This is what it's like watching academics try to cure racism. pic.twitter.com/uLCXZJKaSO— Mike Nayna (@MikeNayna) September 13, 2020
ADDED: It's like a Jules Feiffer cartoon come to life.
ALSO: I'm reminded of the point in the 2011 Wisconsin protests when it seemed as though things had turned into "some sort of glamour protest."
(Photo by Meade.)
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Ah, the Old Dance of the Zombies. That should do it.
That first one is dancing in "black eye".
The kid is very cute, but so is the old man with the beard.
Personal agendas come first.
Pretty much.
"This is what it's like watching academics try to cure racism."
By showing that people of all background are equally ridiculous?
But such color-blind realism is itself racist.
"Whatcha talkin' bout Willis?"
It has been ever so: “One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.” ---Orwell
People will stop asking you questions if you answer back in interpretive dance
Ah yes, we have much to learn from these academics........
I haven't read her in while because I stopped getting the The New Yorker about a year ago, but Joan Acocella was (and probably still is) a great writer about dance. I always thought that was an odd thing to specialize your writing in, and I don't have much interest in the topic, but she drew me in. Now, with you Althouse, I'm reading about dance again.
Gee. Do you think they have Mommy and Daddy issues?
There's a lot of mental illness in this country posing as Woke.
The black kid has decided maybe whites aren't so smart after all.
I love the look on that kid's face. He knows those people are crazy and aren't doing a damn thing to help him. It feels like it's the same phenomenon as the people who speak in tongues while in church. Some kind of spirit empowers them, but I doubt it is Holy.
The system in which so many academics move - Critical Theory - is a closed system.
The system is purposefully impenetrable.
The system offers no answers.
In such a system, this dancing will be just as useful as anything.
I like the music. Anybody know what it is?
All those Feminist Dance Therapy graduates gotta dance! The power of education on display.
Garbage in, garbage out.
I used to believe in reasoned debate. Now I am embracing reasoned snark.
How embarrassing. That little boy's expression said it all.
Well, whatever their cause, I'm convinced.
Where do I sign up? Do I get a signet ring?
I'm feeling better already, but Winter is coming.
Even the kid knows lefties have gone mad.
Jay Vogt said...
I haven't read her in while because I stopped getting the The New Yorker about a year ago, but Joan Acocella was (and probably still is) a great writer about dance. I always thought that was an odd thing to specialize your writing in, and I don't have much interest in the topic, but she drew me in. Now, with you Althouse, I'm reading about dance again.
9/13/20, 9:05 AM
You should read The Newneo....She writes commentary, and was a ballet dancer...some of her articles are about dancers and dances she loves. https://www.thenewneo.com/
Wypipo be trippin'.
Narr
Academics, sure, but which one was the astrophysicist?
Academics rarely "cure" anything. The never build anything. Instead they lecture those that cure and build about how we are doing it wrong.
Were that foolish dance was the only weapon they used.
Drago said...
Ah yes, we have much to learn from these academics........
9/13/20, 9:04 AM
And if you ridicule them, the Left will call you "anti-intellectual."
Drago, don't you believe in science?
Blogger Wince said...
"Whatcha talkin' bout Willis?"
9/13/20, 8:56 AM
Ha Ha! Beat me to it!
Every protest that Molly is brought to becomes a party.
Reminds me of Elaine dancing on Seinfeld.
The Times of London has an excerpt from Titania McGrath's new children's book:My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism
i lived in Ames Iowa, from 1982 until 2018.
I can state with authority; That the losers that live in college towns are PATHETIC losers
Seriously, ANYONE that lives (or lived) in a college town for more than 6 years is a joke!
Watched the video. White folks don't have rhythm.
The STUPID is STRONG in these ones.
@gilbar?
You're a joke? (Ames for let's see, 36 years?)
Narr
I am not familiar with Iowa or college towns, myself
exiled: "And if you ridicule them, the Left will call you "anti-intellectual."
Drago, don't you believe in science?"
I simply don't believe in democratical/LLR-ical science-ical.
All those Feminist Dance Therapy graduates gotta dance! The power of education on display.
And they want construction workers, grocery store clerks, mechanics, truck drivers and other people scraping by to pay off their student loans.
Fuck 'em.
At least they can't be accused of Cultural Appropriation.
These are the people that should be running our country, for sure.
White folks don't have rhythm.
Differently rhythmed I think is the proper expression these days.
I had a lot more patience for the left back when they had fun. That’s the worst part of this dancing—it’s completely joyless, just like the movement that spawns it.
White folk be cra.
Well, the first comment beat me to my initial reaction, that I was watching a George Romero film sped up a bit.
The little boy’s face! He is the honest child in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.
And Wince wins the thread with the perfect allusion.
Looks very much like a voodoo ceremony. Watch this video [if you don't want to watch the whole thing, start just before the middle]: Voodoo scene from Black Orpheus
tim m said ...
That’s the worst part of this dancing—it’s completely joyless, just like the movement that spawns it
compare leftists to The Shakers
both groups were Very Full of Themselves, neither group will leave any progeny;
one group through celibacy; the other through child sacrifice
on the other hand....
The Shakers made nice furniture; can anyone point out ANYTHING (good) the left has made?
Narr pointed out my snarkiness, when he said...
You're a joke? (Ames for let's see, 36 years?)
i'm using the 'takes on to know one' axiom
Oh, sure, laugh if you want, but those goofy men are gonna get some crazy pussy later. I guarantee it.
John McWhorter often makes the point that these protests today are simply theater acts, people pretending to fight injustice or whatever the hell they think they are fighting.
He points out that when King was protesting during the day that at night he would be on the phone with LBJ working out strategies to get legislation passed. Or he and other civil rights leaders would to go Washington to meet with Congressman to get the Voting Rights and other civil rights laws enacted. It wasn't theater to them.
they would dance better and have more effect
...if their feet were aflame by their own Molotov cocktails.
(surely by now you've seen the video proofs)
You can certainly see the "WTF?????" thought bubble over that kid's head!
You can certainly see the "WTF?????" thought bubble over that kid's head!
The diversity divergence. Be wary of people with ostensibly good intentions who deny individual dignity, deny individual conscience, normalize color quotas, color blocs, and affirmative discrimination, not limited to racism, sexism.
That’s the worst part of this dancing—it’s completely joyless, just like the movement that spawns it
To lose oneself in a black hole... whore h/t NAACP. Life is such a "burden" h/t Obama.
St. Vitus Dance?
What do you call those scare-crow like blower-powered dancers used to advertise a business in a strip mall? I was hoping somebody would reference them in a comment. But I didn't see it mentioned.
These dancers seemed to be deliberately trying to imitate one.
That bewildered boy looking on is priceless. Also, it's nice that Walt Whitman showed up as one of the dancers.
Get a job. Grow up. Don't fuck so much.
Pretty easy.
The girl in Meade's photo is cute. She should be let off with a warning...and maybe a spanking : )
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