You know, you really need to be careful what you wish for. 

Seriously though, you might be right.  It definitely would separate the wheat from the chaff.

I know that.  I realize it would be bad.  But I feel it is going to be necessary.

I noticed that I haven't posted today's daily video for my thread.

No worries, because I attended a seminar on campus today that was literally nothing but social justice indoctrination. It took up my day from morning until well into the afternoon and was... Sigh... Mandatory.

We had our very own transgender speaker come talk with us during lunch and they seemed like a nice individual with an interesting history of being both a law officer and a Vietnam era vet. Really the only thing that was out of place was their denial of human biology, the rest seemed pretty red blooded American.

Thank goodness they let us choose different panels to attend, because I wanted to avoid the feminist one like the plague.

Here were some of the panel descriptions straight out of the flyer. I'm going to respectfully retain my opinion, but what do y'all think?

Teaching with a purpose: feminist and queer pedagogy.

this interactive session will provide an overview of feminist and queer pedagogy and will offer practical tips for employing feminist/queer teaching techniques to a diverse group. the consensus of the scholarship on reaching and learning is that a student centered "active learning"  classroom leads to more engagement and better learning. feminist and queer pedagogy focuses on dismantling power structures in the classroom, thereby creating more student focused and democratic learning spaces. One stereotype of these pedagogies is that they focus on "emotion" rather than intellect; but good feminist/queer pedagogy is academically rigorous. They place greater emphasis on student responsibility for in depth learning. this workshop would be beneficial to educators wanting to know more about these pedagogical approaches, or for student leaders and others who are looking for ways to communicate with a teach groups of learners in a democratic fashion.


Gender vs sexuality: Myths debunked

In today's society gender vs sexuality is often confused and misconstrued. Today out goal is to highlight the significant differences between these two top;ics and how they coincide. Along wiht open dialogue, a powerpoint presentation, several varying exercises, a portion of the presentation will be open to Q & A.



Black & Blue: Race & Police in America

Arguably one of the most important and controversial issues in America today is the role of race in the criminal justice system. This workshop will take participants through a basic survey of police in America, form the colonial slave patrols to the era "second slavery" in the late 19th/ early 20th centuries to mass incarceration today. Along the way, participants will confront their own biases and notions of race and "justice". Dr._____ will be accompanied by students from their class who are doing their own research on this topic.

Ummm  .  .  .  It would have to be a fasting day for me to be able to sit through any of that without the possibility acute indigestion. 

The sheer lack of self-awareness of the people who accept and champion this nonsense is astounding.  They remind me of people with a severe immune system disorder that requires them to exist only within the confines of a rigidly climate controlled bubble in order to survive.         If the philosophical underpinnings of your worldview are in conflict with the world as it currently exists perhaps the problem is not the world's but your own.   

Why can't all feminists be like Christina Hoff Sommers?

Nothing to refute there except what the callers said.       I agree that she is uncommonly clear headed and analytical in her approach to the subject.   I don't know if it is covered in her book but the most heinous crime committed against young boys - especially by those whom they are taught to trust - is the misdiagnosis of healthy male behavior as ADD/ADHD .   The number of young boys put into a drug induced stupor by administering Ritalin and other behavior modifying drugs is staggering.  I think it is a significant reason for the alarming statistics Ms. Hoff Sommers cites in the interview. 

Perhaps marginally more so but its not any place I'd care to go these days - especially the larger cities.   

Agreed.  I find it interesting to listen to him just throw out an offhand comment that would be worthy of a doctoral dissertation and move on as though it were common knowledge. 

Trying to redeem my previous clip from Australia  .

About the quote beginning at 1:10:50 .  .  .      .  .  .   WTAF ? 

Re:  Dr Albrechtsen's commentary -  valid criticism and good advice. 

The other two are simply Dr. Peterson at full stride.  I think the reason he is so fiercely attacked is simply because he is so effective at explaining the obvious flaws in what passes for "knowledge" at the collegiate level.  His point about post-modernism is exactly correct though - it rejects the entire notion of any sort of logical basis for arriving at a conclusion in favor of a primary grievance from which all else derives. 

Social sciences!

Good stuff.    

re:  Good Cops, John Adams, defending British soldiers charged with murder in The Boston Massacre observed,  "It is more important that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world, that all of them cannot be punished .  .  .  when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, ' it is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill for virtue itself is no security' .  And if such a sentiment as this were to take hold in the mind of the subject that would be the end of all security whatsoever.".   

I suppose that the natural question might be, better for whom?  Still, as bad as an actual sexual assault is for the victim a person falsely accused of such a crime suffers a very similar fate.   An assault on one's innocence of wrongdoing is just as much of an assault as any other - more so if you count the apparatus of the state as a willing and enthusiastic accomplice. 

re: Sociology  -  yup, pretty much.   

re:  the Peterson interview, the man's mastery of the subject is seamless.  If there is a chink in that armor somewhere I have yet to see it. 

Fascinating.  ( cocks a single eyebrow and does best impression of Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock .  .  .    )

Actually there is an explanation for the Kardashians. Of sorts anyway.