https://amgreatness.com/2020/02/14/woken...education/

Essay on wokeness in universities.


"...The intoxication that follows from moral certitude is one important reason that the modern academy is increasingly inimical to free speech and everything that surrounds the cultivation of free speech: free inquiry, free action, and free minds....


Once upon a time, and it was not so long ago, colleges and universities were institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the transmission of the highest values of our civilization. Today, most are dedicated to the repudiation of truth and the subversion of those values. In short, they are laboratories for the cultivation of wokeness. This is especially true, with only a handful of exceptions, of the most prestigious institutions. The tonier and more expensive the college, the more woke it is likely to be.

There are two central tenets of the woke philosophy. The first is feigned fragility. The second is angry intolerance. The union of fragility and intolerance has given us that curious and malevolent hybrid, the crybully, a delicate yet venomous species that thrives chiefly in lush, pampered environments....


Surely many of you have heard about the Twitter sensation Titania McGrath. She is the author of many extravagant woke pronouncements. A personal favorite is this: “If you don’t think exactly the same way as me, then you’ve clearly got a lot to learn about diversity.” Is that satire? Or is it a bulletin from the front? I doubt that any triggered academic could put it better.

The world recently learned that Titania’s real name is Andrew Doyle and that all those woke observations were in jest. A certain amount of hilarity ensued. But the serious point is this: McGrath’s sly tweets are indistinguishable from what is actually, seriously being propagated today in academia—and not only in academia. The mantra is “Diversity.” The reality is strictly enforced conformity about any ideas that might disturb the heavy moral slumber of wokeness. Consider this gem: “It’s a broken kind of democracy that allows a majority of voters to impose their wishes on the rest of us.” I suspect that Adam Schiff would agree...."

it's about time folk got 'woke' to the REAL...

(02-15-2020 10:25 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  it's about time folk got 'woke' to the REAL...

Yeah, but as to the REAL they can't be woke until their bubble is BROKE!

So until their money runs out and they have to live REAL, or until the insulation of their privileged cocoon is stripped away and their insular electronic devices destroyed they won't have to engage the truly raw and threatening.

Wokeness is nothing more than pampering and wealth guilt rolled into one and it really began when Mommy and Daddy quit expecting their kids to work in high school and started buying them SUV's with all the gadgets for college, and breaking their own butts to give their worthless spoiled progeny everything they wanted.

I give you Taylor Swift as the WOKE icon of the nuevo riche progeny of former rednecks.

So Stink we have a generation in this country that has never known true war, never known depravation of even the smallest kind, thinks everyone should have it as good as they do, and are totally ignorant of the sacrifice of their parents to create such a perfect bubble for them, and believes everything they see on TV because it seemed true at frigging Disneyland!

So to reality they can't be woke until they're broke. Hence necessity is not only the mother of invention, but the motivation for education!

As to the colleges they are just an extension of the fantasies of those they teach, but unfortunately they are so concerned not to upset the little precious fools they are entrusted with, because that would have dire financial consequences if mommy and daddy heard about the danger that actually thinking about real problems would create, that lazy lying professors just go along with this bizarre delusion to keep their COLA's rolling in with the tuition increases and rent money from the very class conscious dormitories these privileged little punks are now living in for as much as $2,000 a month so they don't have to share space with another actual human being. They like black culture from the distance of special seating at sports contests, but certainly don't want them in the same dorm. So we get the price variances so if there is a minority in their living facility they are equally privileged and rich and equally deluded. But that's not segregation, that's called preparing future leaders who all want to be the next Elizabeth Warren!

JR, how I love when thou expounds...

#cherioFromTheField

(02-15-2020 10:58 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  JR, how I love when thou expounds...

#cherioFromTheField

Well that one was directed at a lifelong buddy of mine who is killing himself so that his daughter stays in that bubble perpetually. His son is doing fine and will be fine. That kid worked his way through things so that he could escape the bubble he was being placed in. He passed his CPA exam first time out and is a chip off the old block who has forgotten how important his path was and is.

He and his wife are under the delusion that by literally providing everything for their daughter that she will somehow marry well. The don't grasp what a horrid little termagant they are turning here into, but even her extended family (think first cousins) despise her very presence and of course the icon she seeks to become is Taylor Swift, an equally vacuous and vapid individual.

I'm just sick of watching my friend and his wife drop social engagements when their princess calls her serf parents for services needed. I never would have thought that this hard working son of a farmer would do this. In all other things he's a helluva a solid man. I chalk it up however to their societal friends in the large city in which they live.

I live as you know in college town for the state land grant school and agriculture and vet medicine are our benchmarks along with engineering. When the kids pouring into school have tastes that make the realtors here build lavish monstrosities and their parents are stupid enough to create the demand, something has gone horribly wrong with our world. Nobody going to a practical school should live so impractically and at such needless expense as to break their parents.

I was very aware of what my parents sacrificed to provide and consequently held multiple jobs to mitigate their strain especially since I was the oldest and it was going to be rinse wash and recycle for the next two of my siblings.

My college days were 3 guys living in a two room efficiency with a cot and bunkbed and sleeping in our cars when one of us had a date over.

This little princess has moved three times in 3 years and each time to the most expensive new dorm being opened, first on campus and then off. Each time her dad has had to come and move not only her, but her precious little friends whose parents probably see themselves as to wealthy to handle the labor.

This is what is wrong Stink. And this kid is going to be a hardcore lefty because she doesn't think, she responds to be noticed and approved and believes the rest of us to be beneath her magnificence.

(02-15-2020 10:38 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 10:25 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  it's about time folk got 'woke' to the REAL...

Yeah, but as to the REAL they can't be woke until their bubble is BROKE!

So until their money runs out and they have to live REAL, or until the insulation of their privileged cocoon is stripped away and their insular electronic devices destroyed they won't have to engage the truly raw and threatening.

Wokeness is nothing more than pampering and wealth guilt rolled into one and it really began when Mommy and Daddy quit expecting their kids to work in high school and started buying them SUV's with all the gadgets for college, and breaking their own butts to give their worthless spoiled progeny everything they wanted.

I give you Taylor Swift as the WOKE icon of the nuevo riche progeny of former rednecks.

So Stink we have a generation in this country that has never known true war, never known depravation of even the smallest kind, thinks everyone should have it as good as they do, and are totally ignorant of the sacrifice of their parents to create such a perfect bubble for them, and believes everything they see on TV because it seemed true at frigging Disneyland!

So to reality they can't be woke until they're broke. Hence necessity is not only the mother of invention, but the motivation for education!

As to the colleges they are just an extension of the fantasies of those they teach, but unfortunately they are so concerned not to upset the little precious fools they are entrusted with, because that would have dire financial consequences if mommy and daddy heard about the danger that actually thinking about real problems would create, that lazy lying professors just go along with this bizarre delusion to keep their COLA's rolling in with the tuition increases and rent money from the very class conscious dormitories these privileged little punks are now living in for as much as $2,000 a month so they don't have to share space with another actual human being. They like black culture from the distance of special seating at sports contests, but certainly don't want them in the same dorm. So we get the price variances so if there is a minority in their living facility they are equally privileged and rich and equally deluded. But that's not segregation, that's called preparing future leaders who all want to be the next Elizabeth Warren!

Nobody better to typify LA smug wokeness than Taylor Swift. Has anyone ever written shallower lyrics consistently through a career? "Standing in a nice dress"

(02-15-2020 11:45 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 10:38 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 10:25 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  it's about time folk got 'woke' to the REAL...

Yeah, but as to the REAL they can't be woke until their bubble is BROKE!

So until their money runs out and they have to live REAL, or until the insulation of their privileged cocoon is stripped away and their insular electronic devices destroyed they won't have to engage the truly raw and threatening.

Wokeness is nothing more than pampering and wealth guilt rolled into one and it really began when Mommy and Daddy quit expecting their kids to work in high school and started buying them SUV's with all the gadgets for college, and breaking their own butts to give their worthless spoiled progeny everything they wanted.

I give you Taylor Swift as the WOKE icon of the nuevo riche progeny of former rednecks.

So Stink we have a generation in this country that has never known true war, never known depravation of even the smallest kind, thinks everyone should have it as good as they do, and are totally ignorant of the sacrifice of their parents to create such a perfect bubble for them, and believes everything they see on TV because it seemed true at frigging Disneyland!

So to reality they can't be woke until they're broke. Hence necessity is not only the mother of invention, but the motivation for education!

As to the colleges they are just an extension of the fantasies of those they teach, but unfortunately they are so concerned not to upset the little precious fools they are entrusted with, because that would have dire financial consequences if mommy and daddy heard about the danger that actually thinking about real problems would create, that lazy lying professors just go along with this bizarre delusion to keep their COLA's rolling in with the tuition increases and rent money from the very class conscious dormitories these privileged little punks are now living in for as much as $2,000 a month so they don't have to share space with another actual human being. They like black culture from the distance of special seating at sports contests, but certainly don't want them in the same dorm. So we get the price variances so if there is a minority in their living facility they are equally privileged and rich and equally deluded. But that's not segregation, that's called preparing future leaders who all want to be the next Elizabeth Warren!

Nobody better to typify LA smug wokeness than Taylor Swift. Has anyone ever written shallower lyrics consistently through a career? "Standing in a nice dress"

Bullet it's just incomprehensible! When my daughters were growing up I paid attention to which artists they identified with and I listened to their music to see what ideas they were absorbing. In both cases it was reflective. The oldest was into Bon Jovi and the youngest into the Beatles. The oldest had to be curbed from some wild tendencies and the youngest needed to be prodded mildly to get out and get socially involved. They both took it from there. But Bon Jovi or the Beatles the boundaries were still acceptable and the influence fairly natural and normal in their college years. As with all kids they had their growing edges and the only thing I absolutely did right was complaining enough over their rebellion with mild things that they never felt the need to rebel further.

But my friend's daughter's idolization of Taylor Swift is a mammoth concern. You are dead right about what she represents and that to me is far more alarming than anything Bon Jovi or the Beatles ever raised Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds included. Swift to me is a symbol of total Narcissism and one which when disillusioned will open the door to nihilism as well. While she's not my kid, my heart already grieves for my friend and I only hope she meets some practical people and finds herself.

Maybe I should just quite caring and enjoy the complete domination my people and descendants will enjoy over this generation of narcissistic nitwits. Most people I know will adapt and overcome the foolishness of the government.

(02-15-2020 12:28 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Maybe I should just quite caring and enjoy the complete domination my people and descendants will enjoy over this generation of narcissistic nitwits. Most people I know will adapt and overcome the foolishness of the government.

Not if it becomes a crime to think for yourself and repudiate the nonsense the government wants to foist upon us. It didn't save Germans who just wanted to ignore Hitler now did it?

Humberside Police condemned by judge for 'Gestapo' style investigation into transgender tweet
Judge compares investigation into free speech to feared Gestapo from Nazi Germany

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/...po-3847378

Humberside Police have been condemned by a judge for investigating who liked a tweet questioning transgender people.

In a damning court ruling, the High Court ruled Humberside Police unlawfully interfered with Harry Miller’s right to freedom of expression by turning up at his place of work over his allegedly "transphobic" tweets.

(02-15-2020 12:32 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:28 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Maybe I should just quite caring and enjoy the complete domination my people and descendants will enjoy over this generation of narcissistic nitwits. Most people I know will adapt and overcome the foolishness of the government.

Not if it becomes a crime to think for yourself and repudiate the nonsense the government wants to foist upon us. It didn't save Germans who just wanted to ignore Hitler now did it?

Yeah I was being facetious. I've got a friend with s kid just like you are talking about. I've told him numerous times " you have to be cruel to be kind, in the right measure". People that do their best try to do it for their a ahole kids. Old as time itself. Coat tails to collars or something. What's the old saying.

(02-15-2020 12:48 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:32 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:28 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Maybe I should just quite caring and enjoy the complete domination my people and descendants will enjoy over this generation of narcissistic nitwits. Most people I know will adapt and overcome the foolishness of the government.

Not if it becomes a crime to think for yourself and repudiate the nonsense the government wants to foist upon us. It didn't save Germans who just wanted to ignore Hitler now did it?

Yeah I was being facetious. I've got a friend with s kid just like you are talking about. I've told him numerous times " you have to be cruel to be kind, in the right measure". People that do their best try to do it for their a ahole kids. Old as time itself. Coat tails to collars or something. What's the old saying.

Who would have thought, Nick Lowe, child psychologist? Certainly not Nick, but you're right. Sparing your kids hard work and over sheltering them is more destructive than their learning the appropriate life lessons of finding freedom in industry, and wisdom in the avoidance of the foolish and the evil. And that old saw you are trying to remember isn't a familiar one to me.

You know, I share the Libs aversion to hearing opposing views but there's a difference between me and them. I don't attend their speeches or listen to them on tv. Either I mute them or just change the channel. I'm all for free speech and they can knock themselves out but it doesn't mean I have to listen.

It's. So. Simple.

(02-15-2020 03:01 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  You know, I share the Libs aversion to hearing opposing views but there's a difference between me and them. I don't attend their speeches or listen to them on tv. Either I mute them or just change the channel. I'm all for free speech and they can knock themselves out but it doesn't mean I have to listen.

It's. So. Simple.

Yes it's simple, and ineffective. It might work with TV, but fails miserably where your children are concerned. The Ostrich approach is what has permitted the Dems to use Public Education to brainwash our children, convince them that their parents are bad and that their beliefs aren't to be trusted, to convince them that a conspiracy of the prosperous are out to turn the planet against them and to tell them how brilliant little Greta really is.

Perhaps you and your wife were like me and my wife in that we countered every night what the school system tried to teach and that our children were mostly educated prior to 1990 so that the heavy duty propaganda had not yet begun. But with my oldest daughter both she and her husband have had to stay majorly on top of the garbage being taught to my grandchildren.

You have to hear what they are teaching so you can challenge it and keep the young from believing the lies. Just that one simple act teaches them how to think critically and why they shouldn't believe what they see on TV or hear at school without checking it out. I also taught mine how to use a public library and a college library to find the truth in books published before 1990.

At the universities they bury some of that on microfiche and place other volumes in the archives, but they can still be accessed. At Emory during my graduate work only the PC material was on the main floor. The real stuff was archived. That wasn't an accident.

(02-15-2020 12:53 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:48 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:32 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:28 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Maybe I should just quite caring and enjoy the complete domination my people and descendants will enjoy over this generation of narcissistic nitwits. Most people I know will adapt and overcome the foolishness of the government.

Not if it becomes a crime to think for yourself and repudiate the nonsense the government wants to foist upon us. It didn't save Germans who just wanted to ignore Hitler now did it?

Yeah I was being facetious. I've got a friend with s kid just like you are talking about. I've told him numerous times " you have to be cruel to be kind, in the right measure". People that do their best try to do it for their a ahole kids. Old as time itself. Coat tails to collars or something. What's the old saying.

Who would have thought, Nick Lowe, child psychologist? Certainly not Nick, but you're right. Sparing your kids hard work and over sheltering them is more destructive than their learning the appropriate life lessons of finding freedom in industry, and wisdom in the avoidance of the foolish and the evil. And that old saw you are trying to remember isn't a familiar one to me.

Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves

(02-15-2020 05:14 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:53 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:48 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:32 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 12:28 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Maybe I should just quite caring and enjoy the complete domination my people and descendants will enjoy over this generation of narcissistic nitwits. Most people I know will adapt and overcome the foolishness of the government.

Not if it becomes a crime to think for yourself and repudiate the nonsense the government wants to foist upon us. It didn't save Germans who just wanted to ignore Hitler now did it?

Yeah I was being facetious. I've got a friend with s kid just like you are talking about. I've told him numerous times " you have to be cruel to be kind, in the right measure". People that do their best try to do it for their a ahole kids. Old as time itself. Coat tails to collars or something. What's the old saying.

Who would have thought, Nick Lowe, child psychologist? Certainly not Nick, but you're right. Sparing your kids hard work and over sheltering them is more destructive than their learning the appropriate life lessons of finding freedom in industry, and wisdom in the avoidance of the foolish and the evil. And that old saw you are trying to remember isn't a familiar one to me.

Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves

Yep, now that one I've heard.

(02-15-2020 11:22 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-15-2020 10:58 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  JR, how I love when thou expounds...

#cherioFromTheField

Well that one was directed at a lifelong buddy of mine who is killing himself so that his daughter stays in that bubble perpetually. His son is doing fine and will be fine. That kid worked his way through things so that he could escape the bubble he was being placed in. He passed his CPA exam first time out and is a chip off the old block who has forgotten how important his path was and is.

He and his wife are under the delusion that by literally providing everything for their daughter that she will somehow marry well. The don't grasp what a horrid little termagant they are turning here into, but even her extended family (think first cousins) despise her very presence and of course the icon she seeks to become is Taylor Swift, an equally vacuous and vapid individual.

I'm just sick of watching my friend and his wife drop social engagements when their princess calls her serf parents for services needed. I never would have thought that this hard working son of a farmer would do this. In all other things he's a helluva a solid man. I chalk it up however to their societal friends in the large city in which they live.

I live as you know in college town for the state land grant school and agriculture and vet medicine are our benchmarks along with engineering. When the kids pouring into school have tastes that make the realtors here build lavish monstrosities and their parents are stupid enough to create the demand, something has gone horribly wrong with our world. Nobody going to a practical school should live so impractically and at such needless expense as to break their parents.

I was very aware of what my parents sacrificed to provide and consequently held multiple jobs to mitigate their strain especially since I was the oldest and it was going to be rinse wash and recycle for the next two of my siblings.

My college days were 3 guys living in a two room efficiency with a cot and bunkbed and sleeping in our cars when one of us had a date over.

This little princess has moved three times in 3 years and each time to the most expensive new dorm being opened, first on campus and then off. Each time her dad has had to come and move not only her, but her precious little friends whose parents probably see themselves as to wealthy to handle the labor.

This is what is wrong Stink. And this kid is going to be a hardcore lefty because she doesn't think, she responds to be noticed and approved and believes the rest of us to be beneath her magnificence.

I know far too many people like that. My own girlfriend, while not quite to that extent, does everything for her almost 18 year old daughter. Always has. Now she doesn't seem to understand why she has a churlish, lazy, completely irresponsible soon to be adult daughter who won't know how to care for herself when she does go away to college soon. She has a very rude awakening coming.