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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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She’s a woman of great
gravitasgravity.Good question. I guess we will find out in Virginia next Tuesday.
What’s a “western technocracy”? Is that where Fauci controls our economy and takes our freedoms?
Were she a woman with a beautiful body and the same ideas, she would still seem an odious hateful bigot to me. Were she to be a loving and thoughtful person and weigh twice as much, to me she would be beautiful.
Ricochet seems at times to be one community of belief, and at others to be two irreconcilable factions. Right now, the latter.
You weren’t using them anyway…
Maybe they’ll have to “stop counting” in the middle of the night again.
There are plenty of those, too.
I did my part in the wiki war and added a link to her quote about eliminating white people. It won’t last, I’m sure, but it feels good to try.
The “tenured professor” got her Masters in 2007 and her Ph.D. in 2009. Then she was an assistant professor at Alabama for three years and is already a tenured professor after less than ten years at Rutgers? Sounds exceptional. Or maybe Rutgers is just really eager to fill their empty academic chairs with Professors of Hip Hop Feminism. Her Twitter bio says “Associate Prof.” Three books published!
Anyway, I forced myself to watch her
TED talkTEDWomen talk (‘cause ‘female privilege’?) on The racial politics of time. Some quotes here:“If time had a race, it would be white. White people own time.” Although she opens with “I personally, am a stickler for (being on) time.”
There’s a great deal of “race” talk, but without any scientific terms. It’s all about “whites” and “blacks” or “African-Americans” so it’s really about culture, not ethnicity.
She criticizes Hegel’s infamous comment (early 1800s):
“When white male European philosophers first thought to conceptualize time and history, one famously declared, ‘Africa is no historical part of the World.’ He was saying that Africans were people outside of history who had had no impact on time or the march of progress. … one of the foundational ideas of white supremacy.”
Well, I don’t have a Ph.D. but I know some white male Europeans were conceptualizing time and history a couple of thousand years before Hegel. What were black male African philosophers thinking and writing back then about the conceptualization of time and space? That would be really interesting to know!
“Those in power dictate the pace of the workday. They dictate how much money our time is actually worth.”
Wait. No black-owned businesses do this? Anyway, workers are not generally being paid for their time, but for some sort of productivity.
“By 1965, the year the Voting Rights Act was passed there had been a full 100 years between the end of the Civil War and the conferral of voting rights on African American communities.”
Surely old Uncle Sam should get some credit for the 15th Amendment which was Constitutional law just five years after the Civil War.
“Time discrimination … We black people have always been out of time. Time does not belong to us. Our lives are lives of perpetual urgency. Time is used to displace us…”
And so on. Her presentation was fine (or else no TED talk with 1,000,000 hits!) but no new knowledge or useful way of thinking has been uncovered here, i.e. no impact on Hegel’s “march of progress.” Racialist thinking is so useless and boring!
This is the current wikipedia entry (bold mine).
You beat me quoting this by seconds, Flicker. :}
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This is a tenured professor – Higher education is a joke
From a recent meme post:
I keep talking about a different vector of this all of the time. Nobody gets it. It’s really happening. It’s going to be very hard to stop. I mean it is going to be really hard not to have a UBI among other things. Buckle up.
Everything Moves Towards Communism All Of The Time™
Why did we ever think non-STEM had merit? Nobody ever talks about it. I could not believe the number of smart people in college that were angry about being forced to go through liberal arts.
Nobody talks about the accreditation scam. That’s where it starts.
I think this is right. They don’t care about individual policies. They just want to force everything left anyway they can. That is what my brother-in-law is like, clearly.
He is a textbook Dennis Prager democrat that leads a conservative life otherwise. It’s obvious to me that unconsciously he has to control the conversation with me about politics. He is not open to sticking to policy and discussing it thoroughly. It took me years to get to this point, but I’m pretty much ready for it every time. It’s really stupid considering how much power the government has.
Wikipedia has been “cleansed.”
Looks to me like she is eating her hate.
Apple News & most of the press only portray the crazy with approval and never report the consequences of the crazy. Most people only hear how wonderful all this is, and how evil the conservatives & the republicans are,
But, but, but….Trump was bad. I mean really, really, bad, get it?? He wanted to put folks ‘back in chains’ and stuff. And he had bad hair. And weighed too much. And said mean things. And, and, and….so; whatever it takes, man.
You gotta’ break a few eggs to make pancakes. Or something ;>)
It’s natural if your purpose is to sow division.
I’m surprised there aren’t filters to prevent something like that from even being posted.
I wonder what Herman Cain would think of it.
They naturally do anything except talk about the actual state of reality or the actual details of policy to force everything left.
They are going to talk to you “tactically” to support any kookie idea on the left that has momentum. Even if all they do is confuse you or make you mad, that is taking ground. You could call it gaslighting.
Keep that in the back of your head at all times and see if it works.
The other fun fact is, we really are at the Keynesian Endpoint. That favors statism.
More proof that academia is filled with losers.
PS: I didn’t need any more proof.
Yeah, that was my addition. I’m not very good at it so my link is a bit messed up.
It appears my version stayed up for five hours, which surprises me. On some edits I’ve done the hall monitor would undo my edits over and over within minutes, but I usually won in the end. I’m not going to do that this time, but if you persist, sometimes you can win.
Never Trump and the Democrats are worried about you. lol
Losers. Monsters. They happily embrace the most evil ideas and hire the most malevolent people.This is an inferiority complex. She is well aware that the modern world was made by white dudes. Rather than grapple with the best of Western Culture, (which she is a part of) she denies the culture and wishes to burn it down. People have been making fun of her weight alot but doesn’t she seem like a nihilistic unhappy person?