thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 4
th, 2024 at 12:17pm:
Frank wrote on Jan 4
th, 2024 at 7:02am:
Frank wrote on Jan 4
th, 2024 at 6:52am:
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-remainsCultural Marxism = anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.
Diversity is where countries and academic excellence go to die.
See - Frank making a song and dance about "diversity" and its perceived influence in the community, ie, cultural marxist BS, rather than tackling the REAL issues of economic injustice which Marx was addressing.
Claudine Gay, Marxist apparatchik.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:25 Harvard plagiarism scandal
15:45 Peter’s DEI prediction & Bruce’s interpretation
26:00 Bruce’s predictions of academic landscape
34:00 Backlash for Bruce’s book
52:30 The Case For Colonialism
1:03:45 Alternative to Colonialism
1:15:20 Why read Bruce’s book
1:19:20 What’s next for Bruce
The long read article - The Case for Colonialism
The “uncritical critique of the liberal peace,” as Chandler calls it, consigns Third World nations to the foibles and vagaries of “authentic” or “indigenous” practices, a de facto abandonment of hope in their self-governing capacities. By contrast, the colonial governance agenda resurrects the universalism of the liberal peace and with it a shared standard of what a well-governed country looks like.
The second broad way to reclaim colonialism is to recolonize some regions. It may be that in some cases, only a formal share of sovereignty for Western countries can provide the mix of accountability and authority needed to build capacity in weak states. In Chesterman’s oft-quoted phrase, the problem with modern state-building is not that it “is colonial in character; rather the problem is that sometimes it is not colonial enough.”
https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/the_case_for_colonialism
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