Funny stuff
Here. Would would academia do without jargon?
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The left will not allow you to abstain from the anti-racist (that is, new sort of racist) movement
Professor William Jacobson reports from the frontlines at Cornell: The new activism surrounding race is completely at odds with the traditional goals of the civil rights movement — that all people be treated with dignity and afforded the protections of … Continue reading →
She’s not woke enough – literally
The Red Guard rides again: Nearly 2,000 people called for the termination of a New York City professor after she reportedly fell asleep during an anti-racist meeting held on Zoom. Patricia Simon, a theater arts associate professor at Marymount Manhattan … Continue reading →
Allan Bloom again, on the genesis of what’s happening now
[NOTE: The following is a revised and updated version of a post I wrote over seven years ago, based on Allan Bloom’s book published in 1987.] I’ve written before about Allan Bloom’s masterful The Closing of the American Mind, published … Continue reading →
A documentary on the cult of anti-racism in academia: Evergreen
I covered some of the events that took place at Evergreen College in 2017, a situation that catapulted Bret Weinstein into minor celebrity for the brave stand he took there. But although I thought I knew a lot about it, … Continue reading →
Advice for those in academia
Please read this thread. I doubt it would work everywhere, but it’s well worth contemplating. And it may only be possible for people with tenure, or those who have the ability to find work elsewhere. Whether it would work in … Continue reading →
Don’t be fooled by what the media choose to emphasize…
…or by what a small group of attention-getting radicals want. In the turmoil we’re now experiencing, many people are afraid. That certainly makes sense – it’s frightening. Just a few short months ago things seemed relatively “normal.” Then COVID came, … Continue reading →
Indoctrination – this was in 2007. Since then, this sort of thing has taken over campuses.
Here’s a fascinating video because it seems almost archaic. It documents the leftist, racist indoctrination occurring on a single campus in 2007, and how some students and faculty, along with FIRE, helped stop it when they learned of it. Back … Continue reading →
They’re still trying to cancel William Jacobson at Cornell
Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection reports on the latest in the campaign against him: Earlier this week, the Black Law Students Association circulated an email statement to the Cornell Law School community repeating many of the false and misleading … Continue reading →
Jonathan Turley defends Professor Jacobson and criticizes Cornell
Turley has taken up the cause: Twenty-one colleagues at Cornell signed a June 9, a letter denouncing unnamed “commentators… attached to Ivy League Institutions” as calls were made to the Dean to have Jacobson fired. The professors lashed out against … Continue reading →
I think it’s time to send people this Loury and McWhorter video
I don’t send people links to articles or videos, ordinarily – and by “people,” I mean liberals, because most of the people I know fall into that category. I learned many years ago that (a) they were unlikely to look … Continue reading →
The war on STEM: when post-modernism says that there is no real truth…
…then why not erase history, ignore facts, and create your own truth? Especially in the cause of fighting whatever is defined as racism these days. The definition has become extraordinarily broad amidst the paroxysms of rage and the demands for … Continue reading →