There is a virtual cottage industry among academics in publishing papers that declare common terms or items as forms of white supremacy. This inexhaustible source for publication expanded this week… Virginia Tech University socialogy professor David Brusma also declared on Twitter that Vice President Mike Pence’s usage of the term “the American people” during the vice presidential debate was racist and a dog whistle.
Source: Professors Call Out Beer And Beethoven As The Latest Examples of Racist Bias – JONATHAN TURLEY
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Blaska Policy Werkes 
What do I think? I think the Left has gone fully, completely, and entirely mental.
But then, we knew that. Plus, more Beethoven and beer for me. Yay.
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I’ll have a fifth of Beethoven and chase it with a Budweiser.
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Good think I don’t drink beer. https://www.amazon.com/Beer-Racism-Movements-Sociology-Diversity/dp/1529201799
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“Thing”
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Colleges are now merely BANKS , rebranded as “Education” (thus the skyrocketing “cost”, and usury debt-servitude in place) , and you will NOT get paid, tenure etc if your not parroting the Scripted Ad-dialogue written by your bosses. Like I said, The comic-book (written by the “victors”) badies (*Bier, and Beethoven) are an easy mark, a dog-whistle if you will. And all of the Jakob Schiff/WEC Internationale Communist youth brigade (of which Merkel belonged) will back up your play.
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Thank you for sharing this Mr. Blaska .
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So true. And so sad. College really used to mean something. It’s become a farce.
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The BS classes , and “Majors” meant to *sell indentured servitude/modern-day slavery to the average low ,and middle income (like a check’n to cash, and other usururious inner-city scams “Buy it Now” , the HSC 2008 etc ) grandparents, parents (co-signers who lose , lose, lose) Brainwashed, or insencerely LARPing as caring parents using “Higher Ed.” as a “gift” “they” can give their long unparented children. Serious parents , seriously educate their children about these SNARES , and expect their children to put in the work, both intellectually, and fiscally , to gain THEIR OWN rigorously thought out goals, and then they assist with confindence, and contentment at the results. I am one of the latter parenting types , and grew up a Dirt-poor semi-poc in a hood so diverse that I thought nothing of skin color, and EVERYTHING of character.
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*”your play” ( meaning commie “professors’ “Papers” ) lame-duck,good-minion, ignoramus “professors” of weaponized “education”, that also impoverishes.
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Lefties remain willfully, blissfully ignorant and lack self-awareness. Cryin’ Chuckie Schumer said ACB’s confirmation, “Generations of unborn will suffer from this decision.”
No, Chuck, quite the opposite. Because of your poor-choice, pro-abort, proglobotic public policies, generations of unborn babies were denied their fundamental Right To Life.
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Most appalling is that the same morally bankrupt virtual signalers who lecture the rest of us about right and wrong, have no problem with late-term abortions or letting the baby die after it’s been born. Sick b*s.
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Do those “morally bankrupt virtual signalers” include folks like Falwell? Pool boys, privates boats and planes, toe-tapping in airport bathrooms, hookers…..Seems this is not just a lefty problem.
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Why do you always answer a question by asking another one?
I’m no fan of hypocrites regardless of the ideology they hold. Most of the dishonesty RIGHT NOW, however, is originating from the left.
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“Why do you always answer a question by asking another one?”
From what I’ve seen so far, I think you have precisely nailed Richard’s problem. I hope
that he has the ability to think about that point over time.
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Liberty & Amos Roe;
It’s a mystery that you’s two insist on discovering the hard way that chasing the FOULEST of balls is a fool’s errand.
The Gotch
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Gotch & Amos,
I think most of us want to be nice and fair and have a decent conversation. The trolls that come on here however, make any healthy exchange all but impossible.
They’re constantly negative and overly-critical and won’t respond to legitimate questions or ideas posed to them, instead answering with a “Yeah, but Trump, or Yeah, but Republicans.” I gets old and whiny and ridiculous.
As if they’re going to change our minds. I proudly voted for Trump this afternoon!
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“Most of the dishonesty RIGHT NOW, however, is originating from the left.” Says a supporter of the lyingist president* in our nations history.
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“’Most of the dishonesty RIGHT NOW, however, is originating from the left.’ Says a supporter of the lyingist president* in our nations history.”
Alfred, did you see my somewhat long respond to JM about this issue in Blaska’s prior post?
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Sure he did, and he reacted THIS WAY or
THAT WAY.
Ah Lefty; so MUCH suffocating hypocrisy, so little time!
The Gotch
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“Sure he did, and he reacted THIS WAY or
THAT WAY. Ah Lefty; so MUCH suffocating hypocrisy, so little time!”
Yes Gotch, I know. What is so discouraging to me is how the determined mindlessness of people like Alfred, Richard, VinW and JM, which your two links sum up nicely, are really just such a direct assault upon all the kids in this world who are being required to pay for this kind of “thinking.”
I know that Richard is an older person, not sure about the other three, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that weren’t their case as well.
I think it really boils down to “ME,ME,ME” and to hell with where all this selfishness takes younger generations. Do they, or the vast majority of those who “think” like them, even need to hold so tight to their handful of slogans and mindless talking points from a personal economic position? Maybe, but I tend to doubt it, unless otherwise corrected. Certainly, this is not true for most people who think like them, in fact quite the contrary.
On the other hand, that $ motivation is obviously true when it comes to the the small number leaders of this current social and political madness which the rest of us are so dearly paying for, both now and in the future.
I guess it’s the way of the world we’re living in. Just keep trying and cling to faith is about all you can really do. Along with laughing and enjoying a very fortunate life that some of us do have.
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Ya’ really want to go there, Alfred?
I’m supporting someone (Trump) who is working to annihilate human trafficking, gave permanent funding for all-Black colleges, created major prison reform, is NOT a war monger, destroyed ISIS, puts America’s needs, including manufacturing FIRST (compared with Obama, who went on an apology tour, and Biden, who has potential conflicts with China) to name a few.
Let’s take a look at who you’re supporting.
Someone who lied about his involvement with China & Ukraine. Bobulinski, the veteran who was a business partner gave a full, compelling interview about the corrupt Biden Family, And not just hearsay, like the Russia idiocy, but real live evidence. How DID Biden become rich while in public service? At least Trump made his money before becoming president.
What has Biden done in 47 years of public service? What are his accomplishments? He talks about all the things we need to be doing as a country, but he’s had all this time to do it and has produced zilch.
Except of course for his crime bill, which resulted in thousands of Black Americans being incarcerated for non-violent crimes.
You talk about Trump’s tone?. Who said “You ain’t black if you don’t vote for me.” “Obama is the first clean cut AA in the public light (or something similar.” “Do you take drugs” (to a Black commentator), and “I don’t want my kids growing up in a racial jungle.”
So give me a break with your sanctimony.
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“I think it really boils down to ‘ME,ME,ME’ and to hell with where all this selfishness takes younger generations.”
It takes them to “Everyone’s Special means no one is” and Emotional Truth (heh!) trumps a fact-based reality.
It takes them to “Math, etc. is RAYcist” and that success and wealth accumulation are a zero-sum game.
It takes us to FreeDUMB Inc, et al, having seat-filler positions being staffed with talentless Bitterness Studies graduate grifters and being paid with taxpayer money.
“The American Republic Will Endure, Until Politicians Realize They Can Bribe The People With Their Own Money..” A. de Tocqueville
The Gotch
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Gotch, you reminded me of one of the “TikkunOlam” Left’s favorite word-bludgeons for their indoctrinated proxy (public school , Union proud)”children” , the “emotional intelligence” of ignorance. They use it to push so much GARBAGE-“think” to their CAPTIVE students ! . “derp, derp, Yes, 15 year old Alicia, and Juan , you deserve to Vote, and we should lower all barriers to illegal immigrants Voting etc etc etc. That would be the wisdom of your heart , and that is “emotional intelligence, Derp , *sputter, (drool) .”
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To be clear. I mean to say that your (Gotch) spot-on observations reminded me of some of the tactics the Left uses in primary ed. to validate the pre-pube, and adolescent “Feels” . Prime-the-pump before the lil’ ones enter college’s where they choose Fake “virtue” courses. “How to LARP as a slave, or Triblinka inmate etc. to gain more EMOTIONAL “intelligence’. ” Makes for good , weaponized, parentless drones. It takes a collectivized-hive , “village” , (a “Head-Start” helps as well) to get the result that we’ve seen.
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The Smithsonian Channel’s Treblinka: Hitler’s Killing Machine is one of the most disturbing programs The Gotch ever watched!
The Gotch
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Thanks for the recommendation Gotch. Trying to find the excellent 5 part series, I think by BBC, on education in Nazi Germany, which is so highly relevant today. It was on YT but I’m now coming up dry. Do you know what I’m talking about and have you watched that?
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Ah yes, State run British Broadcasting Corp. Public TV (mandarty fee) “For example, the BBC Polish Service was heavily censored due to fears of jeopardising relations with the Soviet Union. Controversial topics, i.e. the contested Polish and Soviet border, the deportation of Polish citizens, the arrests of Polish Home Army members and the Katyn massacre, were not included in Polish broadcasts.[53]….Et tui’ ? Cui bono ?
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“Boris Johnson pushes for George Osborne to be made IMF chief.” ,,,,,,,,
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Correction * “Et tu ? ” Thought you guys may like the commentary of Dollar Vigilante, about Groping , grifting Joe’s groping. grifting son. DV is hilarious and uses v.funny clips throught-out. BTW George (IMF) Osbourne is Director General of the BBC.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/K851XnKHRjIO/
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“Do you know what I’m talking about and have you watched that?”
No and no.
Trying a different search engine sometimes unearths what the previous effort didn’t.
The Gotch
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These people fall into two groups: true believers and those who know better but virtue signal anyway because they think it’ll make them more popular. In either case, they’re idiots. What else would you call them?
Do they not realize how insanely ridiculous they sound to the rest of us? The term “American people” is racist now?! What does he think we should be called?
Thing is, every time they do this, they’re detracting from REAL injustices, like say human trafficking. An initiative that Trump’s administration has spearheaded and most of the media ignored, BTW.
Scary times when people like this are in positions of power. Looking at you, Dane County.
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What do I think? I think this latest post is yet another example of David Blaska’s recalcitrant sense of white supremacy. Have you actually read this book David?! Or is it good enough for you to just sneer at ideas you can’t understand?
I think you can be a better person. JUST MAKE THE ATTEMPT. Here’s the publisher’s blurb which may, if you’d just open up your mind and spirit a bit more, help you understand why this is important for you to read:
“Beer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. Given the very quick rise of craft beer, as well as the myopic scholarly focus on economic and historical trends in the field, there is an urgent need to take stock of the intersectional inequalities that such realities gloss over. This unique book carves a much-needed critical and interdisciplinary path to examine and understand the racial dynamics in the craft beer industry and the popular consumption of beer.”
Doesn’t that sound like a good read, once you open up you mind a bit more? David? David? Come back here!
We can all do this if we try. I myself have been struggling with my own white supremacist demons over my love for Beethoven. https://musictheoryswhiteracialframe.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/beethoven-was-an-above-average-composer-lets-leave-it-at-that/.
Sorry, I meant Ludwig Von Beethoven. Didn’t mean to confuse him with his wife.
Anyway, please call me David, and I will come over, hold your hand in solidarity and we can work on this together. I love you Brother….I mean…..huh….damn it, what word do I use here? Help me out fellow human beings. This is SO hard…….but we can do it…..we can do it. I KNOW we can do it!!!
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Sigh!
Recall a couple of years ago the weepy Anheuser-Busch commercial BORN THE HARD WAY, where poor POOR Adolphus Busch was DEPICTED as having been treated real REAL mean?
The Gotch humbly suggests you pursue THE REST OF THE STORY.
Not unlike the whole Nick Sandmann/Covington HS apparent RAYcist debacle, am I right? Pick the narrative and run hard; Lefties (most, not all) won’t bat an eyelash as they start furiously start nodding their heads, furrowing their brows, and wringing their hands in clueless agreement.
“The Media’s The Most Powerful Entity On Earth. They Have The Power To Make The Innocent Guilty And To Make The Guilty Innocent, And That’s Power. Malcolm X
X has been dead nearly 56 years, so that quote is at least that old; the media THEN compared to NOW???
The Gotch
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Good links when it comes to some history background, Gotch. So interesting how an ad can be so distorted from reality. Hey, I’m really trying to be a good American.
I do disagree with the opinion of that St Louis Dispatch columnist though. I would prefer to see legal immigrants who are honest, hardworking and embrace the American dream, rather than rich white guys who end up giving Americans nasty swill.
And yes, I admit Busch did ditch his German roots and embrace America after he arrived in the New World. I will never forget that two day canoe trip when a slumming buddy, who volunteered to supply the beer, filled the big cooler with Bu$ch beer. His preferred beverage at home, BTW, is 100% good French wine.) My God that stuff is nasty. I had no idea…..kept hoping he had at least one six pack of Falstaff in there. It’s a good thing Busch left Germany before they put him in front of a firing squad.
Seriously, there are good immigrants coming from all different parts of the world. IMO Africa is one of the best. You may have heard of the dirt-poor black-as-coal Africans who come to the US and go to places like Harvard while sleeping on the street and driving a taxi. Those are the kind of people I think we need right now, more than anything.
Speaking of which, check out “Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna” by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton. One of my all-time favorite books and one that I think should be essential reading for all Americans from middle-school through elderly. Has some historically funny parts in there as well as profound truths about what it means to be part of collective humanity. He grew up Maasai and ended up emigrating to the US. A short and very easy to read book – I hope you and others take this recommendation to heart. https://www.amazon.com/Facing-Lion-Growing-African-Savanna-ebook/product-reviews/B002PYFWCK
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Normally wouldn’t bother with correcting a spelling error, but in this context maybe I should. Meant “hysterically funny” of course, not “historically.” The hyena hole his brother hid in to avoid school, the NYC women with the little pistols they would pull out of their purses and shoot you with if you so much as looked at them the wrong way, and of course that long plane trip from Africa to the US……
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UNESCO’s Julian Huxley eugenicist , brother of “brave new word” , “The partnership established between UNESCO and the Smithsonian Institution in 2009 is aimed at supporting cultural diversity and increasing understanding among peoples through the documentation, “PRESERVATION”, and “Dissemination” of sound and video recordings and educational MATERIALS related to intangible cultural …” My caps ,and quotations .
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I’m going to the package store for a quart of “designer” craft malt liquor. If it’s not there, it’s racism. If it IS there, then it’s racist cultural appropriation. I’ll feel the appropriate shame either way. (P.S.– I would NEVER refer to Mr Dogg as just “Snoop”, or Mr Cent as just “Fiddy”, or Prince as just …….(wait a minute) )
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When you’re a professor of sociology, you’re working in a field that’s by definition intellectually bankrupt, so it’s no surprise that your only contribution would be as vacuous as this.
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Several years ago, the Nobel-prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, responding to the trend in university English Departments of replacing canonical works by white writers with those of “margnalized” writers, said, “Show me the Tolstoy of the Zulus or the Proust of the Papuans. I’d be glad to read them.” Needless to say, his remark elicited outrage from the champions of multiculturalism (who themselves have a thorough grounding in those now disparaged canonical works but who want to deprive their students of that experience). Literature, like all the arts, is not an equal opportunity employer. Those who disparage geniuses like Beethoven (or Tolstoy or Proust) are indulging in the politics of resentment and have no business telling the rest of us what to read, look at, listen to, or think. Their real victims are college students who are now more likely to be steered into a course in African folklore than one that teaches the foundational texts of Western culture (assuming any such course are allowed to be taught nowadays).
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Gary, check out “Facing the Lion” which I recommend above. Also, give me Mbuti Pygmy culture and society any day…… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forest_People
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Ahem….Proust?! And I notice you forgot Moby Dick…….
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I much prefer the collected works of Maya Angelou.
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I understand your point. But I think that a good teacher, at whatever level you are talking, is very wary of a “choose A or B” model of instruction. I think that once people start throwing out particular examples of who are “good” or “bad”writers/composers/artists, and then apply this as a general rule for all students, they are either A)victims of larger political forces that they can’t control or B)not very good teachers.
Any good teacher understands that what is good for one learner can be the opposite for another.
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Incidentally, Saul Bellow is not my cup of tea either, regardless of any Nobel Prize he won. Again…….to each his own.
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Another Nobel Prize laureate/writer?
Hopey Changey** himself!
**Apologies to uncited contributor William Ayers…
The Gotch
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Central to all this, BTW, is the issue of timing. You introduce or require something that a student is not prepared for, and you risk turning them off for good. On the other hand, you need to also be aware of dumbing down a student. Figuring out the balance here is the very essence of a good teacher and it takes MANY years of experience in honing that skill. That is why the idea of outside politicians, special interests or administrators involving themselves in this issue is so fundamentally wrong. The point I tried to make when running for MMSD board last year was this is the same as stating that the CEO of Toyota should be instructing engineers on brake design. Of course no one ever took me up on that analogy.
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“…there is an urgent need to take stock of the intersectional inequalities that such realities gloss over.”
That’s why I drink beer.
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Try a few martinis, they work much better.
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Amen, brother. Amen!
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NOTHING spells WHITE SUPREMACY like COTTON.
WHITE COTTON is the ultimate White Supremist “SIGN”.
ANYONE who wears WHITE COTTON is a Racist White Suppremist.
White bedsheets ESPECIALLY …..
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By the way,
How come BLM-analfag have not torn down the “Statue of Liberty”?
By their account it should be THE target …. White immigrants “welcomed by it but dem po oppressed slaves forced here in chains.
They need to GET ON THAT.
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