White People Don't Get To Have Opinions About Non-White People
"Mattress Girl" Emma Sulkowicz posts at Instagram:
@emsulk
@oliviasulko caught me looking derpy with the Woman of Courage Award. From my speech today:Camille Paglia has publicly called my artwork a "masochistic exercise" in which I neither "evolve" nor "move-on." She speaks as if she, a white woman, knew what was best for me, a woman of color she's never met. Many people ask me how I've "healed" from my assault, as if healing were another word for "forgetting about it," "getting over it," or even "shutting up about it." To expect me to move on is to equate courage with self-censorship. The phrases--suck it up, move on, and get over it--are violence. People who say these phrases equate what is right with what is expected.
I think courage means, "Afraid in a way that makes you do what is right, even if it's unexpected." I dedicate this award to everyone who has not told me to get over it. Thank you for validating my fear and my way of handling it. Thank you for creating a world in which we can tackle the things that terrify us by doing the unexpected right thing.
Thank you #nationalorganizationforwomen
"Doing the unexpected right thing"?
Cathy Young writes at Minding The Campus:
Sulkowicz's account of her rape strains credulity to the extreme. Sulkowicz accuses Nungesser of an extremely brutal assault that should have left her visibly injured (with bruises not only on her face but on her neck and arms, unlikely to be covered by clothing in August and early September in New York) and in need of medical attention. Yet no one saw anything amiss after this attack, and both Nungesser and Sulkowicz went on to chat and banter on Facebook as if nothing happened. Sulkowicz's claim that she kept up a friendly act hoping to confront him about the rape seems extremely dubious, given the near-psychotic violence she alleges and the lack of any sign of unease or tension in their online conversations. (When I reread these archives recently, I checked the timestamps to see if there were any awkward pauses; there weren't, not even when Nungesser asks Sulkowicz to bring more girls to his party and she replies, "I'll be dere w da females soon.")Is Sulkowicz a "false accuser"? We don't know that. It's possible that something ambiguous happened between her and Nungesser that night--something that she later came to see as coercive and embellished with violent details. But I would say the odds of her account being factually true are very low.
Oh, and P.S. this notion of non-whiteness as a ticket to extra-special treatment and privileges (typically extra kid glove-ery) leads many people to strrrretch to claim a position as supposedly stomped-on minorities.
Take our mattress toter, Emma Sulkowicz. Sulkowicz's mother's last name is Leong, but her dad's this quite white Harvard-educated dude.
Poor underprivileged Emma.
Oh, that reminds me...anybody feeling at all sorry for the man in this, Paul Nungesser, whom the police decided not to even charge due to a lack of evidence that he actually did what he was accused of?
Instagram via @CHSommers
Is this article even finished? Seems like it just trails off with no resolution or conclusion.
Aidan at June 28, 2016 11:36 PM
If you don't think the end line is good enough, feel free to come up with one of your own.
Seems to me, however, that ending with Paul Nungesser, who wasn't guilty enough to be charged by the police but had his life ruined nonetheless, is kind of the right way to go.
Amy Alkon at June 28, 2016 11:43 PM
Emma Sulkowicz has a financial interest in not "getting over it".
So far, she has vaulted from obscure college student to a national name who:
- visited Congress to sit at the right hand of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) at Obama's state-of-the-union speech.
- graced the cover of New York Magazine.
- had a one-woman art show, covered in nice spreads in the LA Times, Huffington Post, etc.
- Received NOW's 2016 Woman of Courage award.
Written into her future are the likes of a book deal, tenures professorship, speaking engagements, and a run for a seat in a safe Democratic Party district.
Her instant, cost-free success is an inspiration to obscure SJWs everywhere. God help any young man foolish or unlucky enough to consort with their like.
Lastango at June 29, 2016 12:14 AM
Emma Sulkowicz:
How about "Stop pretending it happened, because it didn't"? Is that violence, too?
Repulsive, lying whore.
Patrick at June 29, 2016 12:28 AM
Then "non whites" don't get to have an opinion about white privilege, racism by whites, "womyn" don't get to have an opinion about "the patriarchy", atheists don't get to have an opinion about religion....
Having followed the story of Mattress Girl since it broke, I'll second Patrick's final sentence.
Of course if I were in the position to ask her 1 question, it would be "How have you healed from your nonexistant, fake, madeup lying scenario that you tried to ruin a persons life over"
mer at June 29, 2016 3:56 AM
But mer, it doesn't matter that she lied. Because patriarchy, and the fact that Nungesser is a white male, German! I mean, he's practically a Nazi! And as we've seen from Sacramento, Nazis don't even have the right to freely assemble, since they trigger people.
spqr2008 at June 29, 2016 5:14 AM
So Nungesser, doubtless on the advice of his attorneys, decided not to include Sulkowicz as a defendant in his libel action against Columbia and its administrators. I wonder if he's regretting that now. I understand why his team probably didn't want to do that (bad optics, sympathetic defendant, no possibility of recovery, etc.), but it looks like Sulkowicz is going to stalk him for life until/unless he takes legal action. If he wins his lawsuit against Columbia, maybe he can start suing media outlets who give Sulkowicz an open mic.
Cousin Dave at June 29, 2016 6:17 AM
Troll.
Banu at June 29, 2016 7:34 AM
Gotta admire Emma. She turned a severe case of borderline personality disorder into a career......
Isab at June 29, 2016 8:55 AM
The notion that whites may not have an opinion about the behavior of non-whites is the exact same fallacy inherent in the notion that the childless may not have an opinion about the parenting of others.
Kevin at June 29, 2016 9:59 AM
Race pimps gotta pimp, y'all.
Example: In 2010 Omar Thornton killed eight co-workers and then turned the gun on himself.
His mother would like you to give her money and buy her book about this sainted mass murderer, because institutional racism took her son's life, so not his (or her) fault, yo.
She provides photographs of herself looking pensively out to sea and contemplating how YT made him do it.
I am not kidding you.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at June 29, 2016 10:54 AM
Kind of ironic her father is a psychiatrist and she's a nutcase.
BunnyGirl at June 29, 2016 12:59 PM
Kind of ironic her father is a psychiatrist and she's a nutcase.
BunnyGirl at June 29, 2016 12:59 PM
Hmmmm..... The apple never falls far from the tree?
Isab at June 29, 2016 1:50 PM
"Hmmmm..... The apple never falls far from he tree?"
Lmao my one borderline client is a....university psychology professor with a large (female) following.
I get phone calls, emails, letters. She genieunly feels I am out to persecute her and lashes out accordingly.
I bet you in this persons mind she 100% believes she got raped. I dont care that she was nice to her "rapist" immediately after. My client was nice to me after the completion of our last project. How they get so many followers is what has astounded me.
ppen at June 29, 2016 2:53 PM
One of the craziest people I ever met was the daughter of not one but two psychiatrists. She probably never had a chance.
And I was stalked online by a woman with borderline personality disorder -- who was a psychology prof at a community college. Just as nuts but less well-credentialed than ppen's client.
Szoszolo at June 29, 2016 3:06 PM
I vaguely remember this story, this was the woman who dragged a mattress around stalking this guy for a year, no?
IIRC, she didn't have a problem with him until he started dating someone else, then she flipped out and used this as revenge.
Who knew it morph into a profession?
dervish at June 29, 2016 4:52 PM
"Hmmmm..... The apple never falls far from the tree? "
When I was in college, it was a common observation among the student body (and some of the faculty) that a lot of the psychology students seemed to be taking that course of study because they were trying to figure out how to do therapy on themselves.
"My client was nice to me after the completion of our last project. How they get so many followers is what has astounded me."
It's been my observation that a lot of borderlines and narcissists seem to have an innate ability to con people. That's one of the things that makes recognizing them so difficult for someone who isn't trained to do so.
Cousin Dave at June 30, 2016 6:33 AM
Harvard-educated successful doctor and businessman for a father, another successful doctor for a mother, and she got to attend a very prestigious school in Columbia, but she is soo disadvantaged and a "woman of color" because she is half-Asian (an ethnic group that actually fares better than "whites" in most respects). Not to mention lionized as a hero of womens' rights for making a false rape accusation and stalking the poor guy she accused for a year. Emma Sulkowicz is everything wrong with modern feminism.
Will at June 30, 2016 6:45 AM
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