Opinion | Why We Miss the WASPs

For more than a century, this
Establishment resided at the top of the American caste system. Now it is
gone, and apparently people wish it weren’t.”

I
think you can usefully combine these takes, and describe Bush nostalgia
as a longing for something America used to have and doesn’t really any
more — a ruling class that was widely (not universally, but more widely
than today) deemed legitimate, and that inspired various kinds of trust
(intergenerational, institutional) conspicuously absent in our society
today.

Put simply, Americans miss
Bush because we miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that
their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us
neither as wisely nor as well.

Opinion | Why We Miss the WASPs

Response to “It’s the way their culture works!”

islamissexist:

Nonwhite cultures can be racist
Nonwhite cultures can be misogynistic
Nonwhite cultures can be homophobic
Nonwhite cultures can be pedophilic
Nonwhite cultures can be violent
Nonwhite cultures can be dangerous

Painting nonwhite cultures as perfect HURTS the ones living in them. Blindly accepting their every action, letting horrible things slide because “that’s their culture” doesn’t make you woke. It makes your hands dirty with the blood of millions who suffer under the name of these oppressive standarts.

Respecting other cultures doesn’t mean you have to eat up everything they have to offer. Critically filter them, and don’t accept traditions that are harmful to a group of people. Stop presenting the poor pee oh cees as perfect.

And most importantly, stop silencing us victims. When we ask you to spread awareness of these issues, stop covering our stories by screaming how it is just the “cultural difference” to get woke points. Listen to the victims, and don’t accept the unacceptable just because the guilt is on the nonwhites. Stop throwing us under the bus in the name of looking good.

Listen. The. Victims.

State of the Art – Taki’s Magazine

Art economist Magnus Resch writes in Art News
this week of what he has learned from his database of prices paid for
roughly 10 million works of art by half a million artists at more than
20,000 museums and galleries around the world.

Having your works displayed at most of these institutions is more or
less a career dead end, while there are only a few royal roads to
success.

The most lucrative network of all consists of six New York institutions—the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Gagosian and Pace galleries, the Met, and the Whitney—and one Chicago museum, the Art Institute. If you can make it there, you’ve made it everywhere

State of the Art – Taki’s Magazine

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

bookporn:

xenoqueer:

The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.

Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.

Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.

Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.

Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.

Read it. Know what’s happening. Know why it is happening.

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole: and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for.

Edmund Burke, on the American Colonies.    (via philosophicalconservatism)
Source: philosophicalconservatism