The corrosive (by design) effects of leftism on Western institutions

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1. Leftist deliberate and forced irrationality eventually has to come sort of full circle, albeit an eccentric one.

2. For those that have not seen it yet, muslims in France demand 2500 more mosques or else they will continue to block traffic and hand out pamphlets demanding genocide of the Jewish peoples.

(I repost these because the view numbers at Youtube are far far lower than they deserve, or would typically get. One might even suspect that Youtube is fudging things so that it doesn’t resonate the way it really should and we all expect really would.)

3. UC Berkeley conservative student sues Antifa member over threats, harassment

The former president of the Berkeley College Republicans at the University of California, Berkeley said Wednesday he is suing a prominent member of an Antifa group for allegedly threatening and harassing him and others on campus.

Mark Meuser, one of the lawyers representing Troy Worden, announced the lawsuit seeking more than $100,000 of damages against Yvette Felarca in a press release, The Washington Examiner reported.

 

Felarca is the leader of By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), an Antifa, or anti-fascist, group.

 

(If the video embed above doesn’t work, click through to FOX to see the clip. Its about a few conservative students at Berkeley who have seen the total loss of their 1st amendment rights due to violent fascistic commies.)

4. This analysis of the Teacher’s assistant at Wilfred Laurier who faced a Soviet style of reasoning, Star Chamber over showing a Jordan Peterson video, is excellent. It is hard to find the time to listen to the entire 40 some minutes of the hidden recording of the inquisition. But Sargon organizes and analyses the event very well here.

One thing to keep in mind during this video, is the difference between Critical Theory, and critical thinking. One of the main differences between the TA and the inquisitors, is that they are insisting things be looked at in terms of Critical Theory, a Frankfurt School idea where you simply take opposing ideas and attack them in every way, without reason or data. Just criticism, even of a personal nature of the people espousing ideas.

But she is using critically, in terms of critical thinking, or the application of Socratic thought.

Thats all for the moment. As always, a grateful thank you to all who sent in materials, and a very happy thanksgiving to all our American friends. It is truly heartwarming to see how profoundly Americans overall celebrate this tradition.

 

 

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24 Replies to “The corrosive (by design) effects of leftism on Western institutions”

  1. Revert, Convert, Invert
    Alway a Slave
    Always a Herd
    Always Pervert.
    Muslim, Citizen, Dessert
    Always afraid
    Always unheard
    Always alert.

    • Russia isn’t the big threat,. Granted Russia is helping Iran and North Korea but will not do more then provide material support in any war with the US and our allies in the region where the war is being fought. Hell at the moment I rank China as a bigger threat I do this because China is in greater need for hard currencies then Russia.

      • “I rank China as a bigger threat … I do this because China is in greater need for hard currencies than Russia.

        Too right!!!

        My computer’s (recent) single point failure wiped out the last few weeks of NorseRadish notes, but none of that changes how Communist China is whoring itself for hard currency.

        This shift in global monetary values is something that only idiots will ignore.

        This is reflected in a micro-scale with North Korea, but the world economy is far more sensitive to Red China’s upcoming failure.

        The monumental Chinese house-of-cards is about to collapse. All economic and military implications are left to those with anything above room-temperature IQs.

    • Belated thank-you for your kind wishes!
      Yes to V-5!
      Israelis love to vacation in Bulgaria, and Pres. Zeman of Czech. is a flat-out philosemite. PM Orban’s beautiful fence has Israeli features.

  3. 3- The conservative are using the legal system to fight back, the left are using violence. eventually the left is going to turn even more violent and we will discover just how committed to the left the Mayor, Governor and the police are.

    4 – The commentator is making very important points.

    • I remember reading that she is leaving that University after this semester, her big problem is that she will find the same situation at the other Universities.

  5. 4. Hands found in the cookie jar

    Apology from Deborah MacLatchy, President and Vice Chancellor of the university

    I’m writing to make an apology on behalf of the university.

    Through the media, we have now had the opportunity to hear the full recording of the meeting that took place at Wilfrid Laurier University.

    After listening to this recording, an apology is in order. The conversation I heard does not reflect the values and practices to which Laurier aspires. I am sorry it occurred in the way that it did and I regret the impact it had on Lindsay Shepherd. I will convey my apology to her directly. Professor Rambukkana has also chosen to apologize to Lindsay Shepherd about the way the meeting was conducted.

    I remain troubled by the way faculty, staff and students involved in this situation have been targeted with extreme vitriol. Supports are in place at the university to support them through this situation.

    The university has engaged an independent party to assess the facts of the matter including a review of related processes going forward. The review is intended to support improvement in our processes. The university is committed to ensuring that the vitally important role of Teaching Assistant supports an enriched learning environment for all students.

    Let me be clear by stating that Laurier is committed to the abiding principles of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Giving life to these principles while respecting fundamentally important human rights and our institutional values of diversity and inclusion, is not a simple matter. The intense media interest points to a highly polarizing and very complicated set of issues that is affecting universities across the democratic world. The polarizing nature of the current debate does not do justice to the complexity of issues.

    Laurier is prepared to engage with these important discussions in a thoughtful and determined way. I have announced a task force to delve into these issues. Further details will be announced in the days ahead. I look forward to the process and I am confident that the outcome will contribute to a better understating of these issues for Laurier and the broader community.

    Apology letter from Nathan Rambukkana to Lindsay Shepherd

    Dear Lindsay,

    I wanted to write to apologize to you for how the meeting we had proceeded. While I was not able to do so earlier due to confidentiality concerns, including your privacy as a grad student, now that the audio of the meeting is public I can say more. While I still cannot discuss the student concerns raised about the tutorial, everything that has happened since the meeting has given me occasion to rethink not only my approach to discussing the concerns that day, but many of the things I said in our meeting as well.

    First, I wanted to say that when I was made aware of the concerns, I was told that the proper procedure would be to have an informal meeting to discuss it. In the process of arranging this, others indicated they should attend as well. This is one of the facets of working at a university, that meetings can often become de-facto committees due to relevant stakeholders being pulled in. My main concerns were finding out why a lesson on writing skills had become a political discussion, and making sure harm didn’t befall students. However, in not also prioritizing my mentorship role as the course director and your supervisor, I didn’t do enough to try to support you in this meeting, which I deeply regret. I should have seen how meeting with a panel of three people would be an intimidating situation and not invite a productive discussion. Had I tried harder to create a situation more conducive to talking these issues through, things might have gone very differently, but alas I did not.

    Second, this entire occasion, and hearing from so many with passionate views on this issue from across the political spectrum, has made me seriously rethink some of the positions I took in the meeting. I made the argument that first-year students, not studying this topic specifically, might not have the tool kit to unpack or process a controversial view such as Dr. Peterson’s, saying that such material might be better reserved for upper-year or grad courses. While I still think that such material needs to be handled carefully, especially so as to not infringe on the rights of any of our students or make them feel unwelcome in the learning environment, I believe you are right that making a space for controversial or oppositional views is important, and even essential to a university. The trick is how to properly contextualize such material. One way might be through having readings, or a lecture on the subject before discussion, but you are correct that first-years should be eligible to engage with societal debates in this way. Perhaps instead of the route I took I should have added further discussion in lecture, or supplementary readings. But instead I tried to make a point about the need to contextualize difficult material, and drew on the example of playing a speech by Hitler to do it. This was, obviously, a poorly chosen example. I meant to use it to drive home a point about context by saying here was material that would definitely need to be contextualized rather than presented neutrally, and instead I implied that Dr. Peterson is like Hitler, which is untrue and was never my intention. While I disagree strongly with many of Dr. Peterson’s academic positions and actions, the tired analogy does him a disservice and was the opposite of useful in our discussion.

    Finally there is the question of teaching from a social justice perspective, which my course does attempt to do. I write elsewhere about reaching across the aisle to former alt-right figures as possible unexpected allies in the struggle to create a better more just society for all. But hearing all of the feedback from people and looking at the polarized response I am beginning to rethink so limited an approach. Maybe we ought to strive to reach across all of our multiple divisions to find points where we can discuss such issues, air multiple perspectives, and embrace the diversity of thought. And maybe I have to get out of an “us versus them” habit of thought to do this myself, and to think of the goal as more than simply advancing social justice, but social betterment and progress as a whole. While I think that such a pedagogical approach must still work not to marginalize some students, I think the issues are too complex to leave as a binary with protection of students on one side and protection of speech on the other. We should be striving for both, which is why I look forward to participating in Dr. MacLatchy’s task force looking into these issues at Laurier, and I hope perhaps you might consider doing the same so we could together work towards an even stronger institutional future.

    I’m sorry this came to pass the way it did, and look forward to moving past this and continue working with you as my TA and perhaps in the future.

    Yours sincerely,

    Dr. Nathan Rambukkana”
    https://globalnews.ca/news/3873319/apology-wilfrid-laurier-free-speech-text/

    The Marxist got caught too soon. Give it time. Until then, one face for the public and one face for the students.

    • MacLatchy had a lawyer write hers. Star-chambering grad students might be an actionable offense at the institutional level. So she’s “troubled” – that’s about all she can state clearly.

      Sorta. That’s in fact deferred till some mysterious “independent party” reviews the “matter”. She’s turned the tables on the faculty bully: now he’s the one with a superior watching him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

      Plenty of engaging and discussing to announce, though. All those pesky “processes” call for a force tasked with “delving”. That’ll do it, alright.

      Rambukkana – this cowardly weasel teaches writing??
      He’s certainly mastered the subtle passive voice. Sure comes in handy when you don’t want to take responsibility for your own appalling behavior. A vicious hypocrite caught beating this kid
      with crafted, weaponized expressions of solicitude.

  6. “Dr Brunskell-Evans, a research fellow at the university, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze programme last week to discuss ‘defining gender’.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dz416
    “She said adults could define themselves ‘in whichever way they want’ – but raised concerns about children doing the same.

    She suggested that children should not be immediately branded ‘transgender’ if they start to express confusion over being male or female.

    Her comments are understood to have prompted three complaints from transgender members of the Women’s Equality Party, accusing her of ‘promoting prejudice against the transgender community’.

    Dr Brunskell-Evans, 67, is a member of the party and is its spokesman on sexual violence.

    The King’s College students learned about these complaints and cancelled her speech to members of its Reproductive and Sexual Health Society at Guy’s Campus.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5112565/Students-bar-academic-transgender-children-comment.html

  7. Jordan Peterson has more intelligence in his little finger than any one of those inquisitors and it’s truly upsetting to hear them dismiss him as a crackpot nutjob extreme right wing asshole who wants to ban all the colored people from North America and throw the transgendered in jail. The salient point of leftists is their absolute ignorance of the facts. They dismiss opposing views out of hand without even looking at them and they just keep getting dumber and dumber and dumber. And Lord I’m tired of those smarmy little bastards constantly calling us all fascists. I’m not a racist or a Nazi and neither is anybody else except David Duke. The schtick is starting to get stale…

    • They dismiss opposing views out of hand without even looking at them

      They do look at them and then say they don’t care what good will come from our programs, they want programs that push social justice so they can attack those who are smarter, better educated and run rings around the left in business.

      The push for equal results gives them the power to push everyone around, equal opportunity that lets people do what they want and some get rich takes that power away. Always remember the thing that motivates the left is a quest for power to make other people do what the left wants. Their quest for social justice is really a quest for the power to enslave everyone else.

  8. It’s in their DNA. They’re bullies. All commies are mean-spirited cowards without exception. And you know how we’re not supposed to generalize? Well this is one generalization I have never known to be wrong.

  9. 4- Tyranny must be the human social default position. It is much easier than protecting free speech. Black students shouting down professors and faculty, the whole tribunal inquisition–such are the actions of lazy, corrupted minds.

  10. Hello Vlad Tepes Blog!

    Congratulate on your recent Orban’s speech at Youtube. Becasue of that I came to the idea,

    I have Orban’s oath taking speech from 2014 grabbed from official parliament tv and the official gov’s website English translation of it. It is a very important speech of the 5 most significant one, and the video also shows the nice ceremony.
    I thought, You might subtitle it and publish on Youtube an excerpt or the full speech.
    Unfortunately I cannot do subtitling, but You have a practive with that.
    If you’d like I will send you a link, you could dowload the files from my cloud.
    Crossware knows my nick from 888.-
    E-mail me if you are interested.

    Best regards.
    P

    • Hali,

      Vlad mondta, hogy meg van neked egy régi Orbán beszéd 2014-b?l. El tudnád küldeni nekem az összes anyagot forditani?
      Ha a videó kisebb mint 2GB, akkor használd ezt: https://wetransfer.com
      Illetve rád bizom, az email cimed alapján erre meg van minden tudásod.
      cross_ware a hotmail-en.

      CW

  11. Dear Vlad Tepes Blog!

    Please let that speech. I talked with one of my colleague, he will do the job, and we will put that to Jerry Eldred, maybe.
    I gave you the video and the full translation, there was only 3-4 hours of subtitle timing job. Your translator swallowed it.
    I asked you, if you are interested or not. No reply.
    The final answer is: Not interested.
    Thank you for your time.
    Best regards,
    Former editor in chief.
    SG