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Does Any of This Make Any Sense to Anybody?
From Wikipedia:
Brittney Cooper is an American author, professor, activist, and cultural critic. Her areas of research and work include black women organizations, black women intellectuals, and hip-hop feminism. In 2013 and 2014, she was named to the Root.com’s “Root 100,” an annual list of top Black influencers.” Dr. Cooper got her BA in English & Political Science from Howard University, her Master’s in Liberal Arts from Emory, and a PhD in American Studies from Emory. She is now a tenured professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers. She has also written several books, including “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.”
Dr. Cooper was recently asked in an interview what Black Americans can expect from White people. She responded:
Like, the thing I want to say to you is we got to take these mother[expletive]s out. But, like, we can’t say that, right? We can’t say, like, I don’t believe in a project of violence. I truly don’t, … But I do fundamentally believe that things that have a beginning have an ending. All things that begin end. White folks are not infinite and eternal, right? … They ain’t going to go on for infinity and infinity. And that’s super important to remember that white colonialism and imperialism has a beginning. And in my way of thinking about the world, that means it has an end … Whiteness is going to have an end date, because despite what White people think of themselves, they do not defy the laws of eternity … But Whiteness is largely an, you know, an inconvenient interruption.
I remind you that Dr. Cooper has a Ph.D. and is a tenured professor at an American University. She has a BA in English, and her English is a jumbled mess of bad words, worse grammar, and even worse organization of her thoughts. She is clearly promoting the extermination of a race of people. Imagine if a white professor was asked about Black people, and he suggested that “we got to take these mother[expletive]s out.” That white professor would be fired by the end of the day (as he should be, obviously), and would fear for his life. But Dr. Cooper is not worried about backlash: “I have tenure. Rutgers won’t be firing me for tweets.” And I’m sure she’s right.
Does this make any sense to anybody?
This is just one of many recent events that have struck me as not just disappointing, but absolutely surreal.
One of my closest friends just got fired from a great job because he wouldn’t get the COVID vaccine. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is considering paying illegal immigrants $450,000 per person, plus offering them citizenship, if they were separated from their family after they crossed our border illegally under the Trump administration. I’m not sure about those who were separated before or after President Trump. Anyway, my friend works in nuclear waste disposal, is very good at a very complicated job, and he will never bring in $450k in a year. Especially now that he just got fired. But, if he were to break certain immigration laws, he might get a check for $450k, plus other very nice benefits.
Does this make any sense to anybody?
Richard Levine was born in Massachusetts to a pair of Jewish attorneys, went to Hebrew School, then Harvard, then Tulane Medical School. He worked as a pediatrician at Penn State Medical Center for nearly 20 years. Near the end of his time at Penn State, Richard changed his name to Rachel and began to identify as a woman.
Two years later, his wife divorced him (women can be so difficult sometimes). A few years after that, the Democrat governor of Pennsylvania named him/her as Pennsylvania’s Physician General, and then the Pennsylvania Secretary of Health. It was in his/her later capacity that Levine required nursing homes to accept COVID patients, leading to the death of thousands of Pennsylvania citizens (Although Levine’s mother was kept safe by being moved out of her nursing home and into a hotel at this time.).
You would think that a state Secretary of Health who makes an inexplicably bad decision that leads to the deaths of thousands would soon be looking for other work. And you would be right.
President Biden promoted Dr. Levine to Assistant Secretary of Health for The United States. Dr. Levine is doing so well that he/she was recently promoted to four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. So the first four-star officer in America’s uniformed services who is a woman is actually a man, whose only discernible qualification for that position is that he doesn’t know who he is.
Does this make any sense to anybody? Anybody at all?
Are Biden voters thinking to themselves, “I’m sure glad that black professors can call for the extermination of all white people without having to worry about job security, and I’m glad that we’re firing law-abiding citizens while paying foreign criminals $450k each for doing nothing, and I’m glad that a government official who killed thousands of citizens through incompetence was promoted because he’s not sure which bathroom to use. This is swell! This is exactly what I voted for. FOUR MORE YEARS!!!“
Surely even Democrats are starting to think that things are getting a little weird, right? I mean, my goodness.
Most of my Democrat friends are not stupid and they’re not crazy. So all this stuff must be making them wonder, just a bit, right? This isn’t increasing food stamps or changing some tax policy. This stuff is just absolutely bizarre. It’s getting harder and harder to tell satire from reality. Does any of this make any sense to anybody? Even Democrat voters? Anybody at all?
Things keep getting stranger and stranger. Surely Democrat voters are starting to scratch their heads a bit, right?
Surely…
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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Hunter S. Thompson.
Well, maybe the Democratic voters might be scratching their heads, but I see that 92% of them approve of Biden’s job performance. That tells me that they’re a lost cause.
BTW, Dr. Cooper is simply another example of a higher education system that is utterly useless. It needs to be trashed with something else taking it’s place.
And she’s a tenured professor at Rutgers. My State University. I’m – in part – paying hard earned dollars for this schlock!!!
It makes no sense to me. But it must make sense to lots of my neighbors. Our Governor – Goldman Sachs gazillionairre Phil Murphy – is up for election and is ahead in the polls by double digits.
I believe that I managed to pick up on the rage. She’s probably holding the eloquence in reserve.
Yeah, I’ll bet that’s it.
Apparently not. Or the message is not getting back to the White House.
Just before reading your post I came across the White House’s new cartoon on the life of “Linda.” The life of Linda is remarkably similar to the Life of Julia of 2012 (government supplies everything because she apparently has no family (in particular no husband), no friends, no business or occupational associates, she belongs to no church or social or community groups, etc.). Didn’t anyone at the White House remember that Life of Julia was such a total PR failure that its creators have been working hard ever since to minimize the ability for people to find it on the internet? These guys can’t even do bad things with any degree of competence.
I see a lot of people (left and right, lighter and darker) using this term “whiteness”. I suspect many of them are using it wrong. They mean something like “prefers country music”, but they apply it to skin color globally, which is silly. I assure you that two kids in the same high school in Ohio or two adults working the same job in Arizona, despite having different skin colors, have much more in common than the “white” Americans have with some old Swede and the “black” Americans have with some person in Botswana. I guess it is natural to focus on differences and not see the vast similarities, but we Americans are mostly the same.
As for an end date, humans are mortal and every culture eventually dies or is subsumed into another culture. I am OK if American Culture gets subsumed into something better, but I see a lot of effort to replace it something worse…much worse. Until something better comes along, we should fight to keep what we have.
We are so, so far down the rabbit hole…
Sounds to me like Brittney Cooper is an odious hateful bigot as are her enablers. Convince me otherwise. Maybe its time for polite people to speak up.
I know a fair number of Democrat true believers. (Including some family.) These sorts of things just wash past their eyes, making no lasting impression, because they are so comfortable in their role as a “good person, unlike those deplorable conservatives”. And to change their filter would require them to admit they were wrong about Biden to the deplorables they personally know. Subconscious incentives prevent that, of course. (Conscious ones in some cases.)
Your “this” doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to fit into the controlling paradigm. And it does, sadly.
Obviously worthless . . .
Exactly my experience with Democrats too.
This article probably deserves a distinct post, but it adds to the cornucopia of surreal events. In this one, the American Geophysical Union, undergo a rigorous annual process to award an honor to the best among them. This year they declined to give anyone an award because the five finalists were all white males. from the article:
One of the five members of the panel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography glaciologist Helen Fricker, said the revelation that the nominees were all white men “was kind of a bit of a showstopper for me.”
Fricker admitted to the outlet in an interview that she was placed on the review panel because she had previously complained about a lack of diversity.
perhaps they could have just awarded it to St. George Floyd posthumously, because they might sense that had he lived..
She doesn’t look like she’s missed any meals on account of the oppression she suffers.
A very high % of the toxicity in our society originates in academia.
I”ve always thought it was strange that so many people make large donations to their ‘alma maters’…these are often very wealthy organizations that waste a lot of money, and spend a lot of the rest on questionable purposes. Given what we’ve learned in recent years, I’d assert that, with a few special-case exceptions, giving money to a university is just plain irresponsible.
She can also perhaps explain how that oppression prevented her from obtaining the tenured professorship at a major American university that she holds.
[On a serious note, odd that in “white supremacist” America obesity (i.e., being overfed) is one of the most significant health issues for the “poor and oppressed.” ]
There are many white institutions that should be taken down. Institutions like tenure, paid positions for professors, affirmative action, and academic freedom.
I might go on to mention abolition of slavery, equal rights for minorities, equal representation under the law, due process, trial by jury, religious tolerance.
And don’t forget science and engineering, virtually the entire body of Western technocracy.
Take out whites and all the institutions they founded. See how that goes.
But, in fact, I think we know how that goes: Zimbabwe, Rwanda, etc.
Sure it does. The only way for “women” to accomplish anything is for a man to do it. So says the Biden Administration and its acolytes.
Or in the House, MD episode, “The ideal woman is a man.”
Or maybe, with the exception of STEM, nothing else taking its place.
An English major not knowing English. Scratch that up to affirmative action, and that wouldn’t be so bad but medical schools do it too.
More tokenism where someone in the Biden administration said, “Where can we get one of those?”
But then they will have to “pay there fair share”, no?
Yeah, the emperor isn’t just naked, he’s also a bit mad. But most Democrats would rather play along than admit that.
If you were king of America, who would you give $500K to? This is sue-and-settle ad absudum and you have a blank checkbook to give out sacks of dollars. I can think of hundreds of millions of Americans.
On the plus side, if you want to think of it that way, in a relatively short time that $450k might not be worth very much.
When the editor changed my paragraph structure before promoting the post, the beginning of the article became incorrect – or at least very misleading.
The first block quote did not all come from Wikipedia. The beginning of it did – and I had that in quotes, and in italics to emphasize that I was quoting Wikipedia. The editor removed the quotes and the italics. I’m not sure why.
The rest of the paragraph is my writing. Now, in the block quote, it looks like it all came from Wikipedia, which is not true. I hope that no one thinks that I am wrongly attributing a quote to Wikipedia. I’m very careful about quoting sources correctly, and giving full credit to others.
I can’t change it back. So I guess I’ll leave it. With this caveat, as a form of self-protection.
Is it insurrection that she’s calling for, or genocide? Do you think she has any ties to the January 6 protestors?
It makes excellent sense. We’re all familiar with overindulged children. The more this kind of thing is encouraged and paid for, the more of it we’ll have.
Are you sure?
Heck, the genetic differences between any man and any woman are greater than between two men, one black and one white.
There are true believers, and they serve their purpose, but I firmly believe the real motive behind all this is not to promote radical ideology for ideological purposes (which is what the true believers believe they are doing). The purpose is to attack you. To attack your sensibilities and to demoralize you until you give up. If you have to sit there and nod while the party says black is white, then they control you. When you have to stand by helpless while your daughter is forced to use bathrooms with men, then they control you. The bathroom thing and CRT and all the rest is not about promoting equity or correcting an injustice, as the true believers think, but to demoralize the class of people who do not vote consistently for Democrats. That’s why it’s important for conservatives to stop engaging in ideological debate with these people. The ideology is just a smokescreen to hide what’s really happening.
The way she couched her words, I would think she means an anonymous dagger in the back to unsuspecting pedestrians.
@bethanymandel?