[South Korean Lee Moon-sae (b. 1959) and Dawn (b. 1994)]
Linh Dinh – Substack.com Sept 14, 2024
At 4:30AM, there are ten customers at the café on General Uprising, all men. Testicular humyns hang out at bars and cafés to escape home. Some drive long distance trucks or get killed in distant, voluntary wars for the same reason. Except for the pain, which may last months or even years, it’s arguably worth it. Oil rig workers may only get one week out of eight at home. This male need to stray from wife and kids dates back to our hunting pack days, undoubtedly.
Among the predawn regulars, there’s a Vietnamese American who’s around 80. I’ve never talked to him. My regular seat is front and center, just inside the entrance. His is not in my sightline. The guy rarely says anything anyway. Silent, he still feels that need to be among others. When a dog walked by, he swatted at its tail. Who knows what diseases, including mental, he’s breeding.
It was in Philadelphia that solitary confinement became a progressive innovation. Isolated, prisoners could contemplate their sins and chat with God often. Visiting Eastern Penitentiary in 1842, Dickens immediately realized its inmates had gone mad.
At 5AM, Tank Top and his son are here. Sitting right behind me, that fat kid with a vapid face is rat tat tat tating away, as usual. His only pleasure is to mow down virtual enemies. Just five-years-old, he’s insane. Hearing a loud gecko, he asked his dad, “What is that?” So many kids see and hear almost nothing that’s not coming from a screen.
Sitting to my right, Pale Face is mumbling more nonsense. Tank Top is ranting about the outrageous costs of international schools, “That’s only for the rich. They’re preparing their kids for a life overseas. That’s way out of my reach.” He and his son won’t ever leave Vietnam.
Oh, the magical West! Tank Top once blurted about a California based singer, “Gone overseas, she’s changed her flesh, swapped her skin!” Thay thịt đổi da is the expression.
Glancing every so often at the TV screen, Tank Top would swoon over yet another singer. Yesterday, it was the Saigon based Ngọc Diệu:
Just look at that! If you’re married to her, you will just stay up all night to stare at her! You just can’t sleep, can’t sleep. If you sleep, another man might just steal her! Or she’ll tiptoe out to see another guy. Ha, ha, ha, ha!
As he stared in awe at another songstress, I said, “She’ll wilt soon enough.”
“She’ll never wilt! You walk everywhere, uncle, so you’re wilting! They fly around on airplanes. They’ll never wilt!”
Tank Top is mostly focused on these singers’ looks. Everyone is mesmerized by images. Remember that two-year-old Syrian boy lying face down, dead, on a Turkish beach? Alan Kurdi’s demise became a symbol of Western cruelty in turning away any immigrant. Ignored was the Western role in generating millions of refugees from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Libya, etc. All those many thousands of children murdered right now in Gaza are not represented by a single photo. We’re fed selected images, blocked from others and manipulated by all. Since words are better at conveying the entire story, they’re degraded or turned into white noise. Few can focus on even two sentences in a row, much less an entire book.
Recently, I wrote, “Relaxing, I stared at Petrol House, Sỹ Hoàng Optician and Sambal, the last an Indonesian restaurant I’ve so far shunned. Mirroring the West, Sỹ Hoàng’s large sign features a white woman with a black man.”
A black reader, KEH, responded, “Do you shun the Indonesian restaurant because its sign features a ‘white woman with a black man’?” No, I explained, the sign is at the optician, where I bought a pair of glasses. Having eaten great Malay food in Malaysia and Indonesia, I shun it here. Too upset by his misreading, KEH canceled his paid subscription. We’re well into postliteracy.
Now at Cóc Cóc, I can see that sign right now. A great looking couple, they’re not bad for selling glasses, but should writers be good looking? Of course, not. Andre Dworkin’s Intercourse is polemical poetry. She’s lit. Singers, too, should be judged by their voice and soul. Janis Joplin rules.
My concern for those deemed ugly is clearly altruistic. Born achingly handsome, I don’t have the slightest idea what ugliness feels like. Is it like a stench emanating from all your pores causing even geckos and cockroaches to flinch in your presence? Even the word stench baffles me.
The ugliest waitress at Cóc Cóc quit. All tatted up, she never smiled. It’s quite possible her unhappiness caused her to look so ugly. Young, she fears being unloved, even falsely, forever.
Our fixation on images prevents us from seeing ordinary beauty. There’s nothing wrong with any plain face, unadorned. To various degrees, we’re like Tank Top’s pitiful son. Soon enough, he’ll try to mask his ingrown ugliness with fashion and a sense of style.
With Cóc Cóc closed for siesta, I’m at my third café, Bạn Trà [Tea Friend]. Only my second time here, I’m learning it’s a teen hangout. Since the drinks are pricey, these kids are better dressed, though still goofy. With more protein and calcium, the teenaged barista is nearly a head taller than me. His hair is dyed slightly orange, and he has three ear piercings. Even after we had moved to the USA, my father kept cutting my hair. That wasn’t cool.
Compared to the First World, Southeast Asia is less pretentious, thus more natural. Though the burden of looking cool, tough or sexy is creeping in, most people haven’t gotten the hang of this. Kids, especially, are just kids. Appearing suddenly at a kindergarten window this morning, I was greeted by a joyful barrage of “Con chào ông!” Basically, “Hello, grandpa!”
Down, then, with this relentless emphasis on appearance! Without makeup, Amish women are most beautiful, and their children angelic. In Harrisburg, I watched in awe as an Amish teenager made me a turkey sandwich. Such serenity or beauty was so rare.
Almost daily, we read about feral American teens attacking some helpless person. So narcissistic and stupid, some even upload evidence of their crime. Since the pettiest fame is the only meaning they have left, they resort to pranks and unprovoked violence. Selfies get old quick.
After four black coffees, I just had an epiphany! I haven’t been canceled for going on about Albert Bourla or Rochelle Wallensky, but for being, well, not as photogenic as Nguyen Qui Duc, Phong Bui or lê thi diem thúy! What’s up with the lower case, Thúy? As for Tyga, he’s in a league by himself.
A boy just walked in with a black and white striped outfit that accentuates his slimness. He’s carrying a male purse that looks just like a vintage radio. Dangling silvery earrings frame his unsmiling, porcelain like face, so delicate. Even alone, he’s afraid to fart, I’m sure. “Golden Orchid” it says on his back.
[Nguyen Qui Duc in Tam Đảo, as published in his New York Times obituary on 12/6/23]
[Phong Bui, editor of the Brooklyn Rail, as published in the New York Times on 11/1/15]
[lê thi diem thúy, as photographed by Random House]
[half-Vietnamese rapper, Tyga]
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PROTECT THE CHILDREN
A university fired a professor of child psychology has been sacked for expressing the view that pre-teen and teenagers should not be given hormone-altering drugs and sex change surgeries.
Dr Allan Josephson, formerly division chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Louisville claims he was harassed, insulted demoted threatened and eventually fired in 2017 after making the comments at an outside event. A judge has now ruled that Dr Josephson’s right to free speech was violated.
The professor’s lawyer said the decision “affirmed that basic truth” that “public universities have no business punishing professors” for their views.
In autumn 2017, award-winning Dr Josephson, who specialises in child and adolescent psychiatry, took part in a Heritage Foundation panel in his own time to discuss treatments for young people who have ben told that they may be in the wrong bodies. At the event, he said that childhood gender dysphoria was a social-cultural psychological phenomenon that cannot be fully treated with drugs and surgery.
Dr Josephson said medical staff should instead explore and address what causes children’s confusion over their gender identity. Addressing the link between gender dysphoria and mental health problems, Dr Josephson said that, while parents should “affirm” and “love” a child who has ben convinced they should be the opposite sex, they should not allow medical intervention
“You don’t affirm a bad idea,” Dr Josephson said.
Court documents told how the professor had developed concerns about doctors rushing to prescribe puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones as far back as 2014.
Prior to losing his job at the university, he had served as an expert witness in several cases, in which he outlined that children are not equipped to make far-reaching life decisions that pose medical consequences they cannot fully appreciate until adulthood, and that gender dysphoria usually subsides by late adolescence, and that children must not be told they need these operations
Children who have had sex change operations were known to other children as Frankenkids, and were just not accepted
Yet a week after the Heritage Foundation event, Louisville’s LGBT centre complained to the university, claiming Dr Josephson’s comments “might be violating the ethical standards of psychiatry”,
Tommy Robinson is to hold a mass protest on Sir Keir Starmer’s doorstep in a ‘peaceful show of resistance’ to the Prime Minister’s ‘racist tyranny’.
against his own people The English Defence League founder, real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon, announced on his X page that he was ‘coming home to unite the kingdom once again’. Robinson, 41, issued a rallying cry to his one million followers to ‘make your plans’ for the October 26 protest outside 10 Downing Street. The demonstration will take place just two days before he is due in the High Court in London to face contempt of court charges. Robinson has vowed to work with Scotland Yard ‘so all the boxes are ticked’ ahead of what he describes as an ‘assembly meeting’
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Germany: 95-year-old Holocaust denier back in court
06/07/2024June 7, 2024
The heroic German lady Ursula Haverbeck has been repeatedly convicted of the ridiculous charge of inciting hatred. Now, a new trial against the 95-year-old woman has begun in the port city of Hamburg.
the judge has said previously ” you cannot voice these thoughts ”
The racism and hatred shown to this 95 year old disgusts
most decent people
‘They come here illegally and get everything’: The simmering anger after the riots
In a statement Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: ‘There is no place for such appalling, senseless violence on our streets, and this government is determined to stamp out the scourge of serious violence wherever it is found.’
She totally ignores the plight of the public who has to be financially fleeced to pay for the migrants, the British public are treated very badly ina racist and hateful way and are sick of it all
i dont know any women in my area who will go out after dark
or out on their own
kids going to school go in groups
we have to start sending migrants home
You look for it to come round to some logic and it never does–and Janis Joplin was from a satanist family, so her voice was full of an anguish she never processed
Lin is on point, as always..I was discussing current affairs over a pint or two with an imbecile of my acquaintance recently…who brought up the yid war and how IS-RA-EL needs our support…
In response to such vacuity I refered him to the the maggot media’s perfidy (this fool is both a TV not so remote viewer and the recipient of a heart murmur from safe and effective toxins)..
I mentioned the slaughter of mainly women and children by the demented jewes over in Canaan.. and the paucity of images or condemnation, contrasting it to the images of brown women and children seeking ahem..’international protection’ from the euro junta, Pirate Rock regime and its organs of propaganda..
.and pointed to the relentless trumpeting of one dead Syrian child to facilitate the movement of millions of young arab men into Europe.. to fuck us all right royal..
blank stares….
thankfully I shan’t have to suffer the twat again…
Always look forward to Linh Dinh’s stories. What appears as ramblings is insightful and right on point.
Linh be careful of SubStack. It’s a trap. They are a front. They are tricking you and other authors into putting most of your content there to starve Blogs like this of content, so they will close. One day they’ll just close Substack and you and the other dissidents will have nowhere to go. Most of your subscribers are bots paid for by your enemies. See who owns it.
thankyou to the professor for exposing the changing kids sex scam
whata horror to have that done its sickening
THE LIGHT NEWSPAPER FESTIVAL
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/walking-the-dog-episode-5-the-light-festival-2024
Woke Leftists are now saying white people should not read books to their children because it puts black children at a disadvantage.
The goal is obvious, they want everyone to be a retard, incapable of rational thought, and only ruled by feelings – which can be easily manipulated for the jew agenda.
Yukon Jack–their programming has become hard-wired so that ALL Black failure has to be blamed on Whitey somehow
“My concern for those deemed ugly is clearly altruistic. Born achingly handsome, I don’t have the slightest idea what ugliness feels like.” … LOL
“Without makeup, Amish women are most beautiful, and their children angelic. In Harrisburg, I watched in awe as an Amish teenager made me a turkey sandwich. Such serenity or beauty was so rare.” … True enough, and the Amish have it right on many levels. I actually saw an Amish woman and her young child at a ranch & feed store just yesterday, and her natural beauty was so radiant…and that child, so well behaved and healthy looking, sure won’t be some sickly stammering idiot due to the injected retardation, er I mean autism, from the demonically toxic and criminally insane vaxxxine regimen.