Some people who express racist sentiments just don’t know any better, their peer groups are racist and the sentiments are a shared group meme that is still wrong but at least understandable. The educated though, should just fucking know better. This half-wit brings the supernovae like stupidity with her critique of Handel’s Messiah. As this article was posted on Pharyngula, I’m going to screen shot her lovely quotes; I have a feeling this post may be disappearing fairly soon.
Wow.
“I don’t think this is simply a cultural phenomenon (as in misunderstanding the Messiah’s content, message, meaning, etc…). I think it is a physio/cerebral problem. I’ve seen it happen in art and design, and even in science – a friend of mine was a Korean PhD student.”
Oh, you’ve got a Korean friend, it must be totally true. Did you share the first little fun fact with your friend that you find them cerebrally challenged as well? Did you put it into small words so they could understand your sane rational discourse?
“So this is what multiculturalism is bringing us. I think it is a mixture of aggressive Asians pushing their way in everywhere, and a liberal white public that wants these multi-culti influences to dominate in its cities and institutions.”
Damn those aggressive Asians for being so darn talented and ruining Western Classical Music Forever!1!!.
No, Camera Lucida it is you who need to go away and stop ruining the world the rest of us.







8 comments
January 16, 2012 at 8:44 am
Darlene Steelman
Wow… hope this person stays out of the gene pool.
Thanks for the eye opener!
Darlene
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January 16, 2012 at 9:44 am
Reneta Scian
If anything our “culture” has taught me is that it is built upon complexes… By complexes I mean the mental glitches that people develop that have no place, evidence or existence in reality. It seems like Caucasian Americans more frequently suffer from western miseducation and as a result have some Napoleon-grade grandeur complex in which their ignorance is enshrined by the belief that they are the best, when in actuality they aren’t. When they view someone not of their “prestigious American lineage” they have to find excuses for their talent to preserve their egos.
However, what the evidence says is that Asians have the “professional ethics” to smack any American back into their ignorant place. Immigrants from places like China and Japan grow up in systems that demand that level of performance our lazy days school systems don’t.
I believe in individual freedom, and I am not a proponent of the type of education systems that exist in Japan and China (or at least without evidence they are beneficial). I don’t believe that it is better for a persons individual needs to keep them in school 6 days a week for more than 300 days a year. I assert that the life span of the average human life span increases or decreases with an inverse proportion to the amount of stress you put on a person. Like a seesaw, the more pressure you put on a person to perform at a high level, the shorter their life span. The evidence supports this position, as does the fact that in a patriarchal society men die sooner. Not to say that women aren’t working as hard, but they are under far less duress to perform than their male peers both because of sexism, and because of other cultural phenomenon like (Male Superiority – in which men neglect their health due to a falsely grand sense of durability).
Indeed, it is the fruits of privilege that leads people to believe their arrogance and ignorance makes them superior, and that same privilege that leads people to enshrining ideas into their thinking that contradict reality. In our culture there tends to be a movement which likes to erect cultural concepts to make binding social law where there is no valid reason, even valid reason to against said laws for the purposes of one group over another. An insidious form of cultural oppression which benefits those who are already in power, and detriments those who are already oppressed. I know some of it is religious in nature, because less religious nations are leaps and bounds ahead of us. It’s long overdue that we re-educate our culture to take reasonable assessments of it’s own merit, rather than giving those most effected by it a superiority complex over it. Once again, another reason why privilege and oppression need to end. Believing you are superior is the easiest way to sabotage your ability to learn.
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January 16, 2012 at 10:22 am
The Arbourist
My pleasure(ish).
It bothers me when people who should know better do crazy, hurtful things. Unfortunately, if you look at the rest of CL’s blog, you’ll see that the quoted article is merely the tip of the iceberg.
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January 16, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Rob F
Western classical music has a long history of appropriating aspects from non-western music and traditions. For example, the mathematics behind 12ET was first solved in China. In addition, especially in Romantic-era, there are lots of works with sections that sound (to ears used to western music) reminiscent of Asia/non-European places (eg Madama Butterfly, the style of Turkish music, etc. If CL was consistent she’d be against those things too.
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January 17, 2012 at 1:18 pm
The Arbourist
I think consistency might be a little bit much to ask in this case, unless we’re talking about consistently weird and off – colour.
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January 19, 2012 at 11:24 am
Rob F
This video conclusively and thoroughly refutes Camera Lucida:
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January 19, 2012 at 11:36 am
The Arbourist
Absolutely Brilliant.
I’m thinking though, little things like empirical evidence mean little to Camera Lucida; especially when they contradict her ‘educated point of view’.
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January 19, 2012 at 11:51 am
Rob F
Agreed.
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