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Scott479's avatar

Academia is a Leftist/Jacobin boot camp.

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Thomas J. Snodgrass's avatar

I also have terrible examples of this nonsense from Canadian campuses. It is a disgrace, really.

It is as though the "powers that be" are actively attempting to destroy STEM.

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Randy Wayne's avatar

Dear Geoff Horsman,

I love your idea of the "Office of Devil's Advocacy," although I am preety sure that is what the EDI offices are. I suggest that we might have an "Office of God's advocacy!

Thanks for writing this essay,

randy

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Geoff Horsman's avatar

Ha! Exactly right! Thus suggests the Catholic Church should enlist diversicrats to argue against canonization!

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Harland's avatar

Stop linking to NATOpedia, a known compromised institution.

"Truth is an impediment to getting things done."

--Former Wikipedia CEO.

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

Wiki is good for certain items. Don't go overboard.

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Harland's avatar

“Mussolini made the trains run on time.”

“Hitler established the world’s first no-smoking and anti-animal cruelty laws.”

Don’t go overboard there, Himmler.

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

Nazi smears - typical. You're an anonymous idiot.

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

A: Tony Soprano. DEI commissars are totally toxic.

Great work, all the best and cheers!

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Richard Brannin's avatar

Thank you for your courage

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the long warred's avatar

You certainly aren’t working for Tony Soprano, which would as horrible as it is would be an improvement.

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Sadredin Moosavi's avatar

Sadly, the modern university is worse than working for Tony Soprano. Even the mafia operates based on logic and merit even if the goals and means are ethically suspect. The university is less honest and less effective.

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Geoff Horsman's avatar

Yes it's remarkable how many people have been coming to the defense of Tony Soprano! That a mob boss is viewed more favorably than a university should tell us something!

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Sadredin Moosavi's avatar

The sad reality is that Tony Soprano had more integrity than most academics.

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Thomas J. Snodgrass's avatar

I have to say, after my experiences, that I sort of agree.

There is a reason people resort to using the Mafia for various tasks. The regular justice system and other related entities fail them. And so...

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Sadredin Moosavi's avatar

Exactly!

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Spartacus's avatar

"the campus Rainbow Centre" is not about the LGBs. (Lesbian, Gay, Bi). The Rainbow has been coopted by trans-activists. The LGBs are seething about it mostly, and disgusted with the revisionist "history" that casts a tranny as the hero of Stonewall. In the real world there was zero participation by cross-dressers. That specific tranny was stoned on heroin in bed at the time of Stonewall.

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Harland's avatar

That's why the Rocky Horror Picture Show got banned.

Frank N. Furter is a mere cross-dresser, not a real tranny.

And a murderer, but I repeat myself.

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Harland's avatar

"B"?

As if there are only two?

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ClemenceDane's avatar

Marsha P Johnson was late to the party! And he was a gay man who did drag, not a trans woman ;-)

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Putins Man's avatar

Woke Dementia has been holding Canadian (and North American in general) academia in a stranglehold since at least the early 90s, so it's about time someone spoke against this horrible pandemic.

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Harland's avatar

"Liberal defenders"??

It was liberals who lay flat and let the highly illiberal Left stop all over them.

Put them back in and they'll do it again.

Remember, liberals: it was all worth it to stick it to the racist Nazis of the right.

Right up until YOU became the Nazis.

Poetic justice is so rare in the real world, you have to savor it when it happens.

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Philip Carl Salzman's avatar

University compelled racism, sexism, and benefits to preferred sexualities, has contributed to the decline and corruption of every academic and professional discipline in the university, In fact, it is doubtful that any Canadian institution today deserves the label "university." This is a result of the vandalism of government institutions imposed on what were once educational and research institutions. Decadence is us.

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