Free Speech and Creepy Liberalism

she seems unstable; how did she get a job at oberlin in the first place?

this is a decent rundown of her worldview: http://forward.com/opinion/335007/inside-the-twisted-anti-semitic-mind-of-oberlin-professor-joy-karega/

it's weird to see the usual conspiracy mindset being cast in academies

er, damn auto-correct: ACADEMESE

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/us/college-protests-alumni-donations.html

for people complaining today's students are coddled and oversensitive, they sure sound whiny

yes, but it's their money

i would feel worse if their chief examples weren't places with massive endowments like princeton and amherst

and yale (endowment: $27 billion)

"Their" money --pshaw! Some communist you are!

lol i just meant that there are higher stakes for the university than can just be dismissed with "stop complaining" - fwiw i agree w/ u that they sound whiney. i also agree that they should be forcibly liberated of their money but i don't think we should give it to yale. yale's funding should also be forcibly liberated.

Agree. Expropriation for Amherst is not high on my wish list.

chait set himself up here

https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/761604753411436548

now he's complaining about "leftists" accusing him of supporting trump

Wow tweets are not funny

i'm not sure who we're supposed to be mad at, or who we are supposed to be laughing at, here. sterling, can you clarify?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxuiJUMun7A

afaict the center of the socialist/weird twitter venn diagram thinks chait is a total dope, so anything that annoys him is by definition worthwhile or funny

i may be wrong though, i sometimes struggle with pointless twitter beefs

chait posted a dumb thing saying "don't post the dog thing". so of course everyone clowns him by posting the dog thing, which is also dumb.

then chait claims this is harassment by the online left because he's not ideologically pure enough, which is amazing and hilarious.

i mean its like in middle school when the teacher says "please stop snapping that rubber band" to a student so all the students get out rubber bands and won't stop snapping them all period and the teacher just freaks out.

except the teacher doesn't blame communists for it usually

chait is smart. people post dumb stuff on twitter sometimes. who cares.

/tombstone engraving

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/us/as-homeless-find-refuge-in-forests-anger-is-palpable-in-nearby-towns.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Some residents have begun taking photographs of hitchhikers or videotaping confrontations with homeless people camping in the woods and posting them online, including on a private Facebook page created recently called Peak to Peak Forest Watch. Some say the campers have cursed at them for driving past without picking them up, or yelled at them while they were cycling or hiking. They say they no longer feel comfortable in some parts of the woods.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/trump-the-university-of-chicago-and-the-collapse-of-public-language

The trouble in San Francisco, I realized, wasn’t that the warring tribes followed different doctrines. It was that they followed the same doctrine, abstractly stated, but had less and less of a way to gather and work from the abstract into the specific. Everyone was operating as a good San Francisco liberal, struggling against the establishment, outside the system, for the people. Ironically, this meant there was less and less system left, no common terms by which the whole community could move ahead. Public language, as I put it in the piece, was coming unmoored from public process. I wondered what the future would bring if the rhetoric of our best ideals kept moving in this direction—if people of a single political identity couldn’t agree on the real sense of the words that, they were certain, gave voice to their values.

That Heller-piece eloquently describes the chaos that arises when the members of the fourth estate hasn't read enough Habermas.

I do agree with quite a lot of it, btw.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/us/campuses-cautiously-train-freshmen-against-subtle-insults.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

hey you guys

"Train" seems like a loaded term here.

may be triggering for students who were raised in labs

would an 18-year-old really say "you are a credit to your race"

lol yeah that one

someone explain why this isn't the dumbest thing ever

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/6/cal-state-university-la-offers-segregated-housing-/

i mean, "theme houses" (or "theme hallways" or whatever) are one thing. we had a "womanist" house at my alma mater that comprised all af-am women. but overtly racially segregated housing--that's not at the very least yoked to some kind of collective cultural activity-- seems very, very dumb. but maybe the media hasn't represented this fairly??

it's apparently by demand, classed as an academic community, and has the usual microaggression/safe space rationale. perhaps you recall

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/06/black-grad-student-on-hunger-strike-in-mo-after-swastika-drawn-with-human-feces/

from around the time of the mizzou protests

Greek groups have done that (selective group housing) for decades, basically centuries now. Strikes me as a welcome table turn.

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/dorm-for-black-students-is-segregation/

(re. similar situ at u-conn)

also, as far as i know, in the post-civil-rights era, greek orgs are not officially (or practically, in most cases) whites-only

at UW there are a few af-am frats (and possibly sororities); most of the other frats seem only mildly integrated

Yeah no Greeks aren't integrated for shit, anywhere in the country.

Casually referring to fraternity and sorority members as "Greeks" is confusing as hell.

just saw a movie where some mild mirth is gotten out of a jew being "president of the greeks"

Aimless, this is a thread about American college campus issues. Maybe it wasn't at first, but at present, that's the context.

http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/09/help-food-insecure-employees/

this is obviously written from the perspective of some kind of nonprofit org mindset but still

is

- don't pay a starvation wage

in the list

that's a negative

but there are lots of techniques for being more sensitive to their concerns!

https://medium.com/@ethnicstudies198/an-open-letter-to-the-uc-berkeley-administration-regarding-academic-freedom-1bf60c9a040e#.b4zy83fk8

The decision to suspend Ethnic Studies 198: Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis is a violation of our academic freedom. This is an alarming development to have transpire on the same campus that not only hosted the Free Speech Movement, but which also routinely claims and utilizes the same Movement’s legacy to market itself as a world-class institution, a bastion of tolerance and diversity, and the site of intellectual inquiry — inquiry that is sometimes discomforting, but always enriching. Your decision constitutes nothing less than an act of discrimination against students who wanted to debate and discuss this contentious issue in a spirit of genuine sincerity, mutual respect, and open-minded curiosity.

i thought it sounded like shit from the course description but what i really wanted to know is since when do colleges offer classes for credits taught by undergrads? that's bullshit.

Oh, this is the first time I'm hearing about this DeCal business. That is bizarre, you're right.