A “teachable moment”

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Aug 242022
 

As many have noted, there is a much greater demand for racism in the US than actual supply, so a lot of people simply invent it. This was the case recently where some kids from a little league team near where I currently live went to watch a game in the Little League World Series and caused a bit of a stir. What happened: one of the players on the Hawaiian Little League team, one Jarron Lancaster, has a blond-dyed mohawk haircut. Apparently the kid is good, so some of the players on the Davenport, Iowa, team wanted to emulate him. Being kids, that meant “look like Jarron,” which meant emulating his unique hairstyle. How did they do that? They yoinked the white stuffing out of some cheap stuffed toys and put it on some of their teammates heads in a *vaguely* mohawk-like pattern. They did this, again, to several kids. But what the national broadcast camera caught was them applying stuffing to a black kids head… which image was *promptly* leaped upon by race hustlers desperate for racism, because cotton + black kid = racism.

 

The kids on the Davenport team were promptly vilified by some of the worst, dumbest people online, the kind who are easily led and resistant to facts and explanations. Were the kids racist? Doesn’t seem so. The stuffing-mohawks were applied to white and black kids, in clear appreciation of a kid who appears to be native Hawaiian. This *should* be a vaguely heart-warming moment of cross-ethnicity good sportsmanship. But these kids just got a quick lesson in the realities of woke outrage culture. That might be rough for them now, but if they are smart, it will be a lesson they will learn and take to heart, knowing to never give the woke an inch, and to never, ever trust them.

The supposedly racist incident at the Little League World Series and the surprising truth

CBS Sports Anchor Lies About Little League Players, Calls Them Racists

Ugh.

 Posted by at 6:58 pm

Here’s all you need to know about the student loan thing…

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Aug 242022
 

So… people who didn’t go into debt getting unaffordable degrees in subjects they knew wouldn’t have a good rate of return will get bailed out by poor people who couldn’t afford college in the first place. Got it. This will incentivize not only academically useless students to take academically useless courses pursuing economically ridiculous degrees, it will incentivize colleges and universities to jack up their rates, because now Uncle Sam will be thoughtlessly paying the schools *even* *more.* This will make a higher education even more expensive to pursue, and more out of reach for those who aren’t rich.

The Dems hate you. They hate us all.

 Posted by at 2:51 pm

This video has it all

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Aug 232022
 

A video that starts with something VP Harris said back in January, something that every American politician *should* not only say, but believe and work to protect:

“Each country has it’s own identity, it’s own culture, it’s own history, and that should be respected…”

Yup. And “every country” includes *this* country.

But bypassing that for the moment, she then goes on to… well, is “lie” too strong a word?

 

 Posted by at 1:54 pm

Nope. Not AT ALL creepifyin’

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Aug 232022
 

What does a black hole sound like? I suspect Lovecraft would have recognized it…

 

 

 Posted by at 12:46 am

Yeah… I’m not seeing peace talks being especially productive

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Aug 212022
 

In a now-deleted tweet, Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov kinda lets the cat out of the bag regarding the Kremlins intentions towards the civilian population of Ukraine. In later tweets he claims he’s being taken out of context…. but the dude’s a PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMAT.

When a political actor who wants to hurt you SAYS they want to hurt you…. believe them when they blurt stuff out before they have a chance to really think over their wording.

 Posted by at 12:36 pm

Well, here it is: the end of math

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Aug 212022
 

Do you want to see the *dumbest* approach to math you’ll see today? If so, behold this presentation from the University of Michigan:

http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~glarose/dept/teaching/resources/RehumanizingMathematicsSlides.pdf

If that link doesn’t work, the Wayback Machine can hook you up:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210124223803/http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~glarose/dept/teaching/resources/RehumanizingMathematicsSlides.pdf

This presentation is on the topic of “Rehumanizing Mathematics” by one Rochelle Gutiérrez. Right from the get-go you can tell it’s stupid… if there’s one thing mathematics is *not* it’s “humanized.” Math doesn’t care about your feelings. Nor your politics, religion, ethnicity, family history, gender or any other kind of identity. 1+1=2 no matter your beliefs on the matter. 1+1=2 even if you are *dead,* or you are a parrot, or a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or a godlike entity from beyond the Antares maelstrom. And yet…

1. How we think/talk about our work matters
• Diversity (attention to difference, also used when no difference, often ignores history, no attention to positionality)
• Equity (often highlights universal approaches, closing achievement gaps, leaky STEM pipelines)
• Inclusion (tolerate, allow, participate on own terms, focus on individuals, understand exclusion)
• Centering historically oppressed (place at the core, dedicate resources and energy there, requires political clarity)

Ummm… no.

If you ever wonder why our infrastructure is falling apart and we can’t seem to do Great Things anymore… well, here ya go.

If you *really* want to burn off some excess brain cells and don’t have the funds for a few gallons of white lightning, watching this video will probably help. It’s about an hour of the person responsible for the above presentation. I can’t *really* say what all’s in it, as I only got a few seconds in before my Brain Worms alarm went off: “I just want to start by acknowledging that as a white settler nation we are standing on stolen grounds…” Blah, blah, virtue signal blah. What do you want to bet she happily collects those white settler dollars?

Also: anyone else get a distinct AOC vibe from her voice? Yeah, that’s not a compliment.

And here’s an idea. if you believe that this is a “white settler nation” *and* that that’s a bad thing…

 Posted by at 11:21 am

Time to close

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Aug 202022
 

You want food deserts? because this is how you get food deserts. Every store in a ten block radius that sells food or medical supplies should shut down until 90% of the people on camera here are arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to a term of at least several years… or are “otherwise dealt with.” It’s up to the community to police themselves now that the police have been defunded and the prosecutors are “progressive.”

If you act like you’re in the third world… you’ll end up getting treated like you’re in the third world.

 

 

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