Tag: academia

Some ‘Smart’ People Sure Are Dumb

Who among us HASN’T hit a cop in the head and gotten away with it?

[Via Jess]

Inmates Running Asylum

This month, two psychiatry residents at UCLA, Drs. Ragda Izar and Afaf Moustafa, hosted a talk in which they argued for the “de-patholization” of self-immolation. They said that self-immolation isn’t a sign of mental illness if it’s in resistance to colonization, homophobia, and white supremacy. [More]

This calls for a demonstration.

[Via Michael G]

The Fuddy Professor

Can students get their tuition back?

I wonder if anyone still has a copy of the course syllabuses, assignments, and tests to establish the depth of his Second Amendment focus…

[Via bondmen]

The Blind Men and the Elephant

I’ve talked before about Academia.edu and its repository of gun “studies,” primarily to marvel that research papers would cite someone who never let school get in the way of his education. Anyway, I get daily email update notifications of uploaded papers, and they just did one from 2020 titled “Evaluating the Impact of Gun Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) Initiative within the City of Rochester.”

Me, my eyes glaze over with eggheadspeak and charts (sorry, Dr. Lott, the ADD kicks in and I go into daydream mode), so I always skip to the conclusion, where we find, totally unsurprisingly (and I could have saved this guy a lot of work and just told him) “call-in meetings, custom notification, and GIVE orientation meetings” don’t address the real problem of Democrat collectivist policies creating a crime culture petri dish.

He admits as much, though tries to save face and convince his evaluators he’s still a team player:

While this quasi-experiment might not have been definitive in answering the question of if the program had a particular influence on gun violence incidents based on strategies and activities implemented, the evidence still leads to possible benefits of the GIVE initiative within the city of Rochester.

Homicides dropping from 73 to 57 in one year do not a trend make, and unless and until the whole elephant in the room is addressed, claiming credit for fluctuations is a game played by fools and frauds.

A Show of Solidarity

During a mandatory “structural racism” class at UCLA medical school, a pro-Hamas guest speaker led students in chants of “Free, Free Palestine” and demanded that they bow down to “mama earth” for a prayer. [More]

This is like telling Mao to hold your beer.

Forget the establishment clause. Now put down your fork and raise that fist — or else!

That there was compliance instead of an angry mass walkout tells us much. It figures the program is headed by a pediatrician.

[Via Michael G]

Pride and Prejudice

[T]wo Ivy League teachers are being handed a $1 million grant to “apply” critical race theory to such iconic classics. [More]

As long as we’re rewriting the classics, it’s been done, and better, but I’m afraid NatLamp’s “Obligatory Sex Scenes” (p. 49 and NSFW) are going to need to be updated to remove binary and supremacist biases.

Madcap Campus Hijinx

Deaf Jewish Students at Gallaudet University Forced to Hide From Antisemitic Mob [More]

That badged lump with his hands in his pockets looks like quite the deterrent.

Still, I’m having a tough time getting outraged, except for over the obvious.

Me, I’m hoping that young haranguer in a hijab and thousands like her put on a show at the Democrat Convention. I’m also hoping for some lively antics at tonight’s State of the Union.

[Via Michael G]