From the Department of “Huh”?!
Bookworm on Jun 19 2011 at 6:27 pm | Filed under: Silly Stuff
The alternative title for this post is “Sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander.” There’s also no real point to this post. I just found the story I’m about to tell you amusing.
While driving along today, my daughter commented that one of her classmates would be attending High School X this fall. (My daughter is going to High School Y.) She added, “It’s the right place for her.” Since I happen to know this gal, I asked “Because it’s artsie and druggy, right?” “Yup,” my daughter answered.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” asked Mr. Bookworm. I told him that, for as long as I can remember, High School X has been known in the region for drug problems, problems ascribed to the fact that the student body is comprised of both rich kids and kids from a nearby housing project. The former buy the drugs that the latter supply — or so the story has gone for the last 35 years.
Mr. Bookworm was incensed. “That is pure racist stereotyping. You have no reason to say that. That’s like saying back in the 1950s that blacks have white teeth and eat watermelons.” I couldn’t argue with that analogy, so I subsided.
Minutes later, we got to our destination and, as we waited in the parking lot for an open space, two women walked ahead of our car. Mr. Bookworm turned to my daughter. “Do you see the woman on the left, Little Bookworm? Do you see the way she’s walking? Women who walk like that are usually lesbians.”
Mr. Bookworm couldn’t understand why I was laughing so hard.
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. . . and that Book, is one reason I, as a gay man, will come out to a conservative, But, only reluctantly to a “liberal.” The liberal is quick to say the right stuff (talking points indoctrinated into his/her head), but doesn’t have an effing clue. (BTW – no offense meant to you or to yours) I’ll just “swish” away now.
People love ignoring what will bring down their egomania by a notch. Self deception is perhaps humanity’s best natural product and job.
Well, see – that wasn’t racist steretyping. That was just plain, every day, ordinary garden-variety steretyping. That’s perfectly okay.
Book:
The former buy the drugs that the latter supply — or so the story has gone for the last 35 years.
Mr. Bookworm was incensed. “That is pure racist stereotyping. You have no reason to say that. That’s like saying back in the 1950s that blacks have white teeth and eat watermelons.” I couldn’t argue with that analogy, so I subsided.
Just wondering: I hope that this is not the first time Mr. Bookworm has heard this story about the school, given the amount of time you have resided in the area.
Interesting that such a story has had such a long shelf life, and in deepest darkest lib-land, to boot.
Were Mr. Bookworm to spend some time at the school as a volunteer, I suspect that he might come to realize that the 35 year old story about the school has some truth to it.
When a wingnut generalizes, it is bigoted stereotyping. When a lib generalizes, it i s a trenchant, pithy distillation of social reality.
So do you think that he was scandalized over the stereotype that poor minorities sell drugs or that poor minorities see a demand and against all liberal dogma, surrender to their capitalist nature to make a profit and exploit the downtrodden rich kids?
That’s assuming any thinking went through Mr. B’s head. I doubt that. I most sincerely doubt that.
I know which high school you’re talking about, Book, and I’ll vouch for the accuracy of your daughter’s take.
They never see themselves. I don’t know if it is an inherited or developed trait.
Reminds me of the fellow Officer who sponsored me in Hawaii some 35 years ago. When he found out I was a Southerner, I received quite a lecture about racial tolerance. According to him Hawaii, unlike where I came from, was completely tolerant of all races, except of course, for those damn Samoans. He also told me that there was perfect tolerance in the part of Washington where he grew up. When I asked if there were any ‘colored people’ at all in that area he responded that, in fact there were none, but plenty of @#% Indians, and they kept to themselves. I smiled.
I swear.
By the way, the school district that the black kids come from, spends almost three times per capita on its students than any other school district in Marin County. They’ve been doing it for years. Despite pouring wealth down the rat hole, the black kids’ academic scores and performance remain in the tank.
Nobody will discuss the emperor’s new clothes, namely the toxic ghetto culture most of the kids come from, with its adulation of bastardy, truancy and deliberate stupidity. It would be racist to point out that these kids are never going to perform well as long as they are in thrall to African Americans’ sorry version of white trashdom.
You are right about the school’s identity, Charles, as well as the plague of the ghetto culture that we relentlessly fund.
priceless
>>Well, see – that wasn’t racist steretyping. That was just plain, every day, ordinary garden-variety steretyping. That’s perfectly okay.>>
And besides, abc will tell you that if it’s _true_ then it isn’t stereotyping…
My mother went to that school she was born in ’35, so it was in the 1940′s that from her experience she warned to watch for black people because a black girl had a knife pulled on her in X high school. She told me this when I was in maybe 5th grade so that was the end of the 60′s or so. Civil rights was coming into vogue and was taken aback by her coment cuz the black kids in my school did not gave me any grief and I chalked it up to “Once bitten, twice shy” like innocence shattered by a dog bite some will never trust another dog.
That’s because the money’s actually been going into kickbacks for companies, lawyers, union bosses, and the usual suspects. If you have ever actually seen what schools spend their money on, you’d be amazed at the sweetheart deals some companies get.
That’s not to mention the whole “X”th edition scam where they reprint basically the same book but charge you the hardback new price for it, year after year. What, they can’t offer a supplementary booklet that contains all the new solutions and fixes? Oh, of course not, because colleges and schools wouldn’t have to pay as much and the budget would be smaller next year.
Bookworm: The former buy the drugs that the latter supply — or so the story has gone for the last 35 years.
More than 35 years. My family lived in Upper Lucas Valley 40 years ago. My mother knew immediately which school you referred to and said, “They *still* haven’t fixed that place?“
Wow….just Wow.
Keep laughing, BW. It feels better than crying (or cursing), and it’s associated with better health and longer life.
*I* certainly feel better after laughing at your post!
Same here in Chicago. The drug market for the inner city drug gangs is the rich suburban white kids with the Mom and Dad-subsidized incomes. As the members of a charity (drug counseling) group working in the inner city put it to me, it’s a massive transfer of wealth from rich to poor neighborhoods that sustains the inner city economy. This is one major reason that politicians here pay only lip service to controlling drugs and gang violence in Chicago.
Some of you may have heard about the flash-mob gangs that have been plaguing the inner city business loop of Chicago lately, as we approach the height of tourist season. The most likely interpretation is that, now that Chicago has a new mayor (Rahm Emanuel), the gangs are signaling the mayor that, if he messes with their territory, they will mess with his.
That sounds like rioting Muslims in Londonistan, Danny.
The Japanese have a saying that being angry is bad for your health. The reasons I perceive is that higher blood pressure and stress overloads the human maintenance system. It’s a way to overdrive and NOX the engine. But it also means higher stress and greater possibility of catastrophic failure down the line.
In order to balance out the anger the Left feels towards certain groups, they replace it with a feeling of self-righteousness and the 2 minute Hate. It’s cleansing because it removes guilt and pressure they build up. It’s not their fault or problem to deal with. It’s your problem, that they are going to off load on you to make themselves feel better.
Mr. B here automatically went to the “self-righteous” egomania bit because he felt stressed and angry at your “stereotyping” to the kiddies.
When a Leftist gets angry, he’s like a monkey. He goes and finds somebody he can beat on that’s weaker than him.
First sentences of my post above should read:
“My mother went to that school. She was born in ’35, so it was in the 1940′s that from her experience she warned me to watch for black people because a black girl had pulled a knife on her in X high school.”
See it was the black girl that pulled the knife on my (white) mother not a black girl had a knife pulled on a black girl.
Sheesh. Note to self: never write when tired….Hmmm
MacG, I thought someone had warned your mother about that, rather than the other way around ; )
Btw, Book, you might be interested in this dialogue concerning MMA/TMA.
http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/reply-to-applied-force-vs-visible-force-in-tmamma/
It’s a more detailed analysis of physics in H2H than I usually see on the net.
Pardon the anecdote, but yours put me in mind of another.
Fella I have worked with for years, intelligent accomplished, rational thinker by day in his job. Not so much on politics etc. He’s a liberal, married to a liberal. I’m a conservative. I’m also Catholic which everyone knows cause during lent I eat fish on friday, and I got married in a Catholic church which they all were invited to attend.
So one day at lunch he was talking about his then soon to be High School graduating daughter visiting various colleges. Someone at the lunch table asked if they were going to look at Notre Dame. He said, “she mentioned she was interested in visiting Notre Dame but my wife and I talked her out of it. We didn’t want her around those people all the time.”
My friend, failed to compute that the three other people at the lunch table, that he had been “around all the time” for the last decade, were Catholic. THe other person he works with all the time, who wasn’t present for lunch, while not a Catholic, had actually graduated Notre Dame, and was apparently unscarred by the experience.
The man didn’t compute that the people he has spent decades working with and enjoying were all Catholic but somehow “those people” at Notre Dame would be a bad influence.
With such open minds and hearts . . .
Simplemind, it would have been interesting to hear what he found so repugnant about “those people.” Is it their belief in such horrible, simple-minded things as honesty, chastity, kindness and eternal hope? Nasty sorts, those.
Darkness cannot stand the light, for they stand opposite each other always.
Book, I have to ask, was Mr. Book’s informing junior Book a veiled warning to stay away from such women so she won’t get too close to one and catch it? I mean what was the point?
MacG, I think many leftists like Mr. Bookworm will claim that our sexuality is inborn, but secretly believe that lesbians send out recruiting teams to scoop up innocent little souls like his daughter.
It’s like my daughter said when she was in high school: it’s easy to spot the nonconformists. They all dress alike.
Charles Martel
Simplemind, it would have been interesting to hear what he found so repugnant about “those people.” Is it their belief in such horrible, simple-minded things as honesty, chastity, kindness and eternal hope? Nasty sorts, those.
Well, knowing this guy for so long, he doesn’t really think this way, he feels it. When he thinks about things he knows its stupid. The disconnect between reality and his prejudice make him uncomfortable because its his identity that’s at stake not someone else’s. Its what he was raised on. Even though his experience and intellect are to the contrary, his feelings trump all, because he’s a liberal.
Arguably that’s why he’s a liberal. Because it gives license to the emotions to trump reality itself.
Btw, when he said it I rolled my eyes and said “those people” . . . “nice”. He was quick to say that’s not really what he meant to say. And I did not destroy him, because while misguided, he is still my friend.
Book, Danny, Martel, Sadie, Suek, and company,
What do you think a real genius actually perceives?
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that geniuses know things better than other people. So when other people who write about geniuses, that are certifiably NOT geniuses, talk about how geniuses can accomplish anything without much effort or perseverance, who wins out? The journalist and TV writer that made up Eureka type geniuses, or the actual genius that knows very well the importance of hard work in obtaining human excellence?
And if that is true, gentleman and ladies… doesn’t that mean people who talk about being “smart” have the least idea of what that actually entails? Even if you use the bell curve and say 32% know what they are talking about, what about the other standard deviation of 68%? They must not know what the hell they are talking about, yes.
Which is better, hard work through perseverance or natural genius?
What’s it going to be in this America of ours. Smart people like Obama or dumb people like Sarah Palin? What’s it going to be, America…
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110619173431AAYVKiM
Reference link that contains two important links. David vs Goliath and how TV Hollywood sees as geniuses
Simple, people often need someone to hate and blame, because the harder path of self-improvement may lead to happiness, but it also requires daily effort, relentless optimism, and perseverance through hardships.
So this guy doesn’t want to face the demon within and defeat himself, so he has a 2 minute Hate each day on whoever he thinks is the Devil in disguise.
A truly happy and productive and satisfied individual, one with personal accomplishments and TRUE inner strength, will never speak badly about people with no connection to him. Especially those that have never done him any harm.
A Leftist is someone who thinks the entire world is their enemy, thus it justifies their cruelty and inhumane treatment of some “group” of people they catch in a back alley and then proceed to slaughter.
That’s like saying back in the 1950s that blacks have white teeth and eat watermelons.” I couldn’t argue with that analogy, so I subsided.
Huh? What’s that supposed to mean. Are black people somehow unable to have white teeth? Are they forbidden to eat watermelons (a luxury food in China/Japan)?
Simpleminded, thank you for your reply. I think your take on liberals’ thought/feeling processes is right on.
Ymarsakar, your discussion of genius made me think of Thomas Edison, a certifiable genius if there ever was one, who defies the pop concept of genius as somebody who doesn’t even have to try.
For me, Edison’s greatrness was not in the spiffy inventions he came up with, it was his idea to create a factory for inventions that was his genius. Imagine recruiting and equipping the best tinkerers and engineers in the country to deliberately come up with ideas, and then test the hell out of them until they either worked or got shelved for a later look-see.
Nobody had ever thought to do that before. The Romans didn’t. The Chinese didn’t. Leonardo came close, but he was a one-man shop. Being inventive was something that depended on genes, unpredictable strokes of inspiration and insight, and sometimes even divine intervention. But then along comes this Yankee nut who says, “Let’s create a process for inventing. Let’s make it an industry.” Wow!
There are characters in the Book of Revelation who will help usher in the End of Days: for instance, there is a False Prophet, who looks like a lamb and talks like a dragon (figuratively, we’re assuming). And then we have”The Beast” from Revelation 13, which is described as “coming out of the sea” with 10 horns, seven heads, 10 crowns and other body parts that do not even resemble a human body accidentally.
Check that out.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18757_5-things-you-wont-believe-arent-in-bible_p2.html?wa_user1=2&wa_user2=History&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended
The beast is simply adding in Therion and coming up with 666 in Greek language/numbers code. It got translated from Hebrew or something.
Anyways, doesn’t Obama look like a lamb in his 2008 campaign advertisement? And didn’t Obama talk like a dragon about stomping on bitter clingers and DC corruption? Does being born on Hawaii count as coming from the sea to the US?
I mean, what else were people back then supposed to describe if they saw a vision of Obama today?
Martel, there’s actually still conspiracists around that say Edison worked for big corporation GE and it was GE that stole and kept secret all of Tesla’s research so that they could sell a more inefficient way to generate electricity.
(These people, never had a bachelor’s in electrical engineering I can almost guarantee you that)
So realize this, Martel. The reason why we are reliant on foreign oil is because evil corporations like GE promoted Edison over Nicolas Tesla. If it wasn’t for that, we would have tesla coils generating electricity at 1 cent a terawatt!
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E1DF133EF932A0575BC0A9619C8B63
If you think the cockroaches are the only ones that will rebuild civilization after full world wide nukage…
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-clichC3A9-movie-moments-explained-by-psychology/?wa_user1=3&wa_user2=Science&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=feature_module
Simple, the mirror thing and the crowd thing, can both “re-program” those that have been brainwashed by the Left.
Ymar, remember that Zach thinks insects can have civilizations. In a recent exchange here, he said with a straight face, and apparently not aware of his absurdity, that ant civilization would probably survive AGW even if human civilization did not.
When I politely pointed out that only humans can build a civilization, he did his usual Zach thing where he drops off the thread long enough for a correction to move too high up for most casual visitors here to catch it.
Wouldn’t Z know ants? He could be a hive mind, you know. A network of Army ant colonies put together, right?
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