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July 3, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This Week in Stupid (03⧸07⧸2016)
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid for the 3rd of July 2016.
Let me ask you a question.
What's anti-Semitic about this image?
If you answered, nothing, then you're correct.
If you answered, the star calling her the most corrupt candidate ever is a star of David and therefore this is somehow an insult against the Jews, you are clearly a writer for the Huffington Post.
I'm not kidding, that is literally what they think that tweet was.
This is a blacantly anti-Semitic attack, in fact.
They got an entire article out of this tweet that was posted roughly at 8.30am and featured a picture of Hillary Clinton pasted over a backdrop of $100 bills with a six-pointed star.
The Jewish star of David.
Except it was just a six-pointed star.
I mean, come on, you're not saying that every six-pointed star is a Jewish star of David, are you?
Oh, you are.
In fact, that's exactly what you're saying.
This is not a dog whistle, it's not subtle.
This is anti-Semitic imagery aimed at a candidate who isn't even Jewish.
Yeah, it's really weird.
It's almost like it doesn't make any sense as an anti-Semitic attack, but it does make sense as a political attack and they were just using a star as a star.
Especially when you remember that Trump has Jewish relatives.
His daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner, who is Jewish himself.
Their kids are Jewish too.
Trump even has a number of Jewish backers.
It's so weird that Trump would decide to offend all of the Jews he's related to and her backing his campaign in an attempt to try and insult someone in this way who is not Jewish.
Or this is just a six-pointed star, it's not the star of David.
And Trump even deleted that tweet and then replaced it with the same message in a circle.
I mean, it's almost like, and hear me out here, Huffington Post, it's almost like this is complete nonsense.
It's almost like you know this is complete nonsense and just the very way you lay out the story makes it sound like complete nonsense.
You can't even make Trump sound like an anti-Semite in the article you've written trying to make him look like an anti-Semite.
I can already picture what your next article is going to be about.
A grand expose about the anti-Semitism in rural police forces.
Since we're on the subject of bloody stupid things, let's have a look at Heterosexual Pride Day and why it's a thing and why we should be utterly ashamed.
Humans can be mortifying creatures at times.
One look in our history books will provide you with more than enough evidence of that.
Oh yeah, history is mortifying, that's how I'd describe it too.
The latest thing to bring shame to our species is the sudden trending of Heterosexual Pride Day, which is trying desperately to take over social media in a bid to raise awareness of sweet fuck all.
And of course, the worst people are undoubtedly the ones who are expressing their need to raise awareness for straight people in downright homophobic ways.
But they're almost as bad as the ones who look at the trend and genuinely think, hey they're right, there is no day for straight people.
It's unfair.
Okay so let's have a think about that.
I mean do you think there is actually anyone doing this as some sort of genuine pride movement?
Or do you think they are mocking your annoying hashtags?
Is this actually an attempt to raise awareness or is this actually an attempt to get in your craw?
Gay pride is a thing because LGBT people have fought stigma, abuse and intolerance for decades to get to where they are today, which is still not in a position of equality.
So what rights are gay people actually lacking?
And I mean in the West, because obviously you guys are never going to start talking about the rampantly homophobic areas of the world that are slightly less white than the places that are actually very pro-gay.
Gay pride has something to achieve.
It shows that those who have different sexualities have just as much right to be happy and love who they want as the rest of us.
Yeah, that's pretty much what everyone thinks.
I mean, they have marriage equality, they have no legal discrimination against them at all, as far as I'm aware, in any Western country these days.
And so, what exactly, what exactly are you fighting for now?
The battle's won.
Oh, we're gay.
Okay, great.
No one gives a fucking shit.
And that's what they're doing with straight pride.
Oh, you're gay.
I don't care.
Oh, look, we're straight.
See, you don't care either.
This, unbelievably, is the process of normalizing this.
This is us going, look, it's just not a big deal, and if you're going to continue making it a big deal, now we're going to mock you.
Do you know why?
Because we mock everyone who makes a big deal out of fucking nothing.
Underneath the confusion and the misled support for this day lies a bed of significant homophobia.
Just take one look on social media.
Well, Arabic Twitter.
Well, thankfully, many more tweets appear to be slamming the trend.
There are a fair few that are using it as yet another weapon against gay people.
How?
How are they using this as a weapon against gay people?
It's not about gay people.
It's about heterosexual people.
You've made it about gay people.
Even though it's actually not to do with them, is it?
This doesn't prove that straight people need more attention.
It proves that gay pride is more important than ever.
Yeah, that's right.
Double down.
Even though you've won, but you need to keep on winning because, goddamn, you don't want to be equal.
If you think that heterosexual pride day is something that makes things more equal, then you officially need to wake up.
It has only widened the gulf further.
Yeah, that's ex- Jesus Christ.
Yes, that's the point.
You are creating division by saying, look, we're gay people, and we need a special Pride Day to run around telling everyone how gay we are.
If you want it to be normal, you can't also have a special day for it, because that's not normal.
That's what they're doing with the Heterosexual Pride Day tag.
They're making fun of you saying, oh, well, everyone should just get a day then, if that's how this goes.
And there we go.
You're normal again because now nobody's fucking special.
You want gay people to be accepted as a normal part of society, which means you have to stop acting like you are not a normal part of society.
Do you know what I love about SJW media is that they will go to great lengths to find things that are so fucking irrelevant and that nobody cares about and report on them.
For example, Vice magazine decided to go and ask actual cuckolds if they were pissed off at the far right using cuck as an insult.
I mean that's really important, isn't it?
I mean if you if you have access to investigative journalists, what do you do?
Do you go right okay well there are war zones, there's political corruption, there's just various genuine scandals that need to be exposed or do we go find some sex fetishists and ask them what they think of some people misappropriating the name of their fetish.
Well lucky for us Vice magazine didn't let us down.
So they spoke to Dave in Southern California.
He's an entrepreneur and part-time alpha cuck in his mid-40s and he was kind enough to explain what an alpha cuck is exactly.
And he wasn't thrilled about his sexual identity being used to slander liberals.
The thing is, they don't actually explain what an alpha cuck is in this article.
I mean it says it's been edited for brevity and I guess they must have edited that part out.
Because the only other reference I could find was this.
A lot of people on the right are using the term cuck lately.
Are they using it right?
They don't know what it means within the scene.
They believe it means inferior.
They don't realize there certainly are a lot of alpha cucks out there.
But unfortunately they don't give us any further information than that.
But since we're on the subject of alpha cucks, Justin Trudeau comic book cover to feature PM with Canadian superheroes.
Oh my god.
Okay, prepare your spines for the cringe.
Oh, yeah, that was exactly as embarrassing as I was expecting.
Just, ugh.
Does anyone remember when comic books were good?
Do you remember when they were cool?
Do you remember when they actually had things in that were actually worth fucking reading?
So the writer said, I didn't want this to just be like a walk-on.
Rescued by superheroes, and he thanks them, and that's the end of the story.
I think a lot of these real-life appearances in comics tend to go that way.
I like the idea of him actually engaging them in an ethical debate.
About feminism, I presume.
It's a little tricky because once you start to put words in the Prime Minister's mouth, we acknowledge that this is basically Trudeau fanfiction, he added.
Okay, I'm just waiting for the shuddering of this to stop.
Okay, so now we all look like the victims of a nerve gas attack.
Let's move on to the professor who popularized microaggressions says that universities have gone too far.
And before I go on, I just want to say, what the fuck did you expect from a concept like microaggressions?
In what world did you think that was going to be restrained to calm and sensible use, and not for arbitrarily shutting people down?
Derald Wing Su is a professor of psychology at Columbia University.
He's also an early promoter of the idea of microaggressions.
Lists of potential microaggressions made by universities used his research as a basis.
The popularity of the word microaggression, a concept largely informed by Mr. Su's work, has coincided with calls for greater racial inclusivity on campuses, and competing attacks from conservative media outlets that led students being coddled by their colleges.
So let's be honest with you.
I mean, he didn't coin the term.
That was another chap, but he has helped popularize it.
And now this is the fruit of your labour, Professor Su.
Mr. Sue said he knew his research would catch on when the people he and his co-authors interviewed for the book said they needed a word to describe the slights they faced every day.
But he did not expect it to catch on as quickly as it did, and he wasn't aware the research had been repurposed by universities as tip sheets until he started getting calls from radio talk shows.
He said he's glad colleges have found the research useful, but he's cautious about the institutions that are taking it as an absolute.
Mr. Su said his goal had always been to educate people, not punish or shame them if they engage in microaggressions.
I'm sure that's the case.
I'm sure that's exactly how you thought this was going to go.
But did it not occur to you that this was one more cog in the machine to control people's interactions?
If someone slights you, then you fucking ignore it, because it's a slight.
But instead, people came to you and said, hey, we need a way to demonstrate to the world that we're giant fucking overgrown babies who can't stand when someone says something that we might interpret to be racial because frankly we don't want to have to go through the effort of growing the fuck up.
Basically what I'm saying is there was only one inevitable destination for a concept of punishing people for racist aggressions that they aren't even aware that they're doing.
It's obviously going to turn into an Orwellian witch hunt.
I mean, it's just, what conclusion did you think was going to be reached?
I was concerned that people who use these examples would take them out of context and use them as a punitive rather than an exemplary way.
Well there we go.
That's exactly it.
When you start policing people's words and actions to this degree, of course it's going to be punitive.
Now the research has made it into popular culture, some people use the word to shut down conversations instead of reflecting on the situation.
It was never meant to give a vernacular that makes it okay to stop talking.
It was to ask people to be flexible in their thinking and to be open-minded to the concept that we don't all walk through the world in the same shoes.
This is the best part though.
It's worth remembering that microaggressions don't always indicate a person is racist.
In fact, he said it's often the opposite.
People who engage in microaggressions are oftentimes well-intentioned, decent individuals who aren't aware that they're engaging in an offensive way towards someone else.
So you have created a method by which to punish non-racists by something someone else finds offensive.
Because this is of course entirely subjective and down to the fact that the person they are talking to is being overly sensitive.
I mean, come on.
What did you think this was going to be used for?
Again, I love the idea that he knows what's offensive.
I mean, we know that this is offensive because we have some sort of fucking objective measure of offense.
And now they have misappropriated, apparently, this to say that, well, this is just one of those ways in which all white people are racist whether they know it or not.
Which is precisely what they are teaching at an elite school.
They're teaching the white students that they are born racist.
An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as six that they are born racist and should feel guilty from benefiting from white privilege while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.
How could this possibly go wrong?
The K-8 school of 430 kids is separating whites in classes where they are made to feel awful about their whiteness and all the kids of colour in other rooms where they're taught to feel proud of their race and are rewarded with treats and other privileges.
Ever since Ferguson, the school has been increasing its anti-white propaganda in its curriculum, said a parent who requested anonymity because he currently has children enrolled in the school and he doesn't want them punished any further for being white.
The school has created a dedicated space for kids of colour where they're embraced by minority instructors and encouraged to voice their feelings and share their experiences about being a kid of colour according to school presentation slides obtained by the post.
Meanwhile, white kids are herded into separate classrooms and taught to raise their awareness of the prevalence of whiteness and privilege, challenge notions of colour blindness and assumptions of normal, good and American, and understand and own European ancestry and see the tie to privilege.
Can you imagine a better way of creating a world full of people who are obsessed and divided by race instead of creating a world of people who see themselves as equals regardless of race?
I mean I can't think of how better to do it than teaching kids as young as six to do this.
I mean how else could you do it?
I mean this is obviously literally creating privilege for non-white students at the expense of white students.
It's literally the most anti-egalitarian thing I've ever heard and it's literally brought back segregation to American classrooms.
Bravo social justice.
Fucking brilliant.
The same slides point out that a number of leading private schools across the country have also segregated students by race-based affinity groups.
It lists several in New York including Riverdale County School, Brooklyn Friends School, the Cathedral School, the Calhoun School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Little Red School House and Elizabeth Owen High School.
So a fair amount then.
Just I mean this is just segregation we're talking about.
It's not really a big deal is it?
And you know we don't even get to the universities and colleges and places like Oregon that are already doing segregated retreats for black and white people to teach black people that they're amazing and teach white people that they're evil.
Under Bank Street's racial justice and advocacy curriculum, which, let's be honest, that's not a fucking curriculum is it?
That's not education is it?
That's activism.
That's in fact brainwashing.
Parents say teachers push white kids to grapple with America's history of racism as if it's their fucking fault.
Then they indoctrinate them into thinking that systemic racism still exists, and under a black president, and that they're part of the problem and must hold themselves accountable even for acts of racism committed by others.
100% of the curriculum is what whites have done to other races, said another Bankstreet parent.
They offer nothing that would balance the story.
Added the parent who asked to go unnamed, of course.
Any questions they can't answer they rationalize under the pretense of institutional racism.
So what do you think this is doing to the self-esteem and well-being of the children themselves?
You know, when you teach pre-teen children to hate themselves for things they have not done, and in fact, other people did long before they were born.
The program, these parents say, deliberately instills in white children a strong sense of guilt about their race.
Some kids come home in tears saying, I'm a bad person.
They say white kids are being brainwashed into thinking any success they achieve is unearned.
Indeed, a young white girl is seen confessing on a Bankstreet video, I feel guilty for having a privilege I don't deserve.
Now, I personally would classify this as child abuse.
I think anyone teaching children to hate themselves, at any age, frankly, is abusing these children.
This is going to have severe ramifications for them as adults.
This is going probably to ruin their lives, and they're probably going to need therapy to get over it.
And let's be honest, this is probably going to create racists.
Parents say that the classroom segregation only breeds resentment.
Younger children, for instance, feel left out when the kids of colour come back to the main classroom munching on cupcakes they were given in their affinity group.
Oh no shit.
No shit it's going to create resentment against black people.
No shit it's going to create resentment against people who get privileges based on their fucking skin colour, opposed to the white kids who are denied these privilege for the same reason.
I mean that literal racism going on in these classrooms.
So who's running this?
A racist by the name of Anshu Wahi, a longtime social justice advocate who's held the title of Director of Diversity at Bank Street since 2013.
She referred questions to the school's communication office which did not respond to requests for comment.
Because what the fuck are you gonna say to this?
What possible excuse are you gonna give that doesn't make you look like a racist child abuser?
We are talking about someone who believes even white babies display signs of racism.
So she encourages parents to talk to their kids about race as early as kindergarten, making them hyper-aware of racial differences and even examine your own whiteness.
How are these lunatics in control of schools?
They are brainwashing children to hate themselves.
They are creating a privileged class who will expect to be treated as a privileged class as they carry on through their fucking lives.
This is not equality.
She defends segregating minority children by race by arguing that they need a safe place where they can share their ouch moments, including subtle but offensive white comments known as microaggressions.
Fucking brilliant.
Just amazing.
This is where this has gone.
This petition isn't looking so silly now, is it?
If you want to use the petition, 80,000 people have signed it now, fucking send it to papers.
Send them this article.
Send it to a paper with the thing saying, look, we want something done about this.
If that's what you want, you can do whatever you want with the petition.
It's yours, there are 80,000 signatures to it.
This is happening now as we speak.
If you want something done, it's up to you.
You can do something.
And honestly, I don't normally encourage people to do things, but you go ahead.
That's what it's for.
If various papers who are generally social justice skeptics, like the Daily Mail or the Telegraph or someone like that, were inundated with emails of this petition and these two articles, the one on microaggressions and this one abusing children, saying we want these things stopped.
We know these things are coming from universities.
We know that they're having a knock-on effect and being filtered down to children who have done nothing wrong and who are now being taught to hate themselves in the name of social justice.
How many do they have to receive before they start listening, before they start writing articles, before they interview you, the person who's emailed them, about what's going on?
Just say I'm an activist, I care about this, this is something that needs to happen.
Because, good God, this is actually, this is just beyond the pale.
This is beyond, this is just too fucking far.
People ask me, what am I going to do with the petition?
And well, nothing.
It's what you're going to do with the petition that matters.
The petition is there for everyone to use, so I recommend using it.
Because how else are we going to get this stopped?
Who else is petitioning to have this stopped?
Who else is doing anything to have this at least just addressed?
And it's even got to the point where Islamic terrorist groups are urging lone wolves to target white people to avoid the label of hate crime.
Lone wolf jihadis should target white Americans so no one mistakes their terror attacks for hate crimes unrelated to the cause of radical Islam.
Al-Qaeda writes in the latest edition of its online magazine.
Al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula called for more self-directed Muslim terrorists to kill in America.
But the article titled Inspire Guide, Orlando Operation, tells terrorists to avoid targeting places and crowds where minorities are generally found.
Because if gays or Latinos appear to be the targets, the federal government will be the one taking full responsibility.
Although al-Qaeda don't take credit for the Orlando shooting, it urges more lone wolves to take up arms.
Jihadists should target areas where the Anglo-Saxon community is generally concentrated.
This class of the American community is the majority and is the one that is in the American leadership.
They know how polarized American society has become.
They can see your weakness.
They can see how social justice and identity politics has made it okay to target white people, but forbidden to target minorities, and they're going to use it against you.
Social justice is a cancer.
It's using identity politics to hyper-racialize people, kids, from a very young age to divide your society, to make it okay to consider one lesser than the other.
This is the opposite of where you want to be going.
You want to get to a point where race is simply not an issue.
It's not something that comes up because it's not a relevant factor.
These people will ensure that not only can that not happen now, but it certainly won't happen in the future.
They are priming children to be excessively aware of this.
And if you keep going down this road, you are never going to arrive at a point where a black person can be just the individual that they are, and the white person can also be the individual that they are, and they can both be treated the same.
Black History Month you find ridiculous.
What?
You're going to relegate my history to Emma?
Oh, come on.
What do you do with yours?
Which month is life history month?
Oh, come on.
Come on.
Which month is Jewish history month?
There isn't one.
Oh, oh, why not?
Do you want one?
No, no, no, I don't either.
I don't want a Black History Month.
Black history is American history.
How are we going to get rid of racism?
Stop talking about it.
I'm going to stop calling you a white man.
And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
I know you as Mike Wallace.
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