If Mort Divine ruled the world

[rms]

That is, they're not speaking "wrongly"--just differently.

answers that then

 

[CiG]

what Western culture has deemed the "proper" way to speak.

God damn western culture and its unreasonable demands of people not to speak like a buffoon.

 

[Einherjar86]

God damn western culture and its unreasonable demands of people not to speak like a buffoon.

But see, this comment presumes that "proper" speech doesn't sound buffoonish. But it does--all speech sounds buffoonish! It's just fucking sounds! But it just so happens that the evolution of Western speech has prescribed "proper" speech and distinguished it from "buffoonish" speech. Hence why those who speak like "buffoons" automatically identify themselves as outsiders.

The entire point I'm making is that there's no metaphysically "proper" way of speaking.

 

[CiG]

Yes I get it, I just don't really agree. As someone who grew up dirt poor with ingrained bad habits due to shitty parenting and had to unlearn many a thing and learn many a new thing in order to have a better chance at success in the workplace, it just grates on me when some white guilt riddled teacher wants to promote "cultural" habits which could have a negative impact on the future success of the students.

Reeks somewhat of a white saviour complex, also the added element of these same people to typically shit on poor white speech, hicks and the American south in general makes me very cynical about their intentions.

 

[Einherjar86]

Well, I suppose education always comes off a bit savior-esque. At any rate, I just see it as knowledge. If people want it, let 'em come and get it. If they don't want it, good luck to them.

 

[CiG]

Clickbait title aside, I thought it was rather ironic that the interviewer chose an incident wherein a essayist (Pankaj Mishra) reduced Peterson's personal relationship with a Native Canadian man to "romancing the noble savage" in an article to which Peterson responded by calling the author "a racist sonofabitch" and said if he were in the room when he said it "he'd slap him" as a GOTCHA moment to prove the claim that Peterson is brittle and unable to take criticism.

A literal moment of blatant anti-racism is his GOTCHA moment. At this point I'm wondering if Peterson is using all this money he makes to pay off left-wing interviewers and journalists to make him look good in extreme contrast to their own endless idiocy.



Also, "romancing the noble savage" = another fine instance of my new rule of thumb that the left have become so anti-racist that they're actually racist.

 

[Dak]

*Defends friend* = "Thin-skinned"

 

[rms]

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1027215712014688257

if you're following the Jeong thang, Klein really is a dirtbag

 

[Dak]

Klein's back and knees must be killing him these days.

 

[CiG]

He stinks.

 

[Einherjar86]

I think he smells nice.

 

[CiG]

You're an academic, you're probably very acclimatized to the scent of farts.

 

[CiG]

I know it's The Root but... lol:

‘Diversity of Thought’ Is Just a Euphemism for ‘White Supremacy’

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Hungary Bans Gender Studies From Universities

Bence Rétvári, Secretary of State of Hungary's Ministry of Human Resources, explained the decision by arguing that, while university degrees must have a scientific groundwork to justify them, gender studies are more rooted in ideology than in science, likening the field of study to Marxist-Leninism in that, in his view, it should not be taught at a university-level.

A Hungarian government spokesman expanded on this thinking when he told Breitbart News that degrees in gender studies are simply not useful to Hungarian employers.

“There is no economic rationale for studies such as these,” he said. A degree in the field does not “furnish students with skills that can be readily and directly converted on the labour market," he added.

The spokesman said that gender studies programs are not sustainable for state-run universities, arguing that they "take away valuable resources from other programs, deteriorating the economic stability of universities.”

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Orban is the greatest Western leader of this century so far.

 

[Dak]

Super low bar though, unfortunately.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Orban is doing a great job ensuring that Hungary remains a developing country.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Orban is doing a great job ensuring that Hungary remains a developing country.

How is it a developing country to begin with? It has a strong economy, and one that had held up better post-2008 than many Western and Southern European countries. Their economy is significantly tech-based, unlike say France which is increasingly trending towards low-skill agricultural work.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

How is it a developing country to begin with? It has a strong economy, and one that had held up better post-2008 than many Western and Southern European countries. Their economy is significantly tech-based, unlike say France which is increasingly trending towards low-skill agricultural work.

Just go there if you want to see their strong economy and compare it to living in places in Western Europe. It doesn't compare. I loved Budapest and think it's a gorgeous city, but if you want to talk about the economy and services, visit somewhere else. FWIW Hungary is considered a semi-developing country, and France has always been a bit odd economically while still holding up with the UK and Germany with services.

 

[CiG]

Yeah but what are Hungarian whores like? @arg