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.
Weak, shallow people who are only notable because people who know better, the otherwise strong and productive, won’t stand up and oppose them. Many hide in the weeds, waiting for someone else to take the risk, then take advantage.
I’ll go on somehow.
Is it Delusion Visibility Week again?
I’ll leave these here.
Just in case.
Oh, and speaking of fellating the primitive.
Because those “Western paradigms” – i.e., medicines that actually, you know, work – must be disrupted and decolonised.
Why, it’s almost as if there were a pattern. Of twattery.
Professor Romero has a newly minted PhD, so he’s likely trying to carve out a professional reputation by being controversial, even if it means abandoning all reason. He’s also, according to his website, Filipinix:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/filipino-vs-filipinx-debate-language-philippines-culture-identity/
Joyce Carol Oates is descending further into senility.
Substantiating link.
You had me at “the world may soon be denied Mr Romero”.
Mass-produced books. Written languages. Shelves held up by steel alloy roll-and-form parts. Machine woven cloth. Clean-shaven face from another steel alloy. And odds are he’s wearing polycarbonate contact lenses. Thermostatically controlled HVAC. LED or fluorescent artificial lighting. A video camera. The internet. Government funding. Interstate travel for
victimsstudents. A wanker.There’s lots more, I’m sure, but those leapt to mind. (I’ll concede, in suppose, that indigenous cultures may have had wankers.)
What next? Claiming Charlie Kirk staged his assasination?
From David’s link,
Response: No, you are inherently reactionary. You are inertia.
From The Devil’s Dictionary:
ABORIGINES, n.
Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.Considerate persons who will not trouble the lexicographer of the future to describe them.
The weaponization of Dunning-Kruger continues…
Tongue in cheek.
Also, he needs to sort out his hair.