Wednesday 12/13/23
Every season of the year should be a season of inclusivity, should it not?
Actually, we shouldn't think in terms of inclusivity and exclusivity, because we shouldn't have to. We should judge people for what they are. As a person. We should judge their work for how good of a job they do or don't do in that work. And that's it. Who you are, and how well you do what you do.
But it's Christmas. And Christmas has many purposes.
One of them is to remind us about inclusivity, so that, ideally, we don't even think in terms of it, because we are doing what I described above.
Boston has a blatantly racist mayor in Michelle Wu. She's been revealed as corrupt, too, time and again. In Boston, though, you could molest a hundred children, get busted for it, and still prevail in an election if you're a Democrat. I'm not. Nor am I a Republican. I'm not in any grouping, as such. I don't believe that any on offer have it close to correct.
I see what I see. I looked at Twitter this morning, and I saw that Michelle Wu's office had mistakenly sent an invitation to a Christmas party to all of the elected city council members.
Why do I say mistakenly? Because white people were not to be invited. If you were white, you couldn't come to the mayor of Boston's Christmas party.
"On behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu, I cordially invite you and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party..."
The Electeds of Color.
If what is happening in this world, oh-so-casually; if what passes for the norm now; if this kind of thing--which is status quo at this point--does not terrify you, I don't know how you can be reached; and when such a person can't be reached, they become a pawn for evil. They become part of the numbers; evil really likes numbers.
Humanity is being overtaken by evil. This is the stuff of nightmare. But it's real.
Michelle Wu, not surprisingly, went to Harvard.
I look at Claudine Gay at Harvard. This woman has few accomplishments in her professional life within the low-stakes jargon-gibberish world of academia. She has fewer than the average academic. Notably less. I don't mean the academic who is a school president. I mean any academic hack at any school. Bridgewater State. You name what you want to name.
She went in front of Congress and refused to take a stand at the level of expressed institutional policy against the genocide of Jews.
Even as I write that, it feels like something from some perverse, fever dream. That happened. That is what happened. From this person who is also completely unqualified for her job. Or for what ought to be the qualifications for that job.
Then, she's outed as a plagiarist. Plagiarism is so fucking low. Certain things are worse. Idea theft, like what David Remnick--of Princeton--blatantly did with me. But you are such scum if you plagiarize. You should never work in that field or industry again. There should be no second chances for plagiarism.
I cannot even imagine saying to a friend of mine (or anyone) that they couldn't come to my gathering because of their skin color. I mean...I could imagine it. I don't believe there's anything I can't imagine. But to be that way? Live with myself? You'd have to be so fouled up inside, like nothing worked. All of your parts just backfired.
You can't come to the party because of your skin color? In Boston? Not in some Deliverance-like backwater. In 2023. At Christmastime?
And you get to be mayor? This other person gets to be president of Harvard? You get to have these jobs?
If there was like an intro to evil class, you'd start with shit like this. It's as basic as the lesson could be.
The most terrifying part is how this is all becoming normalized. It's becoming not even a thing, but rather just how things are.
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