It seems increasingly likely that the rising generation is more likely to turn conservative not because they want to be rich, but because they want to be mean.
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“We maybe have socially conservative ideas about gender relations,” said Nekrasovoa. “It feels very dangerous to talk about this.” Khachiyan is less shy, and began ticking things off. “I think that women want a daddy, a provider, whether that’s the state or an individual man. I think it’s positive or pleasing when a man pays for you or compliments you. I think heteronormative or heterosexual sex is mostly about the male physically dominating the woman in the bedroom and both sides get off on that, it’s not a shameful thing.”
Murnane interrupted. “I don’t. If I could just care of myself, I wouldn’t care if ‘Daddy’ could take care of me.”
“I would!” said Khachiyan, grinning widely. “I will go on record as saying that I would not be podcasting if I could be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.”
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A friend of mine who was an early listener to the show explained that he had found in it “a thrill out of hearing these people who seemed to have no fear about violating the relatively new and very strict rules about how to talk and what to say. Not so long ago, I didn’t feel particularly constrained in how I expressed myself, and I didn’t feel out of step with other liberals.”
• Post-‘60s immigrants (two of the crew came from Russia) in the role played last cycle by the “white ethnics” unashamedly saying “miss me with that cultural leftism”
You look at the people saying interesting things about race these days, they’re pushing other possibilities, each with their three-letter acronyms. The left-racebloggers pushing “PoC”, “Persons of Color”, the idea that there’ll be white on one side and on the other this black-hispanic-asian-amerindian coalitional nation. The right-racebloggers “NAM”, “Non-Asian Minorities”, suggesting a white/asian against black/brown split.
Yesterday in replying to my post about new conservative energy in Portland poipoipoi mentioned clean-up-the-streets Asians as something to look for in Oregon’s continuing Californialization. And yeah, that anti-homeless “Montavilla Initiative” (w/ a bit more “we want what’s best for them, the outreach-resistant bums” figleaf than Orange County) is based along a stretch of 82nd that’s a big center for Asian immigrant small businesses
(It’s also where the county Republican committee meets in an Asian banquet hall, and where that civic parade was cancelled last year when leftists threatened it over the inclusion of Republicans)
And more than anyone, the journalist who got “Portland just lets antifa control the streets” into the national media last week was Andy Ngo, a local son of Vietnamese immigrants who came up through the confrontational conservative scene at Portland State University.
And on the other coast you have the current lawsuit against Harvard aiming to strike down affirmative action as anti-Asian discrimination, and the Asian community putting up fierce resistance to De Blasio’s plans to take NYC’s elite high schools away from pure test-score admissions as a way to get more blacks and hispanics in.
In a lot of ways it seems that the post-’65 Asian immigrant communities (you don’t really see this in previously established Japanese-Americans, for example) are taking on the role previously held by the “white ethnics” who i.e. backed Frank Rizzo and Rudy Giuliani – urban but outer-borough, tight-knit communities organized around small businessowners, in rough enough neighborhoods and on narrow enough margins that they don’t feel they can afford to yield anything in the name of uplifting the downtrodden (& who feel that if the downtrodden really wanted any better they’d pull up their bootstraps and do some treading themselves)
Anonymous asked: Asking on anonymous for obvious reasons, but yeah there is a Bowsette porn parody and I definitely know this because my husband shot it. On his birthday in just a few hours. He hated every moment of it. They only had a day to shoot the damn thing because Pornhub was getting so many searches for it by so many weirdos so they needed it ASAP. So thanks for ruining my husband's birthday people.
Been increasingly often seeing lefties claiming righties are “denying the humanity” of some people or “not seeing [them] as human” and righties being honestly baffled, like “yeah, they’re human, what… else would they be?”
More and more I’m thinking the lefties see humans as sacred, and internalizing this belief so thoroughly as to consider it a universal fact, so that if they see someone treating people as profane that’s the interpretive frame they go for?
The righties, of course, are divided between a religious camp that identifies the sacred as something external and superior to humanity, and a growing camp of seculars that’s not humanist but Nietzschean, which depending on how you take it has no “sacred”, or identifies it with the strong few aristocrats able to impose their wills on the world
Which is to say that I guess the 80s-90s religious warnings that a threatening rival religion of “secular humanism” was on the rise were… right? Maybe masked by the fact that the humanist and Nietzchean and remnant Freudian streams weren’t clearly distinguished yet?
Anti-Trump twitter: Rather than looking to similar American crisis points or reactionary backlashes like the independence movement, the French Revolution-era Alien & Sedition Acts, the Civil War, Reconstruction–
the new black pundits: hey wait
Anti-Trump Twitter: –Red Summer and the First Red Scare, the Second Red Scare, or the Reagan Revolution, what we need is a programmatic understanding of Weimar Germany
also Anti-Trump Twitter: The only way to stop rightist elements from consolidating a regime is to set fire to the federal legislature
Didn’t watch the Kavanaugh hearings but I followed twitter until 10EST when I went to bed and the consensus on both left and right was that Ford was performing left/female-idiomatic emotion so well the Senate couldn’t possibly confirm him, but by the time I woke up the left/right consensus was Kavanaugh had performed right/male-idiomatic emotion so well they were certainly going to so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
