Today’s Word Is ‘Dentistry’
Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading of course, Christopher Rufo spies more dolts and liars in dumb academia:
And yet, none of these post-colonial theorists want to “decolonize” electricity, antibiotics, and other oppressive constructs of the Western world, in order to return to the authentic indigenous ways of the darkened teepee and dying from a small scratch on the leg. https://t.co/iL4cwZIqrr
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) April 17, 2026
Note that the first words uttered by Noah Romero, our Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, are hilariously untrue. Note too his framing of his own efforts – all that “undoing, dislodging, subverting” – as an “eradicative project,” one intended to purge Western civilisation of its, well, civilisation.
And presumably, by implication, to purge it of people like thee and me. Those who might protest. But remember, we’ve been assured that the term decolonise is “misinterpreted” by those who dare to look unimpressed, and that it is, despite appearances, entirely benign, used by higher beings with the most fragrant of intentions.
In entirely unrelated news, Hampshire College, where Mr Romero peddles his claptrap, among his fellow educators – sorry, fellow “activists” – is closing down permanently at the end of this year. Due to debt, accreditation issues, and steeply declining enrolment.
Whether this impending closure will impact Mr Romero’s primitivist fantasies of remaking the world, by dislodging and subverting things, or prompt any reflection on his life choices more generally, is a question I leave to the reader.
Conceivably, the world may soon be denied Mr Romero’s “projects that examine the anti-colonial pedagogies found in minority-led punk, skateboarding, and unschooling subcultures.”
I’ll give you a moment to bite down on your fist in sorrow.
But fear not, very similar noises, mouthed by eerily similar idiots, can be found elsewhere. More easily, and often, than one might wish.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
OT: An addition to your “art” collection.
I cried.
I’m just going to leave this here.
Because I can, that’s why.
I’d go with leave well alone.
Dressing like Charles Bronson in travel-stained duster, hat, and boots?
From previous thread: those who decry “profit” do not understand econ at all. They seem to grant the farmer can get “wages” for growing food, but not the grocery store. But if someone cannot make something from the grocery store, it will not exist. A grocery store costs a bundle to build and run. The food has to be brought there in trucks that cost a lot using gas that costs. How will all this happen without profit? Oh sure, we will all just barter for everything, but I have nothing to barter that a farmer needs directly. That is why we have money. The “profit” they hate so much is why in America we have so much, delivered so fast, of such high quality. If some people get rich making the things I need, great.
Faked assassination attempt: To believe that Trump faked his assassination attempt is to believe that he would be willing to let a 20 yr old (IIRC) shoot him in the ear from a distance. As if nothing could go wrong. FFS
From the replies to this comment on the likely effects of Universal Basic Income.