So am I. I bet they’re pretty commonplace in CA.
Well that and the GOP hates unions, of which one of the largest is the teachers union.
Completely understand. I’d do the same thing. That being said an anecdote that ends with “I can’t tell you where it’s happening, but trust me it’s terrible” doesn’t do anything for me.
The best way I’ve seen it summarized was that:
Nazism/Fascism is totalitarianism + state
Communism is totalitarianism + class
Most people don’t know the Nazis and the USSR were originally allies and both invaded Poland in 1939. Hitler betrayed Stalin and that’s what cost him the war. There’s plenty of quotes from the Nazis about how their national socialism wasn’t that different from or at odds with communism.
The stateless nature of communism true believers was always the weirdest thing for me to grasp as an American. That’s why the KGB worked so hard in China, Cuba, South Africa etc…
It seems to me it happens only very rarely (again, if we’re talking about prominent political figures and/or pundits). Certainly not enough to consider it troubling (just my opinion of course).
You are arguing facts not in evidence. You don’t know to what extent college faculty are making ‘Trump is Hitler’ assertions. Further, to the extent such assertions are being made, you don’t know to what extent students that say the same are simply parroting what they hear vs are making legit assertions of personal belief.
‘Indoctrination of our impressionable youth by pointy-headed leftist academics’ is a popular boogeyman these days.
That’s not the best summary of Nazism or fascism.
I’m always floored at the very thought of giving these lefty profs so much power. If I can spend 2 decades with my kid, and a prof they see for 1 semester is enough to completely sway their world view, I dare say I did a really shitting job parenting.
The biggest influence on kids are their peers.
The two I attended were certainly progressive. The gender pronoun debate wasn’t a debate, for example. Learned that quickly in the required speech class. I remember once suggesting that I would likely be more concerned for a daughter being unsupervised with the opposite sex, then I would for a son. In short, she’d have to actually carry a child, etc. Holy heck that was uncomfortable. I also remember the composition course. The selections for us to read! I had to say something about the one claiming homosexuality is mistakenly labeled a sin by Christians! Nope, not mentioned in the bible, and this and that. That too was uncomfortable. You would have thought I was proposing a puppy toss competition, judging by the looks I received. Oh and the rainbow shapes (believe they were triangles) declaring a chemistry lab (as just an example) to be a “safe space.” /Eye-roll.
But, that’s my experience. I’m glad you all didn’t have the same.
Sorry, throwing this out quickly.
I had a 230 lb. green haired wiccan lesbian acting like an English professor in 2002, right when the shit in Iraq was really getting started.
We disagreed about quite literally everything. I had an absolute blast breaking her balls and verbally chokeslamming her as she tried to strut and pontificate for the 13th graders.
At one point she finally admitted that she was only doing this as part of her doctoral requirements. On Beowulf. To which I responded “Really? Aren’t there enough of those already?”.
I kinda laid off of her after that though. I still needed to pass, and that was close enough to a tap out for me.
Why would a wiccan lesbian get her doctorate in Beowulf? It’s a story about a masculine hero confronting evil. That’s so toxic.
Plenty of other dissertations to plagiarize?
Actually, she was probably attacking it from that angle. I never actually bothered to ask her about it.
Edited just to throw the word actually in there one more time!
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When some lefty tries to start a pseudomodernist discussion how the term vagina is a binary term that discriminates against trans/non-binary/whomever explain to them that it originally meant scabbard or sheath. The confusion started with Medieval Latinists who pored through Roman texts, saw the term paired with phallus and incorrectly assumed it denoted the female genital organ. What they failed to notice, intentionally or not, is that it was mostly mentioned in legionary jokes and Juvenal’s satires about (Roman) army life. As in there were no women available in the mountains of Armenia so Rufus provided a vagina (sheath) for my sword.
Cough cough.
Cue uncomfortable stares and complete silence.
He wasn’t really talking about a sword, was he?
The graffiti found on the walls of bars and brothels in Pompeii and Herculaneum saved for posterity probably the best coming out line in the history of the world:
Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio : Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
Since I don’t understand Latin, when they say “Julius ate here” do they mean at the establishment or where they are sitting?
Yes, in this case, mine.
I’m thinking of the poor new guy who has legitimately lost his sword. Posted in some gathering place in camp, “I have the sheath if anyone has a sword for me. Come to such and such’s tent.” Oh, the misunderstandings that night. Feels like a Mel Brooks scene.
Why was she teaching college as grad student without a PhD? Was she a graduate assistant? Certainly not a “professor”.
The Nazis and Soviets were never really friends. First off, I wonder how much resentment some in Russia had as to the steep cost of exiting the WW1, maybe Loppar knows a bit.
Hitler totally hated the Soviets and knew for a long time before that he wanted to slam them and enslave them. It was just a matter of priorities.
He knew that as soon as he took Poland, there would be a war off to the west with Britain and France. they were in a state of poor military preparedness, and he could’t be concerned too much with anything the Soviets might do while the Nazis were dealing with that. He also knew the Soviets were likely to get nasty at some point in time, and they too had their military in only so good a state of preparedness.
So the Pact of Steel was dreamed up. In I think 1938, Hitler had Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, send out feelers to the Soviets. Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister, was the man with whom I think a lot of the negotiations went through.
The idea was this: Look, we know we both hate each other, but I think we both know we both want to expand into the rest of Europe at about the same time, so why don’t we draw up a gentlemen’s agreement such that we get this, you get that, and we don’t bump elbows doing it.
The Germans would get the western 2/3 of Poland, and western Europe. the soviets would get the other 1/3 of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. they would also get to invade Finland for more salt water access on the Baltic sea for naval strength.
The Soviets went for it hook, line and sinker, although I think Molotov did express some misgivings that likely save his life.
Hitler slammed the Poles, and after the Phony war went after the west, with the comfort of knowing the Soviets weren’t going to fuck with him while doing it. In June of 1941, Hitler still hadn’t taken out the British, but knew time was ticking on his opportunity to absolutely slam the Soviet Union while they would still be at a disadvantage of ignorance.
Maybe someone else can elaborate on the alliance with Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. My understandilng is that Hitler said, “look, over to the east is this big, bad Soviet Union that wants to meddle in your internal affairs and might some day lean on your borders. Join forces with us and we will remove the threat and you get a slice of the spoils of battle.”
No, certainly not. Your guess is as good as (probably better) than mine as to the title.
Well, in CA our kindergarten kids are now learning that they can choose to be a boy or a girl, pfury. This is part of a mandatory diversity and inclusion curriculum. Parent can’t opt out, like we can with the high school sex ed class.
To your point.
I wouldn’t want my kid in Tricia Rose’s class, literally pledging allegiance to her politics, but Glen Loury would awesome.
And Nickolas Christakis is fantastic. Check him out. The patience of a saint.
His colleagues and the administration who silently stood by, or actually sided with the student protestors, not so much. I think the gender studies people have a new name for them.
