I did feel a minor tweak in my hip/lower back of my right side..mostly on my set of high handle deadlifts. I’ll have to drop those, at least not do them when I am very tired from low handle stuff.
I forgot my PT appointment; had it down as 3:45 but that was NEXT MONDAY; fortunately I was able to reschedule tomorrow: no excuses.
Shoulder: slight pain last night; I swear it is getting better and better..that is good.
Workout: pull ups, (sets of singles,fives; 50 total reps), push ups (3 sets of 40 sissy), curls (3 sets of 10 with 50), some rehab and:
10 x 134, 10 x 184, 11 x 235 (ok…slight tug at the end), 11 x 251 high: body is out of position…maybe quit doing high reps with these?
Baseball: Chiefs lost again 6-1; only run was a solo HR in the 4’th inning.
It was kind of dreary game and few were there to watch. BUT Peoria is now “low COVID risk” (one of the best in the nation..really) and I can go to games safely. I will probably pass on games on my upcoming trips ..at least in St. Louis (high risk..surrounding areas even higher). Yeah, I am vaccinated but I really don’t want to get COVID, not even a mild case.
Yoga, lots of rehab, then 40 minutes on the Nustep (a recumbent stepper) and 51 minutes on the recumbent bike (14 miles; this was slower than the upright bike of the same model).
Off to a Chiefs game.
Note: some slight shoulder pain last night..AT TIMES..but I am feeling more hopeful as I am doing the rotator cuff exercises more correctly this time around. And at times, I am tingle free. Still have to remember to firm up the abs.
The downer: a 0.4 mile walk to see a friend brought back tingles. Later: PT..therapist said “you are good at using the muscles you aren’t supposed to be using.” Call me the “compensation king.”
And so: pull ups (55 total; including 2 sets of 10), push ups (3 sets of 40), curls (3 sets of 10), and my usual rehab.
I did feel pain when reaching for something.
Physically: I feel both low (2 injuries at the same time) and hopeful.
I first saw this guy here when he went ballistic when inconvenient statistics were brought up:
And no, there is no criminal gene but people under certain soci0-economic conditions are prone to certain crimes; and then the other police officer puts into better perspective.
But I digress. I found out that the professor has a show and he brings on all sorts of guests, including those who have very different opinions…many contrary to his.
And I watched this one:
Now frankly, the lady, was..well..she did not impress me for a variety or reasons. But move to the very end 13 minutes she asks him if he thinks that all white people are racist. He answers…
Literally believing that all white people are racist… is a racist ideology. https://t.co/9JzwPFcenx
And, in my opinion, this tilts the entire political battle toward her, no matter how dreadful her reasoning was in the first 13 minutes.
Yes, it appears that humans tend to reason inductively. Yes, humans tend to pick up their group norms, even on an unconscious level. The religious types might phrase that as part of our sinful nature.
I might phrase that as “well, maybe 50K years ago, it made sense to keep the other humans out of “our territory.” Just look at the violence displayed by our evolutionary cousins:
I’d like to think that we’ve advanced beyond this stage..sort of…but I think prejudice against “the other” is more common than we’d like to admit and we need to make a deliberate effort to combat it.
None of us are perfect.
But just coming out and saying “all white people have some racism in them” is just politically toxic though, I’d see it as “well, of course, NONE of us are prefect…all of us have some prejudice of some sort..” type of thing.
I am not saying that professors should lie to the public but I do think there are ways of saying things that make the message easier to receive.
Woke rules. A couple of decades ago, a female English professor was talking about an all female group who was moving furniture and joked about the dynamic ..saying “we were acting like we had extra testosterone” (a playful insult at men) and I countered “oh, so you were being logical and holding yourselves accountable?” She tried to correct me as I had violated a “woke rule”: someone from an underprivileged class can make fun of the privileged class but not the way around” and while she is white, she is a “she”…I did NOT play the “Latino card.”(being “intersectional” means you belong to several “underprivileged groups” and therefore have extra cards).
“My suspicion is that this is a weird tic of campus politics that has followed graduates into the professional arena where they unconsciously started deploying it in less appropriate contexts. If you’re in a dorm at a fancy college and you can convince an administrator that something is racist, the administrator will probably put a stop to it. At the same time, “this is bad for poor people” just isn’t going to get you far as a campus argument. After all, these schools more or less openly auction off a number of admissions slots to wealthy donors (while, of course, practicing affirmative action to keep things diverse) so they can hardly take a hard line on class politics.
But electoral politics in a democracy isn’t like that. And to the extent that the US political system isn’t democratic, it’s mostly tilted in favor of over-representing white people with no college degree. So if you actually want to close racial gaps by raising the minimum wage, expanding union membership, expanding Medicaid, and reducing student debt, the last thing you want to do is to sell people on the idea that this is really all about race.”
I’d surf to the link and read more; it is very well reasoned.
So..any academic who wishes to influence the opinion of the public at large would do well to remember this; the rules of persuasion are very different outside of the ivory towers.
“But wait…I am TIRED of making the truth palatable to “the other”” some might say. And that might be true. But do you want to change opinions or not?
And no…some woke wagging their finger outside of woke academia won’t help either. But I digress.
The Republicans have seized on some honestly dreadful training and decided to call it a war on Critical Race Theory (CRT)
Now CRT was created in law schools as a way of studying the effect that race has on our institutions and how it tends to permeate everything; after all, just who set up the legal framework, or social framework? What was society like then?
And yes, some have built upon this idea to study other institutions; e. g. education.
And some of this is indeed cringeworthy:
A New York k-12 educator suggests black students DO NOT think analytically. She states this is why “education is not working for students of color” in the US.
This was part of an “anti-racist” discussion between NY educators. Critical Race Theory/ “anti-racism” is neo-racism. pic.twitter.com/Vcc8tpK1YM
So, when the public is criticizing CRT, MOST are criticizing stuff like this and not the actual academic theory.
But I believe the CRT critics are overreaching. IMHO, most Americans want accurate history to be taught; we know that our country has made mistakes and has failed morally at times and we really want to do better. They don’t want our mistakes whitewashed ..nor do we want to be seen as only one mistake either.
This is why I think things like this are overreach and will end up backfiring on the Republicans. They will do well if they focus on the specific genuinely bad things. But maybe they can’t help themselves?
Her supporters are exclaiming “see, she showed them and North Carolina lost!” but it appears to me that upper administration and the big money donors got exactly what they wanted: they were free from a high profile thorn in their side and have plausible deniability. And Howard scored a coup.
Yes, I know that universities and colleges are viewed as bastions of woke liberalism, and some professors and students are. But I think that many underestimate how conservative the big donors are and how conservative many blocks of students are. And this varies from college to college; a hint to which college recruits what can be seen by looking at a list of which colleges will require students to be COVID vaccinated. If your uni isn’t on this list, it is probably because they recruit a conservative demographic.
Weights and PT. Weights: pull ups: 5, 5, 10, 10, 5,5,5,5,5 singles. 3 sets of 40 sissy push ups, 3 sets of curls and deadlifts: 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 11 x 235 (miscount), 10 x 251 high and lots of rehab.
I had shoulder pain last night; a lot of it…possibly due to yoga plank the day before?
But in PT, I was told to “take the navel to the spine” while standing to reduce my glute pain..and it worked.
I have to learn to fire my glutes and my abs..and when walking..2 weeks from now, STOP when the tingles start. So a few track walks at first.
Life of an old goat 