Understanding Wokeness as a Make-Work Strategy for the Management Class

Link to article referenced in the video podcast above:
Wokeness, the Highest Stage of Managerialism
Well-educated progressives wield institutional power to impose a new political and social order.

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[ 09:45 ] The Consultant/Management class finding an ideology that allows them to be decide distribution of wealth

...basically looking to find relevance and jobs for themselves because we have this bloated cadre of liberal arts majors who their path to control and prestige is by finding an ideology that allows them to intermediate in terms of the distribution of resources...

[ 18:55 ] The Consultant/Management class as moral leaders demanding tithes from the productive classes or else we will burn in Hell

In Western countries truckers are melting down, farmers are just going totally wild and all of it is because in the productive economy people are tired of paying more and more tithes, especially in Europe. All of this is sort of situated in basic taxes on things that working-class people need to actually work gasoline. The gas tax in Europe which you know the managerial class says is it's for the good of everyone, it goes to things we all need like the environment.

It is really reminiscent of a tithe in medieval society, where if you don't pay 10 or 15 percent of your harvest to the church we're all gonna die, you will literally go to hell and your immortal soul will be down there forever. And this tithe goes to sort of feather the nests of these increasingly out of touch moral leaders of the flock.

The gas tax these days it doesn't really go to road maintenance it goes to hiring more consultants. These liberal arts majors are not going to get hired by Ford, they're not going to get hired by Exxon they're not going to get hired by anyone and so at the end of the day this class imposes a rising cost on ordinary productive class people by hiring their own kind.

...which is contributing to....

all of these freakouts like the Canadian tractor protests the stated reason was that these vaccine mandates but you didn't have to scratch the surface very much to find people complaining about overzealous regulation, rising taxes environmental fees and so on and with no commensurate rise in wages. This class of managers who tell us all that well you know we really have to pay them 20 percent of our income in taxes and fees because otherwise we're all gonna die like the planet will literally be consumed by fire (doomsday environmentalism)...

...these people they sooner or later going to hit a ceiling where they are trying to squeeze the peasantry for more tithe money and it's going to cost more than it generates ...what will that will produce politically?

...this is behind the immense and incredibly dangerous polarization in the US right.

[ 26:19 ] Refusal of the liberal arts soft science majors to realize their low worth, and accept their proper place working at McDonalds.

What is already happening in countries where both the working class and the managerial class struggling is the self-reinforcing cycle of violence and polarization.

One class says well you know I can't get enough to live we have to rob someone else and we have to pass different political laws to make sure that we get to rob our enemies of stuff then you know people react on the other side saying well you know all of these liberal demons or whatever, we can't keep living like this we have to push back the pushback generates its own pushback and off you go.

[ the Choice ]

are we going to

1. squeeze the nurses for more income make life harder for truckers and farmers...or
2. are we gonna say to the managers and the consultants "sorry liberal arts major Manager/Consultant...you're gonna have to work at the local burger joint".

If you pick option A, and screw over the truckers screw over the nurses and so on, sooner or later you're gonna start seeing the same sort of social explosions that you're seeing in the Netherlands that you saw in the U.S, that you saw in Canada, and they're just going to get worse over time but if you say

"oh well you know sorry uh I guess you can find a job at McDonald's I'm sorry but two environmental consultances is more than enough for a city municipality of 20,000 people"

...if you say that to these management/consultant people, they're going to start really really messing things up and they know how to do that because in some ways they're overrepresented in a lot of institutions with a lot of social and political heft in the West.

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Russia 2022 : Liternoye Assassinations of Executive Leadership by Vladimir Putin

Prerequisite historical economics: Gazprom is the state oil enterprise that historically has brought income to Russia by pipeline export to Germany and Europe. Gazprombank is the (massive) monetary transational enterprise connected to Gazprom exports.

Eliminated

• Leonid Shulman [ head of Gazprombank ] found stabbed in his home in St. Petersburg.
• Feb 25. Alexander Tyulyakov [ former Gazprom executive ] found hanged in his apartment garage in St. Petersburg.
• Feb 28. Mikhail Watford Tolstosheya [oil/gas tycoon from Ukraine ] found hanged in his home in UK.
• April 18. Vladislav Avayev [former vice president of Gazprombank, Gazprom ], along with wife and daughter. Mode of death: gun shots. Gun in Vlad's hand. Location: Moscow.
• April 20. Sergey Protosenya [Exec at Novatek natural gas], along with wife and daughter. Mode of death: Sergey was hanged, his wife and daughter hacked and stabbed to death. Location: Spain.
• Vasily Melnikov [ MedStom medical ]. Vasily, his wife and two minor children were stabbed to death in their own home. Office of Foreign Assets Control Sanctions Entry

References

Vladimir Putin — the ‘liternoye’ killer [ https://thehill.com/ ]

Here are all the Russian oligarchs who’ve died under strange circumstances this year [ https://fortune.com/ ]

THE SUSPICIOUS SUICIDE OF RUSSIAN OLIGARCH LEONID SHULMAN [ https://grunge.com/ ]

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Putin Analysis By Vlad Vexler

I've discovered political philosopher Vlad Vexler and endorse the majority of the insights in the following videos. None of the following are a general contempt or hatred of Russia and the Russian people that has become a new norm of Western progressives. One of the best takeaways from these analytics is the concept that there isn't a Russian citizenry, but rather Russian people living on a territory.

The Postmodern Hell Of Russian Propagandan [Youtube Link] offers an analysis that matches up with a lot of others regarding the Putin regime in regards to psychological warfare inflicted primarily on the Russian population and secondly on Europe and North America. The video explores and articulates the distinction between alternative reality propaganda and manipulation of reality propaganda. I recommend watching this video before the "Gone Fascist" video, at least to better understand context.

The REAL Reason Putin's Gone Fascist [Youtube Link] is in my opinion the most important video of ths series. The screenshots below highlight rhetorical phrases Putin used in a March 16th, 2022 speech (archived at the Kremlin website http://en.kremlin.ru/multimedia/video). The choice of phrases all in a single speech are worth the attention.

The REAL reason Putin might start a nuclear war [Youtube Link] is pure predictive and projection into the future. It is worth watching because of one premise it articulates and promotes which is that the Putin war methodology isn't a plan nor about meeting strategic goals, but rather adhoc escalation, creative destruction of the status quo international order. A gambling strategy of chaos to throwing the chess board in the air and see if the pieces land in way that puts Putin in a better place than everyone Not-Putin.

Origin of Gender Concept

My commentary before the encyclopedia entry.

I don't see any need for controversy on this. I once knew someone with Androgen Resistance Syndrome, they were active in the trans advocacy scene in Olympia/Seattle, and we used to laugh and joke, totally cool person that was cool with me. And that's a key part of the mix, a person on any point, or points, on the sexual spectrum of possibilities has to be just as OK or more with me for the whole tolerance thing to be a thing. I'm an athletic hetero guy that's attracted to intellectual/athletic females with having babies as a big part of that turn on. You have nothing but good to say about that.

But really "cheering on and supportive" is a silly naive concept of allyship. The most enlightened stance is ambivalence along with peaceful coexistence.

Final personal point: Conservatives shouldn't be outraged at other's sexuality. Those with a sexuality that is not having children are in a voluntary extinction program. They pour money into our economy, and then gone.

Final intellectual point: The inventor of the gender concept also says that heterosexuality is ideological. Remember this is in the branch of psychology, not biology. Ideologies don't have babies, biologies do. A fine counter to hetero-is-deological and can be undermined by ideological change, is to be biological and have offspring. One step further is to make your offspring wealthy and fit. The multi-gender proponents can win the ideological war, then they age into a personal life of irrelevance, and then gone.

End personal commentary.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money

John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a New Zealand psychologist, sexologist . He was one of the first researchers to publish theories on the influence of societal constructs of gender on individual formation of gender identity. Money introduced the terms gender identity, gender role and sexual orientation .

In his studies of intersex people, Money found that there are six variables that define sex. While in the average person all six would line up unequivocally as either all "male" or "female", in hermaphrodites any one or more than one of these could be inconsistent with the others, leading to various kinds of anomalies. In his seminal 1955 paper he defined these factors as:

1. assigned sex and sex of rearing
2. external genital morphology
3. internal reproductive structures
4. hormonal and secondary sex characteristics
5. gonadal sex
6. chromosomal sex

and added,

"Patients showing various combinations and permutations of these six sexual variables may be appraised with respect to a seventh variable: 7. Gender role and orientation as male or female, established while growing up."

He then defined gender role as;

"all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman, respectively. It includes, but is not restricted to sexuality in the sense of eroticism. Gender role is appraised in relation to the following: general mannerisms, deportment and demeanor; play preferences and recreational interests; spontaneous topics of talk in unprompted conversation and casual comment; content of dreams, daydreams and fantasies; replies to oblique inquiries and projective tests; evidence of erotic practices, and, finally, the person's own replies to direct inquiry."

Money made the concept of gender a broader, more inclusive concept than one of masculine/feminine. For him, gender included not only one's status as a man or a woman, but was also a matter of personal recognition, social assignment, or legal determination; not only on the basis of one's genitalia but also on the basis of somatic and behavioral criteria that go beyond genital differences.

Later he took the position that heterosexuality is another example of a societal and therefore superficial, ideological concept.

The Inside Story from Seattle Street Campers: June 2022

Dad and I went and talked to some street campers and a bail bonds lady in Seattle. One guy and his wife from the other side of the Cascades were camping with car and tent because he has multiple hospital visits for a leg thing over several weeks. Another guy moved here from Georgia after his mom died. He was on the street for a while. Then he moved into a shelter and now he helps maintain the shelter. They all warned us to steer clear of the dense encampment by the courthouse. They also said being homeless in Seattle was getting scarier because of tweakers.

We talked to them about the general homeless scene, and the Black Lives Matter protests, and none of them mentioned the lack of nice $600 apartments as an issue for anybody. So I just don't buy that, and all the expert sources I can find online agree that affordable housing is not the main issue for primary homelessness (squatting or sleeping outside.)

I also don't buy the story that "they aren't coming from out of state." For starters, Seattle isn't the whole state. People from Central and Eastern Washington aren't local. The South Sound isn't local. Maybe most of the criminal lowlifes camped out in front of the courthouse are local, but it looks to me like a lot more people are migrating to or through the city because camping is allowed and the city does help them - and of course because there are many luxuries to living in the city - but a lot less if it is overrun with open air drug markets and meth zombies.

I did learn that the ordinary campers aren't the problem. Some of them are actually making dangerous alleys safer. Most are only passing through, or working their way up to a place in a shelter and then a job and paying rent. However the policies which allow them to camp outside while minding their own business also allow crazy and bad people to camp outside, dying in despair, terrorizing everyone, including their fellow street campers. It's not viable.

And it's got almost nothing to do with the cost of housing, except that nobody's going to buy any of those places, build more condos and lower rents under these circumstances.

"Silence is Violence" is Belligerent Hate of Good People

The video footage of a needless murder of an arrested George Floyd emerged and people on all sides of the political spectrum were admitting it was time for police reform. A police reform bill was put forward by a Republican of African-American heritage, and it went nowhere because Democrats said it was not enough. Then those that held the editing power of the BLM website posted these lines which, ironically...marginalized hetero guys like George Floyd:

We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.

We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.

We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).

[ See my full list of quotes and analysis here: Black Lives Matter "What We Believe" Translated ]

...and then the massive all summer long property violence with interviewed perpetrators saying "We built this country, we can tear it down".

Mainstream America saw the highjacking of honest reform to serve something else...and they abandoned the pathological extremists.

It is into this chronological context the extremists dared to prominently display the "Silence is Violence" message. I had no reaction to the message until recently when I thought of real life applications in which it breaks into something wrong, then I realized how intolerant and belligerent the message is. It all begins with simple thought experiments.

Think of the archetypical Engineer type, or Science type (I have a Bachelor of Science and was a Software Engineer). They are engrossed in the subject matter of their work, and even outside of work their hobbies and reading interests tilt towards the complex ends of our material world. They may vote, but their conversations and passions are not in sync with social justice rhetoric.

Think of the archetypical Asian Restaurant Entrepreneur type (I'm good friends with a few). They are busy with their work lives. The work incessantly. They save. They try to keep as much of their money within their own family. They push their children to be as privileged and economically powerful as possible. They don't have time nor interest in helping local struggling communities, the historically oppressed, or send some of their wealth to BIPOC groups.

These two archetypes are silent and uninvolved in what the social justice advocates want dialogue on. And it is because these archetypical groups are too busy being more capable, intelligent, relevant and socially redeeming than the social justice archetype.

Pathology, incompetence, illiberalism, intolerance and belligerence are much higher in the social justice camp. When we hear such imposing messages as "Silence is Violence" we should respond with correction and make it plain we revere a few archetypical groups as higher in very real value due to intellect and work ethic over social justice activists.

Let them know their station and those they cut down are actually of greater value.

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Remedy and Inoculation Against Both American Left and Right Ignorance

I've noticed a kind of orthodoxy and USA-first/US-only perspective amongst many on the Left the last few years. Not a patriotic USA-is-great stance, but a focus on US history as the main or only history for reference.

A common rhetorical claim is that we (the US?) has historical amnesia, that these things have not been taught in school. I don't know how anyone gets away with saying such a thing -in my hillbilly Bible Belt Arkansas elementary school we learned of the Trail of Tears, the antebellum Southern slave plantation economy and more before sixth grade. A companion claim is that white people are uncomfortable with these historical facts and trying to suppress the information in schools or general discussion.

And what if this is true amongst some whites, or some particular school districts? (I mean historical amnesia or suppression of some historical events) The last thing I am advocating is enabling such a practice in any academic setting.

What I will advocate is more history, not less. This undoes abuses and prejudices from either extreme. Specifically, more history of the world, treating the US as a small footprint of both time and land area in the mix of it all.

In another of my blog postings The African Slave Traders Who Exported to the Middle East and Asia it undoes the myopic ignorance error of the 1619 agenda by highlighting slave trading beginning around 200 BC that involved no Europeans, only African slave ports created by an African society, Arab slave traders linking west Africa to Arabia/India/China and Arab, Indian and Chinese slave buyers.

I must interject a point here on war in African and Native American cultures regarding slavery - do you know what had to be done with enemies in war? I mean the ones not killed in battle and I especially mean the women and children. They were all either entirely killed or taken into slavery. Muslim kingdoms did this to Eastern Europeans (Ottoman versus Russian). In the case of Africa, the tribal societies made a business out of it, instead of genociding an opponent tribe they got a few foreign made items in exchange for the slaves. Don't wince at this little child, Seattle is named after a native chief that genocided the Chimakum tibe, killing all the men, women and children except a few, with the remaining few taken into slavery [Wikipedia:Chimakum].

How about expanding the mind of an American by finding stories of natives, trappers, colonial forts, and Wild West lifestyle (Cossacks) that is all in Russian territory? How about Russian trade in Hawaii before the US? Or indigenous natives (Ainu) with bows and arrows fighting the Japanese, and the indigenous natives are a combination of white and smaller part Siberian? Or those same Ainu moving north and battling Chinese and Russians, the same Russian agenda of fur trade that is operating in Alaska? Well, the set of Youtube documentaries below deliver on all this and more.

• YOUTUBE: Why the Russian Colonization of the Americas Failed
• YOUTUBE: Ainu - History of the Indigenous people of Japan
• YOUTUBE: Wild EAST: The Cossack World

True Progress is Not Pramila Jayapal

The Point is an Alliance of Radical Utopian Movements

The sex and gender distinctions within feminisms are secondary to the collective identity, hence terms like "person," "queer," "fem," "intersectional" "ally" and "LGBTQIA BIPOC" (which is intersectional and includes queer, person and sometimes ally.) It's easy to make fun of the alienating vibe of these ever changing terms, but that is the point of them: they are collective identities for radical utopian movements. They are not supposed to be tailored to your biology, psychology, personal sex life and local social environment.

The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict of not guilty.

I'm an urban liberal, no alignment with right wing militia types. If I was to see a 17 old kid planning to go out pretending to be a cop and/or first responder like Riitenhouse was I'd call the police to inform. Yet in the situation in which Rittenhouse fired it was 1) self defense 2) a situation of anarchy and wide spread property violence. He was being charged at by people involved in that property vioence. It is not ok to care about them. It is very seriously not ok to stand in solidarity with them.

This trial was really about the most insidious claim of the 2020 Summer of Love / Racial Reckoning: that there is a difference between lives and property, that we sometimes choose between them, and that we should always choose lives over property.

Dave Chapelle says if you take a man's livelihood you might as well be taking his life. Lives is a verb. (Pun intended.) People are the subject and property is the object. Killing either one destroys lives.

People who claim to value people more than property wouldn't actually piss on you if you were on fire. People who destroy property are the same level of criminal as those who kill.

It is not ok to stand in solidarity with them, and it is criminal to want them free and without prosecution.

If you saw burning vehicles and buildings, and thought it was ok in order to serve cultural change, you are a piece of shit and it's not ok that our society accepts your extremist views...and you.

Intersectionality : Allyship and Avoiding Exclusive Monetary Aid to BIPOC (Cronyism)

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Intersectionality

def

the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. -Oxford Dictionary

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Allyship

def

supportive association with another person or group. specifically : such association with the members of a marginalized or mistreated group to which one does not belong. -Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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The general flow of the semantics in the equity agenda is...

ONE...

There are people with greater and lesser points on the intersectionality scale. More intersectionality of historically marginalized groups means a higher personal score of oppression. A black lesbian is going to get a higher intersectionality oppressed score than a gay wealthy white male or a black heterosexual male. A caucasian heterosexual male means no historical oppression and labelled 100% privileged.

TWO..(what to do with the calculation from above)

The higher the intersectionality, the more that person is empowered by allies from the more priviliged end of the spectrum. The groups deemed privileged are to

1) stay silent allowing the marginalized to speak and write in any given civic forum
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2) vote for the marginalized (ONLY IF that person is serving the equity narrative, moderate POC excluded and despised)
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3) prefer the marginalized in hiring
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4) buy from BIPOC owned businesses, and finally
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5) prefer to grant government contracts to more marginalized owned businesses.

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As a moderate, cultural diversity loving urban liberal I want to declare I...

Oppose the Narrow, Racist, Heterosexual Hating Political Orthodoxy of Equity and Inclusion

...and offer my personal solutions to undermine this cancer of cronyism, racism and and sexual orientation favoritism that is the current system of intersectional allyship.

• If heterosexual then demand equal, vocal, positive acceptance of your heterosexuality, especially including desires for marriage and raising ones own children. Make all interactions of respect for LGBTQ as thoroughly mutual, where there is no reciprocal positivity then the conversation is over and no care either positive or negative is extended.



• Jews and Far East Asians (Chinese, Koreans, Japanese) have been systematically oppressed and killed, families unable to become citizens and forbidden to join professions. Yet, when they acquire wealth or high professional status their inclusion as marginalized is negated. There are attacks on them by other marginalized groups. I pledge to support wealthy Jews and Asians as equal fellow citizens. I pledge to fight any policies that would undermine their acceptance and enrollment in colleges. I pledge to always consider wealthy Jews and Asians for my vote in elections.



• In international affairs I will advocate for the nations of China, Japan, Korea and Israel be given equal respect and considered an inspiration for their success, and also considered in my own country as models for reforms and copying of successful internal policies. My political will for my United States is the acceptance of China's model of social rewards for the lawful and well-behaved citizens, and disallowing those with criminal records from access to better public transportation (such as highspeed rail), some stores and many other forms of convenience. In regards to radical militant Islam, my political will is that the United States aids China and Israel in combating any attempts to create Islamic-first territories. Saying this again to clarify -where there is a cultural push for an Islam-first separatist state the US business community and government should be aiding China in it's counter-offensive to such an agenda.



• Demand that histories all over the world are discussed with equal curiosity, and merit based admiration expressed for any culture that produces widespread civil peace, high standard of living and public safety, technological innovation and wealth spread more broadly than the leader's social-genetic circle.

I hope all moderate, diversity loving urban liberals have gained some insight in how to move forward to a better form of inclusion and allyship -a more modern, intellectually rigorous and less hate-oriented than the current illiberal extremism that has become a domimant unquestioned paradigm in the global West.

Stand your ground with your vote, your informed view, your political will. That is the fundamental node of legitimacy.

Seattle Urban Decline As Mobile Wealth Moves Leaving Poor

REFERENCE: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-ceo-citing-rougher-patch-with-seattle-looks-to-burbs/

Seattle's long climb up from crappy innercity ghetto of the 90's when I got here, to the new highrises full of, yes, biotech and internet tech professionals and wealthy condo buyers...seems to be at a turning point.

The 2020 property violence directed at everything new and gentrified in the city center along with a city council and city court system hostile to wealth and high tech has provided those with the means and ability to move to do just that.

The trend will be simple -mobile wealth will migrate to places where wealth doesn't endure crime and political hostility, leaving the less mobile, especially the poor, eating each other in the myriads of ways crime and poverty does.

I loved seeing the slow then rampant ascension of Seattle's urban core over the last 20 years, and I love urban over suburban in general. But the revolutionary paradigm changing goals expressed often explicitly by Seattle leaders and media, and also expressed in deed by radicals on the streets...deserve a direct slap in the face with what counts -a lower living standard via violence and poverty.

Poetic summation: The wealthy won't feel this hurt. The cleaning lady that gets assaulted at the bus stop...will. And the radicals will never have a mea culpa - all they see is a revolution in their heads.

The African Slave Traders Who Exported to the Middle East and Asia

 The Age of European Exploration is not the first era of long-distance trade-oriented intercontinental networking. Nor is it the first to use and trade in slaves.

In Africa, the Swahili Coast (Somalia, Mozambique, Zanzibar, Tanzania) was the region of world renowned city-states trading with Arabia, India and China beginning over 2000 years ago. As an early year marker, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was buried in 157 BC, four African elelphant tusks occupied the Emporer to his grave. 

The trade was enabled by the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean, and their seasonal flipping of directions. December to March the "trade winds" blew northeasterly, providing a push on sails to go from Africa to Arabia and India. April to November the winds blew southwest providing power for boats to move from Asia to East Africa. This provided the seafaring traders the ability to make a round trip within one year's time.

Archeological evidence has established that the main Swahili city-states had built themselves up with wealth, substantial infrastructure, building sophistication, and appreciation for foreign fine goods...long before Arabic Islamic influence existed. Popular imports into Africa from the Indian Ocean included glassware and pottery, jewelry, paper, paints, books, gunpowder, pointy weapons, silk, and other precious fabrics.

While the trading abilities and urban sophistication can be directly credited to African indigenous origin, it was the linkage with Arabic Islamic culture and the Muslim far-stretching empire that provided the Swahili port cities an uptick in trade. It is early on in Islam that trade in slaves became a major part of the cultural exchanges, and the Swahili coast began to be the primary source for African slaves exported to the Middle East, India and China.

From "Forgotten History of African Slavery in China" (areomagazine.com )[link]:

The first Africans arrived in China as gifts from the King of Kalinga in Java to the Tang emperor in 813 A.D. These young boys and girls were treated as exotic ornaments, no different from the rhinoceros and other animals they were presented alongside. The Chinese called them Zangzi, a reference to Zanzibar, which at that time described the whole length of the Eastern African coastal region, including Madagascar.

In later accounts, African slaves turn up as the personal property of Arab merchants residing in Chinese port cities such as Guangzhou (map), which housed a significant Arab community. The average Guangzhou resident is likely to have encountered Africans as she went about her daily tasks. Eventually, wealthy Chinese also started demanding such slaves in large numbers. This required a supply line beginning from East Africa, traversing the Indian Ocean, stopping in India and finally crossing the Malaccan Straits to reach the port cities of China.

Before closing with a strong invite to read or view the references below, here are some thoughts and thought experiments.

Picture the highest classes of society in the Swahili port cities, keeping the rare and precious imports within their cities, mostly in their homes, unapologetically engaged in exporting Africans to the Middle East and Asia. This breaks the false narrative of African solidarity opposed to an unfair, cruel, merchantilist world. They are the merchants. There is no such African solidarity.

It is a false equivalence to point to these merchants of slavery as the same as US southern plantation owners. It is easy to break that equivalence by this simple thought experiment: proponents within US southern plantation culture stated many times over that blacks are suited only for slavery. Can we imagine the elite wealthy slave trading blacks of the African coast saying the same thing? Of course not. The US plantation south taught some things about human subgroups (black) that was untrue propaganda aimed at their own selves to feel better about the whole slave owning arrangement. The elite blacks of the Swahili port cities practiced no such indoctrination.

Advocates for "indigenous ways" who take that stance without nuance or knowledge are missing out on a horror they invite back into our world. Where did all these slaves come from through those many centuries of the African port cities? They came from the interior and a product of raids and contentious battles. Indigenous cultures didn't have prisons like their contemporaries in the Roman and Persian sphere. At the end of a battle the losing side faced two primary outcomes: total annihilation or bondage. As hostiles against the victorious group, they can't be let lose to win on another day. They have to be deleted from the region that day, either through death or exported in bondage as forced wives or forced workers.

Finally, the idea of "Kunlun", dark people, in pre-modern China is fascinating. The Chinese gave the kunlun title to any from deep southeast Asia or Africa. The Chinese took many female slaves from Korea, but didn't refer to them as kunlun, rather they remarked how Korean women where so white (white is a beauty standard first mentioned in writings as far back as 1100 BC, 3000 years old). The native peoples from the Philippines to Indonesia, much less Australia, are very dark. Here is my suggestion for the seismic rift between these people -thousands of years living on the edge of glaciers of the last glacial maximum (link). What we call Asians of the Far East were hunter-gatherers on glacial ice, and that environment molded them to be better suited for the environs with wider heads, slanted eyes for snow glare, and other physical traits. Africa and areas south of Asia didn't get that ice, and thus didn't get shapped by it over thousands of years. Therein is the difference that isn't cultural or made up in our minds.

REFERENCES

1. The Swahili Culture 0 to 1500 AD (Youtube)
2. Forgotten History of African Slavery in China (areomagazine.com )
3. Kunlun Nu ( Wikipedia ) A Tang Dynasty era novel about a black man in China.
4. Slavery in China ( Wikipedia )
5. Kunlun People China <-Google Search
6. The Blacks of Premodern China ( University of Pennsylvania Press ) Read the excerpt, it has the a free reprint of the entire introduction within the book.
8. Chinese-style ceramics in East Africa from the 9th to 16th century (journals.openedition.org)

My Self-Identity : Pronoun Declaration ...and more

I self-identify as a he, and feel more information should be presented in the interest of self-identifying and proper representation.

I was born a male, and became a heterosexual male with the onset of puberty.

I have never been medically diagnosed with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS). So my gender status at birth continued to genetically express like the majority of mammals.

I have never been evaluated by a psychiatrist as having gender dysphoria. Nor have I ever had an episode of gender dysphoria to my unprofessional subjective opinion.

Since I've never had AIS or gender dysphoria there is no need for a self-identity declaration. That act of self-identity is only pertinent or needed by those with those physical and psychiatric conditions, or by those in the majority (less marginalized) who want to normalize the act. It isn't important or relevant for me to do it.

I accept all with AIS or gender dysphoria as people with all the rights their nation's laws provide. Safety and privilege are not mine to offer, as the source of these are in our Constitution and legislation.

I understand intersectionality - how to deconstruct ones intersectional identities -mapping race, sexual orientation, body type, religion, disability status, age, gender identity and citizenship. Some may have no identity that has been historically or currently marginalized, others may have many or all aspects of their identity as marginalized.

An idea has been promoted that those with less or no marginalized identity offer intersectional allyship to the more marginalized -especially by staying silent and allowing the marginalized to speak, or at least speak first. I counter that idea with the following.

The amount of marginalized identities in one person will not make their value or voice go up or down in any social space we may share. I demand the same respect for my identities, and lowering my status based on any one of my identities will be considered an unfortunate act of discrimination, and be met with less consideration of that person in regards to any social construct.

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A special note on sexual orientation. Ones orientation is going to shape ones communication. This is more relevant to settings outside of the workplace, but it is pertinent in relation to intersectionality. Heterosexuals, especially in younger years when searching for a mate to settle down with and have children, have non-verbal and verbal signals they are trying to send and receive in the process of finding a mate. When heterosexuals are pursuing their agenda of finding an optimum mate, whether that be females dressing with the intent to attract the male gaze or whatever, don't pollute the communication channel with anti-hetero misinformation such as "she doesn't want men's attention, she's doing it for herself". (I've encountered many heterosexual females that have explicitly said they are trying to attract males specifically with their looks)

Suppressing heterosexual communication in the act of deference to the intersectional marginalized other orientations is not offered. Heterosexuals, especially compounded with the identities of being wealthy or physically fit, don't owe any form of deference, quietness or humility for their desires and agendas.

Androgen insensitivity syndrome: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001180.htm

Illiberal Left Subcategories

Intersectionality: the more groups of marginalized you belong to, the more authoritative your opinion, the more you get to speak, the more others have to listen, and ultimately the more bounty and privilege should be doled out to you in the revolution. e.g. black lesbian has higher points than black hetero male, and he gets more than white hetero female, etc etc.

Militant Liberation Theology: Being in the top 20% wealthy is evil no matter how nice you are, being in the bottom 20% is to be void of any wrong or guilt in any way. The only redemption for anyone is to end the existence of the top 20% and give the bounty to the bottom 20% (along with intersectional)

Anti-Heterosexual Agenda: Gaslight heterosexuals into not being able to pursue a mate selection strategy via shaming, denial of good looks and fitness as a virtue and desirable, among a myriad of confusion causing rhetorical strategies. The confusion causes disorientation, which is the opposite of orientation. Heterosexual orientation…disorientated…that is the goal.

Athletic Women - The Contemporary Feminine Ideal

The photo of two women in dresses is a typical photo from the 1950's in the USA, and the ideal feminine image of that era. The women and their clothes were not meant for anything adventurous such as alpine hiking, trail running, desert camping or hanging out in a gym. 

Social change of the 1960s began to challenge the narrow confines of the 50's woman. In 1967 Katherine Virginia Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. 

Men ceased to see outdoor adventures and time at the gym as a "chance to hang out with the guys" and instead saw those as ideal things to do with a girlfriend or wife. 

In the 1980's weightlifting gyms spread across the USA, with early dominant chains such as Gold's Gym. I was involved in that phenomenon in the 80's and 90's, and women were no small minority in those gyms. I was living in the South and Midwest in those years, a part of the country that doesn't trailblaze in social change, and yet as I said, women were in every gym I ever saw.

Feminists might use the image of the 50's to convince us what men want their women to be. In reality it is a rare type of man that would prefer the 50's women over the fit woman with the kettlebell. 

The emancipated woman in the fitness photo, we might assume she is also in law school, or a marketing professional, or a real estate agent operating in an upscale market. Fitness isn't mastered by the dumb, if she's fit she's also smart.

Any man capable of success is going to want a fit educated woman as his partner. Women don't need to worry about being pulled back into the 50's or into the Handsmaid Tale. The men that are going to be able to afford a house, and kids, is demanding...yes demanding...the woman to be fit, smart and rugged. 

Since the 1990's third wave feminism has pushed a more complex dynamic into all this. The latest feminism is proudly unfit, proudly obese, and full of nothing but contempt and hostility for  fit and badass women. Third wave feminism shames fitness and heterosexuality. It is a Mean Girls Club that insults and harasses any woman that is actually strong and intelligent. 

It is important for men, and fit smart women, to keep vigilant and know the Mean Girls Club is just our uglier end of the genetic pool trying to gaslight us into not seeing they are simply the very height of undesirable.

Appendix A: (somewhat related to the above blog entry)

"Men are just interested in big boobs" is a myth spread by fat lazy women. I see that claim plastered all over discussion threads where mostly women are posting. It stigmatizes men as simpletons, negates the trend towards liking fit women, and places a falsely higher value on a body shape fat lazy women tend to have.

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How to Inoculate Against Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory does not ask society to improve itself through laws, which is the only way a civilization can apply improvement.

CRT invents a new moral rule - a new "sin" - of which people can be guilty because of their relationship to a skin color. Unlike other sins - which you can see happening and try to avoid doing - you can only see the results of this new sin by listening to a certain kind of testimony which blames people's problems on this sin, and you can only resist this sin by accepting that testimony, which stridently insists that you accept a radical worldview and agenda.

In other words systemic or structural oppression isn't real. It doesn't help explain our experiences. CRT does not even TRY to describe what systemic/structural oppression is or the process by which it causes suffering. (In fact it aggressively beats back this line of questioning by asserting that rationality and cause-effect thinking are themselves systemic/structural oppression.)

CRT neophytes will sometimes cite overtly discriminatory policies like redlining or Jim Crow as examples. However, CRT academics and activists all agree that systemic/structural oppression is something else entirely, that personal bigotry and legal discrimination are merely manifestations of the underlying sin, and their decline does not indicate a decline in systemic/structural oppression.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/civil-rights-reimagining-policing/a-lesson-on-critical-race-theory/

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The Source of the West's Totally Wrong Radical Thought

First, take a scroll through the following photos. My writing resumes.

( The photos are of contemporary Chinese cities and infrastructure. )

What values lead to creating such a complex and technologically advanced environment? Implied by roads and high-rise residences, what kind of economy creates a massive amount of relatively wealthy people? 

I am not going to answer those questions, but I am going to answer with what doesn't.

What doesn't create these scenes is the shaming of wealth and the shaming of material things.  I am not villifying an individualistic pursuit of a simple life, but on a mass scale and baked into policy decision-making this is toxic and leads to a society that correctly can be called simpletons and will be servants for a more enterprising society.

If we look a bit wider at the philosophy Jesus preaches I think we'll see he favored the poor, and he preached the dangers of seeking wealth. This is his overwhelming message in the gospels.

…but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the Word, and it proves unfruitful.

Mark 4: 19    
 
17      And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 
18      And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 
19      You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother’.” 
20      And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” 
21      And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
22      Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

Mark 10: 17-22 (similar story in Matthew 19: 16-22) 
“Give to anyone who asks of you…”

Matthew 5: 42

 

19      “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 
20      but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 
21      For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

24      …You cannot serve God and money.

Matthew 6: 19-21, 24    
 

17      And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. 
18      Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 19: 23-24    

Mary’s Song of Praise (The Magnificat):

51      He has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;
52      He has brought down the mighty from their thrones
and exalted those of humble estate;
53      He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich He has sent away empty.

Luke 1: 51-53




27      After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 
28      And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.
29      And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. 
30      And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 
31      And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 
32      I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

Luke 5: 27-32  

  
“When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors… But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind…”

Luke 14: 12-13
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“You cannot serve God and money.” 

Luke 16: 13
__________

 

15      Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 

16      For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

1 John 2: 15-16

Freeman Dyson: Biological Engineering for Space Colonization

THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL

Freeman J. Dyson

Institute for Advanced Study

Princeton, New Jersey

IV.  Big Trees

I have spoken about the two first steps of biological engineering.  

The first will transform our industry and the second will transform

our earth-bound ecology.  It is now time to speak of the third step,

which is the colonization of space.  I believe in fact that biological

engineering is the essential tool which will make Bernal's dream of

the expansion of mankind in space a practical possibility.  

First I have to clear away a few popular misconcpetions about space

as a habitat.  It is generally considered that planets are important.  

Except for Earth, they are not.  Mars is waterless, and the others are

for various reasons basically inhospitable to man.  It is generally

considered that beyond the sun's family of planets there is absolute

emptiness extending for light years until you come to another star.  

In fact it is likely that space around the solar system is populated

by huge numbers of comets, small worlds a few miles in diameter, rich

in water and the other chemicals essential to life.  We see one of

these comets only when it happens to suffer a random perturbation of

its orbit which sends it plunging close to the sun.  It seems that

roughly one comet per year is captured into the region near the sun,

where it eventually evaporates and disintegrates.  If we assume that

the supply of distant comets is sufficient to sustain this process

over the thousands of millions of years that the solar system has

existed, then the total population of comets loosely attached to the

sun must be numbered in the thousands of millions.  The combined

surface area of these comets is then a thousand or ten thousand times

that of Earth.  I conclude from these facts that comets, not planets,

are the major potential habitat of life in space.  If it were true

that other stars have as many comets as the sun, it then would follow

that comets pervade our entire Galaxy.  We have no evidence either

supporting or contradicting this hypothesis.  If true, it implies

that our Galaxy is a much friendlier place for interstellar travelers

than it is popularly supposed to be.  The average distance between

habitable oases in the desert of space is not measured in light years,

but is of the order of a light day or less.  

I propose to you then an optimistic view of the Galaxy an an abode of

life.  Countless millions of comets are out there, amply supplied with

water, carbon, and nitrogen, the basic constituents of living cells.  

We see when they fall close to the sun that they contain all the

common elements necessary to our existence.  They lack only two

essential requirements for human settlement, namely warmth and air.  

And now biological engineering will come to our rescue.  We shall

learn how to grow trees on comets.  

To make a tree grow in airless space by the light of a distant sun is

basically a problem of redesigning the skin of its leaves.  In every

organism the skin is the crucial part which must be most delicately

tailored to the demands of the environment.  The skin of a leaf in

space must satisfy four requirements.  It must be opaque to far-

ultraviolet radiation to protect the vital tissues from radiation

damage.  It must be impervious to water.  It must transmit visible

light to the organs of photosynthesis.  It must have extremely low

emissivity for far-infrared radiation, so that it can limit loss of

heat and keep itself from freezing.  A tree whose leaves possess such

a skin should be able to take root and flourish upon any comet as near

to the sun as the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.  Farther out than

Saturn the sunlight is too feeble to keep a simple leaf warm, but

trees can grow at far greater distances if they provide themselves with

compound leaves.  A compound leaf would consist of a photosynthetic

part which is able to keep itself warm, together with a convex mirror

part which itself remains cold but focuses concentrated sunlight upon

the photosynthetic part.  It should be possible to program the genetic

instructions of a tree to produce such leaves and orient them correctly

toward the sun.  Many existing plants possess structures more

complicated than this.  

Once leaves can be made to function in space, the remaining parts

of a tree -- trunk, branches, and roots -- do not present any great

problems.  The branches must not freeze, and therefore the bark must

be a superior heat insulator.  The roots will penetrate and gradually

melt the frozen interior of the comet, and the tree will build its

substance from the materials that the roots find there.  The oxygen

which the leaves manufacture must not be exhaled into space; instead

it will be transported down to the roots and released into the regions

where men will live and take their ease among the tree trunks.  One

question still remains.  How high can a tree on a comet grow?  The

answer is surprising.  On any celestial body whose diameter is of the

order of ten miles or less, the force of gravity is so weak that a

tree can grow infinitely high.  Ordinary wood is strong enough to lift

its own weight to an arbitrary distance from the center of gravity.  

This means that from a comet of ten-mile diameter, trees can grow out

for hundreds of miles, collecting the energy of sunlight from an area

thousands of times as large as the area of the comet itself.  Seen

from far away, the comet will look like a small potato sprouting an

immense growth of stems and foliage.  When man comes to live on the

comets, he will find himself returning to the arboreal existence of

his ancestors.  

We shall bring to the comets not only trees but a great variety of

other flora and fauna to create for ourselves an environment as

beautiful as ever existed on Earth.  Perhaps we shall teach our

plants to make seeds which will sail out across the ocean of space to

propagate life upon comets still unvisited by man.  Perhaps we shall

start a wave of life which will spread from comet to comet without end

until we have achieved the greening of the Galaxy.  That may be an end

or a beginning, as Bernal said, but from here it is out of sight 

Dating in the Toxic Era 1980-2005

18 years old in 1980.

35 years old in 1997.

(all text after this point is "heteronormative", the entire context is heterosexual, because it is my life story and the things I was especially concerned with.)

As I began to be interested in dating and courtship, I wanted to be a good guy in relation to women. I supported feminism as far as women being able to pursue any career, any vibrant intellectual, athletic or adventurous activity. There are all kinds of archetypical bad guys in relation to women, and one might say I was trying to not be any of them.

That noble goal encountered a new wave of norms - progressives and feminists were deeming unwanted advances as a fundamental evil. 

I took the meaning of unwanted advances to it's logical conclusion: if I asked a girl out on date or implied an interest in anything beyond platonic, and she said no, then I have already committed the crime of an unwanted advance. 

Beyond being trapped in this logical conundrum, I was backed into a corner emotionally as well. 

Since all this was deeply seated and sincere, I had many many beautiful, charming, intelligent women spending time with me over the years. The more I thought highly of them, and felt they were precious, the more I doubled down on never committing a wrong so grave as an unwanted advance. And by unwanted advance I mean even uttering an interest in them beyond being friends.

Once in 1992 I was a fitness instructor at a physical therapy clinic, and the receptionist and I had this magical rapport. She was one of the most attractive women I've ever seen. A few months into being at the clinic and the owner took me aside and said the receptionist was very upset that I had suggested to her a guy she might like to date, he said she was so into me and traumatized by my not being interested.

In 1995 at the age of 33 an older female friend (this one truly platonic, not in my age group) was listening to me tell some personal experience, and she interrupted me and empasized that if a woman takes her clothes off she's wanting intimacy.

All the above may make a reader wince. For me it is just painful loss of opportunity. To me, even to this day and with all the self-criticism implied in this writing, logically I still see the barriers to having realized those relationships.

The common person would get past the barriers by believing in physical cues, context, things being implied without explicitly saying anything.

I can access all the above non-verbal and implicit communication, and often did pick up on it in real time. But here is the final inner barrier: how can we be sure these subtle acts are truly communicating what we assume? Ultimately, in the strictest sense, we don't know. We don't know if long engaging conversations mean an interest in more. We assume, but we don't know.

Enough on "unwanted advances", now we move on to the feminist war on physically fit healthy women.

Where I was born, progressives were pro exercise and fitness. When I moved to Seattle I encountered my next hurdle constructed by feminists - a hostility towards women being expected to be physically fit. 

I had been a fitness geek since 1989, a weightlifting instructor, long distance runner and mountain and desert hiker. My only, and I mean only, vision of life with my spouse was as a daily active lifestyle of inner city biking, and effortless hiking in the mountains, especially hiking and camping in the winter.

Now, in Seattle, I was in a culture that shamed my vision of what married life should be. To expect a woman to be fit was tied to being concerned with her visual appeal to me a hetero male - and that can be construed as seeing women as a sexual object - which is another fundamental evil feminist culture cannot tolerate.

In 1999 I began dating this pear shaped girl I was thoroughly not attracted to physically. I was just trying to fit in. After a few months I tried to break it off with her, but it took a year for her to accept it.

Eventually I would marry someone I met in grad school. She was and is a life long third-wave feminist [Wikipedia]. She was the very vanguard of the movement - to keep the peace I dared not express any predilection towards fit women. On top of her ideology, her adult years had been a history of being slim then being overweight, back and forth. She spoke with pride about in her mid-twenties deliberately gaining weight to spite her mother's nagging for her to be more attractive.

I have the saddest deeply intimate story to tell. After the birth of our son, she got in the best shape of her life. I know because I've seen photos of her past, and the body she developed from aerobics and yoga at home was by far the most fit of all her years. 

One day she came out of the shower and was so amazingly sexy. Here is the emotion that hit me: I was elated then hid it and was sad. Saddened that if I had shown some great sexually charged enthusiasm that be valuing her new sexy fit self more than her previous self. I allowed her feminist value system to negate any of the special reaction and attraction her new body was prompting.

One year after her physical peak, she began to gain weight quickly, becoming so large someone asked her in sincerity if she was pregnant. To this day she is especially large, and we are divorced. 

Now I want to move on from this diary of experience. There is hope and some good news. Technology has thoroughly killed some of the toxic effects of the unwanted advance conundrum. Dating apps and sites like OKCupid and Tender are now the common way people find each other. Being on the site, and especially explicitly stating in one's profile what you are after, is explicit and declarative. 

Problem solved (a bit late for my generation).

Next let's think sociological, I have an insight that is plain as day to me but haven't heard from anyone else.

You know how in hospitals and maybe other environments sterilizing can wind up killing good germs and leaving predominantly the bad lethal germs? 

A lot feminist hostility has done just that - nullified and silenced good men and left the truly dangerous and hideous men unscathed.

As of this writing in 2020 we have in recent years had ghastly murders of women for simply being women. I'm thinking especially of the man in Florida who walked into a bank, asked all the women to lie on the floor, and he executed them.

The agenda of feminists is a hot house flower - only able to live in the most favorable environment. College campuses, city bureaucracies in the more progressive metropolitan areas, high profile companies et cetera are where the criteria of feminists is taken seriously. Beyond that, on the individual level, it's the sensitive, thoughtful men who give the feminist criteria a role in shaping their behavior.

But not anyone in Pecos Texas (for example), and not any of the groups of mean, brutish, aggressive men that are the actual perpetrators of real hurt to women.

I contend these men are more toxic and violent to women than in the pre counterculture years precisely because we have abandoned the critique of men in the form of demanding some degree of gentlemanly behavior towards women, leaving a void. 

Toxic third-wave feminism, toxic women hating men

....and the main harm going to nice men and women.

TikTok: Challenger to American WOKE Hegemony

Hegemony: leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.

Cultural Norms: the agreed‐upon expectations and rules by which a culture guides 

the behavior of its members in any given situation. 

Cultural norms theory: A theory of mass communication which suggests that the mass media selectively presents, and emphasizes certain contemporary ideas or values. According to this theory, the mass media influences norms by reinforcing or changing them.

It is 2020 and I as a resident in United States live in a media landscape dominated by companies for the most part headquartered in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City. Over the last decade online activists have pressured America's media to subtract content that is un-affirming to LBTGQ, obese women, blacks and latinas. Media has been shamed into praising poor, fat(females only) and gay. 

WOKE/Feminist/Marxist activists have deftly pruned and reshaped social media, movies and advertising we see and re-share by years of shaming campaigns, with news outlets reporting on the shaming campaigns and in effect normalizing their extreme illiberal intolerance by covering it in the plain vanilla mainstream news sphere.

Enter a giant wildly popular social media phenomenon...that is headquartered in Bejing. (Please leave aside the question of national security risk, or communism and focus on cultural influence. I really don't think those Korean/Japanese/Chinese dancing and lip-syncing young women are communist soldiers)

Back to headquartered in China. Finally, a company that would be deaf to a social justice shaming campaign coming from (for example) a student organization at UC Berkely. China is just too big a population of consumers to worry about an American sub-group. 

Not because Chinese companies are rude, rather... ironically... they are not used to American censorship via our social justice warriors. And not only is the company not perceptive nor receptive to this pressure, I would posit the users/consumers on their platform wouldn't bend their behavior to please American militant leftists.  

The illiberal conservatism of the American Left casts a long shadow, that thankfully ends at the west coast, and thankfully there are other big wealthy sophisticated cultures that can produce content that avoids the intolerant pathologies of American social justice ideals. 

In the U.S. the Left have worked deftly to change society to omit the heterosexual default in public discourse. 

Heteronormativity: the belief that heterosexuality, predicated on the gender binary, is the default, preferred, or normal mode of sexual orientation. It assumes that sexual and marital relations are most fitting between people of opposite sex. A heteronormative view therefore involves alignment of biological sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender roles.

Backtrack a little for context and intent. I am presenting these views without respect to religious ideas. I am agnostic-atheist, and for the most part China is also. I do support gay rights to live happily, safely and with access to any right heterosexuals have. I am not on offensive against gays, rather, I am on the offensive towards Leftist illiberal extremism and offering that TikTok is a giant counterforce to that extremism.

Gender and orientation aren't the only domains TikTok sets up a counter to WOKE. Wired magazine had a cover story on why the West should be suspicious of TikTok from a values standpoint. The writer takes up a sizable op-ed to claim "digital blackface" is rampant on the platform. 

(TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface)

The Wired article is talking about this: hundreds of thousands of cute Asain girls use black male rap tracks as the audio track to lip sync and/or dance to, the Asian girl being the video star and the rap is the soundtrack. The point of view of the Wired piece is black culture is ripped off. The Asian girls probably see few to no black people, and use rap without any real care for people of color.

I counter that this cultural appropriation is beautiful, a natural result of an interconnected world, and art, especially digital copies of art, have no borders. 

If TikTok is bought by an American company I fear the new owners will care what that Wired piece said, and the subsequent waves of shaming, which will kill everything good on the platform.

Enough with the set-up and meta statements. Let me plunge into presenting instances on the TikTok platform that support my assertion (talk about and quote several TikTok videos).

First up is minseonk1m and her English language teacher skit. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJDUcc4y/

The laugh is she pronounces Coke as cock. Beyond the humor what is a useful challenge to American queer-friendly feminism and the whole gender fluid and Questioning nonsense. This video shows a strikingly beautiful Asian female assertively being as sexually binary as possible. She strongly wants the sexually opposite. She is a good role model for confused American females.

Another video (https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJDUcwBg/ ) by minseonk1m uses a female rappers track, and the gist is an aggressive hetero female with zero solidarity with other women.

Lialiu_chinese has a cute video (https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJDyepDo/) teaching the phrases "ni hao" meaning hello, "niang" means mother, and "ni hao niang" means... "you're so gay".

TikTok has challenges for it's video makers. Some audio track is put on the platform and video makers are to use the audio to make a 'face zoom' vid, or dance, or some collage to reflect the song. 

The challenge is competitive, goal is to get the most views and likes. TikTok pays per view. 

One challenge is an audio track of black male voices saying "which chicks will you NOT date?" and several replies of 'Asian'. The audio ends with an Asian female voice saying "what are talking about? You can't even get in that side of the club". Asian girls use the audio and make videos with them looking stunning and not-assessable on the last words of the track.

Another challenge has girlfriends entering a room surprising their boyfriend by being totally nude. It's POV and the girl isn't seen, just the boyfriend's reaction.

There is a #foryou hashtag, and the vids are overwhelmingly young fit females in revealing clothes or bikinis and word bubbles asking guys what they think. The #foryou hashtag is completely general, often beautiful Chinese mountains or cities, a few animal vids. But the dominant content is sexy females trying to appeal to men. I've never ever seen an unattractive person on #foryou. I've never seen unattractive scenery in the background of any video. There are rumors TikTok screens out poverty and unattractiveness.

A final note. TikTok is driven not by the social network paradigm. It is pure cutting edge Chinese machine learning. And I as an American citizen, praise it, want to use it. 

WOKE

Wokish is a different language from English. Failure to understand the differences and their purpose is double plus ungood.

The differences can be seen in sudden shifts in word frequencies starting in the Year 2013. Just as the Mayan Long Count calendar aprocryphally ended in the year 2012, so did the English language disappear for many people, replaced by the vocabulary of a new age: Wokish for woke folx.

I'm not making any of this up. You can see these sudden shifts using Google's ngrams viewer, which now incorporates texts from recent years. The results are uncanny. Here we can see gender-affirming beginning to replace life-affirming in 2013, and grow for the last 7 years as fast as life-affirming did in the 1990's.

Crits [history of critical race theory] don't affirm universals and individuality. In fact they find that whole notion an abhorrent product of liberal, western, capitalist domination designed to enable racist oppression. Just as in Orwell's newspeak, wokish employs doublespeak. Words sometimes deliberately mean their opposite - not depending on context, like an auto-antonym, but simultaneously holding two contradictory meanings, forcing you to accept an absurd contradiction as truth.

Affimation is an example of doublespeak. It is not the intent of affirmation to make people of color, women, LGBTs, people with disabilities or people of a certain size feel good in their skin. On the contrary, because there are many intersections of privilege, and new ones remaining to be discovered wherever there is [capitalist] domination, the point of affirmation is to "challenge" the dominance (privilege) of whatever is not being affirmed.

So for example fat, disabled, poor, black transgender women in prison are not "affirmed" in the sense of having their accomplishments celebrated and their issues priorities. They are "affirmed" in the sense of drawing attention to the oppressive dominance of whatever-they-are-not. Affirmation involves these people becoming woke or re-educated about their own internalized oppression as well as the internalized dominance of their oppressor. And even then intersectionality is not done working it's verbal magic until our fat, disabled, poor, black, transgender female inmates start calling out each other's privilege as non-indigneous people who benefit from historical colonialism and genocide.

Affirmation = degradation.

Wokeness is not about loving some things or people and hating others. It's about getting everyone to hate themselves, so they'll become angry and support a revolution which brings crits to power. Then maybe things will get a little less horrible, they tell us.

Do not believe a word of it. It's irrational and harmful. 

Related: rights are good affirming is wrong