Comments on: Duke strikes another blow against freedom of thought https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 25 May 2018 15:39:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Sam L. https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387627 Fri, 25 May 2018 15:39:19 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387627 From the First Things editorial: “. Our universities are supposed to be institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth as a common good, and faculty, given their training, ought to be accorded a certain deference as leaders in that pursuit.”
Duke is pursuing the truth, with intent to kill it and tear the carcas to pieces.

]]> By: BIM https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387624 Fri, 25 May 2018 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387624 For those classical liberals out there; for those who consider themselves moderate; for those who hew to conservative principals—no matter your Democratic or Republican affiliation:

This is a culture war.

The Totalitarian Left has won a long battle: their march through the institutions.

Yet their twisted “Utopia” [their New World] cannot tolerate actual diversity, critical thinking, or exposure to Truth.

The Totalitarian Way eschews diversity of thought. It runs from reason. It abolishes human agency and individualism, substituting state-approved GoodThink wrapped in wooly DoubleSpeak. It is as dangerous as is is wily.

The Totalitarian Left that has emerged in academia, media, entertainment, even major corporations from will fail as will all evil and untruths, when exposed to the elixirs of freedom, liberty, and human sovereignty.

The Totalitarian “Progressives” will raise Hell to protect their tyranny.

But we will win in the end.

But only if we fight…and we have not yet begun to FIGHT!

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387622 Fri, 25 May 2018 13:32:35 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387622 AesopFan:

Jordan Peterson had a lengthy interview with the founder and editor of Quillette about two months ago. It is available as a podcast.

https://soundcloud.com/jordanpetersonpodcast/41-quillette-discussion-with-editor-claire-lehmann

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387608 Fri, 25 May 2018 04:31:18 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387608 Down-Easter Says:
May 24th, 2018 at 11:01 am
Jordan Peterson keeps showing up in these kinds of discussions.
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Thanks for the link.
I enjoy Quillette when I see an article, but I don’t “shop” there regularly.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387568 Thu, 24 May 2018 20:58:21 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387568 The trustees could repair this, but they will do nothing.

Higher education is a kakistocracy, and Duke is among the worst.

]]> By: skeptic https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387559 Thu, 24 May 2018 18:08:21 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387559 Neo says: ” It makes for sobering and depressing reading.”

We do not need any more Pyrrhic victories. Griffiths is the one who is leaving and the Dean and her apparatchiks will continue to control the place. Conservatives have lost the culture war and need to do something about it.

The only tactic left to us is to set up parallel institutions. But that is not enough. The Left will send their moles in to take them over. Whoever controls the new institutions has to police them and purge them of leftists as remorselessly and effectively as the Left has purged conservatives of their’s as shown by this incident.

Experience has shown that this will not happen. Conservatives stood by and allowed the Left their Gramscian march though our culture. The chances are we have not learned. We will expect the Left to be reasonable and allow them into our institutions and they will take them over as they have all the rest.

But, hope springs eternal.

]]> By: Down-Easter https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387556 Thu, 24 May 2018 15:01:21 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387556 Jordan Peterson keeps showing up in these kinds of discussions. An interesting recent result of the demonization of him by progressive media is the negative reaction to it by some fair-minded liberals. I tripped upon the site and article linked below, which reveals a leftist opening up to reasonable debate. The comments section, like this one, alone makes good reading.
http://quillette.com/2018/05/22/jordan-peterson-failure-left/

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387552 Thu, 24 May 2018 13:31:06 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387552 Looks like Amazon’s getting in on the act.

Ah, diversity…..
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/05/amazon-demonitizes-conservative-website-us/

(Did I say getting?….)

]]> By: Ymar Sakar https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387545 Thu, 24 May 2018 11:16:52 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387545 GRA Says:
May 24th, 2018 at 3:32 am

Jesuit institutions are not the same as Catholic institutions. That’s because they don’t follow the same hierarchy.

In a large organization, there are going to be special groups like Opus Dei and Dominicans, that people outside the group can’t differentiate.

On another note, I’m not reading or responding to Om.

]]> By: GRA https://thenewneo.com/2018/05/23/duke-strikes-another-blow-against-freedom-of-thought/#comment-2387538 Thu, 24 May 2018 07:32:49 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=77878#comment-2387538 @Ymar: Jesuits are Catholics.

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