... ought to go into the Mixed Metaphor Hall of Fame.
Recently, I reply-quoted the WaPo on Twitter* with this.
So we're now at the toddler anti-racism indoctrination phase. How far is it from here to throwing virgins into volcanoes to fight "whiteness?"
— K T Cat (@ktcat) March 22, 2021
Meanwhile, the breakdown of the traditional family continues to bear its familiar fruits. https://t.co/1OT7IXLkh7 pic.twitter.com/TKkQQnq1pZ
Today, we found out that Ohio State is throwing more resources into the meat grinder of Modern Nazi Race Theory.
Ohio State University recently announced it plans to hire 50 faculty members focused on addressing social equity and racial disparities.
The news comes as an economics professor and higher education watchdog calculated that the public university currently employs 150 diversity officials at a cost of $12 million annually.
Just like Stalingrad, this is an unwinnable campaign. They're not addressing the root cause of racial disparities which is the family. They will have no more impact on the problem then an additional infantry brigade would have had in December, 1942**.
Most black kids don't grow up in traditional families, they aren't studying, they lack the stability and resources of children from married, two-parent households and all the other blah blah blah I love to repeat ad nauseum. 50 faculty members will do nothing to help the situation. It's just a wasteful publicity gimmick, like a morning counter-attack that recaptures some of the positions you lost yesterday so you can write a press release saying that you're pushing back the enemy.
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* - To my shock, the WaPo did not retract its story nor did it decided to quit publishing and enter a monastery. It's like I was an irrelevance. The effrontery of these people! Now I shall write a strongly-worded letter. That ought to bring results.
** - I realized later that the analogy doesn't work. A fresh brigade would have been thrown into the line, pointing in the right direction and shooting at the right targets. The end would have been the same, but at least they would have taken down a few more enemy troops. Ohio State's faculty are more like an infantry brigade that runs in frantic circles, well behind the lines, shooting into the sky.
"Most black kids don't grow up in traditional families, they aren't studying, they lack the stability and resources of children from married, two-parent households and all the other blah blah blah I love to repeat ad nauseum."
ReplyDeleteYes, you do state that with great regularity. Yes, this is a summation of the problem. I personally don't know anyone who doesn't agree that this is a reasonably accurate description of the problem. And then you stop, right there, at that point.
The question that you never get around to addressing is, how do you think this problem should be dealt with? Why don't their parents establish stable 2-parent households? And what do you propose to do about it, if anything?
tim eisele,
ReplyDeleteThe primary purpose of making such a point (generally) is to blame the people that are suffering for their own problems, so that those with the power to make changes feel no need to do so. Perhaps K T Cat feels he has a different purpose.
K T Cat,
On your graph of time spent doing homework, do you think that's because kids aren't doing the homework they are assigned, or that they are being assigned homework differently? Because without looking at the reason, the graph has no meaning.
Tim, to answer your question, it's a cultural issue. You can't have your top pop stars telling women to behave like whores. If the pop stars do that, you can't have your political leaders saying that it's what strong, black women do.
ReplyDeleteMy emotional trigger that gets me typing is to see how we hype race instead of families. It's trivially easy to find organizations fighting for "racial justice," but a wee bit more difficult to find them agitating for traditional marriage. Heck, even my Catholic diocese does it.
Meanwhile, family structure is a spread-spectrum jammer 30 dB above your signal while racism is atmospheric noise 30 dB under it. I never worked on an adaptive filter to remove interference that had no effect on communications, but that's what we're doing every day with ever-increasing vigor.
Next up will be Tarantism or maybe cutting ourselves in public. I seem to recall a scene from an old swords-and-sandals movie wherein the pagan priests, unable to rally their gods to help defeat the Jews in battle, began cutting themselves before their altars, screaming for Baal or Set or some such to come to their aid. That's where we are now.
That's actually a better analogy the more I think about it.
ReplyDeleteIn the movie, while the pagan army is being mown down outside the temple, the priests are shrieking and slashing themselves in front of their lifeless statues.
In real life, while black-on-black murders increase by 1500 or so, the SJWs are screaming about whiteness, banning books and movies, denouncing others for apostasies and hiring yet more priests to worship at the temple.
Hmm. I think I need to find that movie.
This post made me think immediately of Kendell Qualls.
ReplyDeleteKendell is a black man who ran for congress in the district adjacent to Minneapolis. He lost to the white man who had just one the previous election, and we never heard from again. Of course, it's hard to hear over Ihan Omar.
His message failed, even in the more affluent areas of Hennepin County, because it was a message of marriage and personal responsibility.
Last week on garage logic, there was a short segment on Kendell, he put out a statement that goes along the lines of KT's stances. But, sorry KT, he put it much more elequently. Unfortunately, I can't find it now. It may have happened about 36 minutes and 30 seconds into the episode, which ever episode it was.
Here's an article about his Take Charge Minnesota initiative.
https://www.ozy.com/news-and-politics/opinion-a-family-values-solution-for-minneapolis-racial-strife/423270/
Great find, MN!
ReplyDeleteNow I need to digest it all.
Boom.
ReplyDeleteYep. Radical stance. Personal responsibility.
ReplyDeleteMN - “Radical stance. Personal responsibility.”
ReplyDeleteNot “Radical”, “Racist”. I hope we all recall the Smithsonian telling us that ‘whiteness’ means “self-reliance”, “Independence & autonomy”. Now sure the’ve backed away due to the sh** storm that rightly followed it, but that doesn’t mean that the left doesn’t think it. This has become a society where it is always someone else’s fault.
I have mused lately, that the best Democrat President in my lifetime wouldn't be able to survive thru even 4 or 5 primaries for the left.
ReplyDeleteMostly Nothing,
ReplyDeleteI have mused lately, that the best Democrat President in my lifetime wouldn't be able to survive thru even 4 or 5 primaries for the left.
Probably true. Nor would Reagan have have survived the current Republican primaries.
K T Cat,
ReplyDeleteIt's trivially easy to find organizations fighting for "racial justice," but a wee bit more difficult to find them agitating for traditional marriage.
Unfortunately, too many of those advocating for "traditional marriage" are also anti-gay and anti-trans, making it harder for them to form families. They have even co-opted the term "family" in organizational names, so that when you hear about, e.g., the Illinois Family Institute, you already know they are anti-gay and anti-trans.
I agree the we need more marriages and more families with multiple adults.
"... ad nauseum ..."
ReplyDeletepsst: it's ""ad nauseam""