I disagree. I don’t want them to self cancel. The more these morons talk, the more they are exposed for their lies, bias, complete and utter lack of critical thinking and ideological hatred for anyone and anything that disagrees from their views.
The former presidents of Harvard and UPenn are proof that cockroaches thrive in the darkness but once exposed they show they are frauds. Let them speak as much as possible, out in plain sight.
Otoh, their self cancellation is not working to deplatform WrongThinkers anymore. Ackerman and Bari are not being disinvited. These slef-important pompous jerks are losing steam and their self-righteous shtick's not working anymore. I'd drink to that.
Good in theory. But in practice there are too many people who are not great at sussing out truth. I don't wanna throw them out. But if they chose to show how intolerant they are, I feel like that is a better outcome.
I don't see it that way Lefty. It should be: shine the light to expose them. In these tribal times, shining the light doesn't matter. Shutting them down may... unplug life support.
Very depressing times: $2 trillion DEFICIT = bankruptcy; NYU Prof in plain site; SCOTUS TX decision; Trump as alternative to marxists... Ugh. Hope "don't mess with TX" brings out more good guys.
The SCt Texas decision is not as bad as it appears at first blush. Seems all the Court said was the feds can cut the wire. Texas was not ordered to take it down nor ordered to stop putting it up. More is going up as I write this. I feel certain the cutting was authorized to allow access for emergency response. And Abbott declared an invasion and invoked Texas' right under the Constitution to defend itself. So stay tuned.
Good point. I doubt that you and I would agree on much, but it seems likely that people of different religious and ethnic backgrounds could make more progress talking with each other than by encouraging their followers to act on antisemitic or anti-Islamic hatred.
That is really good news. For years now rational people (like Bari) have walked away from spaces that have found intolerable due to bullying and groupthink, leaving those spaces bereft of independent or critical thought. It is high time that illiberals are compelled to leave.
How many terrorists have infiltrated the U.S. through our open borders? Thanks Democrats.
Biden and his Dem/Soc minions have facilitated terrorism. The only way to stop terrorism is to more violent than they are. You need to exterminate them like the rats and cockroaches they really are.
Biden is too weak kneed to do that. Besides the last few months have proven the Dem/Soc approve of terrorism. If you don't believe me just look at what the Dem racists in our congress have said and what is happening on our far left college campuses.
If you are going to disagree with me, give me examples where I am wrong.
Obviously they themselves (the five) didn’t think what they had to say was more important than try to deny Bari Weiss an opportunity to speak. That says volumes.
Yes, it is their choice. Whatever it was they wanted to talk to their audience about was not important enough to share a stage with other speakers whom they may disagree. That's okay. That's how you don't get the word out.
I stopped watch TED talks ages ago when I saw them featuring speakers like CRT and other DEI style lecturers. It was a great idea that got hijacked by the liberals. Enough.
Surely, the fact that a “great idea . . . got hijacked” is the very reason more people should be watching and speaking at TED. If more people had taken critical theorists seriously and engaged with them early on, it wouldn’t have morphed into a blunt instrument wielded by bigots, careerists, and cowards.
Do you mean write a letter of protest to TED? Or have audience members challenge them? Other idea ______ for the common person like me?? I think TED is predominantly a liberal institution. My idea was to boycott watching them. Just like I don't watch Disney now. I vote with my dollar. BUT, I must say I am pleased as heck that Bill and Bari are speaking at it. FABULOUS!
Per the National Review:
Five participants in the TED fellows program, which supports and promotes emerging voices in a variety of fields across the globe, resigned Wednesday after the public-speaking organization invited hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman and journalist Bari Weiss to speak at its 2024 flagship conference in Vancouver. The five fellows — self-described inventor Ayah Bdeir, filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, cosmologist Renée Hlozek, artist Sarah Sandman, and astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz — sent a letter to TED leader Chris Anderson and fellows program director Lily James Olds. Titled “TED Fellows refuse to be associated with genocide apologists,” the letter accused TED of choosing “not only to align itself with enablers and supporters of genocide, but to amplify their racist propaganda.”
Agreed. Have been very disappointed in Sam Harris lately. He had Chris Anderson as a guest recently, and although Sam did bring up the Coleman Hughes story, how TED treated Coleman so unfairly. I did not feel he challenged Chris at all as he could have as Chris offered his typical very lame political defense. And then yesterday his discussion with Jonathan Rauch - how he let Rauch tell some big whopping lies without any challenge to them. The irony of course being that the main topic was misinformation.
I can't forget that Sam Harris said that he wouldn't have cared if Hunter Biden had bodies in his basement, as long as it was covered up so Biden would win in 2020.
I wasn’t a Trump fan going into the 2016 race. I thought like everyone else that it was a publicity stunt that would fizzle out in short order. When to my surprise it came down to voting for him or Hillary the choice was easy, not because I liked Trump, but to join the ranks of the millions of “middle finger” voters.
I was a subscriber to Sam's podcast before 2016. He had interesting guests and discussions on a range of subjects. He made the mistake many others in the public eye make of thinking his listeners wanted to hear his take on politics. It was a vast departure from subjects his listeners found interesting.
He made a stunning claim on his podcast while Trump was in office that he had a revelation which helped him "figure out” why people were supporting Trump. It was one of the most ridiculous diatribes-rivaling Maddow’s claim that Trump voters wanted to live under an authoritarian dictatorship-from a supposed intellectual that I’ve heard. He also had a foreign policy analyst from somewhere in the UK on his podcast who was giving Trump credit for some of his foreign policy decisions and explaining why the decisions were wise. Sam’s irritation at hearing this was so evident that the guest had to tell him he was basing his analyses as a neutral observer, not with a political bias. I cancelled my subscription needless to say as I did with magazines that I had long running subscriptions to which became curiously obsessed with Trump. The "dead bodies in the basement” remark was just another sign that TDS on the left is worse than people realize.
Glad to hear you say that Celia. I’ve felt strongly about that as well since it happened. I believe it was the main cause of his leaving Twitter. Ever since Sam made the now famous statement about his supporting the media suppression of the Hunter laptop story and the subsequent criticism he has received for it, he seems to have been possessed with defending it. I don’t think it is any coincidence that he had this recent conversation with Jonathan Rauch where Jonathan also fully supports the suppression of the story. Jonathan justifies it by saying that good journalism takes a long time, that it took the NYT a year of journalistic research to prove the facts contained on the laptop. No one seems to think to question him as to how much journalistic research it would take to visit the computer shop owner and verify that he owner did indeed have a signed receipt from Hunter. The journalistic effort to merely prove the story was real, to disprove the Democratic operatives made up narrative of its being a Russian hoax, would not have been that difficult for a good journalist, if they were sincere about getting to the truth of the story. They weren’t. No need to take a year to research the contents. Is the story of the laptop existence true of false is a very easy journalistic endeavor. And the irony of his choosing the NYT as an honest non biased source of journalism that strives to research a story before they publish it cannot be denied. Anyone recall the story just a few months ago they the NYT published about the IDF bombing a hospital in Gaza? With hundreds of civilians killed? How about the journalistic research done on that one Jonathan? The truth of that story did not last the day.
Think how awesome it would be if Sam Harris was actually relevant again. He's the perfect example of the guy with the worst case of Trump Derangement Syndrome who believes he's still the smartest and most virtuous guy in the room.
Maybe they aren’t lies. It’s possible that you are wrong. Its possible you may not have all the facts. Yet you seem so confident in your assessment that these are lies (whatever they are; you don’t specify)
Interesting...you could choose to engage the substance of my comments, but instead you choose to make it personal, dismiss it and set it aside by putting it in the TDS bucket. Okay, now that my comments are safely in the bucket there's no need to engage. This is how thinking ends.
It's possible that everything we hear could be wrong. I don't mind that you asked this -- keep asking for specifics because the devil is always in the details. Personal attacks on this site are not necessary or helpful in the long run.
This is actually kind of sad. But not surprising. We should want a society where people from different perspectives and beliefs can talk and debate with each other. We don't have that right now.
This has always been about a religious war being waged by Iran. Unless, and until, we recognize this, we'll never be able to find peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Obama administration sought to empower Iran to be a counterbalance for what they felt was an imbalance of Israel's influence in the ME. That position was not supported by the rest of the ME, which was evidenced by the Abraham Accords.
The first thing the Biden Admin did , being heavily influenced by former Obama officials, and probably Obama himself, was to undo the progress made by the AC, and make Iran financially solvent again.
Iran, and their proxies, took this as a surrender by the US, which has resulted in their proxies conducting a war against Israel, the US and any countries conducting trade through the Gulf.
This is a much bigger war than the current administration is portraying, and is because of a massive foreign policy mistake, that has it's roots in Barack Obama's administration. It will never be solved by a 'Two State' solution, because Iran wants a Zero Israeli state solution.
Absolutely...Obama...the Divider...is still tearing this country apart from behind the curtain in the White House. As well as going around the country with Eric Holder to sue every county and municipality to change voting districts to favor Democrats! Obama is the anti-christ.
Thank you Jon🇮🇱🇮🇱,so well posted. I lay this brutalization of the Jewish state at the hands of Obama/Biden. Both their leaderships have proven to be the weakest in American history. This constant screaming from Biden for a two state solution when these savages won’t give back the bodies and live hostages they are still holding in the tunnels, without proof of life or allowing the crappy Red Cross some visits to check on how the sick, elderly, rape victims and the remaining children are doing, tell us all about their savagery. It beggars belief in the 21st century that we are all witnessing these atrocities, and on top of all that, the TFP has the goad to publish this arsehole’s video from NYU telling us about his keffiyeh and how the Israelis got everything wrong.
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
You are, I'm afraid, profoundly wrong on this. The professor claims the violence did not happen, that women were not raped, that babies were not slaughtered. Outright denial. It was appalling.
I agree that the word “it” in the key sentence can fairly be interpreted as referring either to the support of the aforementioned atrocities or the atrocities themselves, but the immediately subsequent reference to the President’s statements at least suggest it is the former.
The person is proof of why Tenure can be bad. This person does not care about doing their job well as can be seen with their dismissive attitude. A tenured librarian speaking that way to a high schooler...tenure or not, their school should be trying to get rid of them or at least limit their reach.
Sadly the profession has turned into activism. Those who get into library science no longer solely have goals of literacy but of social justice. This librarian is one of a legion. You get rid of him/her there is one just like them to take their place.
I think that has to do with forcing librarians to have Masters Degrees. We just need to demand that our cities and schools hire the right people...not the people who check the 'correct' boxes. I promise there are plenty of people who would be happy to be a middle school librarian if they didn't need a masters.
I totally agree! I had at one time looked into getting a MLS but didn't. I love libraries and all they do but there is a way to do it without pushing a political agenda.
I have known a few people who really wanted to be Librarians but could not justify the degree vs the pay. The one actual Librarian I knew who had the degree said it was a huge waste of time and money since most of what she did could be taught on the job and that a passion for reading was easily more important than education.
My mother had an MLS back in the 1970s, but they weren’t activists back then. Now, EVERYONE is an activist. That’s a big part of why everything is such a mess.
Hopefully, this is the "off duty" voice, because it would be very disturbing for a librarian to be a self righteous warrior with students. The library is a place where the students come for books but in a high, middle, and grade school it is also a place to seek refugee when your dog died, when your friends are mean, when a student is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. A library is a quieter welcoming space for all students to reflect, regroup and read. A library is not a selective safe place ran by social justice warriors/bullies.
Bea Arthur (whose photo is used for the person’s avatar) would be embarrassed. This frightful librarian is a perfect illustration of why this country is going down the tubes so quickly: how does her crassness, aggression, and rudeness further her agenda? Wasn’t that the left’s main criticism of Trump? Back in 2016 when he was elected, I said the identical words Oliver used yesterday (Trump is a mirror). As you can imagine, it *instantly* rendered me the most unpopular person in the room...cue Jack Nicholson... “You can’t handle the truth!”
I think all people who pause in whatever they do--and it may be getting fat on the couch watching TV--long enough to allow some feelings to seep in, must feel that there is an ambient madness about us.
My own feeling is that it is an ambient fear--anxiety if you prefer--about the massive changes happening all around us. Our society is both evolving in good ways, and devolving in bad ways. The acceptance of difference is a good thing. But when the acceptance of difference is not done in an emotionally mature way, in a healthy way, what happens is that an endless openness in one direction becomes a profoundly nasty bigotry in the other.
Anxiety plus immaturity becomes what psychiatrist Murray Bowen called triangulation, which amounts to a form of tribalism. This tribe is arbitrary, mutable, frangible, and everyone knows it. The bond cannot last, and for it to feel organic, it almost necessarily needs to be based upon mutual hatred and rejection. This, in my view, is the sociological basis for ritual sacrifice--sacrifice literally means, by the way "act of the sacred"--which in violence unites a people.
So there is this ambient spirit looking for targets, looking to rationalize hate, looking for outlets and actual victims. That they use a claimed compassion and care for people they designate "victim" really has nothing to do with it. That is a superficial patina that should fool no one. If you are angry, anxious, and emotionally violent, it comes out. It's clear.
And this energy has long latched easily onto "the Jews". "The Jews" are spread thinly and have existed in powerful concentrations nowhere (until Israel). They were clearly different, weak, and in general unusually successful, both in business and in learning. All these traits make for powerful attractors of resentment. It is easy to project onto them all of one's fears, aggressions, and frustrations. And this has often resulted in pogroms.
Consider for a moment the fact that there exists a word for racist violence used uniquely for Jews.
What happened in southern Israel was a pogrom, no different from Kristallnacht. It is an old story, So is lying about it.
What is new, and I will continue to point to the existentially surreal emotional quality of this, is the combination of rhetorics of compassion, tolerance, peace and kindness, with the sort of viciousness that was displayed in that New York video. These are people who put oat milk in their lattes, and donate money to local dog shelters (well, maybe not Muslims, who don't like dogs, but certainly the people nodding in the audience). They are people who put rainbow flags in their windows and on their cars, and have the Tolerance bumper sticker on their Subarus, Teslas and Volkswagens.
That's weird. Hitler didn't preach tolerance and compassion. Neither did the Grand Mufti of Israel, or probably even the Tsars who created the Pales of Settlement.
Decent people need to wake up not just to the Anti-Semitism in their midst--that particular bigotry is obvious and undeniably embraced by many if not most on the Left--but to the overall viciousness, rejection of the Other, and profound immaturity and childisness they exhibit daily in all their illiberal actions and transactions.
We are in the midst of a reinvention of “truth”. According to the new orthodoxy, there are no objective truths anymore. Only narratives. And whoever has power creates the narrative. And those with power can bully the rest of us who reject their narrative, their version of “truth”. It’s very jarring, until you see it for what it is. A power grab by people who can’t succeed on terms of equal opportunity. Bitter losers who need to tear down a system in which they can’t succeed. It’s the system’s fault. Not theirs. But they offer nothing better. And the world is starting to see that. Claudine Gay is the poster child for this failing DEI orthodoxy. Davos is being mocked. Ibram X Kendi is seen as a fraud. It’s all fraying at the edges.
I agree, but as was written some 2,500 years ago, "there is nothing new under the sun." Yes, rockets and robots are new, but human nature has not changed. Emotions of greed, insecurity, doubt and confusion, violence and hate existed then and exist now.
What postmodernism is is a rationalization of emotions that precede it. It is a ratification of moral confusion, and a latent masochistic need for obedience to anyone who can claim they know the difference between right and wrong. They are looking for a Fuehrer, just as were the university students and professors who were Hitler's earliest and most enthusiastic supporters.
All of this is simply individual psychodynamic failure to individuate, propagated and generalized across a complex social order whose structure has always depended entirely on its components--individuals--and which is disintegrating pari pasu with individual failures to grow up.
What we know now is that most formal metaphysical claims, made by individual religions, are arbitrary and probably not accurate. This means that the metaphysical bases of social order are void. This does not mean God does not exist, but that He did not send his only begotten Son to be ritually murdered; and that all supposedly Holy Books were written by people who in some respects either didn't know what they were talking about, or who wrote them for very venal and selfish purposes, or who only imperfectly captured something real.
In all cases, it means that traditional foundations for social order have had to be renegotiated. Collectivisms like Communism and Nazism (and Islamism) are regressions. They are trying to go back to orders remembered mythically as stable and fulfilling, and to do so through a violence which is both a means and an end.
The only path forward is through generalized individual growth, which is to say through psychological individuation and differentiation. All political theories need to be evaluated on this basis: do they encourage personal growth, or retard and discourage it?
That's probably a lot for this morning, but I won't apologize!!!
I agree with your assessment that mankind is capable of horrible behavior. But I see Christianity as the break on those awful urges. “If there is no God, everything is permissible.”
I very much believe in God. Most quantum physics pioneers were clear Theists of some fashion or other. The very existence of the universe itself seems to demand a First Observer to make the math work, or so I understand. The math also requires that we are surrounded by a nearly infinite field of energy in all directions, called the Zero Point Field, or Quantum Vacuum.
I personally think the nature of our existence, and the nature of God are scientific questions. And I view the failure of "science" writ large to pursue them, and the stupidity of the cultural ideas being taught on nearly all college campuses as closely related.
My particular curse is I see stupidity in all directions. I do have a high IQ, but much more importantly a very high emotional pain tolerance. It is difficult recognizing that the universe is not simple and that there exists a LOT we don't know, and don't know we don't know. Far easier to choose an old, at least partly wrong answer from the shelf. Or a new, completely wrong choice, like Communism or Fascism.
Most people do not want to start that work, because there is no way to see an end to it. The starting point is the decision to undertake in faith an open ended journey. Every day is both scary and interesting.
I would say that science more or less demands a belief in something like a God. This fact is seemingly not taught, and seemingly unknown to most who have not pursued the topic privately.
In my own view, ALL religious books get closer to the truth than any atheism. And I say that as someone whose academic topic was Comparative Religion.
And oddly Islam is the antidote to Christianity. A bloodthirsty cult of fatwas and jihads, murder and oppression. Yet we foolishly accord it First Amendment protections as a "religion." Silly us.
I’ve known some genuinely good Muslims. There certainly is a lot of Jew hate, misogyny and violence in the Koran. But there is much that is good too.
The radical intolerance displayed by Muslims in their conquests, and not infrequently since, is in my view an echo of the descendants of the Maccabees, who I believe were called Hasmoneans, who were the first group I know of to punish religious diisidence.
This was taken much farther by early Christians, with more or less literal rivers of blood filling sewers during conflicts over seemingly silly issues like whether or not the Trinity was symbolic or literal.
I think of what the Spanish did in the New To Them World, and feel that Christians live in glass houses. Both World Wars were fought between nominally Christian nations, and of course the Wars of Religion—such as the 30 Years War—were highly sanguinary.
My own view is that the best course is to encourage what is good in Islam and discourage what is bad.
I dont think banning Muslims from political office is a goid idea, but do feel it is a goid idea asking ALL candidates for national office to affirm that the Constitution and the laws of their States are the supreme law of the land.
We do not face even remotely the problems with Islam that Europe does. They need to either defend Liberal values, or accept the failure of their cultures and civilization within 25 years or less, even barring the calamities many if us fear are being planned for us by sociopathic and ignoble elites.
My two cents.
And I will ask: what goid did our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan do for us? I think we were manipulated into a profit making scheme, through the cultuvated hate of people who in their own way are also pawns of larger forces.
"We do not face even remotely the problems with Islam that Europe does."
Only a matter of time as we deal with our own third-world invasion.
"What good did our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan do for us?
You know the answer to that, too. Nothing good. The idiotic globalist exercise in futile nation building cost us trillions of dollars and, more important, the lives of thousands of patriotic young combat soldiers. And now they've gotten us mired in an equally idiotic mess in Ukraine that will lead to no good end.
The difference is that Islam was born a violent religion whose mission was to subjugate by the sword. Jesus never said or did what Mohammad said and did. Have churches and Christians acted horribly, killing and maiming? Yes. But those were acts of sinners, and they would go to hell. In Islam you are rewarded for killing the infidel with the opportunity to rape 72 virgins. Sick. You may know nice people who happen to be Muslim, but I find nothing redeeming about Islam. Imagine what our world would be like if Mohammad had never been born.
So the resurrection is the test of faith for most, but not all, Christian denominations. The entire point of faith is that it is not subject to worldly proof. But Christianity long ago recognized what you call individuation (which I agree with and embrace) as the exercise of free will. And much good has been accomplished in this world by people exercising theirs, along with some bad too. But even if a person exercises his/her free will to reject faith altogether, I think it unwise to throw away the underpinnings of society because it was originally faith based.
I’m a conservative, which means I am all in favor of conserving what has worked in the past. I am simply speaking to the broader social reality that many Americans are not Christian, and never will be. In my view, Atheism is a very poor substitute, not least because it requires denying our best scientific desciptions of reality.
It would in principle be the job of Humanists in Humanities departments to help build something new and cohesive, but most of them are cowards. I speak from personal experience, having strongly considered and worked towards an academic career.
I am not proselytizing. If I could waive a wand and make everyone Christian I would not. But this nation was founded on Judaeo-Christian principles and I think it foolish to damage/weaken a structure's foundation. Not a fan of the humanists. They seem to inevitably replace God with themselves. Ugh. Which I think is where we are at this point and time
This is quite literally the plot of the Ayn Rand classic, Atlas Shrugged. It is my hope, NCMaureen, that Atlas is indeed shrugging now, and that is what we are seeing.
The radical left seems to believe that if they can create and control a certain narrative, they will accumulate and maintain power. So far it’s had more positive than negative results. It’s why cancel culture became prevalent. If people are only exposed to one narrative, most will eventually believe it.
“My truth” is another tool in the box to control the narrative and discredit others.
Stay alert. Sometimes bitter losers are trying to tear down the system and can offer nothing better, as you say. However, some elites (with power) are trying to tear down the system of the middle class and peasants, to create chaos, surveil people, and damage/destroy property, so they can buy it all up cheap. They want resources and land. They want to control and run everything. "Useless eaters" (the middle class and peasants) lose power.
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
I disagree. I just watched it. He said "we know it's not true" in response to the claims that they were supporting rapists and baby killers, and did so after explicitly claiming that Israel needs to be "liberated" and tacitly supporting many terrorist groups, like the PFLP, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and others. All of those groups have committed acts of mass murder. All preach genocide in Israel.
It cannot be emphasized enough that "liberation" equals mass murder for these people, and that while they don't brag about it in front of people who may object, they are relatively open and clear about it. They think killing "Zionists" is an ethical and even necessary act.
The people the "Palestinians" ACTUALLY need to be liberated from are the terrorists and thieves who have seized control of their societies and political orders and who have made a bad situation vastly, vastly worse, for purely venal and selfish reasons.
If the "Palestinian" people suffer, it is because of their leaders. Israel wants and has long wanted nothing more than peace, and has made what in retrospect were bad decisions often in support of the possibility of peace.
I suppose you could read it as "We are not rapists and baby killers, because they are oppressors and thus the labels are wrong. We are freedom fighters". But I am stretching there. Ultimately it is someone trying to ignore or justify something horrible.
Maybe so, but both interpretations are reasonable and it would be wise and simply good journalism to seek clarification before publishing such a polarizing article.
Not really. He is speaking of naked and unmistakeable terrorist groups as friends in their "struggle" to "liberate" Palestine. That's a duck.
You are free to form your own opinion, obviously. And my own opinion is that you likely tend to support what he is saying and are thus attempting to make something relatively clear ambiguous because it is discreditable and even contemptible.
I am quite capable of feeling pity for the descendants of the refugees from the 1948 War of Israeli Existence, but that pity is reliably diluted by their continuing open and enthusiastic support for psychopathic serial killers.
Jeff, considering ALL he said, and ALL he’s admitted doing, I must admit what I am hearing him say (video) was HAMAS DID NOT rape women or behead babies … even though the Presidents keeps saying they did.
It’s not the least bit surprising to hear to hear him say HAMAS is innocent of those charges, or in fact, HAMAS and other “freedom fighters” are justified in such (terrorist!) behaviors, even if it is true.
Giving this man the benefit of the doubt is naive. He’s clearly proud of what he says, the groups he’s formed and been apart of, and intends to use his platform to spew, and recruit to, his antisemitic, antigovernment and antiAmerican ideologies.
Honey-- I agree totally! And imagine what those earnest(?) students listening to him are getting from his speech? I'm sure the take away for many of them was "yeah- I guess we "know" that the stories that the valiant Hamas boys did not rape women or behead babies! That's all propaganda BS from the Jew-run media and government. Our teacher/leader is speaking truth to power!"
I like your post, Unsaint. But, I am not sure this is new.
All that is required is that people adopt some Ideology or other and feel convinced that they are pursing Good. For instance, there's the Eugenics movement which started in the US with a Better Babies program. The word even has "good" in it - from Wiki:
"Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well', and -γενής (genḗs) 'come into being, growing')[1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.[2][3][4]
People in the US and then Germany knew that they were very good - ethically and scientifically advanced peoples. But, step by step you get to a very dark place with Ideologies, then as now.
"A century ago, fueled by exciting and idealistic new fake-Science (eugenics), progressives in California began state-sponsored, legal, compulsory eugenic sterilizations."
"Study the evolution of Nazi medical practice and its roots in American eugenics and you’ll find, as Mark Twain said, that history may not repeat itself – but it does rhyme."
This could be today: "“In 1933 the convergence of political, scientific, and economic forces dramatically changed the relationship between the medical community and the government. That same convergence is occurring again [in 1996] and must be approached with great caution if medicine is to remain focused on the preservation of physical and medical integrity.”)"
So, Eugenics was not at all a "bad word" to most at one time just like DEI,CRT, Gender Identity,, Gendered Souls, LGBTQIA+++++, Oppressor-Oppressed groups, decolonization, Land Acknowlegments, etc. They are all wonderful and "progressive" - about tolerance, love, making people and the world better! But, they took us to a dark place: rampant antisemitism and the great profitable ($$$$) human experiment in drugging and mutilating children, teens, & intentionally confused young people to try to resemble the opposite sex.
That's not unreasonable. Technically the Arabs are Semitic also. It's a linguistic term, as far as I recall. But I do think I read that "anti-semitism", which was at one time formally respectable in Europe, did at that time also include Arabs. I may be wrong. I don't have time to look it up.
But I think the hate for Jews was pretty open and unambiguous until very recently.
I looked that up a while ago. It was coined by an academic specifically to describe hatred of Jews, not semites in general. It was a poor word choice because, as you said, Arabs are also semites. "Jew hate" is far more accurate. We should drop "antisemitism" in favor of "Jew hate."
Can we ask the journalists at the Free Press to investigate who is behind the AP Stylebook? Every wonder why the media pivoted from "illegal aliens" to "undocumented immigrants?" "the homeless" to "those experiencing homelessness". And "gender-affirming care?" Don't get me started on that disgusting term...
"Changes in the AP Stylebook, 56th Edition, include:
—A new chapter on inclusive storytelling: its importance and how to achieve it.
—Detailed guidance on writing about people with disabilities and disabled people.
—Many updates on immigration, the coronavirus, gender and race-related coverage, including the capitalization of Black and expanded use of singular they.
—A revised chapter on religion, with guidance on when Catholic rather than Roman Catholic should be used on first reference.
—A thoroughly updated chapter on using social media for reporting"
Ha-ha. There are so many Jew haters. Of course, they do not all belong to the National Socialist Party aka Nazi Party. They are members of all parties in the world.
I get the angst about the wretched dems books in school libraries. And it’s shameful, but realistically how many kids are really reading those bore fests. I’d venture not many and in inner city schools- none, mostly because they can’t read.
Now that’s not to say it’s right or fair so it should be corrected. Kids should have the opportunity to ignore R books also.
You nailed it. I bet the actual circulation numbers are incredibly low in most school libraries with politicized books like these. It is an other case of public funds circling back into the coffers of Lefty politicians - a nice addition to teacher union funds going exclusively to “D” politicians.
My question is where are these books coming from? I agree with you, that these books are likely not being checked out. That tells me there is no demand. Yet a lot of these school districts have many copies of these books. I doubt these books were donated.
These books were likely purchased using taxpayer money solely for the purpose of diversifying the library, content be damned. It's seems to me that this is simply a way for school libraries to funnel money to political activitists and politicians.
How about the Holocaust Museum in DC providing a new exhibition on antisemitism in the 21st Century. The atrocities of October 7 — photos, video and personal accounts - should be seen there. It is a reality that needs light shed.
I know October 7 video the select press were shown by Israel is really horrible, but perhaps wider release with faces and language of actual Palestinian terrorists would help blunt some of this denialism in the same way actual Holocaust survivors testimony helps blunt Holocaust denial
Personally I think they should release all of the video to everyone. As bloody and horrible as it is. We hid these things because we don't want to offend or upset people. But everyone should be offended and upset. Everyone of these people who deny the violence, tear down posters of missing Israeli children, etc should be locked in a room and show the entire 45 minutes.
I will add that I personally would feel ZERO desire to read any President's memoir, after perhaps TR, or maybe Coolidge, who was Silent Cal, but who also had good things to say when he did speak.
Conservative books worth reading would include Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France"; any book by Thomas Sowell, with "Basic Economics" a good start; "The Road to Serfdom" or the "Fatal Conceit", by Friedrich Hayek; "Intellectuals" by Paul Johnson--or just about anything else he wrote; "Economics in one easy lesson", by Henry Hazlitt; "Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater and Brent Bozell; and "The Black Book of Communism", by assorted former Communists, who were mostly French.
That's a short list. Read any of those and think about it, and you will find yourself realizing that we are not all pointy tailed, horned demons. Conservatives are decent people who simply have adopted a mature and useful attitude to the processes of social and economic continuity, and sustainable cultural growth. That, in any event, is my own view.
America’s Cultural Revolution. by Christopher Rufo.
I find my blood boiling at times as I listen to this book. It’s not just that lefties, starting in the 1960s with Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis, reinvented Marxism to attack America from within, it’s that we good citizens let it all happen.
How about start with school choice and reformat the whole system. Parents given a choice between the crap right now and a curriculum filled with books, ideas and teachers filled with ideas from the books you mention above. I might add The Closing of The American Mind - Bloom.
Our local school system has a compliance training for teachers each year done in August during preservice week. If it would be played for the public at large they would realize how their kids education is full of indoctrination. Someone ought to do FOIA requests and put it out there for the world to see!!
And yes, the precise reason school choice is opposed by the Unions is that they would lose in any open competition, because they suck at everything they do except making kids dumb enough to buy the BS they feed them. They need stupid so they feed stupid.
Yes, Bloom is another one. What is funny about him is that he was a gay Jewish atheist Democrat, or so I recall. He simply wasn't crazy, and Crazy was making teaching not fun for him, and he tried to speak against it. He was hated for it, by the Crazies, who of course have gotten worse since.
Your title needs correction: "NYU Adjunct Professor Tells Students..."
Hiring adjunct professors is how universities have been able to expand their administration. Full, tenured professors are expensive and a lot of times irritating. Adjunct professors can be hired, onboarded, paid and dismissed without consequences.
This doesn't make his statements any less offensive, but it provides context. Perhaps universities should start firing administrators and hiring full time professors?
At least you identified one of the biggest problems - "Full, tenured professors are expensive" which is more of a mystery than the erection of the great pyramids.
They're folks who got degrees in Education, which is typically the easiest program to get accepted to, and never left college, which is basically a form of day care.
They have little/no life experience, but are molding young minds.
I habitually called my professors "Dr." (unlike most of my fellow grad students, who called their professors by their first names), because I was raised to be respectful.
My thesis professor was a Harvard grad. One day, he mentioned to me that at Harvard--back in his day (he was on the verge of retirement)--they referred to their professors as "Mr.," not "Dr." Apparently it was considered uncouth to draw excessive attention to the PhD.
Long ago and far away it was explained in my presence thus: Professor is the higher title because any idiot could eventually obtain a doctorate (and many have) whereas one had to convince a Governing Body of one's worth to become a professor. (I throw this on the pile for historical context; it's clear that any idiot can also become a professor -- and clearly, many have.)
Because we, society, worship at the altar of the PhD because most people can’t get to that level of education. It’s either too expensive or one is not a “student”. People who work with their hands are looked down upon, people who actually know how to DO stuff, and we raise up academics who don’t DO anything. It’s a mystery.
Someone who is teaching molecular biology or history or most other subjects studied in their field of expertise. They didn't get degrees in education. Now to be sure, one can question the importance or utility of many disciplines of study. I look to the traditions of the liberal arts and humanism as a guide for teaching critical thinking and the pursuit of values and truth.
One of the structural changes in the economy today is the rise of "fields" of academic studies--which are NOT "disciplines" of academic study. So universities have a glut of "earth scientists" who are NOT qualified in Physics, Astrophysics, Geology, Astronomy, Climatology, Toxicology, etc. Funding is behind these "field" lightweights, and actual disciplines can't get funding if they venture into any of the current propaganda areas. Add in, of course, DEI, non-scientific belief systems (gender dysphoria, climate scam), yada, yada.
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
Even if what he says is true, that NYC is a zionist city, this fact doesn't negate that attrocities could and were committed. Those students should take their $60k and buy coffee, books, and substack subscriptions....would go way further!
If it is a Zionist aka Jewish city then why is he living there? Is this guy a plant?? This should be a wake up call to everyone that this is deliberate to change hearts and minds against Jews and Israel. There are many others like this guy who have infiltrated the U. S. A few are in Congress too.
And the Nazi party took roots in the Universities in Germany in the 1920’s. Professors, taught Jew hate and looked the other way when their Jewish colleagues were fired. Especially in the sciences.
Gen. Eisenhower predicted a day when the horrors of the Holocaust might be denied. He invited reporters and had US troops filmed the atrocities they witnessed when they liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp. My wife always covers that in her book talks (Memory Is Our Home). She gets invited by churches, temples, public libraries but not school libraries. Unfortunately, her audiences are older and mot younger who she wants to reach. Check out
President Eisenhower was far more perspicacious than any of us give him credit for. From his warning about the rise of the military industrial complex (the model for all other government-funded, lobbyist-enabled industrial complexes) to his insights about humanity’s propensity for historical amnesia, the sage from Kansas certainly understood the peril of an ignorant citizenry. I wonder how many libraries carry his biography.
Eisenhower also saw the need for the US to have a good self defense and initiated the building of freeways as an important way to move troops and supplies. This at a time, post WW II, when America was the apex world leader. Biden, in an era when the US has many powerful enemies, has an open border policy that defies the idea of a nation protecting itself.
Yes, kiddies - it didn't happen. You didn't see those videos coming out of Israel. Who are you going to believe - me or your lyin' eyes?
Sometimes at three o'clock in the morning keeping one's nerve can be tough; the temptation to lose all hope is overwhelming. Finally though, through the fog we are seeing this ship of state - ever so slowly - turn around, in large part thanks to platforms like Substack and forums like TFP. And as icing on the cake we are watching the Lamestream press slip under the waves. (Waves to the Failing NY Times, the Washington Compost, the LA Times, and now even Sports Illustrated)
We are grateful. The stakes couldn't be higher. We Just May Make It.™
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
Hello! I’d be interested in how many substantive books on conservatism are in those libraries, esp memoirs of more consequential modern GOP Presidents like Reagan (“A Life in Letters” especially) and Nixon (I said consequential, not necessarily successful). I could hope for books by Austrian school economists and Thomas Sowell, etc., too, but these are school libraries after all.
Of course leftist reporters deny Hamas's atrocities. They also deny the invasion of illegals at our southern border. Orwell pointed out decades ago that repressive leftists lie about everything (as if he needed to do so). The leftist mentality is based on a lie precisely because Marxism is based on a lie. It is antithetical to human nature. In America, leftists have been lying to people since the progressive movement took hold and the New York Times became its oracle. Walter Duranty, anyone?
Five participants in the TED fellows program quit because Bill Ackman and Bari Weiss are going to speak at its 2024 flagship conference.
Keep up the good work, Bari.
I disagree. I don’t want them to self cancel. The more these morons talk, the more they are exposed for their lies, bias, complete and utter lack of critical thinking and ideological hatred for anyone and anything that disagrees from their views.
The former presidents of Harvard and UPenn are proof that cockroaches thrive in the darkness but once exposed they show they are frauds. Let them speak as much as possible, out in plain sight.
Otoh, their self cancellation is not working to deplatform WrongThinkers anymore. Ackerman and Bari are not being disinvited. These slef-important pompous jerks are losing steam and their self-righteous shtick's not working anymore. I'd drink to that.
Hasn't happened yet. Plenty of time to backpedal and/or generate an odious "compromise."
Good in theory. But in practice there are too many people who are not great at sussing out truth. I don't wanna throw them out. But if they chose to show how intolerant they are, I feel like that is a better outcome.
Well said. Intolerant nails it. I bet these intolerant racist swine are all Dems/Socialists.
If only they'd self cancel for good. Mr. Trudeau could help with that.
They were ALLOWED to speak, they just chose the cowardly path of not entering the arena of ideas and show themselves to be captured by the narrative.
I don't see it that way Lefty. It should be: shine the light to expose them. In these tribal times, shining the light doesn't matter. Shutting them down may... unplug life support.
Very depressing times: $2 trillion DEFICIT = bankruptcy; NYU Prof in plain site; SCOTUS TX decision; Trump as alternative to marxists... Ugh. Hope "don't mess with TX" brings out more good guys.
The SCt Texas decision is not as bad as it appears at first blush. Seems all the Court said was the feds can cut the wire. Texas was not ordered to take it down nor ordered to stop putting it up. More is going up as I write this. I feel certain the cutting was authorized to allow access for emergency response. And Abbott declared an invasion and invoked Texas' right under the Constitution to defend itself. So stay tuned.
Yes. I've been following the TX-Abbot-border story. As Kari Lake just said about Abbot: Good for him, better late than never.
Good point. I doubt that you and I would agree on much, but it seems likely that people of different religious and ethnic backgrounds could make more progress talking with each other than by encouraging their followers to act on antisemitic or anti-Islamic hatred.
I think it shows them to be cowards.
That is really good news. For years now rational people (like Bari) have walked away from spaces that have found intolerable due to bullying and groupthink, leaving those spaces bereft of independent or critical thought. It is high time that illiberals are compelled to leave.
They were NOT compelled to leave! They self "cancelled."
Ok Casey they felt compelled to leave us what I should have said.
Sounds like those five didn't have anything very important to say.
Support international terrorism. Vote Democrat.
How many terrorists have infiltrated the U.S. through our open borders? Thanks Democrats.
Biden and his Dem/Soc minions have facilitated terrorism. The only way to stop terrorism is to more violent than they are. You need to exterminate them like the rats and cockroaches they really are.
Biden is too weak kneed to do that. Besides the last few months have proven the Dem/Soc approve of terrorism. If you don't believe me just look at what the Dem racists in our congress have said and what is happening on our far left college campuses.
If you are going to disagree with me, give me examples where I am wrong.
It's no longer terrorist
It's an invasion
So please use correct term enemy
They are enemies of the US
Name them all
I thought you might find this of interest.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-military-weapons-drug-cartels-united-states-659fecf40efc9977e8b127aed3ee5254#:~:text=World%20News-,Mexico%20demands%20investigation%20into%20US%20military%2Dgrade,being%20used%20by%20drug%20cartels&text=MEXICO%20CITY%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20Mexico,Mexico's%20top%20diplomat%20said%20Monday.
The Hamas supporting left will hate this. I liked it and found it moving:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyI2GPDDLWc
That's beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.
Or a willingness to hear.
How would you know what the have to say?
Obviously they themselves (the five) didn’t think what they had to say was more important than try to deny Bari Weiss an opportunity to speak. That says volumes.
I can't know unless they speak, right?
Their choice. That's what the First Amendment is all about.
Yes, it is their choice. Whatever it was they wanted to talk to their audience about was not important enough to share a stage with other speakers whom they may disagree. That's okay. That's how you don't get the word out.
Well, if they didn't show their racism and intolerance and walk out, you won't hear them speak.
Beside, who wants to hear an antisemite speak?
Where's Kevin Durant when ya need him? 🤣🤣🤣
THAT I would watch
I stopped watch TED talks ages ago when I saw them featuring speakers like CRT and other DEI style lecturers. It was a great idea that got hijacked by the liberals. Enough.
Surely, the fact that a “great idea . . . got hijacked” is the very reason more people should be watching and speaking at TED. If more people had taken critical theorists seriously and engaged with them early on, it wouldn’t have morphed into a blunt instrument wielded by bigots, careerists, and cowards.
Do you mean write a letter of protest to TED? Or have audience members challenge them? Other idea ______ for the common person like me?? I think TED is predominantly a liberal institution. My idea was to boycott watching them. Just like I don't watch Disney now. I vote with my dollar. BUT, I must say I am pleased as heck that Bill and Bari are speaking at it. FABULOUS!
Per the National Review:
Five participants in the TED fellows program, which supports and promotes emerging voices in a variety of fields across the globe, resigned Wednesday after the public-speaking organization invited hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman and journalist Bari Weiss to speak at its 2024 flagship conference in Vancouver. The five fellows — self-described inventor Ayah Bdeir, filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, cosmologist Renée Hlozek, artist Sarah Sandman, and astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz — sent a letter to TED leader Chris Anderson and fellows program director Lily James Olds. Titled “TED Fellows refuse to be associated with genocide apologists,” the letter accused TED of choosing “not only to align itself with enablers and supporters of genocide, but to amplify their racist propaganda.”
"Five participants in the TED fellows program quit"
I hope the door hits them in the ass.
Agreed. Have been very disappointed in Sam Harris lately. He had Chris Anderson as a guest recently, and although Sam did bring up the Coleman Hughes story, how TED treated Coleman so unfairly. I did not feel he challenged Chris at all as he could have as Chris offered his typical very lame political defense. And then yesterday his discussion with Jonathan Rauch - how he let Rauch tell some big whopping lies without any challenge to them. The irony of course being that the main topic was misinformation.
I can't forget that Sam Harris said that he wouldn't have cared if Hunter Biden had bodies in his basement, as long as it was covered up so Biden would win in 2020.
I wasn’t a Trump fan going into the 2016 race. I thought like everyone else that it was a publicity stunt that would fizzle out in short order. When to my surprise it came down to voting for him or Hillary the choice was easy, not because I liked Trump, but to join the ranks of the millions of “middle finger” voters.
I was a subscriber to Sam's podcast before 2016. He had interesting guests and discussions on a range of subjects. He made the mistake many others in the public eye make of thinking his listeners wanted to hear his take on politics. It was a vast departure from subjects his listeners found interesting.
He made a stunning claim on his podcast while Trump was in office that he had a revelation which helped him "figure out” why people were supporting Trump. It was one of the most ridiculous diatribes-rivaling Maddow’s claim that Trump voters wanted to live under an authoritarian dictatorship-from a supposed intellectual that I’ve heard. He also had a foreign policy analyst from somewhere in the UK on his podcast who was giving Trump credit for some of his foreign policy decisions and explaining why the decisions were wise. Sam’s irritation at hearing this was so evident that the guest had to tell him he was basing his analyses as a neutral observer, not with a political bias. I cancelled my subscription needless to say as I did with magazines that I had long running subscriptions to which became curiously obsessed with Trump. The "dead bodies in the basement” remark was just another sign that TDS on the left is worse than people realize.
The deranged 'cure' has turned out to be far more damaging to the fabric of American life than the supposed Trump disease.
That too often proves true.
Would-be social engineers: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Villagers: "Please stop helping us."
Glad to hear you say that Celia. I’ve felt strongly about that as well since it happened. I believe it was the main cause of his leaving Twitter. Ever since Sam made the now famous statement about his supporting the media suppression of the Hunter laptop story and the subsequent criticism he has received for it, he seems to have been possessed with defending it. I don’t think it is any coincidence that he had this recent conversation with Jonathan Rauch where Jonathan also fully supports the suppression of the story. Jonathan justifies it by saying that good journalism takes a long time, that it took the NYT a year of journalistic research to prove the facts contained on the laptop. No one seems to think to question him as to how much journalistic research it would take to visit the computer shop owner and verify that he owner did indeed have a signed receipt from Hunter. The journalistic effort to merely prove the story was real, to disprove the Democratic operatives made up narrative of its being a Russian hoax, would not have been that difficult for a good journalist, if they were sincere about getting to the truth of the story. They weren’t. No need to take a year to research the contents. Is the story of the laptop existence true of false is a very easy journalistic endeavor. And the irony of his choosing the NYT as an honest non biased source of journalism that strives to research a story before they publish it cannot be denied. Anyone recall the story just a few months ago they the NYT published about the IDF bombing a hospital in Gaza? With hundreds of civilians killed? How about the journalistic research done on that one Jonathan? The truth of that story did not last the day.
Barely an hour
Think how awesome it would be if Sam Harris was actually relevant again. He's the perfect example of the guy with the worst case of Trump Derangement Syndrome who believes he's still the smartest and most virtuous guy in the room.
Maybe they aren’t lies. It’s possible that you are wrong. Its possible you may not have all the facts. Yet you seem so confident in your assessment that these are lies (whatever they are; you don’t specify)
It’s also possible you have stage 5 TDS
Interesting...you could choose to engage the substance of my comments, but instead you choose to make it personal, dismiss it and set it aside by putting it in the TDS bucket. Okay, now that my comments are safely in the bucket there's no need to engage. This is how thinking ends.
It's possible that everything we hear could be wrong. I don't mind that you asked this -- keep asking for specifics because the devil is always in the details. Personal attacks on this site are not necessary or helpful in the long run.
Thank you, made my day and a bright point.
Great. I am all for self-censorship. But all comers should be free to speak.
Perfect…”cleansing” themselves,
This is actually kind of sad. But not surprising. We should want a society where people from different perspectives and beliefs can talk and debate with each other. We don't have that right now.
Right. I prefer to hear it all and then evaluate it -- myself or with others who are like- and open-minded.
This has always been about a religious war being waged by Iran. Unless, and until, we recognize this, we'll never be able to find peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Obama administration sought to empower Iran to be a counterbalance for what they felt was an imbalance of Israel's influence in the ME. That position was not supported by the rest of the ME, which was evidenced by the Abraham Accords.
The first thing the Biden Admin did , being heavily influenced by former Obama officials, and probably Obama himself, was to undo the progress made by the AC, and make Iran financially solvent again.
Iran, and their proxies, took this as a surrender by the US, which has resulted in their proxies conducting a war against Israel, the US and any countries conducting trade through the Gulf.
This is a much bigger war than the current administration is portraying, and is because of a massive foreign policy mistake, that has it's roots in Barack Obama's administration. It will never be solved by a 'Two State' solution, because Iran wants a Zero Israeli state solution.
Many many mistakes have root with the Obama and are with us today
Absolutely...Obama...the Divider...is still tearing this country apart from behind the curtain in the White House. As well as going around the country with Eric Holder to sue every county and municipality to change voting districts to favor Democrats! Obama is the anti-christ.
Thank you Jon🇮🇱🇮🇱,so well posted. I lay this brutalization of the Jewish state at the hands of Obama/Biden. Both their leaderships have proven to be the weakest in American history. This constant screaming from Biden for a two state solution when these savages won’t give back the bodies and live hostages they are still holding in the tunnels, without proof of life or allowing the crappy Red Cross some visits to check on how the sick, elderly, rape victims and the remaining children are doing, tell us all about their savagery. It beggars belief in the 21st century that we are all witnessing these atrocities, and on top of all that, the TFP has the goad to publish this arsehole’s video from NYU telling us about his keffiyeh and how the Israelis got everything wrong.
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
You are, I'm afraid, profoundly wrong on this. The professor claims the violence did not happen, that women were not raped, that babies were not slaughtered. Outright denial. It was appalling.
God Jeff how did you get the clip so wrong?
I agree that the word “it” in the key sentence can fairly be interpreted as referring either to the support of the aforementioned atrocities or the atrocities themselves, but the immediately subsequent reference to the President’s statements at least suggest it is the former.
Yepper, it all depends on what the definition of 'it' is.
said one of the first Bibi haters
Excellent work regarding book banning in public school libraries! Hope that jerk-off librarian's post is widely read.
The person is proof of why Tenure can be bad. This person does not care about doing their job well as can be seen with their dismissive attitude. A tenured librarian speaking that way to a high schooler...tenure or not, their school should be trying to get rid of them or at least limit their reach.
When you offer courses like ART & ACTIVISM it is fair to say the university’s mission is not to educate but to brainwash.
Sadly the profession has turned into activism. Those who get into library science no longer solely have goals of literacy but of social justice. This librarian is one of a legion. You get rid of him/her there is one just like them to take their place.
I think that has to do with forcing librarians to have Masters Degrees. We just need to demand that our cities and schools hire the right people...not the people who check the 'correct' boxes. I promise there are plenty of people who would be happy to be a middle school librarian if they didn't need a masters.
I totally agree! I had at one time looked into getting a MLS but didn't. I love libraries and all they do but there is a way to do it without pushing a political agenda.
I have known a few people who really wanted to be Librarians but could not justify the degree vs the pay. The one actual Librarian I knew who had the degree said it was a huge waste of time and money since most of what she did could be taught on the job and that a passion for reading was easily more important than education.
Doesn't surprise me. I think we try to have degrees for things that don't need them.
Yes, just another example of government substituting credentials for competence.
My mother had an MLS back in the 1970s, but they weren’t activists back then. Now, EVERYONE is an activist. That’s a big part of why everything is such a mess.
But but but she has 111 whole followers! 111!
I didn't double check, but are you sure those are their pronouns? /s
A fine point! This person's pronoun could be "asshole."
They should be booting him into touch how do you speak to students using that kind of language.
Hopefully, this is the "off duty" voice, because it would be very disturbing for a librarian to be a self righteous warrior with students. The library is a place where the students come for books but in a high, middle, and grade school it is also a place to seek refugee when your dog died, when your friends are mean, when a student is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. A library is a quieter welcoming space for all students to reflect, regroup and read. A library is not a selective safe place ran by social justice warriors/bullies.
He is an adjunct professor, not tenured. However, he is not afraid of being dismissed. Possibly because he shares prevailing views.
Except no one knows who it was. These people need to be exposed.
Foul, ugly woman.
Bea Arthur (whose photo is used for the person’s avatar) would be embarrassed. This frightful librarian is a perfect illustration of why this country is going down the tubes so quickly: how does her crassness, aggression, and rudeness further her agenda? Wasn’t that the left’s main criticism of Trump? Back in 2016 when he was elected, I said the identical words Oliver used yesterday (Trump is a mirror). As you can imagine, it *instantly* rendered me the most unpopular person in the room...cue Jack Nicholson... “You can’t handle the truth!”
Amen!
I think all people who pause in whatever they do--and it may be getting fat on the couch watching TV--long enough to allow some feelings to seep in, must feel that there is an ambient madness about us.
My own feeling is that it is an ambient fear--anxiety if you prefer--about the massive changes happening all around us. Our society is both evolving in good ways, and devolving in bad ways. The acceptance of difference is a good thing. But when the acceptance of difference is not done in an emotionally mature way, in a healthy way, what happens is that an endless openness in one direction becomes a profoundly nasty bigotry in the other.
Anxiety plus immaturity becomes what psychiatrist Murray Bowen called triangulation, which amounts to a form of tribalism. This tribe is arbitrary, mutable, frangible, and everyone knows it. The bond cannot last, and for it to feel organic, it almost necessarily needs to be based upon mutual hatred and rejection. This, in my view, is the sociological basis for ritual sacrifice--sacrifice literally means, by the way "act of the sacred"--which in violence unites a people.
So there is this ambient spirit looking for targets, looking to rationalize hate, looking for outlets and actual victims. That they use a claimed compassion and care for people they designate "victim" really has nothing to do with it. That is a superficial patina that should fool no one. If you are angry, anxious, and emotionally violent, it comes out. It's clear.
And this energy has long latched easily onto "the Jews". "The Jews" are spread thinly and have existed in powerful concentrations nowhere (until Israel). They were clearly different, weak, and in general unusually successful, both in business and in learning. All these traits make for powerful attractors of resentment. It is easy to project onto them all of one's fears, aggressions, and frustrations. And this has often resulted in pogroms.
Consider for a moment the fact that there exists a word for racist violence used uniquely for Jews.
What happened in southern Israel was a pogrom, no different from Kristallnacht. It is an old story, So is lying about it.
What is new, and I will continue to point to the existentially surreal emotional quality of this, is the combination of rhetorics of compassion, tolerance, peace and kindness, with the sort of viciousness that was displayed in that New York video. These are people who put oat milk in their lattes, and donate money to local dog shelters (well, maybe not Muslims, who don't like dogs, but certainly the people nodding in the audience). They are people who put rainbow flags in their windows and on their cars, and have the Tolerance bumper sticker on their Subarus, Teslas and Volkswagens.
That's weird. Hitler didn't preach tolerance and compassion. Neither did the Grand Mufti of Israel, or probably even the Tsars who created the Pales of Settlement.
Decent people need to wake up not just to the Anti-Semitism in their midst--that particular bigotry is obvious and undeniably embraced by many if not most on the Left--but to the overall viciousness, rejection of the Other, and profound immaturity and childisness they exhibit daily in all their illiberal actions and transactions.
We are in the midst of a reinvention of “truth”. According to the new orthodoxy, there are no objective truths anymore. Only narratives. And whoever has power creates the narrative. And those with power can bully the rest of us who reject their narrative, their version of “truth”. It’s very jarring, until you see it for what it is. A power grab by people who can’t succeed on terms of equal opportunity. Bitter losers who need to tear down a system in which they can’t succeed. It’s the system’s fault. Not theirs. But they offer nothing better. And the world is starting to see that. Claudine Gay is the poster child for this failing DEI orthodoxy. Davos is being mocked. Ibram X Kendi is seen as a fraud. It’s all fraying at the edges.
I always laugh when I hear people say "that's my truth". Which, by the way, is code for I'm a psychopath.
We are all entitled to our own opinions. We are not entitled to our own facts
I’m a psychopath…hahahahah! I hate that phrase so much. They must not realize there is such a thing as an opinion!
It's a dog whistle, is what it is! Great observation. I'm stealing that.
I've always been crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
Love Waylon Jennings
Well I would say he has the right idea there.
The other super annoying phrase is, "you do you".🤮
"That's my authentic lived truth, so you can't refute it."
We used to call it baggage and try to rid ourselves of it so we could be our best selves.
I agree, but as was written some 2,500 years ago, "there is nothing new under the sun." Yes, rockets and robots are new, but human nature has not changed. Emotions of greed, insecurity, doubt and confusion, violence and hate existed then and exist now.
What postmodernism is is a rationalization of emotions that precede it. It is a ratification of moral confusion, and a latent masochistic need for obedience to anyone who can claim they know the difference between right and wrong. They are looking for a Fuehrer, just as were the university students and professors who were Hitler's earliest and most enthusiastic supporters.
All of this is simply individual psychodynamic failure to individuate, propagated and generalized across a complex social order whose structure has always depended entirely on its components--individuals--and which is disintegrating pari pasu with individual failures to grow up.
What we know now is that most formal metaphysical claims, made by individual religions, are arbitrary and probably not accurate. This means that the metaphysical bases of social order are void. This does not mean God does not exist, but that He did not send his only begotten Son to be ritually murdered; and that all supposedly Holy Books were written by people who in some respects either didn't know what they were talking about, or who wrote them for very venal and selfish purposes, or who only imperfectly captured something real.
In all cases, it means that traditional foundations for social order have had to be renegotiated. Collectivisms like Communism and Nazism (and Islamism) are regressions. They are trying to go back to orders remembered mythically as stable and fulfilling, and to do so through a violence which is both a means and an end.
The only path forward is through generalized individual growth, which is to say through psychological individuation and differentiation. All political theories need to be evaluated on this basis: do they encourage personal growth, or retard and discourage it?
That's probably a lot for this morning, but I won't apologize!!!
Sounds very Nietzscheian. Very Uber menche.
I agree with your assessment that mankind is capable of horrible behavior. But I see Christianity as the break on those awful urges. “If there is no God, everything is permissible.”
(Dostoyevsky)
I very much believe in God. Most quantum physics pioneers were clear Theists of some fashion or other. The very existence of the universe itself seems to demand a First Observer to make the math work, or so I understand. The math also requires that we are surrounded by a nearly infinite field of energy in all directions, called the Zero Point Field, or Quantum Vacuum.
I personally think the nature of our existence, and the nature of God are scientific questions. And I view the failure of "science" writ large to pursue them, and the stupidity of the cultural ideas being taught on nearly all college campuses as closely related.
My particular curse is I see stupidity in all directions. I do have a high IQ, but much more importantly a very high emotional pain tolerance. It is difficult recognizing that the universe is not simple and that there exists a LOT we don't know, and don't know we don't know. Far easier to choose an old, at least partly wrong answer from the shelf. Or a new, completely wrong choice, like Communism or Fascism.
Most people do not want to start that work, because there is no way to see an end to it. The starting point is the decision to undertake in faith an open ended journey. Every day is both scary and interesting.
I have never seen a conflict between belief in God and science. I think they go hand in glove.
I would say that science more or less demands a belief in something like a God. This fact is seemingly not taught, and seemingly unknown to most who have not pursued the topic privately.
In my own view, ALL religious books get closer to the truth than any atheism. And I say that as someone whose academic topic was Comparative Religion.
And oddly Islam is the antidote to Christianity. A bloodthirsty cult of fatwas and jihads, murder and oppression. Yet we foolishly accord it First Amendment protections as a "religion." Silly us.
I’ve known some genuinely good Muslims. There certainly is a lot of Jew hate, misogyny and violence in the Koran. But there is much that is good too.
The radical intolerance displayed by Muslims in their conquests, and not infrequently since, is in my view an echo of the descendants of the Maccabees, who I believe were called Hasmoneans, who were the first group I know of to punish religious diisidence.
This was taken much farther by early Christians, with more or less literal rivers of blood filling sewers during conflicts over seemingly silly issues like whether or not the Trinity was symbolic or literal.
I think of what the Spanish did in the New To Them World, and feel that Christians live in glass houses. Both World Wars were fought between nominally Christian nations, and of course the Wars of Religion—such as the 30 Years War—were highly sanguinary.
My own view is that the best course is to encourage what is good in Islam and discourage what is bad.
I dont think banning Muslims from political office is a goid idea, but do feel it is a goid idea asking ALL candidates for national office to affirm that the Constitution and the laws of their States are the supreme law of the land.
We do not face even remotely the problems with Islam that Europe does. They need to either defend Liberal values, or accept the failure of their cultures and civilization within 25 years or less, even barring the calamities many if us fear are being planned for us by sociopathic and ignoble elites.
My two cents.
And I will ask: what goid did our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan do for us? I think we were manipulated into a profit making scheme, through the cultuvated hate of people who in their own way are also pawns of larger forces.
"We do not face even remotely the problems with Islam that Europe does."
Only a matter of time as we deal with our own third-world invasion.
"What good did our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan do for us?
You know the answer to that, too. Nothing good. The idiotic globalist exercise in futile nation building cost us trillions of dollars and, more important, the lives of thousands of patriotic young combat soldiers. And now they've gotten us mired in an equally idiotic mess in Ukraine that will lead to no good end.
The difference is that Islam was born a violent religion whose mission was to subjugate by the sword. Jesus never said or did what Mohammad said and did. Have churches and Christians acted horribly, killing and maiming? Yes. But those were acts of sinners, and they would go to hell. In Islam you are rewarded for killing the infidel with the opportunity to rape 72 virgins. Sick. You may know nice people who happen to be Muslim, but I find nothing redeeming about Islam. Imagine what our world would be like if Mohammad had never been born.
THIS ^^^
So the resurrection is the test of faith for most, but not all, Christian denominations. The entire point of faith is that it is not subject to worldly proof. But Christianity long ago recognized what you call individuation (which I agree with and embrace) as the exercise of free will. And much good has been accomplished in this world by people exercising theirs, along with some bad too. But even if a person exercises his/her free will to reject faith altogether, I think it unwise to throw away the underpinnings of society because it was originally faith based.
I’m a conservative, which means I am all in favor of conserving what has worked in the past. I am simply speaking to the broader social reality that many Americans are not Christian, and never will be. In my view, Atheism is a very poor substitute, not least because it requires denying our best scientific desciptions of reality.
It would in principle be the job of Humanists in Humanities departments to help build something new and cohesive, but most of them are cowards. I speak from personal experience, having strongly considered and worked towards an academic career.
I am not proselytizing. If I could waive a wand and make everyone Christian I would not. But this nation was founded on Judaeo-Christian principles and I think it foolish to damage/weaken a structure's foundation. Not a fan of the humanists. They seem to inevitably replace God with themselves. Ugh. Which I think is where we are at this point and time
But God wanted his son to be raised by a Jewish mommy and daddy in the traditions of the Jewish religion pretalmud
This is such an excellent comment!
This is quite literally the plot of the Ayn Rand classic, Atlas Shrugged. It is my hope, NCMaureen, that Atlas is indeed shrugging now, and that is what we are seeing.
But the media has their back
The radical left seems to believe that if they can create and control a certain narrative, they will accumulate and maintain power. So far it’s had more positive than negative results. It’s why cancel culture became prevalent. If people are only exposed to one narrative, most will eventually believe it.
“My truth” is another tool in the box to control the narrative and discredit others.
Stay alert. Sometimes bitter losers are trying to tear down the system and can offer nothing better, as you say. However, some elites (with power) are trying to tear down the system of the middle class and peasants, to create chaos, surveil people, and damage/destroy property, so they can buy it all up cheap. They want resources and land. They want to control and run everything. "Useless eaters" (the middle class and peasants) lose power.
Very profoundly said, thank you. A rubber band stretched too far too fast does not envelope things to hold them together, it snaps.
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
I disagree. I just watched it. He said "we know it's not true" in response to the claims that they were supporting rapists and baby killers, and did so after explicitly claiming that Israel needs to be "liberated" and tacitly supporting many terrorist groups, like the PFLP, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and others. All of those groups have committed acts of mass murder. All preach genocide in Israel.
It cannot be emphasized enough that "liberation" equals mass murder for these people, and that while they don't brag about it in front of people who may object, they are relatively open and clear about it. They think killing "Zionists" is an ethical and even necessary act.
The people the "Palestinians" ACTUALLY need to be liberated from are the terrorists and thieves who have seized control of their societies and political orders and who have made a bad situation vastly, vastly worse, for purely venal and selfish reasons.
If the "Palestinian" people suffer, it is because of their leaders. Israel wants and has long wanted nothing more than peace, and has made what in retrospect were bad decisions often in support of the possibility of peace.
I suppose you could read it as "We are not rapists and baby killers, because they are oppressors and thus the labels are wrong. We are freedom fighters". But I am stretching there. Ultimately it is someone trying to ignore or justify something horrible.
Maybe so, but both interpretations are reasonable and it would be wise and simply good journalism to seek clarification before publishing such a polarizing article.
Not really. He is speaking of naked and unmistakeable terrorist groups as friends in their "struggle" to "liberate" Palestine. That's a duck.
You are free to form your own opinion, obviously. And my own opinion is that you likely tend to support what he is saying and are thus attempting to make something relatively clear ambiguous because it is discreditable and even contemptible.
I am quite capable of feeling pity for the descendants of the refugees from the 1948 War of Israeli Existence, but that pity is reliably diluted by their continuing open and enthusiastic support for psychopathic serial killers.
Jeff, considering ALL he said, and ALL he’s admitted doing, I must admit what I am hearing him say (video) was HAMAS DID NOT rape women or behead babies … even though the Presidents keeps saying they did.
It’s not the least bit surprising to hear to hear him say HAMAS is innocent of those charges, or in fact, HAMAS and other “freedom fighters” are justified in such (terrorist!) behaviors, even if it is true.
Giving this man the benefit of the doubt is naive. He’s clearly proud of what he says, the groups he’s formed and been apart of, and intends to use his platform to spew, and recruit to, his antisemitic, antigovernment and antiAmerican ideologies.
Honey-- I agree totally! And imagine what those earnest(?) students listening to him are getting from his speech? I'm sure the take away for many of them was "yeah- I guess we "know" that the stories that the valiant Hamas boys did not rape women or behead babies! That's all propaganda BS from the Jew-run media and government. Our teacher/leader is speaking truth to power!"
I like your post, Unsaint. But, I am not sure this is new.
All that is required is that people adopt some Ideology or other and feel convinced that they are pursing Good. For instance, there's the Eugenics movement which started in the US with a Better Babies program. The word even has "good" in it - from Wiki:
"Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well', and -γενής (genḗs) 'come into being, growing')[1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.[2][3][4]
People in the US and then Germany knew that they were very good - ethically and scientifically advanced peoples. But, step by step you get to a very dark place with Ideologies, then as now.
https://www.pittparents.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
"A century ago, fueled by exciting and idealistic new fake-Science (eugenics), progressives in California began state-sponsored, legal, compulsory eugenic sterilizations."
https://www.pittparents.com/p/echoes-of-eugenics-what-the-doctors
"Study the evolution of Nazi medical practice and its roots in American eugenics and you’ll find, as Mark Twain said, that history may not repeat itself – but it does rhyme."
This could be today: "“In 1933 the convergence of political, scientific, and economic forces dramatically changed the relationship between the medical community and the government. That same convergence is occurring again [in 1996] and must be approached with great caution if medicine is to remain focused on the preservation of physical and medical integrity.”)"
So, Eugenics was not at all a "bad word" to most at one time just like DEI,CRT, Gender Identity,, Gendered Souls, LGBTQIA+++++, Oppressor-Oppressed groups, decolonization, Land Acknowlegments, etc. They are all wonderful and "progressive" - about tolerance, love, making people and the world better! But, they took us to a dark place: rampant antisemitism and the great profitable ($$$$) human experiment in drugging and mutilating children, teens, & intentionally confused young people to try to resemble the opposite sex.
That's not unreasonable. Technically the Arabs are Semitic also. It's a linguistic term, as far as I recall. But I do think I read that "anti-semitism", which was at one time formally respectable in Europe, did at that time also include Arabs. I may be wrong. I don't have time to look it up.
But I think the hate for Jews was pretty open and unambiguous until very recently.
I looked that up a while ago. It was coined by an academic specifically to describe hatred of Jews, not semites in general. It was a poor word choice because, as you said, Arabs are also semites. "Jew hate" is far more accurate. We should drop "antisemitism" in favor of "Jew hate."
Fine by me.
I call it good old fashion Jew hating.
Can we ask the journalists at the Free Press to investigate who is behind the AP Stylebook? Every wonder why the media pivoted from "illegal aliens" to "undocumented immigrants?" "the homeless" to "those experiencing homelessness". And "gender-affirming care?" Don't get me started on that disgusting term...
"Changes in the AP Stylebook, 56th Edition, include:
—A new chapter on inclusive storytelling: its importance and how to achieve it.
—Detailed guidance on writing about people with disabilities and disabled people.
—Many updates on immigration, the coronavirus, gender and race-related coverage, including the capitalization of Black and expanded use of singular they.
—A revised chapter on religion, with guidance on when Catholic rather than Roman Catholic should be used on first reference.
—A thoroughly updated chapter on using social media for reporting"
I suggest that the milquetoast term "antisemitism" be permanently replaced on all fronts by the more accurate word, "JEWHATE".
Or Nazi
I find it so odd that the same people comparing Trump and MAGA to Hitler and Nazis are the very ones expressing the anti-semitism.
Democrats used to be the party of just 'tax & spend.'
To that they've added 'hate, blame & (of late) project.'
Aren't these the people with "coexist" and "be kind" stickers on their cars?
It was interesting to discover how completely they were projecting.
I thought Nazi meant "person whose opinion I disagree with"?
Originally it was racist, but since that one's getting overused, it's now Nazi.
The Nazis were/are a very specific political and social entity. Every Nazi was/is a jewhater, but not every jewhater was/is a Nazi.
Ha-ha. There are so many Jew haters. Of course, they do not all belong to the National Socialist Party aka Nazi Party. They are members of all parties in the world.
Agreed, Ann. It's far too antiseptic, far too polite.
I agree completely.
I get the angst about the wretched dems books in school libraries. And it’s shameful, but realistically how many kids are really reading those bore fests. I’d venture not many and in inner city schools- none, mostly because they can’t read.
Now that’s not to say it’s right or fair so it should be corrected. Kids should have the opportunity to ignore R books also.
You nailed it. I bet the actual circulation numbers are incredibly low in most school libraries with politicized books like these. It is an other case of public funds circling back into the coffers of Lefty politicians - a nice addition to teacher union funds going exclusively to “D” politicians.
My question is where are these books coming from? I agree with you, that these books are likely not being checked out. That tells me there is no demand. Yet a lot of these school districts have many copies of these books. I doubt these books were donated.
These books were likely purchased using taxpayer money solely for the purpose of diversifying the library, content be damned. It's seems to me that this is simply a way for school libraries to funnel money to political activitists and politicians.
Your comment made me realize stuffing these books in also boosts sales.
If only these boring politicians would write graphic novels like Gender Queer, they might get more of a following! Lol!
How about the Holocaust Museum in DC providing a new exhibition on antisemitism in the 21st Century. The atrocities of October 7 — photos, video and personal accounts - should be seen there. It is a reality that needs light shed.
I know October 7 video the select press were shown by Israel is really horrible, but perhaps wider release with faces and language of actual Palestinian terrorists would help blunt some of this denialism in the same way actual Holocaust survivors testimony helps blunt Holocaust denial
Personally I think they should release all of the video to everyone. As bloody and horrible as it is. We hid these things because we don't want to offend or upset people. But everyone should be offended and upset. Everyone of these people who deny the violence, tear down posters of missing Israeli children, etc should be locked in a room and show the entire 45 minutes.
I'm reminded of the Ludovico Technique in A Clockwork Orange.
I agree, but the response from the left will be it's AI, cut & paste, propaganda, etc.
Anything to deny any existence of anything ot meeting their narrative.
I will add that I personally would feel ZERO desire to read any President's memoir, after perhaps TR, or maybe Coolidge, who was Silent Cal, but who also had good things to say when he did speak.
Conservative books worth reading would include Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France"; any book by Thomas Sowell, with "Basic Economics" a good start; "The Road to Serfdom" or the "Fatal Conceit", by Friedrich Hayek; "Intellectuals" by Paul Johnson--or just about anything else he wrote; "Economics in one easy lesson", by Henry Hazlitt; "Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater and Brent Bozell; and "The Black Book of Communism", by assorted former Communists, who were mostly French.
That's a short list. Read any of those and think about it, and you will find yourself realizing that we are not all pointy tailed, horned demons. Conservatives are decent people who simply have adopted a mature and useful attitude to the processes of social and economic continuity, and sustainable cultural growth. That, in any event, is my own view.
America’s Cultural Revolution. by Christopher Rufo.
I find my blood boiling at times as I listen to this book. It’s not just that lefties, starting in the 1960s with Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis, reinvented Marxism to attack America from within, it’s that we good citizens let it all happen.
It started before the 1960s.
How about start with school choice and reformat the whole system. Parents given a choice between the crap right now and a curriculum filled with books, ideas and teachers filled with ideas from the books you mention above. I might add The Closing of The American Mind - Bloom.
Our local school system has a compliance training for teachers each year done in August during preservice week. If it would be played for the public at large they would realize how their kids education is full of indoctrination. Someone ought to do FOIA requests and put it out there for the world to see!!
And yes, the precise reason school choice is opposed by the Unions is that they would lose in any open competition, because they suck at everything they do except making kids dumb enough to buy the BS they feed them. They need stupid so they feed stupid.
Even Abbott can't get school choice approved.
That was a surprise
Yes, Bloom is another one. What is funny about him is that he was a gay Jewish atheist Democrat, or so I recall. He simply wasn't crazy, and Crazy was making teaching not fun for him, and he tried to speak against it. He was hated for it, by the Crazies, who of course have gotten worse since.
"1984" and "Atlas Shrugged". And they really shoud be in the Current Events section.
Your title needs correction: "NYU Adjunct Professor Tells Students..."
Hiring adjunct professors is how universities have been able to expand their administration. Full, tenured professors are expensive and a lot of times irritating. Adjunct professors can be hired, onboarded, paid and dismissed without consequences.
This doesn't make his statements any less offensive, but it provides context. Perhaps universities should start firing administrators and hiring full time professors?
At least you identified one of the biggest problems - "Full, tenured professors are expensive" which is more of a mystery than the erection of the great pyramids.
Exactly. How do they warrant their expense?
They're folks who got degrees in Education, which is typically the easiest program to get accepted to, and never left college, which is basically a form of day care.
They have little/no life experience, but are molding young minds.
Professors do not get degrees in Education. They get degrees in their field of study.
People who get degrees in education end up in the K12 system, indoctrinating younger children.
I’m always impressed by the ones who insist on being called Doctor.
I habitually called my professors "Dr." (unlike most of my fellow grad students, who called their professors by their first names), because I was raised to be respectful.
My thesis professor was a Harvard grad. One day, he mentioned to me that at Harvard--back in his day (he was on the verge of retirement)--they referred to their professors as "Mr.," not "Dr." Apparently it was considered uncouth to draw excessive attention to the PhD.
I wonder what he would think of Harvard now.
Long ago and far away it was explained in my presence thus: Professor is the higher title because any idiot could eventually obtain a doctorate (and many have) whereas one had to convince a Governing Body of one's worth to become a professor. (I throw this on the pile for historical context; it's clear that any idiot can also become a professor -- and clearly, many have.)
As in Dr. Jill
Or they end up in the White House, enabling their incompetent and mendacious spouses.
unless they are "not a Dr. Jill"
Because we, society, worship at the altar of the PhD because most people can’t get to that level of education. It’s either too expensive or one is not a “student”. People who work with their hands are looked down upon, people who actually know how to DO stuff, and we raise up academics who don’t DO anything. It’s a mystery.
Do you think this cartoon character has a PhD? More likely he is skilled at calling attention to himself.
Someone who is teaching molecular biology or history or most other subjects studied in their field of expertise. They didn't get degrees in education. Now to be sure, one can question the importance or utility of many disciplines of study. I look to the traditions of the liberal arts and humanism as a guide for teaching critical thinking and the pursuit of values and truth.
One of the structural changes in the economy today is the rise of "fields" of academic studies--which are NOT "disciplines" of academic study. So universities have a glut of "earth scientists" who are NOT qualified in Physics, Astrophysics, Geology, Astronomy, Climatology, Toxicology, etc. Funding is behind these "field" lightweights, and actual disciplines can't get funding if they venture into any of the current propaganda areas. Add in, of course, DEI, non-scientific belief systems (gender dysphoria, climate scam), yada, yada.
Good point.
And you identified the problem that Linda Mills won’t even hold non tenured professors accountable for hate speech.
Evidently he has not been a NYU employee since 2019.
ah- there's the rub!! Then the full-professors would have to work their butts off!
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
Please don't spam comments.
Sounds like you are not bright.
Stop it now!!!
I appreciate James Fishback's additional research and reporting.
Alumni MUST call President Linda Mills at 212-998-2345 and tell her to take action!
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
Posting this 4 times doesn't make this any more true or persuasive than the 1st time. Unless, like "Democrat think", repetition makes a lie the truth.
Be kind this poor soul has no life.
666
you are NOT listening for comprehension Jeff! It's clearly in the video !
Even if what he says is true, that NYC is a zionist city, this fact doesn't negate that attrocities could and were committed. Those students should take their $60k and buy coffee, books, and substack subscriptions....would go way further!
If New York City were Zionist, we'd have a better educated, scientifically literate, and more productive population.
And, better sense of humor.
NYC did for most of its history I think.
If it is a Zionist aka Jewish city then why is he living there? Is this guy a plant?? This should be a wake up call to everyone that this is deliberate to change hearts and minds against Jews and Israel. There are many others like this guy who have infiltrated the U. S. A few are in Congress too.
And the Nazi party took roots in the Universities in Germany in the 1920’s. Professors, taught Jew hate and looked the other way when their Jewish colleagues were fired. Especially in the sciences.
OK, but then they'd have to think for themselves.
Really. Is he calling for attacks there too?
Gen. Eisenhower predicted a day when the horrors of the Holocaust might be denied. He invited reporters and had US troops filmed the atrocities they witnessed when they liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp. My wife always covers that in her book talks (Memory Is Our Home). She gets invited by churches, temples, public libraries but not school libraries. Unfortunately, her audiences are older and mot younger who she wants to reach. Check out
President Eisenhower was far more perspicacious than any of us give him credit for. From his warning about the rise of the military industrial complex (the model for all other government-funded, lobbyist-enabled industrial complexes) to his insights about humanity’s propensity for historical amnesia, the sage from Kansas certainly understood the peril of an ignorant citizenry. I wonder how many libraries carry his biography.
People mock Kansans, but they tend to have better sense than average.
I agree. Salt of the earth types. Pompeo is from Kansas.
“Eisenhower’s Foresight: Protecting the Truth of the Holocaust” on Time: Jan 27, 2021, 9:30 - 10:00 A.M.
https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/VEFBSTAYCONEISEN0121
Eisenhower also saw the need for the US to have a good self defense and initiated the building of freeways as an important way to move troops and supplies. This at a time, post WW II, when America was the apex world leader. Biden, in an era when the US has many powerful enemies, has an open border policy that defies the idea of a nation protecting itself.
And despite all that infrastructure money, a lot of decrepit roads and bridges.
What is your wife’s recommendation for the best biography on Ike?
Stephen Ambrose’s two volumes are a good starting point
Thanks!
Yes, kiddies - it didn't happen. You didn't see those videos coming out of Israel. Who are you going to believe - me or your lyin' eyes?
Sometimes at three o'clock in the morning keeping one's nerve can be tough; the temptation to lose all hope is overwhelming. Finally though, through the fog we are seeing this ship of state - ever so slowly - turn around, in large part thanks to platforms like Substack and forums like TFP. And as icing on the cake we are watching the Lamestream press slip under the waves. (Waves to the Failing NY Times, the Washington Compost, the LA Times, and now even Sports Illustrated)
We are grateful. The stakes couldn't be higher. We Just May Make It.™
glad you are feeling optimistic Jim! I sometimes wonder.
It sounds like he was claiming that it’s not true that they support Hamas violence, not that the violence didn’t happen. I think the entire premise of this article is misguided.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Hello! I’d be interested in how many substantive books on conservatism are in those libraries, esp memoirs of more consequential modern GOP Presidents like Reagan (“A Life in Letters” especially) and Nixon (I said consequential, not necessarily successful). I could hope for books by Austrian school economists and Thomas Sowell, etc., too, but these are school libraries after all.
Also, antisemites are dicks.
Of course leftist reporters deny Hamas's atrocities. They also deny the invasion of illegals at our southern border. Orwell pointed out decades ago that repressive leftists lie about everything (as if he needed to do so). The leftist mentality is based on a lie precisely because Marxism is based on a lie. It is antithetical to human nature. In America, leftists have been lying to people since the progressive movement took hold and the New York Times became its oracle. Walter Duranty, anyone?