Re-education camps for us kulaks
This guy is advocating it:
On Monday, Palmer informed his 330,000 Twitter followers that conservatives cannot be teachers, police officers, doctors, lawyers, coaches or hold any position of management or leadership. In fact, Palmer doesn’t even think conservatives are human beings and should only be allowed menial labor jobs until he determines they are ready to join the human race.
“Conservatives CANNOT be teachers, police officers, doctors, lawyers, coaches, or bosses. It’s constitutionally unfair to others who are subjected to the conservative’s deranged judgment. Conservatives can do menial work until they’re ready to join the human race,” he said…
“We should rehabilitate any conservatives who are willing to try. We should pay for them to undergo therapy and retraining so they can understand the world around them. But first we must get them out of positions of influence, because they’re infringing on the rights of others,” he added.
One of the responses to the tweets (Palmer’s tweets themselves are now removed) was “Ok, Stalin.” Actually, I wonder whether Palmer is even aware of Soviet history, or that of Cambodia. But it doesn’t really matter, because it probably wouldn’t change his mind.
Perhaps you can dismiss Palmer as being on the fringe, although with a third of a million followers it wouldn’t seem that way. But the speed at which events are moving indicates that today’s fringe can easily be tomorrow’s mainstream, and even those who are against something like this could already be afraid to speak up.
And isn’t something akin to this policy already being followed, to a certain extent? Universities only have a few conservatives left as professors and I’m not at all sure that any conservatives remain as administrators. Teachers, likewise. Mainstream journalism, for the most part, also has been purged and the process is being further refined, with the remaining conservatives and/or moderates relegated to what the left calls Faux News. The left is now busy getting rid of scientists who are not following the leftist party line. And social media platforms are disproportionately banning conservative voices.
And then there’s that Utopian street fair Summer of Love extravaganza in Seattle known as CHAZ:
Almost immediately, activists established a social structure based on a “reverse hierarchy of oppression”: Native American, black, and trans women are the highest authority; diversity determines individual social status; and whites are called upon to perform rituals of atonement. Through a series of speeches and community gatherings, activists have sought to implement the social theory of “decolonization,” which, in the words of Black Lives Matter activist Nikkita Oliver, means overthrowing capitalism, eliminating the structures of “patriarchy, white supremacy, and classism,” and returning the land of the autonomous zone to displaced Native American tribes.
In practice, the CHAZ leadership has taken small steps toward reversing the power structure and redistributing resources. Black and Native American speakers have been “centered” in leadership roles in all community meetings, with white audience members asked to “move past guilt or fragility” and “commit to long-term action and accountability.” At one evening event, an indigenous-rights activist with a purple bandana wrapped around his face announced a campaign for immediate small-scale reparations: “I want you to give $10 to one African-American person from this autonomous zone,” he said to a large crowd gathered on a baseball field. “White people, I see you. I see every one of you, and I remember your faces. You find that African-American person and you give them $10.”
Though activists have largely succeeded in creating a multiracial coalition, the CHAZ leaders have sometimes adopted policies of explicit segregation, with some spaces reserved for BIPOC—“Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.” Activist Marcus Henderson, an urban farmer with an engineering degree from Stanford, created a shared agricultural project in Cal Anderson Park with a sign announcing: “THIS GARDEN IS FOR BLACK AND INDIGENOUS FOLKS AND THEIR PLANT ALLIES.” As Henderson told reporters, the urban garden is a response to “the question of how Black people have been disenfranchised for so long” and a demonstration of “collective land ownership, taking back property and really making it work for the people.”
Who are the true racists here?
Please read the whole thing.
VDH, speaking on Tucker’s program recently, warned that we are in the midst of our very own cultural revolution and that we cannot expect logic and rationality in such turmoil and chaos as we now find ourselves surrounded by; with all the centers of cultural power in the country being controlled by the left (not to mention corporate America and Wall Street), and with most Republicans proving themselves to be fearful or incompetent, what hope is there for any voice of reason to prevail?
mmm. An urban farmer with a degree from Stanford. One would think that an engineer could do the math and figure out that urban farming only pays if the farm is getting big fat corporate donations. But considering how much has been donated to BLM and thus to Act Blue, perhaps he has.
Urban farming. Is that like desert fishing?
It’s not really a civil war.
It’s ethnic cleansing.
There is not an issue or set of issues which need to be resolved. The goal is to remove statues, rewrite history, and force people from certain cultures, gender identities, racial traits and so on to be physically eliminated or to have all their property taken and their status permanently assigned to the dust bins of society.
Reeducation camps if lucky. Stalin in fact enforced a Final Solution upon Ukranian kulaks, called the Holodomor.
To be honest, we are not anywhere near the worst of this. Palmer is going to end up being considered a moderate. And there will be casualties on both sides. No matter who wins the election vote count, the distrust of the count is such that a plurality of voters, of one side or another, will not accept it as legitimate. Which leads only one way.
Subotai Bahadur
…re-education camps …
What will the food be like? Do we have to make lanyards?
If so, count me right out.
Palmer is going to end up being considered a moderate. –Subotai Bahadur
Unless Palmer’s children are ready to fire up the ovens, I don’t see how Palmer ends up a moderate.
My read, FWIW, is we are reaching peak crazy. One can stretch the rubber band so far, then it gets really hard to stretch any farther. Backlashes happen. That’s how you get more Trump.
I think Democrats are doing themselves terrible damage and will pay in November.
I realize others are less sanguine than I.
As our new friend, Coleman Hughes, wrote:
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As for the riots of the late 1960s, progressives should not praise them for shocking Americans into action without also noting that they helped elect Richard Nixon president, which progressives certainly did not intend…
–Coleman Hughes, “Stories and Data: Reflections on race, riots, and police”
https://www.city-journal.org/reflections-on-race-riots-and-police
Yes. People of the right are to be purged. “Teachers, likewise. Mainstream journalism, for the most part, also has been purged and the process is being further refined, with the remaining conservatives and/or moderates relegated to what the left calls Faux News. The left is now busy getting rid of scientists who are not following the leftist party line. And social media platforms are disproportionately banning conservative voices.”
The debate on the Gorsuch decision at Instapundit, yesterday, is much leaning to war or resignation or self-isolation.
Last night, I’m listening to WABC in New York and the John Bachelor Show. He does interviews, for those who may not know.
The most striking observation comes from a guest in Europe. The famous financial journal in Zurich, Die Neuer Zurichur Zeitung, has a long editorial condemning last weeks events at the New York Times, the censoring of opposition seen of Senator Cotton and the firing of the Opinion Page editor.
They are alarmed because this reminds them of the Nazi’s intolerance of all dissent! Incredible that this heinous event finally gets attention in the German speaking world.
In 2016, I was used to getting TV news from France 24 and Deutsche Wells in English. I had to stop, however, because they so fiercely reflected the lies spewed by the NYTimes. Lies that any eyewitness of C-Span knew were baseless because it it not what Trump said.
So, finally, some important source in Europe is pushing back! And they demoted the NYTimes down to…wait…no better than FoxNews….LOL!
Oh well. Mixed good news is better than the reverse.
Gordon Scott says VDH “is an urban farmer?” Not quite. His fifth generation family almond farm is 120 acres, mostly leased to an eight with 10,000 acres. In Selma, South of Fresno, CA.
j e notes VDH observation of our Left’s own cultural revolution, dragging their enemy along through their sewer. Indeed.
Specifically, on the new Victor Davis Hanson Youtube channel, articulates the parallel with CHAZ that we’ve entered the Robespierre and “Committee for Public Safety” era of the French Revolution, which lasted two years until the Thermidorian reaction.
Nihilism meets their practical elimination ist and totalitarian control, period
However, note that 4,000 to 15,000 motor “Bikers for Trump” will rendezvous in Seattle on July 4th at high noon to invade Chaz and bust up their borders, and dismantle their commune.
Independence Day holiday fun. Now, do know that they intend to carry out the reclamation peacefully. But, carrying personal arms? We’ll see.
Hmmmm. Re-education camps.
And to get me there they have to endure a hail of projectiles at a high rate of fire.
I’ve been to enough other camps.
Here’s poet and memoirist Jim Carroll writing on the possibility of American camps from the other side. Carroll played high school basketball against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and was the funniest poet who wrote in the 60s/70s.
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After heating some tea and playing Allen [Ginsberg] The Who’s latest new L.P. I show him a new poem of mine in the recent issue of “Poetry Mag.” He keeps mumbling things like, “You’ve got some great lines here, some really great haikus within the overall work, but what are you going to write when they throw us in the concentration camps?”
Terrific. Real solid literary criticism. I could have gotten better poetic advice from Leon Trotsky, for God’s sake.
I tell Allen to speak for himself… I’m not grabbing the bus to the camps myself. F***ing politics … I mean, does he really believe it when spouts that sh**?
Worse yet, could he possibly be right? Have I not been paying attention somewhere?
–Jim Carroll, “Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973”
Just recently, an unhinged white teacher who taught in an urban district (go figure) said that if you didn’t support BLM you shouldn’t be a teacher. She must’ve been channeling Palmer because as the very end of her rant said that if such people didn’t self-reflect on why they became a teacher, that they should send in their applications to become a grocery bagger. A social worker started a discussion on Republican/conservative social workers, saying that how could anyone be a competent social worker by holding beliefs associated with the party/political leaning, accusing conservative social workers of having cognitive dissonance since their values went against social work values. There were some teachers who moderately objected to the unhinged white teacher who answered back in a very rude and hostile manner, ending with one response “you pulled that out of the you tightly clenched white a*s). No one really objected to the social worker who questioned conservative social workers and their place in the field.
Here’s the unhinged white teacher’s rant: https://imgur.com/VI87XCO
accusing conservative social workers of having cognitive dissonance since their values went against social work values.
Social work is a pseudo-profession which should not exist.
The call at the chaz was to rename it the chop, as someone asked the crowd, what happened during the french revolution… I guess their history stopped early as they might not have realized that after came Jacobin dictatorship, not freedom… then the true dictatorship of napoleon and war…
Will these camps use prisoners for public works projects (Russia) or organ donors (China)…
This event is our future, fighting back! A leftist mob cries kill him! But the counter-protester fights back, shoots and hits one as he’s chased and attacked. Dramatic video
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/06/16/856433/
New Mexico is open carry state, and firing a gun in defense of property is legal in this, and only a certain few other Western states.
Down in the comments, opinion is divided between a just outcome and the evil Left in power in the city and far Left CommieCrat governor persecuting and prosecuting him lawUnFare style. He may well need some financial support.
Assuming this Palmer guy isn’t trying and failing to pull a Jonathan Swift, does he not know how many conservatives have guns in the U.S.?
om & T J: I’m going to have to do some homework on this statue protest/shooting. It’s only a couple miles from where I’m sitting.
I’ve yet to visit that museum. Old Town in Albuquerque is mostly a cheapo version of the Santa Fe Plaza except it’s got the Backstreet Grill which offers a wicked Chipotle Cheesesteak Sandwich.
JimNorCal on June 16, 2020 at 7:30 pm said:
It’s not really a civil war.
It’s ethnic cleansing.
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When the cleansing targets can fight back, it moves to war.
Companion piece to the RedState post from TJ:
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/06/16/antifa-lesson/
Art Deco says, “Social work is a pseudo-profession which should not exist.”
As a social worker I disagree. I’m not sure what led you to conclude what you concluded.
@ T J: There’s word going around that the powers that be are going to charge him because reason being he threw a woman to the ground despite being elbowed in the face by her first, therefore losing his right to shoot in self-defense. I’m not familiar with how the law works in this case so I’m not sure where I stand on this
Just last week I was thinking of Jim Carroll; his band put some of his poems to punk music (power pop).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPNqojbyIDk
People Who Died
Died.
He died about 11 years ago, age 60. Another poet, Jim Morrison of the Doors has long been a favorite of mine (died in ’71 at age 27). The YouTube offers me another poet – Lou Reed. Full of F* speak…which I liked in college, but have grown out of.
We need Republicans to win in November, and define racism:
“advocating for laws or policies to treat people differently based on their race or skin color”. With higher defamation penalties for libeling people as “racist” who do NOT advocate such policies.
Possibly include an explicit note that “Affirmative Action” is racist.
It’s not illegal to be a racist. It should be illegal to call people racists who want equality under the law, and race-blind laws & policies.
It might be possible to get thru this period with fewer than 1,000 civilian deaths, but it might not.
Term limits for all non-elected bureaucrats – 10 years and no more raises. 12 years and start getting less money. “Public Service” should be limited, and not so well paid — those who want more money should be working for a profit-oriented organization.
It’s sad that Germans are better at seeing how the Democrat treatment of Reps is much like the German Nazis treated Jews. Or how commies treated “kulaks”, or any of the successful common workers.
It’s Democrats destroying America, not “the left”.
Good note on Legal Insurrection:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/06/thank-you-for-your-support-in-this-time-of-cultural-purge/#more-321130
He explains how this time it’s different, with a note about the Soviet Union:
“The students who are organizing against me have on their Facebook page, that Silence is Violence. Think about that. What happens? I studied about the Soviet Union. I actually studied in the Soviet Union. You had to attend the meeting at your factory, where they would praise the leadership and failing to show up was considered a counterrevolutionary act. And that’s where we’re going. It used to be, if you were on campus as a student, you could stick to your studies, stay out of politics, keep your mouth shut. They would leave you alone. You will not be left alone anymore. You must participate in the revolution going on.”
Silence is Violence.
Because Democrats control the culture, and they believe Republicans are the enemy, the Evil enemy.
All who vote Democrat are voting for Politically Correct tyranny.
As a social worker I disagree.
I’m going to be charitable and presume you do your specific job as well as it can be done on a routine basis. That doesn’t mean your specific job is a discrete instance of a ‘profession’ which merits a discrete course of study and a state licensing board.
I’m not sure what led you to conclude what you concluded.
1. Reading the syllabus of the social work program at Washington University in St. Louis. (That’s a ‘highly ranked’ program from which a shirt-tail relation graduated).
2. This work: https://www.amazon.com/Social-Work-Survive-Colin-Brewer/dp/0851171885, and the remarks on its thesis from people I knew at the time working in special education.
3. Actually dealing with social workers employed in hospitals and nursing homes (among others).
4. Having social workers in the family. No details. This ain’t Oprah.
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A. I don’t think much of the talking cure, but if people want to spend their time and money on it, fine. (I don’t think insurers should pay for the talking cure). Train those people is schools of psychology which have specialized courses of study. (The schools could have cross-listed courses with the academic psychology department and even some joint appointments, but the two faculties would have different objects).
B. The twits I had to deal with in health care settings could have been trained on the job. What the MSW gets you is limiting your applicant pool to people willing and able to sit through 48 credits of MSW courses.
C. People who run non-commercial bureaucracies could be trained in public administration programs with specialized courses of study: general public administration, general philanthropy, educational administration, social services, police administration, court administration, &c.
D. The child protective and foster care service could be staffed with sheriff’s deputies, public health nurses, and junior grade psychologists who had received some cross training certificates.
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Don’t get me started on teacher’s colleges and library schools.
It’s tough not to agree that all White people in Seattle should be disenfranchised, and all capitalist activity in Seattle be closed. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
While I won’t donate to Chaz to make it happen, put it on pay-per-view and I’ll consider paying for the last season.
The ultimate weapon:
https://torontosun.com/news/national/goldstein-unconscious-racism-the-new-mccarthyism
No, there is no escape….
H/T Blazingcatfur blog
Tom G: Jim Carroll did have a three-album plus greatest-hits rock career. My favorite verse was his reply to the sixties:
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It’s too late
To fall in love with Sharon Tate
But it’s too soon
To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb
I think it’s time that you all start
To think about gettin’ by
Without that need to go out and find somebody to love
–Jim Carroll, “It’s Too Late”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V6kPxEVB54
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For those who might be curious to see the man in action behind a mic, here he is in “Tuff Turf,” the great, forgotten teen exploitation movie of the 80s, choreographed like “West Side Story.”
–James Spader in “Tuff Turf” – “The Voices”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Qm03JZAG0
In the shooting at the monuments..
this is the key photo..
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eat5EuwUcAIMk0D?format=jpg&name=900×900
you can see the antifa person had a long knife in his hand
and something else in the other, as a skateboard was falling..
the man with the knife was shot by the retreating man with a gun…
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its interesting as i watched people argue between what happened at wendys
MANY of them refuse to acknowledge that drunk driving is a felony
MANY of them refuse to accept that passing out at the wheel is not sleeping
Those are the two key points of why the police were there at all..
they all seem to want to judge the issue by outcome… that is, its OK to drive drunk as long as you dont kill anyone, and if caught, should be let go by the police to walk home… but would they extend this to other races too?
seriously… i can link to two videos of African Americans discussing this
one video they get the situation clearly without race as to felony DUI, Resisting arrest, punching an officer in the face, taking an officers weapon (gun or taser), and trying to shoot officer with weapon (gun or taser)…
the other, cant seem to understand or get their mind around how the incident went from nice to wacko because they refuse to see that upon the moment of being cuffed, the person went violent.
They literally want to excuse the behavior because they were drunk, and refuse to accept that in order for the car to get to the Wendys drive through, this person had to drive with a blood alcohol ABOVE .108 as the time they gave him the breathalyzer was quite a while after he passed out and time makes that number go down.
🙁
Art Deco: “I’m going to be charitable and presume you do your specific job as well as it can be done on a routine basis. That doesn’t mean your specific job is a discrete instance of a ‘profession’ which merits a discrete course of study and a state licensing board.”
Charitable compared to what? Seems like you’re forcing yourself to be charitable. Who are you to say that social work doesn’t merit a “discrete course of study and a state licensing board”?
The condescension and arrogance of you is quite amusing.
“1. Reading the syllabus of the social work program at Washington University in St. Louis. (That’s a ‘highly ranked’ program from which a shirt-tail relation graduated).”
True, a good number of MSW and BSW curriculums are not academically rigorous. The field of social work pulls from many different disciplines – sociology, psychology, government, law, education etc. Unfortunately it also pulls heavily from Grievance Studies. Curriculums should be reformed and with Grievance Studies pushed to the side.
“2. This work: https://www.amazon.com/Social-Work-Survive-Colin-Brewer/dp/0851171885, and the remarks on its thesis from people I knew at the time working in special education.”
I haven’t read that. I think I will add it to my reading list.
“3. Actually dealing with social workers employed in hospitals and nursing homes (among others).”
Social work is a wide field that deals with all demographics and issues. Medical social work is one subfield.
“4. Having social workers in the family. No details. This ain’t Oprah.”
This could possibly be the issue. Your negative encounters have painted your view. As with “lived experiences”, these need to be taken into perspective – just like those who have “lived experiences” with racism and want to control the narrative and views of those they talk to.
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“A. I don’t think much of the talking cure, but if people want to spend their time and money on it, fine. (I don’t think insurers should pay for the talking cure). Train those people is schools of psychology which have specialized courses of study. (The schools could have cross-listed courses with the academic psychology department and even some joint appointments, but the two faculties would have different objects).”
Clinical psychology on the doctorate level is mostly research save for their intern and post-doctoral years. Those who take the MSW route to become therapists are actually at a disadvantage in their first years as a social worker compared to people who pursue a counseling degree or MFT types since there’s less focus on treatment modalities within their curriculum. Much training comes after, actually, irregardless of what degree you choose to get. I remember a study saying there was no significant outcome difference of the client between mid-level practitioners and those who held doctorates if those at mid-level continue to receive and seek further supervision and training. A vast majority of mental health therapists hold MSWs in the United States.
There’s book study and then there’s real life. MSWs are in the same position as those in schools of psychology if they wish to pursue the therapist route when practicing different modalities.
“B. The twits I had to deal with in health care settings could have been trained on the job. What the MSW gets you is limiting your applicant pool to people willing and able to sit through 48 credits of MSW courses.”
I know a few medical social workers who are good at their job. Your “lived experience” is your experiences. I have mine. What you say is not particular to any one profession.
“C. People who run non-commercial bureaucracies could be trained in public administration programs with specialized courses of study: general public administration, general philanthropy, educational administration, social services, police administration, court administration, &c.”
MSWs need reform when it comes to subspecialties but then again people can get a JD, MPA, M. Ed. as well if they want to combine an MSW and to further their knowledge in their place of work.
“D. The child protective and foster care service could be staffed with sheriff’s deputies, public health nurses, and junior grade psychologists who had received some cross training certificates.”
They already are for the most part. Here’s a job description of CPS social worker : http://agency.governmentjobs.com/napacounty/default.cfm?action=viewclassspec&ClassSpecID=45759
“Don’t get me started on teacher’s colleges and library schools.” – Art Deco
You would be preaching to the choir in my case.
I intend to put the bolded section on my tombstone, assuming that’s still legal when the time comes.
Charitable compared to what? Seems like you’re forcing yourself to be charitable.
No. I’m just not making the assumption that you personally are making anyone’s world worse. I don’t know what you do all day or why you’re in the line of work you’re in or whether or not that’s a good use of someone’s time or not.
True, a good number of MSW and BSW curriculums are not academically rigorous.
That wasn’t my point. The courses did not cohere at all.
This could possibly be the issue.
Not really. Just re-inforced an impression I had from dealing with social workers in various settings.
Social work is a wide field that deals with all demographics and issues.
You missed the ‘among others’. There is one (1) I’ve encountered over the last 35 years that didn’t seem to occupy the space between being a fifth wheel and being injurious to people. Have I just been terribly unlucky?
I know a few medical social workers who are good at their job.
None of them were impressive in my experience, or in the experience of similarly situated family members. I’d say they were redundant. And what they actually did do did not require a degree or a license.
MSWs need reform when it comes to subspecialties but then again people can get a JD, MPA, M. Ed. as well if they want to combine an MSW and to further their knowledge in their place of work.
What you’ve described serves one purpose: improving the employment prospects of people who work in higher education. I’m suggesting to you a different reform, which is to sluice the people drawn to social work into one of four distinct training programs, and not make them lengthy.
They already are for the most part.
Good. Let’s take it the rest of the way.
Lots of comments at Legal Insurrection, but this was an interesting supposition.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/06/thank-you-for-your-support-in-this-time-of-cultural-purge/#comment-1055855
Somewhat less facetiously (??) is the suggested answer to Jacobson’s reflection on why this has all gotten worse in the last six months.
That only covers 4 months; I think the operational planning for the putsch dates from the Mueller report dud.
Echo of one of our own commenters here:
Starting to look that way.
Clinical psychology on the doctorate level is mostly research save for their intern and post-doctoral years.
The PsyD is not a research degree. It’s a padding of entry requirements which were satisfied with a master’s degree 40 years ago.
As a rule, a fairly thin sliver of manpower in academic psychology departments is allocated to clinicians, to students of psychopathology, and to students of child development and family relations. (The arts and sciences faculty I know best allocated one position out of twelve).
“Looks that way” continued:
The BSA just caved in completely to the forces of “you will be made to care” and “no neutral spaces.”
AesopSpouse and I are drafting our resignation letters now.
Which is too bad — 5 Eagle sons, 1 Eagle grandson, 1 First-class scout, and 1 Webelos grand-daughter. Thirty years of volunteer service, and anticipating more, all good until the tipping point finally hit.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/boy-scouts-require-diversity-inclusion-merit-badge-rank-eagle-scout
FWIW, our objections are not to the moral precepts formally identified with diversity and inclusion, but with the facts that a Merit Badge for a moral principle, rather than a skill, is both unnecessary and redundant, the relevant principles being already covered by the Scout Oath, Law, and 3 Citizenship merit badges); usurps the roles of chartering organizations (many are churches) and families, which also have associated Merit Badges; and (relevant in this context) was imposed by National without any discussion among the non-HQ staff, volunteers, and members.
The imposition includes rolling out mandatory training for staff and volunteers.
So, Professor Jacobson, we are in the same boat now.
GRA:
Art Deco’s experiences and anecdotes are the gold standard. We forget that at our peril, beware his disapproval and censure. It’s a feature, not a bug BTW.
From Barry’s Toronto link – sounds like Title IX on steroids, as well as a lot of precedent in Civil Rights and Employment cases (thanks for nothing, SCOTUS).
See also Mark Steyn’s cases about defamation under a Canadian law now repealed or revised, and the Everlasting Mann Case in our own DC courts. (easy to find at Steynonline.com)
There are also echoes of the court that ruled some of Trump’s immigration actions would have been legal if done by Obama or Hillary, but not coming from him because of impure motives and wrongthink.
I think we are beyond Orwell now.
Take a look at the LI home page for more examples of insanity.
https://legalinsurrection.com/
And this from the Prof:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/06/anti-intellectualism-at-cornell-law-school-student-groups-organize-boycott-of-my-course/
He ends by mentioning the many friends he has made among his students; I fear that, based on other precedents, a lot of them will now cease to be so.
On that intellectual purity thing,
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/06/at-top-100-schools-only-one-will-feature-commencement-speech-from-a-republican/
And from commenters at the first link — you will be made to care:
Body cams for everyone now:
on whether we’ve reached “peak crazy” – I hope so. But each time I think our culture cannot get more insufferable, self-righteous, and irrational, it gets worse. I thought we were at the peak over two years ago during the March for Our Lives nonsense. I thought we were at the peak during the Kavanaugh debacle. I thought we were at the peak just this past March and April when the pandemic took over our lives. After what we’ve been witnessing over the past three weeks, I realize we weren’t quite at the peak yet.
Those kulaks in WA who want to earn a living, well our King Jay has an answer for that:
https://www.redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2020/06/17/while-washington-burns-gov-inslee-lashes-out-at-those-who-just-want-to-earn-a-living/
The BSA just caved in completely to the forces of “you will be made to care” and “no neutral spaces.”
AesopSpouse and I are drafting our resignation letters now.
Which is too bad — 5 Eagle sons, 1 Eagle grandson, 1 First-class scout, and 1 Webelos grand-daughter. Thirty years of volunteer service, and anticipating more, all good until the tipping point finally hit.
AesopFan: I read that about the Boy Scouts and felt, “Aww…why’d they go and do that?” I was a Scout for a year and enjoyed it before we moved.
Of course I know the BSA has been on this course for a while. Sorry it has affected fine folks like your family, devoted to the Scouts.
Of course I know the BSA has been on this course for a while. Sorry it has affected fine folks like your family, devoted to the Scouts.
NB. Some years ago, I had a conversation with a sister from the Congregation of St Joseph. She said that the number of women in her order who had made their final vows between 1970 and 2000 was about half the number who’d done so in 1961 and 1962. She said their median age at the time we were speaking (in 2001) was about 70. Justice would be served if the ‘Scouts USA’ suffers a similar implosion. They’d deserve it a great deal more than did the Congregation of St Joseph.
>The PsyD is not a research degree.
There is clinical psych (PhD) or PsyD. You are correct that PsyD is not a research degree.
I think we are beyond Orwell now.
Gottfried Dietze writing in 1968 foresaw aspects of this. So did others, at that time. I’ve taken to the view that the preservation of liberty is going to require that every jot and tittle of ‘anti-discrimination’ law applicable to a private agency in a competitive market must go. What it has decayed into is that lawyers get to second-guess everyone’s discretionary decisions.
“Of course I know the BSA has been on this course for a while. Sorry it has affected fine folks like your family, devoted to the Scouts.” – huxley
Thank you for the kind words.
To clarify for the benefit of the trollwatch, who, as part of the Internet Karenwaffe, report wrongthink to their handlers:
I have no problem with the principles of diversity and inclusion in their classical definition, and have practiced them personally and as a Scouter.
I led the first integrated Cub Scout Pack in our Texas Council, including hour-long round-trips to bring them to meetings and activities. (We took turns with the radio channels.)
I have given service to many black people in need of a helping hand, and become friends with all of them. I participated in the intimate personal funeral services that are part of my faith tradition out of love and respect for two of our elderly black members when they passed.
I do not need to be lectured about inclusion and diversity by the BSA as a proxy for BLM Inc., Antifa, and the Democrat Party.
shadow: NOW we’re at “peak crazy”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/06/17/snap-crackle-pop-determined-to-be-racist-n542693
Not determined, really, just alleged.
Best line – “elves lives matter.”
shadow, AesopFan: That’s the thing about “peak crazy” when we’re complaining about pussy hats, hideous public apologies and racist cereal ads.
It’s not quite the same as sending people to the gulag or to the wall. I don’t see America reaching that point.
Call me Ishmael; call me naive. I say, we will stop short of that. History doesn’t move in a straight line forever. Eventually it goes wobbly, then swicthes direction.
If history kept to a straight line, the hippie movement would have continued unabated and we would now be living in “Yellow Submarine[‘s]” Pepperland.
“It’s not quite the same as sending people to the gulag or to the wall. I don’t see America reaching that point.” – huxley
It won’t be for want of the desire to do so, but because other people stepped in to stop it. Unless the crazy peaks for real and dies down on its own, we are going to start talking about peak violence.
I hope we stick with the crazy, but the Unmakers feed off of the spirit that animates even the nonsensical stuff.
He most likely knows full well what happened in Stalin’s USSR or Pol Pot’s Cambodia, and applauds it.
Same thing happens in Maoist China, and leftists the world over are ecstatic about it and see it as perfection.
“It’s not quite the same as sending people to the gulag or to the wall. I don’t see America reaching that point.” – huxley
I fully see the rabid left doing just that. They’ve done it in every country they’ve ever gained control over, so why not in the USA?
He is more than welcome to have a go.
AesopFan, JTW: Sure, the Left is the Left, American or otherwise.
However, if one believes in American exceptionalism, on the basis of our founding and history, it follows that America may be sufficiently different to resist a slide into full Leftism.
We have seen that resistance over the years, from Nixon’s Silent Majority to the election of Ronald Reagan to the Tea Party to the election of Donald Trump.
We may go down eventually but it’s not because we’ve been as supine as other countries which went over the standard Leftist cliffs.
“We may go down eventually but it’s not because we’ve been as supine as other countries which went over the standard Leftist cliffs.” – huxley
Americans have several things that most of the other countries didn’t:
A history and tradition of freedom and self-rule;
The Second Amendment and lots of armed civilians.
Which is why both of those have been the prime targets of the Left, after the family.