Posted on 01/18/2017 7:40:17 AM PST by Academiadotorg
One of the many ironies in academe is the degree to which academics invert reality. This tendency is usually on full display at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention at which thousands of English professors from around the world gather to see and hear previews of the latest courses and "studies" that proliferate in academe.
For example, at the latest gab fest in Philadelphia, GerShun Avilez of the Department of Sexual Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quoted at length from a poem nearly three decades old by a noted, at least at the MLA, lesbian poet named Pat Parker.
The poem is entitled "Where will you be?" and goes, in part, like this:
Boots are being polished
Trumperters clean their horns
Chains and locks forged
The crusade has begun.
Once again flags of Christ
are unfurled in the dawn
and cries of soul saviors
sing apocalyptic on air waves.
Citizens, good citizens all
parade into voting booths
and in self-righteous sanctity,
X away our right to life.
I do not believe as some
that the vote is an end,
I fear even more
It is just a beginning.
So I must make assessment
Look to you and ask:
Where will you be when they come?
Of course, at the MLA, this poem with no rhymes was treated like the Battle Hymn of the Republic. With all due respect to the late poetess and Mr. Avilez and his studies, Christians from what you call the "heteropatriarcy," are not coming for anybody.
Indeed, it is activists and lawyers who demand endorsement of a lifestyle many do not share who are suing, boycotting and attempting to put out of business Christian vendors willing to serve any customers, short of endorsing what they do not believe in.
Just ask Barronelle Stutzman..
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail mal.kline@academia.org.
“Are you a heteropatriarch?”
Sure as capitalism is only so much sociopathy. /s
It is now very easy for STEM types to look down upon the intellectually, morally, and functionally inferior lib arts types infecting the toy academic major sections of their universities.
However, sooner or later, they will have to get serious and eliminate these infections threatening to remove what little academic respect their schools have.
A system the rest of us refer to as “reality”. [eyeroll]
I self-identify as a black lesbian.
I’m deplorably heteropatriarchic.
Disabled obese black lesbians are the highest form of life known to academia, far above mere black lesbians. You should aspire to be more.
Freegards
It’s like a circus act. They want you to see how flexible their minds are in their ability to fabricate ‘alternate truths’ and deny reality.
I’d say it is more like a freak show of the mentally ill.
That sounds so stupid. They’re are trying to sound smart again and failing.
Isn’t “heteropatriarchy” redundant? If the patriarchs were homosexual, then they wouldn’t care about women. So why would women be affected? Do feminists have a problem with heteromatriarchy? If not, why not?
It’s obvious that these people have never engaged in study requiring logical reasoning.
It’s a stupid oxymoron. All patriarchs are lead by males, by definition. Hetero is another of a different kind. Male is confined to XY chromosome genetics. I do not care what is done to the outward, male is make and female is female, and heteropatriarch is a stupid oxymoron.
STEM is being invaded by the nonsense, too, starting with the demand for “diversity”!!!!
Read any recent issue of “Nature”. The “front section” (i.e., the section before the real research papers) is dominated by globalism, anti-Brexit, and anti-Trump memes, in accord with the ideology of the publisher. The journal “Science” is no better!!!!
Sad!!!!
They aren’t bright enough to claim that they reject the “fallacy of the excluded middle”. But this is precisely what most of these “cultural studies” attempt to do.
For what sort of gainful employment does the Department of Sexual Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill prepare its students?
High level hooking, maybe?
I want you as a mentor
As Wittgenstein understood, to control the words and language of the culture, you can control all the “desires” and “thinking’ of the masses—particularly the children. The universities were taken over by Marxists 100 years ago—to “Kill God” (Christian worldview).
The irrationality being forced into “language” is to flip 2000 years of ethics back to the paganism and satanism of the slave, tribal, “group” pre-Christian cultures of serfdom and slavery and sodomy. Divide and group people (constant dehumanization) and you can control them easily. Create the sexist Man/Boy “love” cultures and you destroy the possibility of freedom and true unity (Justice) and the Natural family (Common Sense in children).
Virtue has to be destroyed—and the most rational, perfect virtue system is only Christianity and that worldview has to be destroyed in children to create the NWO of total slavery-—control of every thought and desire from cradle to grave.
“Heteropatriarch” is an oxymoron—same as “homosexual marriage” and “gay pride’ and “Marxist pope”. To destroy Reason and Logic in language is the M.O. of Marxists to literally make the insane and irrational into Reality, so Slavery will be Freedom and Boys will be Girls, etc——for total dehumanization and irrationality.
Age of Reason is only possible with a Language which is based on Right Reason and Christian Ethics-—the most rational, just and equal in history and the only compatible “ethics” system to our Constitution based on Objective Truth and Natural Laws (Rule of Law (Higher Laws/God’s).
I self-identify as a dyslexic black lesbian trapped in a man’s body. With PTSD. I am entitled!
Now gimme mah obamaphone, home loan, EIC cash, and EBT card!
:-)
I sense the gender inclusivity is strong with you.
May the myriad micro-aggressions perpetrated by the heteropatriarchy never reach your safe spaces deep in the homomatriarchy.
Freegards, I can’t believe that spellcheck recognizes ‘heteropatriarchy’.
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