Dnarever wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 8:20pm:



OK - in bold.


Updated list of Ozpolitic Cultural Marxists:  3/1/24

LTYC,
FTLW,
Smith,
Greggy,
Mothra,
Athos,
AiA,
Jim,
Monk,
Random,
Marla,
Dnarever.
Brian,
Kat,
AusGeoff.

Updated list of Ozpolitic intelligent and informed members:

LTYC,
FTLW,
Smith,
Greggy,
Mothra,
Athos,
AiA,
Jim,
Monk, (a possible leader<==

Oh don’t be such a fucking tosspot!

)
Random,
Marla,
Dnarever.
Brian,
Kat,
AusGeoff.

Why don’t you drop this utter nonsense and spend some time managing your board, hell, maybe even start an environmental thread. If you can.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 9:29pm:


No culture here ?

Gay got her job because of her race. No white professor, even a female one, would have been elevated to the premier college presidency in the United States on so meager a research record. It is fitting, then, that Gay plays the race card to the end. She lauds her abortive presidency as giving hope to those around the world who saw in it a “vision of Harvard that affirmed their sense of belonging.” In other words, without a black president, students “of color” would not be certain of belonging at Harvard. Never mind that for decades Harvard has so enthusiastically sought out black students that it admitted many of them with academic credentials that would have been all but disqualifying if presented by whites and Asians. Now, without a black president, that vision is apparently threatened, even as Gay concedes that Harvard’s “doors remain open.”

Gay’s sense of self-worth is breathtaking. She already has a legacy in mind for her five-month long presidency, the shortest in Harvard’s history. She hopes that her tenure is remembered “as a moment of reawakening to the importance of striving to find our common humanity.” Before her presidency, in other words, Harvard was deficient in the striving-for-common-humanity department. Never mind that Gay had auditioned for the presidency with a call to infuse the hunt for racism throughout every corner of the university, an academic agenda based on the idea that America remains a perennially white supremacist country.  As president, she was true to her word, introducing what the Corporation euphemistically calls “ambitious new academic initiatives” in “inequality.”

The mission of a university, however, is the transmission of a civilizational inheritance and the testing of new knowledge. The goal of “finding a common humanity” (or, even worse, of combatting “bias and hate,” as Gay also puts it) serves as a pretext for the therapeutic diversity infrastructure.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-presses-on-with-inclusiveness

Claudine Gay is a mediocre scholar—having authored 11 insight-less papers and no books—and hardly a superstar of the Ivy League constellation. But she comes from a privileged background and was elevated for advancing progressive orthodoxy while checking the right intersectional boxes. Her ascent thus epitomizes the illiberal takeover of higher education. She is the apotheosis of an anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.

This illiberal takeover goes beyond what conservatives have criticized for decades: hippies invading the faculty lounge at Berkeley. It manifests in the shifting and narrowing of the range of permissible views, such that everyone on campus walks on eggshells and is unable to discuss certain ideas. University officials placate, facilitate, and even foment mobs that can’t be reasoned with, while everyone else keeps their heads down so as not to be caught in the cancellation crossfire.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-real-problem-remains

Cultural Marxism = anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2024 at 6:04pm:


But "Marxism" and "communism" are conflated in the simple brain; whereas Stalinist Russia and Marxism are different phenomena.   

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Here you are comparing the lives of the ruling class in Communist Russia, with the elites who are ruling Oz.

Marx spoke against both: "Workers of the world, Unite".


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Yes, but nothing to do with either Marx, OR 'cultural Marxism'; because  you continue to ignore the crushing influence of mainstream economists:

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/economist-warns-of-cutting-immigration-in-a...

Economist warns of cutting immigration in Australia

Cutting immigration to combat the country's housing shortage is shortsighted and risks wage and productivity growth, according to KPMG Australia Chief Economist Brendan Rynne.

'Chief Economist'....a typical product of delusional economics departments in the world's universities.

The film "Finding the Money" is due for release in Oz in March; it may herald a new age of enlightened thinking about money and economic justice. i