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Sinéad O’Connor: Finally Dead
Sinéad O’Connor, the world’s most obnoxiously political and mercurially unstable shaven-headed songstress, was found dead in her London flat last week at age 56. While some people are asking “Why?”, I’m more inclined to wonder, “What took so long?” At the moment, her cause of death has not been revealed. It could have been suicide, it could have been an accidental overdose, or perhaps the forces that rule the universe had simply grown tired of her.
Online obits made frequent note of her “mental health battles,” meaning that she fought a protracted battle against being mentally healthy. What’s worse, she had a compulsion to announce all her mental-health struggles to the world as they were happening.
Born in Dublin as Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor, at one point during the 1990s after being ordained a priest in a heretical Catholic sect, she demanded to be called “Mother Bernadette Mary.” In 2017 — the same year that, despite being the mother of four children, she posted a video lamenting that she was all alone by herself and feeling suicidal at a Travelodge motel “in the arse end of New Jersey” — she legally changed her name to Magda Davitt, claiming to an interviewer who was still willing to listen to her that she wanted to be “free of the patriarchal slave names. Free of the parental curses.”
The next year, after a very public conversion to Islam which saw her donning the occasional rainbow-striped hijab, she again changed her name to “Shuhada’ Sadaqat.” She called Islam “the natural conclusion to any intelligent theologian’s journey,” but of course she didn’t stop there. In a series of tweets, she said that she never wanted to spend time with white people again, perhaps unaware that the feeling was mutual:
What I’m about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it. But truly I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that’s what non-Muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting. . . . Everyone says the Poor Americans are the victim of Trump. But you hired him. So fire him. Otherwise you’re complicit. It is the same with all so called [sic] Islamic Terrorism. Which is exactly what the devil wants and loves. . . . No Irish person on earth would disagree. . . . We didn’t fire the church. We let them please themselves in our children right under our noses and there is no recompense. No balm in gilliad [sic] for Irish human beings under ‘civiliasation’ [sic]. . . . Final word. If its [sic] ‘Crazy’ to care. Then by all means, spank my ass and call me Fruity loops.
O’Connor shot to fame around 1990 when her version of the Prince song “Nothing Compares 2 U” became an international #1 hit. But if you think she got along with the famously oddball elfin mulatto — who, despite his own professions of religiosity and clean living, was found dead in 2018 with an “exceedingly high” level of fentanyl in his blood — you clearly don’t understand what made Sinéad O’Connor tick. In a 2014 interview with a Norwegian national public broadcaster, she said:
I did meet him a couple of times. We didn’t get on at all. In fact, we had a punch-up. . . . He summoned me to his house after “Nothing Compares.” I made it without him. I’d never met him. He summoned me to his house — and it’s foolish to do this to an Irish woman — he said he didn’t like me saying bad words in interviews. So I told him to fuck off. . . . He got quite violent. I had to escape out of his house at 5 in the morning. He packed a bigger punch than mine.
O’Connor is perhaps most famous for a 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live during which she sang an a cappella version of the Bob Marley song “War” before tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II and, with fire in her Irish eyes, humorlessly declared “Fight the real enemy.”
The following week, pint-sized Italian-American actor Joe Pesci hosted SNL. During his opening monologue, he held up an intact photo of the Pope, adding, “I’ll tell you one thing, she’s very lucky it wasn’t my show, ’cause if it was my show, I would have gave [sic] her such a smack.”
It wasn’t the first time that a prominent Italian-American performer expressed a desire to assault O’Connor. In 1990, after O’Connor demanded that venues not play the National Anthem before her concerts, Frank Sinatra said that he wanted to “kick her in the ass.”
From the minute or so of O’Connor’s music that I’ve forced myself to endure over my lifetime, she appears to have had a decent singing voice. But the shitlib icon, just like John Lennon before her, apparently forgot that she was a singer and decided that she needed to project her own multifarious psychological inadequacies onto the world in some dim quest for some ill-defined notion of “justice.”
In her 2021 autobiography Rememberings, she wrote, “Everyone wants a pop star, see? But I am a protest singer. I just had stuff to get off my chest. I had no desire for fame.”
Then why did she have a desire to broadcast every last niggling mental breakdown of hers to the entire world?
From what I can gather, O’Connor’s mother had been genuinely abusive to her, both mentally and physically; her own brother attests to this. At age 14, she was sent to an insane asylum in Ireland run by Catholic nuns. Such industrial-strength kiddie penitentiaries were notoriously abusive, as was documented in this book I read in the course of writing this article about the underreported phenomenon of sexual abuse by nuns. Poring over the available evidence, it seems that O’Connor’s early experiences with authority figures contributed greatly to her mental damage.
And I would have had immense sympathy for her if she hadn’t chosen to spend her entire adult life abusing the entire world in a non-stop and very public sadistic act of payback.
Cofounder of the Company Responsible for Last Month’s OceanGate Submersible Disaster Now Wants to Send 1,000 Humans to Venus
Just a tiny bit more than a month ago, I told you about Stockton Rush, who rushed to make headlines by using a video-game controller to lead himself and four other wealthy occupants in a clearly ill-designed underwater submersible to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and briefly ogle at the Titanic’s remains. Instead, he wound up being smashed to smithereens under the pulverizingly unforgiving water pressure. Even in death, Rush is to be scolded for bragging to the press that he didn’t want to hire the sort of “50-year-old white guys” who’d be capable of designing underwater vessels that might, you know, not kill him and a quartet of other fools who thought it’d be a good idea to each blow a quarter-million dollars just so they can say they saw the Titanic’s rotted-out husk with their own eyes.
Well, undaunted by the bad publicity and yearning to get a little bad publicity of his own, Guillermo Söhnlein — who co-founded OceanGate Expeditions with Stockton Rush back in 2009 — says that his goal is not to send five landlubbers two miles underwater, but to propel 1,000 earthlings 29 million miles to Venus by the year 2050, where they will all live long and fruitful lives in peace and harmony in a “floating colony” somewhere in a tiny “sliver” of space about 30 miles above the planet’s surface. Y’see, the surface of Venus is so hot that it can melt lead, which would clearly be inhospitable for human life. Then again, the atmosphere above Venus is chock-full of clouds that rain down sulfuric acid, which is also notoriously human-unfriendly. And the winds, they do blow mightily — around 225 miles per hour, to be precise.
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Apart from being a co-founder of the catastrophically imploded OceanGate project, Söhnlein is also a founder of Humans2Venus, whose website claims that “the Venusian atmosphere may be the only non-Earth location in the solar system where humans may be able to exist on a long-term basis.” In an attempt to be fair, the site concedes that “there are downsides, including: the atmosphere is primarily carbon dioxide, and the clouds are mostly sulfuric acid. However, these obstacles can be overcome with breathing apparatus and acid-resistant materials.”
No mention is made of how these 1,000 aspirant Venusians will, you know, feed themselves or have enough air or water or waste-removal facilities or rudimentary healthcare or even WiFi reliable enough so that they can watch the next MMA super-fight without too many glitches.
In an interview with Business Insider, Söhnlein doesn’t sound at all like a self-important schmuck with a messiah complex:
I think I’ve been driven to help make humanity a multi-planet species since I was 11 years old. . . . I had this recurring dream of being the commander of the first Martian colony. . . . [Stockton Rush and I] both saw underwater exploration — and especially using crewed submersibles — as the closest thing that we could do to go into space and further that vision without actually going into space.
He also acts as if last month’s underwater disaster was no big whoop and that anyone who questions whether sending a thousand clowns to Venus is a wise idea is merely a killjoy conformist whose head is stuck in Squaresville USA:
Forget OceanGate. Forget Titan. Forget Stockton. Humanity could be on the verge of a big breakthrough and not take advantage of it because we, as a species, are gonna get shut down and pushed back into the status quo.
As long as Guillermo Söhnlein volunteers to be one of the 1,000 humanoids who board the space station and head to Venus, and given the condition that no 50-year-old white guys, or really any white people at all, are onboard this mission to boldly go where no one was idiotic enough to go before, I have no problem with this project.
Incoming Class at Ohio School Where White Teen Was Beaten to Death Last June Hasn’t Had One Student Pass the State Math Test in Three Years
Anyone who’s ever seen LeBron James play basketball knows that he’s an elite athlete. Anyone who’s ever heard him speak knows that he’s dumber than a bag of dirt. He’s even dumber than his first name, which is derived from an obscure French term that roughly translates as “The Bron.” His name would make more sense if it was James LeBron, but anyone who’s sensible knows that black people don’t make sense — especially their names.
James originally hailed from the busted-up, rusted-out city of Akron, Ohio. Wikipedia would have us believe that in 2011, James
was researching the high school dropout rate of his hometown Akron and decided upon review to create the ‘I PROMISE’ initiative, focused on supporting the youth in his childhood community. In November 2017, the Foundation expressed to the Akron school board their desire to create a school that aims to assist disadvantaged children with their studies. The plans were approved later that month and subsequent development of the school was initiated. James, having grown up in Akron, struggled as a student due to unstable conditions at home. . . . His upbringing served as a motivation to provide future generations of children with similar backgrounds with special support and care.
In 2018, a full seven years after LeBron allegedly started “researching” Akron’s high dropout rate, the “I Promise School” was opened. Enrollment is only available to students who score in the bottom 25% of reading tests, so it is to be presumed that James’ promise was to make these kids less dumb.
Even though the school is primarily funded by taxpayers at the local, state, and federal levels, each year the LeBron James Family Foundation will generously peel off $1.4 million from James’ estimated net worth of $1 billion in the noble quest to ensure that Akron’s future aspiring basketball players may one day be able to type their own names in a text message to their baby mamas without making too many mistakes.
Setting aside the dubious assertion that LeBron James is even capable of researching anything, proof that he’s dumb is the following statement:
James considers the school’s founding as the most important professional accomplishment of his life.
Really? More important than four National Basketball Association titles? A grander accomplishment than being pro basketball’s all-time scoring leader?
Ladies and gents of the jury, I present as even further evidence that LeBron is certainly no LeBrain is the fact that not a single member of the I Promise School’s incoming eighth-grade class has passed the state’s basic math test over the past three years. And even though the total number isn’t even one, let’s not get ahead of ourselves and assume that any of these students can even count that high.
Currently, the school’s students are testing in the bottom 5% of the state. So James’ grand vision has borne fruit by taking Akron’s bottom 25% and pushing them all the way down to the state’s bottom 5%. The Ohio Department of Education is now attempting an intervention and will spend millions of additional taxpayer dollars to help the school’s hapless students work themselves all the way back up to the bottom 25%.
Akron’s I Promise School made national headlines last June after a 17-year-old white male named Ethan Liming was beaten to death in the aspiring educational facility’s parking lot after Liming and three friends — one white and two black — suddenly ambushed a trio of black youths who were playing basketball there late at night. Liming’s posse began shooting at the hoopsters with a SplatRBall gel gun, which the triumvirate of aspiring calculus students mistook to be some kind of deadly automatic firearm of the sort that their homies likely carry around in the courtyards of the housing projects where they live.
An autopsy showed that Liming had died of blunt force trauma. He also had a broken skull bone and a footprint on his chest wall. One of his assailants copped a plea for misdemeanor assault and was harshly punished with a 180-day jail suspended jail sentence. The other two aspiring atom-splitters were slapped with involuntary manslaughter charges and appear to be out on bail awaiting trial. In April, one of them violated the conditions of his bond and has been placed under “a more stringent house arrest.”
Now, you can paint me white and call me Tom Sawyer’s wooden fence, but I think that Ethan Liming got a much harsher deal than those three aspiring trigonometry wizards did.
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46 comments
Yes, Sinéad was completely nuts. But I really loved her during her prime (1987-1997). Some of her tracks, like this version of Danny Boy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYN5iAMHukA), are performed with unadorned grace and frailty ; her voice was a terrible beauty. But yes, she had done too many insane things to ever be redeemed. For me, it was running around with a Islamic veil, while right before that, going on TV with a bunch of awful tatoos saying how she needed to get laid. She should have just sang, but she was as famous as much for her controversial opinions and shaved head as she was for Nothing Compares 2U. As a singer, she holds a special place in my heart.
To be nit-picky, I think the Magdallen Sisters shelter for girls (the insane asylum mentioned in this text) was probably the target of anti-Catholic rhetoric and most of the stories of abuse by the nuns are greatly exagerated. Look at Ireland now. Loads worse than when the Irish were still living along the Catholic, as opposed to shit-lib, worldview.
If you really want to get “nitpicky,” that’s how you spell the word. Here’s an article about O’Connor’s time spent at the Sisters of our Lady of Charity asylum, which was one of a network of Magdalene (note the spelling there, too) Laundries in Ireland. The article is jam-packed with “anti-Catholic rhetoric.” Did you bother to look at the link I posted to Paddy Doyle’s book The God Squad about how nuns in orphanages jacked him off and basically rendered him a cripple by ordering several unnecessary operations, or did you just wave it away as “anti-Catholic rhetoric? What about the link to my article that documents several proven cases of violent and sadistic sexual abuse by nuns, or is that also “anti-Catholic rhetoric”? Do you think the five priests at my Catholic high school in who were formally defrocked for diddling boys were also the “target of anti-Catholic rhetoric”?
I also see this sentiment expressed repeatedly: “Well, sure, maybe priests were raping boys and nuns were shoving flagpoles up kids’ asses, but it’s better than what we have now.” Isn’t that what O’Connor did? “The problem isn’t Islam, it’s Catholicism!” You seem to be saying, “The problem isn’t Catholicism, it’s progressivism!” Why not just admit that the main problem is human nature, not which moralistic mythological system the humans in question hide behind?
I’m not sure whether modern Ireland is “loads worse” than it was, say, during the Great Famine or when Cromwell paid a visit from England and tried to kill all the natives. It’s a subjective judgment call. But if things are fracturing there right now, might it have more to do with demographic diversity than with a general drifting away from the Holy Roman Church?
You think priests are bad? Wait until you hear about the teachers, aka the real heroes.
Go to 9:30.
https://youtu.be/gQVVmhrsAII
“The problem isn’t priests, it’s teachers!”
I hope you watched the video in this link and don’t think I’m serious.
Doesn’t matter if you’re serious or not. I’ve heard that “The problem isn’t priests, it’s teachers!” line countless times from the e-Caths.
The problem is humans, especially when they are given moral authority over other humans.
A similar sentiment is expressed by Howard Duff to Ida Lupino in the great psychological thriller Jennifer (1953). When Lupino’s character expresses that things were better before the Machine Age, Duff responds, “No, our real problem today is the same one we had then—people.” That’s a savagely underappreciated film and highly recommended.
You actually believe that nuns were fiddling with Paddy’s junk? Nuns? More like Paddy’s fantasy. Those of you who have a burning desire to believe nuns were manually manipulating the wee lads will believe anything. What happened, did a nun rap your knuckles for chewing gum in 3rd grade? I always thought I was a handsome fellow, yet no nun, no priest, no brother or deacon ever even winked at me. Most of the stories out there are the fantasies of confused degenerates.
Most of the stories out there are the fantasies of confused degenerates.
Seems like you just made that up. If not, I welcome you to provide any evidence for that allegation.
I can’t speak for Paddy Doyle, but if you read my linked articles about sexual abuse by nuns and Father Richard Jones, there is case after documented case where the Catholic Church itself either paid massive settlements and/or dismissed clergy from their roles. So far, Catholic dioceses in America alone have doled out an estimated 3-4 billion dollars to settle sex-abuse cases…but you would have us believe that most of the thousands and thousands of cases were “the fantasies of confused degenerates,” while your anonymously submitted anecdotes are irrefutable proof.
As far was why you weren’t diddled, most of the stats show that accusations are only made against about 4-5% of Catholic clergy. No one is saying they all touch kids, but it’s been repeatedly documented—and repeatedly adjudicated—that not only do many of them do it, but the Church has had a long-standing habit of covering it up and moving them around.
Why were so many priests who taught at my Catholic high school laicized or encouraged to retire by the Catholic Church itself? Are the Vatican’s underlings so afraid of “the fantasies of confused degenerates” that they’ll just toss money at those confused degenerates and fire ordained clergy? Of the priests who got gently nudged out of the priesthood at my high school, one of them was Father Michael McCarthy, my biology teacher in sophomore year. He was “formally” accused by two students at my high school and eventually laicized as a result of the allegations. Over the years, I was told by three different males who grew up on my block that McCarthy also made sexual advances on them. None of them were McCarthy’s “formal” accusers.
Father Richard Jones, who spoke at my dad’s funeral about what an asshole my dad was, was laicized in 2005. His name was on a 2005 Grand Jury report and also was “included on secret 1994 memo from Rev. William Lynn to Msgr. James Molloy (released 2/27/12) regarding priests in secret archives who were guilty of sexual misconduct with a minor.” So even high-ranking Catholic clergymen said that Jones was guilty.
Another priest at my high school, Father Francis Giliberti, had a “sort of boot camp to stop masturbation” at his bungalow down at the Jersey shore. According to a report based on allegations by one accuser, “Once there, he directed the boy to remove his pants and obtain an erection. Giliberti told the child that he needed to see how traumatized the boy’s penis was. The ‘inspection’ included taking the boy’s penis [in] his hand, stroking it, and giving the child alcohol.” The Archdiocese of Philadelphia appointed a review board which concluded that at least two allegations against Giliberti were “credible and substantiated.” Again, this is the Church itself finding that the allegations were more than “the fantasies of confused degenerates.” And this is at my high school alone.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia alone, at last count, has paid out $78.5 million to 438 confused, lying degenerates with active imaginations.
There’s certainly nothing strange about men and women who, at the height of their sex drive, elect to be celibate for the rest of their lives and instead choose to spend most of their time around members of the same sex—that is, when they aren’t constantly reprimanding children and shaming them for having “dirty thoughts.” Ain’t a thing confused or degenerate about that.
As far as “people who’ll believe anything” go, there are over a billion people who, despite zero evidence, believe Christ actually rose from the dead. Talk about gullible!
By the way, the majority of the global Catholic population is nonwhite, but let’s keep pretending that Catholics will save white people.
What’s both sad and hilarious is that I wrote a 2,400-word article, only a smidgen of which was about sex abuse by Catholic clergy. I actually thought there were far more interesting things in there about Sinead O’Connor’s other exploits, the plot to send 1,000 people to Venus, and the abject failure of LeBron James’s high-school project. But the screeching denials by the enablers of, and apologists for, maladjusted Catholic kid-diddlin’ clergyfolk drowned it all out.
Why did your parents send you to such a gay school? I’m not aware of anyone who got diddled in any of the Catholic schools I attended. I’m not surprised that a pedophile would seek out a job that brought him into contact with children, but I doubt it is any worse in a Catholic school than any other school. Lawyers just saw deep pockets and knew they had a mostly anti-Catholic judicial system. But nuns tickling a boy’s testicles? Stop. That’s a worn out Ashkenazi fantasy.
There you go again with that legendarily Christian sense of compassion and lovingkindness. Sure, blame my parents and not the priests. Blame the Ashkenazis and not the nuns. And once again, use your anonymously submitted anecdotes as some kind of proof. And ignore everything I just documented and the voluminous documentation in the article about sexual abuse by nuns, especially in Ireland and Australia. Nowhere did I say it was “worse in a Catholic school than any other school.” But your seeming compulsion to cover up, deny, make excuses, and misplace the blame strikes me as extremely Catholic.
For someone who keeps mentioning “fantasies,” I’ll note that the notion of “nuns tickling a boy’s testicles” was strictly your fantasy, fella. Here was the passage from Paddy Doyle’s book:
I guess if you buy Paddy’s fantasy, you’ll buy anything. Kind of diminishes you. Why are my anonymously submitted ramblings any less believable than Doyle’s trying to make a buck giving the anti-Catholics a little red meat? I’m not making a dime responding to the ridiculous fancies of a guy trying to sell a book. There is money to be made by claiming to have been abused. Do you think those volumes would be so full if people couldn’t cash in? 12 years of Catholic school, with 4 brothers who also went to Catholic school, as well as a bus load of cousins and friends, and I never heard of anyone getting fiddled with. Couldn’t have been that common.
My God, are you ever touchy. I am French Canadian, so very sorry that I mispelt something or put a hyphen where you deem it need not be. You’ve obviously got a Catholic prejudice. Whatever. Also, the famine wasn’t as popular culture tells us. The English starved the Irish. Yes, white people hurt other white people. Québec is the best example. Ironically (for the context of this article), O’Connor put out a song about the famine. Sorry for not agreeing with you 100% and nor worshipping your analysis.
My God, are you ever touchy.
My God, are Catholic priests ever touchy-feely.
You’ve obviously got a Catholic prejudice.
The proper word is “postjudice.” To be “prejudiced” means that you’re judging something before being exposed to it. I was raised Catholic, endured 12 years of Catholic school, was endlessly hit and harassed by bitter, frigid, sadistic nuns…yeah, I’m judging after long exposure to Catholics.
The whole experience formed the foundation of my lifelong belief that the more moralistic someone is, the more of a bastard they are.
Plus there was the priest who gave the sermon at my father’s funeral. He turned out to be one of the five at my high school who was defrocked for boy-touching.
I understand your anti-Catholic/Christian/atheism bias because you apparently experienced the worst of it, but can you not see any collective utility to it? I’ve been doing lots of genealogy lately and have learned just how quintessential religion has served the white race, especially in colonial/early America. Church attendance was mandatory. It was a matchmaking lebensborn program for colonists, young, old and widowed. They had ridiculously large broods (like 10-20 surviving children) who settled westward. The modern secularity we have defaulted to has been a demographic disaster. These churches were also very racialist and denied membership to nonwhites. That fact helped debunk a notorious fake ‘Native American princess’ and her ‘Gypsy’ commander husband in New England that I allegedly descend from. All of these religions helped European ethnic groups remain homogenous in the New World for generations and even centuries after emigration. It’s unreal. I had no idea I had Dutch, English, Scottish or even French Huguenot ancestry, even if a very small amount trickled down to me. Yet all of these churches provided a genetic firewall, linguistic insularity, matchmaking and ethnocentrism deep into the 20th Century before the crucible of immigration mulched our DNA into a pan-European trail mix.
There was nothing about Christianity that provided a “genetic firewall.” Christianity is a majority nonwhite religion worldwide, and slaveowners eagerly preached it to blacks hundreds of years ago. They preached it everywhere—to all nations, just like the Gospels instructed them to do. Look up Galatians 3:28—”There is neither Jew nor Greek,” etc.
The difference is the fact that white people had a racial consciousness back then and hadn’t been beaten over the head with guilt truncheons for generations. Besides “experiencing the worst of it,” I also read enough of The Bible to see the countless contradictions in it and that it can’t possibly be true.
That’s simply untrue. The church was the town square. So many of these fruitful couplings I underscored would never have happened, just as they aren’t happening today. So many family trees are dying or never taking root right now precisely because of irreligiousness. You’re cherry picking later interpretations and sects of Christianity being pro-miscegenation because the same people use scripture to justify slavery, supremacy and separation.
Even with the proselytization of nonwhites, somehow the churches down South are still segregated to this day. Converting nonwhites has indeed been a disaster, but it doesn’t change the invaluable insularity these churches provided. The different sects are ethnic varieties that help further distinguish each demographic. If you look close enough at the English Civil Wars or Irish wars it is about ethnic religions that further differentiate from the English (Irish Catholic, Presbyterian Scottish, English Anglicanism). Yes, religious wars have been a disaster for Europe, but obviously wasn’t about religion alone. Christianity is already on its way out. My question is what is your solution? Atheism clearly doesn’t work because it collectively produces only demographic collapse and nihilism. There is zero utility in it compared to religion.
The church may have been a public meeting place, but that was it. Christianity has, from the start, been a universalist religion. There are tons of Bible verses that prove it, but every time I bring them up, I’m accused of “cherry picking.” Why does everyone use that phrase? I invite you to “cherry pick” even a single Bible verse that says Europeans need to unite.
“Well, white people were more cohesive back then, and they were also more Christian back then.” Correlation does not equal causation. White people didn’t have electricity back then, either. I’ve never seen anyone who tries this argument say, “Well, white people didn’t use computers back then…”
Why do so many people always seem to think it’s a simplistic binary choice between “atheism” and a contradiction-riddled Semitic religion that originated in the Middle East? Why do you act as if theology, or lack thereof, has anything to do with the major problems? Biological racial consciousness is all that’s needed. When a group of blacks see you on the street, I can guarantee you they don’t think, “Look at that Christian there.” You’re being identified and singled out because of your genetics, not your belief system.
There are plenty of Christian blacks, Muslim blacks, blacks who believe in voodoo, astrology, etc. What binds them is being black. And unlike all these white e-Christians who insist that Christianity must be part of the package and isn’t a completely different issue, American blacks seem to put their race above their religion. This is despite the fact that American blacks are statistically more likely to be Christian than American whites.
If churches still remain segregated, they’re all still Christian churches. Maybe the seating arrangements have a lot more to do with the fact that races tend to self-segregate than it has anything to do with Christianity.
Yes there are plenty of abusive Christians throughout history and modernity. But the same is true for whites and the misdeeds of some are used as argument first to ‘Dismantle white supremacy’ but essentially to behave anti-white. Some white guy did something bad in 1950, but you mister millennial need to pay… step aside for some affirmative action against racist structures. Take your digs against organized religion (I’m nonpracticing), but it is one the last public ‘safe spaces’ where non-progressive views can be embraced (though it varies a lot depending on locale).
Sinbad O’Connor’s voyages to progressive stances seem like typical youthful rebellion. Whoever is in charge or in power is thy enemy. The Christian conservatives were when she came of age. Did abuse cause her to be who she was? Maybe. But they don’t just randomly assign kids to juvenile detention. She was a white ‘at risk’ adolescent shoplifter and truant, possibly early signs of her issue and difficult controlling impulses. This site and others loves to talk IQ, but less so about temperament and the well documented association between progressivism and mental health problems. You know this already from your ‘lived experience’. When the left starts paying attention they will start ‘splanin the effect…. wait for it… whiteness, white supremacy, etc. They’re kind of already getting going saying that if deny a ‘gender affirming surgery’ or hormone to a distressed teen, then you will trigger suicide. How about staying off TikTok for a year?
She apparently apologized for saying she ‘never wants to spend time with white people again’. But typical of modern progressives she has lots of critiques against Christians, white people and non-feminists. Progressive NPR says she ‘found peace in Islam’… lets wait for the autopsy results before getting ahead of ourselves. ‘Trust the science‘, as they say!
Yet, the internet is surprisingly quiet on whether she had a stance on clitoridectomy and its over-representation in Muslim counties. Isn’t that an easy one? Not every feminist is bad, but Sinead was yet another bad one essentially advocating bringing in identity groups even more patriarchal than her white daddy.
“Why do so many people always seem to think it’s a simplistic binary choice between “atheism” and a contradiction-riddled Semitic religion that originated in the Middle East? Why do you act as if theology, or lack thereof, has anything to do with the major problems?”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. People act like we have two possible futures: a cartoonish and technologically advanced recreation of feudal Christian Europe or a depressing neoliberal ethnostate where whites act like TJ Kirk (the Amazing Atheist).
Reality is often complicated. I’m an atheist but I have to say, pagans are far more nuanced in their understanding of how to move forward racially. They seem to at least be aware that their salient identity is racial, not religious. It’s not like you can’t be Christian on a college campus. Will you get shit? Sure. Some people won’t like you. But try being a white nationalist. See how fast they shame, expel and slander you. That alone should show these dumbass E-Catholics what really matters. Loved the article.
Response to Jim since I can’t respond to the same thread again:
What I sent is a classic Norm Macdonald bit that I linked back when your comment was a brief retort to the OP, not the detailed argument that it became. I thought you might enjoy the video or even recognize it based on my wording.
When I say I’m not being serious, I don’t mean I was trying to make a half-ass attempt to defend priests or deflect.
I meant that I was linking to a comedy bit.
Oh, I know. I was only pointing out that I’ve heard the “but muh teachers” argument for years now from the Extremely Online e-Caths, whom I’ve found to be the most psychotic and insufferable political sect in the universe.
Also, I’ll have to check that movie out.
Always enjoy your W.W.Y. series Jim and this week’s was a gem – made me laugh out loud.
“The problem is humans, especially when they are given moral authority over other humans.”
That’s it.
I just knew you’d come through! I’m glad to see a fitting farewell to the wayward vocalist. Her life, the train wreck that it was, makes for a cautionary tale. Granted, she was a lost soul, but there are better and worse ways to be a lost soul.
Miles Mathis will no doubt shortly reveal that Sinead is not dead and has perpetrated the usual celebrity fake death just like John Lennon and Kurt Cobain before her. He will also show how she is the secret love child of John Paul II.
SmithsFan, I saw Sinead on her first US tour in the late 80s and she was backed up by the bass player and drummer of the Smiths. Great show.
A new level of bad taste to try and fund-raise a Venus expedition in the wake of OceanGate. Maybe they can give a nod to Sun Ra and name the vessel ‘Rocket #9’. Godspeed, and be true to your vision, please pilot thy Venus craft with another Logitech game controller.
Perhaps Sinead O’Connor may be most remembered for bringing entitlement to a new level. She made a name for herself on Prince’s song and dared say she did it without him. Reminds me of a certain kind of feminist who just copies a guy’s art or invention, inserts a woman as the lead, and then demands equity. I give her credit for a different take and improvement on the song, but she deserves blame for inspiring endless musicians to do lame ‘power ballad’ covers of superior source material.
Or should she be remembered as a prototype self-centered depressive who demands everyone suffer with them and believe in all their causes or suffer the wrath of ……… [I was cut off there because Greta Thunberg and Just Stop Oil were throwing soup at the painting I was standing next to].
The humorless activists of today seem to escape the skewerings they deserve. SNL thoroughly gave Sinead the business in this bit featuring her and a disapproving Frank Sinatra.
SmithFans84…Yeah, that’s Miles. I do like to read him, and he has a brilliant wit and understanding of how hierarchy is run, but…EVERYTHING is fake.
As for Sinead, I’m sorry anyone ever liked her voice. I never quite saw the point to her, nor the shaved head stuff. Just a very broken woman. She needed therapy, or maybe just raise chickens on an island somewhere, or maybe Tibet. I’m sure the chickens would have liked her singing.
I’m not Catholic, so I haven’t the personal experience Jim has, but I understand how the Church seems to foster brutality and protect it in certain areas.
A more humorous view of nun wackiness is Christopher Durang’s Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All to You. When it played in St. Louis in 1982, the Church tried to get it banned, and it became a hot issue.
As awful as she apparently was, at least she had 4 biological white children. She was an old school rebel that still gave birth under circumstances less than ideal. Now ‘our’ women seldom do even that.
Finally dead. The heart of the matter. Another diseased and destroyed western women.
Boy, that linked article about the nun abuses is harrowing. Dear lord.
Never could get past O’Connor’s . . . I don’t even know what to call it, to consider myself a fan, but I sure did/do like this song she did with another musically gifted Irish train wreck.
I had never heard that song, but when you said “musically gifted Irish train wreck” I knew exactly who it would be.
Train wreck, plane crash, natural disaster . . . I honestly can’t believe he and his liver are still among the living.
We need Iggy Pop, Ozzy, George Clinton, Keith Richards and him to form a super group named We’ll Bury You All.
Not bad.
You could also call the band “Lust for Life.”
At the fifth second of Forever, we are supposed to visit “the jewelled forests of Venus.” Don’t say I can’t go there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0iI4OnLph78&pp=ygUQSGF3a3dpbmQgZm9yZXZlcg%3D%3D
I wonder if those lead melting surface temperatures on Venus are because of all the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere or its proximity to the sun??
In other news the interplanetary space bus transporting the 1000 graduates from the I Promise school to their new Venusian home will be largely constructed from compressed pistachio nut shells.
The Irish are partially of Phoenician origin.
The Irish feel obligated the let in the swarthy hordes because Phil Lynott was cool.
I thought she had an awful voice – especially when she reached for the high notes. Like a rusty gate. The left loved her of course, amazing how so many of their heroes are mentally ill. Anyway good riddance to the demented freak.
We haven’t even made it to Mars yet and now there’s already douchebags with too much money to spare talking about going to Venus? Oh brother.
I generally agree with the notion that mankind “must” leave this planet and smear itself out across the cosmos like a thin layer of hummus on toast, that is, IF we consider the survival of our species into perpetuity a necessity. However, as I’m aging, I’m starting to realize this sentiment stems from nothing but a staggering arrogance. Do we really consider ourselves worthy of eternal life? What has our species done to earn the privilege of perpetual survival? To deny ourselves the fate shared by all of Earth’s species… I don’t see much more to admire in homo sapiens than the dinosaurs for instance, or the whales for that matter.
This day and age, however, I see the urge for space exploration as something more sinister, a kind of harmful distraction. It’s kinda like what the blacks were saying back during the old Apollo missions, but from a white perspective: for Pete’s sake, take care of our affairs on Earth before pissing off into outer space and taking Earth’s problems with you. If the sorts of people we trust to take us into space are the Elon Musk and Stockton Rush types, there’s a high chance white people won’t be the majority of the ones chosen to make it off this planet. End anti-whiteness on Earth first and the maybe we’ll have earned a shot at graduating off this planet and into the barren nothingness that everyone seems to really want to get to.
Whether it’s the Christians telling us to run to God or the Musk types telling us to run to space, both seem to have very little to do with saving the white race, and more to do with placating the masses with the promise of a better life once our short time on Earth is over. And to keep us entertained and obedient once we’re still here. Don’t trust anyone who says the first step towards rebuilding the West lies outside of the here and now. White flight is all well and good until you run out of places to flee to. I’d rather see a “white stand” on Earth in our lifetime than to watch the first brown person set foot on Mars.
Humans have a nearly inexhaustible capacity for disappointing and most of them are too easily led whether for good or ill but if you keep the right company they are mostly delightful, fascinating and essentially good-natured. You are sounding like Jewish anti-human philosopher Peter Singer with his call for treating animals like people and by extension people like animals.
Human beings, as far as we know, are the only self-sustaining entities in the cosmos with the capacity to rationally interpret and modify their environment. Leaving alone the fact they are us this would be enough evidence of their supreme importance.
P.S. I fully agree with you about space colonisation. It’s a pipe dream. The very most we could hope for would be a research station on the Moon or perhaps Mars but given the known and unknown risks to human health of such an endeavour, what would be the point?
I had never heard the name Sinead before O’Conner burst on the cone when I was 13 or so. I thought it was a creative derivative of “skinhead.” She was very pretty, actually.
That’s all I got except “ha-hah, she’s dead,” just as she would say for me
Sinéad had basically the same opinion about the Catholic church as Jim. She did have real, objective reasons for that, but she was also a mentally very ill person who liked to blame everyone else for her misery.
Check out this magnificient piece on O’Connor by Millennial Woes:
https://millennialwoes.substack.com/p/in-the-absence-of-order
Yes, Woes’ articile on Sinéad is very good. Very nuanced.
If it’s any consolation, Sinead, you won’t have to deal with any more of us nasty Whypipo where you are now. When it comes to effed up White women, truly, Nothing Compares 2 U.
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