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Category Archives: Academia
Another One Down
Political Correctness claims another faculty victim. Paul Griffiths, whose Orwellian run-ins with the school’s administration Rod Dreher has been documenting, has resigned from his position as Warren Chair of Catholic Theology at Duke University Duke University as a result: It’s … Continue reading
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‘Call-Out Culture’ on Campus
JAPCAT installments are now too plentiful to adequately document. In The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf writes of “The Destructiveness of Call-Out Culture on Campus”, with ‘call-out culture’ being something of a variation on what the Alt-Right experiences as ‘doxxing’. Friedersdorf elicited … Continue reading
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The Future Formalization Of Speech Restrictions
In Social Matter, Ryan Landry waxes on the likely “Future Formalization Of Speech Restrictions”: As fissures in the American political landscape deepen, a rather large crack in the truce between the tribes has opened surrounding the concept of free speech. … Continue reading
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The Purge Continues
The experience of Professor Paul Griffiths at Duke University is representative of the increasingly Stalinist tactics that P.C. administrations take to enforce their ‘re-education’ of even faculty. Scary stuff.
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Professor Aaron Hanlon
Here is Aaron Hanlon, a professor of English at Colby College: Aaron Hanlon: “Colleges should be able to have standards for the speakers that they bring.” #Tucker pic.twitter.com/OMiyG53bUP — Fox News (@FoxNews) April 27, 2017 Here is one of Hanlon’s … Continue reading
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Professor Snowflake & His Hero Lyotard, Rhymes With
The normalization of free speech limits marches onward. In the NYT is an opinion piece by Ulrich Baer titled “What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech”: During the 1980s and ’90s, a shift occurred in American culture; personal experience and … Continue reading
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A Professor
Professor Eric Clanton is apparently the Antifa SJW who used a bike chain to violently attack a conservative protester.
Charles Murray: Accusations vs. Evidence
In “Charles Murray’s ‘Provocative’ Talk”, two Cornell professors have been allowed by the NYT to basically destroy the argument that Charles Murray is a ‘racist’ or that his attempted speech last month at Middlebury College was ‘racist’ or otherwise not … Continue reading
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Ivy League Admissions
Here’s what it takes today to get into the big Ivy League schools: When Ziad Ahmed was asked on his Stanford University application “What matters to you, and why?”, his answer was clear. He wrote: “#BlackLivesMatter”, repeating the hashtag exactly … Continue reading
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4/3/17: JAPCAT Roundup
The quantity of JAPCAT articles (Jewish Awareness of Politically Correct Absurdities Transpiring) is rising, rising, rising! Finding JAPCAT articles used to be a novelty. Now, they are getting pumped out daily. My, what a mess the old left has found … Continue reading
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