Odds and Ends, 5/25/21

In der news. In all cases, emphasis added.

Very cognitive, very elite.

It’s “only a cold,” right?

Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 might also help the body clear the virus, if it hasn't already, Lledo said. And the shots should also protect people from losing their sense of smell even if they get infected, Bourhy said.

But, hey, Jaysus may not recognize you on Judgment Day if you get vaccinated, so there’s that.

Behold the female. Yes, it’s…"sexism. " White women whine and complain just like Coloreds…there’s a reason why “women and minorities” are a modern catchphrase.

Newly discovered!  See here – yes, that is a film clip of John Morgan walking home (and singing “Charleston”) from school, during high school, and encountering two afrowop bullies - starting at about 0:32.

Think Blue, Count Two, by Cordwainer Smith:

…The men laughed--both of them.  First, Talatashar laughed with all the evil in the world in his voice.  Then Trece laughed, and he was too young to laugh his own way.  His laughter, too, was cruel.  There was something masculine, mysterious, threatening and secret in it, as though he knew all about things which girls could find out only at the cost of pain and humiliation.  He was as alien, for the moment, as man have always been from women: filled with secret motives and concealed desires, driven by bright sharp thoughts which women neither had nor wished to have.  Perhaps more than his body had spoiled.

There was nothing in Veesey's own life to make her fear that laugh, but the instinctive reaction of a million years of womanhood behind her was to disregard the evil, go on the alert for more trouble and hope for the best at the moment.  She knew, from books and tapes, all about sex. This laugh had nothing to do with babies or with love.  There was contempt and power and cruelty in it--the cruelty of men who are cruel merely because they are men.  For an instant she hated both of them…

… You're not a person.  Girls aren't people.  They are soft and pretty and cute and cuddly and warm, but they have no feelings.  I was handsome before my face spoiled, but that didn't matter.  I always knew that girls weren't people.  They're something like robots.  They have all the power in the world and none of the worry.  Men have to obey, men have to beg, men have to suffer, because they are built to suffer and to be sorry and to obey.  All a girl has to do is to smile her pretty smile or to cross her pretty legs, and the man gives up everything he has ever wanted and fought for, just to be her slave. And then the girl--" and at this point he got to screaming again, in a high shrill shout--"and then the girl gets to be a woman and she has children, more girls to pester men, more men to be the victims of girls, more cruelty and more slaves.  You're so cruel to me, Veesey! You're so cruel that you don't even know you're cruel.  If you'd known how I wanted you, you'd have suffered like a person.  But you didn't suffer.  You're a girl.  Well, you're going to find out now.  You will suffer and then you will die.  But you won't die until you know how men feel about women."

Well, then. Smith/Lineberger knew a thing or two about real sexual relations. He knew about the Chinese character as well (given his family connections and history, not surprising):

The setting is the type of benign Venus imagined before the first space probes penetrated the clouds of that planet. Colonization has become stymied by the native inhabitants (loudies), who are apparently sentient bubbles that float around the landscape, getting in the way of human progress. Attempts to communicate with them produce no response. Confining them is useless (they drift back) and killing them produces a deadly explosion that contaminates a thousand acres (4 km²). The non-Chinese authorities of the early Instrumentality government have no answer.

The ruler of Goonhogo (the entity that replaced China under the early Instrumentality) decrees that 82 million Chinesians (men, women, and children) be dropped from space, parachuting down to the surface. Each one has a simple mission — herd the bubbles together. Many die in the process, both in landing and from the bubbles exploding. The rest corralled the loudies together into herds, where they eventually starve, wiping out the species. Meanwhile, more Chinese parachute down with rice seeds and begin planting. Eventually, by sheer weight of numbers, the Chinese conquer Venus.

Smith's point in the story is evidently to demonstrate how Chinese attitudes such as fatalism and obedience to authority, coupled with their large numbers, could outperform the "Yankee ingenuity" and "self-reliant individual" attitudes predominant in mainstream 1950s American science fiction of the time.

The displeasure of White farmers about government farming aid targeted to Blacks is yet another golden opportunity being squandered by Der Movement. But I suppose that White farming men wouldn't be too impressed by talk of Savitri Devi, Guenon, hobbit holes, The Homo and the Negro, as well as My Nationalist Pony.

An interesting comment from American Renaissance:

Sam Oranger 

Ok. Let’s be honest. Greg Johnson is gay and everyone knows it. The last thing this movement needs is someone who is gay. Our opponents will make it an issue and make us look weak. We have a very serious issue in this country with the LGBTQ garbage being imposed everywhere and anywhere. Nip it in the bud.