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Emory Doubles Down on Beclowning Itself
Powerline ^ | 29 March 2016 | Stephen Hayward

Posted on 03/29/2016 7:29:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Back in December in an installment of our “Spreading Virus” series about kampus kraziness, when Emory University was presented a list of ridiculous demands from oppressed aggrieved crybully students, we noted the pathetic sniveling reaction from the dean of campus life, Ajay Nair. One highlight of Dean Nair’s capitulation was this:

However, today’s activists and other students are growing up in a wonderfully diverse, polycultural global society that increasingly acknowledges and embraces our individual “multidimensionality” as complex beings with many identities.

Paraphrasing Gabby Johnson from Blazing Saddles, we said: “That is some authentic academic gibberish!”

Dean Nair returns to the pages of Inside Higher Ed today to continue the beclowning with a commentary on the now famous “Trump 2016” “chalking” incident. Here are some highlights:

News media coverage and even our own campus dialogues have largely essentialized this incident into the right to free speech versus the need for . . .

Wait! Stop the tape! “Essentialized” this incident? Essential is either an adjective or a noun; it is not a transitive verb. You know when you see a fancy person like Nair turn “essential” into a transitive verb that you are in the presence of no ordinary mediocrity. No wonder Nair is an administrator.

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1 posted on 03/29/2016 7:29:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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News media coverage and even our own campus dialogues have largely essentialized this incident into the right to free speech versus the need for . . .

Wait! Stop the tape! “Essentialized” this incident? Essential is either an adjective or a noun; it is not a transitive verb. “

It’s ok, we just need to Freerepublicize the incident.


2 posted on 03/29/2016 7:31:59 AM PDT by JPJones
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To: Rummyfan
And from Scripps College. The Horror!


3 posted on 03/29/2016 7:32:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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“On behalf of Emory, we welcome the new freshman class.

Please check your penises and spines at the doors and don’t forget to pick up your care packages that contain whistles, kleenex, binkies and blankies.”


4 posted on 03/29/2016 7:33:40 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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“dean” nair is representative of idiot LIB losers who have become college administrators because they are too incompetent to do anything else.


5 posted on 03/29/2016 7:38:21 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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I can see this in the NE -— but in Georgia ???


6 posted on 03/29/2016 7:54:50 AM PDT by bob_esb
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Bob, Emory is a good School but it is funded by Coca Cola money from the brothers Robert and George Woodruff Foundations with another Huge donation from Roberto Goizueta.


7 posted on 03/29/2016 8:03:46 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: Old Sarge; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; freeangel; kalee; TWhiteBear; Salvation; ...
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Check out # 3 .


8 posted on 03/29/2016 8:22:49 AM PDT by LucyT
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9 posted on 03/29/2016 8:31:38 AM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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