is just unacceptable.
I mean, nobody goes to university to learn things.
People go to university to watch pornography of the lecturers.
If you're a regular viewer of my channel, you will already have seen Lauren Barry Holstein's production SPLAT, which features her graphically nude.
As part of the introductory presentation to her theatre and its others module at the Queen Mary University of London, the actress and PhD student showed first-year students the explicit material.
The graphic clip was described by Miss Barry Holstein as feminist performance arts concerned with the female body.
And it was described by everyone else as disgusting.
Ms. Barry Holstein said the work which shows scenes in which she urinated on stage and dangled naked from a harness is relevant to her teaching module.
Her students had a different opinion.
It was not even the fact we saw her lady parts, it's the fact that I literally have no idea how the clip was in any way related to this module.
It was just so extreme and I don't understand why it was in any way necessary.
Some of the beta males in the class thought it was great though.
Apparently she's really passionate about exposing herself, I mean exposing our socially ingrained expectations.
So I'm going to suspend my judgment and wait till I get to know her better as a teacher.
I think though it is probably that she's passionate about exposing herself to her students.
But of course the students can't applaud.
They can only do jazz hands.
That's right, jazz hands.
Optimistically filed under politics, women at a national student event have been asked to use jazz hands instead of clapping.
Which delegates have told Newsbeat would be a nice way to show solidarity.
With Al Jolson, I presume.
But anyway, let's have a look at these tweets.
So the OUSU women's campaign tweeted, hey, can we please ask people to stop clapping but do feminist jazz hands?
It's triggering some people's anxiety.
Thank you.
To which the NUS Women's Campaign were like, 10-4, good buddy.
Some delegates are requesting that we move to jazz hands rather than clapping as it's triggering anxiety.
Please be mindful.
With 1870 retweets, they must have been slightly surprised at just how popular a request that was.
And this was followed up by a second request that whooping is fun for some, but it can be super inaccessible for others.
So please try not to whoop.
It's ableist.
And jazz hands work just as well.
Hashtag NUSWomen15.
When called upon to explain this, a representative said, I'm relatively new to this and it did feel odd at first, but once you've used jazz hands a couple of times, it becomes a genuinely nice way to show solidarity with a point and it does add to creating a more inclusive atmosphere for people who enjoy blackface.
LSESU women's officer G. Linford Grayson agreed.
As someone who is new to the NUS conference culture, it surprised me at first, but actually within a few rounds of jazz hands applause, it began to make a lot of sense, as loud clapping and whooping can be intimidating and distracting when you're on stage.
Plus, who doesn't like jazz hands?
Well, I completely agree.
I only wish I could see a room full of students applauding via jazz hands.
I think that sounds amazing.
But you know what?
Luckily, thanks to Patriarchy Comics, I don't have to imagine it.
I can actually experience it.
So we start with our feminist party member standing before her listen and believe flag and saying, and to conclude, feminism means equality for everyone and how men are scum and feminists are by far the strongest and most level-headed people on the planet.
And this obviously turns the room full of hawkers wild.
They start applauding with their little fat flippers and screaming, hawk hawk, hawk, hawk, hawk, hawk.
The hawking continues.
Our hawkers are dreadfully impressed with this speech.
Despite the obvious pleasure of the hawkers, our feminati starts sweating.
They just keep clapping and clapping and clapping.
Obviously, there are just four letters for this.
P T S D triggered.
Stop clapping, you fucking ableists.
Hashtag jazz hands as our feminazy starts spazzing out and our cack-eyed hawkers with their I hate everything and muff feminism t-shirts start flailing their pudgy flippers to the side while going hawk hawk hawk hawk hawk hawk you should all definitely visit patriarchycomics.tumbler.com.
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