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For Hallowe’en, three strange tales from academia.
Further to recent comments, Toni Airaksinen marvels at a bedlamite educator:
A sociology professor at the City University of New York recently argued in an extensive series of tweets that “the white-nuclear family” perpetuates racism. Jessie Daniels, a self-described “expert on race,” began by declaring that, “What I’ve learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy. I mean, if you’re a white person who says they’re engaged in dismantling white supremacy but… you’re forming a white family [and] reproducing white children that ‘you want the best for’ – how is that helping [and] not part of the problem?”
Apparently, the stable family structure is a “fact to be lamented,” and stable white families should be discouraged from existing.
And again, on associate professor of sociology, and fellow bedlamite, Lisa Wade:
A feminist professor at Occidental College recently argued that men must renounce their masculinity and “denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it.” Calling masculinity a “dangerous idea,” Wade argues that, “The problem is not toxic masculinity; it’s that masculinity is toxic,” adding that masculinity is “simply not compatible with liberty and justice for all.” Wade concludes her essay by urging people to “call masculinity out as a hazardous ideology and denounce anyone who chooses to identify with it,” saying that doing so is crucial for “gender revolution.”
We must “attack masculinity directly,” says this educator of the young.
And further to this item here, via dicentra, J Oliver Conroy on the new intersectional morony:
When [panellist and author, Kmele Foster] started explaining the methodological research behind his claim, the audience [of students] exploded. “Facts?! Facts?! Don’t tell me about facts!” one person screamed. Foster tried to finish as five or six people shouted at him. “Do facts matter?” Foster asked, and repeated it several times in mounting frustration. The resounding, devastating answer was no, facts do not matter.
As usual, feel free to add your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments. Oh, and sleep well.
Tangentially related to decolonization:
-from Wikipedia.
In a past age one might have uttered a snide remark such as “Makes you think, doesn’t it?” upon reading that definition and perhaps thinking that it seems to more accurately describe a category one might term conquered peoples.
But in the glorious present future of the internet, entire such utterances and accompanying attitude can be condensed into a wonderful Unicode character-emoji, the ‘thinking face’:
🤔
Isn’t 2017 great?
Isn’t 2017 great?
(Likely apocryphal) ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.”
sometimes all one needs are the headlines . . .
Maybe when you’re older you’ll figure out not to trust those.
After first running across Trump and Kobach’s Voter Fraud Lies Are Making More Voters Lose Confidence in Our Elections, Says New Poll I did note that certain sources can get declared suspect, so cross referencing and verifying is a rather good idea, and the same story kept coming up.
And One of those links says, The experts I spoke with said….it’s probably impossible to conclusively prove or disprove allegations of widespread illegal voting
I can’t say that restored confidence in our elections. You?
And then one finds Rick Perry: Fossil Fuels Can Prevent Sexual Assault in Africa
His thinking is that lack of street lighting creates opportunities for violent assault, and most electricity in Africa comes from coal- or gas-fired generators. I guess Rick Perry: Cities are Safer When They’re Well-Lit, So Generating More Electricity in Places Like Africa with Fuels Like Coal is a Good Idea would merely inform, rather than fulfilling the core function of the 21st century press, helping people who enjoy feeling smugly superior to Republicans.
It’s certainly apocryphal. And there’s two more fun curses that come with it:
“May some of your wishes be granted.”
“May you come to the attention of people in power.”
Indigenous peoples are any ethnic group of peoples who are considered to fall under one of the internationally recognized definitions of Indigenous peoples, such as United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank,. . .
. . . Sooo, according to what I read there, The UN, the International Labour Organization—which is apparently a subset of the UN—and the World Bank, are each and all indigenous peoples.
Gee, it was bad enough trying to claim that corporations should have personal rights . . .
I’m not quite sure how I go about renouncing my masculinity.
The Partriarchy’s flexible – even a T-shirt will do:
The Partriarchy’s flexible
Tell me more about this Partriarchy; it seems like it might be fun. Is it ongoing, or does it have set times?
“…she warned him that his habit of saying what he thinks could bring down the entire program.”
She’s a philosophy professor.
She’s a philosophy professor.
Obviously. That is what philosophy on our college campuses and in media has been about for decades now. Regurgitating and defending leftist ideology.
@Spiny Norman
Pro-white message taped to Native Studies building day after racist pumpkin incident
So now pumpkins can be racist? Who knew…
So Jessie Daniels is giving her job to a POC, right? Otherwise she’s just helping white supremacy.
Fossil fuels=power for light=more safety after dark in public areas, duh.
“May you come to the attention of people in power.”
Listening to this discussion this morning did wonders for my morale…
Yes, it’s China: but such things are already starting in all our countries.
Fossil fuels=power for light=more safety after dark in public areas, duh.
Better to be raped in the dark, than to give an inch to the savage fruits born from Western, white male ideology.
Just ask all those English girls.
And Swedish women.
And German ladies.
Etcetera.
Fossil fuels=power for light=more safety after dark in public areas, duh.
Oh, Yes, after you throw in enough additional observations, connecting reasoning, hopeful probable intent . . . and rather still acknowledge still having to do all that on behalf of the fellow . . .