This was written by an NPR journalist and, OK, we can dismiss it because nobody takes NPR seriously. But we have an immigration policy, an education system, and everything in between built precisely on this idea.
It’s very important that there are more men in teaching. Klara’s two main teachers in camp are young men, and it’s a completely different energy than that of women teachers. Different games, different ways of relating to each other. A lot of ribbing, a lot of daring. It’s great even for girls to have this kind of teaching. For boys, it is indispensable.
The naked, shameless neoliberalism of this:
Neoliberals like Obama have the same definition for many things, including citizenship and sex. They define a concept as absolutely anything except the actual thing. This “every way of being American” that Obama references excludes the only actual way of being American.
Reality is diluted into volitional content. Once there are no shared definitions of even the most basic things, our common public space becomes a war zone where people with the most power get to impose their definitions on everybody else.
People support this setup because, against all evidence, they believe that their faction will be able to bully everybody into adopting their definitions.
Forget farms. This is all a distraction, a red herring. We all saw many reports of large groups of migrants, brought into small towns in Ohio, Alabama, Pennsylvania, etc in 2023-24. They were not working on farms. These were people receiving government assistance and living in government-provided housing. Have they been returned home?
The conversation keeps slipping towards migrants who have been in the US for quadrizillion years and have jobs. This is a manipulative trick. We need to talk about the people brought in last Fall. They are not picking any crops. Where are they and what is the impediment to asking them to leave?
I have received an invitation to the following conference:
Announcing the 2nd Annual Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium, “Doing Less with Less, Effectively”
I am not going to participate, obviously, but the cult of austerity has become comical.
Well, at least the organizers have recognized that “online teaching” tends towards doing less and less.
JD Vance is clearly panicking as his chances for a presidency are being erased:
I don’t like him so I don’t care but it’s funny how the poor dude is jumping up and down like a trained seal in this long and confused tweet.
OK, I’m willing to accept the working hypothesis advanced by Omar that things went downhill in this country after she showed up. I definitely feel the decline every time I hear her screeching voice.
This is from last night in Kyiv:
No, I’m not in favor of preventative bombings of sleeping people because you don’t like their regime. I’m not on the side of this no matter where it happens.
It would be really bizarre if I, of all people, suddenly supported preventative invasions and regime-change-motivated bombings of peaceful cities. It would truly be the definition of hypocrisy.
Well, at least Canada is even more stupid:
That’s my positive message of the day, my friends. It’s downhill from here.
A conservative literary critic and college professor
Yeah, race trumps everything else… right up until a minority disagrees with the progressive party line. Gotta keep em on…
I hope he sells the rights to his story at least to defeat some of the costs of all this.…
OT: the holdout juror, now doxxed, is taking defensive PR measures: https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/2100022900396847407
Getting to know a writer is often deeply disappointing. There are exceptions. I once met a Spanish writer who was…
There was a hitch with the first generation of VK kids: some parents were SO determined that the kids grow…
You should move out west to Arizona. The desert humidity here is so low that you’ll never break out a…
Thank you so much! What a kind thing to say.
Just the one. 😉
Franzen is the epitome of an insufferable intellectual snob, the kind of whom we sooner or later learn that he’s…
That matches with my observations growing up around a lot of different Asian immigrants. I didn’t know a lot of…
Kid, how much of the actual history of Canadian immigration do you actually know? Human tribalism can be very ugly,…
We on your blog are all grateful for that professor, and for your great writings.
Yes. Unless you had 2 speakers who said the exact same thing.
I have a strong suspicion that this is a comment from the kick-ass speaker in question. 😉
Ha!
My husband and I once read a novel written completely out of clichés, but in all earnestness. We wept while…
She could at least thank God for her son before thanking the app 🤔
Guess he wouldn’t get past the 1st page in a Kristen Hanna book.
That’s exactly what I’m saying. Assimilation goes against nature and requires specific effort. Dude, even I need to ask questions…
Even the second generation doesn’t marry outside of the group if the pool of in-group prospects is wide enough. Or…
RPMC boot camp, really ;-D
As a said earlier, moving to New Jersey was the best thing to happen to my family. My parents’ families…
This is why I like to say that the best thing my parents ever did was move to the New…
Actually assimilation is not complete until they intermarry, there was considerable resistance amongst many ethnic groups in western Canada until…
True. People who have assimilated will not prefer to hire from their immigrant group. At an office party, they will…
Arg. CCP=PRC
The Viet Kieu I have known all my life assimilated remarkably well. 1st gen are obviously not Americans, but tend…
There’s a common idea even on the more “racist” right that east Asian immigrants assimilate unusually well. They seem to…
Exactly. There’s some sort of weird parental anxiety involved. Like if the child steps out of the hustle for a…
Free, unstructured time when kids loiter around aimlessly is the most developmentally crucial and useful. People want to turn kids…
Bykov is extremely talented as a poet. But in what concerns his prose, he’s nowhere near Veller.
Shoot, not just resume padding. I’ve watched way too many parents regard any lacunae in their little kids’ time as……
“perception is that you can’t be a just a good student who otherwise enjoys his friends, free time” They’re not…
“nobody has to be intentionally diverted every second of the day” I am soooo glad I finished school before the…
only writer of value writing in Russian today” What about Bykov?
There’s this panic among parents (and it causes a lot of stress to the kids) that you have to have…
He is also the only writer of value writing in Russian today. Meaning serious literature. There is good entertainment lit…
And then they wonder why people no longer trust MSM.
“Since then the share of foreign born population has gone up and up, even while crime fell and fell.” I…
No, I guessed because he’s the only Russian speaking “famous writer” who would make such a comment. I mean, I’m…
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