Bahar Ostadan—The non-white Aryan

Bahar Ostadan begins her article The particular culture shock of a New York City corporate office with the following words, 

As someone who passes as white, I’ve observed unrestricted xenophobia in the conference room, the office kitchen and the sports bar down the block

after that sub-head she lets us know how much better she feels in a middle of the current Algerian revolution.
A few paragraphs later, the lass tells us she is an Iranian-American.

Her screed is the usual I'm cool because I am not white and therefore so aware of the foibles of the people who are lucky enough to surround me.

Except, she displays a glaring lack of self-awareness.
First, she describes  herself as "someone who passes as white," and is thus a Person of Color.
Second, is her identity as an Iranian-American.
So she tells us what she has in common with Rosa Parks and something she shares with Adolph Hitler.
Iran and Aryan mean essentially the same thing and at the time of Cyrus the Great Persians were about as uber white as you could get.  But, that was then, this is now and white is so not cool. At the end of the day, this is the narrative du jour and who knows what it will be in ten years?

I can understand why Persians might resent the US.  The overthrow of Mosaddegh and backing of the Shah were not events that covered our country in glory.  Maybe she prefers the current regime, but lives here because she loves being around boring incurious co-workers.  I will give her that to a point, but, heck. there are a lot of countries out there.  Other than nerds like moi, we can't be interested in all of them.
That Bahar revolts in Algeria and works in Manhattan does make her interesting, but not overly so.  Trying to get minority points is so boring.

The Smirk vs. The Smug-David Deane speaks ex cathedra

Obviously, the title of this blog is a joke.  Someone claiming to be the tvoh is being silly or crazy and maybe both.

Sometimes, people can be arrogant about their humility.  As best I can, this is a transcription of the conversation between David Deane, a member of the faculty of Atlantic School of Theology and a guest.  The intro states, In this episode Catholic media (traditional and social) expert (and Diploma in the New Evangelization grad!) Stephanie Potter stops by to chat about Covington Catholic, MAGA hats, and the New Evangelization diploma.

Below is what I have abstracted.

"One of the reasons why I feel so dirty about this is because I jumped on and I'm still not completely ready to jump off we come to that I'm still not giving these guys anything liiiiiike a pass I still got problems with them, but I came away from the episode going I think Donald Trump when he says that the media is very one sided and interprets through a very, very, very biased prejudicial lens might not be entirely wrong and saying that makes me self-loathe.

So what can you say about this guy.  How about, You can take the kid out of Ian Paisley's church, but you can't take Ian Paisley's church out of the boy.

Even in the original video, it was obvious that the Indian is in intimidation mode and the kid is standing his ground.  It has since come out that he is a total fraud and grifter.  Anyone who has "been around da block" knew this.

In the word like above the letter i was inserted several times as Deane emphasized that when he let us know he was withholding his pass.  What a moral giant.

As to media bias, hey Davy, ya think.

If we searched his house, we might not find a sash in his closet, but as they say in Boston, it wouldn't be a wicked shockah if we did.