We recently discussed how Wake Forest Psychology Professor S. Mason Garrison described conservatives as “guilty, anxious, and unable to handle stress well as children.” It was indicative of the overt hostility often encountered by Republicans and conservatives on our campuses today. Now, another psychology professor is under fire for a quiz that matter-of-factly explained that white men are characterized as a group for their abuse of others and lack of remorse for their violence and deceit. Like Professor Garrison, the resulting outcry reportedly led Professor Kirsten Bradbury to rescind the quiz. However, the incident reflects both the orthodoxy and hostility that now characterizes higher education. It also follows a familiar pattern when academics are called to account for such biased attacks.“However, if we must go there, which sociodemographic group is most likely to repeatedly violate the rights of others in a pattern of behavior that includes violence, deceit, irresponsibility, and a lack of remorse?”
Bradbury then added an addendum stating “Hint: They also happen to hold the most social power and because of that they can get away with the most wrongdoing.”
She gave four choices with three obviously absurd choices of middle class Latino families, female dentists and Asian men of all economic groups. The correct answer was, of course, wealthy white men.
Like many, Bradbury felt that she had license to engage in such racial stereotyping and disparagement. It reflects a culture today at universities that not only tolerates but fosters such proselytizing and intolerance.
We have seen attacks based both on race and ideology from professors over the years without any repercussions or even criticism from universities in many cases. We have previously discussed faculty who called for “detonating white people,” abolishing white people, denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements. I also defended the free speech rights of University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis, who defended the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. (Loomis was later made Director of Graduate Studies of History at Rhode Island).
At the University of California campus, professors actually rallied around a professor who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display.
On every level of our educational systems, it has become acceptable to demonize conservatives and oppose their teaching students. One school board member recently called for conservatives to be “culled” from faculties by “taking them to the slaughterhouse.” Many faculties have indeed “culled” their ranks of conservatives. A new survey of 65 departments in various states found that 33 do not have a single registered Republican.
The survey conducted by The Harvard Crimson revealed that 82.46% of faculty surveyed identify as “liberal” or “very liberal.” Only 16.08% self-identified as “moderate” and a mere 1.46% identified as “conservative.” Not a single faculty member identified as “very conservative,” but the number of faculty identified as “very liberal” increased by another 8% in just one year. Yet editors at the newspaper assured students that eliminating Republicans or conservatives from the faculty was nothing to fear or regret.
Likewise, in an editorial column, the editors of the legal site Above the Law mocked those of us who objected to the virtual absence of conservative or libertarian faculty members at law schools. Senior editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” based on the fact that liberal views reflect real law as opposed to junk law. (Patrice regularly calls those with opposing views “racists,” including Chief Justice John Roberts because of his objection to race-based criteria in admissions as racial discrimination). He explained that hiring a conservative academic was akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism (or that the sun orbits the earth) to teach at a university.
It is that easy. You simply declare that conservative views shared by a majority of the Supreme Court and by roughly half of the population are invalid to be taught.
It is not limited to faculty. Polls now show that 60 percent of students fear sharing their views in class, including some polls showing an even higher level of fear. There is a growing orthodoxy taking hold on our campuses with rising intolerance for dissenting faculty and students alike.
When this controversy arose, Bradbury simply offered a mild “my bad” and pulled the quiz. It was not because she issued an insulting and unsupported racial attack. She simply told students that “given the current rate of sociocultural and scientific change,” the quiz had “grown too stale to use.” No real apology and no action from the university. Just a shrug.
Imagine if a professor described black men in such disparaging terms. Would the University of Texas at Austin or its faculty remain silent?
When conservatives have uttered controversial statements, the response is quite different. The recent suspension of Ilya Shapiro is a good example. Other faculty have had to go to court to defend their free speech rights. One professor was suspended for being seen at a controversial protest. Conservatives and libertarians understand that they have no cushion or protection in any controversy, even if it involves a single, later deleted tweet. At the University of North Carolina (Wilmington) one such campaign led to a professor killing himself a few days before his final day as a professor.
Students often face such choices of losing points on exams or just mouthing the political bias of their professors. We previously discussed how historian Jon Meachum asked students in a quiz at Vanderbilt University “Was the Constitution designed to perpetuate white supremacy and protect the institution of slavery?” When a student answered “false,” the answer was marked wrong.
Bradbury’s question and later shrugging off of the controversy reflects the intolerance and sense of impunity in higher education. She clearly has little fear that attacking white males would have any repercussions and felt little need to apologize for the attack. The response of the University of Texas reinforces the sense of license.
This is just like 1920’s Germany.
Oscar, this might be worse.
Professor Turley,
You continue to post about the disparity of ideological diversity among professors in higher education without acknowledging that the pool of potential professors is overwhelmingly liberal. Back in 2016 (pre-TRUMP), only 27% of Americans with graduate degrees identified as conservative. I haven’t found a post-Trump study, or one that narrows the graduate-level data to those with PhDs, but I would imagine that the % of PhDs in 2023 to be significantly lower than 27% (perhaps less than half that). https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/27/study-finds-those-graduate-education-are-far-more-liberal-peers
On the first part, Trump has openly appealed to voters with less education. That is not an opinion — it is simply a fact. See, for example, Trump in 2016: “I love the Poorly Educated” The trend has been for Democrats to consolidate support among those with college degrees, and for Trump and MAGA Republicans to make gains with undereducated voters.
On the second part, I would suspect there is some self-selecting based on projected compensation outcomes (law school is likely more lucrative than a PhD in the social sciences, for example). This is reflected in the D:R ratios of those in various departments at universities. As this data set shows, while the overall ratio of Democrats to Republicans is about 10.4 to 1, there are some fields that are much closer to 1:1 (such as engineering). https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_political_affiliations_of_elite_liberal_arts_college_faculty
Finally, that same dataset shows that conservative professors self-select to a small handful of institutions, such as military service academies like Westpoint, where there is close to a 1:1 ratio.
So, please control for the labor supply when you try to make this claim next time, and extend your review to all institutions, not just Harvard.
It is likely simply basic supply and demand (which seems appropriate because economics has one of the highest percentages of conservative professors).
They are not under educated as you would assert.
They just did not go to college.
That makes them not indoctrinated. They hold a higher degree of common sense than those so-called college educated leftists. They can define what a woman is. As we have seen in polls and surveys, the value of a college degree has significantly fallen. Some states are even waiving the college degree requirement as those with a degree have shown they are not capable of performing the job they are hired to do.
I would rather have a non-college educated employee who can do the job than a college grad leftist who cannot.
It is common sense.
Common sense is great. Love common sense. But it takes more than common sense to perform triple bypass heart surgery. And it takes more than common sense to write a peer-reviewed doctorate-level dissertation (the latter being relevant to the issue at hand regarding college professors).
Thus, vis-a-vis the question at hand — the dwindling numbers of conservatives professors — those without doctorate degrees are necessarily undereducated.
I am not making a normative judgment as to whether high school dropouts are better or worse than someone with a doctorate. The simply dont have the prereqs.
“And it takes more than common sense to write a peer-reviewed doctorate-level dissertation (the latter being relevant to the issue at hand regarding college professors).”
Well, unless you’re James Lindsey, Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian, or any of the myriad non-hoaxers featured by @RealPeerReview.
These folks seem to have conclusively proven that, actually, it only takes a few flourishes of virtue “code” and, voila, your peer-reviewed credentials are assured.
Peer review is the Potemkin Village of Academia. Peer review does not function using the common definitions of those two words. 100’s of papers are intentional jargon ladened spoofs. Something the “peers” failed to notice
” it takes more than common sense to perform triple bypass heart surgery.”
Leftism destroys common sense. We can easily see that in the medical profession. Look at the leaders who guided the medical community. They demonstrated a lack of knowledge and common sense.
Upstate, they weren’t uneducated, they were unendoctrinayed.
“You continue to post about the disparity of ideological diversity among professors in higher education without acknowledging that the pool of potential professors is overwhelmingly liberal.”
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Posting there is a “disparity of ideological diversity” by defintion “acknowledges that the pool of potential professors is overwhelmingly [ideological].” Duh! In fact, that’s the point of JT’s postings. Double Duh! That you keenly grasp this obvious conclusion and fill the rest of your comment with gobbeltygook does you no credit. You have just supported what JT has said. A is A and spouting jargon about “datasets,” “self-selecting” and “controling for labor supply” puts you on par with the rankest sophists. So yes, Virginia, there is an ideological disparity among professors, JT points it out and all you have to offer is a scholarly sounding veneer masking a mush mind.
Congrats, you’re both boring yet drolly consistent in your inanity.
Anonymous – There is no reason that people hired as Professors need to have PHD’s or even graduate degrees. The supply of Conservative teachers outside the University system is sufficient to keep an even ratio of Republican to Democrat, or Conservative to Liberal.
“the pool of potential professors is overwhelmingly liberal.”
So your method of “thinking” is: Start with the pool of candidates. A thoughtful analysis would ask: Why is that pool smaller?
There are two primary reasons:
1) Those same anti-conservative professors in the humanities and liberal arts control the graduate programs. They make admissions selections, supervise and teach the graduate students, help or not graduates get interviews and jobs. Good luck trying to be a pro-individualist, pro-America graduate student in those programs.
2) Contrary to Leftist smears, as undergraduates, those conservative students are not suicidal. They are in the main thoughtful and long-range. They are well aware of the anti-conservative bias in graduate schools and academic hiring. Their reaction to those facts of reality is (quite understandably): Fine. I’ll spend my career in another field.
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Let me get this straight. A foreign country or a large corporation has so much cash they simply give it to lucky people and expect nothing in return? What a wonderful thing!! Show me where to line up for free cash!!
In the real world influence peddling and giving money to a public official is called bribery and is illegal. However it seems the golden rule is the law of the land. “He who has the gold makes the rules.”
18 U.S. Code § 201 – Bribery of public officials and witnesses.
Posted under the wrong heading.
OT, but it does tie into the irresponsible part of todays article.
Biden to hike payments for good-credit homebuyers to subsidize high-risk mortgages
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/18/joe-biden-hike-payments-good-credit-homebuyers-sub/
That is right.
Save your money. Be financially responsible. And get punished by the Biden admin.
No savings. Financially irresponsible. And get rewarded by the Biden admin.
Ham sandwich! 2024!
“One lawyer (politician) with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns …” Mario Puzo (Author of the Godfather)
I inserted “politician” to the quote.
Joe Biden calks Republicans Semi-Fascist. What party is calling for more censorship not less? What party considers Jane Fonda to be one of their darlings as she calls for the murder of conservatives? What party is telling us that riots should continue? What party is telling us that the shouting down of those you do not agree with is an acceptable tactic? What party is trying to control what you are allowed to read on social media? It should be noted that such a political party would be properly described as a fascist party. What party displays all the earmarks of a fascist party?
TiT,
Well said.
It is their words and actions which they openly display that earns them the title as the “fascist party.”
We and the good professor are just pointing them out.
This was a curious day to post your comment, given the State of Florida’s decision to extend its LGBTQ content ban to all grade levels.
The FL GOP also recently proposed a requirement that all journalists reporting on DeSantis must register with the State!
Finally, FL is taking over a public institution (the New College) and installing conservatives on its Board to inculcate its students with a pro-GOP message rather than staying out of its politics. (If trying to create a “DeSantis Youth” program with public funds is not proto-fascist, I am not sure what is.)
Censorship is being advocated by both parties. Free speech is dead. Authoritarianism is on the rise.
New College was thriving until the left got a hold of it. Now people are appointed to make sure the curriculum is to teach not indoctrinate. ATS objects to the lack of indoctrination. Authoritarianism is declining under new guidance, but to ATS that means a loss of power so he shifts blames to those who believe in free speech.
So many questions.
1. New College has always been very liberal. What do you mean “before the left got a hold of it?” When was it thriving? What do you mean by “thriving”?
2. How exactly are people “making sure” the curriculum does not “indoctrinate.” What policies have been put in place to do so?
[DeSantis’s chief of staff literally said, “it is our hope that New College of Florida will become Florida’s classical college, more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the South.” As I am sure you are aware, Hillsdale’s curriculum is a private Christian school with a predominantly conservative school with a pro-Western (and by extension, anti-rest of the world) canon.]
3. How is authoritarianism “declining”? What developments are you referring to? What laws has Florida enacted to increase political participation in democratic processes?
Let’s put it this way, New College got worse as leftism took greater control. Ruffo and another are there to make sure the school teaches rather than indoctrinates. That alone reduces the authoritarian nature that leftists are obsessed with.
New College was not taken over by the FL govt. It is owned by the FL govt. Prior to that it was facing financial collapse in the 1990s until the State of FL acquired the private institution and paid off their debts in the millions of dollars. The FL Legislature in 2001 designated it as being part of the State University System of Florida. The SUSF is notorious for liberal administrations running education in FL into the ground, particularly its flagship university, Univ of Florida in Gainesville. I trained at UF Shands Hospital in the 1990s and it was a hotbed of leftist admins who were pro-aborts, pro-abortifacients, and pro-FemiNazis. None of the 11 SUSF universities in FL are noteworthy as institutions, mediocre through and through. University of Miami is the best medical school in FL and not surprisingly it is a private university aligned with the best hospital in the SE USA: Jackson Memorial Hospital, funded by Miami Dade County. New College is neither new or a reputable college
Estovir,
Thank you for bringing facts and real world experience to the table.
Facts are something like sunshine is to vampires to leftists.
I enjoy watching them burn under your comments.
John Lombardi was president of UF when I was at Shands. There was a homecoming parade one year while I was there, where I walked along his side in the parade car that carried him, announcing to onlookers that he was a Communist. I did for several blocks. Had a ball. He was supremely pissed at me and I didnt GAF. Around this time Fidel Castro shot down 4 planes flown by Cubans from Miami in international waters where John Lombardi defended Castro, hence my heckling him along the parade route. I was furious at him and decided to use my First Amendment rights. For good measure, Cuban friends of mine at UF and in Gainesville picketed the UF Administrative Building protesting John Lombardi’s sympathies for Castro. Yours truly appeared in the Gainesville Sun, a leftist rag, front page, above the fold, carrying my Cuban flag along with my friends. I was full center in the photo with the Cuban flag across my torso, while my Cuban law school friend was next to me with a megaphone. I won the applause of surgeons when I entered surgery the day it ran, because they thought my speaking with actions spoke loudly. No one defended Lombardi. I have a copy of that framed photo hanging in my hallway that a friend acquired from the Gainesville Sun staff. I was also present when President Jimmy Carter spoke at UF OConnell Center. It was open microphone for Q and A. I asked him a question that resulted in audible gasps across the audience. I was quoted in the Gainesville Sun, where I asked him how he, a Christian, could support abortion. He never answered my question, naturally. The black women at work gave me hugs for my support for the unborn, while the liberal white nurses did not like my approach. Like I even cared.
The recent addition of Senator Ben Sasse as President of UF shocked me. UF hired Ben Sasse to save UF from themselves. He has his work cut out for him, and not surprisingly, the local Commies protested his hiring. UF is flush with cash from the Florida legislature bc it is the flagship university. However, it has nothing to show for its largesse other than a large number of Marxist administrative / faculty university employees. Gainesville was supposed to be the epicenter of FL when it was founded. However, Henry Flagler pushed his railroad empire down to South Florida, where Miami and Fort Lauderdale became the stars of Florida, while Gainesville became a sheet hole. All it has are alligators in nearby swamps and poor communities surrounding it. My in-laws live in Dixie County, just 45 mins NW of Gainesville. It is Dixie through and through, with rampant poverty throughout N Florida.
UF at best had a well established agricultural extension program from decades ago, known as IFAS, University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. It has done nothing of significance since Florida’s citrus business has been running for decades. UF Medicine/ Shands is a leader of nothing in medical discoveries nor services, while UM Jackson Hospital is known nationally for its impressive trauma program due to complex patients from Miami and the Caribbean. UM Jackson serves a very diverse and challenging patient community coming from South Florida’s rich ethnic, poor and ultra rich population from Key West, the Everglades to Miami, and fielding rare tropical diseases and infections unique to Latin America. Its cancer center, UM Sylvester, is mediocre, while Tampa’s USF Moffit Cancer center is top notch. They recruit their oncologists from out of state. UF Shands is known for nothing, other than providing surgical services for all of N Florida, rural amd poor communities. The only medical school in N Florida, aside from UF, is Florida State University, in Tallahassee. They offer classes only for the preclinical years, first two years of medical school. Their medical students have to complete their last 2, clinical years, away from Tallahassee, throughout the State of Fl! Thats how bad the FSU medical school is. Florida public universities has nothing of note to say for itself, other than costing taxpayers lots of their money. I could go on but you get the picture.
Estovir,
Thank you for your very interesting and thought provoking history.
Thank you for some insight into the medical community of FL.
Interesting.
Thanks but, it is my way of venting about our health system Americans have no idea how broken our medical health system care is. Mea culpa
I tell Americans more and more to select physicians based via word of mouth AND on whether they are able to establish a physician-patient relationship with the prospective doctor. Otherwise they will suffer at the hands of those who run it on a strictly business model who bamboozle Americans with metrics like US News and World Reports rankings. To their credit, leading medical schools are rejecting these infamous rankings but for reasons different than my own
Harvard Medical School Withdraws From U.S. News’ Rankings
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/01/18/harvard-medical-school-withdraws-from-us-news-rankings/
Major medical schools join widening revolt against U.S. News rankings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/24/medical-schools-revolt-us-news-rankings/
The Anonymous commenter below me just outed herself.
A few years ago there was a very angry, fire breathing older conservative who went by multiple sock puppet accounts, starting with “Tabbarock” or “Tabby, followed by a roman number. He last used, before being banned, the sock puppet “This is Absurd #” or TIA #. The # started with I, then II, and with successive months, his online name morphed into TIA > XXIII. He waged a habitual war with a paid DNC troll who also used numerous sock puppet accounts like “Dianne”, “Late4Dinner”, “CommitToHonestDiscussion” and others. He would continually refer to the troll as being from Gainesville. Thus, the Anonymous troll below using US News and World Report rankings to counter my comment, while identifying herself as being from Gainesville, was the coup de grâce. Because trolls are gonna troll
Forward and onward!
And, who, exactly is UF’s president? Oh right, a former GOP Senator.
I grew up in Gainesville. I am sorry the prestigious UF education failed you. Used as a noun, “abort” refers only to the premature termination of a flight or space mission, so you likely used this incorrectly, unless you intended to make the surprising claim that UF Shands hospital was full of people supportive of terminating space missions. Perhaps, we should review nouns vs verbs?
Also, if you had chosen Levin School of Law rather than a medical degree, you would (hopefully) know your statement above regarding the “takeover’ of New College was legally incorrect for multiple reasons:
1) New College of Florida is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, so by definition, no one owns it.
2) A “takeover” of a nonprofit occurs when its board of directors (or trustees as applicable) is replaced individuals supportive of the person or entity directing the takeover. Again, a purchase of a nonprofit’s assets is not possible, so a takeover via board control is how this process is done.
Finally, for good measure, you are incorrect about UF vs UM Med Schools (currently, US News has UF ranked #37 and #UM ranked 43) AND you are incorrect that Jackson Memorial Hospital is the best hospital in the Southeast (Vandy Univ Medical Center is ranked #19).
Please stop spreading your word salad of falsehoods.
Anonymous – Apparently, the U S News rankings are not the final word on quality.
“According to Garber, a health policy and communications fellow at the Lown Institute, and Brownlee, SVP of the Lown Institute, U.S. News “places much more weight on hospitals’ performance in specialties or complex medical procedures than on care for chronically ill patients, the population that makes up the bulk of hospitalizations.” In fact, of the 448 possible points a hospital can receive for its “Honor Roll” score, 340 come from specialty scores, which only rank outcomes for “challenging or critical” procedures, Garber and Brownlee write.
“Garber and Brownlee argue that while this approach makes the list useful for the “few patients who can actually shop around for a hospital for a complex procedure or problem, the overall rankings could be misleading for the majority [of] consumers, most of whom will be hospitalized not for specialty procedures but rather for exacerbations of such chronic illnesses as heart failure and diabetes.”
“Further, Garber and Brownlee point out that ‘more than 25 percent of each specialty score comes from expert opinion, measured by a survey of physicians,’ a process that some stakeholders say ‘turns the ranking into a popularity contest.’ For instance, according to Garber and Brownlee, research in 2010 found that the U.S. News rankings were nearly identical to rankings based solely on reputation, while a 2017 study found that ‘reputation had a larger impact on hospitals’ scores than more objective measures.’
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/10/03/best-hospitals-critique
So, Estovir’s personal opinion based on actual experience may be correct after all.
“New College was not taken over by the FL govt. It is owned by the FL govt.”
I didn’t say it was. Today it is one of the Florida schools where Florida residents can prepay for their education. Prepaid tuition turned out to be a good buy especially with the improvement of the Florida University system.
” it was a hotbed of leftist admins “
I think we will see a trend toward the center under present Florida leadership and likely into the near future. The medical school is excellent. I think we will see New College gain a much better reputation quickly.
:When this controversy arose, Bradbury simply offered a mild “my bad” and pulled the quiz. It was not because she issued an insulting and unsupported racial attack. She simply told students that “given the current rate of sociocultural and scientific change,” the quiz had “grown too stale to use.” No real apology and no action from the university. Just a shrug”
One real issue–let’s say a white male taking the test stands up and calls the professor a vile name. He should be able to without any discipline from the university. Teachers don’t get to do this stuff and expect civility in return.
SPO,
Of course she would not issue a actual apology.
She feels no remorse for her actions or will she really take responsibility.
“Hint: They also happen to hold the most social power and because of that they can get away with the most wrongdoing.”
She has a point. New Orleans, Washington DC, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta, all run by blacks who can get away with the most wrongdoing.
More black on black crime. You know the perps are black when they fail to mention their race.
https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/dadeville-birthday-party-shooting-watch-live-press-conference-about-the-investigation.html
Dadeville birthday party shooting: 2 teen brothers arrested for reckless murder
Two teenage brothers have been charged with four counts of reckless murder in the Saturday night shooting at a Dadeville birthday party that killed four young people and injured 32 others. Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, both of Tuskegee, have each been charged as adults with four counts of reckless murder.
They call themselves progressives. What are they giving to the progression of civilization when they repeat the atrocities of the past? All that needs to be done to understand the true intent of the question is to replace the phrase rich White man with the phrase rich Jew to understand a proper parallel in history. Now progressive professors call for the murdering of White men just like Nazi professors called for the murdering of Jews. The correct definition of these professors should be regressive rather than progressive. Yet somehow they can tell you that they’re trying to build a better world with a straight face while at the same time they are calling for a resurrection of the German gallows. Progressive is a candy word that they created to to hid their true intent. How are they any different from the Ku Klux Klan when they are more than happy to call for murder of white men to further their progressive cause. One coin with the same face on both sides.
Since when does the US enter Chinese-style “Cultural Revolution” ? This is the typical Marxist indoctrination that UT professor teaches. (I immigrated to the US in 1980’s as VNese refugee. I had seen this Marxist indoctrination when I started my primary school before I left VN).
Neyugn Retep,
More than a few of us have noted the similarities or parallels of woke leftists and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Thank you for adding your voice and experience to the conversation.
Hey Lady Professor, read Heather MacDonald and the FBI’s own statistics to see where the crime is coming from and you can be sure that the people committing the crimes almost by definition have no remorse.
I would like to see the phony professor decide to walk alone down the street in the part of town where she claims she would be less likely to be harmed. Come on professor, go downtown after 11:00 PM, have a late bite to eat and then walk slowly back to your car.
I am guessing that this professor never actually lived where her favored people are the majority and in fact she most likely lives among the evil white people.
HullBobby,
Think she might reconsider if she was in the middle of the recent Chicago riots?
@hullbobby
Being a good s@@tlib doesn’t require getting one’s hands dirty, it only requires having the right signs in one’s yard and virtue signaling.
S@@tlibs are phony hypocrites and I truly and fully despise them. Feel no empathy when their precious pets maul them.
https://vdare.com/articles/it-s-official-leftists-are-hypocrites-who-prefer-living-in-whiter-areas
antonio
“What Racial Group is Known for Violence, Deceit, Irresponsibility and a Lack of Remorse”
That’s an easy one. Have a look at government crime statistics compiled by the New Century Foundation.
https://www.amren.com/the-color-of-crime/
And a warnings to s@@tlibs, calling me a slur is not a reply.
antonio
… “However, if we must go there, which sociodemographic group is most likely to …”
The Correct answer is:
White Euro Anglo Hispanic African Asian Latino Judaeo Christian Zionist Buddhist Hindu Muslims, All Satan Worshipers and Others .
Since when has the left Not behaved just this way?
Bias, surveillance, oppression, violence, enslavement, have Always been the mandates of all of the many iterations of the collective.
An Update on America’s Homicide Surge
“Another aspect of our brief that gained attention involved politics: Are homicide rates, as well as the recent increase in them, primarily a Republican or a Democratic problem? Some have tried to push the narrative of a “red-state” murder wave, noting that many of the highest state-level murder rates are found in the GOP South. But as my colleague Rafael Mangual recently explained, states are a poor focus for this kind of analysis. Policing and prosecution mostly occur at the local level, and crime problems in red states are often concentrated in their blue cities.”
https://www.city-journal.org/article/an-update-on-americas-homicide-surge
“…which sociodemographic group is most likely to repeatedly violate the rights of others in a pattern of behavior that includes violence, deceit, irresponsibility, and a lack of remorse?”
Everyone here over the age of about 16 knows what group that best describes, but we can’t say it.
“the incident reflects both the orthodoxy and hostility that now characterizes higher education.” Seems as though we need a Martin Luther moment here where the complete corruption of the orthodoxy must be exposed and expunged. The world of academia is beginning to resemble the Vatican of the 16th century and its corrupt and ensconced legions of priests who would rather burn anyone at the stake rather than have their little empire destroyed. They teach poisonous rhetoric and live off of the backs of the taxpayer for whom they have no respect.
Did she crib that question from a school textbook written in late 1930’s Germany?
White people. Why? Because they’re the smartest and built the society that we live in and everyone wants to move to. Look at the borders of Western Civilization. Is there a flow of white people from USA/Europe to Africa nd Asia? Other groups didn’t do it to white people because they lacked the intellectual the ability to do it (great criminals are smart), not the willingness to behave the same way because they do it to each other. After 4 degrees I maintain that most of academia is composed of imbecilic intellectuals. Cheers!
Why have so many people become unreasonable?
It’s like some kind of hysteria.
Prairie Rose,
Unreasonable and hysteria.
Those are two perfect words to describe leftists.
Thank you.
But why?
Is it really just induced? A propensity towards openness hijacked? It isn’t just that. Are people somehow being tuned to a discordant frequency? Is it a loss of perspective because even “educated” people don’t really know history? Is it a loss of a visceral connection to the hard reality of the world–life, death, pain, hunger, tangibly disgusting things (e.g., real manure)? Is it unseriousness towards faith? Why does it seem like power plays are ramping up (not just a leftist game)? I see conservatives acting unreasonably in other ways.
Prairie Rose,
That is a interesting question.
I recently read an article where the author used various search methods to determine when wokeism actually became a real thing. According to his research, 2012. While it may have started in the US, with social media it spread to the rest of the world. Some countries rejected it, as they should have.
I would argue that we, the US, have reached a point where we are so spoiled, entitled, that as a society we can entertain or even embrace the absurd with no real consequence.
Take Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. When the base levels have been met, a society can comfortably indulge in the absurd as we are seeing with the leftists embrace of the ID while abandoning the Ego and Super Ego.
Do anyone really think of pronouns, trans men competing with biological women, de-fund the police etc are all that important if you cannot meet Maslow’s physiological needs, or security and safety needs?
I have been poor once. Many 1st world issues fall by the way side when you have to worry about when and where your next meal comes from.
And that is why wokeism will fail.
By its own weight or by violence only time will tell.
I like to think the former, but I am at the ready for the latter.
UpstateFarmer,
“Many 1st world issues fall by the way side when you have to worry about when and where your next meal comes from.
And that is why wokeism will fail.
By its own weight or by violence only time will tell.
I like to think the former, but I am at the ready for the latter.”
Does it have to fail or can it be tempered and brought into balance?
To a degree some of this nonsense seems to be induced by the media (etc)–though, as you observed, the entitlement and lack of experience with “the essential facts of life” seems to also play a role.
If mass hysteria/madness of crowds can be induced, can it be unwound?
Prairie Rose,
Another interesting question.
One would like to think there could be some kind of balance.
But then take this article. A professor actually held a quiz with three absolutely absurd possible answers, to a question and even offered a over the top “hint.”
Looking at the videos of students shouting down a speaker, declaring their words are “violence.”
The editorial in Yale Daily News, by Hyerim Bianca Nam,
“Their smug civility was infuriating; their invitations for debate, inflammatory. I could barely seethe out my opinion about the misogyny of holding such a debate at all…
The discussion never should have been entertained, because simply opening space for this ‘logical, respectful’ debate itself is a threat to human rights that should never be up for debate…
Some arguments aren’t worth engaging with, and quite frankly are dangerous for even existing.”
Can there be balance when you are dealing with people who are all ID?
Reading through some of the comments here on the good professor’s blog. The constant attacks on the good professor. The demands that he discusses what they want him to discuss.
Again, can there be balance with people like this?
I see the good professor just posted a article about Kent State and the Free Speech rock and a petition to punish students who writes, “What is a woman?”
Can there be balance with people like this?
UpstateFarmer,
” dealing with people who are all ID”
I think they would argue their arguments are coming from the superego.
Can the superego be untempered?
If so, is the “cure” a hard dose of reality to strengthen the ego?
How would a prudent therapist address an out of kilter Id, ego, and superego? Surely not an enema as The Joker would recommend!
Prairie Rose,
I love the way your mind works. You have a unique perspective and ask great questions!
I would argue that they may claim their arguments are coming from the Super Ego, I think their behavior is a direct representative of the ID. Their behavior looks a lot more like a six year old throwing a tantrum then someone of the Super Ego trying to justify their POV. Someone coming from the Super Ego POV would be willing to engage in debate. Not so with the ID.
As for a “cure” what I can tell you is that when people experience hardship (i.e. being poor and concerned where you next meal is coming from), Maslow’s lower echelons of needs come to the forefront and relevance leaves a mark as to what is truly important.
When you go to bed on an empty stomach, does pronouns really matter?
There are children here in the US who are experiencing that every day. You do not see it in MSM, but food banks are seeing record usage of their services surpassing COVID levels. A recent CNBC survey found 70% of Americans are feeling the effects of inflation. 58% are living paycheck to paycheck. A record 44% have to take a second job to make ends meet.
To these people, a lot of these first world problems are just that. First world.
Upstate Farmer,
You are very kind. I enjoy good conversations.
“As for a “cure” what I can tell you is that when people experience hardship (i.e. being poor and concerned where you next meal is coming from), Maslow’s lower echelons of needs come to the forefront and relevance leaves a mark as to what is truly important.”
Hmm. Not good. Those bantering about “first world problems” are those most insulated and least likely to ever confront Maslow’s lower echelons of needs. They are, generally, people who are well-heeled, well-fed, and comfortably employed or otherwise supported.
The great stories always seem to end in tragedy when reality and reason are disregarded for too long. I hope we learn from their warning cries!
Perhaps I am in a dark mood and consequently cannot recall more hopeful stories. What is a great story about tragedy averted so we can learn from it instead of, yet again, the hard way?
My last question has been weighing heavily on my heart. But, I think I might have thought of some great stories that did not end in tragedy the way Antigone or Hamlet did.
https://youtu.be/A_u9Hc0Yg1o
The Lord of the Rings is perhaps too contemporary, too Hollywoodish with its happy ending.
But, then, there is Beowulf–an ancient and more hopeful story of tragedy averted and tyranny stopped.
Or the Greeks at Marathon or Thermopylae?