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“Which writers really deserve to be called ‘outsiders’?”

Philip Hensher writes:

In current studies, many writers with a good claim to exist outside privilege are totally neglected. Everyone ought to know the difficulties that a working-class writer, or any writer without independent means, will have in getting started. There are very few institutions devoted to the study of working-class culture, apart from an excellent library in Manchester. Studies of it are rare. Jonathan Rose’s superb The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001) is still the best. (…)

When the anthology came out, I was criticised by a well-known editor for not managing to find an equal number of male and female writers. (In an anthology stretching back to 1700, it could not have been done without compromising the quality.) The editor who complained, amusingly, had ancestors who were ennobled in the 16th century. (…)

There are some points of interest in the book, especially concerning Olive Schreiner, describing the form of her anti-imperialism. But Gordon would have done better to have written about true outsiders, such as the 18th-century poet Mary Leapor; Charlotte Mew; Amy Levy; or the novelist Margaret Oliphant, rather sneered at in ‘Three Guineas’, who really did have to struggle to be heard. Dorothy Edwards is also a good subject: she committed suicide when Woolf’s Bloomsbury friends decided she was too common to go on sponsoring.

 

Rose Parks has a lot to answer for

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writes:

As the evidence piled up, I recommended to G&Z that they pay us to test cutting their advertising budgets. They could start perpetual tests with us to see if reducing ad spending hurt their products’ sales. If it hadn’t after two years, they could cut their commercials nationally. If in later years our forerunner tests picked up a long-term downturn, they could boost advertising nationally back to the original levels before any harm was done.

For $5 million in testing, they might be able to save $50 million (or even $500 million) in advertising. (G&Z currently spends about $7 billion per year on advertising in total.)

This logic seemed unassailable to me. But my contacts at G&Z explained that no brand manager had ever gotten promoted by cutting his ad budget. G&Z believed in advertising. To consider reducing commercials was heresy.

 

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As I write, Geraldo is on Fox demanding to know why this bike path wasn’t blocked off with concrete barriers.

Why? Why does every public place have to get uglified up just because Geraldo doesn’t want to address the insanity of western immigration policies that day by day advance the interests of an ideology explicitly hostile to our civilization? (…)

And now eight people are dead and dozens more injured – at the hands of a guy who came here in 2010 because he won a Green Card in the so-called “diversity lottery”. Why was that stupid program not suspended on September 12th 2001?

Because even 3,000 dead cannot be allowed to question the virtues of “diversity”.

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is a typical story:

This savagery seemed to slip into her home life. Carter resented being saddled with the domestic work in her marriage. “It never ends, the buggering about with dirty dishes, coal pails, ash bins, shitbins, hot water, detergent,” she complained. She was an indifferent housekeeper (at one point, the dust in the kitchen was so thick guests could write their names in it), but she taught herself to cook and made ratatouille and coq au vin for the endless stream of folk musicians who passed through the house—doing “the earth mother bit,” as she later called it. But this wasn’t enough for Paul, who became quietly furious when she didn’t do the dishes and who tried to discourage her literary ambitions. (After Shadow Dance was published, he didn’t talk to her for three weeks.)

First and Second Wave feminism was fuelled by the shoddy treatment of leftist women by leftist men:

“Thank God you showed up. Go type up my manifesto and make some coffee.”

Stokely Carmichael ‘s famous “The position of women in SNCC is prone” is just the most memorable evidence collected in Susan Brownmiller’s notorious document.

Another memoir.

Here’s “Justifying Sexism in Students for a Democratic Society.”

You can just google “how women were treated in the New Left.”

More recent:

Dinah, who was born in the early ‘90s, isn’t the first young woman I’ve known to be raped, abused, or harassed by a male compatriot in an ostensibly progressive organization. What all groups that have tolerated this kind of behavior have in common is an ideological conviction that women’s liberation needs to take a back seat to something “more important.” It doesn’t matter whether that “more important” thing is fighting for farm workers, or stopping the war in Afghanistan, or liberating lab animals. In each instance, young women activists are warned that reporting sexually abusive behavior by a male fellow activist jeopardizes the movement and does irreparable harm to the cause — a cause, that the young victimized woman is always reminded, is so much bigger than her.

 

 

 

 

Gavin McInnes: The War On Women Is Real

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Is there anything the cynical, snarky, brainwashing Left HASN’T been wrong about?

Consider the infamous Duck and Cover cartoon (1951), cautioning school kids how to survive a nuclear attack. The advice given is today’s black-comedy punchline: when you see the blast, get down and put your hands over your head. Go ahead and giggle–but guess what? It works. Most of the damage caused by a nuclear bomb comes from the shockwave–which travels at a lower speed from the light of the blast. So, if you happen to see the blinding flash of an atomic blast and aren’t immediately incinerated, then drop to the floor and cover your head to avoid the shockwave. After the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Japanese authorities realized this and taught the “duck and cover” method to its policemen. A few days later, the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki–whose police force now knew what to do. The death toll among Nagasaki police was vastly lower than in unprepared Hiroshima, and the improved survival rate of first-responders meant that city was able to survive and recover from the attack far better.

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Jonathan Kay: “It was only after I left my last job, where I was the only Jew in an office of several dozen (white) gentiles…”

Jonathan Kay writes:

…that I realised how much my religious background had contributed to the ideological gulf between me and my colleagues. This came out most clearly in editorial discussions about Canada’s Indigenous peoples. At these times, my colleagues sometimes would make sweeping remarks about all the horrors “we” had inflicted on First Nations, and the guilt “we” bore for the crimes of “our” ancestors. In these moments, I would politely remind everyone that my Russian father came to Canada (via China) as a 10-year-old, after his dispossessed family had been forced to flee not one but two communist revolutions. On my mother’s side, my Yiddish-speaking grandfather helped his own father peddle rags on the streets of Toronto’s Jewish ghetto — an occupation that left him scant time to build residential schools, or otherwise oppress Canada’s First Nations. And while I am a social liberal at heart, who accepts that all white Canadians, Jews included, should take stock of the racial privilege they enjoy in their daily interactions, I don’t appreciate being indicted for the historical crimes of British and French imperialists who looked down on Jews and Indigenous peoples in roughly equal measure.

Oh, soooooo close, there, Johnny!

Do read the whole thing, but allow me to add:

I am a white gentile. And the phenomenon he is describing is a matter, not of race, but of…

Class.

Class.

Class.

I didn’t go to university.

Every white gentile I know who didn’t go to university feels the same way about these lectures about “our” collective guilt.

Never have the words “What you mean ‘we,’ Kimosabe?” been more apropos.

Yet I suspect Kay looks down on us, don’t you?

Even though we have more in common than he would care to admit?

 

Mark Steyn has ‘fun’ with Jonathan Kay (who is turning into Canada’s Bill Kristol)

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Jim Goad: Scream, losers, scream!

From our bulging “If Trump is Hitler, why aren’t you a lampshade” files, Jim Goad writes:

On both November 4 and 8, I will be watching with intense joy as the sorest losers in world history take it to the streets yet again. I will feast on their unhappiness as if it was a bowl of gumdrops. I will take tremendous pleasure—borderline sensual—at the fact that a year later, they still have no idea why they lost, which gives me hope that they will continue to wail, gnash their teeth, and lose even more.

As Kate McMillan would say: I amuse myself

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F. H. Buckley writes:

The interesting question is not whether the pain is real. Rather, the question is why we’re seeing more of it today than in the past. And the answer is because we’ve incentivized pain. We’ve let people know that pain, even idiotic, senseless pain, can be weaponized and employed against hated opponents, whether college teachers or local conservatives. And when you incentivize something, you get more of it.

The pain is real. But it is also strategic. What comes first is the desire to justify one’s hatred, for which the pain operates as a permission slip. It makes the protestor think his hatred noble, and lets him hug himself in self-delight for reveling in the most evil of emotions.

I don’t doubt that some of these individuals have legitimate grievances, particularly black students, among whom childhood sexual abuse is an unspoken epidemic, a kind of black on black violence that gets even less attention than the other variety.

These grievances are personal and familial but — I speak from personal experience — it is so much easier, safer and more instantly satisfying to rail against The Man than the man.

Look at the Hollywood leftists who railed against Trump instead of Weinstein — in some cases, such as Ashley Judd — literally projecting their legitimate personal rage and resentment at a safer target…

Of course, there are just as many students who are being fashionably ignorant, who just “like to watch the world burn,” who are little Robespierres. But part of me pities the ones who are clearly (to me, not themselves) engaged in a kind of group EST therapy, that will be even less efficacious than the original. And of course, the rest of us have to watch it and in some cases, like Charles Murray et al. suffer for it.

The ‘Mexicans getting away with stuff’ saga continues

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Theodore Dalrymple: Che Guevara and patent medicine

Theodore Dalrymple writes:

As Napoleon once said, repetition is the only rhetorical technique that really works—besides which hope and fear render people susceptible to effrontery. In Thomas Holloway’s time, the fear of illness was often, and the hope of cure rarely, justified; at least Holloway’s preparations were unlikely to do much harm (they contained aloe, myrrh, and saffron), unlike the prescriptions of the orthodox doctors of the time. They allowed for the possibility of natural recovery, whereas orthodox medicine often hurried its consumers into their graves. Nevertheless, the claims Holloway made for his ointment and pills were preposterous, and something is not curative just because it fails to kill.

Wait, what?! Mainstream liberal TV comedy denounces… Che Guevara?

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“How did a sculptor with neo-Confederate leanings find a home in a leading liberal salon?”

More implicitly than explicitly, then, Snyder shows how the upper echelons of American liberalism have long been able to accommodate and even celebrate nationalists who pal around with white supremacists. As The House of Truth proceeds and its dinner parties mount, it becomes clearer and clearer that Borglum thrived in an environment that rewarded brash male sociability and defiant pronouncements about the political scene. “He had the eloquence and the attractiveness of not qualifying his speech,” reminisced Frankfurter, “none of the whereases, aforesaids, and howevers—no buts in his speech. It was all clear, black and white, passionate, uncompromising.” Borglum could raise eyebrows, and Frankfurter spoke of “his—what shall I say—exciting imagination.” But he occasioned little opposition at the House of Truth. The liberals knew he was a bit of a fraud, but few in Washington were innocent of self-promotion, and, in the end, they thought he was fun. They liked Borglum, liked to gossip about him, and liked to advance his career.

“The ongoing flight from white helps those blacks who are almost but not quite white, such as (…) Susan Rice”

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