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Most everybody seemed to get along in the decade prior to the turn of this century. At least it was that way in my world. Blacks had equal rights: some were superstars in sports, some had recording contracts, and some starred in movies. All was good and things were equal — or so I had thought.
There were not many rumblings about inequality, equity, microaggressions, or anything having to do with “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). Critical Race Theory was something mostly restricted to academia. A Karen was just a Karen. We used pancake syrup and cooked rice without any worry about who was gracing the label.
I was in college during the mid-to-late 1990s. Occasionally our professors would give out an assignment to write a long paper, which might be picked later to be given as a speech to the whole class or in a lecture hall. One of mine was selected for such a presentation. It was about viewing the military as a welfare state. Although my experience with the military was limited, I came from a military family and had friends who were serving, primarily in the US Army and the National Guard.
The paper, which was about 9,000 words, pointed out areas where the US military could be seen as something akin to welfare. The military not only protects and strengthens the country, it aids and supports those enlisted. I knew that some might view my opinion as controversial, but a non-biased look shows that any of the sectors of the military could potentially be construed as a welfare state.
I delivered the paper in a lecture hall that was roughly halfway filled, maybe 50 to 60 students. (Probably better for my nerves!) I felt like I had a positive response, for the most part, and I noted that there were very few questions asked at the end. The professor nodded at me when I left.
Several weeks later I was in class when I was summoned to the Dean’s office. As I was riding in the elevator on the way there, I tried to recall if I had any unfinished work, problems, or other issues that had arisen recently. But when I got to her office, she wanted to talk to me about my “military as a welfare state” speech. Stupidly, I thought I might be getting accolades for it, as this was a large project for the semester and several of the papers in it were to be published.
It turns out there had been a complaint made against my report. I figured somebody wanted to argue about a couple of the points I had made. Maybe it was a good opportunity to address it? Although I soon learned that the complaint had nothing to do with the content of my work, but was about a word I had used.
As any writer does, I often use a thesaurus. I had used the word “negotiate,” and I had also referenced a renegotiation, so I had looked for a different word to convey the same meaning. I chose “renege.” This ended up being my foray into what would later become known as microaggressions.
A student had complained that I had used a racist word. The speech had been recorded and was viewed by others besides those who had been present when I delivered it, including other students, an advisory board, the Dean, and some other professors. I had very definitely pronounced “reneged” with an “egg” sound, not a “twig” or “igloo” sound. It certainly sounded correct on the tape!
But I now suddenly had an investigation on my hands — and a most unwelcome one. I remember I had to give a statement to the Dean and two witnesses. Then things started to become even more complicated. I had never had trouble such as this before. I had done stupid teenage stuff and made some dumb young-adult decisions, but I had the feeling that things were about to get a lot worse over this incident.
I was right.
Over the next few weeks, another representative of the school called me in. I believe she said that she was conducting a cursory Title VII investigation, but I also remember it being referred to as Title IX. It was confusing. I had no idea who to trust, and I was starting to think anything I said was being regarded as suspect. I couldn’t afford an attorney at that point in my life, so I started to do some digging on the dial-up World Wide Web.
There were a few aggregate search sites in the late 1990s, but I had no idea how to use them for this purpose. I also didn’t know what the implications were of this investigation. All I knew was that I had meant no harm. How could a word be misconstrued as something it wasn’t?
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Another week or so passed, and the reporting party — a black student who, it turned out, wasn’t even really a student, as she was merely auditing a course — had said she felt discriminated against by my lecture. She said my presentation was biased and that she had felt uncomfortable. Bear in mind that this was still two decades before the sort of movements we have now.
Around a month later, as the investigation mounted, I wrote some responses to the Dean’s office as well as to the university’s President. Yes, I had used the word “renege,” but no, it had not been intended to mean anything other than to renegotiate. This was an institution of higher learning, after all.
Several of my teaching assistants gave me advice on how to get letters of support from some of my professors and my academic advisor, which I did. The professor who had taught the military class for which I had written the paper wrote a shining letter for me, describing what an exemplary student I had been. The Dean was conveniently unavailable when I contacted her, but her assistant wrote a complimentary letter as well. I just had to wait.
The waiting was tough. I’m pretty sure it worked better to help me lose weight than a diet. I was worried about what would happen if the school determined that I had been discriminatory and prejudicial in my presentation. I was beyond upset that this misunderstanding had blown up into something so troubling. Worst of all, I was concerned that this would prevent my graduation.
I had never wanted to anger anybody, and I had not intended any part of my assignment as an insult, in any context. I didn’t even know who my complainant was. I felt I had treated everybody with fairness, and considered all of my student peers to be equal to me. Now I was feeling uneasy and began questioning if I had been disrespectful. This is the type of sick mindbending that can result from accusations such as these.
The Dean’s office finally got back to me, and there was a choice that needed to be made — between two bad ones. The first option I had was to issue an apology and redo the assignment. If I did not resubmit another research project in its place, then the first one would be counted as a zero. I couldn’t afford that, as it was a big part of the overall grade in the course. The other option was to drop the course and receive no credit — and I’m sure they wanted a letter of apology in that case as well. It was all about the optics, you know. I decided to pick the first of the two bad choices.
I carefully worded my letter of apology. Although I was indeed truly sorry for what the complainant had heard, I did not accept responsibility for how she had interpreted it. I didn’t want to ostracize or humiliate anybody. I agreed to do a new assignment — but it was all in vain, anyway. A week later I learned that I would not get any credit for that course after all; it would be considered as pass/fail on my record. Beyond that, my graduation would now be delayed — all because of a word that had been misheard.
I continued to attend classes, but I wasn’t taking much of it in at that point. My stress level was unbelievable, and my grades were falling. Angry, I looked into the consortium of universities and colleges in the area and found a program where I could do a semester at a university in a neighboring state in order to finish. It was more expensive, but I applied and was accepted. I was finally able to graduate — a semester late, a lot more jaded, and laden with student debt. My college diploma, unfortunately, shows the name of the university where I experienced this problem. I took the vast majority of my classes at that school, after all.
I occasionally appreciate the time I had in college, and I miss my friends from that time. But when I look back now, I realize that DEI, and the indoctrination and narrative that supports it, in fact started decades ago. For anybody who thinks that this is new, it is not. We have been beaten down and brainwashed for a long time.
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As someone who went to university just a few years before this author did, I can relate. I’ve seen some (mostly those too young to remember it) who praise the 1990s as some sort of better time, but the fact is that all the trends that we see in the US today were already active then, especially on campuses. The radicalism we see today didn’t just emerge recently and out of the blue.
It was alive and well in the 80’s. Can you imagine if the author had used the word niggardly? I bet this author now regrets not having written some insincere apology letter. He could have done it while slyly humiliating the offended party for having such a poor command of the English language.
I do recall that in the 1990s, there had been a career-ending brouhaha about the term “niggardly”. Things did indeed get quite prickly back then, though it wasn’t up to today’s nightmare level.
As for l’affaire renege constituting the article’s topic, this is indeed absurd. The administrators should’ve looked at a dictionary and ended the investigation five minutes later, instead of badgering the student and making his life a living hell. Since they didn’t, they’re clearly such idiots that they should’ve been sterilized for the sake of posterity.
I remember that too. I don’t remember the details , however I do remember Rush Limbaugh discussing it and telling his audience that he previously warned that this sort of thing was bound to happen.
I Remember at the time of Rush’s death there was some debate on here weather or not Rush was one of us. A lot people said No. However after a few years have passed I now recall Rush often saying on the topic of immigration that our ruling class says “They don’t care what the country looks like “. That’s about the most he could say and still be mainstream.
A simpler time, when we could laugh at nogs not knowing “niggardly.”
Controversies about the word niggardly – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo_incident
Some people are more equal than others.
Mayor Anthony Williams of the DC Swamp had an aide, David Howard, who used the word niggardly to describe something about a budget …or maybe a fund.
Howard resigned then he did get his job reinstated. We’re on the 25th anniversary of this. My, how far we’ve come.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/jan99/district27.htm
Yes, Howard said we won’t be niggardly about distributing the funds and that set off the entire controversy.
I was teaching in a 2 year community college from 1998 to 2010. I used a book of readings from the great philosophers. One of the articles I used was by Sartre and I think it was a chapter from “Being and Nothingness”. I simply assigned this article because it fit in well with my Free will versus Determinism section of my course. In the article Sartre uses the term “Niggardly”. I never had any problem with this, however. None of the students complained and there were a few black students in my class. I am sure that if I were still teaching now, things would be very different.
I wonder if they knew what it meant. I would bet most people think it means behaving like a sub Saharan.
It was alive and well in the early 80s per my own experience – and I bet it was pretty alive already in the 60s. Research the career of the great anthropologist Carleton Coon (real name, most definitely not black!). He was viciously harassed by antiwhites, er, “antiracists” as far back as at least the early 60s (if not 50s), which may have led to his early retirement from UPenn.
Of course, if it was worse in the 80s than the 50s, it was better than today. Our deranged and ruinous course was set in motion long ago (WW2? WW1? Civil War? Enlightenment? Renaissance? Conversion of Constantine {for the Christophobes}?). There is a tide in the affairs of men … a tide running ever harder against the white man, one whose penultimate terminus is enslavement, and whose terminus is extinction.
Will we awaken a critical mass of our people in time enough to prevail? The situation seems bleak. I’m uncertain whether God exists, but certain He won’t save us. We are all we have. Perhaps we can take grim inspiration from an ancient couplet composed soon after the Battle of Maldon (993) by an unknown Anglo-Saxon, weary yet undimmed:
Thought must be the harder: the heart, the keener/
Courage must be greater as our strength grows less.
The early 90’s movie “PCU” must have been based on things that were already happening.
I doubt that a movie like that could be made today.
This was a great article. I enjoy the slice of life pieces on here.
I’m sorry for what happened to you. I’ve been in a similar spot but for a more obviously offensive act. I wrote a blog post in defence of freedom of association, including that of a racial nature.
It’s fascinating to find out that even in the 90s, apologies did nothing to put you back in good standing.
Always stand your ground, folks. Double down and never apologize!
The word “renege” is a valid English word. No serious person would object to its use. I would tell the “Dean” of this so-called “university” to get stuffed, and I would inform her that her entire DEI staff are midwit gynocrats, like Claudine Gay.
Critical Race Theory is a phony academic fraud, hate propaganda against Whites.
No serious person would hear that word in a speech and feel “discriminated against.” And a serious Dean would have told the moron to look the word up and get the hell out of her office.
Alas, we are not a serious nation, and the author is correct that we haven’t been for a LONG time.
In 1984, the first semester of my senior year in high school, I was brand new at the school, dirt poor, and the only white person on my school bus. Of course I got attacked by a 250 lb she-boon almost immediately. One of the black guys pulled her off me and sat next to me to keep her away, while a black teacher in the bus laughed and told stories about beating honkies up when she was a kid. I arrived at school expecting some sort of justice. Nope. I got sent home. And it was clearly expressed to my face that they would not be doing one damn thing about any of it.
The USA isn’t a serious country anymore. I’ve seen and witnessed the same with the fenians in Glasgow. Despite the fact that a Conservative government passed the 1921 Catholic schools act in the UK which had a much wider impact on Scotland and the central belt (the highly urbanised areas between Glasgow and Edinburgh) I’ve witnessed nothing but – as we say ‘whataboutery’ and expressions of the Most Oppressed People Ever (MOPE) chip away at everything built up by Scots and the Enlightenment. The nuance and philosophical details may be debatable given the demographics and ideologies held here, but – the fenians did by way of attrition questions everything, EVERYTHING that Scots did for them. And to this day they resent it. The strange thing is two-fold. They still remain as part of the west of Scotland, when the easier option is to head back to the Republic of Ireland. The journey isn’t difficult, there is no language barrier, supposedly, their kin in numbers are there and you could, if so inclined, swim back. It’s not an arduous trek. Secondly, they’d rather gut Scotland of any Reformation than support their own tribe being diluted back in Dublin. Say the word ‘fenian’ a few years ago in Scotland and you risked a criminal conviction. It’s since been scrapped. Have a look at who was Justice Minister back than – you may find it’s the thick muzzie who is now in charge of the country. Words, being used as ‘violence’ belongs in the archive of Alexander Scholztenizyn but alas, as the author points out were prophetic.
Exchange them for the Orange loyalists in Ulster. They are the cream of your Scottish Enlightenment and should be proud to return to their homeland where they can worship the Queen, the Rangers and Jews in that order.
Yes, it’s an interesting one. I’ve seen first hand Rangers supporters being pro Jew/Zionist and and another group of Rangers supporters being anti-Zionist/Jew. One additional point is the fact that Protestants and Orangemen in Ulster are very happy to be British and look upon the UK as their country and do not try and subvert from within. The Irish diaspora in Glasgow (some of) hate their hosts. My main thrust of my post is thus – if a troublesome group hate their host country (regardless of race or ethnicity) they should be repatriated. Also, we have a King now.
I’ve learned to be cautious about asking black supermarket workers where the vinegar is.
Ask for the vinegro to be halfway safe.
I remember the word renege was used when Coach Dean Smith of the NC Tarheel bastardball team would send in his second-string team.
That joke about the UNC basketball team was making the rounds when I was in college in Raleigh back in the 80s. Funny thing is, it wasn’t even considered that offensive. How things change.
One of my aunts used to make sure to have a bowl of mixed nuts out at Christmas just so she could pick up a Brazil nut and ask us kids if we knew what it was. We did, of course, but we waited for her to tell us, and then the whole room would erupt in laughter.
ncleapyear: January 20, 2024 Funny thing is, it wasn’t even considered that offensive. How things change.
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Nothing’s changed, nc. Dean Smith’s “renigging” at UNC’s Carmichael Auditorium in the 70s was funny because the term fit. It was an even better fit after the Dean Dome replaced Carmichael in the ’80s
I take it you attended NCSU. So did I, except in the early 70s.
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[Your aunt] could pick up a Brazil nut and ask us kids if we knew what it was. We did, of course, but we waited for her to tell us, and then the whole room would erupt in laughter.
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Again, it was funny because a Brazil nut did resemble a nigger’s toe. Your aunt was cool. My aunts were like her. My mother never said “nigger,” it was always “nigruh.” Try that today and you’ll get the same look from Blacks (and some Whites) as if you’ve let slip niggardly or renege.
Zoomers and Xoomers can’t even imagine what the U.S. was like before JOG forced the integration of Whites with Blacks. It’s up to us Boomers to tell them like it was and how it can be again through strict geographical racial separation, not failed segregation or apartheid. To acknowledge biological differences — to discriminate — was hygienic, not evil.
Writer Douglas Mercer recounts an experience in “a better time” for our race, the mid-1960’s, that illustrates this: California “Anti-Racism” | National Vanguard
NATIONAL ALLIANCE Chairman Will Williams likes to tell the anecdote from back in 1966 when he was in a high school class and charged with doing a report on an alien race. Will picked the Pygmy, and when he got up in front of his class he said:
“The Pygmy.”
Here he held out his hand about hip high.
“The Pygmy is a little nigger about this tall.”
(a suitable silence)
“The Pygmy.”
And then he sat down. That was the entire report.
Will tells us he did all this stone-faced, and soon waves of laughter swept across the room including from the White teacher.
That was a better time…
Some deracinated kid who answers to Denny commented under Mr. Mercer’s essay: I grew up in California, and can guarantee that even back in 1966, a schoolkid doing what Will claims to have done is *highly* unlikely.
Denny makes my point. While the teacher and all the other students in our all-White class were laughing out loud at my spontaneous oral report, he would have been hissing and booing and stomping his feet.
Sorry, I don’t agree with your description of “Denny” as necessarily deracinated. I grew up in urban CA in the 60s, HS in the mid/late 70s, a good decade past “civil rights”. While I went to an East Coast boarding school for HS, many grade school pals stayed home until college, so I have a good idea of their experiences, too. No way anyone in my still-overwhelmingly white grade school class (with more Asians than blacks, btw), as a high schooler in CA (including at private schools, which all my friends went to; I can only imagine the horror of the pubic HSs then, already overrun with violent “bussed” blacks, and increasing numbers of what were then referred to as “Chicanos”) would have given your presentation. [At my boarding school, such a presentation would have been graded “F” for lack of content, probably with an additional reprimand for “vulgar racism”.]
I grant that a lot changed – demographically, culturally and racio-ideologically – between 1966 and 1976 (much more than between, say, 1996-2006), but still, I’m hard pressed to believe you could have given that presentation in Greater LA or the Bay Area in 1966. Perhaps you were in a rural, or else still very white and conservative, part of the state? Orange County back then was still very white and Right, as was CA north of the Bay Area.
I was in a UK supermarket searching for peanuts in shells. They’re called “monkey nuts” over here. Seeing a store worker’s uniform, I went up to ask, “Do you have monkey nuts?” As he turned around, I saw he was black, so instead I mumbled, “What time do you close today?”
Same thing happened to me here in the US, only I went to buy some mixed greens, which we call “jigaboo salad”.
I’ve never heard of nigger nuts. I’ll have to remember that one. Had you asked for nigger toes (Brazil nuts) everyone in the south knows what they are.
In the late 80s we still had record stores. There was a gangster rap group named Niggers with Attitudes that the Jews who controlled the popular music industry were pushing on White youth at the time.
I’ve never purchased records, but my girlfriend’s daughters dragged me into the record store to look for some record. After a while there I couldn’t contain myself and yelled over to the White clerk, “Where are your niggers with attitudes?”
The girls had been conditioned to be embarrassed by my brazenness, but the clerk knew exactly what I was asking and directed me to the albums marked “NWA”. One of those niggers’ early classic hits was “F__k da Police.” The nigger gangstas got their start with the Jew “music manager,” Jerry Eller, who represented many popular artists with a slew of Jew-owned record producers.
Record stores soon became defunct, but Hate Whitey “music” has evolved with Jew-owned MTV videos and the Internet. See: Black Rapper: “I F—k France, I Burn France”; Violates and Kills a White Woman in Music Video | National Vanguard
What is strange about that is the fact that the FBI criticized the group NWA for the song F**k the Police. The FBI put out a press release warning law enforcement agencies of potential problems that song could cause. Now the situation is completely different. The FBI is used to ensure ideological conformity. When parents demand that critical race theory and anti white propaganda be removed from the school curriculum, they are arrested by FBI agents. President Biden even refers to the parents as terrorists.
Google “euphemism for Brazil nuts” for a good laugh.
And then go to that supermarket and try that one.
Imagine if you had asked where the bananas were.
or anything coloured: where is the “”black pepper”? “do you have black licorice?” do you have “dark chocolate?”
The issue isn’t what words one uses or one’s intentions. The issue is that blacks and all minorities, for that matter, HATE us and work for out extinction, whether by outright mass murder or slow, gradual, irreversible mongrelization.
Only white unity, only organized white resistance and affirmation of our whiteness can save us. The challenge is not getting permission to exist by flattering and fawning over hate filled minorities. The challenge is to get support from our fellow whites and secure our existence by means of our strength by challenging non-white rule. No amount of flattery and diplomacy with the muds will save us.
Only our unity and our own power will save us.
There will never be “white unity” because an enormous proportion of whites are racio-evolutionarily defective. If they weren’t so, this horrible conquest-of-whites-in-slow-motion never would have started. Blacks didn’t force integration on us – whites did! (In sober fact, liberal whites and Jews did, while conservative whites grumbled but were too apathetic to offer meaningful resistance). Foreigners didn’t force whites everywhere to throw open their nations’ borders – liberal whites and Jews did. See any pattern?
Prowhites must geographically and politically secede from racially defective whites as well as from nonwhites. Without some nations strictly racially separate and politically sovereign (ie, Ethnostates), whites (and their unique and superior Western Civilization) will disappear. That’s inevitable. But without intrawhite segregation and separation, the liberal genomes will eventually re-array themselves against our descendants, even after multiple generations of forced (or even genuine) dormancy.
White race liberalism is the number one enemy of white preservation. And I assert that this liberalism on a matter so visceral and pre-ideological is almost certainly the ideational expression of an inherited disposition.
The only thing I wonder about what you’re saying is that while Whites have never been “as” racially conciliatory as blacks and Asians, they were “more”‘conscious of race in the past.
The way Whites have been since WWII, and especially today, truly appears to be something new. Therefore, is it possible that the derangement of most Whites today is truly just a product of massive conditioning, or is it truly something in our genes?
If it’s in our genes, why were we at least somewhat different in the past when it came to our race and other races?
I was in basic training with a Pvt. Zuniga.
He was very black and it was very funny.
There is a half-black half-Irish actress named Ruth Negga.
I haven’t the slightest idea why so many people today point to the 1990s as a “much better time period.” I grew up in the 1990s, and let me tell you, it was not all that much better than what we’re dealing with today. The only real difference then was significantly less access to electronics and media, so we had “escapes” from the terror, but there was PLENTY of racial conflict and bad things already happening by the 90s!
The 1990s kicked off with TV shows like In Living Color – which had a character called Homie D. Clown who blamed black failure on systemic white racism, and even had a white dummy to beat up about it. Consequently, at least half of all movies and television shows (including children’s television programs were endlessly littered with token black, Hispanic, and Chinese kids) were “diverse” and quite a few daytime talk shows were extremely anti-white. Need I even mention the Rodney King Riots, the O.J Simpsons trial, Sista Soulja, and even Bill Clinton himself was very anti-white.
In 1992, my uncle took me to a Sears at the local mall to see if they had any Super Nintendo sets so I could show him what I wanted for my birthday. They had a displayed Super Nintendo to try in a kiosk, and within minutes of my taking a turn, some black kid shoved me aside and took it from me. When I said the expected “Hey, I was playing that!” The black kid looked at me with a satanic face and said “Shutup, White boy! You don’t run shit no more!”
Almost not a day would go by when I wouldn’t hear about a police office shooting an unarmed black person. One such big incident was back in 1994 in Lexington, Kentucky — when a wanted 18-year old black kid refused to leave his house to face an arrest warrant, and the guy the cop was pointing at him accidentally discharged when he dropped it, and it killed the young man. Police cars were flipped and set on fire as a result, along with rioting near the UK campus. My grandfather said the very next day that he truly felt the USA was no longer his country, and he “deeply feared” that no one had a future here — and this was in 1994.
The 1990s were already demonstrating very serious problems in America. Don’t let anyone try to fool you that it was a miraculous decade where people of all races got along, and nothing was wrong. On the contrary
Don’t forget about the L.A. riots, which for the most part, the federal government was caught off guard by and had to mobilize a response at the last minute. To add insult to injury, President Bush decided to rebuild South Central with U.S. tax dollars.
A late-80s/early-90s study in contrasts…
The Cosby Show (“Yay! We can all get along!)
A Different World (“No. We can’t.”)
As I recall, the final episode of the Cosby show aired on the same day/night that the LA riots were raging. So TV was offering a black fantasy on one channel and black reality one many others afterwards. That’s a study in contrast! At the time (I was just 22) I saw them both as entertainment with the rioting being much more compelling “must see TV” for me. This was the era of “reality TV” and what was more real than that??
IMO, the only reason we didn’t see widespread rioting in the mid 90’s was OJ’s acquittal.
As the trial went on, it became less about OJ’s innocence/guilt—or even about the victims, and more about seeing a black guy (albeit a celebrity) getting over on the MAN the way rich whites had allegedly been doing for years.
When this incident happened, where was the ACLU or some other legal entity, to take the author’s side?
Unfortunately, the ACLU takes sides, and usually not our side. They began sort of as a pinko lawfare organization, and remain pretty hard left. On the other hand, FIRE might go to bat for a student in a situation like that, though I’m not sure they were around at that time.
Anyway, the case at hand isn’t all that complicated. A bunch of university administrators received a frivolous complaint, but they took it seriously because they’re window-licking morons who can’t look up a word in a dictionary. So they decided to persecute one of the students whose tuition helped pay their exorbitant salary.
Am I missing something here or is ‘reneged” not pronounced rehn-aig-d? What does the author mean by
I had very definitely pronounced “reneged” with an “egg” sound, not a “twig” or “igloo” sound.
Did he say “rehn-egg-d”? This seems an odd pronunciation to me but then Americans do pronunce words, specifically vowels, extremely strangley.
And what did the complaint find offensive about “reneged”? I’m just very confused here. Rehn-aig-d…. is there some double meaning to this word i don’t know? I don’t see the link between reneged and “the N word”.
Even at that I don’t see how a college principal would fail someone over this.
Colleges and some other institutions of higher learning were so PC even back then that the mere gist of perceived racism would be construed as threatening.
Also, look what’s happened to some product brands, cartoon characters, etc.
Yes. I worked in a progressive non-profit back in the late 80’s and obsession with language was in full swing. For example, we were warned against “negrotisms,” words that used black as a sign of undesirability, even when they had, on the surface, nothing to do with Negroes: a black mood, a black day in history, blackening someones reputation, etc. This kind of expression policing was all over the place even then.
And remember, the requirement to say Afro, then African-American, Native-American, Asian-American, person of color etc instead of Negro, Indian or Oriental or colored person goes back generations now.
They’ve been using language to mess with our minds for at least 50 years and more. The basic rule, though, is simple: If White people say it, it’s oppressive.
but then Americans do pronunce words, specifically vowels, extremely strangley.
What a stupid remark.
Especially from someone who can’t spell pronounce or strangely.
According to Merriam-Webster and dictionary.com, “re-nig” is an acceptable pronunciation.
I’ve always pronounced it, “re*nig”. I can imagine that my defense that my pronunciation is simply the product of my southern dialect would not have been viewed so much as a defense but an admission of guilt.
That’s how I always pronounced it on the few occasions I used the word.
Did the author pronounce it “rehn-igg-id”?
That just seems a bizarre way to say the word. I have always said and heard “rehn-aig-d”. I assumed it was French hence the pronunciation. Turns out it is Latin. In that case it might have to be “rehn-igih” since the Latin does that “e” thing at the end (Pepe, for example in English is “peep” but “peh-peh” in Latin languages – in fact most languages would say peh peh. )
And yes, Americans can’t into vowels, I’m sorry to tell you. It’s probably because of the mix of accents and European ethnicities.
For example I’ll phonetically spell out that sentence as an American says it.
“Ond yas, Omuricuhns cont intooew vawuhls. Ahm sarry tah tull youew. Ots prabubley bicuse uf thu mux uf occents ond European othnucuties. ”
The worst words for this are:
Mario – I don’t know how they butcher thsi word so bad. It becomes drawn out and sounds like “Mow-reeow”.
Mirror – they turn this into one syllable. I say “mih-ror”. They say “meer”.
Scotland – the O becomes an A. Scatland.
/pol/ – 4chan board name, its full name is POLITICALLY INCORRECT, “POH-LIT-ICAL” which I pronounce POH like a dog’s paw.
Americans, for some reason, plucking a ‘magic e’ from nowhere, turn this into ‘POLE-ITICALLY ‘ , thus the 4chan “pawll” board becomes the “pole” board.
I have many more examples. Hands down, fact, Americans can’t pronounce vowels correctly.
We pronounce words just fine. Perhaps you pronounce words in a strange way in the Islamic Emirate of Londonistan or wherever you’re from.
A week later I learned that I would not get any credit for that course after all; it would be considered a pass/fail course on my record.
Wow, very niggardly of them.
Here’s an idea: use the system against itself.
Put together a test case where a student is offended by terms such as “White Privilege,” “White Fragility” or the ever-popular “Abolish Whiteness.” Then turn up the heat on the university administration.
Of course, this would require an organization to support said student: a legal team, an activist group, some friendly media…and the Movement is not quite there at this point.
Might also look at how Men’s Rights Activists have dealt with similar situations, notably the Title IX campus tribunals.
That was a good read. It’s very sad that somebody’s education got derailed for a word which was misheard. Such irony that this is from a learning institution. Wonder if the author could have had legal recourse?
Bigfoot: January 20, 2024 What is strange about that is the fact that the FBI criticized the group NWA for the song F**k the Police. The FBI put out a press release warning law enforcement agencies of potential problems that song could cause. Now the situation is completely different. The FBI is used to ensure ideological conformity…
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Exactly, Bigfoot, but it’s not as strange as one would think without the Jew factor.
I like to remind young American Whites that William Pierce was calling out Jewish control of the anti-White popular music industry 50 years ago, and here 25 years ago: Lew, Bill, Tupac, and Mitchell | National Vanguard
…Bill Clinton said in a speech to graduating seniors at Portland State University in Oregon on June 13 [1998]. The Fastest Zipper in the West told his audience — and that included television viewers all over America — that we must not do anything to slow the flow of immigrants from the Third World into the United States. He denounced as “wrongheaded” those White Americans who fear that “the America they know and love is becoming a foreign land.” [T]he same day he gave that speech at Portland State. He went to the high school in Springfield, Oregon, where one of the recent school killing sprees took place, and he spoke piously to the survivors about how he “felt their pain” and about his determination to bring an end to the epidemic of school violence which has been plaguing the country. He put on a show of real concern for the 2 students who had been killed and the 22 who had been wounded at Springfield’s Thurston High School. He bemoaned the “culture of violence” which incites young students to kill… Then Clinton hopped onto Air Force One and flew to Los Angeles, where he was the guest of honor at a lavish party in the mansion of Hollywood record mogul Lew Wasserman. All of the other big Hollywood Jewish media bosses were there too. The purpose of the party was to raise donations for the Democratic Party, and the Clintonistas were expecting close to a million dollars in donations from Wasserman and the other media bosses at the party… Lew Wasserman, Mr. Clinton’s host, is the chairman emeritus of MCA, the giant record company which is the world’s principal promoter and distributor of the musical genre known as “gangsta’ rap.” For those of you who don’t already know this, gangsta’ rap has lyrics glorifying the lifestyle of Black gangsters and drug bosses. It glorifies street shootings and other aspects of Black criminality. Its rap lyrics are very graphic about murder and rape, which it promotes as being very “cool” and fashionable. Gangsta’ rap has been pushed hard by Wasserman and other big media Jews in an effort to get White kids hooked on Black culture and Black lifestyles. It fits right in with Mr. Clinton’s efforts to eliminate White racism by getting Whites to accept Blacks and other aspects of “diversity.” To be more specific, Lew Wasserman’s MCA owns Interscope Records and a number of other record labels. One of Interscope’s featured performers, until he was himself killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas last year, was the Black gangsta’ rapper Tupac Shakur…Was Bill Clinton unaware that Lew Wasserman’s company produced and distributed Tupac Shakur’s music about “coming to school and killing all the kids”?
Of course he was. And his Famous But Incompetent goons knew that Tupac’s parents were members of the anti-White Black Panther Party, and that early in his “music” career, prior to his murder, he was managed by anti-White demi-Jew “poet,” Leila Steinberg.
What Would Hitler Do? For one thing there would be no Lew Wasserman or his co-religionists Judaizing and nigrifying Germany’s popular culture, and he’d see that a turd like Bill Clinton and the corrupted top police agency were given over to a night of long knives.
Bill, Lew and Tupac aside for the moment. Clinton’s feckless FBI could have done more than complain about subversive Niggers With Attitudes’ “F__k Da Police” but they didn’t, and 30 years later it’s clear that those lyrics preceded the Marxist “Defund the Police” movement. Now Biden’s Jew-run DOJ and its FBI work closely with Jew-controlled social media — the thought police — to censor dissident Whites. Our cry today must be “Defund the Thought Police!”
This comment is long, but educational for those who are not up to speed on the JQ. Hit the links for more.
Four years ago the indomitable John Q. Publius updated Jew control of America’s music industry, here: Ways of Seeing: Who Determines Your Reality? – The Occidental Observer
There has been some “changing of the Jew” since then, of course, but at this point it’s always Jews replacing Jews.
…The music industry is, as with all forms of media, dominated by Jews, and its control has become increasingly centralized, another trend we’ve seen irrespective of the industry in question. In December 1998, with the PolyGram-Universal merger, the music industry’s Big Six became its Big Five, in control of 77.4% of a market estimated to be between $30 and $40 billion; 2004 saw another merger, this time of Sony and BMG (Sony would later buy out BMG), to create a Big Four. Coupled with the shrinking of independent labels, the Big Four were in control of a whopping 88% of the market by 2011. In December 2011, EMI was absorbed by the Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, though in Europe regulators forced Universal Music to sell off its EMI assets which became the Parlophone Label Group, and was then promptly acquired by the third member of the Big Three, Warner Music Group. In 2012, the Big Three represented 88.6% of the market. Sony Entertainment, the sixth-largest entertainment company in the world, owns Sony Music Entertainment, and Vivendi, number seven, owns Universal Music Group.
A snapshot of the leadership of the Big Three proves illustrative; this overview from December 2019 reveals an obscene overrepresentation of Jews including Michael Lynton, Chairman of the Board for the Warner Music Group and its Vice Chairman, Len Blavatnik; of the nine other members of the Board, Noreena Hertz, Ynon Kreiz, Thomas H. Lee, and Alex Blavatnik (Len’s brother) are Jewish. Mathias Dopfner is a Gentile, but is also a self-described “non-Jewish Zionist.” The rest, such as Stephen F. Cooper—also the CEO, replacing the Jewish Edgar Bronfman, Jr.—are either contested or I could not definitively find out. Co-Chair and CEO of Warner Records, Aaron Bay-Schuck, has Jewish ancestry, and other prominent Jews in management include Eric Levin, Warner Music Group CFO and Executive Vice President, and Co-Chair and COO of subsidiary Atlantic Records Group Julie Greenwald and its Co-Chair and CEO Craig Kallman. Universal Music Group Chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge is Jewish, as are: Chairman and CEO of the Universal Music Publishing Group’s global publishing division, Jody Gerson; Chairman and CEO of Universal Music UK and Ireland, David Joseph; and Executive Vice President of Marketing Andrew Kronfeld. Sony Music CEO Rob Stringer is Jewish, as is its COO Kevin Kelleher, Executive Vice President and General Counsel Julie Swidler, and President of Global Digital Business and US Sales Dennis Kooker. In other words, all three major record labels are headed by Jews and their corporate governance is dominated by Jews as well. The rest, like RCA Records CEO Peter Edge, are “well-liked Gentiles.”
Lord Shang: January 21, 2024 Sorry, I don’t agree with your description of “Denny” as necessarily deracinated. I grew up in urban CA in the 60s, HS in the mid/late 70s, a good decade past “civil rights”.
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I defer to you, sir, for the characterization of your own experience in urban California — now a sanctuary state — after the snivil rights cause had already taken root.
My impression of San Fransissyco, where I spent a few days in early 1968 while on my way to my first tour in Vietnam, was surprising — not as culturally shocking as my experience had been, living in close proximity among Blacks in Basic Training, but I got an up-close look at how the so-called counterculture had deracinated a once beautiful city. My curiosity took me to the “hippy” district of Haight-Ashury. There, I witnessed what America would become; deracinated. (there’s that word again). My hair had grown out enough while on leave and I didn’t wear my Green Beret while there among the anti-war activists, so could commingle among the freaks, queers and race-mixers without drawing much attention.
deracinate: verb – de·rac·i·nate – dē-ˈra-sə-ˌnāt 1: UPROOT
2: to remove or separate from a native environment or culture especially: to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from
That’s a good word that should be used often by White race-thinkers.
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I’m hard pressed to believe you could have given that presentation in Greater LA or the Bay Area in 1966. Perhaps you were in a rural, or else still very white (sic)and conservative, part of the state? Orange County back then was still very white (sic) and Right, as was CA north of the Bay Area.
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You’re absolutely correct. I would not have given my oral report on the Pygmy where you grew up. I would probably have dropped out of high school, if there.
Raleigh, NC, where I grew up was still racially segregated — not rural, being the capitol of NC, with a little over 50,000 people. Now it is a picture of urban sprawl with more than 500,000 and “progressive,” i.e., deracinated., like Atlanta. I described it earlier this month to my 76-year-old high school classmates, here: Chairman Williams: A Rational Pro-White Message | National Vanguard
” RTP is the acronym for Research Triangle Park that WikiJews describe as:
...the largest research park in the United States, occupying 7,000 acres in North Carolina and hosting more than 300 companies and 65,000 workers…. North Carolina’s Research Triangle region is named for the facility, which sits within the geographic triangle formed by three nearby research universities: North Carolina State University, Duke University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The park is bounded by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill.
Those three cities are located in Wake, Durham, and Orange ‘sanctuary counties’ respectively. RTP has been good for North Carolina’s Piedmont region economically, but has been a racial demographic disaster.”
A crazy story. It might be further bolstered if the writer provided the full sentence and context, if still available. I think most are assuming he didn’t write:
Rev. Al Sharpton and contemporaries sought ever more funding for their social programs while enriching themselves for their efforts. And yet test scores and graduation rates have only niggardly moved forward in response. Funding agencies have felt Sharpton and colleagues reneged on their promises and have made a career of demanding ever more concessions.
It’s also wise never to use the word “enigma” around a black male, because they’ll think you’re talking about their mama.
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