Upside-down Academia

 

Just a quick observation about what is, to me, a perplexing aspect of today’s education environment.

We have a kerfuffle in Florida prompted by a very sensible call to prohibit the radical sexual indoctrination of kids in pre-school through third grade. The “alphabet people,” as one popular stand-up comic likes to call them, have their nickers in a twist over the possibility that other people’s young children won’t be fed a load of malarky regarding their gender identity — won’t be, at least, until they turn nine.

We have stories out of Washington state about schools informing teachers that “Parents are not entitled to know their kids’ [imagined sexual] identities. … That knowledge must be earned.” (Apparently birthing, raising, and protecting the little monsters isn’t enough to earn it.)

In the Commonwealth of Virginia we have (another) instance of the public school system deliberately covering up a horrific act of sexual predation that occurred within the school… because, apparently, parents have to earn the right to know that their kids might end up in the hospital after being sexually assaulted in school by a mob of fellow students. At least we can be thankful that there were no in-school police present, lest anyone feel triggered.

Meanwhile, in “higher” “education”:

A majority of the law students at Yale Law School have gone on record to express their opposition to free speech, after throwing a tantrum that at a more worthy institution would have resulted in disciplinary action but that, for this lot of pampered crybullies, is met with passive acceptance by the emasculated nannies who run America’s Ivy League daycare system.

At considerably less toney Syracuse University, it’s a spot of pro-Russian graffiti that has the administration babysitters scrambling to prevent a meltdown among the undergraduate toddlers. This is hardly the first example of that school’s pathetic pandering to a mewling student mob.


So what I don’t understand is why America’s public elementary and high schools seem to think the sexual misuse and abuse of teens and pre-teens is no big deal, but college administrators think ruffling the feathers of the fragile little chicks enrolled in our universities is a kind of violence.

It almost seems backward, somehow.

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  1. RufusRJones Member
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    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

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    Ansonia (View Comment):
    new idea of gender

    This drove G. Gordon Liddy crazy in the 90s. I didn’t get it at the time, but he was totally right.

    Dennis Prager has been talking about it for decades. The Left and their LGBT agenda is intent on destroying the distinctions between men and women — male and female He made them. Everything good, true, and beautiful is under attack from the Left.

    And, can’t you just picture it? It’s a dystopian movie where all the people are dressed in matching gray jumpsuit “uniforms” with short hair. They’re automatons.

    The Left is about conformity — destroying individualism.

    I agree with all of that.

    Specifically what I’m saying is, Liddy was making a great big deal out of changing the meaning of “gender” and then using it in place of “sex”. It’s like the root of how are you process something in your brain instead of talking about the societal implications. That’s the way I remember it. Somebody else can probably explain this better.

    It’s like a brainwashing technique or something.

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  2. Skyler Coolidge
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    Ansonia (View Comment):

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    Happy

    The private lives of consenting adults—- people who aren’t preying on children or teenagers or promoting their lifestyle to my grandkids—-are no business of mine. I’ve had gay neighbors. We got along very well. I liked them.

    Exactly. But they’ve made it a protected political status and have forced opinions on us.  I have a right to resent that.

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  3. Ansonia Member
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    Skyler (View Comment):

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    Happy

    The private lives of consenting adults—- people who aren’t preying on children or teenagers or promoting their lifestyle to my grandkids—-are no business of mine. I’ve had gay neighbors. We got along very well. I liked them.

    Exactly. But they’ve made it a protected political status and have forced opinions on us. I have a right to resent that.

    Agree. As a person who just wants to mind her own business, be involved with sufficiently like minded people and have civil, peaceful and distant interactions  with everyone else, I resent it greatly.

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  4. kedavis Coolidge
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    An aspect of upside-down-ness in academia is that (at least according to some professors) the students are in charge at many universities, and that the professors live in fear of the students.

    I did get some comfort in a headline in one of the legal newsletters that appeared in my in-box that a federal judge is trying to get his colleagues to refuse to hire for coveted judicial clerkship positions any of the Yale law students that participated in the protest to shut down the Federalist Society debate. It would be nice to see such students suffer real consequences for their ignorance. Were I still hiring lawyers, I’d probably start refusing to hire any recent graduates from several of the formerly prestigious law schools like Yale, Georgetown, and others that now produce intolerant narrow-minded snowflakes.

    Unless you were in charge, I expect you would be ordered not to do so, because of the lawsuits.

    And if you were in charge, you’d just get the lawsuits directly. Then you get to decide if turning down Yale grads etc, is worth going out of business.

    I’m sorry, this isn’t hard. You just hire the people you want, for reasons other than where they went to school.

    Those kinds of lawyers specialize in finding out that you were “discriminating” in some way that they argue you should pay for.  They’ll find out that you hired people who got the same GPA but at schools other than Yale…  All they have to do is convince a judge or jury that you were “unfair.”

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  5. kedavis Coolidge
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

     

     

     

    If anyone wants to share that directly, I made a screen-grab:

     

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  6. Zafar Member
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    But I don’t have a moral issue with men choosing to dress like women, or homosexuals lisping girly-talk at each other, however much I find such behavior silly and vaguely pathetic.

    Lispy gays seem kinda fake and they seem like they are trying too hard. But the ‘regular dude’ gays I’ve met seem pretty alright.

    Wrong, Henry Castaigne, wrong! If I didn’t lisp I’d have to hand back my Gay Card and would also lose my fast lane shopping privileges. It’s really important.

    You need to embrace your inner Freddie Mercury.

    (Although he was more bisexual to be honest)

    Are you calling me a killer?!! Ha!

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  7. OmegaPaladin Moderator
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    Zafar (View Comment):

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    But I don’t have a moral issue with men choosing to dress like women, or homosexuals lisping girly-talk at each other, however much I find such behavior silly and vaguely pathetic.

    Lispy gays seem kinda fake and they seem like they are trying too hard. But the ‘regular dude’ gays I’ve met seem pretty alright.

    Wrong, Henry Castaigne, wrong! If I didn’t lisp I’d have to hand back my Gay Card and would also lose my fast lane shopping privileges. It’s really important.

    You need to embrace your inner Freddie Mercury.

    (Although he was more bisexual to be honest)

    Are you calling me a killer?!! Ha!

    No, I’m saying you are are a Queen.

    https://odysee.com/@MusiqueG:5/WE-WILL-ROCK-YOU—QUEEN:2

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