Tag: academia

Skin in the Game

“Obviously, no one wants to see these tragedies occur — this loss of life — but how the problem is viewed, and therefore what the response is to that problem, is night and day difference,” said Daniel Webster, an American health professor affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. [More]

I disagree. The violence monopolists, the rice bowl blood dancers, like Webster, and their useful idiot fanatics all count on more.

[Via Jess]

A Diller, a Dollar, A Ten o’Clock Scholar

Professors argue K-12 science lessons should prompt activism… Grapin is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning and Lee is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. [More]

So neither of them are, you know, scientists…

Thank goodness! Then they’d be racists!

[Via Michael G]

That’ll Teach ’em!

Creighton University will not remove its ban on pro-Second Amendment posters despite a student libertarian group fighting over the last several months to overturn the policy on First Amendment grounds. [More]

If it’s a private university, then it’s not really 1A, is it? A better question might be why are they patronizing it?

[Via Michael G]

And There Was War in Heaven

His talk at McGill University in Canada titled “The Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate In the United Kingdom and the Divorce of LGB from T Event” ended abruptly after about 100 demonstrators “stormed the room … unplugged the projector and threw flour at the speaker, and the walls inside the faculty building were vandalized as well”… [More]

Thanks, Mensheviks. Us Bolsheviks will take it from here.

[Via Michael G]

I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar

Stony Brook prof Anna Hayward blames stabbed cops for ‘murder’ of their attacker [More]

Scroll down to see that smug grin and take comfort in one thing: She can’t possibly really be a happy person.

They say this contact link is for “media inquiries only.” I always have had a thing about “Authorized Journalists,” and in keeping with “progressive” tenets, I’d say it’s all up to how a person identifies…

[Via Michael G]

As Heard Around the Segregated Drinking Fountain…

‘There is nothing wrong or ungrateful about requesting … the safe spaces necessary to make it through the antiBlack white capitalist institution, Pomona College’ [More]

Right, the problem is capitalism, that is, freedom of association and economic choices.

At $84K per year, I can barely grasp the trouble they’ve seen.

Privileged me was working in factories and warehouses as I lorded it over those with less power.

[Via Michael G]

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