Free Speech and Creepy Liberalism

Read the whole thing if you can stomach it.

http://hum.uchicago.edu/faculty/ywang/history/1966teacher.htm

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, March 23, 2015 4:03 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

Yeah as somebody whose family went through these episodes, don't really appreciate the glibness in this thread w/r/t what happened during the Cultural Revolution

i'm off work sick, should i read his opus

xp

i draw the line at chuck c johnson youtubes tho, no way

feel at this point that the guy is just trolling those ppl who were initially inclined to defend him, or at least his right to put forward unpopular views in class discussion

“I am the God of MRA’s

Crazy World of Arthur Brown's lost first draft

Getting angry at kids who leave lectures on rape is as useless as it is politically incoherent: What is the proper response to students who wish to exit voluntary lectures and go someplace else? Should they be forced to stay? How would we ensure that they are actually listening?

For students still developing their politics and personal strategies for grappling with views they find disagreeable, there isn’t much harm in stepping out of a lecture hall and into a safer space. Given that safe spaces have been a part of feminist discourse since the early days of the women’s movement, it seems unlikely that they will suddenly proliferate through broader culture, robbing us all of fair discourse.

A far likelier scenario is that colleges will—and should!—remain loci of experimental politics and their expressions, and that elite institutions will remain culturally removed from the world around them by nature of their constituents and the shape of the academic labor market. A continued obsession with campus culture will surely remain a politically impotent habit among the media class—unless those with axes to grind take up the cause of university staff as tenuous employees and citizens of a weak welfare state, a possibility even more distant than campus cultures suddenly mattering to the world at large.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121375/shulevitzs-new-york-times-essay-sparks-outrage

really there's no point in getting angry at anyone. anger is a toxic emotion. we should just love each other.

Tone policing

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/South-Windsor-Teacher-Facing-Termination-Over-Sexual-Poem-297593041.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_CTBrand

http://allpoetry.com/Please-Master

okay

feelin like some old time 4n+h0ny 345+0N ilx up in here

feel like the teacher who shows that poem their high school students is begging for disciplinary action

heh

what a bunch of babies

though I guess that's the point

my hs library had a copy of Ginsberg's collected works and senior year a guy who'd been to a lit camp thing over the summer showed it to a few of us, and I was wowed by it, thought "Howl" was so gorgeous, and I wanted to show it to a few other people and the guy looked me in the eye and said, don't do that, they're not ready for it, and I didn't, and I thank that guy all the time both for introducing me to Ginsberg and a whole other world of literature but also for helping me understand how provocation works better than I would have otherwise.

lol adios, teach

gonna hafta rubber room ya son

Goodbye, Mr. Drips

http://theithacan.org/news/ic-sga-passes-bill-to-create-system-to-report-microaggressions/

i'm so glad ILX is the only permanent record of my social clumsiness

However, junior Kyle James, vice president of communications and co-sponsor of the bill, said those reporting a microaggression would likely have to reveal their identity if they wanted to pursue any legal action.

New Yorker cartoon in the making:

"What are you in for?"

"I asked someone 'Where are you really from?'"

in the jewish community "where are you really from?" == "where is your family originally from before they immigrated here?" (ie germany, pale of settlement, morocco, iran, bukhara, etc) i guess it means something different in sj land

is your contempt for "sjws" now so determinative that casual racism is a complete enigma to you

no i'm sure everyone who says "where are you really from?" means it maliciously to mock the person for looking different than them and has nothing to do w/ an inquiry about where their family is from

nobody asks me where i'm "really" from, i'm white

they probably don't give a shit about where you're from bc you look like every other white dude

oh another american with german ancestry wow

'a plainsman, by the look of you'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S07Bp2wBylw

People don't ask me where I'm from because the name of my city is tattooed on my face

"your race is interesting to me right this second, and it does not belong here, discuss it with me politely"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjjNOwdvVS4

i understand that some ppl are offended about being asked about their family heritage but i am going to remain skeptical that it's intended as a "microaggression."

"how dare you be interested in me and my background. fuck you."

the whole concept of "microaggression", take is as you will, or really white supremacy in toto, is that intent is immaterial

"microaggressions" tenuous relationship to reality is a bug imo, not a feature

well, we all learn who our friends are one way or another

is there a clear line between microaggression and garden-variety passive aggression? or is MA distinguished as being limited only to the ways race/class/gender are baked into minor social interactions?

You know some troll is going to be reporting slights to his Anglo Saxon Cis background ten times a day

I object to "microaggression" on the grounds that it's a silly word. I give it two more years before no one with a clue still says it, and five more before nobody says it and it becomes terminology of the past.

UNLESS: if people start attaching "micro" willy-nilly to other nominalizations, then all bets are off. I don't see it coming but who knows, maybe we are dumb enough as a people to start saying "microinvitation" "microsalutation" "microencouragement" "microvalidation". Yikes. Gives me the Micro Heebee Jeebees.

Wait till the intelligent nanotech comes for us. Once we experience nanoaggressions, we will regard microaggressions with loving nostalgia.

come on, mordy

when it's said to people of color, it means "account for your existence." i don't need anything done to people who are dumb in that way, but i'm going to call them dumb.

like the lady who told me that i speak "really well english" when she had come to the end of a bewildering barrage of such questions that one time in college. she was dumb.

idk obv in a country where birtherism is a thing it would be a mistake to underestimate ppl so I can't account for every incident but in my world of Jewish ppl it is a question that is asked in some form a lot and it always means what is Do not come out of your room again

Lol omg that is hilarious my phone took my talking to my daughter as dictation and posted that's good enough reason for me to say good night lol

haha aw

I always assumed the question was a means for dummies to determine from which national drawer to pull out their cheesy stereotypical lines

lol Mordy.

I always assumed the question was a means for dummies to determine from which national drawer to pull out their cheesy stereotypical lines

― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, March 27, 2015 12:10 AM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Hey there. Where are you from? Cool, Asheville? Awesome, wanna fuck?"

more like "Do you know how make sushi? I love to eat raw fish."

"microaggressions" always makes me think of micro machines and I just imagine someone being racist really fast.

and it always means what is Do not come out of your room again

:)