Put Phenotype Aside

This person is performing a routine centering black queer bodies in intersectional white supremacist spaces. This is an image from the student takeover at Evergreen State College recently.

They claim to be angry because professor Bret Weinstein refused to participate in Evergreen's "Day of Absence." This year, instead of people of color choosing to stay home, they demanded that white people leave campus for the day.

Weinstein has described himself as "deeply progressive." He wrote a letter to Rashida Love informing her that he "would encourage others to put phenotype aside and reject this new formulation."

Love, the Director of First Peoples Multicultural Advising Services, wasn't having it, and why should she? Black women built America, and black women are magic.

Rashida Love has achieved a level of woke that shouldn't even be possible, let alone meaningful.

The students at Evergreen are angry. It may have something to do with the fact that they are students at Evergreen, where the acceptance rate is 98.9 percent. Evergreen isn't anybody's first choice, or even fall-back position.

A smart person would go to community college and build up college credit. A moron goes to Evergreen and pays full price. A full-blown retard takes out student loans and volunteers for a life of indentured servitude for the privilege.

If you watch the video, it looks like a struggle session after the scrap-booking seminar from The Learning Annex. How is Evergreen State College preparing these people for a hostile world? By teaching them how to recycle?

Isn't the point of college to teach you skills that will make you dangerous, rhetorically speaking? Don't you want to be a person to be respected? The only danger an Evergreen alumnus will ever pose is to themselves, or the attendant at the King County needle exchange.

This is the logo for Evergreen State College.

Is there a back story to this, like how a five year old with Down's Syndrome and tremors did this all by themselves, left-handed, in a moving Volkswagon?

This is your problem right here.

Seriously, though, the moral obligation of the trustees of Evergreen State College is to close the campus and refund everyone's tuition.

Rough Night

Next time someone complains about the lack of female directors in Hollywood, I'm just going to reply with the words, "Rough Night." Directed by Lucia Aniello, Rough Night's synopsis reads, "A group of friends are horrified when the male stripper they hired for a wild bachelorette party in Miami winds up dead."

The trailer came on the other night, and my wife said it looks like a chick version of The Hangover. After watching the trailer, it looks more like a chick version of Weekend At Bernie's, because they drag that stripper's corpse all over the place. Leave it to an inexperienced female director to waste an opportunity to explore complex and disturbing themes.

What deeper material might Aniello have explored?

The male stripper dying could be a stand-in for the death of the groom's sex life.

Or, there could be a darker message, about the vulnerability of female sex workers and the very real possibility of death that lurks behind every client's door.

Or even the objectification of women that all too often sees male rage displaced upon women.

I don't think those themes are present.  I see a movie full of stupid sight gags. Like staging a corpse is supposed to be funny or something.

The women are trying to cover up the fact they tampered with the stripper's body so they drive around Miami beach with it.

In this shot, the corpse has an erection. How is this worthy of merit in any way?

This movie has Scarlett Johansson as the bride-to-be. That would ordinarily pull young men into the theatres, except Aniello cut Johansson's hair short and by doing so, stripped out a big part of her feminine allure. Men are going to avoid this movie in droves.

So it's a chick flick about women who commit an evil deed, then avoid responsibility for it.     Sounds like an abortion to me.

And check out the promotional poster.  What a mess.  They made Zoe Kravitz white.  They put dyke Kate McKinnon in, and gave her an Australian accent for some reason

The two women on the right have their teeth bared in a predatory and hostile display.  They are literally out for blood.

And they all wear sashes like they are beauty contestants.

In 2017, women can be just as predatory as men, but nobody will pay twelve bucks to see that.

Sony reportedly won a bidding war to land the script, just so they could fill their diversity quota. The Deadline article notes that Sony "is on the hunt for franchises, and the hope is that this could grow into one."

I have an idea for Rough Night II. Duke Lacrosse players meet for their ten-year reunion. They hire stripper Crystal Magnum, who "winds up dead." Then, amidst the craziness of trying to cover it up, they're ultimately brought closer together when it matters most.

I would cast Brock Turner as the captain of the Duke Lacrosse team. There could be a cameo by famous rapist Bill Cosby, who will play himself, and scold the boys for using Rohypnol instead of Quaaludes. Directed by Roman Polanski.

The SPLC Effect

One thing that helps push fake news out into the information ecosystem is the proliferation of 501(c)(3) organizations. They are cited as moral authority to boost the credibility of reported news. You know the effect has achieved singularity when C-SPAN covers an SPLC news conference on fake hate crimes, and then hosts the video on their web site.

SPLC founder Morris Dees is in the direct marketing Hall of Fame because he knows how to push worthless crap.

This appeal to authority is everywhere you look. NBC ran a story linking Sebastian Gorka to Vitezi Rend because Gorka wore his father's medal to an inauguration event. For added credibility, NBC quoted the Anne Frank Center For Mutual Respect.

The Anne Frank Center is a political operation that is doing little but "harming the true Anne Frank legacy and heritage," according to Alan Dershowitz.

The American Civil Liberties Union is yet another example of a partisan group that people in the media run to whenever they need the veneer of moral authority. And with more than one million Twitter followers and more than two million Facebook followers, it's hard to think of one with a broader reach.

There is a story in the ACLU's timeline about a "journalist" who was arrested for asking questions about the AHCA to HHS Secretary Tom Price.

The arrest of a journalist in West Virginia came against the backdrop of a sustained attack on the media. https://t.co/9vMPMSz0HU

— ACLU National (@ACLU) May 11, 2017

Dan Heyman is a veteran reporter with Public News Service. Go to their website and ask yourself whether they are a partisan news chop shop or, in their words, providing News In The Public Interest.

Looking at this picture of Heyman being detained, don't you get the impression that he might be slightly unbalanced?

ACLU might be concerned about a "sustained attack on the media," but Capitol Police are cognizant of protesters crossing boundaries, such as the woman who followed her representative home and tried to run him off the road.

But let's give Heyman the benefit of the doubt. What question was he shouting at Secretary Price and Kellyanne Conway? He pressed them to answer whether domestic violence would be considered a preexisting condition under the AHCA. As a veteran reporter, how could Heyman not be aware that Politifact rated that nonsense false a week ago?

But the biggest problem I have with Heyman's version of the events is omitted from the ACLU report. The Washington Post reported that he held up an iPhone and recorded the entire encounter. He has not provided video, but he did provide audio to WaPo.

A male voice instructs Heyman, "Do not get close to her. Back up." It sounds like the ACLU deliberately omitted the most important part, the probable cause for his arrest.

Why does the ACLU hate Kellyanne Conway so much?