Douglas Mercer
April 11 2023
Now that the Cultural Revolution is hitting its stride in full bloom and is achieving its escape velocity they are hitting us on all cylinders on their multi-front war. You might think that the study of the classics was a bit esoteric and might slide by unnoticed by the Commissars but if you thought that you'd be mistaken. After all they are eradicating the olds and what is older than the classics of Greek and Rome? The typical shitlib academic sees the Greeks with their overweening colonization of every form of art and knowledge, and the Romans with their technical skill and their conquering master, and they see a whole lot of based and unapologetic White people ruling the world. And that they can't abide. The certainly don't want anybody getting any ideas.
And what better figure to take the fire to Sophocles and Virgil than an academic pet negro who is also an illegal immigrant? Why, it's an anti-White twofer and he's mad as hell that those White men way back when strode the world like colossuses. And he blows his stack when he thinks how they are lionized by us White Nationalists. He is being feted all across the world of professorial slime and he won't stop raising his black fist in the air until the memory of Augustus Ceasar is blotted from memory for all time, or until every statue of the ancient world has been painted all the colors of a gay rainbow so they look like one of those amorphous he-shes or she-hes that are all the vogue today.
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The Jew run New York Times in a banner headline said: He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness--can the Field Survive? The he in question is Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who from the looks of him is a negro from the Dominican Republic though, given the global gang bang that occurred there, it's hard to say which witches brew he descends from, probably some grab bag mystery meat of DNA. He looks negro though. His story is infuriating, though the weak sisters and the sob sisters see it as "inspiring" though it will probably inspire you to become sick to your stomach. What happened was that his mother got sick and what did she do? Why, fled her home hell hole like a rat a ship, and she came to America, the land of White Science. So much for his take down of White Supremacy, when his mother needed the best she didn't stay at home with the voodoo doctors, she came to the land of great White North. When you are about to die no one gives a fig about post-colonial theory. Then his mother overstayed her visa, and she and he became that very common thing: illegals. But that didn't stop some White do-gooders from spotting "talent" and giving him a free ride to the oldest private High School in America, Collegiate in New York City. Then Princeton spotted the great black scholar and paid their own funds to shoot him up the ladder. Now he's tenured and can take pot shots at the White country which foolishly gave him everything he has. It's safe to say that a racist country would have sent the tar monster packing when it first had the chance.
Would a white kid have got those breaks? Hell no.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta want to knock those nasty Greeks and Romans off their pedestals and put those pedestals in the basement even (or especially) if it means destroying the discipline of the classics. With a black, sniveling, resentful, and angry negro barracuda on the loose old Homer better cover his balls. You nod off in this savage world and you're gone.
There have been innumerable attack on the classics of late and why not? Hitler knew that the classical ancients were Nordic and his propagandists incorporated them into the long and noble story of the Germanic peoples. That's why the likes of Donna Zuckerberg try to cut them down to size. The classics are so White? Damn straight they are. It's the reason for their glory.
"This Dominican says the field is equal parts vampire and cannibal, and that to study classical civilization is to justify slavery, racism, colonialism and Nazism, that classics have breathed racism into every aspect of higher education and so the field should probably just die. He says you should race the discipline--or kill it."
Frankly, the discipline is already raced---raced with White. It's the same reason they go after studies of the Medieval period or the Anglo-Saxons, it frustrates them because these are disciplines with a long and storied pedigree and guess what: it had nothing to do with the coloreds. Of course, that's why they try to photo shop and insert black characters into these periods in their period and historical dramas, but who's that really fooling? You see a negro in mail armor you are more likely to laugh than believe it. It gnaws at their vitals that there are long stretches of White history amidst the ice and the snow where no colored appears, and researchers who chronicle it; so they will do what the coloreds do when faced with their sad inferiority: attack it. Vampires and cannibals? Not likely! Gods and heroes is more like it.
At a classicist meeting in San Digeo Peralta walked in like he owned the place; a White lady had the nerve (good for her!) to suggest that Peralta was where he is due to his being black, that he was an affirmative action Jackson. For her trouble in committing wrongspeak the lady was escorted out the building (that's not a satiric point or a burlesque or hyperbole: she really was escorted out). But Peralta agrees with her, he thinks blacks qua blacks should be hired, hired because they are black. It's what that infamous restorative justice and reparations (ie, retribution) is all about. And just so you know historically marginalized people will always be historically marginalized, there is no expiration date on that, their supposed victimhood has no shelf life.
Quoth the black illegal alien:
"Seeing as no one in that room or in the conference corridors afterwards rallied to the defense of blackness as a cornerstone of my merit, I will now have to repeat an argument that will be familiar to critical race scholars of higher education but that is barely legible to the denizens of #classicssowhite. I should have been hired because I was black: because my Afro-Latinity is the rock-solid foundation upon which the edifice of what I have accomplished and everything I hope to accomplish rests."
He be a proud black man and that's more than enough to give him the keys the kingdom. You want to challenge that? Then you're racist. The irony of course is that the bottom feeding monster that is afro-latinity is scraping the very bottom of the barrel, it's no foundation of anything, it's quicksand that will swallow the unwary whole, it's an edifice like a mud hut that a halfhearted squall will send flying. What he will accomplish is all that a negro can accomplish, larping as a White scholar, aping his betters, and demolishing the discipline by killing the golden goose that pays him in the name of (wait for it) restorative intellectual justice. Sambo rule the roost now Whitey, now kick Julius Caesar in the teeth while you peel him a grape.
"The idea that various traditional disciplines, including classics, should be destroyed in order to purge them of the sin of whiteness is all the vogue. Sarah Bond, a history professor and director of undergraduate studies at the University of Iowa, suggested in a tweet that such disciplines be dismantled and burned so that white supremacy can be smothered."
These arcane scholars no one ever heard of really are putting the logs on the funeral pyre. They are academic and programmatic pyromaniacs who play with the matches and fight fire with fire. Charged with safeguarding, explaining, celebrating, and passing down the august passages of White history, instead they would like nothing more than to see the whole thing go up in flames with billowing smoke; dismantle and burn! These are not people who play patty cake or with kid gloves. And no way that fighting back by means of Marquess Of Queensbury rules will ever suffice to defeat them. When it's war to the knife you put a knife between your teeth to send them packing back beneath the rock from under which they crawled.
"In the Enlightenment admiration for the ancients took on a fantastical, unhinged quality, like a strange sort of mania. Enlightenment thinkers created a hierarchy with Greece and Rome, coded as white, on top, and everything else below."
These theoreticians of recondite jargon laced ideas are certainly no strangers to strange manias, their entire way of thought is a strange mania and contagion. As for the actual thinkers of the Enlightenment this did indeed idolize the classical world, in this respect at least they were a squared away bunch. Winkleman saw white marble classical sculpture as the ideal of beauty, an ideal that persists to this day and for good reason: it is the most beautiful. Like all men of his time he denigrated non-Europeans, an opinion which has stood the only test that matters, the test of time.
"Princeton not only accepted Peralta as an undergraduate but also gave him a full scholarship out of its own funds (because federal money cannot go to people here illegally). After graduate work, he ascended to the Princeton faculty as a target of opportunity candidate. Such positions are not advertised, which is usually required by law, because there is a candidate in mind who fulfills some affirmative action goal."
You see this is the flimsy bedrock that his afro-latinity was based on. It was a leg up and a hand out. He never would have made it on his own merit, something which he must know and must make him seethe with resentment. In this way the anti-White classics establishment created a black Frankenstein monster which turned on its creator. Though as we will see that classics establishment wanted to abolish itself, and while it might seem unseemly for an old White insect professor to take down his field of study for a negro to do it hit all of their ideological erogenous zones. For if there is anything true about White guilt is that it hurts so good. They all must deem themselves to have fallen asleep and woken up in a masochistic paradise as their black and Latin and illegal pupil rips them a thousand new ones and they applaud as he tears out another.
"This was the theme of Racial Equity and the Production of Knowledge, Padilla’s talk in San Diego. Tabulating the number of women and people of color published in major classics journals, he issued an anguished bulletin in the minatory, reader-proof argot so favored by left-wing academics today. Decrying the hegemony of whiteness, he called for strategies to decenter and displace white privilege and supremacy from its position of preeminence and priority in the discipline’s self-image."
White people out of the study of White people. It was our ancestors, out history, our heritage, our past, but our race card was revoked (this will go down on our permanent record!) and the study of Whiteness, which should be our exclusive bailiwick, is too hot to handle--for us. They think we can't be trusted with its study, because perhaps some White students being exposed by White men to a culture that still had the ethos of heroism and conquest will go and give them some bright ideas.
"According to him, the most fundamental question for the future of knowledge production in Classics is this: how do we recognize, honor, and repair the silencing of the knowledge that people of color carry? In fact, of course, every classics journal and every classics program in the Western world is on high alert, scouring the landscape for people of color they might employ, publish, and advance."
This knowledge that people of color carry? In relation to the classics? Surely this is a mythical beast like a chimera or a unicorn, and exists only in his fevered imagination. Or maybe so saturated in the jargon laced argot of the normal (or abnormal) academic, the words just get strung along and he thinks they sound decent because he had the world color in the sentence. After all what White person in the anti-racist fever swamps is going to point at the black man at the podium and tell him that he's the Emperor of Collard Greens? That his words are worse than wrong, they are meaningless, are non sequiturs? Were they to do it they would be swiftly escorted out of the building like that other lady. But at least then there would be one less White person on the classics faculty and they could bring in a one eyed poly sexual black lady with down syndrome.
"He wants reparative epistemic justice, i.e., the expulsion of whites from the discipline and (like Donna Zuckerberg) the end to colorblind assessment of merit. Holders of privilege, he intoned, will need to surrender their privilege. In practical terms, this means that white men will have to surrender the privilege they have of seeing their words printed and disseminated; they will have to take a backseat so that people of color—and women and gender-nonconforming scholars of color—benefit from the privilege of seeing their words on the page. Should that not happen, he has said elsewhere, all options for reparative intellectual justice—including the demolition of the discipline itself —should be kept open.
He certainly has them running scared, he's the sacred negro sitting amidst the busts of Cicero and Aristotle and if they say one wrong word that is not up to anti-racist snuff he'll snuff out those statues by heaving them to the ground in a huff of a tantrum. He's the guy loitering outside Dwinelle Hall holding a baseball bat and slapping one end of it against his palm and telling the cowering White men in caps and gowns "you got yourself a nice little department here, be a shame if something happened to it." At which point the professorial insects say they don't have a racist bone in their body which means they don't have a backbone. And they promise to teach that the entire ancient world of White men was a vast panoply of White Hegemonic structures, and from now on all new entrants to the faculty will be black as coal and be sure to have an exquisitely honed critical consciousness.
"Peralta's former Stanford Ph.D. advisors and mentors are quoted as seconding that theme of pernicious Eurocentric whiteness deeply embedded in, or indeed now defining, classics: I don’t think it should exist as an academic field, opines the ancient historian Walter Scheidel. His colleague Ian Morris adds, Classics is a Euro-American foundation myth. Do we really want that sort of thing?"
Yes, yes, yes--yes we do, sir. These great men old are the forerunners, they are the ones who created the White magic, who planted the seeds, and then when the White race was ready again to pick up the cudgel in the Renaissance they took this New Learning (which was really the old learning) and made themselves the wonder of the world. The White wonder mind you. There is none other. And to study and remember, and to learn from them, is an act of homage and fealty which the are owed.
"It is a future in which the fetishization of the law, the demonization of illegals, and the expansion of the carceral state will give way to a comprehensive and empathetic understanding of where our laws go wrong and how they can be better aligned with ideals of social justice. We hope to live in a United States freed from the murderous fragility of whiteness: a United States capable not only of owning up to the past destruction and present-day ravages of white supremacy, but of making a concerted effort to rectify, repair, and prevent."
So said Dan-el Padilla Peralta, illegal immigrant, affirmative action Jackson, guru of anti-Whiteness, Sambo scourge of White Supremacy, lawn jockey of the White Apocalypse, and the spook terror of the classics. There is an old adage that disputes in the academic world are so personal, brutal, and vicious because the stakes are so small--but that's no longer true. The minds of our children are a battlefield, and it's winner take all. And this negro wonder boy of the Latin Language is sweeping all before him, and sweeping away Whiteness; but be sure it's not Aeschylus or Ovid that he really wants to abolish, and not Pericles or Caesar that he wants to knock from his perch, and not that bust of the White Goddess Athena that he wants to irreversibly dissolve in acid. It's you.
