Some items from the archives, on a loosely historical theme.
Professor James O’Flannery’s educational tour of the Chinese Revolution.
As part of the “Smash Sparrow Campaign,” children were enlisted to bang pots and pans around, chasing the sparrows out of their nests. Later, adults knocked the nests out of the trees and crushed the eggs underneath their sandals, until there were almost no sparrows left in all of China…
Within a year of the “Smash Sparrow Campaign,” itself part of the larger “Four Pests Campaign,” the locust population exploded and did what locusts do best. The Communists had played God and literally created a Biblical plague.
On replacing natural history with aboriginal woo.
My Kingdom For A Time Machine.
Julie Bindel tempts us with the “good old days of the feminist collective.”
Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries.
The history of ideas, as seen through the welding goggles of wokeness.
Having dismissed as tiresome the entire breadth and history of “white men ideas” – from Ptolemy to Babbage, Tesla to Solzhenitsyn, Turing to Shakespeare – these “white dudes” and their “so-called ‘knowledge’” – Ms Leung then makes clear the kinds of feedback she is willing to entertain: “I still have some thinking to do around this topic, but curious to hear what others think. I’m less interested in hearing that you don’t buy it, so don’t bother with those types of comments.”
Ms Leung’s ill-tempered mouthings – of which the above is the merest hint – reveal a great deal, perhaps more than she intends, and it may help if you think of wokeness as a kind of rapid-onset morony. One that is applauded, and rewarded, in statusful institutions.
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