Prof claims that violence against Asians from non-white people is still caused by ‘white supremacy’ [More]
Who better to listen to than some Marxist Ho…?
[Via Michael G]
Tag: academia
What’s Merit Got to Do with It?
Hell to Pay
Oberlin College Sues Insurers For Refusing To Cover $36 Million It Paid Gibson’s Bakery For Defamation And Other Torts (Update)- .
Four insurance companies have told the college to pound sand. Have you ever rooted for insurance companies ever? There’s a first for everything. [More]
I’ve been following this story for some time because I have a bit of history with Oberlin.
We actually drove there yesterday to tour a Frank Lloyd Wright house deeded to the college, and I had time to stop in at Gibson’s and buy a t-shirt.
I’ve always liked Wright even though I am presumptuous enough to question some of his design choices. I learned about Fallingwater in college and his son’s Wayfarer’s Chapel was a regular place we’d take visitors to see when we lived nearby in SoCal.
Here’s the house, and also there was the weirdest non sequitur of a sticker on the back of a sign at the entrance to the property:
[Via Michael G]
Send in the Clowns
Students demanding action to end crime near University of Cincinnati’s campus [More]
This is a job for People’s Safety Reimagined!
[Via Michael G]
An Inconvenient Truth
Michigan Court: University Firearms Ban ‘Consistent With the Second Amendment’ [More]
Maybe not with the Second Amendment, but inconveniently, consistent with Jefferson and Madison. Evidently, they wanted to minimize dueling.
What the crowing antis don’t tell us is that the rule was not a law with criminal penalties, but instead, violations could result in “minor punishments at the discretion of the Faculty, or of the board of Censors, approved by the Faculty.”
Still, if we’re talking historical context, I’m not seeing a way around this “Gotcha!” except to make a different argument entirely.
That said, if anyone does see a way around it, that’s why we have “Comments” here.
[Via Michael G]
Structural Sophism
Gold Hat Politics
The Going Rate
Cities with the Biggest Homicide Rate Problems [More]
There ought to be a chart showing how many are Bloomberg cities and how all of the problem districts are Democrat strongholds.
And I’m not impressed with “experts” who profess the answer is more Big Brother, unsound thinking, and denial of the obvious.
A Harvard Education
Letting a state with less than 1 million people have an equal say over who joins the SCOTUS as one with over 30 million doesn’t make sense. [More]
Not understanding the Constitution and the considered intent that went behind it means you won’t understand the Bill of Rights, either.
That such an obnoxiously ignorant child should have Astroturf-promoted influence is obscene.
[Via Steve T]
A Second Amendment Guy
“I’m a Second Amendment guy. I taught it for four years, six years in law school. And guess what? It doesn’t say that you can own any weapon you want. It says there are certain weapons that you just can’t own. Even during when it was passed, you couldn’t own a cannon. You can’t own a machine gun.… No, I’m serious.” [More]
Someone should dig up syllabuses, the texts he used, and some exams.
What a dog-faced pony soldier’s ass. That not one Democrat or “commonsense gun safety group” member feels compelled to publicly correct such blatant incompetence and dishonesty is all anyone needs to know their integrity.
[Via Michael G]
Oh, Peace Team Sounding Louder
The New Normal
Ask the Expert!
There are historical and psychological reasons why the legal age for purchasing assault weapons does not make sense [More]
And if you want to know about gun laws, who better to consult than a “Professor and Director, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies [and] Editorial Director, Feminist Studies”?
[Via Dan Gifford]
And Thank You for Your Service?
“Having a US military background is the single-strongest individual-level predictor of whether a subject . . . is classified as a mass casualty offender,” the study by Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) said. [More]
What it doesn’t say is what commonalities offenders share before enlisting. It also presupposes risks are evenly distributed rather than concentrated into observable subsets.
I can’t help but make the seemingly unrelated analogies that violent crime is not widespread but concentrated, and Trump is so good at firing people because he’s so lousy at hiring them.
[Via WiscoDave]
Those Who CAN Remember the Past…?
Come and Take It
$5 million in reparations to EVERY US descendant of slavery: Howard University pushes for UN tribunal to force Washington to pay African Americans — WITHOUT the approval of voters [More]
They’re going to have to pick up my share in person.
I don’t suppose Justin’s going to be with them…?
[Via Michael G]
Terror Tactics
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah..
California university hosts transgender ‘camp’ retreat for students to ‘explore’ their gender [More]
The parody lyrics write themselves.
[Via Michael G]
The Nutty Professors
Five University System of Georgia (“USG”) professors filed suit to block a 2017 statutory amendment that removed public colleges and other public postsecondary educational institutions from the statutory definition of “school safety zone.” [More]
I’m wondering which fields in academia don’t require being an obnoxiously self-righteous leftist moron to get tenure.
[Via Michael G]
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
[Via 1Gat]
