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The Long Game
One has to hope that moves like this are exacerbating a crisis to the system, Cloward-Piven style, otherwise it can only be read as a sign that the P.C. Left is winning (at a minimum, in the short term). From … Continue reading
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Scruton: “The Threat of Free Speech in the University”
As I’ve noted recently, I’m particularly interested in the parallels between current P.C. soft totalitarianism and the experience of Soviet era dissidents. From Roger Scruton’s “The Threat of Free Speech in the University”: The fear of heresy arises whenever groups … Continue reading
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Haidt: The Fragile Generation
Jonathan Haidt discusses ‘The Fragile Generation’: ‘I’m very concerned about a phenomenon called “concept creep” – which has been happening to a lot of psychological terms since the 1990s’, he says. ‘When a word like “violence” is allowed to creep … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Cultural Marxism, Culture Wars, Political Correctness
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Professor Fart Whistle
Students attending the University of Texas at Austin are paying to underwrite the antics of Professor Fart Whistle.
The Princeton Statement
Princeton University has posted “Some Thoughts and Advice for Our Students and All Students” signed by 15 members of prominent Ivy League faculty. We are scholars and teachers at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale who have some thoughts to share and … Continue reading
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NYT: 8/29/17
The NYT continues to platform crazier and crazier SJW mantras, in the forms of normalizing censorship and seeing neo-Nazis behind every tree. Today we have “White ‘Power’ and the Fear of Replacement” by Abigail Levin and Lisa Guenther: Lisa Guenther … Continue reading
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Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country”, 20 Years Later
Conor Friedersdorf has a piece on the late, pomo, leftist philosopher Richard Rorty ‘anticipated’ the rise of Trump. It’s a variation of the emergent theme that the Left, in deifying the concerns of identity politics against all else, are ignoring … Continue reading
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Stay Classy, Trinity College
Meanwhile, from Trinity College in Hartford: A professor at Trinity College wrote that the first responders to last week’s congressional shooting that nearly took Rep. Steve Scalise’s life should have let him and others die because they are white. Trinity … Continue reading
Identity at Evergreen State
Gateway Pundit reports: Evergreen State students are using anti-Semitic sentiments to silence Bret Weinstein saying that he’s using his Jewish background to “invalidate the claims of racism being raised against him.” Weinstein emailed students and faculty several weeks ago to object to … Continue reading
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Eric Clanton Arrested
The Violent Antifa Professor has been arrested: The hit and run Anti-White masked assailant whom The Roper Report has reported to you on twice already has been arrested! “Former” college professor Eric Clanton is being held on a $200,000 bond after he violently struck a kneeling, … Continue reading