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Let’s do another re-write of history, and let’s establish a quota system in the MSM

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Let’s keep changing history until we get it right – I mean left – enough:

From Rep. Ford’s press release:

“Rep. Ford Today in Evanston to Call for the Abolishment of History Classes in Illinois Schools

“Concerned that current school history teaching leads to white privilege and a racist society, state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford, D-Chicago, will join local leaders today at noon at the Robert Crown Center in Evanston to call on the state to stop its current history teaching practices until appropriate alternatives are developed.”

I thought that adopting the 1619 curriculum was a ready-made way to do that.

More:

Attendees at Sunday’s press conference will discuss how current history teaching practices overlook the contributions by Women and members of the Black, Jewish, LGBTQ communities and other groups.

Now “women” is capitalized? And how did the group ordinarily disfavored by the left, Jews, sneak in there? Now we’re going to have a celebration of famous gay people as gay people rather than because of whatever their actual accomplishments might have been, such as Alan Turing for example?

Hey, maybe they’ll teach how religious and racial quotas have traditionally hurt Jews and Asians. Yeah, I know better.

Speaking of which, there’s also this news:

On July 31, 2020 the NY Times Guild issued a set of demands to the Times, including an explicit hiring and staffing quota based on race, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: New York Times Employee Recommendation Memo:

“We come to this meeting with a mandate for sustained change and urgency to engage in a very necessary and long-overdue discussion about how to improve the working experience of Black, Indigenous and people of color at the Times, BIPOC@NYT.”

In addition to recommendations to form new committees, increase “diversity” initiatives, and so on, comes an explicit call for quotas, referencing census data for New York City:

“We recommend:

“A. Setting a goal of hiring, retention and promotion? for the New York Times workforce to reflect NYC demographics by 2025. ?https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/newyorkcitynewyork…”

And here’s a great response:

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Let’s do another re-write of history, and let’s establish a quota system in the MSM — 39 Comments

  2. This idiotic tweet from NYT perfectly encapsulates the faulty logic behind the “disparity fallacy”, which seeks to implement (via brutal social engineering) the chimera of an exact correspondence between the proportion of all ethnic, racial, and religious groups within the total population and their statistical representation in any and all segments of the workplace and the government (but perhaps not football and basketball). LBJ infamously demanded not equality of opportunity, but equality of outcome, and the current Pope of Anti-racism (Ibram Kendi) ceaselessly advocates for this hopelessly unrealizable “equity.”

  3. “He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.”.Orwell-1984

  4. Still waiting (with bated breath) for the National Football League to impose percentage quotas that will ensure adequate representation on all teams by whites and Asians.

  5. I’m reading a really interesting book, “American Nations,” by Colin Woodard, about the large and significant cultural, and therefore political, differences among the settlers of the various areas that became the United States. New York, settled originally by the Dutch, retained the Dutch tolerance for religious and ethnic differences. Sadly, that seems to be breaking down.

    But whatever our origins, what do the deniers of American history propose as a replacement for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? Sure, it was imperfectly implemented by imperfect humans. But what principles would be better?

  7. why do white women get a pass?
    every slaveowner had a Madame, every Adolf had an Eva, every Napoleon had a Josephine, every FDRyms had an Eleanor.

  8. Three Words:

    Howard #@$@ing Zinn.

    Noted Whiter than White Episcopalian Fascist Historian whose twisted scribblings permeate the American school history curriculum. Obviously, what is needed is someone more progressive to take up the banner and set things straight.

    These Progressives need to go into the pit. It’s them or us.

  9. In 2019 (per the Bureau of Labor Statistics), 7% of all reporters and commentators and 3% of all editors were black. That’s not the salaried occupation with the most demanding screens and training regimen, btw. Employment levels in these occupations are also in steep decline.

    Sounds like a plan.

  10. Avi:

    White Women get a pass until Muh Diversity achieves total victory. Then they get a rude awakening.

    The problem with women in general (note, Ladies, I said *in general*… we’re talking about mass effects here) is that they follow the Strong Horse and rapidly defect to a new perceived Strong Horse. There are some posited sound reasons for this in Evolutionary Biology: none of us would be here today if females had preferred death to submission to the males of the tribe from the next valley over after they had slaughtered their males and male children.

    Women in the broad mass do not have our backs in this battle. They hang around the finish line and @#$% the winners as someone on YouTube poetically put it.

    Sorry, just a fact of life.

    So it makes perfect sense for those reaching for the brass ring to gull White Women along with the idea that they get a free pass until the game is won. This keeps a lot of cucked White Males out of the fight because they are more interested in not pissing off their womenfolk than in survival per se.

    And in any case, all that WW have to worry about when they have lost is a bit of Fifty Shades…. Remind me who bought all those millions of copies?

    Cue much outrage, I’m sure. But anyone who wishes to fight the Left has to try to face unpleasant facts.

  12. Zaphod, I share your disdain for Howard Zinn. I haven’t done extensive research, but according to Wikipedia he was born to an immigrant Jewish family in New York. There was nothing there about the “Episcopalian” part — although his Marxist views would make him fit right in with current leadership in that organization.

  13. Kate:

    Zinn was born to Jewish parents but was not religious and did not subscribe to Judaism:

    “If I was promised that we could sit with Marx in some great Deli Haus in the hereafter, I might believe in it! Sure, I find inspiration in Jewish stories of hope, also in the Christian pacifism of the Berrigans, also in Taoism and Buddhism. I identify as a Jew, but not on religious grounds. Yes, I believe, as Pascal said, ‘The heart has its reasons which reason cannot know.’ There are limits to reason. There is mystery, there is passion, there is something spiritual in the arts — but it is not connected to Judaism or any other religion.”

    If Zinn had a religion, it was Marxism and then anarchism:

    Biographer Martin Duberman noted that when he was asked directly if he was a Marxist, Zinn replied, “Yes, I’m something of a Marxist.” He especially was influenced by the liberating vision of the young Marx in overcoming alienation, and disliked what he perceived to be Marx’s later dogmatism. In later life he moved more toward anarchism.

  14. “I’m something of a Marxist” Zinn—the “father” of those who write “histories” that are really a lurid attempt to “change the narrative” in a particular direction—worshiped at the altar of agit-prop.

    (Others worship at the altar of irony….)

    “Something of a Marxist”,

  15. Yes, I could see from Zinn’s biography that he was not observant. However, he also wasn’t Episcopalian. Many non-observant Jews have adopted some version of Marxism as their religion instead, and the same often goes, actually, for “liberal” Christians. People can see that all is not right with the world, and lacking a religious grounding, they look for some ideology they think will fix it.

  16. Profile Alert: What race is state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford ?
    Zinn’s superficiality is wonderfully elucidated by his “There is mystery, there is passion, there is something spiritual in the arts — but it is not connected to Judaism or any other religion.”

  18. @neo re Zinn:

    Sure he was, yet another Non-practicing Culture of Critique Archetype. Or are we supposed to take Zinn, Chomsky, and a multitude of others as sui generis atomized special little flowers? He was a (non-practicing) Jew. So was Trotsky, Lazar Kaganovich, Rosa L, and on and on and on…. All non-practicing and all with seriously ingrained ancestral beefs with established social orders. Can’t just keep the good ones and disown the bad eggs now.

    Give me voting precincts full of Haredim, Sultan Knishes, David Goldmans, the Golan Brigade… all to the good… but Lord preserve us all from the non-practicing deracinated tinkering tikkun olamers who have this insistent neurotic urge to pull down the roof on Western Civ the better to build a better world. Or something.

    This particular category *is* a problem. Supreme Court, anyone? And for as long as it is ‘antisemitic’ to point out the problem, then we’re all just going to go in circles.

    And yes, I know that the revolution will eat some of them, too. The fact that he died in the cellars did not make Yezhov a martyr or a misunderstood good guy.

    In a sane world, nobody would claim that the New York Times has a (non-practicing) Jew Under-representation Problem. Quite the opposite. It certainly has a Legacy American under-representation problem, a White Nationalist (everyone else gets to root for their own team, hey) under-representation problem, a Mennonite under-representation problem, and the Lubavitchers deserve a go at the Op-Ed pages, too — I’d expect Bari Weiss to vigorously applaud their getting a chance to fill her yes-but-no intersectional shoes :P.

    And if anyone thinks I have a deep and abiding hatred for Howard Zinn, there was another loathsome Marxist ‘Historian’ by the name of Hobsbawm. Son of the Shires, he was. Morris Dancing and all. Errr…

    A pox upon all Progressives, be they Christian, Heathen, Martian, or Jew. But let’s call a Spade a Spade and not creep and crawl and circumlocute.

  19. Zaphod:

    As you yourself point out, there are leftists of all sorts of backgrounds. Quite a few are secular Jews – after all, Jews tend to be prominent in all fields they enter: science, music, theater, humor, economics. For various cultural reasons, some Jews gravitate towards leftist thought, but they are not religious Jews and in many cases they have even converted and have gone so far as to become rabid anti-Semites. Karl Marx is a good example of the latter. I have written about this before, for example here.

  20. Zaphod: Ricocheting off your mention of Zinn and Chomsky, here’s one of the most pitch-perfect political parodies I have ever read. The setup is the question, “What if Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn had provided a DVD audio commentary to the film version of ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ by J.R.R. Tolkien?”

    Although the writers are undoubtedly liberal, they nail Zinn and Chomsky with exquisite precision. It helps if one has read Zinn and a modest amount of Chomsky. However, I’d like to think even conservatives will be amused.
    ___________________________________________________

    CHOMSKY: The film opens with Galadriel speaking. “The world has changed,” she tells us, “I can feel it in the water.” She’s actually stealing a line from the non-human Treebeard. He says this to Merry and Pippin in The Two Towers, the novel. Already we can see who is going to be privileged by this narrative and who is not.

    ZINN: Of course. “The world has changed.” I would argue that the main thing one learns when one watches this film is that the world hasn’t changed. Not at all.

    CHOMSKY: We should examine carefully what’s being established here in the prologue. For one, the point is clearly made that the “master ring,” the so-called “one ring to rule them all,” is actually a rather elaborate justification for preemptive war on Mordor….

    –TOM BISSELL and JEFF ALEXANDER, (2003)
    https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-by-howard-zinn-and-noam-chomsky-recorded-summer-2002-for-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-platinum-series-extended-edition-dvd-part-one

  21. …after all, Jews tend to be prominent in all fields they enter: science, music, theater, humor, economics.

    neo: Last night I watched some Robin Williams appearances a few years before his death in which he was still proud of this interaction on a German television:
    ___________________________________________________

    Interviewer: Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?

    Robin Williams: Did you ever think because you killed all the funny people?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2P_LuEF80
    ___________________________________________________

    There’s the pleasure of his riposte, then the pleasure of his defense of Jews, then the pleasure of his implicit celebration of free speech in somewhat of a tight spot — speaking ill of his hosts.

    Those days when a Robin Williams could speak like that and be celebrated are gone for now.

    I look forward to their return.

  22. Thank you Neo and thank you Huxley. Good conversation ensued in Melbourne Australia.
    Uncle Ron.

  23. Zinn apparently was—surprise!—a big fan of the Berrigan Brothers—those “tikkun olamers” of a slightly different stripe.

    Me? I blame over-the-top Messianism (but then, what other type is there?…Actually, not really a fair question, no…).

    Though it might remind some of the old joke (Robin Williams Z”L, aside)—you know, the one about the Jews invented guilt but the Roman Catholics perfected it….

    The moral? Guilt can be oh-so-useful…but beware of “weaponizing” it.

  24. This is a great time in the United States for parents to take back the education of their children, from the indoctrination’s in the public schools.

    And yes there are many, many very good teachers.

  26. Zinn apparently was—surprise!—a big fan of the Berrigan Brothers—those “tikkun olamers” of a slightly different stripe.

    Zinn was a common type in the word-merchant sector, and, like all such types fancied himself the moral tutor of the society in which he lived. He was unusual among such types in that he was an actual member of the Communist Party ca. 1947, and not a casual member, but a three-meetings-a-week member. The FBI knew this and we know it from declassified FBI documents. NB, Jessica Mitford claimed she was fired from her job selling classified advertising at a newspaper ca. 1957 when a couple of FBI agents showed up and notified her boss about her past. I think we have reason to doubt the veracity of that story, since Zinn was on the faculty of Boston University from 1959 until his retirement and enrolled in graduate programs prior to that. A university press was willing to publish his dissertation (a biography of Fiorello LaGuardia). Zinn was never exposed as a Communist Party member during his lifetime.

    Chomsky was never a CP member. He’s cannier and less ingenuous than was Zinn. For a century, we have suffered increasingly from the cultural reality that positions in culture generating institutions are occupied by people who have contempt for the rest of us and would sell us all out in a heartbeat.

  27. Chomsky used to call himself a libertarian socialist. Maybe he still does. He pointed to the trade unionists in Catalan, Spain in the 1920s as an example.
    _________________________________

    Catalan! Catalan!
    I know it sounds a bit bizarre
    But in Catalan, Catalan
    That’s how conditions are
    _________________________________

    As I’ve grown more conservative, I’m more skeptical of combining liberty with the left. I’m reminded of a quote from dada/surrealist painter, poet and sculptor, Hans Arp who chastised his fellow artists:
    __________________________________________

    Some old friends from the days of of the Dada campaign, who always fought for dreams and freedom, are now disgustingly preoccupied with class aims…. Conscientiously they mix poetry and the [Soviet] Five-Year Plan in one pot; but this attempt to lie down while standing up will not succeed.

    –Hans Arp, “On My Way” (1948)

  28. Who knew feminism would morph into all this ancillary stuff?

    Every key paper or point in all of this came from the ladies, you can list them out from “the personal is political” by Carol Hanisch for 2nd wave feminism, Peggy McIntosh unpacking invisible knapsack… pushing LGBT feminism – Charlotte Bunch, Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Frye, Mary Daly, Sheila Jeffreys, Barbara Smith, Pat Parker, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Cheryl Clarke, Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Monique Wittig, and Sara Ahmed… from wiki – Lesbian feminism of color emerged as a response to lesbian feminism thought that failed to incorporate the issues of class and race as sources of oppression along with heterosexuality.

    TONS more…
    Be careful what you wish for ladies…
    Your going to get what you want as the “neck controls the head”, the “hand that rocks the cradle”, etc…

  29. Barry Meislin on August 3, 2020 at 7:28 pm said: “I’m something of a Marxist” Zinn—the “father” of those who write “histories” that are really a lurid attempt to “change the narrative” in a particular direction—worshiped at the altar of agit-prop.

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 423 pages on historian and self-described “democratic socialist” Howard Zinn, released Friday morning, outline a record of investigation spanning 25 years, beginning in 1949 with his alleged involvement in communist front groups.

    you can read all the papers at the FOIA site

  30. Yes, we need a quota system in the MSM.
    Do we have an accurate survey of the proportion of “Richard Craniums” there are in the GenPop? Whatever the number is, the MSM currently exceeds it.

  31. So Chomsky had his Own Private “Homage to Catalonia”?

    Gosh, after his unstinting efforts to defend an ardent European Holocaust denier, on the one hand, and an equally ardent, if more “hands on”, Kampuchean genocidal maniac, on the other (all the while trashing American “interference” in the affairs of others—there does indeed appear to be a pattern to Chomskian “diversity”!), who would ever have guessed that he was capable of harboring a romantic streak (to be sure, Catalonia does have its seductive side, especially for someone who is ideologically susceptible…)…

    …Well, maybe Eric Blair, who drew his own conclusions after coming to that particular fork in the road.

  32. One might think it is, but it isn’t odd that “diversity” does not include the most qualified.

  33. I see hatred of meritocracy as the ultimate first world problem; a symptom of the end-stage of advanced civilization. We are so far away from the real life that humankind dealt with for most of its history, in which being unable to do a task can mean not surviving, that entitled infantile people think that competency no longer matters. There are no perceived existential external threats, such as an enemy, or drought, or disease, or other situations in which, if you let the least capable run the show, everyone dies. Therefore, those so inclined see no problem with caring more about having the “right” assortment of people doing something than with making sure those people can actually do it. These are people who, until they run into a SHTF scenario, have no idea that incompetence kills.

  34. What this is an indication of is that AG Sulzberger isn’t actually in the business of running a newspaper and has no respect for quality product or good performance among his employees. The New York Times is a rich man’s toy. If his cousins were sensible, they’d take it away from him and put it in the hands of a faithful steward. All of them appear to be counting on the paper’s viability being unaffected by this sort of inanity. Their marks have eaten sh!t for 35 years, so they’ll continue to eat sh!t. Karma may prove to be a bit*h.

  36. @ Zaphod: Sorry I missed the sarcasm. As a former Episcopalian myself, I don’t think they’re very funny any more. 🙂

  37. The former MSNBC woman says that their coverage decisions are largely a matter of Ratings….maybe this is true at a tactical level, but I question whether it’s really true at a strategic level. It seems likely that a somewhat less-hysterical tone might attract more viewers of attractive demographics, and hence more ad revenue.

    Does Comcast view its MSNBC subsidiary purely as a source of profit, or does it have other interests in this network? Same question for AT&T and CNN, and for Disney and ABC.

  38. “…really true…”

    You make a good point.

    I suspect that no one involved in that echo chamber—not even someone like her—is able at this point to tell, or even recognize, the truth.

    So that when she says something like “coverage decisions are largely a matter of Ratings” what she really means (but can’t bring herself to say) is, “coverage decisions are based entirely on how much we trash Trump, which was fabulous for our Ratings for a long time but no longer, since our Ratings have plumeted.”.

    And so, with such a “practical” epiphany to buttress her conscience, it’s now time to leave that particular sinking ship.

    That this is happening at all would seem to be positive news.

  39. Kyndyll, that’s right! Of course, I shudder to think about what this means for me, in view of my sketchy track record of attempts at car maintenance, for example…. I would (will?) have to see what I can trade for education in such things. You might see me on a Midwestern roadside with a “Will do math/tend plants for food” sign or something.

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