Via Welch— Married. Plastic surgery. Depressed.

Is there any identity group remaining to which Kamala Harris won't pander. One wonders if she's not still running for president.

Her history calls into doubt those "favorite childhood memories" of the "whole family" gathered "across multiple generations" telling stories and lighting candles.

Kwanzaa, an American Black Power movement holiday created in 1966 when Kamala was 2 years old, really didn't start to go mainstream until the '80s, when Kamala was a teenager. Her parents divorced when she was 7 and she lived with her mother's Tamil family in Berkeley. The Tamil are not exactly known for their wild Kwanzaa celebrations.

Her British-Jamaican father lived in Palo Alto, in an area in which, by Kamala's own recollection, the other children were not allowed to play with her because she was black. When she was 12, she moved with her mother to Montreal where Mom had accepted a teaching position at McGill University. Again, not exactly a hotbed of Kwanzaa celebrations.

Harris' "what Chanukah means to me" pander is equally cringeworthy. In that one, her ethnically Jewish husband asks her what Chanukah means to her. She even works in the phrase Tikkun Olam.

Via Welch— Married. Plastic surgery. Depressed. ~ Crid at December 27, 2020 5:24 AM

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Nancy Pelosi's original stimulus bill gave us 600 dollars each, and yes, I'm fully aware there are other funds operating in this bill which are helpful, even if they don't directly put cash in your hand, such as supplemental funding for SNAP (formerly food stamps).

While I've read some sources that insist that this stimulus bill included 10 million for "gender studies" in Pakistan, others insist that was part of another bill, not the stimulus.

Regardless, my solution would be send all our gender studies majors to Pakistan. God knows they serve no purpose here, and I think they're just dumb enough to actually be sold on the idea.

...I think they're just dumb enough to actually be sold on the idea. ~ Patrick at December 27, 2020 7:52 AM

Somehow I doubt it. The type of people who major in grievance studies strike me as stay-at-home academics more than field researchers. That is, folks who want a comfortable sinecure in academia more than an opportunity to affect a benighted part of the world.

YMMV

Srinivasan has a frequent theme, expressed with concision as "exit."

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Conan:

Somehow I doubt it. The type of people who major in grievance studies strike me as stay-at-home academics more than field researchers. That is, folks who want a comfortable sinecure in academia more than an opportunity to affect a benighted part of the world.

You're probably right. Although, it really would have been a great way to get rid of them.

I'm afraid we're stuck with the grievance majors. Like algebra teachers who tell us that algebra will give us skills we'll need throughout our lives, but the only job it got them was a job teaching algebra. The grievance majors will have nothing to do except teach gender studies.

Though I imagine they will be relentlessly harassing authors, playwrights and screenwriters, insisting that they need to hire the professional grievance mongers in order to capture the nature of whatever demographic is unlike them (unless that demographic happens to be white, especially white males).

I was thinking Stephen King's "It" and the character of Mike Hanlon, the only black member of the Losers' Club. And I thought King did a very good job of making Hanlon relatable, even to someone like myself, who is a white male.

I couldn't imagine King being told that he has to hire a racial studies major in order to write the character properly. (Although King could have probably used some kind of consulting services when he wrote that book; the inclusion of a gratuitous underage gangbang was about as severe a lapse in judgment that any author has ever had.)

And it certainly was convenient that every member of the Losers Club was heterosexual, and none had any performance anxiety. And of course, they were all heterosexual.

Although, it really would have been a great way to get rid of them. ~ Patrick at December 27, 2020 1:29 PM

Certainly easier than convincing society to stop paying attention to them, which is what it should do.

Like you, I don't believe an author has to be a certain race/gender/orientation or hire a consultant in order to write a credible character not of his own race/gender/orientation. Some added measure of sensitivity may be necessary to do it well, but total immersion should not.

A shame that she probably doesn't have brothers or a father who'd like to explain to Mr. Galligan where he went wrong by *checks notes* helping him fall down a flight of stairs.

Context: he held on to that clip for *three* years.

Jimmy Galligan held on to a three-second clip of a White teenage girl saying the N-word while singing along to a rap song for years. He posted the clip publicly when the girl had been admitted to a university in order to ruin her life.

https://twitter.com/billygerent/status/1343246265904103424

Gamer Yule.

Speaking of lapses in author's judgement . . . I present the INvisible DraGon, one of the more famous webnovels of Korea.

https://ensjtrans.com/2016/05/28/invisible-dragon-chapters-1-9-20020725/