This piece – about “Allies” who joined forces to make money off of DEI by capitalizinging on someone else’s jape, and went on to eat each other – is almost too perfect to be parody.
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Funny. Aren’t the faces on TV or the voices on radio called the talent? Like all those other people in the background, the ones doing the books and keeping things running are untalented parasites?
Looked to me like Miss Ghana thought of herself as the talent.
Hey. Watch the antisemitism, Mitch!
White people living in Western Civilization notice Other People mired in poverty, disease and war, and feel motivated to share their knowledge and wealth through Christian generosity. We made it, now we should help others make it, giving a hand to uplift our brothers. It’s the White Man’s Burden to bring prosperity and enlightenment to savages wherever located – India, Africa, Asia, America.
The British ruled India for 200 years. They ruled Hong Kong for 150 years, their island colonies in the Caribbean and the original American colonies about as long. They left their mark on those societies. Compare former British colonies to their neighbors – the uplift effort was largely successful (with notable failures such as Afghanistan and possibly Scotland).
The Other People resent being treated as if they were incapable of lifting themselves out of poverty, disease and war, as if their culture was not an equally valid lifestyle choice but was the root and cause of their plight. This leaves White people with the choice of conquering the Other People to force enlightenment upon them (for their own good) or abandoning the Other People to their fate.
Americans lack the attention span to devote 200 years to the project. Our government is too equally divided to maintain a steady course. As a nation, we should recognize our own limitations, and respect the wishes of Other People. If they want a hand up learning how to organize their society for prosperity instead of poverty, we should willingly provide it. If they simply want a handout while insisting on the conditions that prevent success, we should give them our best wishes for success but not a single moment of our time or dime of our money.
Time for Americans to release ourselves from our guilt and lay down the White Man’s Burden. Other People take notice: you’re on your own.
It is difficult to find much to admire about the precolonial world.
Plague and famine were common, warfare was constant. Almost all people, everywhere, lived lives characterized by ignorance and poverty.
Hawaii is an interesting case because, pre-contact, the Hawaiian Islands were isolated not only from the West, but from other Polynesian islands as well. Pre-contact Hawaii also had plentiful food, and everyone came from the same ethnic background & spoke the same language.
Pre-contact Hawaii had an extremely rigid class structure and a strict set of laws (“kapu”) that covered every aspect of life, including, for example, when a man might make love to his wife. They had only one punishment for breaking kapu, and that was death. The Hawaiian noble families (“alii”) were in a constant state of war with each other. All of the excess food and material produced by the Hawaiians were used by the alii to glorify themselves and to wage war.
MMP: pre-contact Hawaii doesn’t sound that much different from certain cities in the US – ignorance, poverty, constant warfare between tribes. Attempts to civilize them are actively resisted and bitterly resented.
I’m tired of being scorned for not doing more, for not giving more, to meet the White Man’s Burden toward Other People living in those conditions. I never owned any slaves, you never picked any cotton, neither of owes the other a thing. Persons of Color in Minneapolis, St. Louis, Philly, New York and Chicago take note: you’re on your own.
Something I’ve noticed about the “post colonial” and “anti-colonial” movements: The romanticize the past. They have to do this, because their ideology demands that precolonial Africa, Polynesia, New World, etc., could not possible have been worse than in colonial times.
Romanticizing the past, however, is a Western invention. Other cultures may have looked back on a Golden Age, but these were mythical. The Golden Age didn’t have normal people living and working in them.
So occasionally you run across something like the person who thinks something very much like Wakanda really existed. The weirdest, tho, is when you find a Native American whose imagined Indian culture pre-contact is obviously derived from the Western stories, novels, and films created by white Americans.
In the olden days, if you wanted to be treated like Someone Special, you had to do something to earn it. Conquer a foreign land, paint a masterpiece, invent a better mousetrap, star in a famous movie. The rest of us were not special, we were not entitled to anything, we made our way as best we could. Mostly, we muddled by and didn’t think too much about it.
Nowadays, everybody wants to be Someone Special without doing anything to earn it, Ms. Ghana being a perfect example. She expects to be rewarded for saying things, not for doing things. Which is fine – Bill Cosby was one of my favorite comedians when I was growing up. Saying things was enough for him to be rewarded because he was good at it. People enjoyed what he was saying and were happy to pay to hear him say it – but that doesn’t work for Ms. Ghana because nobody wants to hear what she has to say.
Ms. Ghana is like the crossdressers who are all the rage. They want to be rewarded for saying things but nobody wants to hear what they have to say and we aren’t willing to pay for it. Go prance in drag in your own living room, my kid’s schoolroom is not the place for Saying, it’s a place for Learning, and they’re having enough trouble with that, as it is.
This is kind of a thread jack, but I am going to post it a couple times anyway. I wanted to respond to the trolls comment on the jobs report, but didn’t have the numbers or quotes at hand.
First: we all know the jobs numbers usually get adjusted down, and have been every month this year, but I can’t find those numbers. It’s almost like someone doesn’t want them to be seen. I tried duck duck go, but just get lamestream mediot links (slimes, cnnlol). Does anyone know where you can find those numbers?
Second response to troll and his fairy tales about the jobs and economy: recession is looming:
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/david-rosenberg-us-economy-dead-man-walking-recession-hard-landing-2023-6
Top economist David Rosenberg says the US economy is a ‘dead man walking’ – and warns of a ‘hard landing’ ahead.
So no, not so rosy troll, and gropey joe is still a drooling imbecile.
Here is what ChatGPR say, kinlaw:
where would I find on the web the most recent adjustments made to the labor department’s job sreport?
ChatGPT
To find the most recent adjustments made to the Labor Department’s job report, you can visit the official website of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. They regularly release updated job reports and provide detailed information on any adjustments or revisions made.
Here’s how you can find the most recent adjustments to the job report on the BLS website:
Go to the BLS website: Visit the official website of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics at http://www.bls.gov.
Navigate to the “Employment” section: On the BLS homepage, navigate to the “Employment” section. You can typically find it in the top menu or the main menu bar.
Access the job reports: Look for a subcategory or link related to job reports, such as “Employment Situation Summary” or “Employment Projections.” Click on it to access the latest job reports.
Look for revisions or adjustments: Within the job reports, there is often a section that highlights any revisions or adjustments made to the previous reports. This section may provide explanations, methodology changes, or revised data. Check for footnotes, additional tables, or special notes that indicate any updates or adjustments to the job report.
Explore data tools: The BLS website also provides various data tools and resources where you can explore labor market data in detail. These tools may offer historical revisions or adjusted figures. Look for options like “Data Tools,” “Databases,” or “Data Finder” on the BLS website to access these resources.
Remember that the BLS updates its data periodically, so the most recent adjustments may not be available immediately. However, checking the BLS website is the best way to stay informed about any revisions or adjustments made to the Labor Department’s job reports.
I tried following those steps. Can’t find the data kinlaw wants.
MMP, you’re the Chat guru, can you get it to give us a link?
Let me take a look. One of the problems with chatgpt is that has no concept of what is real and what is not real. It simply seeks to provide the most correct answer based on analyzing your input prompt.
Maybe this:
https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm
I get the best use out of chatgpt by using its response as a starting point for research. Even when it’s wrong, it kind of points you in the right direction.
OK, wait a minute here. A woman from Ghana–whose ancestors experienced none of the crimes which constituted the “peculiar institution”, nor the deprivations of Jim Crow, gets to be an arbiter of the objection to American racism…..why?
Well, bike, just like a certain group of Somalis, who got dumped here by the Kenyan Clown and got free rides, she in an ingrate, turning against the country that rescued them from the third world shitholes they came from.