Posted on 02/20/2018 4:30:21 PM PST by Wuli
A professor pilloried for her views asks if it's still possible to have substantive arguments about divisive issues. ...... The op-ed, which I co-authored with Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego Law School, appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Aug. 9 under the headline, “Paying the Price for the Breakdown of the Country’s Bourgeois Culture.” It began by listing some of the ills afflicting American society: ...... We then discussed .. a list of behavioral norms—that was almost universally endorsed between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s:
Get married before having children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime. ........... n what became the most controversial passage, we pointed out that some cultures are less suited to preparing people to be productive citizens in a modern technological society, and we gave examples:
The culture of the Plains Indians was designed for nomadic hunters, but is not suited to a First World, 21st-century environment. Nor are the single-parent, antisocial habits prevalent among some working-class whites; the anti-‘acting white’ rap culture of inner-city blacks; the anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants ............. after our op-ed was published last August? A raft of letters, statements and petitions from students and professors at my university and elsewhere condemned the piece as hate speech—racist, white supremacist, xenophobic, “heteropatriarchial,” etc. There were demands that I be removed from the classroom and from academic committees. None of these demands even purported to address our arguments in any serious or systematic way.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Prof. Wax spoke today at AEI and I was just watching her presentation
http://www.aei.org/events/debate-and-disagreement-in-academia-today/
It’s really scary. We can talk about “winning” all we want, but it is clear that academia is brainwashing its charges. Yesterday’s parody become today’s reality. I think the only answer is to stop Federal student loans immediately, and let the market take care of it.
Funny you should post this now. It’s sort of like you are thinking of something, and the next thing you know, someone else mentions it. Must be the cosmic lattice of coincidence.
The Left wins all arguments because shut up.
thanks very much. but we’ve stopped clicking on any WSJ links since 99 percent of the time all they give us is advertising to subscribe to their (very over-priced) paper
no deal!
besides, they tried to cheat us on a previous subscription so we will never go back to them, everyone here (over 200 people) won’t subscribe anymore
“cosmic lattice of coincidence”
A great line. Thanks. I will borrow it sometimes. You’ll really know it’s part of the “cosmic lattice of synchronicity” when that line comes back to you in some comment from someone else in the future.
Got to sign in or subscribe. NO THANKS, but thanks for posting, Wuli.
Thanks for the link. Watching now (10 minutes into the 1 hour + presentation). BUMP!
BNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKK!
Thanks for playing.
“A lot of people don’t realize what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don’t realize that there’s this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, “plate,” or “shrimp,” or “plate of shrimp” out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.”
Go to the Hillsdale College site & find her entire speech in the latest issue of Imprimis. Yes, lots of leftwing fascism in academia; half of her colleagues signed a letter denouncing her for finding good things to say about the 1950’s just because there was segregation then.
But her writing made other profs go all crinkly toes & bleat that what she said ruined their entire summer, poor snowflakes.
It’s a culture war but now the conservative side has a fighting chance it didn’t have fifty years ago.
THANK you for a great article! Please repost it in 24 hours. THis needs to circulate, but we’re all chasing the HOGG KID, in Florida, and doing recipes. GHACK!
HOORAY Amy Wax! Very good.
“Everything is connected.”
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/are-we-free-to-discuss-americas-real-problems/
Thanks. Terrific essay
I agree, I just have trouble accepting that I live in a world in which it is controversial.
In case you missed some other posters, you can also find it here:
http://www.aei.org/events/debate-and-disagreement-in-academia-today/
and here:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/are-we-free-to-discuss-americas-real-problems/
In case you missed some other posters, you can also find it here:
http://www.aei.org/events/debate-and-disagreement-in-academia-today/
and here:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/are-we-free-to-discuss-americas-real-problems/
Thank you, Wuli.
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