David Beard
@dbeard.bsky.social
Professor of Rhetoric and Duluthian
I think I’m reproducing, in some way, the “misogyny also damages men” argument, the Simone Weil “the use of force damages the user as well as those upon whom force was used” argument.
Clearly, not symmetrically. But to Deondre’s thought, the promise of “whiteness” makes erasure almost more complete.
Clearly, not symmetrically. But to Deondre’s thought, the promise of “whiteness” makes erasure almost more complete.
December 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I think I’m reproducing, in some way, the “misogyny also damages men” argument, the Simone Weil “the use of force damages the user as well as those upon whom force was used” argument.
Clearly, not symmetrically. But to Deondre’s thought, the promise of “whiteness” makes erasure almost more complete.
Clearly, not symmetrically. But to Deondre’s thought, the promise of “whiteness” makes erasure almost more complete.
No doubt, the differences are real. Is being “allowed” to assimilate a good thing?
“You are welcome to lose your language, food, your family and religious rituals and structures, if you’d like to. In return, your children will have access to “whiteness” as a cultural and socioeconomic category.”
“You are welcome to lose your language, food, your family and religious rituals and structures, if you’d like to. In return, your children will have access to “whiteness” as a cultural and socioeconomic category.”
December 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
No doubt, the differences are real. Is being “allowed” to assimilate a good thing?
“You are welcome to lose your language, food, your family and religious rituals and structures, if you’d like to. In return, your children will have access to “whiteness” as a cultural and socioeconomic category.”
“You are welcome to lose your language, food, your family and religious rituals and structures, if you’d like to. In return, your children will have access to “whiteness” as a cultural and socioeconomic category.”
Someone who can “pass” is expected to even more thoroughly erase every trace of otherness.
Maybe?
Maybe?
December 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Someone who can “pass” is expected to even more thoroughly erase every trace of otherness.
Maybe?
Maybe?
The dream, revealed in the Superman story, is to treat the old country as toxic, to deny any connections (and even any powers) that follow from the old country. The dream is not just to assimilate, but to become indistinguishable from someone whose family has been here, for generations.
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The dream, revealed in the Superman story, is to treat the old country as toxic, to deny any connections (and even any powers) that follow from the old country. The dream is not just to assimilate, but to become indistinguishable from someone whose family has been here, for generations.
Superman has to assimilate so thoroughly because even fragments of the Old Country are toxic to him. The seal of his father’s house is only tolerable because it’s misinterpretable as an English letter “S.” No one is allowed to recognize it as a fragment of his language.
December 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Superman has to assimilate so thoroughly because even fragments of the Old Country are toxic to him. The seal of his father’s house is only tolerable because it’s misinterpretable as an English letter “S.” No one is allowed to recognize it as a fragment of his language.
Isn’t it conceivable that white settlers are expected, in some ways, to assimilate even more fully, so that they can culturally pass as they physically pass?
I often think of the Superman story here.
I often think of the Superman story here.
December 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Isn’t it conceivable that white settlers are expected, in some ways, to assimilate even more fully, so that they can culturally pass as they physically pass?
I often think of the Superman story here.
I often think of the Superman story here.
Whatever you think about the art, Balent did years on that title. It’s an achievement.
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Whatever you think about the art, Balent did years on that title. It’s an achievement.
My sister is a diabetic on Medicaid. I cannot convince her that voting Republican, much less voting for him, is hurting her own access to medicine.
October 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
My sister is a diabetic on Medicaid. I cannot convince her that voting Republican, much less voting for him, is hurting her own access to medicine.
Just now, in the year if our lord 2025, you are watching TOS?
TNG is regrettably a better overall execution, but the best TOS is amazing.
TNG is regrettably a better overall execution, but the best TOS is amazing.
September 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Just now, in the year if our lord 2025, you are watching TOS?
TNG is regrettably a better overall execution, but the best TOS is amazing.
TNG is regrettably a better overall execution, but the best TOS is amazing.
Those Kitchen Sink Eisner and Caniff mags were chef’s kiss.
August 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Those Kitchen Sink Eisner and Caniff mags were chef’s kiss.
I love Horton’s because it offers so many nonfried options.
August 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I love Horton’s because it offers so many nonfried options.
My God Bob Layton created Iron Man as I visualize him.
July 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My God Bob Layton created Iron Man as I visualize him.
How do geographers feel about Benedict Anderson?
June 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
How do geographers feel about Benedict Anderson?
He's a humorist, so it's not a scholarly work -- it's a gently funny, sometimes darkly funny, polemic -- but it's well informed and worth a read.
May 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
He's a humorist, so it's not a scholarly work -- it's a gently funny, sometimes darkly funny, polemic -- but it's well informed and worth a read.
You schedule a Zoom with Kelsea.
May 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
You schedule a Zoom with Kelsea.