In his essay “The Language of Privilege,” Nicholas Clairmont described wokeness as “a bourgeois sop to self-dealing millionaires.” The point of gentry socialist wokese, a language full of signals about inclusion, is that it excludes — it signals I live at the higher end of the upper-middle-class
“The purpose of a college education is to give you the politically correct view of minorities and the means to live as far away from them as possible.”
Maybe the smells of Minneapolis burning so Tampon Tim can bring his wife and she won’t have to open the windows like she virtueBragged about doing at home during the summer of love
People say surströmming smells bad, but that's nothing compared to the combination of burning garbage, cables, plastic, feces, urine, rotting flesh and gangrenous bone-sores layered on top of that permeating visceral and physical >presence< that the reek of unwashed bodies is.
There was a gypsy-camp on the way to work when we lived down South in a city yearsd and years ago; I've worked in my youth as a cleaner, the kind that goes in and cleans up after forensics/ER is done with corpse removal.
Said corpse sometimes being weeks or more old. Worst one was an alcoholic who burned to death sitting unconscious in a drunker stupor on a sofa, having dropped a lit fag among the synthetic cushions. Rancid, black human fat coating everything and despite the gear and masks it still felt if you had flecks of soot and ash in your mouth and nose after we were done.
I'd like to rub the noses of the progressives, the liberal, the woke and all kinds of Marxists in that black greasy sheen we scraped off of the walls.
They really should have gone the whole nine yards and hired nodding out junkies as receptionists, placed used needles under the pillows instead of chocolates (or plastic turds), and the bell person chases guests to their rooms at knifepoint.
Chinese upper class would have their daughters feet "bound", so as to announce their "class" to their milieu, so as to say "We are so far from the working class we can afford to do this"
But is it really different than paying a fortune for your daughter to attend Wellesley to get a degree in "oppression".
I read that in my freshman year in high school. Some thing I knew better to ask in front of English teachers who praised the great socialists like jack London and stienbeck, was, would a culture so eager to hobble their daughters for social cred, be much more likely to adopt communism?
But we too had been trained to ask the “proper” questions…
I've read The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandell. In it he explains in detail how the top colleges of USA and here ie Oxford,Cambridge,Durham, Bristol for sure cleverly and ingenuously structure their entry criteria so that on the surface a bright hard working dedicated black kid from the projects could pass and get in but that doesn't happen or maybe as a token and entry to the uni classes is kept for the one class who all share the same outlook,expectations and social norms. Which saves embarrasment all round.
Asheville (I lived nearby for 20 years) is a deeply schizophrenic city, hosting Billy Graham headquarters while be-thonged Act Up boys ran for City Council— 30 years ago. It’s the Appalachian microcosm of California.
An old buddy of mine from those ancient days warned me ten years ago that Asheville street life was no longer safe for the fam. I was reminiscing about walking around at 2am listening to the street musicians and enjoying the bizarre street preacher/uber-granola mix, and he said, “Don’t come back. My skin gets me by, but you don’t want to be out late and white up here anymore.” Sad.
I wouldn't call it "schizophrenic" when the accurate term is "occupied."
Already in the mid 1980s Asheville was being overrun by urbanistas from the RT (Research Triangle) area, as well as from the cities of both north and south (esp. Atlanta). Condo development was proliferating in the mountains. All the people I met and broke bread with in the stomps and hollers and smallest towns--exceptionally wonderful people, even the couple shiner guys who were clearly chemically addled and hairtrigger--described a systematically similar pattern of urban incursion--legalistic, financial, and cultural.
I had to go to the hospital for a checkup after a backpacking mishap, was taken to a clinic in Asheville, and the nurse who checked me out was a jewish tranny. Back then it would have been transvestite I guess.
The hiker hostel in Hot Springs was run by Jesuits.
I hitched a ride from town (post office/resupply) back to a gap to get back on trail and was picked up by a couple from Chapel Hill. They were jews from metro NYC who spent the whole ride running down Appalachian culture, history, politics, and food. They complained that in the RT area there was nowhere to get "exceptional Szechuan" and they hoped to see more Chinese brought in for that. And, of course, also as researchers. They both worked in university research jobs.
This all has been an empirically observable cultural phenomenon. If it were/had been unfolding in say 1930s Samoa, or 1980s Swaziland, it would be reported as such. However major energy and resources are devoted to making sure it does not get reported empirically/anthropologically as it has unfolded in the US. That is strictly forbidden.
In my closing sentences, what I meant to say was that if ANY (not this one in particular) empirically observable cultural phenomenon had been observed elsewhere/elsewhen, it could have been simply reported as such (and to bolster academic careers). But today, academics advance by silencing observation and Noticing, not by exploring/extending it. That is because they are part of the particular shaping-of-memory system intertwined with the "urban incursion" (as I called it). That Lathe of Hell has operated on so many fronts, especially in the 20th century.
Of course I grew up in a city my ancestors founded in the 1630s, 60+% black by the time I was growing up there. The black people I knew--all blue collar and middle class neighbors and co-workers, or young people I knew through the community radio station (about 1/3 of the latter were NoI)--absolutely rejected the "we wuz slaves" propaganda (most of them were, in fact, descended from freemen), utterly despised the entire "civil" "rights" operation, reviled Michael King (he was sent to seminary in that town, and got to practice on the local churches), and could have held their own on 4chan, but without the dirty language. But now I'm digressing.
As an Asheville resident, I must add, you have no idea.....I continue to wonder with you--where does this end? I truly feel sorry for my--and everyone’s--grandkids😢
I feel for you. I spent a week there in spring of 2024, months before Hurricane Helene rolled through Asheville. Didn’t like the vibe there at all. Ate some decent food, the mountains are beautiful but the underlying ‘dark bad Ju Ju’ of the place I just couldn’t shake. My comment about Asheville is listed below.
Clearly gullible elitist types staying at this hotel should be made to clean their own rooms as part of the experience. "Oh, and by the way, you can scrub that graffiti sh*t off the walls."
Our hipster oligarchy are desperate to use their cash to make themselves feel/look/seem cool and edgy but then by their mere presence they immediately suck the soul out of everything and make it as bland as they are. They are empty vessels and as self-serving and hypocritical as any other aristocracy, just with much nicer beach properties. California Uber Alles!
Matt Taibbi had the observation that even as debauched as the late 18th century French aristocracy was, they had on occasion to defend their honor with their lives, which is far more than you can say about our own current aristocracy.
Useful idiocy at it's finest. Now the performative revolutionary can have perfect background for their vlog documenting their "struggle" against oppression - all with security, wifi, AC, Egyptian cotton sheets and room service.
No one's life will be improved, but they/them can earn their "morally-superior-than-thou" badge with "unprosecuted arrest clusters." This is swiftly becoming the 21st century equivalent to spending a semester hitchhiking across Europe few people are impressed, and no one wants to see your photos.
When you want to cosplay as the Revolution but also want to make sure the unwashed masses are kept far, far away.
“The purpose of a college education is to give you the politically correct view of minorities and the means to live as far away from them as possible.”
The hotel calls itself "posh-punk." Seems to be aimed at rich baby boomers reliving the '80s and Basquiat, Warhol, etc. ruling over SoHo.
This comment sums up the article perfectly.
Almost spit out my drink but it went up my nose instead! Best comment in a decade! 😂🤣😆
The fact that Hilton bought it!! Can’t wait to see the ads with Paris Hilton swapping her Louis Vuitton luggage for garbage bags
Life imitates parody once again. It’s the Derelicte fashion line from Zoolander.
All these idiots can Derelicte my balls 🤣
Yeah you scooped me. Marx had history repeating first as tragedy then as farce we have it first as a ludicrous satire then as a God-awful reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVscQYjuq_s
Haha that’s the first thing I thought of!
Lol!!
Louis Vuitton garbage bags, right?
Derelique! It's *so* hot right now!
As long as the garbage bags have a designer label and they are pink, Paris will oblige!
Does the hotel have commodes, or do the guests just urinate/defecate in the hallways as an act of solidarity?
Seems the logical evolution of $900 ripped jeans as high fashion.
You left out the most important question:
Have they gotten the smells and sounds right?
Maybe the smells of Minneapolis burning so Tampon Tim can bring his wife and she won’t have to open the windows like she virtueBragged about doing at home during the summer of love
People say surströmming smells bad, but that's nothing compared to the combination of burning garbage, cables, plastic, feces, urine, rotting flesh and gangrenous bone-sores layered on top of that permeating visceral and physical >presence< that the reek of unwashed bodies is.
There was a gypsy-camp on the way to work when we lived down South in a city yearsd and years ago; I've worked in my youth as a cleaner, the kind that goes in and cleans up after forensics/ER is done with corpse removal.
Said corpse sometimes being weeks or more old. Worst one was an alcoholic who burned to death sitting unconscious in a drunker stupor on a sofa, having dropped a lit fag among the synthetic cushions. Rancid, black human fat coating everything and despite the gear and masks it still felt if you had flecks of soot and ash in your mouth and nose after we were done.
I'd like to rub the noses of the progressives, the liberal, the woke and all kinds of Marxists in that black greasy sheen we scraped off of the walls.
I’m sure whatever they paid you wasn’t enough.
🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮😮💨🤮🤮
Throw in a pizza rat or two
They really should have gone the whole nine yards and hired nodding out junkies as receptionists, placed used needles under the pillows instead of chocolates (or plastic turds), and the bell person chases guests to their rooms at knifepoint.
Wow! And here I was just thinking it’d be a fun prank be a housekeeper at this joint so I could short sheet the beds. 😆
Or, maybe insert road kill between the sheets, you know, to add to the experience..
plastic?
Where's the reality in that?
Chinese upper class would have their daughters feet "bound", so as to announce their "class" to their milieu, so as to say "We are so far from the working class we can afford to do this"
But is it really different than paying a fortune for your daughter to attend Wellesley to get a degree in "oppression".
Nothing says Elitism like adherence to "the narrative." And nothing says adherence like same-sentence contractions.
Like actually believing that staying in a 5000 thread count bed surrounded by graffiti helps endears you to the homeless in anyway.
MAGA et. al. reveals itself in being boringly rational/practical and without vision "unburdened by what has been"
I checked their website and made note of the following notables:
- Time magazine—that Pantheon of haute shite—voted the property one of Time’s World’s Greatest Places. See?
- USA Today voted the property a 10-best new hotel. Yeah.
- And sadly, most regrettably, the hotel chose NOT to name one of its on-prem restaurants The Soup Kitchen. What?!
There you have it, sports fans.
Forbes. They made Forbes.
Wasn't Malcolm's sexuality questioned? Just asking.
Priceless.
Forbes. Of course they clambered aboard.
A veritable crucible of facts, they are.
Mostly.
Choose a Trump Hotel to stay in!
Indeed!
Yes. The Good Earth. Pearl S. Buck was a good read. She was ahead of the curve.
I read that in my freshman year in high school. Some thing I knew better to ask in front of English teachers who praised the great socialists like jack London and stienbeck, was, would a culture so eager to hobble their daughters for social cred, be much more likely to adopt communism?
But we too had been trained to ask the “proper” questions…
I've read The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandell. In it he explains in detail how the top colleges of USA and here ie Oxford,Cambridge,Durham, Bristol for sure cleverly and ingenuously structure their entry criteria so that on the surface a bright hard working dedicated black kid from the projects could pass and get in but that doesn't happen or maybe as a token and entry to the uni classes is kept for the one class who all share the same outlook,expectations and social norms. Which saves embarrasment all round.
Who would have thought blacks would get their revenge by introducing downward mobility to white elites?
Asheville (I lived nearby for 20 years) is a deeply schizophrenic city, hosting Billy Graham headquarters while be-thonged Act Up boys ran for City Council— 30 years ago. It’s the Appalachian microcosm of California.
An old buddy of mine from those ancient days warned me ten years ago that Asheville street life was no longer safe for the fam. I was reminiscing about walking around at 2am listening to the street musicians and enjoying the bizarre street preacher/uber-granola mix, and he said, “Don’t come back. My skin gets me by, but you don’t want to be out late and white up here anymore.” Sad.
I wouldn't call it "schizophrenic" when the accurate term is "occupied."
Already in the mid 1980s Asheville was being overrun by urbanistas from the RT (Research Triangle) area, as well as from the cities of both north and south (esp. Atlanta). Condo development was proliferating in the mountains. All the people I met and broke bread with in the stomps and hollers and smallest towns--exceptionally wonderful people, even the couple shiner guys who were clearly chemically addled and hairtrigger--described a systematically similar pattern of urban incursion--legalistic, financial, and cultural.
I had to go to the hospital for a checkup after a backpacking mishap, was taken to a clinic in Asheville, and the nurse who checked me out was a jewish tranny. Back then it would have been transvestite I guess.
The hiker hostel in Hot Springs was run by Jesuits.
I hitched a ride from town (post office/resupply) back to a gap to get back on trail and was picked up by a couple from Chapel Hill. They were jews from metro NYC who spent the whole ride running down Appalachian culture, history, politics, and food. They complained that in the RT area there was nowhere to get "exceptional Szechuan" and they hoped to see more Chinese brought in for that. And, of course, also as researchers. They both worked in university research jobs.
This all has been an empirically observable cultural phenomenon. If it were/had been unfolding in say 1930s Samoa, or 1980s Swaziland, it would be reported as such. However major energy and resources are devoted to making sure it does not get reported empirically/anthropologically as it has unfolded in the US. That is strictly forbidden.
Thanks for the great reply!
Thank you for receiving it graciously.
In my closing sentences, what I meant to say was that if ANY (not this one in particular) empirically observable cultural phenomenon had been observed elsewhere/elsewhen, it could have been simply reported as such (and to bolster academic careers). But today, academics advance by silencing observation and Noticing, not by exploring/extending it. That is because they are part of the particular shaping-of-memory system intertwined with the "urban incursion" (as I called it). That Lathe of Hell has operated on so many fronts, especially in the 20th century.
Of course I grew up in a city my ancestors founded in the 1630s, 60+% black by the time I was growing up there. The black people I knew--all blue collar and middle class neighbors and co-workers, or young people I knew through the community radio station (about 1/3 of the latter were NoI)--absolutely rejected the "we wuz slaves" propaganda (most of them were, in fact, descended from freemen), utterly despised the entire "civil" "rights" operation, reviled Michael King (he was sent to seminary in that town, and got to practice on the local churches), and could have held their own on 4chan, but without the dirty language. But now I'm digressing.
Thanks, Alan.
At college in nearby Greenville, SC, we called Asheville the hip, low-key earth mother city.
As an Asheville resident, I must add, you have no idea.....I continue to wonder with you--where does this end? I truly feel sorry for my--and everyone’s--grandkids😢
I feel for you. I spent a week there in spring of 2024, months before Hurricane Helene rolled through Asheville. Didn’t like the vibe there at all. Ate some decent food, the mountains are beautiful but the underlying ‘dark bad Ju Ju’ of the place I just couldn’t shake. My comment about Asheville is listed below.
Clearly gullible elitist types staying at this hotel should be made to clean their own rooms as part of the experience. "Oh, and by the way, you can scrub that graffiti sh*t off the walls."
Our hipster oligarchy are desperate to use their cash to make themselves feel/look/seem cool and edgy but then by their mere presence they immediately suck the soul out of everything and make it as bland as they are. They are empty vessels and as self-serving and hypocritical as any other aristocracy, just with much nicer beach properties. California Uber Alles!
Matt Taibbi had the observation that even as debauched as the late 18th century French aristocracy was, they had on occasion to defend their honor with their lives, which is far more than you can say about our own current aristocracy.
Honor is a regressive cisheteropatriarchal white-supremacist construct that is problematic and possibly fascistic. That's why it had to be abolished.
Your obvious intelligence, creativity, sense of humor, and grasp of American English makes your comment outstanding in it's field. MOO 2 U....
We're probably both on the same list somewhere in a Langley database....
So does this mean that I won't have to defend my honor, or that I have no honor to defend?....
The whole subject would be funny, if it was really funny at all....thnx, C.P....
lol many thanks for the kind words
we men of honor need to stick together
Jello B wasn't a total tool. At the time, anyway.
oh no he was great
we'll always have Holiday in Cambodia
Are the bed bugs radical or are they conservative hiding under the covers? Can I bring my own paint and how would you know?
Did they change their point system to virtue points? Or can you offset your wealth by chanting Free free Palestine in the lobby?
I'll suggest this to the marketing department
Hilton Honor Killing Department?
Three nights' stay earns you a silk Hamas scarf.
It’s a psyop. The failure found in every blue city is now aspirational. You only need to be brain dead to believe it.
Hilarious. There are so many design possibilities in this niche space. The contempt I have for these people is immeasurable.
Useful idiocy at it's finest. Now the performative revolutionary can have perfect background for their vlog documenting their "struggle" against oppression - all with security, wifi, AC, Egyptian cotton sheets and room service.
No one's life will be improved, but they/them can earn their "morally-superior-than-thou" badge with "unprosecuted arrest clusters." This is swiftly becoming the 21st century equivalent to spending a semester hitchhiking across Europe few people are impressed, and no one wants to see your photos.