Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: You can’t say that!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Colleges now-a-days are not about developing the mind, but closing it off to incorrect thinking, and moreover, to any thinking that isn’t sufficiently doubleplusgood enough…
“Justine Schwarz, a residential adviser at the University of Minnesota, lost her job because program administrators thought she was insufficiently committed to promoting social justice.
“‘[She] has not demonstrated a commitment to social justice growth and promotion to residents,’ a director wrote in his review of Schwarz.
“Furthermore, Schwarz liked to ‘play devil’s advocate’ when talking with other people about ‘diversity and social justice.’ Schwarz’s zeal for wide-ranging debate on these subjects called into question whether she could be trusted to behave like a good social justice advocate, according to the review.”
Increasingly, suicide is being accepted as a legitimate medical treatment. Medicine—with the ostensible purpose of providing for the health and well-being of a patient—is now being mutated into a justification to kill financial burdens. A Nevada doctor recounts how cost-cutting has entered into the equation of “death with dignity”:
Of most concern is that what was being denied was not an extension for the life of someone with a terminal illness or a patient who wanted to die, but rejection of life-savingtreatments for patients who wanted to live. Nevada, also, weighed the possibility of legalizing the slaughter of innocents during this year’s legislative session.
Once you’ve legitimized and normalized homicide as an acceptable form of medical treatment, this became inevitable.
A baby, someone who is senile, or someone in a coma, can not consent to any treatment. What, then, stops a doctor from administrating the “medical treatment” of euthanasia without the patients consent, just as they would for any other “medical treatment”?
Europe, especially Belgium and the Netherlands, has given us fair warning of the consequences of this.
Despite having as a role model the nation of Botswana, a stable democracy that proved that is it possible to have a President with a Black African father and a White English-speaking mother who isn’t a schmuck, many in South Africa would rather attain more immediate abet disastrous course of not only bashing White people, but of blaming anything and everything considered “colonial” or “Western”.
“The group of 50 protesters — led by controversial pastor Xola Skosana who claims Jesus was HIV-positive — walked 11.5km from Gugulethu to Khayelitsha in Cape Town on Saturday to highlight townships’ existence as ‘breeding grounds for black pain’.
“Carrying an enormous wooden cross‚ the group has called for an end to “the colonial construct” that is South Africa.”
Despite having a Black majority democracy for decades now, the Kulaks Whites must be blamed for… colonizing people’sminds:
“One of the protesters‚ Andreas Banetsi Mphunga who works in the mental health sector in townships‚ said: ‘It is part of white psychology that says‚ “if we put people together in one place‚ all hell will break loose”. Even social housing is built in those same areas‚ far away from all resources.’
“He said that a Pan-Africanist psychology would have to prevail before Azania could be reached‚ and pointed out that Hendrik Verwoerd was a psychology professor who had used his expertise to suppress black South Africans.
“‘The answers might come from our own belief systems instead of white psychology‚’ he said.”
The ultimate irony is that these people who want to purge South Africa of “Whiteness” have based their ideology on… a 19th century dead White male…
” Another said that during apartheid‚ those in the liberation struggle knew who the enemy was. ‘But now‚ the enemy is assimilated and it is harder to know who is who when we are oppressed by the black bourgeoisie‚’ he said.”
The sheer and uttermadhouse that grievance studies dominated colleges and universities are decomposing themselves into continues to accelerate. Now, radical social justice warriors have gone full out and taken over Evergreen state college and even taken administrators hostage!
Like good little Leftists, they are demanding a Progressive professor be fired for not being sufficiently politically correct.
The most disturbing part is that the administration has gone full Stockholm and the campus police are letting these little monsters run free.
There was once a time when brave administrators would stand up against these thugs. Brave men like S. I. Hayakawa, who pulled the wires from the loud speakers of protesters at a rally.
Here, Professor, and later U.S. Senator, Hayakawa speaks about this:
The following message from the leader of the Galactic Confederacy and transmitted via a friendly Thetan…
Make Teegeeack Great Again!
It has come to my attention that some Teegeeackian scientists and philosophers have finally found it fit to correct their own oppressive message to more intelligent life.
“At a conference in Leeds this week, a group of British astronomers and philosophers who form the UK research network for SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – agreed to enter a competition organised by the Breakthrough Initiative to devise a message to send out to space on behalf of the world to whoever might be listening.
” However, discussing the likely content of the message at the British Science Festival in Bradford on Thursday, the need to revise our previous portrayals of life on Earth was raised.
“Jill Stuart, an expert in space policy at the London School of Economics, pointed to the plaque that was placed on the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched in 1972. Intended to convey the origin of the craft and to impart information about the inhabitants of Earth, Stuart observed that to modern eyes the pictorial message presents some issues. .
“‘The plaque shows a man raising his hand in a very manly fashion while a woman stands behind him, appearing all meek and submissive,’ she said. ‘We really need to rethink that with any messages we are sending out now. Attitudes have changed so much in just 40 years.’
“The plaque also clearly portrays the human figures as white, and Stuart added: ‘I would be uncomfortable with sending out any images or messages that include Western-dominated material.'”
Such enlightenment is worthy of a renewed… erm, “first” contact. I would like to invite these enlightened scientist and philosophers to board my space planes (the ones like look like DC-8s) for a friendly chat at a pleasant resort spot near a lovely volcano. It’ll be a blast!
Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Bash the Fash!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
In order to fight the “social injustice” of refusing to hire qualified people based on race, Barnard College is dedicating itself to refuse to hire qualified people based on race… for social justice… and workshops to spread the Progressive faith.
“A women’s college is planning to hire new professors based on the color of their skin because of the ‘demonstrated benefits’ of nonwhite faculty.
“Whether such faculty benefit the college enough to be paid for a full teaching load remains to be seen, however.
“After a year of deliberation, the Barnard College Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion released a set of draft recommendations last week with the aim of improving ‘representation, inclusion, and social justice’ in the classroom and on campus.
“Beyond hiring a new C-level official to oversee diversity efforts, the recommendations include mandatory social justice workshops for all community members and extra academic support specifically for racial minorities.”
“Ohio middle schooler Zachary Bowlin learned a valuable lesson about privacy last week after he “liked” a picture of an airsoft gun on Instagram.
“‘I didn’t think I did anything wrong,’ Bowlin told Fox 19.
“The seventh-grader ‘liked’ a picture of an airsoft gun on Instagram last Thursday that contained the caption ‘Ready.’ Bowlin said he plays with airsoft guns with his friends, and didn’t think much of clicking on the post.
“When he returned to Edgewood Middle School the next day, it was obvious officials had been tracking his online activities.
“‘I liked it, scrolling down Instagram at night about 7, 8 o’clock, I liked it,’ Bowlin said. ‘The next morning they called me down (to the office) patted me down and checked for weapons and told me I was getting expelled or suspended or whatever.’
“Bowlin was also served with a 10-day suspension for ‘liking a post on social media that indicated potential school violence.'”
But it turns out that the rabid Left are quite willing to forgive far, far worse:
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is lambasting Montgomery County after jailers knowingly released an 19-year-old undocumented immigrant accused of bringing an AR-15 assault-style rifle onto school property, despite an immigration detainer lodged against the teen.
“On Saturday, April 29, Mario Granados-Alvarado, 19, a citizen of El Salvador, allegedly broke into a Rockville police car, snagging a shotgun, AR-15 rifle and ammunition from the vehicle’s trunk. The unmarked Chevy Impala was parked outside of an off-duty officer’s house at the time of the overnight break-in.”
The difference? The evil perpetrator who must be punished was an American kid who liked what isn’t even a real gun; the innocent youth was an adult who brought a rifle to campus.
The Canadian Senate has outlawed doubleplusungood speech against anyone who refuses to accept the current “truth” of transgenderism.
Considering the anti-free speech effect of Canada’s other so-called human rights legislation, the scope and depth of this law is unhyperbolically evil:
“Canadians who disavow gender theory could be charged with hate crimes, fined, jailed, and compelled to undergo anti-bias training if the Trudeau Liberals’ Bill C-16 passes, critics told a Senate committee last week.
“…
“Dr. Jordan Peterson and lawyer D. Jared Brown were among those warned the committee the bill is an unprecedented threat to freedom of expression and codifies a spurious ideology of gender identity in law.”
Further:
“A University of Toronto psychology professor, Peterson told the senate committee May 17 that ‘it’s unbelievably dangerous for us to move towards representing a social constructionist view of identity in our legal system.’
“…
“‘I think that’s appalling, first of all, because there hasn’t been a piece of legislation that requires Canadians to utter a particular form of address that has particular ideological implications before, and it’s a line we shouldn’t cross.’
“Moreover, ‘the very idea that calling someone a term that they didn’t choose causes them such irreparable harm that legal remedies should be sought,’ is an ‘an indication of just how deeply the culture of victimization has sunk into our society.'”
“The federal department of justice has made clear it will use the Ontario Human Rights Code guidelines, and that these ‘mandate’ the use of genderless pronouns on request, Brown said.
“‘Mandating use of pronouns requires one to use words that are not their own that imply a belief in or agreement with a certain theory on gender,’ he added.
“‘If you try to disavow that theory, you can be brought before the Human Rights Commission for misgendering or potentially find yourself guilty of a hate crime. To sum up, on the subject of gender, we’re going to have government-mandated speech.'”
