Advanced Ideological Disease in Academe

It's Not Free Speech is a poorly argued attempt to defend the so-called expertise of woke academics . . .

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As soon as there are no individuals, there will be no individualism. As soon as there are no races, there will be no racism. The war is on. No neutrality. Pro-honky or pro-BIPOC?

May 11, 2023 Nick Reply

(Sorry, RACISM (against Crackers), which is ubiquitous and rampant on the campus (…PUS), is NOT an “ideological disease.”)

May 11, 2023 Nick Reply

Defund the universities. Defund the dept. of education. Free up the process of learning and teaching. Have the teachers be in charge, entirely, about who they will take on as students/apprentices, and who they will reject. For K through 12, have neighborhoods with teachable children set up old fashioned “one room school houses” and hire a teacher they like. Some of the parents can assist, if available. Education has been too institutionalized, cranking out students who, arguably, now need “to be institutionalized”, or deprogrammed.

May 11, 2023 Larry Bowen Reply

Desegregation of the schools (1954): Degradation of the schools. The Black Death gallops ever quicker, ever more virulent.

May 11, 2023 Nick Reply

I see the root of this as postmodernism which gives total power to the receiver of information to interpret a writing however they wish. There is no objective meaning which the author intends. There is no obligation that the interpreter seeks out the intended message. They are free to twist, cut, or obscure the writing until it conforms with the subjective interpretation they wish to give it.

Postmodernism was presented as a means of discovering and eliminating bias. But its application was the opposite it gave absolute power to those with a Marxist, Leftist, and now woke bias.

https://thecrosssectionrmb.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-ethics-of-liberty-human-rights-as.html

May 12, 2023 RMB Reply

With regards to the idea that colonialism only brings negative effects to the colonized,

” All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

-apologies to the MP writing group

Good lord, when you need to reference The Life of Brian to debunk some of these nit wits, you know we’ve slid right down that slope.

May 14, 2023 Nick Reply

Mr. Riley correctly but indirectly identifies the fact that the authors of _It’s Not Free Speech_ have departed from a slavish devotion to syllogistic logic [irony intended]. When the philosophy of thinking assigns priority to the subjective interpretations of the listener or reader, and assigns all of the responsibility of the speaker or writer to avoid “discomfort” or “microaggressions” or “verbal violence,” then there is no possible convergence on truth.

Notice I use truth as a singular noun: there is no such thing as “your truth” and “my truth,” there is only truth. And contrary to decades of marketing claims, perception is not reality–reality is reality. And reality is not optional.

Not all changes over time are progress, at least not in any way that most people would recognize progress. It was not long after 1917 or 1933 before the Russians and Germans, respectively, understood how retrogressive “progress” could be.

Which brings me to my final point: intersectionality, post modernism, and post structuralism are the ideological offspring of Marxian socialism. Intersectionality simply substitutes identity-based classes for economic classes, and “the posts” subjective perception for an attempt to find objective truth–which is the key differentiator between “bourgeois” (syllogistic) logic and “proletarian” logic.

Socialism has not had bad luck with leaders: socialism attracts and elevates people like Mao, Hitler, and Stalin, and it cannot NOT do so. That is because socialism attempts to control the complex systems of polity, morality, and economy through centralized control and planning–and we know without any question that humans not only can’t control complex systems to produce prescribed outcomes, they can’t even guess what they will do next with any accuracy.

That is why socialism and all collectivist philosophies have failed and always will fail.

PS – The Democrats often call the Republicans Nazis, who murdered 8 million people during WWII, though the GOP has never elected a Nazi, avowed or covert, to any significant office. On the other hand, the Democrats have six avowed socialists (the philosophy that murdered 100 million people in the 20th century) in Congress. From a moral, economic, and political perspective, there is no worse ideology with which to align yourself.

May 15, 2023 Andy Robinson Reply

The job now is to convince every financial source of support the Universities have to cease funding these dens of inequity and violence. Government, NGOs, Wealthy Donors, all must be pressed to stop funding the destruction of the West.

May 15, 2023 Northern Observer Reply

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