Biologist Heather Heying on campus Mao-lings and their urge to shut down thought:
The incoherence of the protesters’ responses and the fact that the walkout was scheduled in advance suggests something darker: the protesters are “read-only,” like a computer file that cannot be altered. They will not engage ideas – they will not even hear ideas – because their minds are already made up. They have been led to believe that exposure to information is in and of itself dangerous.
“They have been led to believe that exposure to information is in and of itself dangerous.”
Yeah, dangerous to their unsustainable position. Don’t process information, snowflakes, it will kill your false assumptions.
Mao-lings! Heather heying is right as was the commenter who said, “They have been led to believe that exposure to information is in and of itself dangerous.”
David Thompson’s thread, Kate’s thread ‘Its Probably Nothing’ above, as well as countless previous threads and links to happenings everywhere in the west would suggest that this culture war and by extension the political war has been lost,l and the Frankfurt School has come out the victor.
A mix of Animal Farm and 1984.
And we argue over which “progressive” conservative will arrest the slide into darkness.