Category: Baiting The Left

VDH Reflects Upon PKCS

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Victor Davis Hanson has also recently penned this piece of wisdom:

After thousands of hours of internal Senate and FBI investigations of Kavanaugh, as well as public discussions, open questioning, and media sensationalism, Ford remained unable to identify a single witness who might substantiate any of her narratives of an alleged sexual assault of nearly four decades past.

To substantiate her claim, the country was asked to jettison the idea of innocent until proven guilty, the need for corroborating testimony, witnesses, and physical evidence, the inadmissibility of hearsay, the need for reasonable statutes of limitations, considerations of motive, and the right of the accused to conduct vigorous cross-examination. That leap proved too much, especially when located in a larger progressive landscape of street theater antics, including Senate disruptions, walkouts, and sandbagging senators in hallways and elevators.

h/t SDA commenter “yop”

Three Academics Expose Corruption in Grievance Studies

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A trio of academics, fed up with how badly things have gone awry in the Humanities departments of many universities, set out to gain some data about just how bad:

We spent that time writing academic papers and publishing them in respected peer-reviewed journals associated with fields of scholarship loosely known as “cultural studies” or “identity studies” (for example, gender studies) or “critical theory” because it is rooted in that postmodern brand of “theory” which arose in the late sixties. As a result of this work, we have come to call these fields “grievance studies” in shorthand because of their common goal of problematizing aspects of culture in minute detail in order to attempt diagnoses of power imbalances and oppression rooted in identity.

We managed to get seven shoddy, absurd, unethical and politically-biased papers into respectable journals in the fields of grievance studies. Does this show that academia is corrupt? Absolutely not. Does it show that all scholars and reviewers in humanities fields which study gender, race, sexuality and weight are corrupt? No. To claim either of those things would be to both overstate the significance of this project and miss its point. Some people will do this, and we would ask them not to. The majority of scholarship is sound and peer review is rigorous and it produces knowledge which benefits society.

Nevertheless, this does show that there is something to be concerned about within certain fields within the humanities which are encouraging of this kind of “scholarship.” We shouldn’t have been able to get any papers this terrible published in reputable journals, let alone seven. And these seven are the tip of the iceberg. We would urge people who think this a fluke (or seven flukes) which shows very little to look at how we were able to do that. Look at the hundreds of papers we cited to enable us to make these claims and to use these methods and interpretations and have reviewers consider them quite standard. Look at the reviewer comments and what they are steering academics who need to be published to succeed in their careers towards. See how frequently they required us not to be less politically biased and shoddy in our work but more so.

Who Knew That Queens’ Students Were So Dumb?

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A protest at Queens university in Kingston, Ontario against Lindsay Shepherd, claiming that she is a white supremacist, stretches bounds of … well, sanity. The video on the Global News page is priceless.

The leader of this protest group, Sofie Vlaad, has published an article that sheds much light on his/her “brilliance”. Here’s the abstract:

This paper seeks to develop a new framework for discussing transsexual subjectivities. Drawing on Karen Barad’s theory of Agential Realism, I posit sex not as an immanent quality, but one that exists through its relations. Agential Realism as a theory presents us with a framework for discussing things-in-phenomena, and the material-discursive practices from which they arise. Under this paradigm, I mark a distinction between transsexuality qua process as a natural function of sex by which determinate (sexed) boundaries are (re)articulated, and transsexuality qua subject as the determinate categories that boundary-making practices, such as sexology and state institutions, bring into being. Adapting Jay Prosser’s theory of transsexuality as a form of autobiography to Barad’s framework, I delineate the ways in which sex acts as a process of becoming. Finally, using the language of Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia, I describe gender dysphoria as both constructed and melancholic, existing as the psychic feeling of loss incurred when the determinate boundaries of sex are rendered legible to state institutions, but illegible to transsexual subjects themselves.

Would an SDA reader be so kind as to translate this into … you know … legible English for the rest of us.

Lest we forget, this person’s education is being highly subsidized by taxpayers.

The Toronto Star Isn’t Happy with Donald Trump

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The Red Star’s Editorial Board has taken to quoting song lyrics in their latest attempt to disparage U.S. President Donald Trump over his handling of the NAFTA trade negotiations:

“How do you solve a problem like Donald?

“How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?

“How do you find the word that means Donald?

“A flibbertigibbet! A will-o’-the wisp! A clown!”

With deep apologies to the nuns who sang one of the most famous songs in the 1965 hit musical film, “The Sound of Music” by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein about Maria, the unpredictable novice nun played by Julie Andrews, the sentiments felt by the older nuns about Maria must be exactly how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada’s trade negotiators feel these days about U.S. President Donald Trump.

Oddly enough, there’s absolutely no mention of the peculiar behaviour of Canada’s Clown Princess, Chrystia Freeland.

One wonders, if the NAFTA negotiations do end up being successfully concluded and there is absolutely no gender equality protection, will the TorStar admit that Trudeau and Freeland are mere children playing dressup with the American adults?!

Back to School

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Under the honour system, we invite you to put yourself into the role of a political media critic.

Step 1: Watch this video, created & published by a pro-Democrats organization.

Step 2: Jot down your notes about what you like and dislike about this ad. If you worked for the Republicans, how would you counter it?

Step 3: Watch this critique by someone who you should instantly recognize and see his review of the ad.

Step 4: Add to your notes your thoughts about Step 3 and then copy & paste them all into a comment here on SDA.

#ThisShouldBeInteresting

The Intellectual Poverty Of The New Socialists

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Like a skillful surgeon, Richard Epstein, carefully dissects the nonsensical tripes of the New Socialists, such as Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Corey Robin:

The New Socialists thankfully do not stress the old theme of abolition of private property through the collective ownership of the means of production. So what do they believe? One answer to this question is offered by Professor Corey Robin, a political theorist at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, who recently praised the “New Socialism” in the New York Times. He proudly boasts of a major uptick in support for socialist ideals among the young and then seeks to explain the forces that drive their newfound success. In a single sentence: “The argument against capitalism isn’t that it makes us poor. It is that it makes us unfree.”

Robin reaches that conclusion not by looking at the increasing array of products, and career options made available through the free market. Instead, he invokes the type of dramatic example that Bernie Sanders loves to put forward to explain the need for free public health care. Under the current system, we are told that everyone is beholden to the “boss” at work and to the faceless drones who have the arbitrary power to decide that a particular insurance policy purchased by a mother does not cover her child’s appendectomy. Thus, under capitalism, we all bow and scrape to the almighty boss, knowing, in Robin’s words, that when “my well-being depends on your whim, when basic needs of life compel submission to the market and subjugation at work, we live not in freedom but in domination.”

Listening to Epstein discuss his article with John Batchelor here & here provides blissful common sense to one’s eardrums, something that is all too rare these days.

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