Why don’t we ask @anon61221983 or @Missy_Pants (which one is in Academia? I forget. Sorry!) their take on what college classrooms look like today, with regards to the sensitivity of the students?
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@beschizza is working way too hard today. Must be Friday the 13th.
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It is, huh?
I’d forgotten all about it… which is odd because I totally knew today’s date, and I always know when it’s Friday.
But somehow, my damn mom-brain failed to make the connection…
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What do you guys think about Slavoj Zizek and his conclusion that Political Correctness is just a cover for Totalitarianism?
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The man who eats from the garbage can of Ideology.
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That’s Youtube comment-level wrong.
Re: Žižek himself, I’ve tried to parse his reasoning, but it just never works. I just can’t comprehend the contortions of a post-Freudian Hegelian. My world-view’s basically completely incommensurate with that.
Sounds as if he really understands Marcuse. Repressive Desublimation and all that.
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It’s funny that while I often (kind of often, anyway) agree with Sam Harris in broad outline, his reasoning is virtually always so flawed that when I agree I just wish he’d stop embarrassing me, and when he tacks to the right wing (as he’s done more and more) it’s sometimes not even fair to even call his words reasoning.
Haidt is one of those people who’s really bright and very interesting but applies a left-wing ideal of fairness to the points of view of people who are irrational by appealing to the fact that they have different values. His discussions of the differences in values between the right and the left are a really fascinating topic, but he fuzzes the “and they value different things” to wanting us to respect the points of view of authoritarians even when they’re dangerous and objectively false. He’s got intellectual values that the anti-intellectuals he defends would love to suppress, but somehow doesn’t mind. It kills me, since when he’s thinking instead of moralizing he’s really great, but when he’s moralizing, he’s absolutely terrible.
Since you’ve been self-banned I won’t go into the details of why this pearl-clutching over safe spaces is misguided. Also, bye.
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I have no idea about repressive desublimation or what have you, but I always have time for Zizek. Once you get past the crazy slur and smack-fiendish nose-fondling, there’s a fearless and original mind offering serious nuance.
I think he makes some great points in that vid.
I found this philosopher who dislikes political correctness.
He makes sense to me.
IMO.
We should try to use the most polite language we can without mincing words.
Regards
DL
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One of the Anarchist sites that I read have come to the conclusion he is turning into a fascist, or maybe a National-Anarchist.
Either way, they don’t want anything to do with him now.
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Probably. But it’s a good article.
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Not all college profs!
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Both. I’m a grad student, and I think @Missy_Pants works in some administrative capacity.
I can only speak for my campus, but the student’s I’ve had either don’t care and just want to get done with their requirements or they do care and are willing to engage in interesting, complicated discussions on race/gender/etc. They will also call out BS when they see it.
I do have a friend over at Clemson who is heading up a reform organization on that campus called see the stripes, aimed at making the university come to terms with its racist past/present. I suspect that his world would be considered “political correctness run amok”, but I don’t agree. He’s actively making the world he wants to live in that faces our past and tries to come to terms with it. As a historian, I can’t but help and agree with him.
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My partner was a philosophy professor until last year. I’ve met many dozens of professors from a dozen different countries. I can’t say I’d describe any that I’ve met as living in great fear of offending students.
Student reviews are an issue but offense is not the biggest concern with those.
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Honestly, I think sometimes he just says shit to see what sticks. He’s also said he likes Stalin… He’s got some interesting insights, but…
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Already posted that.
While he made some sense, his dislike toward charity is very high:
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I’m not sure he’s anti helping others, as much as he is anti-corporate green/charity washing (if that makes sense). I think he’s pointing out how the modern mode of charity rests in the erosion of a wide-spread safety net (cradle to grave) from the state and the privatization of charity (or maybe more correctly, the re-privatization?). I always read this as connected corporate charities with the rise of the neo-liberal economy.
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Hi dock.
Given the amount of fraud in charity, I do not blame him.
The crooks ain’t just confined to religions. Here are a few more crooks:
Rank Charity name… Total raised by solicitors …Paid to solicitors … % spent on direct cash aid
1 Kids Wish Network 137.9million 115.9 million 2.5%
2 Cancer Fund of America 86.8million 75.4 million 1.0%
3 Children’s Wish Foundation International 92.7million 61.2 million 10.6%
4 Firefighters Charitable Foundation 62.8million 53.8 million 7.4%
5 International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO 66.6million 50.4 million 0.5%
6 Breast Cancer Relief Foundation 63.9million 44.8 million 2.2%
7 American Association of State Troopers 48.1million 38.6 million 8.9%
8 National Veterans Service Fund 70.2million 36.9 million 7.8%
9 Children’s Cancer Fund of America 43.7million 34.4 million 4.6%
10 Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation 38.5million 28.9 million 0.7%
11 Project Cure (Bradenton, FL) 53.8million 25.5 million 0.0%
12 Committee For Missing Children 26.6million 23.5 million 0.8%
13 Youth Development Fund 27.5million 22.6 million 1.0%
14 Association for Firefighters and Paramedics 24.0million 21.4 million 3.1%
15 Woman To Woman Breast Cancer Foundation 19.4million 18.2 million 0.3%
16 United States Deputy Sheriffs’ Association 25.6million 17.9 million 0.8%
17 National Caregiving Foundation 21.0million 17.4 million 3.2%
18 Vietnow National Headquarters 19.1million 16.7 million 2.8%
19 National Cancer Coalition 42.1million 16.4 million 1.3%
20 Operation Lookout National Center for Missing Youth 18.2million 14.7 million 0.0%
21 American Foundation For Disabled Children 15.8million 13.4 million 0.6%
22 Heart Support of America 31.4million 12.9 million 3.1%
23 Police Protective Fund 37.7million 12.2 million 0.7%
24 Veterans Assistance Foundation 12.4million 11.1 million 10.4%
25 Children’s Charity Fund 14.0million 10.3 million 2.4%
26 The Veterans Fund 12.6million 10.2 million 2.5%
27 Wishing Well Foundation USA 12.6million 10.1 million 4.3%
28 Disabled Police Officers of America Inc. 11.4million 9.5 million 2.3%
29 Disabled Police and Sheriffs Foundation 10.4million 8.9 million 1.0%
30 National Police Defense Foundation 10.6million 8.4 million 5.1%
31 Defeat Diabetes Foundation 12.7million 7.8 million 0.0%
32 American Association of the Deaf & Blind 10.3million 7.8 million 0.1%
33 Optimal Medical Foundation 7.8million 7.6 million 1.0%
34 Circle of Friends For American Veterans 9.3million 7.2 million 4.4%
35 United Breast Cancer Foundation 12.7million 7.2 million 6.3%
36 Reserve Police Officers Association 7.8million 6.9 million 1.2%
37 Children’s Leukemia Research Association 9.8million 6.8 million 11.1%
38 Disabled Police Officers Counseling Center 7.6million 6.4 million 0.1%
39 Shiloh International Ministries 7.7million 6.0 million 1.1%
40 Find the Children 7.4million 4.8 million 4.6%
41 Survivors and Victims Empowered 7.7million 4.8 million 0.0%
42 Firefighters Assistance Fund 5.7million 4.7 million 3.1%
43 Caring for Our Children Foundation 5.1million 4.4 million 1.6%
44 National Narcotic Officers Associations Coalition 5.0million 4.2 million 0.0%
45 Our American Veterans 2.6million 2.3 million 2.3%
46 Roger Wyburn-Mason & Jack M Blount Foundation For Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease 9.0million 1.9 million 0.0%
47 Hope Cancer Fund 2.1million 1.7 million 0.5%
48 Firefighters Burn Fund 2.0million 1.7 million 1.5%
Crooks all, and there ain’t nothing illegal about it.
I also think that religions should not receive any tax breaks of any kind and that their adherents should not be able to use what they give as tax deductions.
Churches are just theatres showing adult fairy tales and we cannot deduct what we spend at other theatres so people should not be able to deduct what is basically entertainment.
When a religion begins it’s teachings with the notion that God is unknowable, unfathomable and works in mysterious ways, and then teaches reams of information on all they say they know as truth of that unknowable and unfathomable God, one can know as a fact that they are lying.
Regards
DL
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Could someone rearrange this to highest percentage gave directly to those who needs it.
