Posted on 06/16/2015 11:38:00 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Barack Obama owes his position to his membership in a class that is destroying America: the intellectualoids--shallow people able to fool others into believing they possess superior intellects.
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Intellectualoids are fairly easy to recognize. They are the “best and the brightest” in our society,people with top degrees and social connections who have positioned themselves(or been positioned)to have a great impact on our culture of politics,race,education,and economics. But at the same time, intellectualoids have severe knowledge deficits when it comes to understanding the great religious and intellectual traditions(Judeo-Christianity and the seven traditional liberal arts)that have built their civilization. They have a knack for coming up with catchy turns of phrase and sounding articulate about what they believe are their own original concepts. Minimal investigation usually reveals that they are only one or two steps ahead of the general public regarding their depth of knowledge.Ultimately,their exclusively secular knowledge is just that--temporal, belonging only to the present world. These are people who would never be able use extended reasoning to make cogent arguments for the progress of Western Civilization based on an inter-disciplinary understanding of its history.
Higher education has been producing intellectualoids who have been raiding the riches of our civic square for decades.But it may be the rabid race-obsessed blacks among them that have made the most gains from the fall of American intellectual culture. Black intellectualoids have been allowed to profit from their race-obsessions because of a complicit white progressive establishment that views their university-certified intellectual status as uniquely profound. Their intellectual inferiority tends to be more pronounced than that of their white counterparts because of racial policies that enforce lower entry standards for blacks into various public and private institutions,especially higher education. The black intellectualoid, especially in this age of Obama, is now an unfortunate cliché of American mainstream society....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Worth a full read.
I like it already, after only 2 sentences
Some of what they seem to believe, they want to be true in literally the worst way.
I would hesitate to even call that a song. It’s something else...something sinister. A song is supposed to be something that puts a spring in your step but that little ditty was composed to put a spring in their march towards the edge of a cliff.
"A veteran teacher at Luther Burbank High School, the biggest high school in Sacramento, Calif., is proposing that high-school teachers stop teaching Shakespeare because he’s just some old white guy who died a long time ago so what could he know about anything.
In a piece published in the Washington Post, Dana Dusbiber explains that we should “leave Shakespeare out of the English curriculum entirely” because she “[does] not believe that a long-dead, British guy is the only writer who can teach [her] students about the human condition.”
“What I worry about is that as long as we continue to cling to ONE (white) MAN’S view of life as he lived it so long ago, we (perhaps unwittingly) promote the notion that other cultural perspectives are less important,” she writes.
Why she seems to consider not teaching Shakespeare at all and teaching only Shakespeare to be the only two options here is unclear. After all, it seems to me like you could assign Shakespeare and works from “other cultural perspectives” — but hey, what do I know.
And although Shakespeare is indeed a “(white) MAN,” (boo! hiss!) one might argue that some of his other credentials — such as being one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language – might make his work an important thing to keep teaching.
But Dusbiber just doesn’t see it that way:
“Shakespeare lived in a pretty small world,” she writes. “It might now be appropriate for us to acknowledge him as chronicler of life as he saw it 450 years ago and leave it at that.”
But don’t worry. She doesn’t think Shakespeare’s whiteness is the only reason he shouldn’t be taught — she also explains that it’s just too hard.
She writes: “I dislike Shakespeare because of my own personal disinterest in reading stories written in an early form of the English language that I cannot always easily navigate.”
Case in point, from Dolazel’s resignation statement:
“It’s about moving the cause of human rights and the Black Liberation Movement along the continuum from Resistance to Chattel Slavery to Abolition to Defiance of Jim Crow to the building of Black Wall Street to the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement to the Black Lives Matter movement and into a future of self-determination and empowerment.”
If that ain’t a bunch of gobbledegook, I don’t know what is.
This “intellect” is abundant at Salon.
Decades of ‘anti intellectualism’ in the US had done its worst. NOW we have the result.
Leaders, officials, spokesmen, etc. who know NOTHING and are accepted without question, as experts.
Indeed, the Clinton-Lewinsky defense—accord which the feminists signed onto, can be regarded as feminism's Nazi-Soviet Pact. Their calculation was both simple and crude: If Clinton was removed, Hillary would go too. But she was their link to patronage and power, and they couldn't imagine losing that. Their kind was finally in control of the White House, and the conservative enemies of their beautiful future were not.
Almost a decade earlier—in the name of the very principles they so casually betrayed for Clinton—the same feminists had organized the most disgraceful lynching of a public figure in America's history. Despite fiercely proclaimed commitments to the racial victims of American persecution, they launched a vicious campaign to destroy the reputation of an African American jurist who had risen, unblemished, from dirt-shack poverty in the segregated south to the nation's highest courts. They did it knowingly, cynically, with the intent to destroy him in his person, and to ruin his public career.
Has there ever been a more reprehensible witch-hunt in American public life than the one organized by feminist leaders who then emerged as vocal defenders of the White House lecher? Was there ever a more sordid betrayal of common decency than this collective defamation—for which no apology has or ever will be given?
What was the sin Clarence Thomas committed to earn such punishment? The allegation—that he had talked inappropriately ten years before to a female lawyer and made her uncomfortable—appears laughable in the post-Lewinsky climate of presidential gropings and borderline rapes that the same feminists have sanctioned for their political accomplice. Thomas' real crime, as everybody knew but was too intimidated by the hysteria to confirm at the time, was his commitment to constitutional principles they hated. They hated these principles because the Constitution was written for the explicit purpose of preventing the realization of their socialist and egalitarian dreams....." Source
They're both lying crud.
HER stupid tricks to remain in the public eye and to continue as a valid contender are getting more laughable, more patently delusional and preposterous ALL THE TIME.
““It’s about moving the cause of human rights and the Black Liberation Movement along the continuum from Resistance to Chattel Slavery to Abolition to Defiance of Jim Crow to the building of Black Wall Street to the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement to the Black Lives Matter movement and into a future of self-determination and empowerment.””
No, it’s about her parroting the narrative and promoting the ideology of Black Supremacy.
“Leaders, officials, spokesmen, etc. who know NOTHING and are accepted without question, as experts.”
The Obama administration appoints them to be his “czars”.
YUM! That was quite satisfying.
If you were a felon, a tax-cheat, a loudmouth anti-American creep, an academic failure... VOILA! You win the President Dufus cushy, government appointment jackpot!!
She teaches English and I would wager that her chance of passing my public high school final in the subject of English or Literature circa 1962 would be zero.
“Leaders, officials, spokesmen, etc. who know NOTHING and are accepted without question, as experts.”
They actually ARE experts, experts at knowing nothing. Reminds me of one young faker who claimed to have been a “Green Beret” and have a BS degree. I told my wife I was 99 percent certain he had never served a day in any branch and probably had, at best, a high school diploma. He finally was forced to admit he had never entered the military and said that he actually had, “A BS in BS.”
Pretty much destroyed them, and that was back in, oh, about 1989. Back then, the credential-wavers worked for the Bush Administration (41) and the Left NGO's and MSM.
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