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Category: SJW Idiocy

  • Ikeishi! Ikeishi buadda, japalai!!!

    This is in regard to Melania Trump’s choice of yellow Timberland boots on her trip with Pres. Trump to visit the troops during the Christmas holidays. The noise that has been generated over them consists of not just gossip, but blatant lies.

    There was something posted on Twitter about racism on her part in this egregious spatter of pejoratives, based on her choosing to wear those boots.

    From Business Insider:  https://www.businessinsider.com/melania-trump-timberland-boots-visit-troops-iraq-2018-12

    That’s on one of those ‘turn off your ad blocker’ deals, so read it if you wish.

    The “racist” nonsense comes from a now-defunct site called Naha Daily, which in 2014 claimed falsely that Timberland’s CEO said he didn’t want blacks or Latinos in his boots. They admitted that it was completely made up out of whole cloth – a lie, in plain English, but people are now digging it up and pointing the finger at it and saying ‘Aha!’ and making themselves far worse than they pretend Mrs. Trump is.

    According to Snopes, the false remarks originated from a December 2014 article from the now defunct site Naha Daily, which cited the shoe company’s CEO saying he did not want to see “Blacks and Latinos” in the boots.

    Snopes reported that a disclaimer on the Naha Daily’s site said that its content was “based off current events [in 2014] in urban culture and entertainment” and was “completely fictional.”

    Got that? Completely fictional.

    It is something that some moron cooked up in 2014, posted on his website, and then added a disclaimer that it was all made up out of dust bunnies and hot air and is completely fictional. Naha Daily is out of business, but this trash still shows up.

    Because there are enough imbeciles on the internet to populate a small planet like Mars, this disclaimer is disregarded by them as an inconvenient fact. They ignore it and subsequently carry the lie forward, using it against someone who had nothing to do with the source of the lie.

    They do this out of pure hatred toward someone who has done nothing to them but exist.

    Because they are addicted to trash, they got all excited when  Mrs. Obama was recently seen in a yellow split-front drapey dress that would not look good on a bone-thin runway model, wearing thigh-high streetwalker glitter boots with it. If you dare, take a look. And don’t say I didn’t warn you.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/leftists-mock-first-lady-melania-for-wearing-timberland-boots-but-they-loved-michelle-obamas-streetwalker-thigh-high-glittery-boots/

    Melania Trump, on the other hand, wore sensible boots on her Christmas trip to visit troops overseas, but people still won’t lay off her.

    Yes, she’s made some faux pas. We all do that, but this obnoxious trash is grasping at straws, acting out their roles as schoolyard bullies because they think it’s okay.  They have the maturity of freshly-laid eggs. And even if the hen sat on them, they’d still turn out to be rotten.

    I have never seen such hatred manifested toward someone simply because she exists and has done nothing to deserve it.

    This poisonous, festering slop has consequences for the people who generate it and perpetuate it. Employers expect their hirees to behave like adults in an adult world. Everything is investigated now.  People who do these things are telling potential employers that they are not reliable, won’t be good workers, and won’t focus on doing their jobs.

    Would you like fries with that?

    Oh, yeah, the title – The first word starts with “F”, and the last word starts with “A”.  And it means the same thing in another language that it means in English.

  • Debunking Yet Another False Claim

    Something happened recently that bothered me.  And since it may have happened to other TAH readers, I decided to write this article detailing the facts – just in case someone else might need them.

    The other day, I was conversing with a friend who’s more liberal politically than I am.  They informed me I shouldn’t use the term “special little snowflake”, as it had a dark history.  They weren’t much more specific.

    Now, unlike some I tend to do a bit of homework before running my yap.  But something about that claim just didn’t sound right to me.  I decided to check into it.

    What I found leads me to believe that someone is trying to create a false meme for political purposes.  Once again, the political left is trying to redefine language – this time through blatant falsehood.

    If you search the Internet, you’ll see claims that the term “special snowflake” or “snowflake” is of Nazi origin and is a racial slur.  The claim is that the Nazis used it to refers to Jews – more specifically, their remains in the form of crematoria ash from Nazi concentration and/or death camps that “fell to the ground like snow”.  There’s even an Urban Dictionary entry to that effect.

    Well, that means it must be true, right?

    In a word:  no.  Those claims are absolute bullsh!t.

    There is no evidence that the Nazis ever used the terms “snowflake” or “special snowflake” to refer to Jews or crematoria ash.  Those claims are a baldfaced lie.

    The US Holocaust Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia does not contain the terms.  Their archives do not show the terms used in that manner.  Museum officials are unaware of Nazi soldiers routinely using the term “snowflake” or “special snowflake” with that meaning.

    The same is true of the education team at the Illinois Holocaust Museum.  They were also unaware of that use of the term “snowflake” or “special snowflake” by Nazis during the Holocaust to refer to crematoria dust or Jews.

    Don’t believe me?  Well, don’t take my word for it.  Check out Snopes – who actually researched the claim and found it to be BS.  Snopes may lean a bit left, but they’re generally extremely good at fact-checking questionable claims like this.  And they’re honest about what they find.

    As far as Snopes could find, the sole purported source allegedly “documenting” Nazi origin for the terms is an entry in an Internet site called the “Racial Slur Database”.  To put it charitably, the “Racial Slur Database” is unreliable as a source.  As Snopes states in their entry I linked, the “Racial Slur Database” site freely admits that their entries are “entirely from data gleaned off the ‘net and via submissions from people like you and your parents.”  In plain language, that means they just put any and everything they find on the Internet or that someone sends them in their database – NQA, and without fact-checking.

    In reality the sarcastic phrases “special snowflake” and the variant “special little snowflake” probably gained popularity as a variation on the following quote from the 1990s book and movie The Fight Club.

    “You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same organic and decaying matter as everyone else.”

    Couple that with the common knowledge that every snowflake is unique, and the phrases “special snowflake” and “special little snowflake” – used sarcastically – practically suggest themselves.  Indeed, one commonly accepted definition of the phrase “special little snowflake” is as follows:

    A below average kid who is coddled and rewarded for mediocrity, usually by an overprotective mother, a ‘sensitive’ dad, or the public education system. The term stems from the concept that, like a snowflake, all children are special and unique and thus they should be treasured just the way they are so as to build their self-esteem.

    Use of the phrases are so ubiquitous today that they’ve spawned a related term, Special Snowflake Syndrome:

    A malady affecting a significant portion of the world’s population wherein the afflicted will demand special treatment, conduct themselves with a ludicrous, unfounded sense of entitlement, and generally make the lives of everyone around them that much more miserable.

    . . .

    So how did the term become falsely associated with the Nazis?  Dunno for sure, but I’ll hazard a guess.

    Here’s what I think happened.  One day, some bozo was acting like an immature, conceited, childish twit – a “special little snowflake”, if you will – carrying on and acting as if they were the center of the universe while demanding special treatment they didn’t rate.  When they got called on it, the person calling them out used the term “special little snowflake”.

    The jackass in question didn’t like being called out – and particularly didn’t like the perfectly descriptive term used in calling them out.  So they decided to try and “poison the well” regarding the use of the term by creating the false entry in question in the “Racial Slur Database”.

    What they apparently didn’t count on was the fact that although the Internet makes it easy to spread lies, it also makes it easy for someone who wants to fact check bogus claims.  And there are reputable sources out there that do the latter.

    In other words:  someone tried to pull a fast one using the Internet and got caught lying.

    So if you run across someone who tries to tell you that the term “snowflake” or “special little snowflake” is “racist” or has a Nazi past, tell them they’re full of it.  And then tell them to check Snopes for verification, since they probably won’t believe the truth from you.

     

    Author’s Note:  Definitions above for Special Little Snowflake and Special Snowflake Syndrome are also from the Urban Dictionary.  I won’t repeat their thoroughly-debunked-as-bullsh!t definition that falsely associates the term Special Snowflake with Nazism, as it’s been proven bogus and was obviously written by someone on the Left with a political agenda.

  • Shoulda Seen This Coming

    The University of Southern California calls their athletic teams Trojans – after warriors from the ancient city in Asia Minor, not the other kind of Trojan. (smile)  That’s pretty much common knowledge.

    Traditionally, at home football games a sword-wielding Trojan warrior rides onto the field on a horse; that horse doubles as one of the USC athletic department’s mascots.  That too is relatively common knowledge.

    Well, it seems as if this has attracted the attention of the SJW crowd.  And, predictably, they       are hell bent on proving to the rest of the world that they are freaking morons       have their panties in a knot       are “not amused”.

    You see, the horse ridden by that Trojan warrior at football games happens to be white.  And the horse is named “Traveler”.

    So, what’s the problem?

    Well, Confederate General Robert E. Lee was white.  And his horse was similarly named, too.

    There were some differences, though.  Lee spelled his horse’s name differently (“Traveller”).  Lee’s horse also was grey, not white.  And the rider at USC games is wearing Bronze Age armor – not a Confederate uniform.

    But those differences apparently don’t matter.  According to the SJW crowd at USC, the horse is clearly a symbol of “white supremacy.”  So it must be renamed, pronto – or replaced!

    I really wish I was making this sh!t up.  But, sadly . . . I’m not.  The abject idiocy I’m describing here really happened.

    Sheesh.  What’s next – a claim that typing paper is a”inherently racist” because it also happens to be white?

    GMAFB.