[Jonathan] Haidt and his colleagues… sought to discover how well conservative and what Haidt terms ‘liberal’ (i.e., progressive) students understood one another by having them answer moral questions as they thought their political opponents would answer them. “The results were clear and consistent,” remarks Haidt.
“In all analyses, conservatives were more accurate than liberals.” Asked to think the way a liberal thinks, conservatives answered moral questions just as the liberal would answer them, but liberal students were unable to do the reverse… Haidt and his colleagues found that progressives don’t understand conservatives the way conservatives understand progressives… and it goes a long way in explaining the different ways each side deals with opinions unlike their own.
People get angry at what they don’t understand, and an all-progressive education ensures that they don’t understand.

One of these.

And being hungry, they bang on stained glass windows.

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.

One of these.

Pollack says the university’s human resources department also recommended that he attend sexual harassment counselling as a result of the incident.

When auto-fill is not your friend. One of these.

Space travel is Patriarchy and therefore bad – according to Marcie Bianco, who is armed with a Women’s Studies degree and some strange personal baggage.

“Not only are [my academic colleagues] failing to teach the practice of civil discourse –the sine qua non of liberal education and democracy– they are sending the message that civil discourse is unnecessary.”

On sinking standards, the New Unsayable, and the “social justice” Sturmabteilung. One of these.

Attention, all white women. You and your “whiteness” are “causing real harm and violence.” You are, to put it bluntly, “a perpetrator of harm.”
Absolution will cost you $20.

It’s fundraising week over at my place. If you’d like to help keep a blog afloat, by all means do.

Ms Schaefer, who teaches performance art to those less gifted than herself, is a recipient of the Boston ICA’s 2015 Foster Prize, and has been described by the ICA’s senior curator as “amazing,” “compelling” and yet inexplicably “underfunded.”

No, really.

When even the school bus driver must confess “white privilege.”

“We want to destroy the Conservative government. We want to bring down the Patriarchy.”

Because Feminist Fight Club is “a mode of resistance.”

Those who mourn the demise of Aboriginal culture almost always regard things from the viewpoint of the men, who were indeed dispossessed of their land, and subsequently their traditions and status. Land wasn’t the only item of property they lost, however. They also lost or traded their women to the settlers, and this absorption – along with frontier warfare and disease – rapidly eroded tribal structures and doomed Aboriginal traditions to obsolescence. The settlers arrived with a wealth of goods and a shortage of females, and they were generally less enthusiastic about beating women than was customary in Aboriginal culture… The men lost a lot in the invasion, while the women had little to lose and plenty to gain.

Kerryn Pholi on Aboriginal taboos. One of these.

It’s time for some feminist rumination on problematic furniture.

“You’re saying we should organise our societies along the lines of the lobsters…”

Channel 4’s Cathy Newman interviews Jordan Peterson, quite badly.

As a pile of language, it’s a little boggling. But apparently, autonomy is to be achieved via learned incoherence, dogmatic groupthink and subordination to a cult dynamic. And the way to “abolish systems of domination and hierarchy” is to exult in mob violence, so coyly implied, and thereby the domination of others.

On Antifa’s sociopathy-as-lifestyle-choice. One of these.

Laziness, apparently, is “a political stance.” What, you didn’t know?

The details of the lawsuit are worth perusing. For instance, those regarding the widespread and enthusiastic use of “shitlists” to exclude and punish employees deemed insufficiently enthused by identity politics; and the apparent indifference of Google’s managers and HR department to harassing, demeaning or racial rhetoric when the targets of such language were white. A phenomenon illustrated by a manager, Chris Busselle, urging white employees – described as “schmucky” and “cheesy” on account of their pallor – to decline invitations to attend conferences; and by another manager, Liz Fong-Jones, who openly professed, in writing, that she “could care less about being unfair to white men.” A view she subsequently described as “absolutely reasonable.”

On James Damore’s lawsuit and Google’s dirty laundry.

Apparently, asking questions in class is a “masculine” norm, and is therefore oppressive to female students.
I kid you not.

A link-rich summary of the year – and the many mental contortions of our leftist betters:

Google software developer James Damore rose to notoriety in August by politely questioning the gospel of identity politics, promptly getting fired for it, and triggering a truly boggling display of near-total media dishonesty. Elsewhere, at the University of Florida, identity politics devotees complained about the “violence” of not being taken seriously, while demanding the construction of two entirely separate buildings to house the university’s black and Latino student groups, because sharing a building, or at least an entrance lobby, would “erase and marginalise their black and brown bodies.”
August also provided several vivid insights into the psychology of “social justice,” as when a mob of severely educated student Mao-lings demanded “empathy” while laughing at accounts of random beatings and then assaulting people themselves, in the name of tolerance. In the pages of The Atlantic, educator Alice Ristroph watched a total eclipse and somehow saw nothing but racism; while fellow educator Dr A.W. Strouse, whose works include Literary Theories of the Foreskin and deep ruminations on the preputial connotations of aluminium cans, signalled his radicalism by advising students to say “fuck you” to potential employers during job interviews.

Oh, there’s more.