tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post5025619458579593881..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: Academic CowardiceDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-9467366236774994632014-05-05T07:27:08.378-04:002014-05-05T07:27:08.378-04:00not so much libertarian as they are libertine
----...not so much libertarian as they are libertine<br />---------<br />But, they're even more perverted than that. <br /><br />On the one hand, they do demand an ever cruder culture, do demand a reconsideration of any inherited standards of behavior, especially with respect to sexual relations, but on the other hand they have over decades maintained their appreciation of leftist police states of romantic flavor, e.g. Maoist China and Castro's Cuba.<br /><br />I think what explains the left's current propensity to defend explicitly intolerant Muslim orthodoxy as opposed to Catholic, for example, has to do with its categorization of Islam as a victim of white European arrogance and hegemony. The petition to get rid of Hirsi Ali signed by some 350 members of the Brandeis faculty includes the following:<br />“We cannot accept Ms. Hirsi Ali’s triumphalist narrative of western civilization, rooted in a core belief of the cultural backwardness of non-western peoples.” <br />peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-8214820614703042952014-05-04T19:22:53.056-04:002014-05-04T19:22:53.056-04:00Progressive social reforms are not so much liberta...Progressive social reforms are not so much libertarian as they are libertine. There is a slight difference.Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-60561750082841232332014-05-04T13:33:04.752-04:002014-05-04T13:33:04.752-04:00Just an aside: aren't things like multicultura...Just an aside: aren't things like multiculturalism, diversitism, homosexualism, feminism what should be classified as "social issues?"<br /><br />The left has attached itself to libertarian notions like "free speech" on occasion. But, in general its objective is not consistent with liberty; egalitarian social engineering requires coercion. "Academic freedom" is fine if it means protecting counter-cultural activists from the administration, but not relevant when Western Civilization is to be promoted. Hey ho, western civ has got to go.<br /><br />The bursting of the college education racket's bubble has the potential to be an enjoyable spectacle for those of us who've watched the politicization of the university since about the time of the Berkeley Free Speech incident.<br />----------<br />Leonard Jeffries Jr. (born 1937) is an American professor of black studies at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York...<br />Jeffries had also advanced a theory that whites are "ice people" who are violent and cruel, while blacks are "sun people" who are compassionate and peaceful.[7] He is a proponent of melanin theory and claims that melanin levels affect the psyche of people, and that melanin allows black people to "…negotiate the vibrations of the universe and to deal with the ultraviolet rays of the sun."[8]<br /><br />His lectures and talks have been characterized by ideological opponents as "racist rants".[9][10][11][12]<br /><br />In an interview in Rutherford Magazine May 1995 Jeffries, asked what kind of world he would want to leave to his children, he answered: "A world in which there aren’t any white people".[13]<br /><br />Jeffries has said that the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle disaster was "the best thing to happen to America in a long time," as it would stop white people from "spreading their filth through the universe."[7]peter brushnoreply@blogger.com