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This article is a little odd. It describes conservatives as being worried that professors are "subversive", but it's exactly the opposite - conservatives worry
by yummyfajitas 9y ago
This article is a little odd. It describes conservatives as being worried that professors are "subversive", but it's exactly the opposite - conservatives worry that colleges are enforcing and indoctrinating people in the orthodoxy.
It's the rare subversive academics, e.g. Charles Murray, who are being assaulted and chased of campus for holding unorthodox opinions.
And it's happening off campus as well - for instance, we recently had a peaceful (but unorthodox) anti-war activist assaulted: https://antifascistnews.net/2017/04/09/richard-spencer-just-got-his-ass-kicked-and-glitter-bombed-videos/ https://antifascistnews.net/2017/04/09/richard-spencer-just-...
- wonks 9y agoOrthodoxy is not a few people (correctly) arguing that we should STOP stating that black people are inferior. Furthermore, a Nazi who happens to be against a particular war is not "peaceful but unorthodox".
- yummyfajitas 9y agoCharles Murray wasn't discussing human biodiversity at all. His talk was on an entirely different topic. No one argued against him at all. They merely disrupted his talk and then assaulted him and others. The Nazi in question did not engage in any violent acts at that gathering. That makes him a peaceful protester.
- wonks 9y agoThat Murray was attacked during an unrelated talk is uncontested. My objection is that you referred to the defenders of centuries-old superstition as unorthodox simply because the cultural tide began to turn against them in the 20th century.
- yummyfajitas 9y agoI agree that in some historical time, some of Murray's views might be considered orthodox. That doesn't make them orthodox today - nowadays he's subversive.
- wonks 9y agoOnly if we accept that racism is dead. To find proof to the contrary, we need only look to popular responses to videos of unarmed black men being killed by men with guns. And that's just scratching the surface.
- yummyfajitas 9y agoSimilarly, flat earthism is an orthodox theory since it was orthodox at one point and is not completely dead.
- someguydave 9y agoAlso one of his books displayed some graphs that showed the distribution of IQ by ethnicity. He did not write "black people are inferior". You did.
- tptacek 9y agoThat's a pretty misleading way to summarize Charles Murray, who is probably America's foremost exponent of the Just World Fallacy, having written extensively about why blacks, women, and just about every other minority are in whatever diminished circumstances they find themselves in due to intrinsic deficiencies. Particularly blacks.
- someguydave 9y agoIt could be true that it is not a "Just World" and also people are diminished by intrinsic definciencies.