Posted on 04/26/2018 7:25:23 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
A Marquette University professor recently argued that individual liberties, including free speech and property rights, are merely forces “that reproduce capitalist violence.”
Professor Jodi Melamed made the remarks during a lecture titled “Understanding Racial Capitalism and the Open Secret of Racial Capitalist Violence,” which she delivered at St. Olaf college on April 20.
After “acknowledging the people of this land, especially the Wahpekute Dakota who have been relative to this land on which St. Olaf sits for melania,” Melamed stated that the purpose of her address was to “share with you guys some new work on the open secret of racial capitalist violence.”
The scholar went on to define racial capitalism as a "way of thinking about how racial procedures that differentially value and devalue, and devalued human being are inseparable from capitalist relations of accumulation.” According to the professor, capitalism “requires inequality” while racism “enshrines the inequality that capitalism requires.”
“In my book [Represent and Destroy] I focus on three domains of administration that reproduce capitalist violence as an open secret but all work together in practice,” she continued. “The first is police procedures, the second is the exercise of rights, especially individual rights, property rights, states rights [and] free speech as well.”
The professor argued that Americans are currently experiencing “a partial remaking of rights under the combined pressure of the ultra-capitalist radical right—a block that leads today for extractive financial and corporate capitalism and the political resurgence of a libertarian-leaning ethno-nationalism, which we can think of as a highly individualistic, lightly veiled version of white supremacy.”
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Twaddle.
She’s an idiot.
Where do these so called colleges and universities find this scum?
Human nature is the cause, look no further than the simple reason.
Capitalist violence in defense of liberty is no vice. (to paraphrase Barry Goldwater).
The education system has certainly been corrupted with witched.
“After “acknowledging the people of this land, especially the Wahpekute Dakota who have been relative to this land on which St. Olaf sits for melania,”
Why is St. Olaf sitting for the First Lady?
Pure Marxist poppycock.
Little “Professor” Jodi just wants license to steal everyone else’s pennies.
Pennies-envy is the source of much evil, since it requires the love of money.
The same talking points over and over and over.
She’s so smart and can think for herself. /s
Except the violent ones are the Marxist thugs.
So if there is no right to free speech, can we force her to shut the hell up?
Or does she mean I have no right to free speech, but her speech is sacrosanct?
Propagandist (at a university) says...
There sits the only argument I need for 30 round magazines.
Associate Professor.
“on which St. Olaf sits for melania,”
Editing is a dead art.
L
There’s that word “individual” that the left HATES so much.
Trying to sound smart.
It’s not working.
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