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hello everyone i wrote this article

recently for one of canada's major

newspapers the national post i'm reading

it for those of you who would rather

watch and listen

it's entitled

d-i-e

must die

this is why

i recently resigned from my position as

full tenured professor at the university

of toronto

i am now professor emeritus and before i

turn 60

emeritus is generally a designation

reserved for superannuated faculty

albeit those who had served their term

with some distinction

i had envisioned teaching and

researching at the u of t full time

until they had to haul my skeleton out

of my office

i loved my job

and my students undergraduates and

graduates alike were positively

predisposed toward me

but that career path was not meant to be

there are many reasons including the

fact that i can now teach many more

people and with less interference online

but here's a few more

first my qualified and supremely trained

heterosexual white male grad students

and i've had many others by the way are

no longer eligible upon graduation for

university research positions despite

stellar scientific dossiers

this is partly because of diversity

inclusivity and equity mandates

my preferred acronym

die

these have been imposed universally in

academia

despite the fact that university hiring

committees had already done everything

reasonable for all the years of my

career and then some to ensure that no

qualified minority candidates

were ever overlooked

my students are also partly unacceptable

precisely because they are my students

i am academic persona non-grata because

of my unacceptable philosophical

positions

and this isn't just some inconvenience

these facts rendered my job morally

untenable

how can i

prospective researchers and train them

in good conscience knowing their

employment prospects to be minimal

second reason

this is one of many idiot issues of

appalling ideology currently demolishing

the universities and downstream the

general culture

not least because there are simply not

enough qualified bipark people in the

pipeline

by park black indigenous and people of

color for those of you not in the

knowing woke

this has been common knowledge among any

remotely truthful academic who has

served on a hiring committee for the

last three decades

this means we're out to produce a

generation of researchers utterly

unqualified

for the job

and we've seen what that means already

in the horrible grievance studies

disciplines

that combined with the death of

objective testing

has compromised the university so badly

that it can hardly be overstated

and what happens in the universities

eventually colors everything

as we have discovered

all my craven colleagues

must craft die statements

to obtain a research grant

they all

lie

accepting the minority of true believers

and they teach their students to do the

same

and they do it constantly with various

rationalizations and justifications

further corrupting what is already a

stunningly corrupt enterprise

some of my colleagues even allow

themselves to undergo so-called

anti-bias training conducted by

supremely unqualified human resources

personnel

lecturing inanely and blithely and in an

accusatory manner about theoretically

all pervasive racist sexist heterosexist

attitudes

such training is now often a

precondition to occupy a faculty

position on a hiring committee

need i point out

that implicit attitudes cannot by the

definitions generated by those who have

made them a central point of our culture

be transformed by short-term explicit

training

assuming that those biases exist in the

manner claimed and that is a very weak

claim and i'm speaking scientifically

here the implicit association test the

much vaunted iat which purports to

objectively diagnose implicit bias

that's automatic racism and the like is

by no means powerful enough valid and

reliable enough to do

what it purports to do

two of the original designers of that

test anthony greenwald and brian nozick

have said as much

publicly the third

professor mazarine banerjee of harvard

remains recalcitrant much of this can be

attributed to her overtly leftist

political agenda as well as to her

embeddedness within a subdiscipline of

psychology social psychology

so corrupt that it denied the existence

of left-wing authoritarianism for six

decades after world war ii

the same social psychologists broadly

speaking also casually regard

conservatism in the guise of system

justification

as a form of psychopathology

banaji's continued countenancing of the

misuse of her research instrument

combined with the status of her position

at harvard is a prime reason we all

still suffer under the dye yoke with its

baleful effect on what was once the

closest we had ever come to truly

meritorious selection

furthermore the accrediting board for

grad clinical psych training programs in

canada are now planning to refuse to

accredit university clinical programs

unless they have a social justice

orientation

that combined with some recent

legislative changes in canada claiming

to outlaw so-called conversion therapy

but really making it exceedingly risky

for clinicians to do anything ever but

agree always and about everything with

their clients have likely doomed the

practice of clinical psychology which

always depended entirely on trust and

privacy

similar moves are afoot in other

professional disciplines

such as medicine and law

and if you don't think that

psychologists lawyers and other

professionals are anything but terrified

of their now woke governing professional

colleges much to everyone's extreme

detriment you simply don't understand

how far all of this has gone

just exactly what am i supposed to do

when i meet a grad student or young

professor hired on die grounds manifest

instant skepticism regarding their

professional ability

what a slap in the face to a truly

meritorious outsider

and perhaps that's the point

the die ideology is not friend to peace

and tolerance

it is absolutely and completely the

enemy of competence

and justice

and for those of you who think that i am

overstating the case or that this is

something limited in some trivial sense

to the university consider some other

examples

this report from hollywood cliched

hotbed of liberal sentiment for example

indicates just how far this is gone

in 2020 the academy of motion picture

arts and sciences the oscar people

embarked on a five-year plan

does that ring any historical bells

to quote diversify our organization

and expand our definition of the best

they did so in an attempt which included

developing quote new representation and

inclusion standards for oscars

two hypothetically quote better reflect

the diversity of the movie-going

audience

what fruit has this initiative offspring

of the dye ideology born

according to a recent article penned by

peter kieffer and peter savadnik but

posted on former new york times

journalist barry weiss's common sense

website

and weiss left the times because of the

intrusion of radical left ideology into

that newspaper just as terra henley did

recently vis-a-vis the cbc

quote

we spoke to more than 25 writers

directors and producers all of whom

identify as liberal

and all of whom described a pervasive

fear of running a foul of the new dogma

how to survive the revolution

by becoming its most ardent supporter

suddenly every conversation with every

agent or head of content started with is

anyone bipark attached to

this and this is everywhere

and if you don't see it your head is

either in the sand or shoved somewhere

far more unmentionable

cbs for example has literally mandated

that every writer's room be at least 40

percent bypoc in 2021

in 2022.

we are now at the point where race

ethnicity gender or sexual preference is

first accepted as the fundamental

characteristic defining each person just

as the radical leftists were hoping and

second is now treated as the most

important qualification for study

research

and employment

need i point out that this is insane

even the benighted new york times has

its doubts

a headline from august 11 2021

are workplace diversity programs doing

more harm than good

in a word

yes

how can accusing your employees of

racism etc

sufficient to require retraining

particularly in relationship to those

who are working in good faith to

overcome whatever bias they might still

in these modern liberal times manifest

be anything other than insulting

annoying invasive high-handed moralizing

inappropriate ill-considered

counterproductive

and otherwise unjustifiable

and if you think die is bad

and it is

wait until you get a load of

environmental social and governance

esg scores

see the vanguard website for more

information

purporting to assess corporate moral

responsibility these scores which can

dramatically affect an enterprise's

financial viability

are nothing less than the equivalent of

china's damnable social credit system

applied to the entrepreneurial and

financial world

ceos

what in the world

is wrong with you

can't you see that the ideologues who

push such appalling nonsense are driven

by an agenda that is not only absolutely

antithetical to your free market

enterprise as such but precisely

targeted at the freedoms that made your

success possible

can't you see

that by going along sheep-like just as

the professors are doing just as the

artists and writers are doing that you

are generating a veritable fifth column

within your businesses

are you really so blind cowed and

cowardly with all your so-called

privilege

and it's not just the universities and

the professional colleges and hollywood

and the corporate world

diversity inclusivity and equity that

radical leftist trinity is destroying us

wondering about the divisiveness that is

currently besetting us look no farther

than die

wondering more specifically about the

attractiveness of trump

look no further than die

when does the left

go too far

when they worship at the altar of die

and insist that the rest of us who

mostly want to be left alone

do so as well

enough already enough enough

finally

do you know that vladimir putin himself

is capitalizing on this woke madness

anna majar barducci at memri.org

covered his recent speech

i quote from the article's translation

putin speaking the advocates of

so-called social progress believe they

are introducing humanity to some kind of

a new and better consciousness

godspeed hoist the flags as we say go

right ahead

the only thing that i want to say now is

that their prescriptions are not new at

all

it may come as a surprise to some people

but russia

has been there already

after the 1917 revolution the bolsheviks

relying on the dogmas of marx and

ingalls also said that they would change

existing ways and customs and not just

political and economic ones but the very

notion of human morality and the

foundations of a healthy society

the destruction of age-old values

religion and relations between people up

to and including the total rejection of

family we had that too

encouragement to inform on loved ones

all this was proclaimed progress and by

the way was widely supported around the

world back then and was quite

fashionable

same as today

by the way the bolsheviks were

absolutely intolerant of opinions other

than theirs

putin continues

this i believe should call to mind some

of what we are witnessing now

looking at what is happening in a number

of western countries we are amazed to

see domestic practices which we

fortunately have left i hope in the

distant past

the fight for equality and against

discrimination has turned into

aggressive dogmatism bordering on

absurdity when the works of the great

authors of the past such as shakespeare

are no longer taught at schools or

universities because their ideas are

believed to be backward

the classics are declared backward and

ignorant of the importance of gender and

race

in hollywood memos are distributed about

proper storytelling and how many

characters of what color or gender

should be in a movie

this

is even worse than the agit prop

department of the central committee of

the communist party of the soviet union

end of putin's comments

this from the head of the former

totalitarian enterprise against whom we

fought a five decades-long cold war

risking the entire planet in a very real

manner this from the head of a country

riven in a literally genocidal manner by

ideas that putin himself attributes to

the progressives in the west to the

generally accepting audience of his once

burned

once

twice shy listeners

and all of you going along with the die

activists whatever your reasons

this is on you

professors cowering cravenly in pretense

and silence teaching your students to

dissimulate and lie to get along as the

walls crumble

for shame

ceos signaling a virtue you don't

possess and shouldn't want to to please

a minority who literally live by

displeasure

your evil capitalists after all should

be proud of it

at the moment i can't tell if you're

more reprehensibly timid even than the

professors why the hell don't you banish

the human resource die upstarts back to

the more appropriately named personnel

departments stop them from interfering

with the psyches of you and your

employees and be done with it

musicians artists writers stop bending

your sacred and meritorious art to the

demands of the propagandists before you

fatally betray the spirit of your own

intuition

stop censoring your thought

stop saying you will hire for your

orchestral and theatrical productions

for any reason other than talent and

excellence

that's all you have

that's all any of us have

he who sows the wind will reap the

whirlwind

and the wind is rising

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