In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Just what’s going on with America? Good? Bad? Questions about America, both different and interestingly the same, were asked half a century ago by Dee Wells, Anthony Howard, and Louis Heren of William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Republic of South Africa was supposed to be a diverse multi-ethnic and multi-racial progressive democracy complete with restorative justice that was supposed to lead to a utopia with flowering meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children dance and laugh and play with gumdrop smiles.
Turns out that letting Communist oriented corrupt kleptocracy whose experience was based on terrorism would result in the destruction of an entire nation and a hell on Earth for all races and ethnicities… some more than others.
1. South Africa has collapsed. US embassy is now informing international travellers to stock up (prepper style) on food and water. https://t.co/WLfG88D0Uj
— #zombieland (@k9_reaper) February 26, 2023
Some may insist on a false dilemma fallacy that it was a choice between Apartheid and this, from both the champions of the former and the later. That Botswana, lead by Black Africans and surrounded by former White dominated countries for decades, is one of the most successful and least corrupt countries in Africa belies that false dichotomy. This isn’t about race… it’s about anti-racism being used as the excuse for greed, power, and incompetence.
The Woke Left like to talk about “systems of oppression” and how racism, sexism, &c. is “systemic”. This is, of course, projection. The real “system of oppression” is the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (i.e. the “DIE” agenda), and it is as systemic as can be.
DOCUMENTS: Through a records request, I have acquired the University of Missouri's rubric for evaluating diversity statements.
As usual, the rubric proves the critics' point: DEI evaluations invite viewpoint discrimination. pic.twitter.com/5FX9dCTg0e
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) February 23, 2023
As it turns out, Mizzou routinely uses diversity statements in hiring.
According to its Inclusive Excellence Plan, the College of Arts and Science has expanded its use of the statements. The college of agriculture has committed to using them for “all faculty applications.” pic.twitter.com/9evwgIC4Ro
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) February 23, 2023
Ah, the privilege of being the totalitarian ideology that controls actual “systems”.
Mizzou’s Division of Biological Sciences (why is it always biology?) heavily weighs diversity statements.
Its website advertises its “equal weighting of the research, teaching, and inclusion and equity statements" in the first round of faculty job application reviews. pic.twitter.com/oc3fhTSXTj
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) February 23, 2023
Meanwhile, Mizzou’s training on “Best Practice for Inclusive Excellence in Faculty Hiring” encourages hiring committees to assess job candidates’ contributions to DEI using a pre-established rubric. pic.twitter.com/v9Fk4YeeJf
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) February 23, 2023
Again, the Mizzou rubric I obtained through a FOIA request perfectly illustrates how diversity statement policies invite viewpoint discrimination. pic.twitter.com/QhyG5gjZ6W
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) February 23, 2023
By now, it should be obvious that diversity statements will inevitably function as ideological litmus tests—and huge failures of priority.
Unfortunately, they’re alive and well at the University of Missouri.
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) February 23, 2023
Read the full story, and take a look at the rubric, at @MindingCampus. Through top-quality research and reporting, we're documenting the ways that DEI has invaded higher education to the detriment of our public and private universities.https://t.co/75vIlErdaP
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) February 23, 2023
Academia is the faunt of madness that has infected the institutions through þe olde “long march”.
“Equity” is the nice sounding word that the Woke Left use to cover-up their fundamental transformation of America into a post-Marxist post-Immanentized Eschaton. And you know what whey they slap on an adjective, that which the adjective represents is now a target for “enwokening”.
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The CDC decided to make *Health Equity* core to its mission, and says that means advocating for:-Free internet access
-Free access to bikes
-Policy changes in housingThis is the Woke and weaponized bureaucracy at work.
So, let's talk about what's going on here
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 2, 2023
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Most people think the CDC should focus on health and allow the department of transportation to deal with things like bussing. So, why is the CDC engaging in advocacy for a progressive policy position in a totally different area?How, and more importantly, WHY did this happen?
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 2, 2023
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This is an important thing to study if we wish to understand how woke activists weaponize institutions and bureaucracies in the name of wokeness (AKA Critical Social Justice).We need to understand this if we are going to fight the weaponizing the bureaucracy effectively.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 2, 2023
As Sun-Tzu noted, if you don’t understand your enemy, at best you’ll have a fifty-fifty shot at defeating them.
In the George Orwell novel “1984”, the protagonist’s job is to identify doubleplusungood news and proclamations and have them rewritten to a more contemporary understanding of the truth while the old versions go away down the “memory hole”.
Rewriting past publications and hiding the fact that they are re-writes, effectively “memory holing”, is going on now, and at the behest of the woke mob and “sensitivity readers”. The stealth “correction” of Roald Dahl’s works caused quite a stir.
“Augustus Gloop is no longer fat, Mrs Twit is no longer fearfully ugly, and the Oompa-Loompas have gone gender-neutral in new editions of Roald Dahl’s beloved stories.
“The publisher, Puffin, has made hundreds of changes to the original text, removing many of Dahl’s colourful descriptions and making his characters less grotesque.
“The review of Dahl’s language was undertaken to ensure that the books ‘can continue to be enjoyed by all today’, Puffin said.
“References to physical appearance have been heavily edited. The word ‘fat’ has been removed from every book – Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory may still look like a ball of dough, but can now only be described as ‘enormous’.
“In the same story, the Oompa-Loompas are no longer ‘tiny’, ‘titchy’ or ‘no higher than my knee’ but merely small. And where once they were ‘small men’, they are now ‘small people’.
“Passages not written by Dahl have also been added. In The Witches, a paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs ends with the new line: ‘There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.’”
Puffin was caught red handed and promised to undo this. They aren’t sorry for what they did… just that they got caught.
And this is hardly an isolated incident: James Bond will be going politically correct, at least as far as they can get away with it:
News of the Week for March 5th, 2023
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Increasingly, many see morality being totally abandoned. Half a century ago, when morality was also slipping down that slope, the question of moral development was discussed by William F. Buckley, Jr. with B.F. Skinner, Andrea Glass, Leon Festinger, Harvey Grill, and Elisabeth Clark, all of whom investigate the mechanism of moral development.
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: Clean-up in aisle “woke”.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
The proletariat must be made to embrace the woke revolution by their elitist superiors!
“Job listings on Eastern Washington University’s (EWU) ‘Employment Opportunities’ website appear to require applicants to get on board with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology as a condition of employment, from custodian to associate dean.
“Each job requires the applicant to write a ‘Diversity Response’ describing how they will ‘apply an approach that is supportive to the diverse needs, including universal access, of our students, faculty, staff, and the public.’
“‘[W]e are interested in how your qualifications prepare you to work with diverse faculty, staff, and student populations representing various cultures and backgrounds that may be different from your own,’ each job description reads.
“A ‘Tribal Land Acknowledgement’ is also featured with every job posting.”
Apparently, believing that it is best for children to grow up in a household with a mother and father dedicated to each other and their children is… “un-American”. At least is it according to South Dakota state Representative Erin Healy.
Extremist group Family Heritage Alliance said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad. What a dangerous and un-American belief.
— Representative Erin Healy (@RepErinHealy) February 13, 2023
They hate the nuclear family. A man and woman getting married and raising their children in a loving home means the family will be at the center of society… not the government.
We’ve known for a long time now that those on the Left believe that Leviathan (i.e. the state) is the true and proper parent, and not cis-heteronormative couples. But in this tweet, they are admitting that they see the traditional nuclear family is a threat to “it takes a villiage” socialization of child-rearing. It means that families and even communities can stand on their own two feet and not only deny the government the totalitarian power it craves, but that they could even oppose what the Nomenklatura believe is best for the hoi polloi.
The Physics Department at the University of Chicago invited undergraduate applicants to a “Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)” complete with a $6000 stipend. But the announcement made it clear that Asian and White men are not who this program was “particularly intended” for and specifically offers “undergraduates (members of underrepresented minority groups (African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans) and women) the opportunity to gain research experience”.
This is in violation of the University’s own rule against racial discrimination.
Apparently the light shined on them by Christopher Rufo, has gotten them to change the wording… not to ensure that it is racially neutral, but to obfuscate their intent by changing the wording to “[t]he program is open to all and we encourage applications from those underrepresented in physics.”
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