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The career assassination of Cornel West: A messy intellectual divorce [w/by Eric Dyson]
Salon ^ | April 20, 2015 | mensah demary

Posted on 04/21/2015 2:23:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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June 2013: National Review: Dyson on Gay-Marriage Opposition: ‘The Same Argument Was Made in Defense of White Supremacy’ "........Last week, Dyson compared Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to “a symbolic Jew [who] has invited a metaphoric Hitler to commit Holocaust and genocide upon his own people” after Thomas voted to strike down a portion of the Voting Rights Act."......

April 17, 2015: Washington Free Beacon: Feds Spent $410,265 Studying ‘Satisfaction’ Levels of Young Gay Men’s First Time "....The four-year study, being conducted by Johns Hopkins University, is examining the “meaning and function” of first “penetrative same-sex sexual experiences.”

“Prior work has demonstrated that same-sex relationship trajectories support the development of self-esteem in young gay and bisexual men, while opposite same-sex relationships may be associated with homonegativity,” a grant for the project, which began in 2012, states. “Little is known about the meaning and function of first same-sex experience in [African-American] AA adolescent men and whether satisfaction with first penetrative same-sex experience impacts sexual trajectories.”....

April 20, 2015 - EIB: A Happy Conservative Black Woman on the Gay Agenda and Black America ".......RUSH: Well, now, I have to say that you've got a point about that. She's talking about the TV show Empire. I get your point here. You think there's a long-term effort being made here to dissolve the natural opposition to homosexuality, gay marriage, in the black community and turn that into support?

CALLER: Of course. I don't "think;" I know. I know wholeheartedly that that's what's going on. And this study... I do want to bring to your attention one thing in this study, Rush.

RUSH: Okay.

CALLER: Because I went and I looked at the study after you mentioned it. One thing that it says really caught my attention. It said, "The study will also examine why some young African-American gay men seek out older partners, finding that older partners had 'emotional immaturity, could expose them 20 'more life experiences,' and help young memorandum sort through, 'sexual position and how to perform in relationships,'" unquote."

Now, I'm going to let you in on a really closely held secret about black America, Rush. I grew up in a housing project, and in that housing project -- and in just about every poor black community in this country -- everyone in the community always knew who the older black men were who were plying these young fatherless boys with gifts, with candy, with money, with toys, you name it. This has always happened.

I mean, I haven't lived in that particular lifestyle for a very, very long time. I've been very fortunate to be very successful in this country. But I know that that lifestyle still exists. You have a bunch poor, fatherless boys, and a bunch of older men who prey upon those boys. Now, it used to be a bad thing. It used to be called pedophilia. But apparently now it's called (chuckles) "giving them emotional maturity." You know, this is a study to me that is dangerous in many ways.

Because it's one thing to say that, you know, homosexuality is great; it's the best thing since sliced bread. It's another thing to say older men who prey on young adolescent boys -- and an adolescent is still underage -- are no longer doing something bad, but they're doing something great. They're helping shepherd them into this journey on homosexuality. And that's a problem. I'm not buying it, and I hope there are other intelligent people that are not buying that either......."

05/12/12 - YouTube video 14:19 - Harry Jackson, anti-gay Pastor v Michael E Dyson - President Obama's Endorsement of SSM - Pastor Dwight McKissic: "President Obama has betrayed the Bible and the Black church with his endorsement of same-sex marriage. The Bible is crystal clear on this subject."

May 15, 2013, Ebony: Did 'Outraged' Pastors Support Obama Before His Same-Sex Marriage Comments? "......Prominent Pastor Dwight McKissic said, "President Obama has betrayed the Bible and the Black church with his endorsement of same-sex marriage. The Bible is crystal clear on this subject and the Black church strongly opposes same-sex marriage. His endorsement is an inadvertent attack on the Christian faith.".....

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"Inadvertent?"

1 posted on 04/21/2015 2:23:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Aren’t they both pretty execrable?


2 posted on 04/21/2015 2:38:51 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

Yes. They are.


3 posted on 04/21/2015 2:54:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Unam Sanctam
This "issue" is causing a big rift in many circles.
4 posted on 04/21/2015 2:59:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Eric Dyson “I only wanted you to hold me!!!”

Cornell West “you got the bonus package homey!!! “


5 posted on 04/21/2015 3:06:19 AM PDT by DainBramage
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My God, Dyson and West have had a falling out? Has the universe not been split in two? How do we go on with life? I’m going back to bed, curl up into a fetal ball and have a good cry.


6 posted on 04/21/2015 3:06:41 AM PDT by McBuff
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Heh—they can put some ointment on that rift.


7 posted on 04/21/2015 3:17:34 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Oh the trials and tribulations of self described intellectuals.
It’s so upsetting I think I’ll have a second cup of coffee and watch fox and friends.


8 posted on 04/21/2015 3:17:58 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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...a rift years in the making and now clearly delineated in the form of Dyson’s essay on West in the New Republic, “The Ghost of Cornel West” — this has all the hallmarks of a messy divorce between two public, black intellectuals ...

Neither one of these frauds is an intellectual.That would require some intellect!

9 posted on 04/21/2015 3:35:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Cornel West with his antique Afro, rich capitalist suits, Chiclets teeth & 60’s radicalism that seems quaint nowadays, is facing the twilight that brings no closure.

He should relocate to Cuba. Now, while it’s still a decaying Stalinist showcase.

May the rocks fall on them both. Let the Left devour its own as it always has.


10 posted on 04/21/2015 5:05:24 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

In other news: Ivory Towers Teeter As Tweedledum Divorces Tweedledee.


11 posted on 04/21/2015 5:08:13 AM PDT by IronJack
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"both...execrable"

Yes indeed. I remember watching a debate about race on C-Span a few years ago between Ward Connerly and that puffed-up nincompoop West. The audience was mostly black and totally in West's corner.

Every logical utterance by Connerly was greeted by the audience with either silence or grumbling. Every nitwit remark by West was greeted with cheers and hosannas by the crowd like they were listening to a preacher at a revivalist meeting.

What West said amounted to intellectual sludge. None of it made a lick of sense. But the audience lapped it up like it was manna from heaven. I doubt they understood a word of the gobbledygook that came out of his piehole.

12 posted on 04/21/2015 5:14:19 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Note to author of original post. Get to the point!!


13 posted on 04/21/2015 5:34:06 AM PDT by bjc (Show me the data!)
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I think he’s intimating this is a lovers’ spat.


14 posted on 04/21/2015 6:03:34 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“Squash” does not equal “quash”.

Pet peeve.


15 posted on 04/21/2015 6:05:49 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Oratam

Perhaps, but who knows given the deluge of largely meaningless and meandering mutterings of Mensah Demary. Pardon the alliteration.


16 posted on 04/21/2015 9:31:52 AM PDT by bjc (Show me the data!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Pretentious, overwritten tripe, but then it suits the subject. The White Privilege drivel that so stinks up racial discourse these days may be laid at West’s door (among others). “Public intellectual”, incidentally, may be reliably translated as “jive-talking celebrity” to anyone but the true believer. He’s the one with the thousand-dollar suit and the megaphone.


17 posted on 04/21/2015 9:44:16 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Ha, ha. Had to stop reading when the author called Cornell West an “intellectual powerhouse.” I’m glad it came early.


18 posted on 04/21/2015 12:29:56 PM PDT by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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I’m thinking he meant to say “intellectual outhouse”, like Dyson.


19 posted on 04/21/2015 2:46:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Catfight!

I gotta stick with the honestly crazy guy, rather than the sneakily malicious one.

Plus, he has more significant hair.

20 posted on 04/21/2015 5:21:31 PM PDT by x
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