They live in fear of it??? It seems more likely that the huge majority of them enthusiastically *support* it!
We have become a nation of wimps. The bill of rights means nothing, all that matters is compliance with the prevailing zeitgeist. NONSENSE!!!!
You academics bred this disease in your universities and ignored the warnings from conservatives.
They need to live in fear of patriot firing squads.
How is this different from the Old Campus Maoism?
Bfl
Academics are the ones that *started* cancel culture.
It got so bad as Mao lost control of the Red Guard student monsters that he had to call on the Peoples Liberation Army to put down their “peaceful protesting” and terror. Have to be pretty horrific if Mao got creeped out by them.
Same as Robespierre’s mobs, Brown Shirts, Black Shirts, Bolsheviks, Khmer Rouge, Viet Cong, ANC, Shining Path, Isis, et al. More the norm than the rule in modern history.
Bring out the dunce caps
Marxists, Maoists, et al forming the Vanguard Party.
Bookmark.
I like John McWhorter. Anyone who subscribes to The Great Courses Plus needs to watch his course on Language Families of the World. He is very funny and informative. He is also not very PC, so I was disappointed to read a recent column by him where he gave a lukewarm condemnation of the speech police and even endorsed capitalizing Black but not White and banning the word “niggardly”. Academics are going to have to accept that academics have wrought this mess and if they want to save their profession they are going to have to fix it. It is apparent to me that a small number of them are actively involved in this subversion, but the rest of are complicit through their inaction. For a long time, people in hard sciences and math have gone along with this crap on the theory that if they humor the mob, they will be left alone to do their work. But now, we have 2+2=5 and physics is racist. They have a choice to make. Fight it and maintain the integrity of their disciplines, or cave and watch their institutions collapse. Most universities live on the full tuition paid by foreign students. How long are parents going to send their kids far away and pay that kind of money to have them only learn how to be pissed off? How long will they remain world class when the discourse centers around who uses what pronouns? They need to think about this because the American people are not in the mood to pick up the slack. Rich Americans will send their kids elsewhere to be educated, and the rest will no longer have the resources to get a quality education. Harvard has been at the top of the heap for a very long time, and they will be astonished at how far and fast they can fall. And fall they will if they do not stop making up their truth and get back to and searching for it.
I just read this and searched to see if it was posted, so thank you for doing that.
Here is a link to the full piece, it’s really not long at all. I like McWhorter as a writer and this is a good piece.
The Atlantic has actually been running a few good pieces that go against the MSM Narrative. They ran an excellent one about the Covington students media debacle by a woman whose name I am not 100% sure of. Very Irish name, maybe Caitlyn Flannagan, something like that. It was an EXCELLENT piece, couldn’t believe they ran it.