Posted on 12/01/2022 4:22:29 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Chemist describes ‘an atmosphere of ideological control, omnipresence of ideology’
Contemporary American university life resembles education under the USSR, a Soviet émigrée professor wrote in a November 28 essay for Heterodox STEM.
Anna Krylov, a chemist at the University of Southern California, left the Soviet Union in 1991, not long after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
“I thought I would never again experience an atmosphere of ideological control, omnipresence of ideology, policing of speech and thought, suppression of dissent, compelled speech, fear, and self-censorship,” she wrote.
However, her life as a chemistry professor in a contemporary American university has reminded her repeatedly of her years under the Soviet regime.
Krylov identified four totalitarian tendencies in American education that recall Soviet communism: self-censorship and fear, pervasive ideology, intolerance of dissent, and top-down social engineering.
George Orwell’s fictional work “1984” describes a totalitarian dystopia with all of these features, and Krylov repeatedly cited the novel as descriptive of both Soviet and American academic life…
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They don’t even teach true things any more. They teach garbage and punish you for not accepting it.
Becoming?
Not becoming, but are totalitarian.
“A republic, if you can keep it”
Old Ben knew his stuff.
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Have a neighbor who is a step-dad. 21 year-old step-daughter mentioned trans something to him and he said, “That’s a mental illness.” She told him he’s a horrible person and she doesn’t speak to him now even though he pays for everything she has including housing as Mom doesn’t work and step-daughter doesn’t either.
He needs to find his balls.
She’s speaking the truth. I hope and pray they don’t destroy her over it. She might think of going back and starting over.
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Yes. Long trend, just undeniably obvious now.
I remember a news article about a college student at the radically left leaning university nearby. In a large lecture
room of hundreds of students the professor heard a slight questioning of the prevailing leftist slant on a topic. He pointed out the student “Well, we seem to have a right winger in the class today and a rather heavy one.” The guy was overweight and later said he was so embarrassed at the laughter and jeering from all, especially the females, that he wanted to kill himself.
Becoming??
I told all my kids that professors tend to be left-leaning and not to argue with them.
Imagine my surprise to find out that one professor kept complaining about the “liberal” textbook.
Yet wokespoke can sound so intellectually impressive, Such as,
"transfeminist... anticolonial...taxonomizing apparatus...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations,...leverage critiques against normativity... Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies...Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index....performativity...and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate..."
Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104.
Actual source is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/directory/brianna-thompson/
Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism. (740) 427-5621 Email Address thompson12@kenyon.edu
A college=a far-left ideological brothel baptizing women in waters of wokism. Another anti-Christ effect of contraception, etc.
From thread, Hysterical Spoof of a College English Course Description. Oh, Wait, It's a REAL Course Description!
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