What grinds my gears

Some time ago, here in Finland, some organization was printing a pamphlet or instructional booklet aimed at families who adopted a child from a developing country (ie. primarily some African country). The booklet explicitly called such a family "multicultural" (and proceeded to talk about the "challenges" that such a "multicultural" family would encounter.) Many commented that it seemed like the publication, and in fact the multiculturalists in general, seem to be using the word "multicultural" to mean something that has nothing to do with actual culture. After all, probably even they don't believe that culture is somehow innate and inherited (especially since many of these families adopted small babies.) It was quite clear that the word "multicultural" was just an euphemism, a code word for "multiracial". It has nothing to do with culture, and everything to do with ethnicity and race. But of course since to the multic...

The YouTuber Carl "Sargon of Akkad" Benjamin, and the feminist social justice activist Thomas Smith had a debate at Mythcon 2017. At one point this exchange between them happened: Thomas: "I'm in favor of making things more equal." Carl: "Ok, but I'm not. I'm for making things more free, and freedom will never cause inequality." Thomas: "Freedom entails discrimination. Freedom allows white men to control everything." Carl: "Oh my God, you are a white supremacist. You are actually a white supremacist with a guilty conscience." Thomas looked completely baffled at this response. Clearly he just couldn't understand what Carl was saying, or why. I bet that it felt to him like completely nonsensical and out of left field. I think Carl Benjamin is completely right here, in a sense. Thomas might not be consciously and deliberately a white supremacist, but he's unwittingly being one. White supremacist (actual whit...

This is a six-sided die: These are six-sided dice: However, for some reason some people are outright obsessed in calling one die "dice". Even when they know that the correct word is "die", they still insist that "dice" should be the correct spelling and pronunciation. Saying "one dice" is exactly as wrong as saying "one mice", or "one teeth", or "one children". But they insist that "one dice" should be correct. I don't really understand why.

Islam, both the religion and the culture, is pretty much everything that modern feminists hate and loudly and constantly speak against. Islam, at large, imposes dress codes onto women (but not onto men). Islam tells women to cover up, and in general there is a widespread culture and mentality that women who do not cover up are promiscuous sluts. Very often Muslim women who do not dress appropriately are shunned, shamed and castigated (sometimes even physically, especially in Islamic countries where that's not illegal.) It is a very common sentiment among Muslims, especially those who live in Islamic countries or who have recently moved to the west from such countries, that not only are women who do not cover themselves up promiscuous sluts, but moreover raping them is acceptable because of that. Modern feminists tell us all the time how women should be free to dress however they want, and that society must never impose any sort of dress code standards on women, and that it'...

There's a very strange idea some people have that if there's a claim that "thing X causes disease Y", that claim is refuted by finding even one single counter-example. I recently watched a guy, a chain smoker, say that he knows lots of people who have smoked their entire lives and have not got lung cancer, therefore smoking is not the cause of lung cancer. Due to the context and the tone of voice I'm convinced that he was being completely serious, and that he genuinely believes that. I don't think he was joking, or trolling, or anything like that. That is, in fact, a somewhat common sentiment among some people, and chances are that you have heard it too (or at least have heard of it indirectly). And it's not like they are saying "I don't believe the science behind it" or something like that. It's always "I know people who haven't got it, therefore smoking doesn't cause it". Of course it doesn't work like that...

Continuing a bit with the theme of "things that are already happening to a lesser degree, which will probably escalate to ridiculous extents in the near future": Country after country will start legislating "equality" and "diversity" for corporations and for individuals, and enforcing these laws onto them via sanctions, fines, incarceration, and other forceful measures. Such things will include, among others: * Gender and racial quotas in the form of percentages will be demanded. At least such-and-such percent of employees must have such-and-such inconsequential characteristics, such as what's between their legs, and what skin pigmentation they have. Such-and-such percentage of upper management must have such-and-such characteristics, and so on and so forth. Indubitably such legislation will be discriminatory towards white men. In other words, the percentages are minimum percentages. It won't matter if a company exceeds those percentages. Fo...

One archetypal aspect of a totalitarian regime or ideology is the total control of everything that happens in society, from the highest echelons of government and industry, all the way down to the most mundane everyday lives of individual people. The totalitarian regime is upheld by constantly watching what people do, and making them live in fear and submission by punishing even the slightest signs of dissent. Of course the problem arises: With millions of people to control, how exactly do you keep track of all individual people? Even a government cannot possibly have so much personnel as to watch the actions of every individual person in the country. The answer is to, effectively, "recruit" informants from among the people. In other words, have people watch other people, and report any sign of dissent or misbehavior. With enough propaganda and social engineering, a significant portion, perhaps even a majority, of people can be effectively "recruited" to become ...

I wrote in my previous blog post how fighting the regressive left might be a lost cause. They are gaining ground everywhere, they are infecting every aspect of society, and country after country is becoming more and more totalitarian, and our rights are being eroded more and more, and there seems to be no end to this. The opposition to this madness seems to have little to no effect. But why is this? Why is the regressive left so effective, while the opposition (ie. mainly those who subscribe to mostly classical liberal values and universal human rights and freedoms) seems to have little to no effect? I have many times alluded to the regressive leftist social justice ideology being a cult. I don't think this is just rhetoric. I really think that the ideology has a striking resemblance to a cult. And that's the key. That key is: Organizing regressive leftist social justice warriors is like herding sheep, while organizing their critics is like herding cats. When social ju...

The youtuber Sargon of Akkad made recently a video where he points out how effective the tactics of the regressive leftist social justice warriors are, while their opposition has only minimal to no effect in society, and this is a problem. I think he's right. As I have been saying time and again, institution after institution, organization after organization, school after school, authority after authority, and even government after government, is in increasing manner adopting regressive leftist authoritarianism, and the subsequent eroding of basic human rights and liberties, and increasing the persecution of "wrongthinkers". Entity after entity is restricting free speech more and more, and punishing people for dissenting opinions. Entity after entity is becoming increasingly misandrist, anti-white, xenophilic and islamophilic. Entity after entity is starting to brainwash children into hating themselves and western values. Not a week goes by without yet another article...

For over a year now the American leftist media has been in a constant war against Donald Trump. It's non-stop anti-Trump propaganda, day and night. And there is no end in sight. If Trump ends up being president for the full 8 years he can be, I'm convinced that the leftist media will continue its attacks every single day, to the last day, for the full 8 years, non-stop. They are obsessed. Since past attacks have failed to have any effect, their latest attempt has been to get some psychiatrists to argue that Trump isn't mentally fit for office, and should be impeached because of that. One should note that since these are actual professional psychiatrists, what they are doing is against the American Psychiatrist Association code of ethics . Said code states: "On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances...

I'm reading a pamphlet named "Gamescom Report 2017: The Heart of Gaming". I don't really know what kind of event it is, but I find the photographs interesting. Page three is the first page with photos in it. The first photo has a woman showing something on a laptop to two men. Another photograph has a group of cosplayers, most of them female. There's a third photo of what looks like some dudebros relaxing on some chairs. Page four: A group photo. Half of the people in it are women. Right in the center is Angela Merkel (urgh!) Second photo: What looks like a motherly woman and a younger boy playing a video game. Third photo: A woman making a skateboard trick. Fourth photo: An overall view of a lan party; many of the participants seem to be women. Last photo: A beautiful woman front in center, playing a game; behind her is another woman likewise. And some dudes further back. The same trend seems to continue. Interestingly, at the back of the pamphlet there...

Title IX is a Federal law in the United States, enacted in 1972, that states the following: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." In other words, it's an anti-discrimination law for universities that receive Federal funding. It is unlawful for any such university to deny access to any of their resources and services based on the sex of the person. For example, a university (that receives Federal funding) cannot say to a student "we are not admitting you because you are a woman", or "you can't apply to this course because you are a woman", or "you can't use this lab because you are a woman", or "you can't create this student organization because you are a woman", for instance. (It also pretty much effectively bans gend...

Country after country is taking stern measures to combat the "gender pay gap". Countries have been legislating equal pay for decades, but that hasn't helped. Women are still earning less than men, even though the law says that corporations need to pay the same wages regardless of gender. This is, of course, a very convenient weapon used by social justice cultists. The earning gap will always be there, but it's very easy to use it to give the impression that all corporations are paying women less than men for the same job. Never mind that they can never give actual concrete examples of any company doing this, it must still be true dammit. But because the social justice religion is so amazingly virulent, and government after government is being infected by it, and thus government after government is getting convinced that companies are paying women less than men (even though the government can't prove this is happening, other by looking at total earnings by men ...

In the English language, the most powerful word in existence, by a wide, wide margin, is the word "nigger". There is no other word that comes even close to this one. There is no other word, or even combination of words, that if the "wrong" person says it, gets him into deep trouble. People have said this word publicly, and because of that, and solely that, they have lost their jobs, ruined their careers, news articles have been written about them in the press, and they have been viciously attacked, both verbally and sometimes even physically. There is no other word in the English language that, if the "wrong" person says it, can cause so much controversy and fervor. And the context doesn't matter. People have got into trouble for saying "nigger" out loud even in contexts where it was perfectly justifiable and proper. For example, one university professor got into trouble for saying that word out loud, even though she (and it was a woman,...

Mount Everest, the famously tallest mountain in the world. It's seen by many as a challenge. Getting to the top is one of the hardest things that a human could do. It's extremely difficult and dangerous, and only a tiny fraction of people could even attempt such a feat. One thing that doesn't get talked very much about the mountain, however, is the dead bodies. (In fact, I became aware of this myself only a few days ago. I had never heard of this before.) Climbing the mountain is, in fact, so dangerous that every year people die in the attempt. Some die by falling off a cliff, others die simply due to exhaustion and exposure to the cold. The problem is, if you die up there, you'll most probably stay there forever. Nobody is going to retrieve or bury your body. Retrieving a body from that altitude, from those conditions, is extremely difficult and dangerous itself. Even if somebody wanted to organize some kind of retrieval party, it would be highly expensive and da...

"Incel" stands for "involuntary celibate". It refers to a person who suffers from chronic loneliness and pretty much a complete lack of any sort of romantic relationships, and this situation has continued for a very long time, often even decades. Some, even many, of them may be mid-aged and are still virgins, in other words, they haven't experienced sex with another person in their entire lives. What makes the situation "involuntary" is usually not because they would have eg. some kind of medical or psychological problem (such as a physical or mental handicap or disease) that would stop them from having a romantic relationship. Instead, they are often pretty much normal people, oftentimes even pretty normal-looking (ie. not hideously ugly, morbidly obese, or other such things), but just due to life circumstances, upbringing, social awkwardness, and other such things, they simply have been unable to socialize and form romantic relationships for a ver...

There's something about the social justice ideology that makes them turn everything into its most ridiculous extreme. More precisely, they often take some very reasonable basic human right, and turn it to basically a parody of itself. Yet it's not parody. They take it in all seriousness. For example, they take "people shouldn't be judged nor discriminated against based on their sex or gender", which is a very reasonable basic human right principle, and turn it into "biological sex doesn't exist". I wish I were making that up, but I'm not. Many of them are seriously making this claim, against all reality and against all science. Likewise something like "you shouldn't discriminate against, nor make fun of people who are obese", which is very reasonable, is turned into "obesity is healthy and desirable". Again, I wish I were making that up. Decades of medical science be damned. The existence of human races is a curious ...

In this issue of the series, for the most part I'm not going to list things that have not yet happened, but might happen in the near future. Instead, the majority of these are things that have already happened several times in the near past. My prediction is that these things will significantly escalate in the near future, perhaps to almost ridiculous extents. The overall theme of all these is that the current racism against white people will continue escalating and become more and more extreme. The social justice cult will start rallying for all scientific results, discoveries, papers and inventions to be dismissed, shunned and perhaps even banned, if they have been made by white men. (Dismissing such results is something that some SJWs have already written about. This will probably only further escalate in the future.) It doesn't matter what these scientific discoveries and results are, or how much they would benefit humanity as a whole, calls will be done to dismiss the...