How appropriate, how exactly true these past weeks.
“White Logic” and “Jew Physics”
Campus radicals have refreshed an ugly 1930s trope.
When we think of “Newspeak,” the fictional language invented by George Orwell for his dystopian novel 1984, we typically think of powerful authoritarian governments manipulating language for the advancement of power and ideology. In such a case, the language substitutes for reality itself to protect the perceived infallibility of totalitarian leadership and its totalist ideology.
But the battle for language is not restricted to governments. Newspeak develops wherever a totalist ideology emerges—it is, in fact, a necessary characteristic of the ideology. Such battles for language dominance are ongoing all the time, and the chief locus for these battles is the university campus, that petri dish of leftist ideologies.
and,
The first part of the formula is little more than crude, circular sophistry—it means that I am correct and you are wrong, because I have critical consciousness and you have false consciousness. Because this childlike assertion is nowhere acceptable for modern discourse, an entire vernacular is constructed to prop it up, and mantras are repeated ad nauseam to establish a faux legitimacy. In fact, the endless repetition of bombastic assertions is characteristic of all social-justice themes.
plus,
History is replete with examples of this thuggish technique, with perhaps the most vividly obscene emerging from the Nazi period in Germany. In the Third Reich, anti-Semitism infected every aspect of German society, even the domain of science. This was most memorable in the anti-Semitism that corrupted the discipline of physics. In accord with the Nazi authorities, the work of Jewish scientists was delegitimized by declaration. The Nazis dismissed the theories of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr as “Jewish Physics,” “Jewish Science,” “Jewish World-Bluff,” and the product of “Jewish Spirit.” Something called Aryan Physics was erected as the authentic alternative.
and this,
The dullards and malcontents among us are always anxious to acquire by coercion and bullying what they cannot gain by merit. Because of this, their simple-minded doctrine is attractive for a certain type of disaffected bureaucrat. Today’s enemies of science, logic, reason, and progress have established beachheads on almost every campus in America.
Read the whole brilliant thing.
#26 Squawks
Say, who are these blocked potential participants in our jolly daily conversations? Are they people we know about, like Bob42?
My cardiologist doubled my blood pressure medicine and today I felt like I was wearing a lead suit. I had to come back home and hit the sofa.
My BP is still the same so…
I gotta go pack my stuff for tomorrow. I get to meet up with the new tenant in our B unit, collect money, get her to sign the papers that Hubby was supposed to get her to sign…/sigh I’ll poke a head in the A unit, see what kind of damage still remains. Get hours for Handyman so I can… Read more »
There are no ex-Marines, only former Marines.
I knew it was something like that! Thanks.
You guys are a barrel of LOL.
Be the ball-og.
Make every comment count.
https://youtu.be/RTDfPZyOEao?si=Op5mDiTCmkWSxcFS
Tedtam
There are no ex-Marines, only former Marines.
Sorry – I had a doctors appointment early this afternoon and spent the rest of the day studying for my blood tests tomorrow morning… That’s my story and I’m sticking to it 😉
I just hope we can do better tomorrow because this website exists for and is comprised of comments. There is no Hambone without comments. I can always unblock two of our most colorful participants if you would like. I m sure they both could compensate for today’s shortage. One of them is really eager to get back on. Since he… Read more »
i like pie.
I just finished my Latin class. We are assigned to write an essay of some sort, using information in our first nine chapters. We delved into Capitulum X this evening. There is a classmate named Michael, an ex-Marine (is there an ex-Marine? or simply a Marine not in active service? I know there are no alumni at A&M, just former… Read more »
The news out in the world today is exhausting to digest it all.
I posted slightly less than half of the 36 comments today. I know everyone has a life and is busy.
I just hope we can do better tomorrow because this website exists for and is comprised of comments. There is no Hambone without comments.
In today’s lesson I find that Nemo (nēmō, from “neque homō) means “no man” or “nobody”. So in the Disney fish movie the father was searching for no one.
And again, when I got up from my nap, it was getting dark but I could see Billy asleep in the section of the gazebo where I have cleared out some old junk and bushels of dry tree leaves. My CoH trash barrel was full and heavy today, but I’ve still got about 3X that much stuff to discard out… Read more »
I had an errand run to my bank, and wanted to mesh in some other chore. Couldn’t think of anything else, so I went by Walmart and got a few things. When I got home, I was surprised to see Billy Boy was still asleep in the gazebo. It appears I have adopted him!
I have the date for my next dental appointment. Originally, it was Dec. 5th, but I just got a call and I have a reprieve until the 19th. Gonna open a hole, shove in some bone and some kind of special membrane, close it back up, and pray for the best. If that graft does well, I’ll probably see a… Read more »
I think the word “Protestant” is just a catch-all…an easy way to reference “not Catholic or Eastern Orthodox“.
There has never been any real Protestant unity except at the most basic levels of Christian belief. It is near impossible to have a unifying intellectual Protestant identity when there are so many hard fought differences among the players.
Texpat @11:49am
The first comment on the Aaron Renn response is very good, too, notwithstanding the typos and somewhat disjointedness.
15 Squawk Yes. I read it. It was better than I expected from a worldwide communist rag. The first half of the article was pretty good and informative. Then it started veering off into deep leftist dogma and anti-American argle-bargle. Once they returned to talking about the JROTC programs, it got better. There are a solid dozen reasons for the… Read more »
Morning, gang. When I came through the living room this morning, heading to the kitchen to feed the cats, I saw that Billy Cat was curled up in the gazebo in the back yard. Now this is the first time I’m seen him in there when it hadn’t been raining dogs and cats. So it definitely looks like he has… Read more »
Anybody who has ever lived in the country knows that not properly closing a gate is a hanging offense. A 747 cargo plane heading to Belgium from New York was forced to return to John F. Kennedy International Airport after a horse escaped from its stall, according to the air traffic control audio. According to the audio clip, which was… Read more »
Texpat
Didja get a chance to read my links about military recruitment? Comment is here.
Tyler Cowen is an economist and public intellectual who is the main writer at Marginal Revolution. When he linked to my recent piece in City Journal about North vs. South Appalachia, I had more people write to me to tell me about it than about any other mention I’ve ever gotten. He’s a very popular guy. He recently put up… Read more »
Anyone who recommends banning TikTok in America gets mocked and called a censor of free speech.
Read this and consider the future of this country. I’m not advocating a Nikki Haley solution here, but this is dire.
Why the big Soros funded St. Louis DA resigned. 25,000 cases dismissed. 2,735 cases dismissed by judges for failure to prosecute. $351,500 in taxpayer money paid to an unlicensed attorney providing legal advice. Countless violations of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. A resignation just hours before a judge was to order potentially damaging records be turned over and a deposition… Read more »
Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin said there’s a possibility that Miami could one day overtake New York’s Wall Street as as financial firms worried about rising crime rates migrate to the Sunshine State’s business-friendly climate and its lower taxes. “Miami, I think, represents the future of America,” said Griffin, praising the city’s “Incredibly vibrant economy” in remarks at the Citadel… Read more »
We need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public,” Chambers said in a Friday Instagram post. “We need to make all of white America afraid that everything they have stolen is going to be burned to the ground. That’s what makes them listen.” since that commie appears to be white he should lead… Read more »
Yousra Fazili is now the Chief of Staff for the Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer of the Pentagon. Feeling safe now ? Fortunately for Shah, he had his Fazili family deeply embedded in America’s political establishment. Yousra’s sister, Sameera Fazili had been brought in as a senior policy advisor to Obama’s National Economic Council. And when Biden took office, she became… Read more »
This punk is not only going after Jews…it is every American. He’s a Communist Trust Fund Baby Who Inherited Millions. Now, He’s Using Daddy’s Money To Harass Jews. Earlier this year, avowed communist James “Fergie” Chambers secured “multiple hundreds of millions of dollars” from his family, which controls the Cox Enterprises empire. Now, he’s using his inheritance to bankroll a… Read more »
12 Super Dave
If you have a nominee to the Supreme Court who is completely unembarrassed to humiliate herself before 330 million people by refusing to answer, “What is a woman ?”, then you have a Justice who will believe anything and can be persuaded by the simplest of bulls**t.
Talk about a Grocery Getter; 1967 Chevy Caprice Wagon … Not just any Caprice wagon, but one that was ordered with the 385hp L36 427, backed by an M20 4-speed. 😉
Texpat, about the judicial appointment, I’m sure you saw the questions Kennedy asked of Ketanji Brown Jackson in her Senate hearing, she couldn’t answer basic questions about the Constitutions. BUTT since we really need a black female on the Supreme Court she was appointed anyway. This proves that the left just wants judicial activists on the court no matter their… Read more »
LINK was added to the OC headline story at 7:37 AM in case anyone did not go back and check.
I have no idea if the Oklahoma squaw* woman Biden nominated to be a federal judge actually is Wagonburner’s cousin. It’s just a rumor, but they do resemble each other. *********************************************** * The word squa, from the Algonquian Massachusett Indian tribe originally meant “young women”. It was a common, innocent indigenous term that over the years devolved into a derogatory… Read more »
There is a lot to remember as an American attorney. Out of the 1,330,000 lawyers in America, most are not litigators and may never set foot in a courtroom. There are tax attorneys, corporate attorneys, law professors, estate attorneys, real estate attorneys, etc. who may have forgotten the very important difference in a “Stay” and an “Injunction” because they never… Read more »
I have to get ready for my appointment, so I’ll leave you today’s link and roundup: LAPSES ☙ Thursday, November 16, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Good morning, C&C family, it’s Thursday! Your thought-provoking roundup today includes: exposé shows extent of oligarchs’ influence on media; thoughts on the climate scam; thoughts on digital currencies; UK Guardian says neopaganist art is on… Read more »
I have this glorious gold-capped molar with no opposition. Totally useless.
Unopposed molars.
I know something about that.
🙂
IDF video of Al-Shifa hospital and what the found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrdHC_Dui1U
RE: OC topic I’ve watched with growing consternation the censorship of speech that has grown into a tidal wave of hatred and intolerance. I am not amused that those who shut others down while calling their targets “Hitler!” and “Haters!” have obviously not made use of any mirrors lately. And they don’t even realize that they are what they see… Read more »
I don’t have a Twitter X account so I can’t embed this, but it is a perfect representation of the Left – the Democratic Party and the Biden administration. US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Biden nominees to the federal bench. The first apparently real descendant of Native Americans has been nominated to become a US District Judge with enormous… Read more »
I think our rain is gone for now, 2.09″ over 2 days of slow drizzle not any hard rain. Oddly enough this is the second time in a row that this has happened but it least it all soaked in.
I’d like to but if there is a link I’m not finding it.
Mornin’ Gang
I have a post-op dental surgery appointment for my last extraction (was originally a root canal, but without the tooth…ah, well). Discussion will center around getting started on the really fun stuff. It’s kinda like when the roller coaster starts…any second thoughts are null and void once the wheels start moving. But I really don’t have much of a choice… Read more »
I wasn’t familiar with the very impressive author of today’s headline feature essay. Here is his bio: Stanley K. Ridgley, Ph.D., IMBA, is clinical full professor at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. He is a former military intelligence officer with a Ph.D. from Duke University and has taught in Russia, China, India, Spain, and Colombia. He is the author… Read more »
Even though it is the G-D-less Chinese, this is impressive.
Texpat
I’m not seeing a link in the OC.
Good morning.
This is a thirty minute interview with the pilots of the first two F-16’s that got airborne in Washington D.C. on the morning of 9/11. Though unarmed, they were prepared to do what was necessary to take out the next incoming hi-jacked airliner.