For some people, their greatest accomplishment in life is a skin tone they were born with. If someone’s that great of a failure in life, I’d wager they’d be happy to pay to read books that tell them they’re special by virtue of not being one of the filthy mudbloods.
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If that’s the case, how are you deriving pride from the social construct of ‘whiteness’? An earnest question, I’m just perplexed by these two statements.
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Bless your heart.
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How about we all go read the Bell Jar instead? A fine novel…
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Or we could listen to…
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Maybe chop The Bell Curve up and make some bell hooks?
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All hail bell hooks, Queen of the fucking world!!!
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Hitting like just isn’t enough for this. So much concentrated awesome in one person.
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We are literally not worthy…
I’d love to hear her speak sometime.
I did get to see Spivak speak once… unfortunately, the folks at Emory felt the need to pair her with a group of profs from Emory, who just weren’t anywhere near her league. Sometimes, it’s best just to allow brilliant human beings to have a stage and let them bestow some wisdom upon us. We don’t need to hear the privileged profs at emory, thanks.
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Very far afield here, but the first Spivak that comes to my mind is always Michael Spivak who wrote one of the most (the most?) widely used calculus textbooks and also, strangely enough, created a set of gender neutral pronouns called “Spivak” pronouns. I remember being surprised which Spivak was responsible for a set of gender neutral pronouns.
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Ah yes, Charles Murray. And here I thought we’d all finished laughing at his bigoted opinions masquerading as facts many years ago.
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So what you’re saying is that you haven’t read it thoroughly and don’t understand what’s being said, nor how research has shown it to be utter nonsense.
Really? We can’t talk about why some people are unable to explain themselves when they say “I’m proud of being white” until everyone else has read a prejudiced book about how white people are the best?
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This could cut both ways, though. Want to say something stupid and racist? Go away and read “Artamène”* first. Then we’ll speak.
And by the time you’ve learned another language and read a couple-million words of 17th century French literature…
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Yes. Western Europe actually had very sophisticated martial schools - as well as just hack and hack swordsmanship. We are still just learning just how sophisticated some of the techniques were as we are slowly trying to reconstruct them from what manuals and sources exist still. But there were many schools and many different techniques, sharing many things with Eastern martial arts, because there’s only so many ways you can move a sword or a human body.
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