That sounds pretty tasty too. I can’t remember eating potatoes elsewhere in Mexico, but I believe they’re traditional in yucateca food. At least the stuff they stole from the Polish.
Read Gustavo Arellano’s book if you get the chance. Fascinating read - funny, insightful, with a ton of research and history. And since I’ve eaten at the Mexican café that started the whole Taco Bell thing, it resonates with me.
It seems like the mainstream is waking up to the damage SJWs are doing to public discourse:
Fareed Zakaria: Liberals aren’t as tolerant as they think
Question for debate: When did Fareed Zakaria become an alt-right stooge?
I agree to the extent that shutting down the right to speech one disagrees with is bad for everyone. Neither side should engage in that sort of censorship. Particularly when it’s censored by violent means.
But I also think that those who support alt-right speech intentionally ignore the most important aspect, which is the actual content. Just because all have the right to speak, doesn’t mean that all ideas are of equal value or fact. An apt analogy is this: Often, “it’s not that the wind is blowing, it’s what the wind is blowing.”
Here’s a new one.
Holy shit! That’s just insane. That e-mail is totally reasonable and there’s nothing racist about it whatsoever. I learned quite some time ago that it’s silly to ever overestimate an SJW, but this bullshit is so ridiculous I can’t believe there isn’t more to it.
Anyone want to try making the case for the students, here? I’m not being sarcastic. I just want to see if they have a case.
Those fools are going to be so dismayed when their worthless degrees don’t even come close to earning them a “living wage.” They probably aren’t even going to be worth minimum wage.
Unsurprisingly, something similar happened at - where else? UC-Berkley, over half a year ago, where some students formed a barrier cordon to block the path of white people.
Do you know that business model? the one that goes “Create a problem, sell the solution”?
It’s already happening and we are bound to see more of that in the future.
Universities have been hotbeds of stupidity and unrest for over 1,000 years.
The only case for the students (other than the tall one next to the teacher) is that an oppressed group made a demand, therefore you must comply, you get no say in the matter, you’re opinion not only carries no weight but your not even allowed to discuss the matter (unless you’re also a SJW, apparently) and anything you do that breaks these rules gets means you’re a racist, a literal fucking nazi and a whole bunch of other -ist words that probably show up on the front page of every day feminism . com along with a bunch of condescending comics.
I’m only half way through the video, but I really don’t understand how anyone doesn’t understand why this doesn’t make sense. It’s no different than if the week after the ‘day without immigrants’ all those people said 'okay, next Tuesday you guys have to stay home. Would it be racist if all the non-immigrans said ‘nah, I’m okay, I’ll just work today’.
I think we have a few more years of this and it’s going to go away. Either they’ll go away on their own or there’s going to be some kind of backlash. Some good may come of it, but when you’re spread that thin and being such assholes about such odd things, not a lot can come of it.
Who knows, but eventually, something’s gotta give.
No. I’m liberal, spent more than a few years in very progressive academic settings, and Jesus, I’m so tired of this shit. I recognize the problem of institutional oppression and would very much like to dismantle it, but These Are Not My People. It’s gotten out of the control to the point that they won’t even listen to other leftists. I had a male feminist friend of mine practically have a nervous breakdown when I disagreed with another female friend of his about a feminist issue, despite the fact we’d both had similar traumatic experiences. His knee-jerk need to defer to all women couldn’t handle the cognitive dissonance of two women thinking two different things. Plus the other woman shouted me down because my argument offended her. (My controversial argument was: ‘‘It’s irrational to hate and fear all men.’’) You haven’t lived until a man tries to explain to you why you should hate men.
I left countless former friends and colleagues behind when I left Facebook because I don’t want to be associated with this nonsense. It disgusts me and offends (yes, offends!!!) my inclination toward learning new things and thinking critically about those things.
Today my husband and I met with a good buddy of mine, a socially conservative Presbyterian minister. (We are liberal atheists.) We talked for seven hours. We discussed, among other things: Donald Trump, cultural appropriation, abortion, the tenets of Catholicism, the history of Protestantism, rape laws as expressed in the book of Leviticus, and the film Prometheus. We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. I feel so goddamn sorry for these backward kids who will never have an experience like that, just sitting down and talking to someone who views the world in a totally different way. What deprived lives they have. The poor little dears are so underprivileged.
I watched a “conversation” play out a few months ago on FB between a SJW and a um not-SJW. SJW posts a screed about a minority character on a TV show being cast by a white actor. Other person says that it’s part of a small running gag. A little bit of back and forth and SJW goes to the default of “I told you to stop talking about this”/“you’re not part of the oppressed group therefore you have no say in the matter” or something like that. Naturally the other person said ‘uh, neither are you’. SJW mentions that everything they’ve said are quotes from minorities about the show explaining why it’s wrong to which the other person said 'oh, well if that’s all you need, here’s an article from someone of that culture saying they love the show and have no issue with the show or it’s casting", SJW’s head explodes (probably not).
I’ve thought about unfriending (or hiding) some of them, but I figure I do learn about some of the super duper uber left thing that might not have otherwise been on my radar. I just have to remember to stop paying attention when they get out of hand and sometimes it’s amusing to watch them have nervous breakdowns over things that make no sense at all. But with that, I don’t hide my super duper uber right/religous right friends for exactly the same reasons. I learn about some right issues that I never would have known about. In fact, I really started realizing how crazy some of these SJWs were because of my ultra conservative friends complaining about them.
Totally agree here. When it comes up, I’ve always said that religion should be taught in public school, but I tend to get shut down before I can even finish the sentence. I’m not saying preached, I’m not saying the kids need to believe it, we’re not talking about a Pledge of Allegiance debate etc. But I think a kid should be able to go to K-12 public school and come out the other side with some concept of what religion is. It’s a pretty main stream thing, it’s a topic of conversation and kids shouldn’t go to college without knowing at least some bullet points.
However, that’s a whole discussion in and of itself, and I really haven’t given it that much thought. Like I said, it gets shut down pretty quickly.
I went to a very religious elementary school and consider myself extremely lucky that my science teach snuck in a very small lesson on evolution. It absolutely was not allowed, it wasn’t on a test, in fact she couldn’t even teach it as if it was true, I remember she started with ‘some people believe*’ , but she wanted to make sure we knew it.
*FTR, I’m sure she’s religious, but I’m also quite sure she believes in evolution. This was an administration thing.
One of the other people I escaped from is a woman I went to college with, and is now an attorney. My favorite outrage du’jour from her was that she found the racism toward the Kajiit (cat people) in Skyrim to be very upsetting. My friend is generally assumed to be white by most people, but identifies as a person of color due to some Native American heritage (no idea exactly what/how much.)
I said, ‘‘I think sometimes showing social issues at play in made-up fantasy worlds add a bit of realism and perhaps help us think about it in a more abstract way’’ (or something.)
She said, ‘‘You don’t get it, you’re white.’’
I wanted to say, ‘‘AND YOU’RE NOT A CAT PERSON. HOW DARE YOU SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF?’’
Funnily enough, my husband had a very comprehensive comparative religion course in his private Catholic high school – I got nothing at my public school. I think the problem with teaching comparative religion in public school would be the obvious biases certain teachers would put into it. But maybe it could be done in a historical context, like teaching about certain historical periods in world history and their dominant religions, that way the different faiths could be understood in context without necessarily privileging one over the other? I’ve never given it much thought either.
It’s a conundrum. Who knows what the solution is?
I’m a liberal, too–but a classic liberal, the kind that believes the answer to bad speech is more speech, not supression, and that Ideas Want To Be Free. The modern “liberals” you see labeled as SJWs do very much remind me of the activists from the Chinese Cultural Revolution or Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge.
Now I’m thinking of Britta in the Dungeons and Dragons episode of Community. (Well, the first Dungeons and Dragons episode of Community.)
That’s the problem I thought out while typing. How do you teach about religion without teaching religion. If a week long lesson could be shoehorned into another class, even that would be helpful.
But my issue with kids not knowing anything about religion is that even if you’re atheist (and I am) is that if you go so far in that direction that you won’t even allow your kids to hear about it, you’re depriving them of two or four or seven or whatever thousand years of history and culture and war and a lot of really interesting things that brought us to where we are right now today. As well as what I said earlier, they should be able to graduate high school and hold their own in a conversation about church or mosque or temple or whatever without having to say 'wait, which one is church? That’s Christian right?"
I think the problem is that too many people – of all political stripes – prefer to live in their own little bubble and view any persons or the ideas they have outside that bubble are dangerous or worse. It’s the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and humming loudly.
This is nothing new. I remember more than forty years ago how literature that did not toe the liberal mark at UC Santa Cruz would be taken off of the tables at the student union and thrown away, not by the administration but by self-appointed guardians of the one truth allowable. It’s the worst aspect of tribalism and one that has grown worse in the decades since then.
Wait, college students are murdering people by the millions?
<locks office door>