When you see vicious identity politics drift down into elementary grades, know that 20-30 years ago, a handful of conservative dissenters in the humanities were warning of disaster to come, only to be scoffed at by liberal colleagues and ignored by Republican politicians.
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@mark_bauerlein
Yet they held it off, and then slowed it down. People are waking up. There's hope, if we work together and stand up against evil.
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@mark_bauerlein
Here’s a new low, Professor Bauerlein. Beyond satire at this point.
dr. linda manyguns joins the lowercase movement to reject the symbols of hierarchy wherever they are found and will not use capital letters except to acknowledge the Indigenous struggle for recognition. read her full statement:
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@MZHemingway
40 years ago. This hit the U.S. hard in the 1980s and anybody with a noggin saw it coming. The "problem" is that hard-working people who value initiative and independence do not go into academia. So this is an inevitable, but still good problem to have as long as we fix it ASAP.
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@mark_bauerlein
My mom told me what was happening in 1977, when I was in junior high. It has turned out just like she said it would.
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@MZHemingway
Long before that even. I remember my mom and her prayer group expressing concern about Humanities in the 70s. There was talk of pulling their kids out of the classes.
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@mark_bauerlein
Indeed. They are already crying: it’s always racism or capitalism or sexism or the business department that is screwing them over. They utterly refuse to acknowledge how they have contributed to wrecking the field by denigrating and repudiating their own objects of study.
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@mark_bauerlein
In 1957 Atlas Shrugged was released that for told the disaster of a non-thinking society.
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@mark_bauerlein
I was in college in the late 80s early nineties..... When the term "politically correct" was born....yup, I was the dissenter
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