[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Speaking about the intellectual climate on campus, Summers says, "The main thing that's happening [on campus] is what always happens, professors teach courses, students take courses, students aspire to graduate, they make friends, they plan their lives... That said, whether it's the President of Princeton negotiating with people as they took over his office over the names of schools at Princeton, whether it is attacks on very reasonable free speech having to do with adults' right to choose their own Halloween costumes at Yale, whether it's the administration using placemats in the dining hall to propagandize about what messages students should give their parents about Syrian refugee policy, there is a great deal of absurd political correctness.
"I'm somebody who believes very strongly in diversity, who resists racism in all of its many incarnations... But it seems to be that there is a kind of creeping totalitarianism in terms of what kind of ideas are acceptable and are debatable on college campuses. And I think that's hugely unfortunate. I think the answer to bad speech is different speech. The answer to bad speech is not shutting down speech."
Summers also blasts "microagressions" as crazy. "The idea that somehow microaggressions in the form of a racist statement contained in a novel should be treated in parallel with violence or actual sexual assault seems to me to be crazy. I worry very much that if our leading academic institutions become places that prize comfort over truth--that prize the pursuit of mutual understanding over the pursuit of better and more accurate understanding--then a great deal will be lost."
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#3
Well when the sh!t hits the fan, the Red Guard won't be able to hide behind 'academic freedom' they've already killed. With a another severe economic hit coming, I don't see state 'higher education' being given a pass and an increased interest at the capitals (other than Sacramento) in returning to the old A&M concept, practical applications rather than 'arts and humanities'.
#4
Summers served in one of the most Progressive administrations and he is criticizing creeping totalitarianism? Must be getting bad. Maybe these institutions should be shut down with a restart with some sanity.
#7
IIRC Summers caught lots of academic heat a few years ago when he dared to suggest it might not be unreasonable to actually study whether there were real differences in male & female mental processing of things like math.
From TFA:
[CaptainsJournal] The common theme should have become more pronounced by now. By birthright (or conversion), Muslims are taught to see what’s yours as theirs, women as chattel, and men as kafirs to be conquered and killed. Islam doesn’t coexist. Islam is an invasive organism that tests, prods and penetrates to find weaknesses in the host organism. It’s goal is to take over the host, consume its wealth, and conquer its people.
The migrant situation is going to get way worse, and we’ve only seen the beginning. The number of migrants has reached 60 million, with many still in transit. Let me repeat that for emphasis. Many of the migrants haven’t even yet arrived. They are still in transit. It may sound repetitive and redundant to keep saying it, but be ready to use weapons to defend yourselves, your family and your tribe. Practicing with your weapons is necessary, as necessary as having weapons and ammunition. But also necessary is the mental and spiritual steel and resolve to kill in order to effect self defense. While it may seem odd to bring this up, apparently it isn’t such an odd observation for Frenchmen or Germans.
While it may interesting to study and practice maneuver warfare and small unit combat tactics, techniques and procedures, MOUT and CQB techniques, the most likely first employment of a weapon you will ever face will be with your handgun and/or tactical knife. Remember Herschel’s Dictum. Always carry, always be prepared, keep your head on a swivel, and know with certainty that this is headed our way.
[dKF] The FW de Klerk Foundation has today submitted a complaint to the SA Human Rights Commission regarding 45 social media postings that incite extreme violence against white South Africans.
The Foundation is particularly concerned about recent statements in the media and the social media that constitute hurtful racist remarks. In this regard it issued a statement on 5 January in which it strongly condemned the recent racist remarks made by Penny Sparrow regarding black South Africans who made use of public beaches on New Year's Day.
Most media commentators viewed Sparrow's remarks and the subsequent far less controversial comments of Chris Hart and Gareth Cliff as evidence of rampant and pervasive white racism. However, an analysis of Facebook and Twitter messages shows that by far the most virulent and dangerous racism - expressed in the most extreme and violent language - has come from disaffected black South Africans. The messages are replete with threats to kill all whites - including children; to rape white women or to expel all whites from South Africa.
#2
I'm gobsmacked the old leftest bugger is even recognizing the 'language' of hate, rape and murder coming from the noble savages. The actual genocide of whites appears to be left unmentioned.
h/t Instapundit
Sweden has a feminist foreign policy. What does that mean? First some background. Sweden, a country of about 9.6 million people, is home to 700,000 Muslims. About 7% of the population.
...Margot WallstrĂśm, of the Social Democratic Party, ascended with much fanfare to the post of Foreign Minister in the fall of 2014. She had introduced a completely new concept: a feminist foreign policy. In the Statement of Foreign Policy of 2015, she asserted that "A feminist foreign policy is now being formulated, the purpose of which is to combat discrimination against women, improve conditions for women and contribute to peace and development."
One year later, we now know the outcome: "Feminist foreign policy" is not so much about protecting women's interests, as it is about fawning over the Arab states and the Palestinians -- and constantly attacking Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.
[Spectator] In that confused environment, when Iran is characterized as a friend rather than an enemy, it's understandable -- but not forgivable -- for someone like Lt. Nartker to misunderstand his duties. Again, I'm not going to condemn him for surrendering if he was unable to resist. But how are we training our sailors and officers at this point?
Naval Academy grads are seldom complete bumblers or idiots. If you'll permit me to donn my tin foil hat I might suggest that good Lt. Nartker was delivering something on board the boats, but we'll likely never know.
Only a real and public investigation will reveal that answer. And I'll bet no such investigation will be done.
I think we know how our people were trained. And I think our people know what is expected of them should they ever be seized by a hostile power. We clearly need an investigation and I agree that it likely won't ever happen. But part of the point of an investigation is to ensure that every person in uniform knows what they're supposed to do in the event of capture.
#1
Given that the Iranians had them on their knees, it suggests that the Iranians were prepared to fight. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have approached the American boat unless they felt confident they could win. So there were going to be deaths had there been a fight. I'd rather they surrender as they did and live to fight another day. Were the Americans out of comm range? They didn't call for help or to relay their status. I saw a walkie talkie on one guy's belt. How far can that reach? The other boat only? I have a feeling maybe there was an "EMP" or other similar disabling strike? If there was an EMP strike, how did the commander call for the other boat to surrender? Could such a lack of communication led to the need for a surrender at gunpoint? Were the boats towed home or driven?
We all know what happens with investigations. We'll have to wait for someone to go public after they get pi$$ed off at this administration. Probably a few months away.
#5
The trail after the boats were intercepted will lead to the White House and Susan Rice/ValJar. What the Lt did and said we're ordered I suspect. The back channel call to Teheran's to warn about the sanctions being frozen prompted the quick release.
The bigger question is what was being done before they were intercepted.
#8
It hasn't nearly so much to do with spinelessness as the fact that the president simply ignores them while employing his phone and his pen, it seems to me. Nor will that change so long as the bureaucrats of the executive branch obey orders.
[FoxNews] "We're not talking about 1.6 billion Muslims," he said. "We're talking about ten percent or less who are radicals."
But ten percent of 1.6 billion is still a mighty big number -- and they want to destroy Christians, Jews anyone else they consider to be an infidel.
Lemme see. The U.S. has between 5 and 8 million keepers of the Taqiyya - that gives us between 5 and 8 hundred thousand whack-jobs. Even if the numbers are overstated by a factor of 10, its still a lot of threat.
According to recent Pew polls, the real number of Muslims in the U.S. is somewhere around 2.2 million, as I recall. That 5-8 million estimate is Palestinian-style overcounting.
I'm so relieved. We only have a few thousand whack-jobs, not 5 to 8 thousand...
#4
Given that Al Qaeda did 9/11 with the full expectation that America's response would force Allah to intervene to create an apocalyptic Al Qaeda victory, the fact that they now think ISIS is nuts is more than a tad amusing. And Al Qaeda also wanted to destroy "Christians, Jews[, and] anyone else they consider to be an infidel."
Iran's apocalyptic Shiite Muslims will be unleashed when they achieve a workable nuclear bomb. Al Qaeda's and ISIS's apocalyotic Muslims have been running as amok as they were able to accomplish since 9/11. Allah is being surprisingly unresponsive, oddly enough -- it's almost as though he does not approve of the efforts of his truest believers.
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[dKF] The FW de Klerk Foundation has today submitted a complaint to the SA Human Rights Commission regarding 45 social media postings that incite extreme violence against white South Africans.
