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The 'diversity' and 'anti-racism' policies on today's university campuses (and occasionally elsewhere) are a sort of cultural Maoism and nothing else. They have almost nothing to do with changing anything that goes on outside the university walls, and everything to do with controlling and manipulating the people inside them. By creating rather vague and plastic categories (e.g., 'homophobe', 'mysoginist'), they can then wield them arbitrarily in order to terrify students and (non-tenured) faculty members into submission, so that these latter groups never dare question the preferred policies of those in charge. These are classic cult-leader tactics, and were used to great effect by, for example, Stalin and Mao. The main difference in this case is that, unlike the Soviet show-trials of the 30's or Mao's "great cultural revolution", these policies are the work of a group of people rather than one man, so there's no 'cult of personality' to go with them. But they are definitely designed to manipulate the discussion and crush dissent, which means that the fundamental assumptions underlying those policies can never be challenged.
"White Privilege" as the Neutron Bomb of Moral Warfare
The growing popularity of "check your privilege" and "white privilege" at Universities and in political debates is interesting. Why is it interesting? It's not a force for progress or positive change, it's a form of moral warfare. That means it's not a constructive remark that improves the d...
Ha, ha! I had exactly the same reaction to that passage.
Reuters says the US screwed up its relations with Russia
In September 2001, as the U.S. reeled from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Vladimir Putin supported Washington's imminent invasion of Afghanistan in ways that would have been inconceivable during the Cold War. He agreed that U.S. planes carrying humanitarian ...
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