tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post1908261149043617288..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: The Crisis in AcademiaDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-61765306888797028102021-08-03T22:51:59.616-04:002021-08-03T22:51:59.616-04:00Dear Dr. Kaiser,
You see the academy today as a m...Dear Dr. Kaiser,<br /><br />You see the academy today as a motive force in social change. It reminds me obliquely of the way people in my profession see sellers, that is, as persuaders and manipulators of buyers. In reality of course, it is the consumer that controls and manipulates the marketers, killing 95% of new brands, driving established brands to bankruptcy, and elevating new brands relentlessly to take the places of the broken ones. <br /><br />My child and many friends just graduated from college. They were well woke before they left here four years ago. It's hard to imagine them sitting still even for an unwoke lecture let alone an unwoke curriculum. So perhaps the academy today is just doing the sensible thing and giving its high-paying consumers exactly what they want.<br /><br />When I was in college I distinctly remember my mind being changed. I learned quickly, for instance, that new view of colonialism elicited higher paper and exam grades than the conventional view. Back then, the academy may well have been the partisan revolutionary force you consider it to be. But I'm not convinced that's what the academy is today. Frankly it seems more like a cash cow riding dubious distribution advantages and putative economies of scale off into a sad sunset.<br /><br />Jude Hammerle <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Jude Hammerlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00765872893740924266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-80664457946620365062021-08-03T13:37:40.157-04:002021-08-03T13:37:40.157-04:00Professor
I can simplify it.
In Garcia-Pena's ...Professor<br />I can simplify it.<br />In Garcia-Pena's terms, whitey is a bad racializer, whereas she is a good ethnicizer.<br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-57603346858017034462021-08-03T02:16:26.620-04:002021-08-03T02:16:26.620-04:00Professor
"...What this means to me is that t...Professor<br />"...What this means to me is that the entire intellectual history of the world must be racialized:" DK<br /><br />The way I read Garcia Pena's passage is that the white supremacist West itself has minoritized and racialized (criminally, and for the first time in history and prehistory!) the entire intellectual history of the world; not, as you argue above, either that she has, or that they (now-white-minoritized-and-racialized people) have.<br /><br />If I have misinterpreted this quagmire, perehaps you will forgive me.<br /><br />All the best<br /><br />Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-60396309577488639522021-08-02T00:09:25.729-04:002021-08-02T00:09:25.729-04:00Professor
This is speculation, since almost little...Professor<br />This is speculation, since almost little written evidence exists, only a longstanding monogamous relationship with the evidence of five children over decades.<br /><br />My conclusion is that Jefferson fell in love with his deceaced wife's half sister.<br />Who can blame him?<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-50782159342903808542021-08-01T15:35:50.033-04:002021-08-01T15:35:50.033-04:00Professor
Let's put it this way.
The likes of ...Professor<br />Let's put it this way.<br />The likes of Thomas Jefferson would have been perfectly free to have bought the indentured servant contract for a very lovely young white British Isles immigrant girl, perhaps the daughter of another immigrant from the same boat, and overawed her into becoming his concubine, not his wife.<br /><br />Her condition would have been very little if any different from that of Sally Hemings.<br /><br />In colonial America, such things happened all the time.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-19960315142300131772021-08-01T15:24:10.271-04:002021-08-01T15:24:10.271-04:00Professor
No folks of color want to discuss the 40...Professor<br />No folks of color want to discuss the 40% or more % of all white colonists before 1800, who had to come here and be sold on auction blocks in bondage to white residents here, to cover the costs of their passage, room, board, clothing and shelter, for from 4 to 7 years after landing, by written indentured servant contracts. <br /><br />See Colonists In Bondage.<br /><br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-55143605692921515582021-08-01T15:01:19.779-04:002021-08-01T15:01:19.779-04:00Professor
Few here know that critical race theory...Professor<br /><br />Few here know that critical race theory CRT, and BLM, whites only original sin, etc, all of a piece really, arose out of the radical negro racist separatist, Pan Africanist agenda of Stokely Carmichael and his circle.<br /><br />He coined the terms institutional racism, systemic racism, etc., now the mantras of liberal white Stokelys here. Wikipedia<br /><br />It was negro mulatto racism.<br /><br />You have acknowledged the validity of this point of view in the past, here for example:<br /><br />"...Connected to these views is the view of American history embodied in the New York Times's 1619 project. In this view, slavery was, and racism still is, "central" to American history. Now I believe that slavery was the original sin of the American colonies and the young American Republic, and that its impact persists in many ways to this day..." DK<br /><br />In my view, this is an unfortunate passage.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-9026844150500283422021-08-01T14:11:33.460-04:002021-08-01T14:11:33.460-04:00Professor
Great stuff!
So many threads of interpre...Professor<br />Great stuff!<br />So many threads of interpretation jump out.<br /><br />This is just an improvisational analogy:<br /><br />"...Just as Stalinism and Maoism demanded the supremacy of the working class and the rejection of bourgeois values throughout society, wokeness demands the replacement of straight white men in all positions of power and the discrediting of all their ideas..." DK<br /><br />I would point out that this policy, let's call it The Lincoln/Radical Republican "Reconstruction" Plan, but I like to think of it as the FDR/Harry Hopkins/Morgenthau/Eisenhower/Stalin Plan for the post Civil War South, was identical.<br /><br />All the best Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com