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Sept. 18, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This Week in Stupid (18⧸09⧸2016)
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Hello everyone, welcome to This Week in Stupid for the 18th of September 2016.
This week's episode is going to be a particularly amusing one.
So buckle up, we're going for a ride.
Remember the quote-unquote black Lives Matter protesters who shut off the airport in London?
Well they toasted their white privilege as they walked free from court.
Yes, the Black Lives Matter protesters actually think their white privilege allowed them to walk free from court.
Now I suspect that it's probably because this kind of public protest isn't usually the sort of thing the authorities would bother jailing someone over, especially if there was no damage or property crime or any kind of injury or loss of life.
What would be the point?
But our protesters are convinced that this is all to do with the fact that they're white and that the white supremacy is letting some white people go because that's what white people do to other white people.
I'm not really sure how this thesis holds up in the face of one of them not being white.
Perhaps she's an honorary Aryan or something, I'm not quite sure.
Here is another example of one of the hard-bitten veteran activists of Black Lives Matter who have just simply told Daddy that no, I'm going and I'm doing this protest regardless of whether you suspend my allowance or not.
On the left we have another honorary Aryan and on the right we have a prime example of a Nazi Übermensch, the sort of stormtrooper who was just scaling the walls of France and storming their way into Poland.
And yeah, it was the fact that he was white that they let him go.
It's not the fact that he's a useless streak of piss with rich parents who wouldn't survive five minutes in prison or anything.
Here is a highly oppressed female who is probably the recipient of some kind of art degree.
And here on the right we have a free man on the land who's probably partially responsible for those legal name fraud billboards that have been mysteriously popping up that explain absolutely nothing and literally nobody cares about.
Here we have an activist that will eventually replicate his daddy's success by selling out to Monsanto and ending up being a millionaire on the backs of poor working people from the very countries he claims will be most affected by climate change.
And finally...
A last human being!
What am I doing with my fucking life?
I have an art degree.
I'm wearing a fucking fedora.
I'm protesting how climate change is racist!
Why?!
Oh my god!
Oh god, oh gosh, Jesus.
I think we better check out her Tumblr.
So in an attempt to take these people seriously, we're going to carry on.
A group of middle class protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement held their white privilege today as they got away with a slap on the wrist despite bringing an international airport to a standstill.
The group, eight of whom are white, I think it looks like it's only seven that are white to be honest, chained themselves to the runway at London City Airport.
All nine admitted obstructing a person engaged in lawful activity while they appeared at Westminster Magistrates courts.
Other charges were dropped.
As the sentences were handed down, a female member of the group who sat close together in the dock exclaimed, go white privilege!
Well there certainly was some privilege on display here, but I don't think it was necessarily about being white, given that, you know, at least one of the group wasn't actually white, and they were acquitted too.
Let's have a look to see if we can find out anything about these people that maybe there's a common thread.
Let's have a look.
25-year-old Natalie Geraldine Twizzleton Wycombe Fiennes is a cousin of actor Ralph.
She is a veteran of climate camp protests taking her Calf Kids in Tent.
The LSE graduate who studied English literature and sociology lives with her parents in their £2 million house just off of Clapham Common.
She told the court she supports herself by babysitting.
Esme Waldron, 23, a University of Sussex film graduate and former Churston Grammar School pupil, is a documentary maker and a self-proclaimed expert on lesbian culture.
Once named A-level student of the year, she made a film about older lesbians called Now You See Me.
Ben Tippett gave his address as the Fiennes Family Home in Wandsworth and is another LSE graduate.
With blonde-eyed hair, the 24-year-old is an outspoken critic of the arms trade.
Very brave.
One of his online user handles is Buddhist Ben.
Spanish graduate Sama Baker is one of the three protesters who live on the Northern Seoul houseboat.
Fucking housebows.
Moored at Royden, Essex, Baker27 is an expert climber who has volunteered for clean air projects and raised cash for clean water in Uganda.
Good for her.
Anti-aviation campaigner Richard Collett White, who has a degree in French and Russian from Oxford's Exeter College, is jobless.
The 23-year-old is an accomplished tenor who played keyboards in a scar band and has volunteered for causes from Oxfam's Community Food Growing.
The second Housebows resident, Sam Lund Harkett, 32, supports activists across the UK in a range of movements from disaster aid to RSPB.
The environmental officer at university, the shaven-headed campaigner, says he has been passionate about the planet since he was 16.
He is a leading activist with the campaign group Global Justice Now and has worked with other similar groups.
The final houseboat dweller, Corbinista, oh god, Alex Etchhart, 26, founded and directed West End show The Sex Workers Opera, performed by real-life burlesque dancers.
He is a musician who works with a youth empowerment charities and has a degree in social anthropology and ethnomusicology from SOAS.
His father is a Uruguayan who claims to be living in the UK in political exile.
Etchhart has previously taken part in anti-fracking camps.
William Petifer, 27, works on an organic Somerset farm and claims to be plotting the downfall of the white supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy.
The son of a company director, he took part in a blockade of Heathrow Airport last November.
And finally, the oddest member of an odd group, Deborah Frances Grayson, 31, lives in Slough where she is doing media and communications PhD.
She is interested in intergenerational educational work and volunteers with various groups to get people involved in politics.
She has a conviction related to demonstrating at Parliament against climate change in 2009.
To sum this up, this protest was done by a group of insufferable rich kids who are projecting their privilege onto others as to avoid facing the inevitable self-reflection on what a total waste of potential they all are.
They are not making things better by attacking poor white people, but they do get to feel like they're making things better, and it silences that nagging voice of doubt, constantly whispering how perhaps nobody needs to hear from any of them on anything.
Remember how the leader of Black Lives Matter UK couldn't be at the demonstration because she was on a flight to Brazil?
Well, I think I might have found out exactly where she went.
I'm not entirely certain, but I think she went to a conference on what a feminist internet looks like.
Feminist activists from around the world were in a conference room in Brazil, discussing what a feminist internet might look like.
I think it's a reasonably safe bet that the Black Lives Matter leader from the UK was flying out to Brazil for this conference.
So while her non-binary brothers in arms were busy fighting the good fight against the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, she was busy daydreaming with a bunch of other feminists as to what their perfect version of the internet might look like.
This is all such terribly important work, guys.
Listen to this.
The number of prosecutions for violence against women and girls in England and Wales is at record levels.
That is what you want.
You want exactly that.
You are going on and on and on about, well, nobody's listening to women and girls when they're telling you their stories.
You're not believing them.
They're not prosecuting these people.
Okay, well, we'll prosecute them.
Oh my god, look how many of them are being prosecuted.
You cannot fucking win.
According to a report published by the Crown Prosecution Service last week, 2015-16 saw a 10% increase on the year before.
A rising trend is the use of internet, social media, and other forms of technology to harass, intimidate, humiliate, and control women and girls.
Never, never happens to men.
Never, ever happens to men.
Not fucking once.
And this is not just a UK phenomenon.
These findings match the results of a study released May this year that found more than 6,500 individuals had been subjected to 10,000 aggressive and misogynist tweets over a three-week period in the UK, and 80,000 people have been targeted by 200,000 such tweets internationally.
Half of which were sent by women.
But anyway, let's carry on.
Although the violence women and girls experience online has received growing attention from the media politicians and technology companies, what is often missing from the conversations is the fact that some women are fighting back.
Okay, let's hold your horses.
There is no violence done on the internet by definition.
All violence happens offline.
All of it.
It is simply not conceivable for people to do violence to one another via the internet.
It's just not possible.
By the definition of the word, by what people mean when they say violence, you can't do it on the internet.
Don't get me wrong, when they say activists are taking action against online abuse, okay, there can be abuse online.
But you can't have violence.
But anyway, they're working towards a feminist internet.
When discussing women and the internet, we also need to talk about how feminists are working to reclaim the space.
Which is bizarre because feminists didn't create it.
They don't ever seem to have had ownership of it before, and they seem to be acting as if it's always been theirs.
Like I said, it's really bizarre.
I mean, it sounds like they are trying to conduct a hostile takeover of something they don't already own.
I mean, it sounds like they're trying to annex it or something like that.
The sessions were led by the Association of Progressive Communications, which, I mean, does that not sound like something you'd find in Stalinist Russia?
I mean, it just sounds like the Ministry of Thought or the Ministry of Truth, doesn't it?
They were revised and published in August this year to cover themes of access, movements and public participation, economy, expression, and agency.
They state that a feminist internet is one where women and LGBT people have affordable and equal access and are able to create, design and use technologies to challenge sexism and discrimination.
Okay, but you all have that ability now.
You all have internet access.
You've already got fucking smartphones.
You all have the ability to go online, use Twitter, block people, do all of this, challenge sexism and discrimination.
You can do that constantly on your phones when you're smashing the patriarchy, can't you?
I mean, you're literally in a feminist internet by your own definition.
And here's where it starts sounding ominous.
In this future, there are more feminists and LGBT people in internet governance, making decisions and creating technologies in contrast to the current male domination of this space.
Why the fuck would you think you deserve to be governing the internet?
You have not created anything on the internet.
I mean, there was a woman-only social media network that was launched that was created by men.
Because for some reason, you are just not interested in doing any of this.
And you know what?
That's fine.
In my opinion, that's fine.
If you want to go away and not do any of these things, you're well within your rights.
And more power to you.
I hope you're very happy.
But then coming back and saying, you know what, the thing you've made, it's not exactly to our particular liking, and therefore you're going to have to give us control of it because we want to be able to change things as we choose.
The answer is obviously no.
Or should be, if the people running these companies weren't a giant bunch of cucks.
Seriously, listen to the entitlement of this.
And just how awful this is.
According to Facebook's own figures released in 2015, men made up 68% of all employees, 77% of those in senior leadership, and 85% of those working in technology.
And that's a problem.
That's a problem for some reason.
How dare they employ so many Jews?
I mean, men.
Twitter's 2015 figures reveal that men make up 66% of the company, 87% of those in tech jobs, and 78% of those in leadership.
Google is no better.
Note that they're exactly as bad.
Men make up 69% of all employees, 76% of those in leadership, and 81% of those in technical jobs.
Now, I, as an egalitarian, don't care.
I don't care whether it's 100% men or 0% men.
I literally do not give a fuck, because I know these people were not hired on the basis of their genitals.
They were hired on the basis of their technical abilities.
Because they're in tech jobs, 87% of them at least.
But the rest of Twitter and whatnot, I'm sure they actually require qualifications.
The person doing the interview didn't just like, okay, come over, unzip your trousers, yeah, fiddle around me, well, that's not a bad size.
Yeah, okay, you can have head of communications.
Woman comes in, go on, pull them down.
What?
You haven't got any balls at all.
In fact, there's not even...
You're not even a eunuch.
You have nothing, in fact, you have a hole going, and it's wet.
No, get out.
This is disgusting.
What I'm making light of is that there is no problem here.
There is literally no problem here.
There is no problem at all if there is a gender imbalance in a tech company.
It is, in fact, what one would expect to see in a free society, where people get to follow their own natural inclinations.
You know, the path of least resistance.
Fewer women want to go into technology than men.
In the same way that fewer men want to go into nursing than women.
And that is okay.
It's okay.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't mean anyone is being hateful.
It's okay.
It is certainly not a reason to do anything.
You don't need to do anything.
This is a non-problem.
This is simply not something that is an issue.
So when someone comes to you saying, you know what, there aren't enough women in tech, you say, yes, there are.
There are exactly how many women in tech who want to be in tech.
Go away, you sexist.
Because that's what this is.
But hold on.
Did you not think that they were also racists?
Because they really are.
Listen to this.
There is a problem with ethnicity as well as gender.
Seriously.
If a person is not a racist, what reason would they ever have to turn around and say there is a problem with ethnicity as well as gender?
Why would they ever have a reason to say that?
There isn't a problem with ethnicity.
It doesn't matter what a person's ethnicity is.
Ethnicity is not a problem.
It's a non-issue.
It's like some fucking hair colour.
It's a non-issue if you're hiring a person for a job.
And I think that most people aren't racists.
So they probably look at this and go, that's just a non-issue.
I didn't think about their vagina or their skin colour.
I thought about their qualifications.
I'm so sorry that I'm upholding the white supremacy.
At Google, for example, even though white people make up 57% of those in tech positions and 59% of the company overall, they hold 70% of leadership positions because they hate black people.
This is despite women spending more time on social media than men globally.
Did you see what they just did there?
I'm just going to get this right up on the screen so you can see exactly what I mean.
Look at this.
At Google, for example, even though white people, blah, blah, blah, this is despite women spending more time on social media than men globally.
She has just conflated gender and race.
She has just suggested that white people are men and non-white people are women.
I mean, I can't believe how much of a fucking ideologue you have to be to confuse race and gender when talking about them in any fucking context.
But I can tell you exactly what the problem is with this woman's brain because I have been doing this for such a long time.
This is why people call this Marxist.
It's not because they're thinking of a historical materialist view of the economy, as I know Marxists will start freaking the fuck out.
It's because it boils down to a fundamental dichotomy.
Oppressor and oppressed.
Bourgeois proletariat.
Man, woman, black, white.
That's what people are talking about when they call this cultural Marxism.
They know that these economic principles have been misappropriated to social phenomena.
They know it.
However, the people doing it seem to be so fucking stupid that they don't.
They are thinking oppressor and oppressed in all of these cases.
And frankly, we are not in the situation where it is simply as easy as oppressor and oppressed.
There is a kyriarchy by feminists' own fucking standards, so why don't you fucking use it?
That would at least give you a more realistic view of the world.
Some people have difficulties, and they also have advantages.
Shit.
It makes it really difficult to just beat someone with a single issue stick then, doesn't it?
But that would be actually getting somewhere with your own fucking ideology.
Let's just carry on.
Let's see how unbelievably, unfathomably asinine intersectional social justice and feminism is.
And we have, from this week, the perfect example of how this ideology is just such a heap of horseshit.
It's just unbelievable.
Justin Trudeau, the feminist prime minister of Canada, attending a gender segregated event at a fucking mosque.
Oh, that's really fucking feminist, Trudeau.
Canada's self-styled feminist prime minister was praised Tuesday by one of the most powerful women in the world for his commitment to gender equality, even as he was taking it on the chin from other women for appearing at a gender segregated event the previous day.
Oh, that's so fucking progressive, Trudeau.
Yet Trudeau's appearance Monday morning at a gender-segregated mosque in Ottawa brought criticism from some of the same women who had admired his work towards gender equality.
Listen, they're equally segregated, aren't they?
This is totally feminist.
Trudeau is just such a good feminist.
He's not using you as useful fucking idiots.
Hell, he himself is probably also a useful fucking idiot.
And here we have a nice picture of it.
You see that balcony at the top with the people you can hardly see?
They're the women, kept specifically segregated from the men because they're only half a man.
They're only worth half a man.
I know this because I've read the fucking Quran.
I know what a woman's worth is in Islam, but I mean, God forbid, a feminist might be in complaint of this.
I'm an evil, oppressive man.
I obviously have no problem with women being half the worth of a man.
I've got no problem with a woman not being allowed out of the house.
You know, what was it?
Chained to the sink, barefoot, pumping out babies or something.
You know, what actually fucking happens in the Middle East.
But like I said, I'm a patriarch.
I have no problem with this.
Trudeau, well, hell, he's a feminist.
You'd think he'd at least raise some kind of objection.
Trudeau was at the mosque Monday to mark Eid al-Adha, considered the holiest feast days for the world's Muslims.
Three female MPs accompanied Trudeau during his brief remarks.
And here's the really feminist bit, that they had to arrive by a side door and stand with their heads covered.
And they didn't get to address the mosque.
Fucking, that's so feminist, Trudeau.
That's so fucking feminist.
I'm just in awe of how good a feminist you are.
This is a section from his speech at this mosque.
And my God, he just seems brainwashed.
Listen to this.
Doesn't he sound brainwashed?
I mean, he said the word diversity three times in less than one minute.
And he keeps saying it in that fucking speech.
And he literally just acknowledges the segregation in front of his eyes where women are simply not allowed to sit down at the front with the men.
And he's just sat there going, this is so beautifully diverse.
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