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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
In common with most sensible people, I believe that public funding for higher education in the United States, including student-loan support, should be strictly limited to mathematics and the real sciences—physics, chemistry, biology, and a few borderline areas like linguistics.
If you want to study law, accounting, business, journalism, education, history, classics, English, theology, or anything ending in the word ”studies,” fine: finance it yourself or find private sponsors.
(In fact if you want to study non-scientific professional subjects like law or accounting, do it the way Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, and a former girlfriend of mine did: by apprenticeship. In the case of accounting and my girlfriend, the key term in my native Britain fifty years ago was ”articled clerk,” but perhaps the terminology has moved on since then, if the system is still in use at all.)
I get regular support for this opinion from an excellent website called The College Fix. Not that they want to stop government funding of non-rigorous disciplines—I don’t know their position on that—but the news items they post about academia fortify my own position.
And I don’t agree with them about everything—I don’t agree with anyone about everything—but when I go to that website there’s a higher-than-average probability that I’ll come away either helpless with laughter or weeping with despair at the folly and lunacy running wild in our universities.
This recent posting was a weeper, not a laugher. I’ll just give you the first couple of paragraphs of the story:
A scheduled ”picnic” sponsored by the University of Nevada Las Vegas law school’s Environmental Law Society has been renamed ”Lunch by the Lake” due to ”diversity and inclusion” concerns.
According to a memo obtained by Libs of TikTok, the law group informed members that the word ”picnic” has ”historical and offensive connotations,” and apologized for ”any harm or discomfort” caused by its use.
UNLV law school apologizes for using word ‘picnic,’ changes it to ‘Lunch by the Lake,’ by Dave Huber, October 7, 2023
SCOOP: @BoydLawUNLV is scheduled to have a picnic event. This week they sent out a notice that they changed the name of the event to “Lunch by the Lake” because the word picnic is offensive.
They also apologized for the “harm or discomfort” they caused by using the word picnic.… pic.twitter.com/33te6oCSxB
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 6, 2023
If you follow the propaganda efforts of our Anti-white Establishment, you will know that this canceling of the word ”picnic” isn’t new. The College Fix tracks it back at least three years, but it was actually debunked as long ago as twenty years about, actually by the Black History Bulletin: Anatomy of an Untruth: The Controversy Over ”Picnic” and the True Cause of Lynching, by Yohuru R. Williams, July 2002.
The theory was, and apparently still is, that ”picnic” is an old word for a lynching party, with the second syllable I suppose an abbreviated form of <bleep>.
Leaving aside the fact that lynchees were frequently white—in the year 1950 exactly half of them were and overall about 27% (1,297out of 4,743 from 1882 to 1968 according to the Tuskegee Institute)—this is nonsense.
My Oxford English Dictionary gives the first appearance of the word ”picnic” as being in a French etymological treatise of 1692, where it’s spelt p-i-q-u-e—n-i-q-u-e.
The first English usage is in one of Lord Chesterfield’s letters to his son, dated 1748. Not a gap-toothed likkered-up noose-wielding cracker in sight there.
In the 21st-century U.S.A. we should not, of course, expect a university Law School to keep a copy of the OED on its bookshelves. That would be White Supremacist.
Having read that College Fix story, I consoled myself with the thought that the barbarian assault on our language surely couldn’t get any worse.
That was naïve of me. Browsing Twitter, I came across this little gem of negative-two-standard-deviations-IQ idiocy. The young lady here wants us to know that the common greeting ”Good morning!” is actually racist abuse.
Listen:
Saying ‘ Good Morning’ is racist according to this influencer.
The greeting is “really a mockery of black slaves.”
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 29, 2023
Transcript: It was really a mockery toward black slaves. And they’re makin’ fun of what they did to they people when someone was hung, killed, or sold off to a different plantation. So that was they way of being funny. ”Did you have a good mourning? Did you have a good cry about that person’s death? Did you have a good cry about your daughter being tooken away from you and sold off somewhere else? Did you have a good cry of your brother being hung yesterday?” That was they way of being funny. Good morning, everyone.
I await enlightenment on the true meaning of secret insults like ”Goodnight,” ”How ya doin’?” and ”Happy Halloween.”
Stories like that one of course leave me in a state of despair, as they should.
There can be grains of comfort or amusement even in despair, though.
My grain of amusement here was recalling a different spin I got on ”Good morning” when I was teaching English at a college in China forty years ago.
Chatting with some young male students out of class, they told me that when they started to learn English, they memorized the words ”Good morning” by using a Chinese approximation: 狗 逮 貓 娘 (gŏu dăi māo niáng), ”dog catches cat lady.”
This information came with some snickering from the students.
Apparently ”dog catches cat lady” has some salacious flavor to Chinese ears, or at any rate to young-adult-male Chinese ears.
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Back to the important matter of renaming buikdings, initially, I thought that the terrorist network that started Technocracy Incorporated and The Manhattan Project shoukd be renamed to The Frankfurt School, since that is their unerlying dogma and philosophy, then I came up with an even better idea, let’s rename it to the Columbia House Prison and lock up all of the professors in America that were part of the fake pandemic based on the fictious virus covid-19 and the BRAIN Initative.
It was Columbia University that did that and the hacker removed it from my comment.
Again, everything race-ist is great.
Embrace race-ism.
I’m fairly sensible, and I’ve got an even better idea. Student loan support should be given to anyone who is a good enough risk for paying it back.
That’d mean getting the US Feral Government out of the business of loaning our money out indiscriminately (or backing up banks who will) and leaving it in the hands of bank loan officers who’d be fired for lending $80,000 to an Art History major who will be back working at that same Starbuck barista job
45 years later.A free market in money lending – what a concept!!
Wow, what a great picture of 40 (?) year ago China! The girls didn’t have the access to the finest fashions at that time, but I’m sure they worked hard. Your picture reminds me of this English class, from roughly the same era but a different venue:
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This is what you get when you combine all the classic black psychological pathologies:
Narcissism, combined with egotism, combined with schizophrenia combined with deceit and dishonesty combined with pure aggression.
These pathologies, which all blacks display to a greater or lesser extent, is the simple reason why whites should put as much distance – actual physical, as well as habitational distance – between themselves and blacks as possible.
GOOD MORNING AND LET US GO ON A PINIC, if you have a problem with that F off
Who the hell cares? Whites are so goddamn stupid that they allow this shit.
Well actually picnic must be from pickaninny, coz we white devils have nothing better to do than obsess over our dusky brethren. And we probably liked to nosh on the young ones outdoors, aha, I see it all now. Since we can’t lynch ‘em any more, we have to content ourselves with wee, teeny-tiny, itsy-bitsy microagressions, which it amuses the ever vigilant to spend a great deal of attention sniffing out and getting all PMSy about.
Now what about “niggardly” – there’s a dilly! Sadly, we’ve forgotten (for now) that “Guinea” was once a generic term for blacks. “Guinea Hill” was the name of the black district in old Boston, then the Dagoes came and the name stuck to the newest arrivals at the bottom of the American social status ladder, my own dear predecessors from southern Italy. Believe me if you met my family you’d endorse the 1924 Exclusion Act that limited how could slip in to the country. Rumor has it that my own grandfather was rejected at Ellis Island back in 1908, but he rubbed off the X chalk marked on his coat and snuck into the “OK” line.
Back in the good old days, Playboy magazine ran a cartoon of an overseer in the cotton fields singing to his slaves the line in that pop song, “take good care of yourself, you belong to me!” What a hoot that would be to publish nowadays.
Agreed on your 1st sentence, Realist. As for the 2nd, it’s not all of us. Those who put up with this crap in their university classes or corporate jobs are weaklings.
We’ve had memos admonishing us about using certain words or phrases – nothing quite this stupid – and I ignore all that – I had the idea of replying-to-all on one of the stupider of the emails from the HR chief. It wouldn’t let me. The White people are too weak to fight this stuff will be too weak to fight a lot worse that these Commies have got coming.
“Weak” rather than “stupid”? It’s a combination – very stupid to be this weak so early in the “struggle”.
That illiterate black woman in the video wants to project power. In truth, she only has any if people allow it.
Never mind the stupid Changlish semantics, tell us about the punitive spankings you were forced to administer to those mischievous schoolgirls.
In the movie, 1988 movie “Betrayed” starring Tom Berenger as some kind “White raycisssssss,” they would kid another “White raycissssss” with the phrase, “have a nice day.” Apparently this guy became pissed off because this is what kike store owners would always say after cheating their customers.
Picnic comes from French and has nothing to do with race, but it kinda sounds like “Picaninny”, or perhaps even “Pickanigger”. Whoever wants to find racist meanings, will find it in everything, so it’s useless to even discuss this type of thing. Just ignore it.
Pace Nabokov’s famous line…
“(Lunch by the Lake, lightning)”
Love getting linguistic advice from nose-ringed buffalo gal.
I’m sure others remember several decades ago when a black would work hard in school to get good grades were accused of “acting white”. Kids that “acted white” would be harassed and sometimes beaten for this transgression. The thugs won and now you have “influencers” using the non-word “tooken”. SUCKSESS!!!
As far at “picnic”, “The first English usage is in one of Lord Chesterfield’s letters to his son, dated 1748. Not a gap-toothed likkered-up noose-wielding cracker in sight there.” You are probably correct about the likkered-up noose weilding but, good teeth on a Brit? I doubt it.
Back in the old days (not “back in the day,” as cretins say), college was not vocational school.
College was meant to cultivate and refine gentlemen by giving them a truly liberal education. You learned, for instance, to read Latin because a gentleman knew how to read Latin, not because it would help you get into med vocational school.
It is hell to live in a world of people without liberal educations, who don’t know who fought in World War I or II, who can’t tell them from Vietnam, who don’t know why airplanes fly or where Mexico is or the difference between Julius Caesar and a caesar salad. There is nothing to talk to them about.
And STEM people without a broad liberal education are just frightening autistics.
Yes, I realize that. I am also White. I get pissed off and do the thing I admonish the all Jews are evil crowd on this blog do. I am lumping all those in a group into a monolith.
Agreed.
Again agree.
Power only exists when the powerless acquiesce.
Thanks
Without STEM people you’d still be living on a subsistence farm. Fine if that is what you really want.
Personally, plus most others I dare say, prefer the conveniences that STEM people have made possible over the last 125 years or so.
You DO use a computer, right??? Drive a car, use the phone, etc. etc.
Apart from medicine, all other non STEM is of the nice-to-know variety: Agreed that it makes life more pleasant for many; however, having to live on a subsistence farm, how much variety and joy is in that?
There’s a degenerate sort who amuse themselves and aggrandize themselves by reproving and rebuking others, often for not using faddish terminology that persons such as themselves thought up the day before yesterday. Or by manufacturing specious arguments that you do not understand common-and-garden phenomena (see magazine articles with subtitles ‘the myth of…’). Refuse to pay them any mind and give them a rude response, and maybe they go away.
Typical halfwit. Didn’t even read what I had to say. Just trots out his little talking point. The one he trots out over and over again–never having even given it any thought. You can tell the guy who trots this one out (I’ve heard it from a million grade-school level commenters, again and again and again–so much it makes me wonder if they don’t protest too much) is an uneducated bonehead without the slightest sense of history, much less the history of science.
STEM autistics are as hard to talk to as your everyday normal trash without a liberal education. A full, rounded liberal education, seasoned by resolute auto-didacticism, is the only thing that makes one into a true human being, worthy of note, worth talking to, and not just an automaton or an animal.
Man does not only not live by bread alone. Living in a society full of so-called “conveniences” (conveniences that are often as inconvenient as non-conveniences) with un-fully liberally educated people for neighbors, is horribly disheartening and boring and frustrating and just plain stupid.
No, Real Men live by intellectual stimulation. Which can only be had by associating with people with broad and deep liberal educations.
And btw. Thank you, STEM autistics, for Agent Orange. Thank you for chemtrails. Thank you for vaccines that kill 20 year old athletes on the playing field. Thank you for thalidomide. Thank you for Teflon! Thank you for a world full of people with telephones grafted to their hands. I could go on forever. Really, when the list gets long enough, an intelligent person begins to wonder whether we really need these people and their so-called “improvements.”
“As for the 2nd, it’s not all of us. Those who put up with this crap in their university classes or corporate jobs are weaklings.”
So do you put up with it? Do you personally go to colleges and businesses and demand that they stop this madness? If not, you’re just as weak those who you chastise. No, you’d rather talk tough than take direct action.
On another note, for you to disagree with this statement “Do the freedom-loving conservatives of Unz support the government imposing this type of surveillance on the citizens? Do you support the police state?” is beyond the pale. I thought you opposed “Big Brother”; unless, of course, it is used against your “enemies”, right?
The ugly and damning truth is that most people are sadistic psychopaths. All psychopaths are sadists. They could not continue being psychopaths if they were not sadists. That does not necessarily mean that they are sexual sadists, because sexual sadists are rare because most people do not like being tortured, so it is difficult for sexual sadists to find anyone that is willing to be with them, which is why they are usually rapists and sex traffickers.
The proof tgat most people are sadistic psychopaths can be seen at both the microcosmic and macro cosmic level, of course.
The Manson Family find 60-100 Manson Family members in the pre-internet era could not have ever happened if sadistic psychopaths were merely 1-2 % of the population. The odds would be against them finding each other. That is an example of the microsmic level.
At the macro-cosmic level, over 80 million Americans voted for Trump in 2020, after he perpetrated that worst crimes against humanity in world history with the fake pandemic based on the fictious covid-19 virus.
Safer at home.
“Dog catches cat lady”, clearly an expression of misogyny, male suprematism and a rape phantasy!
I have read extensively about Klan and other extralegal executions in the USA and never encountered the word ‘picnic’. The closest term would be ‘neck tie party’ that was heard in Southern California in the 1920s. Picnic is modern fiction just as is the claim that the slaves kept account books to record their hours from colonial times to Juneteenth—when they allegedly hoped to present final bills to the plantation owners.
However the term ‘moonlighting’ is real. The plantation slaves worked dawn to dusk but some were allowed to cultivate their own plots and had to do this at night. So yes, ‘moonlighting’ is actually raycis.
‘Tooken’ is a verb form in Ebonics. Years ago Paul Simon defied boycott and had tried to popularise South African township music. I remember at a presser an American Bl@ck had asked Simon, “How could you hab tooken this music?” It means ‘taken’ but in the sense of stolen or confiscated.
“good teeth on a Brit? I doubt it.” Or a Yank at that time; remember George Washington’s wooden teeth. Nowadays, as many people know, American teeth are in a far worse state than British ones, at least according to a World Health Organisation survey. The thing is, they look better from some angles because they are bleached whiter.
Maybe you should reread what he wrote…
How ’bout “Lynch by the Lake?”
But that would be offensive to the Irish. But wait…they don’t count anymore, right?
‘neck tie party’
John Wayne uses that term in “The Searchers.” I think the word “picnic” may have been derived from the French “pique-nique” which dates back to the 17th century.
As The Derb says “We are doomed.”
Lunch by the lake? So an exciting waterside supper with riparian entertainments?
Fact check for Mr. Shire: Nice plan for law students but in the U.S. of today you can only study law by apprenticeship (it’s called “reading the law”) in one state, Virginia.
#25 @AntidoteToToxins:
“Years ago Paul Simon stole from Los Lobos by using them on his Graceland album without payment or credit.” I say we prick him and see if he bleeds.
FIFY.
Good job it wan’t the Golliwogs Picnic!
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Thank you for all your dim witted liberal science educated know-nothings such as the ones who proclaim that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
Or that math is racist.
Look at the world around you. Tell us how STEM educated people created the cesspools we see everywhere.
https://vdare.com/radio-derb/academic-insanity-america-first-youth-league-down-on-china-and-who-will-recruit-the-recruiters-etc
https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/RadioDerb/2023-11-03.html
For good measure, here is the theme from Picnic, at 2:19, after conjoined with “Moonglow”:
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That was released in 1955. Kim Novak is still alive.
Nah. They are just pulling our chain.
Here is Debussy Himself playing Golliwogg’s Cakewalk, from piano roll. It is a popular, well known piano work. For years I’d listen to that piece on records and never even trouble myself to look up the definition of “golliwogg”.
But wait: some poor guy is twisting himself into a pretzel over the title of that piece.
https://www.helpingyouharmonise.com/cakewalk.
He suggests renaming it – wait for it – CAKEWALK. Must’ve stayed awake late at night to come up with that. And Le Petit Negre has been renamed: Study in C.
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Honk Honk = Heil Hitler
We’re going to have to add an extra key to the piano keyboard for an acceptable 89, since 88 keys is clearly Nazi and simply won’t do.
Speaking of 88 keys, I would expect the Chinese to all be hoarding pianos, but I guess they don’t. Why not?
I assumed “picnic” originated from black African cannibalism and was associated with Bushmen enjoying a fine picnic meal of bushmeat.
Picnic = pick that nicca clean Kunta.
Questioning whether or not something is racist, is racist.
They were always racist.
The problem is that Physics is racist. That’s why stuff like being on time, manners, and math is racist.
Even existing at all is kinda racist, because Existence discriminates against non-Europeans. Especially non-Englishmen.
Someone is always better than someone else, therefore everyone should die. We are all equal in death.