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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…
Published in General
Has it been corrected already?
I don’t anymore. Maybe the U can ask all those Aggrieved Group Studies graduates that they are churning out and organize a bake sale.
A few years ago, this kind of garbage kept appearing more and more in my college’s alumni magazine. After a year or so, I told them to take me off the mailing list, and when they call me for donations I tell them in no uncertain terms why I stopped giving to the school.
Are they capable of baking anything? From their behavior you’d think that only homophobic bigots bake cakes.
It would be interesting to see the editor’s explanation of why the changes were made, would it not? Are we headed in the direction of Facebook and Twitter?
I’m not sure that voting to maintain power is in the equation anymore. I think it’s to cause dissention and strife. For what reason, I have no solid thoughts.
Cooper’s superpower? She can just sit on her opponents.
The endgame for “black feminists” is a reversal of fortunes, so that black people can enslave the white population, and women can enslave men. I doubt that the situation would work very well, but what they say they want is impossible.
Yes. I was going to observe that hateful bigotry comes in all shapes and … sizes.
Then I thought that might be unkind.
Then I thought: she’s advocating killing my children.
Stupid broad.
Oh come on, you must know of a better b-word.
I’ll leave that to the hip-hop in which this gal is such an authority.
Jon Gruden comes to mind.
I’m not sure if this has been corrected in the OP yet, but apparently, little fingers have been at work, because the article on Wikipedia now (8:20pm Eastern Time, 10/29) begins as follows:
I expect those changes to be “reverted” at any moment.
No republican ever has a photo with a halo.
No. Leftism is a religious faith. It needs not to make any sense.
I noticed that right away too. I looked at it to try figure out where the editing went wrong, and I saw the word “racist” had been added during the time that has elapsed since Dr. Bastiat first quoted the passage. Interesting, isn’t it? I can’t help wondering if there is something weird going on here. Might it be a compliment in the black community when it is used to describe a black person advocating for black people? Some sort of illogical language appropriation or something?
Why would someone add the word “racist,” however accurate it might be, to her Wikipedia biography? Is it, “I’m a racist and I’m proud of it!” Or something. Very strange.
When I was overseas, one of our staff sergeants had a hobby to make fake wikipedia pages. They needed to have sources, so he would make nested pages that referred to other pages and those to other pages to promote foolishness, and sometimes he would name a source that said nothing about his topic and the wiki editors didn’t check. I think he talked about ancient people inventing airplanes and internal combustion engines, for example. You have to be very careful about what you rely on there.
I’m looking at that picture of that evil scowling woman on the top of this post and I wonder what industrial rated contraption helps her get dressed.
Is there a path to an A in her classes for a straight white guy?
she reminds me of the woman who was giving corporate CRT training, that was meme’d into pepe the frog, because she was wearing a green body suit tent.
I think it’s open source – anybody can be involved in editing wiki.
What Comment were you replying to?
I’m sure it’s something along the lines of a haybaler or sausage stuffer but it’s been awhile since I left the farm…
Wikipedia will not allow the noting of Brittney Cooper as a racist American militant black nationalist to remain on their webpage. Their editorial staff will erase that remark faster than a person can say white on rice.
If Big Tech was into allowing free speech and especially into allowing free speech that promoted the truth, then the designation of Brittney would remain. but I have not witnessed anything but controlling the narrative as coming from Big Tech.
More likely some wag on our side. It has disappeared since, of course.
Her equally-hateful lesbian lover?
Dr’s comment about the editing to his post.
When I was a kid, when we were discussing something and wanted to know the facts, we went, as Dad taught us, to the bookshelf in the family room, got a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica, dragged it back to the big kitchen table where all great issues were discussed, opened it up, and read it.
It was a truth so obvious that we never even thought about it: that what it said at that moment was precisely what it said the day before, would say tomorrow, and had said and would say at every point in history.
In retrospect, I recognize this fact as a consequence of class power. (Just like the critical theory people say!) No one outside of our family had the POWER to change what our printed copy of the Encyclopedia Britannic said.
No one can afford the luxury of having that power today.
We do have a computer that can bring up a Wikipedia article on Brittney Cooper, to learn about the problem that Dr. Bastiat reports. But we have no power over what it says. We don’t know if it said the same thing yesterday, or whether it will say the same thing tomorrow.
I just now discovered something even more disturbing: We don’t even know what it says right now.
I did a search on “Brittney Cooper”. One of the hits said that the Wikipedia article started, “Brittney Cooper is a racist American militant black nationalist author, professor,…”
But when I clicked on the link and read the first line, suddenly it read, “Brittney Cooper is a tenured professor of Women and Gender Studies, author,…”
For people of my age, the world seems to have gone mad.
Even the folks I know on the left who disapprove of most of the “woke” agenda are still singing Biden’s praises and bending over backward to support and defend Biden. Clearly I cannot choose the cup in front of them…
Same t’ing!