Creating Monsters Is The Easy Part
Instapundit quotes a Wall Street Journal editorial on Berkeley faculty’s fear of their own students:
The University of California at Berkeley played down news last summer that it had installed an “escape hatch” from protesters in the chancellor’s office. The term was “the concoction of a 19-year-old headline writer,” a university spokesman said, referring to the student reporter who broke the story. “It’s a door,” the rep said, later adding that campus security thought it was “beneficial” to have more than one exit. But internal emails we’ve seen show that a staff “deeply disturbed by [recent] occupations” did build the exit to protect themselves from potentially dangerous students.
A $9,000 security door. Oh, and a $700,000 security fence to keep the agitated Mao-lings out of the home of former Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks.
Enabling and excusing all that leftist psychodrama sure is expensive.
“Whiteness” will be deemed even more “problematic,” a state of default sin, and used as a go-to excuse for any petty resentment or personal inadequacy.
I don’t always agree with Frank Firefighters, but he is on good form here on “whiteness”:
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/whiteness-a-nonsense-category
but he is on good form here on “whiteness”:
Well, if you mean expending a thousand or so words to say nothing, then I have to agree. He says there are three ways to respond to the idea of “whiteness” – to boil it down: to be a real life Geoffrey Elfwick (pbuh) or pajama boy; to be a Nazi or skinhead; or, to be “something else” which he does not expound upon or elucidate. He almost made an argument againt identity politics, but couldn’t bring himself to it.
It’s not possible to agree or disagree with him, since he comes to no conclusion – the only possible reaction has to be, “Yes; please go on…”
Darleen,
Is Jeff writing regularly anywhere now?
Compare and contrast:
We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit our selves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time…
Is Jeff writing regularly anywhere now?
Facebook.
It’s mostly personal family stuff, though, not like his old Protein Wisdom blog. He does occasionally post a “what grinds my gears” thing like what was linked, but not that often.
Messed up link. Try this:
Jeff Goldstein on Facebook.