If Mort Divine ruled the world

[CiG]

Rise of the Planet of the Morts.

 

[arg]

 

[rms]

CIG if you're still a fan of this dude you must rethink it all

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Not to play amateur psychoanalyst but...

 

[CiG]

CIG if you're still a fan of this dude you must rethink it all

Actually, the fact that immediately after that interview, he himself admitted it was a terrible interview and he came across like a moron/dick makes me like him a little bit more.

Funnily enough, even though I liked that Joe Rogan checked his victim complex, he wasn't wrong about his prediction that articles would be written about him that totally distort what happened.

http://archive.fo/n85Nh#selection-511.1-511.23

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Count Dankula Legal Defence Fund

 

[Dak]

https://samzdat.com/2017/06/28/without-belief-in-a-god-but-never-without-belief-in-a-devil/

This dude is writing out, in great detail and with some research, precisely the impressions I've come to by mere observation and without serious research.

The impetus to join a movement appears among the poor and the wealthy, so it can’t be strictly economic (the abjectly poor aren’t actually frustrated: the chapter is instead about why they aren’t). It appears among the unemployed and the ambitious, so it can’t just be “a job”. It appears among the smart and the stupid, so it’s not simple intelligence. What these groups instead share is dissatisfaction with the self and an attempt to substitute their self for a larger group identity. Or, this:

"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race, or his holy cause."

Frustration in Hoffer’s lexicon, is never only frustration with “the system” or the status quo. It is always, always frustration with yourself. Even that frustration with the system is your own relation to it. This doesn’t mean it’s unjustified. It might be, like if the system stole your wife, but it might not be (examples abound). Its objective justification is fundamentally irrelevant. The individual always feels that it is.

 

[Einherjar86]

Another good Aeon piece:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-a-moratorium-on-microaggressions-policies-is-needed

Microaggression, like most and perhaps virtually all psychological constructs, such as intelligence, extraversion and schizophrenia, is what philosophers term an open concept, characterised by intrinsically fuzzy boundaries, an indeterminate list of indicators, and an unclear inner nature. Open concepts are not necessarily problematic. To the contrary, they often allow researchers to explore a poorly understood phenomenon in an open-ended way.

As scientific knowledge progresses and information accrues, the concept can become less ‘open’. For example, in the days of the 19th-century Austrian scientist Gregor Mendel and even much later, the gene was initially a ‘wide open’ concept, understood only as a hypothesised unit of transmission of heritable traits. With the discovery of the structure of DNA, the concept became considerably more closed. At the same time, there is the risk of an open concept being so imprecisely defined and porous in its boundaries that it is not at all apparent where it begins or ends. When this is the case, concepts become ripe for abuse by advocates with different, even opposing, political agendas.

In the case of the microaggression concept, it is dubious whether its definition is sufficiently clear or consensual to permit adequate scientific progress. For example, it is not evident which kinds of actions constitute a verbal, behavioural or environmental indignity, nor what severity of indignity is necessary for an action to constitute a microaggression.

All this vagueness and ambiguity can lead to outright contradictions in what is or is not a slight. For example, both ignoring and attending to minority students in classrooms have been deemed to be microaggressions by some authors: one researcher called out ‘teachers ignoring the raised hands of Asian-American students in classrooms’ as a microaggression. Another regarded complimenting the student with a remark such as ‘That was a most articulate, intelligent, and insightful analysis’ as a microaggression. In still other cases, they have regarded both praising and criticising minority individuals as microaggressions. In one striking example, researchers solicited reports of supervisor microaggressions from 10 African-American graduate students in clinical and counselling psychology programmes. The authors identified both withholding criticism from supervisees and providing them with tough criticism as microaggressions.

This is a good example of why humanities critics are wary of importing psychiatric, or ego psychological, knowledge into their scholarship. "Microaggression" is an example of a psychiatric term that is now being applied to sociological studies and symptoms, and it's inappropriate to the context. Those who claim to experience microaggressions may need some form of treatment or attention at the individual level, and this could yield some insight into potential systemic issues; but too often their complaints are targeted prematurely at the institutional level, which results in the kinds of contradictions that the author is describing.

Something I've learned from my dissertation advisor is that many people outside academia (and occasionally some within) too often see the kinds of arguments that emerge from humanities departments as prescriptive critiques of society at large. That is, they read books (or paintings, movies, music, buildings, etc.) and map those books onto the world in order to diagnose an ailment that needs correcting. My advisor has reminded me on more than one occasion that our work is descriptive, not prescriptive. We're not psychologists or philosophers, we're critics--and although critics can identify social ailments in cultural texts, it isn't our job to prescribe corrections to them.

To connect this back to the piece above, a novel can be seen as a microaggression when handled psychologically; but it isn't the critic's job to make the novel disappear (that shouldn't be anyone's job). The critic's job is to present the text in an expanded field (context, scale, etc.) so that we can better understand the reasons for our reactions, as varied as they might be.

If someone has a personal problem with a book, it's their job to talk with a specialist about it; not to have it removed from the syllabus.

 

[Dak]

If someone has a personal problem with a book, it's their job to talk with a specialist about it; not to have it removed from the syllabus.

Well I would 100% agree with this, but I'm obviously biased on the subject in at least two ways.

 

[Dak]

Black men are crushed by excuses. 100% agree. I am neighbors with two nice black men, one a former minister and the other blue collar labor. I have sat and drank beers on several occasions with the blue collar guy (helps we're both Cowboys fans and he has military in his family). Both of these men are/have been doing their best and doing ok. Where, at least the blue collar guy, sees short comings, it's black people slacking. Has he seen white people being shitty? Absolutely (almost entirely upper middle class white women btw, yay intersectionality). But they aren't "holding anyone back".

 

[Satanstoenail]

Nobody judges men who choose to be childless, only women.

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/no...-be-childless-only-women-20170627-gwzir0.html

This woman hasn't seen any men being judged. Case closed.

 

[Dak]

One man can father nearly infinite numbers of children, one woman can only birth one child every ~15 months healthfully. Welcome to fucking biological scientific limits.

 

[CiG]

Nobody judges men who choose to be childless, only women.

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/no...-be-childless-only-women-20170627-gwzir0.html

This woman hasn't seen any men being judged. Case closed.

Men's mental health isn't so heavily impacted by being childless compared with women, probably because you can be 102 years old as a man and still impregnate a woman, women dry up.

 

[rms]

https://twitter.com/AsyC89/status/880524414957125632

https://twitter.com/yungtallynt/status/880558531622993920


"white people never get mistakenly shot" & "let's make sure non-black victims get justice too"

all good here, just 2017

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's official, only white people aren't retarded enough to charge at police with unidentified objects in their hands.

 

[Dak]

I'm sure all the grievance mongering hasn't led "POC" with antisocial tendencies to get more belligerent in the presence of police. Posthumous twitter rage isn't going to stop that bullet, but it might make your family rich at the expense of the taxpayers. Families going to start 20 year retirement plans by raising Mike Browns instead of Michael Jordans.

 

[rms]

It's official, only white people aren't retarded enough to charge at police with unidentified objects in their hands.

some fucking moron when I was in boulder was shooting at cops with a bb gun while high on acid or shrooms and caught a few in the leg

 

[rms]

I'm sure all the grievance mongering hasn't led "POC" with antisocial tendencies to get more belligerent in the presence of police. Posthumous twitter rage isn't going to stop that bullet, but it might make your family rich at the expense of the taxpayers. Families going to start 20 year retirement plans by raising Mike Browns instead of Michael Jordans.

this would be an interesting angle. is the police going to jail better than the civil winnings? think i saw two families got paid out last week

 

[Dak]

this would be an interesting angle. is the police going to jail better than the civil winnings? think i saw two families got paid out last week

Can't win if you don't play!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

some fucking moron when I was in boulder was shooting at cops with a bb gun while high on acid or shrooms and caught a few in the leg

Oh I know there are plenty of retarded white people that get shot by cops too (the statistics show that people of a given race are shot by cops at roughly the same proportion at which they shoot at cops), the people commenting on those Twitter links seem to think otherwise though, half expressing that they need solidarity with Asians against white privilege, the other half wanting Asians to fuck off and stay far away from BLM, lol.