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Why Nick Sirianni Cried

Posted on | February 13, 2023 | 1 Comment

Many people have commented on Philadelphia Eagles Coach Nick Sirianni, who broke down in tears during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Sunday’s Super Bowl. Some interpreted Sirianni’s tears as evidence of his heartfelt patriotism, whereas I know what he was really crying about:

NO MORE FOOTBALL UNTIL SEPTEMBER!

Once the Super Bowl is over, we have to wait nearly seven months before there’s another football game, and even then, the early games are usually lame, especially in college football. Alabama kicks off its season Sept. 2 against Middle Tennessee State University, which isn’t a real team.

They don’t finalize the NFL schedule until spring, but in the meantime, pro football fans will have to endure weeks of blah blah blah from the pundits and commentators, with their “mock draft” scenarios and their wild speculations about possible trades and free agent signings, which is just annoying. Fans don’t want to hear a bunch of talk about football, we want to watch actual football. From September through January, there’s football every weekend — basically 20 weeks of it, including the college bowl games and the NFL playoffs. Fans develop a habit, a circadian rhythm of weekly football-watching — college games Saturday, pro games Sunday, then “Monday Night Football” and “Thursday Night Football” — and let me tell you, life is tough on Tuesday and Wednesday nights with no football to watch. You basically organize your life around watching football during the season, until January arrives and you become conscious that you’re slowly running out of games. The first week of the playoffs is all right — six wild-card games to watch — but then you get to the divisional round and there are only four games. The week after that, the conference championships — only two games! And then, finally, the Super Bowl, which is like Christmas, the Fourth of July, Mardi Gras and Halloween all rolled into one giant football holiday, as far as fans are concerned. And then, after that . . . NO MORE FOOTBALL!

So, yeah, we know why Nick Sirianni was crying. Also, perhaps, he had a premonition that Jalen Hurts would fumble for no reason at all, and give the Chiefs a free touchdown that, when all was said and done, would prove to be the decisive play of the game. Now the Eagles have to spend the next six months thinking about how close they came to getting that Super Bowl championship ring, a special kind of agony and, as Leslie Gore once sang, you’d cry, too, if it happened to you.

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Category: Football

Rule 5 Sunday: Christina Ricci

Posted on | February 13, 2023 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Born on this day in 1980, Christina Ricci is probably best known for her portrayal of Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family and its sequel, Addams Family Values. She’s also appeared in a wide range of more adult roles in movies and TV.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Not so dark and Gothic, but still cute.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1988, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Constitutional Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA – A Tale Of Two Special Prosecutors, Fall, Candy, Julie Banderas Is On The Market, Horrible Histories – Queenian Rhapsody, The Remaining, Valentina Belle, and The Fall Of Carthage.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Cassandra Martin, Oregon, My Oregon, Fish Pic Friday – Amber Lewis, Thursday Tanlines, The Mask is Off Masks, Wednesday Wetness, Forget It Jake, It’s Baltimore, Tattoo Tuesday, Great Moments in #MeToo, The Monday Morning Stimulus Package, Palm Sunday and Maryland, My Maryland

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: On Your Feet Or On Your Knees

Posted on | February 12, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: On Your Feet Or On Your Knees

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Most live albums are a waste of time and money, but one of the awesome exceptions is the first live album by Blue Öyster Cult, which I bought before seeing them in concert with four other bands at the now-demolished Capital Center because the cover art was just that cool. I can honestly say I was following them before they were famous. As I recall, the original album lacked the title; it was just the art and the band’s name.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.


Rule 5 Sunday: Heather Lee O’Keefe
Animal Magnetism
Okrahead
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
A View From The Beach

Next Media Narrative: How Joe Biden Defeated the Evil Chinese Spy Balloon
The DaleyGator
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Canadian Child Actor Dopehead Matricide Edition 
The Pirate’s Cove
Okrahead
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

B.I.T.S.
The DaleyGator
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

Brain-Damaged Democrats in the News
The DaleyGator
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

Everything Is White Supremacy: Inside America’s New Maoist ‘Struggle Sessions’ 
Okrahead
The DaleyGator
First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL

The Grammar and Rhetoric of Media Bias
The Political Hat
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL

‘We May Never Learn the Full Story’
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

FMJRA 2.0: The Machineries Of Joy
EBL
A View From The Beach

Crime Reduction in Polk County, Florida
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL

Joe Biden Versus an Army of Straw Men
Okrahead
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
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Goering’s on the phone from Freiburg
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.09.23 (Punditocalpyse Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 02.10.23
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

Top linkers for the week ending February 10:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2. (tie) 357 Magnum & Okrahead (11)
  3.  A View From The Beach (8)
  4.  TheDaleyGator (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links! It was a big week!

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Vince Dao Wrecks Liberals by — Wait for It — Denying Genetic Determinism

Posted on | February 12, 2023 | 3 Comments

Vince Dao is a young Christian conservative college student in Florida who has a YouTube channel. He somehow got invited onto a panel discussion by Vice in which the subject was anti-Asian bias and the “model minority” stereotype. Everybody else on the panel was some kind of woke leftist, dressed like slobs, and Dao shows up in a suit and tie and starts dishing out hard truths. Video clips went viral this week.

The points that Dao is making are basically the same points that Charles Murray made in his 1984 book Losing Ground, i.e., that long-term poverty is a behavioral problem, and that if you avoid certain behaviors like out-of-wedlock births, the chances are you won’t be poor. The statistical evidence is very clear on this subject, and it shouldn’t be controversial, but the Democratic Party is dedicated to promoting the belief that poverty is a black problem caused by white racism, and so if you point out the facts — that it is behavior, and not race, which causes poverty — Democrats will accuse you of racism.

If you watch this Vice panel discussion, what you realize is that the woke liberals have bought into what can only be described as a genetic determinist view of behavior, believing that different ethnic groups behave differently because it’s programmed into their DNA, so that criticizing harmful behaviors — school failure, drug abuse, crime, etc. — associated with poverty is considered to be a “racist” attack on black people, as if (a) all black people engage in these behaviors and (b) bad behavior is inherent to being authentically black.

Well, as an Appalachian-American, am I doomed to a life of moonshine, banjos, feuding and incest? Must I become a hillbilly stereotype, because it’s programmed into my DNA? Of course not, no more than black people are helpless to resist the cultural forces that would encourage them to engage in harmful behaviors. While it may be difficult to swim against the cultural tide — up here in the hills, surrounded by banjo-picking moonshine guzzlers — ultimately individuals are responsible for their own choices, and it is an evasion of responsibility to blame your problems on social forces beyond your control. But it is now apparently considered “progressive” to believe that people are helpless victims of their circumstances, and so when Vince Dao started arguing in favor of personal responsibility, everybody else on the panel freaked out.



 

 

Category: Liberals, Racism

James Baker’s Amnesia Problem

Posted on | February 11, 2023 | 1 Comment

James Baker testifies on Tuesday

My podcast partner John Hoge calls attention to the Nixonian quality of the FBI-turned-Twitter-lawyer’s testimony this week:

Rep. Jim Jordan asked James Baker, the former FBI general counsel who moved to work at Twitter, whether he communicated with the FBI about the Hunter Biden laptop story before the New York Post was censored on Twitter for reporting about it.
“To the best of my recollection, I did not talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden story before that day,” Baker said.
Jordan followed up: “Did you talk to them after? Your response was real specific… I assume ‘that day’ is October 14. I want to know if you talked to them on the 13th or before, or the 15th and after.”
“I don’t recall speaking to the FBI, sitting here today, I don’t recall speaking to the FBI at all about the Hunter Biden matter,” Baker replied. “The laptop.”

Something about being required to testify under oath seems to induce a strange type of amnesia among big-shot lawyers. The things they “cannot recall” are very specific, and they never deny anything without preceding their denial with the qualifying phrase “to the best of my recollection.”



 

 

Category: Congress

Don’t Bet on the Super Bowl

Posted on | February 11, 2023 | 1 Comment

Gambling is a bad habit, and I hate to see TV advertisements for gambling apps like Draft Kings, which portray this habit as harmless. And frankly, I’ve started to suspect that pro football is as rigged as pro wrestling. If you don’t believe me, ask any fan of the Cincinnati Bengals about the AFC championship game. The Kansas City Chiefs “won” that game about as convincingly as Joe Biden “won” the 2020 election, and Bengals fans are convinced the refs were in the tank for the Chiefs.

On paper, the Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles are almost exactly even. Both of them finished the regular season 14-3, both were No. 1 seeds in the playoffs, and their team statistics on offense and defense are so close to being identical that it’s difficult to say that either team has an advantage. Probably the only reason the Eagles are 1.5-point favorites is because Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes is still recovering from an ankle injury, and may be less mobile than usual.

My brother Kirby thinks the Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl, probably because Kirby is a big Joe Burrow fan, and figures that if Mahomes and the Chiefs could beat Burrow and the Bengals, then they’re good enough to beat anybody. And you’ve got to admit, Mahomes is a wizard. There is no such thing as a “broken play” so broken that Mahomes can’t find a way to rescue it with a mad scramble and an off-balance sidearm pass with two tacklers hanging off him. Also, the Chiefs have a fearsome defense that sacked Burrow five times.

However, Philadelphia is not a bad team, and if Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts doesn’t perform the kind of wizardry that has made Mahomes famous, he’s still pretty doggone spectacular. Hurts completed nearly 67% of his passes for 3,701 yards and 22 touchdowns this season, and added 760 yards rushing on 165 carries with 13 TDs. If there’s any knock on Hurts, it’s that perhaps he’s a bit of a ball-hog, so that on run-pass option (RPO) plays, he runs the ball himself too often. But this is nitpicking, really — how can you criticize the way he plays, when the results are so successful? And the Eagles also have a very tough defense that shut down the New York Giants in the divisional playoffs, then in the NFC championship knocked both San Francisco QBs out of the game.

All things considered, Super Bowl LVII should be a close game, and relatively high-scoring. The over/under is 50 and, if there were such a thing as a safe bet, I’d put my money on over, because I could see this game turning into a back-and-forth shootout, with a final score somewhere around 31-28 — a real down-to-the-wire thriller, decided by a last-minute field goal. But let me quote Sky Masterson:

“One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you’re going to wind up with an ear full of cider.”

Indeed, and as sure as you bet the “over” in the Super Bowl, I guarantee you it will be a defensive struggle, with both teams fumbling away scoring chances and getting flagged for false-start penalties. There is no such thing as a safe bet, and if you bet on the Super Bowl, chances are you’ll regret your wager. I’ve just got a hunch about this game.



 

 

Category: Football

In The Mailbox: 02.10.23

Posted on | February 11, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.10.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Sure enough, after I whined publicly about being sick, I started feeling better. Still not 100%, but at least I can string links together after work.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Real and spectacular.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy Valentine’s Day: Julie Banderas is back on the market, Turkey and Syria Earthquake Death Toll Could Greatly Exceed 20,000, Did Biden Blow Up Nord Stream?, and We Need More American Lithium
Twitchy: Microsoft-Owned Ad Group Blacklists Conservative Media Including Twitchy, also, After Months Of Lying, Corporate Media Admits Fettermonster’s Health Is “Horror Show”* 
Louder With Crowder: ‘When you know your purpose…’, also, UPDATE: Project Veritas Board Might Be Breaking the Law By Ousting James O’Keefe
Vox Popoli: Japan Signs Up for Suicide, Russia’s New Red Lines, The USA Attacked Germany, Suicide UK, An Unnatural Disaster, and When Rhetoric Becomes Reality
According To Hoyt: Doing the Arithmetic, Them Over There, and Finding Ways
Monster Hunter Nation: MarsCon- David Weber Weighs In, The MarsCon matter is settled, and Larry is a marketing genius

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s Time for a Spiritual Battle based upon 100% Truth, Good Times, Bad Times, and Pissing into the Wind of Doom
American Conservative: A Cog in the Gates Machine, Viktor Orban: The West’s Lone Anti-War Prophet, Trans Kids Medical Malpractice Shocker, and Madonna Faces Old Age, Flinches
American Greatness: Report: Joe Biden Ordered Covert CIA Operation to Blow Up Nord Stream Pipelines, Biden Administration to End Title 42 in May, and MTG Goes Nuclear Against Former Twitter Exec For Banning Conservatives While Allowing Child Porn
American Power: Insurrection: Trans Extremists Break Into Oklahoma State House With Intent of Stopping Democratic Vote on Law, also, The Highest Principle
American Thinker: If Reparations Are Owed … the Democratic Party Should Pay Them, also, Those Abandoning Blue States Should Abandon Democrats, Too
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Daily State of the Union News, and Rule Five Constitutional News
Babalu Blog: Cuban political prisoner asks Biden to keep the Castro dictatorship on sponsors of terror list, Reports from Cuba: The costs of the Cuban state’s monopoly on foreign trade, and Scam alert! Cuba begins privatizing medical care, bills to be paid by Cubans abroad
BattleSwarm: Two Videos About Velma, 24,000 Austin Area Residents Still Without Power, American Business And Chinese Money, and LinkSwarm for February 10
Behind The Black: Progress freighter launched to ISS, SpaceX completes 33-engine static fire test today of Superheavy prototype #7, India successfully launches its SSLV rocket on 2nd attempt, NASA awards launch contract to Blue Origin’s unlaunched New Glenn rocket, and Pushback: Civil rights complaint filed against California school district for running segregated program
Cafe Hayek: Or Maybe the Woke Are Full-On Comatose, A Tendentiously Alleged Connection Between Trump and the Kochs, and The Great Ken Elzinga Speaks at GMU Econ
CDR Salamander: American Realism in the Russo-Ukrainian War with Rebeccah Heinrichs, The Old Ways are the Same as the “New Ways” – Except for One, Our Navy at its Best: “Yeah, we can do that.”, The Democratic Party’s Strange Internal Struggles on the Russo-Ukraine War, and Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Lighter than Air: Balloons and Dirigibles in Warfare, Back to Google’s (Alleged) Beginnings, and The Last Straw of US
Da Tech Guy: The Key Words in Stacy McCain’s Piece on Zachary Teytlebaum, Lori Lightfoot proves targeting opponents over Samuel Bankman-Fried contributions is effective, Williams vs Musial in Left as Trump vs DeSantis as the Nominee, Yes to the FBI at Latin Mass, and Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address proves Progressives abhor reality
Don Surber: Rules For RINOs, also, Biden’s Sanctions Backfired
First Street Journal: The left tell us that they support racial integration, but they really do not, Killadelphia, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!, and We wicked Catholics and our Assault Rosaries!
Gates Of Vienna: Greater Idaho Moves a Step Closer, The Flag is Still Flying, Terror Threats? What Terror Threats?, Islam Bans Freedom of Speech for All Human Beings, and The Economics of Greater Idaho
The Geller Report: Biden Moves Towards World War With Russia To Cover Up His Criminality in Ukraine, Democrat Bill To Vaccinate of Children Without Parental Consent, and ‘When Will He Resign and Go To Hell?’
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Spokes in Saturn’s Rings, Now v. Then, and A Special Thank You
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s the Bravest Part of Bill Maher’s Latest Anti-Woke Attack, David Gilmour Calls Roger Waters ‘Antisemitic to the Core’, Grammys Cower Behind Anonymous Votes to Blast Woke Overreach, and Megyn Kelly Calls Disney’s Proud Family CRT Push ‘Absolute Filth’
The Lid: Mark Levin To Congress: You Have More Power To Stop Biden’s Rogue Admin Than You Think, also, Biden Lied About Debt Ceiling, Social Security, And Medicare In SOTU Address
Legal Insurrection: Eastern Washington University Reportedly Expects Janitors to Have a Position on Diversity, Palestinian Terrorist Drove Car Into Commuters – Kills Two Israelis Including 6-Year-Old Boy, John Fetterman Struggling in Senate, Air Force Shoots Down China’s Plans for Giant Corn Mill Close to North Dakota Base, and Tony Dungy Won’t Apologize or Stay Quiet About His Christianity and Pro-Life Views
Nebraska Energy Observer: That Was the Week That Was, A Republic, if You Can Keep It, and Think it through
Outkick: CNN Reportedly Attempting To Hire Charles Barkley, Bills’ Trainer Who Performed CPR On Damar Hamlin Receives NFL MVP Vote, You Have To Respect Anthony Davis’ Reasoning For ‘Ignoring’ LeBron James’ Record-Breaking Shot, Arizona State Angry With Pac-12 Conference, Open To Leaving, and Tiger Woods Announces He’ll Be Playing In The Genesis Invitational, Golf Twitter Reacts Accordingly
Power Line: A Day with DeSantis, Special Counsel Crosses the Rubicon?, Thoughts from the ammo line, and Burt Bacharach dies at 94
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Angertainment & Adam Frisch
Shark Tank: Salazar & McCaul Welcome Nicaraguan Political Prisoners, also, Gaetz Demands Answers About Lobbying “Revolving Door”
Shot In The Dark: Drip, Ma’Donn, I’m Old Enough To Remember, and Also Ran
STUMP: Was COVID a top cause of death for children?, also, Public Pension Concept: Plan Long-Term for Long-Term Promises, and Don’t Give Contribution Holidays
The Political Hat: Florida vs. Woke Indoctrination In Higher Education, The Death Agenda Of Euthanasia: Scheduling Death; Advertising Death; Partial Victory Against Death, and Firing Line Friday: What Now for the Ghetto?
This Ain’t Hell: Booted from Board of Education for defending the Constitution, Unauthorized access at Joint Base Andrews results in shot being fired, Valor Friday, American forces and their Asian allies are ready for battle, and High Toxin Levels at Okinawa Marine Base
Transterrestrial Musings: What Russia Got Wrong, Impressionism, What Future For The SLS?, An Angry Astronaut, and The Static Fire
Victory Girls: Manchin Is Mad But Democrats Aren’t Listening, Democrats Desperately Declare Hunter’s Laptop Trivial And Half-Fake, Abortion Is The Top Democrat Value, and Gender Affirming Care For Trans Kids Is Appalling
Volokh Conspiracy: What’s With the Pseudonymity in the National Air & Space Museum / “Rosary Pro-Life” Hat Lawsuit?, GWU Law Student Gov’t Directs People to Stop Saying/Writing “Illegal,” “Alien,” and “Assimilation” re: Immigration, and Another Judge on the Acela Corridor Takes The Thirteenth Amendment Seriously
Watts Up With That: The Nation Flounders on Miami Sea-Level Rise Story, A Reliable Electricity Supply – Six Months and Half a Dozen Years, and Net Zero or Good Enough?
Weasel Zippers: Biden’s Economics Advisor – Job Creation Is “Not The Standard For How We Measure Jobs Created”, Idris Elba Says He No Longer Describes Himself As A “Black Actor”, James Carville Declares Republicans “White Trash” After State Of The Union, Former Twitter Exec Claims Censorship Actually Creates More Free Speech, and Hakeem Jeffries Absurdly Claims Dem Policies Have Lowered Costs And The Deficit
The Federalist: House Republicans Block DC Law That Would Allow Illegal Residents To Vote, Exposé Reveals Shadowy Left-Wing Network Works To Censor, Deplatform Conservatives, ‘Anonymous Sources’ Are How Corporate Media Launder Smear Operations As News, How More HSAs Could Help Dig Us Out Of The Hole Of Disastrous Medicaid Expansion, and ‘Detransitioners’ Are Being Abandoned By Medical Professionals Who Devastated Their Bodies And Minds
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman: New Year’s Day part four, Has OfCom Popped Steyn’s Balloon?, An EIB Reunion!, and The Mark Steyn Show is back!

*Pretty sure the Twitchy crew isn’t using nadsat here. 

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Everything Is White Supremacy: Inside America’s New Maoist ‘Struggle Sessions’

Posted on | February 10, 2023 | Comments Off on Everything Is White Supremacy: Inside America’s New Maoist ‘Struggle Sessions’

Professor Vincent Lloyd

You’re probably looking at Vincent Lloyd and thinking, “No way this guy could be an advocate of white supremacy,” but welcome to 2023, when everything is white supremacy. Lloyd is a professor at Villanova University and a leftist who, last summer, taught a seminar called “Race and the Limits of Law” in a six-week course at Cornell University for high-school seniors sponsored by the Telluride Association.

In an amazing article for Compact magazine, “A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell,” Lloyd describes how his seminar was wrecked and ended prematurely after his teenage students became radicalized in an “anti-racism workshop” held during the same Telluride-sponsored summer program for high-schoolers. One of the leaders of the anti-racist workshop, whom Lloyd calls “Keisha,” he describes thus: “A recent graduate of an Ivy League university, mentored by a television-celebrity black intellectual, Keisha . . . was planning to devote her life to transforming the academy in the direction of black justice.”

What Lloyd discovered was that, in the hands of such ideologues, “anti-racism” is a cult, and he offers this example of its operation:

In their “transformative-justice” workshop, my students learned to name “harms.” This language, and the framework it expresses, come out of the prison-abolition movement. Instead of matching crimes with punishments, abolitionists encourage us to think about harms and how they can be made right, often through inviting a broader community to discern the impact of harms, the reasons they came about, and paths forward. In the language of the anti-racism workshop, a harm becomes anything that makes you feel not quite right. For a 17-year-old at a highly selective, all-expenses-paid summer program, newly empowered with the language of harm, there are relatively few sites at which to use this framework. My seminar became the site at which to try out—and weaponize—this language.
During our discussion of incarceration, an Asian-American student cited federal inmate demographics: About 60 percent of those incarcerated are white. The black students said they were harmed. They had learned, in one of their workshops, that objective facts are a tool of white supremacy. Outside of the seminar, I was told, the black students had to devote a great deal of time to making right the harm that was inflicted on them by hearing prison statistics that were not about blacks. A few days later, the Asian-American student was expelled from the program.

Get me that student’s name, so I can recruit him to become a Republican Party operative! There is nothing that aids GOP youth recruitment quite as much as the nightmare experience of students coming face-to-face with the campus Left. That’s how Trump advisor Stephen Miller became such a dangerous right-winger, you know. He was at Duke University when the infamous 2006 lacrosse team gang-rape hoax went down, and it forever altered his worldview. The more the Left increases its ironclad grip on academic, the crazier the campus climate becomes, and the only way to protect your sanity is to join the Republican Party.

From the account of his experiences at this Telluride summer program, Professor Lloyd may be considering a shift to the GOP. If “objective facts are a tool of white supremacy,” then every rational person must become a white supremacist. It doesn’t seem to occur to the Left that, by embracing such radical nonsense, they’re creating their own enemies.

The type of radicalism that took hold during this Telluride program bears a close resemblance to the Maoist “Cultural Revolution” of the 1960s, when those suspected of insufficient Communist zeal were forced to denounce themselves in public “struggle sessions”:

The most violent aspects of the campaign included incidents of torture, murder, and public humiliation. Many people who were indicted as counter-revolutionaries died by suicide. During the Red August 1966, in Beijing alone 1,772 people were murdered, many of the victims were teachers who were attacked and even killed by their own students. In Shanghai, there were 704 suicides and 534 deaths related to the Cultural Revolution in September. In Wuhan, there were 62 suicides and 32 murders during the same period.

Things haven’t become this bad on U.S. campuses — yet. But clearly many campuses have been drifting toward Maoism for years, and Professor Lloyd tells how the radical “Keisha” acted as Maoist commissar:

Keisha and I were supposed to meet weekly, but she told me she couldn’t schedule in advance, and she would let me know when she had availability. She never did. But Keisha did find time to intervene when a student was “harmed.” During one class, when we discussed Brown v. Board of Education, my co-instructor explained what the “doll test” was that provided a psychological basis for the Supreme Court’s decision: It involved showing children black and white dolls and asking what language they would use to describe them, “colored,” “white,” or “negro.” During the seminar break, a student had reported this to Keisha, and she rushed in to tell us that a student had been harmed by hearing the word “negro.”

Oh, grow up! The idea that merely hearing archaic terminology can “harm” someone reflects a hypersensitivity that is incompatible with education. How can you study the history of racism if you can’t read anything written before 1970 because it might contain the word “negro”?

As might be expected, Professor Lloyd’s experience at the Telluride program ended with a Maoist “struggle session” led by Keisha:

Late Sunday night, I was informed the students were too exhausted to have class on Monday. Tuesday morning, no one was in the seminar room. I waited 10 minutes, and Keisha entered. She said the students had something to say to me. Ten more minutes of waiting in silence. Then all nine remaining students entered, each carrying a piece of paper. One by one they read a paragraph. Out of their mouths came everything Keisha had said to me during the “urgent” meetings she had with me after classes when students had allegedly been harmed. The students had all of the dogma of anti-racism, but no actual racism to call out in their world, and Keisha had channeled all of the students’ desire to combat racism at me.

Bingo! A cult requires a Devil — a sinister enemy, a bogeyman that the cult can use to frighten its members into obedience. And in the absence of any “actual racism” at this Telluride program — with no Trump-style demon figure available as the hated enemy — Keisha had somehow decided that Professor Lloyd would suit her purposes.

Welcome to the “white supremacist” clubhouse, professor. We’ll alert the SPLC, so you can get your own personal dot on the annual “Hate Map.”



 

Category: Education, Racism
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