the hazard of a hermetically sealed echo chamber
…is that it will make you look like an idiot. Getting all sides of the story, and my obsessive-compulsive reading disorder is the reason why I seek out the voices of others I commonly disagree with. Plus you get gems like this.
My favorite wacknut feminists (the ones that call other feminists “anti-feminists” [1]), puzzle over the idiom “(I) don’t dial 911″.
They quickly conclude that it’s some kind of tea party racist thing. Classy. Someone offers a link to Public Enemy’s “911 is a joke”. Having figured that out, the subject is dropped for more hand-wringing elsewhere.
Wrong video.
Just in case I manage to pierce the seal, I’ll issue the standard feministe “trigger warning” for the following video. It doesn’t end in a tragedy, though I can hardly call it a happy ending. And the police do show up, eventually.
Armed Citizens: Calling 911 Doesn’t Always Work 6:45 min.
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Video by DaveLoneRanger, using images courtesy of Oleg Volk and http://a-human-right.com.
At 4:42, the operator says “…it’s only been two minutes”. Later, while she’s struggling with the stalker, dispatch helpfully quips that the police “are almost there”.
Here’s another expression important for the culturally literate: “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away”.
[1] Feminists who do believe all the equity stuff, but aren’t true believers that the federal government is the solution to all society’s ills are labeled “anti-feminists”. No, I don’t get it either.
DirtCrashr Says :
That place – to which I very seldom go – is through-the-looking-glass, literally.
2010-06-22 12:08 Permalink“What kind of mirror did your mom make you look at your vagina with?” I don’t believe an honest conversation can be held by those who are so academically-oriented/academically-warped and claim to be theoreticians of culture. “Been following this blog and its community for years now (even wrote part of my college thesis about it!)” WTF?? They jump to pre-set and pre-determined conclusions so fast it’s ridiculous, as if to show how quickly they can think – but it’s more Pavlovian by far, and they are as equally invested in hermetic jargon. They are second-generation insulated. “My own Feminist Vital Stats (race, gender, class position, etc.)”
It’s a caricature of a movie of a vision of reality – the postmodern disengagement is complete.
Standard Mischief Says :
every once in a while, I exercise my “search engine-fu” and click through the results to that page. Then I can easily get stuck there for a few hours in all the idiocy. Seriously, Ron Paul was a racist because of a picture of some sidewalk chalk drawing, and of course the credible testimony of Bill White as written in a forum post on Stormfront. They totally ignored the fact that everyone else on the very same forum post was telling Bill he was full of shit.
2010-08-17 01:56 Permalink