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Higher Ed Bottoms Out
Kunstler.com ^ | 3 Oct, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 10/04/2025 6:08:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

"There are so many disgusting animals in public life that we have allowed to fraternize with the rest of society to our absolute peril." Aimee Terese on "X".

Drag Queen LaWhore Vagistan a.k.a. Kareem Khubchandani.

Harvard, apparently, can never learn. It has made itself the poster-child for all the failures of contemporary education, including the racketeering around endowments, government grant grifts, race and gender hustles, and intellectual surrender to ideas that would make medieval astrologasters burst out laughing.

Case in point: the university lately announced the hiring of a Boston-area drag-queen to teach a course in the spring semester of 2026 about the TV show known as Ru Paul’s Drag Race. The show features contestants vying for prizes and crowns based on “Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent” (C.U.N.T.). Get the picture? Reach into your Jungian psychology tool-bag.

This backwater of the arts was identified some years ago by the literary pop-star Susan Sontag as “camp” derived from the French se camper “to pose in an exaggerated fashion” depicting “unnatural artifice.” Camp is the theatrical cousin of kitsch, which is the celebration of bad taste, with histrionic overtones of exaggerated sentimentality.

Please understand: when you are watching drag-queens, you are not really seeing men posing as women. You are seeing men portraying women as monsters. You might surmise that these are men who labor under “mommy issues.” The giveaway is that they often banter onstage humorously about their male genitalia, and sometimes even attempt sneaky displays of such, which opens that behavior to interesting interpretations.

Harvard’s drag-queen du jour demonstrates all that nicely. Kareem Khubchandani, his legal name, is a professor of theater, dance, and performance studies at Tufts University. He also teaches “Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.” As a drag star, he goes by the stage-name LaWhore Vagistan. This is how he describes himself to the news media: “[M]y preferred pronouns are ‘she’ or ‘aunty.’ I chose ‘LaWhore’ because my family traces its origins to Pakistan: Lahore is an important city in Pakistan, and well, I’m a bit of a whore. And Vagistan because I see the subcontinent as one, big, beautiful Vag … istan.”

Of course, his fascination with female genitalia, of seeing a whole nation in that guise, is a bit odd considering that A) he is a homosexual performer who is ostensibly not attracted to female sexual characteristics and lacks experience with them, and B) he is a male of the species who does not possess such organs himself. Therefore, on what basis would he have gained so much knowledge of female genitalia and developed such a powerful obsession around them as to imagine the whole country of his ancestors that way? Possibly, it has something to do with mommy. . . something that made her appear. . . unforgettably monstrous.

We will probably never know the answer to these quandaries, and they are somewhat secondary to the main question of Mr. Khubchandani’s employment in this connection at Harvard where young minds get molded to become the future managerial class of our nation. Other questions do present, though. For instance, did Harvard’s President Alan Garber know about this hire and sign off on it, and how would he say it fits Harvard’s mission? Or Provost John Manning? Or Hopi E. Hoekstra, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences? Or Harvard’s Board of Governors?

All this underscores an important lesson that America has apparently managed to unlearn, something that we once knew quite well: that marginal behavior belongs on the margins, not in the center of our national life. The celebration of vulgarity for its own sake is arguably not the highest aspirational ideal for the best-and-the-brightest of our society, however amusing it might be in their hours of leisure, when people are free to pursue whatever lights their imaginations.

It also raises the question as to why would highly-educated women, say, the female faculty and admins at Harvard, virtually all PhDs, certified geniuses in their fields, go along with such a garish display of farcical disrespect for the female of the species, being officially showcased as part of Harvard’s curriculum? Do they see themselves as monsters who deserve mockery and objurgation? Do they enjoy watching a man enact such degrading psychodrama so as to diminish his manhood altogether? Does it signify some sort of conclusive triumph over “the Patriarchy?” (And how much of a good thing is that?)

Harvard happens to have a Psychology Department, including a PhD program in Clinical Science, Social Psychology, and Cognition, Brain, and Behavior, under chairman Matthew K. Nock, PhD. His official Harvard bio states: “Nock’s research is aimed at advancing the understanding of why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves, with an emphasis on suicide and other forms of self-harm. . . to better understand how these behaviors develop, how to predict them, and how to prevent their occurrence.” Perhaps President Garber should ask Dr. Nock to audit LaWhore Vagistan’s upcoming course to see, for instance, how it speaks to the epidemic of transgender violence currently plaguing the USA. We need all the insight we can get.


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: academia; college; education; genderdysphoria; grooming; harvard; homosexualagenda; jhk; kareemkhubchandani; lawhorevagistan; massachusetts; objurgation; oped

1 posted on 10/04/2025 6:08:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: little jeremiah; Carriage Hill; GOPJ; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini; JZelle; ...

James Howard Kunstler ping


2 posted on 10/04/2025 6:09:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Higher education has followed the predicted trajectory of when you reject the beliefs which built the country, you are willing to fall for anything.

Nihilism in action becomes worship of evil.


3 posted on 10/04/2025 6:16:18 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber

Why a K-12, college or university education means nothing anymore.

You can graduate and be functionally illiterate, have barely any skills in what your degree supposedly is in, not know how to think, and be an uncultured savage. But you’ll know what every letter in LGBTQIA stands for and can lecture people about the different types of brown people.


4 posted on 10/04/2025 6:17:41 AM PDT by Red6
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To: Red6
Harvard happens to have a Psychology Department, including a PhD program in Clinical Science, Social Psychology, and Cognition, Brain, and Behavior, under chairman Matthew K. Nock, PhD. His official Harvard bio states: “Nock’s research is aimed at advancing the understanding of why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves, with an emphasis on suicide and other forms of self-harm. . . to better understand how these behaviors develop, how to predict them, and how to prevent their occurrence.” Perhaps President Garber should ask Dr. Nock to audit LaWhore Vagistan’s upcoming course to see, for instance, how it speaks to the epidemic of transgender violence currently plaguing the USA.

Perhaps Dr. Nock could advance the understanding of why universities behave in ways that are harmful to society, with an emphasis on sexual deviancy and other forms of civilizational rot...

5 posted on 10/04/2025 6:31:44 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: MtnClimber

Bottoms Out? No thanks - I’m out.


6 posted on 10/04/2025 6:33:52 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Red6

BUMP


7 posted on 10/04/2025 6:36:57 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

This is how the government wants to spend 100,000 dollars (most of Harvard students don’t pay for their own education.)


8 posted on 10/04/2025 7:00:55 AM PDT by silent majority rising ( United Israel - Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - US get out of the UN-we are not United with them.)
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To: MtnClimber

So that’s not Bad Bunny; this is a different guy. Superbowl half-time or Harvard; what’s the difference?


9 posted on 10/04/2025 7:28:26 AM PDT by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: MtnClimber
Kareem Khubchandani

And that sounds like a character name for Groucho Marx or WC Fields.

10 posted on 10/04/2025 7:30:08 AM PDT by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: MtnClimber

Were I a business owner that needed educated employees, I think I’d have to give them a SAT test before hiring.


11 posted on 10/04/2025 8:01:20 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist.)
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To: MtnClimber

AI ping?


12 posted on 10/04/2025 8:10:42 AM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: silent majority rising
Antonin Scalia wrote in Obergefell that the decision was made by those who attend such colleges from urban areas.

Unfortunately, our county is the home of a famous drag star, J. R. Gray (Holly Hill, SC).



And this guy claims to be a drag star. MAGA types love to watch these drag shows. Pro Modified.
13 posted on 10/04/2025 8:13:12 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: MtnClimber

A very good illustration of why parents should not pay a thin dime to send their offspring to any Ivy League or even minor league “Institution of higher learning”.

Community college can teach real things that are useful at a fraction of the cost.

Pompeii was a serious kinktown before it got covered with lava. Be nice if a volcano could surface right next to Harvard.


14 posted on 10/04/2025 10:21:42 AM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: little jeremiah

What company would hire a Harvard grad?


15 posted on 10/04/2025 10:26:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber; Liz
hiring of a Boston-area drag-queen to teach a course in the spring semester of 2026 about the TV show known as Ru Paul’s Drag Race. The show features contestants vying for prizes and crowns based on “Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent” (C.U.N.T.). Get the picture?

Newest glam "professor"...

16 posted on 10/04/2025 11:21:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (Criminals are an important part of democrat strategy. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: GOPJ

That’s MTV Values. A channel I have never watched as an adult. David Ellison should sell MTV and shut it down.


17 posted on 10/04/2025 12:11:11 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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