On the PHONY ACADEMIC - ARDAY - DEI, ALLIES, Academic RACISM, AND THE “EXCESSES OF IDENTITY” FINDING A RECKONING.
I really don’t have much to add but ask to read my previous post on THE LAZY LEFT IN ACADEMIA, BEING ADJACENT TO THE LEFT LAZINESS AND DUPLICITY.
In fact, the article on ARDAY’s duplicity which was full throated accepted by CAMBRIDGE, who did no due dilligence. WHY? He was an “under-represented” person, so-called. That, in essence, what brought him to the pinnacle of academia. Nothing else. In fact, we can see it in all fields where credibility and credentials are offset, eschewed, in place of RACE. If you are NOT WHITE, you are in. It doesn’t matter your research or publishing history. And no one will provide due diligence to prove you did what you say you did. You will be called a RACIST. And guess what, WE DON’T CARE ANYMORE. CALL ME WHAT YOU WANT. IT’S TIME TO TALK STRAIGHT.
Need I say more?
Forgive me. One more thing. When I was in my first year of university, my wonderful Father, gave me a piece of jewelry which said “BA today, PhD tomorrow.” That was in 1965. It took me until I was almost 50 to EARn my PhD, after law school. He got to see me hooded. Proud day of my life. But just because my wonderful Father did this, did not mean it was fortuitous, and I deserved to be a PhD. No. ARDAY’s script on the wall, theatrical, did not make him deserving. It’s all THE THEATRE OF THE LEFT.
This is but one example out of thousands, where race supersedes rigor. And “deserving” means “giving” and NOT EARNING. Academia is replete with this.
Maybe the people of Michigan are waking up and realizing their state has been hijacked. All they have to do is read the reports from NYC to know that the lake house they bought from working hard or (heaven forbid) inherited will be taxed away from them. Family owned small grocery stores will be replaced by government feeders of the people.
I don’t know if I would call today’s establishment Democrats “Blue Dogs.” I’m old enough to remember, and am lucky enough to have worked with, the Blue Dogs of decades past, and today they would be labeled as Conservatives.
Here's a dose of reality. Elections are determined not by who is running but who actually votes.
Those seeking to burn it down are more energized than the vast majority of Americans because they can now smell the possibility of finally getting the power they so lust over.
There are very few Dems who will die on their swords when oush comes to serve if the burn it downers increase their power in 26 or acquire real power in 28?
They have the momentum. And their power will only increase if Sherrod Brown and Roy Cooper win. They will be further emboldened for 28 and their torch may be carried by an AOC or Khanna ( the latter does not suffer from word salad disease and he checks lots of boxes)
In two years another few million time if voting age. They have been indoctrinated to be activists since pre K and they are likely to support the burn it down mentality. And THEY WILL VOTE.
How to reverse the momentum? The schools aren't about to change. Nor is media. The answer is better candidates and communication. And heres a reality that many hear dont want to hear : while the trump base is still on the trump train, trump will not be running; and in the meantime he is backing candidates who MAY LOSE in November and he has lost whatever support he has from many independents( and while many of those independents will not vote for an el sayed or a cooper or a Brown or a talerico or an ossoff they will ( or may) stay home. Who votes ( for whom ) and who stays home in three months will be more important than who actually wins because it will help predict the future and whether the DSA phenomenon is about a lot more than whether Americans support or reject socialism ( a concept most cannot even define in rudimentary terms)
ANYONE WHO HAS WORKED FOR, WITHIN, OR ADJACENT TO LEFTDEMMCOMMS DOESN’T NEED TO READ BARKER’S BOOK. THE LAZIEST, THE CRAZIEST, THE MOST ENVIOUS can be found an ANY LEFTIST ORGANIZATION. THEY EAT THEIR OWN.
Why do I say this? Gather round. Anyone out there who has worked within a leftdemcomm ouevre knows the ethos. Constant bickering over resources, laziness, and anything goes (no structure) and NOT OUTCOME DRIVEN unless forced to do so. My experience goes back to my time in academia and throughout, about 30 years.
Yes. I spent decades as an academic, mostly doctoral level, as professor then dissertation chair, after law school, in left-leaning programs that focused on, what I realized soon, was “victim-creation.” And the principles were the most victimized of all.
Glad to say, I was also a business owner/practitioner/contractual academic as well. Internationally. That meant, I didn’t have to the bow to the ACADEMIC GODS FOR MY LIVING. I love teaching. I loved being doctoral chair. My other gigs saved me from the ire of leftist academics who were constant complainers, lazy as hell, either totalitarian or “anything goes” in their classes. As long as you stuck to the academic script of the lazy left, you were in. I distinctly remember during my oral doctoral defense (PhD) I mentioned I was a “capitalist” in answer to a deep question on my research. I was met with shrugs and ugly faces, and for a moment, I thought I had “f”d up. I knew my stuff, and challenged their ire. I went on. But it was clear then and during my tenure, I was an outlier. We are talking about 1990s. The laziest. Not the students or doctoral candidates, but the professors, the administration, the committee chairs, the department heads. Once they earned their PhDs, their work ethic and their proclivities toward leftist envy and laziness took over. I was also asked to be on hiring committees. I soon learned, my car, my finances, and my hard work and interest were used. USED. Never compensated. Again, the department never considered remuneration. They call it “sharing.” But ask them for anything, and there was always a price to pay. Their time and talent were valuable. Your’s were not. Unless you became one of them. Thanks. But no thanks.
I was asked to create new courses. One, for a major university, one of my dissertation committee members, asked me to create a new course. It is not a simple thing. I spent untold hours, thinking that it would add to my gravitas as an academic/practitioner. I presented it. It was used. I expected payment. I trusted. And guess what? Just like Kamala, who ended up owing over a billion dollars, this department chair, put me off, until I finally demanded, and explained, there was no money left in the department. Maybe next year. WHAT? Remember now. This was almost 30 years ago. Added to many financial insults along the way, it was obvious that aspiration and rigor did not get you anywhere. Certainly not more money. Sharing your money, your time, your talent, your car, your academic or analytical product, was JUST THE WAY THEY ROLLED.
In the business world, a product had worth. In leftist academia, your time and your product, had not worth. Worth meaning financially. It was pro forma to NOT GET PAID FOR YOUR SERVICES. Again, I had other gigs. I loved my professorships. I was willing to accept the reality of academia, at least for the LEFT.
I had untold numbers of experiences where, in the real world, a person would have been remunerated, and were not. Pro forma. Department heads, more administrative, however, were constantly whiners demanding more money, more attention, more, more, more, and hateful and spiteful to their fellow “COMRADES” (PROFESSORS). Having practiced in a maximum security prison, “watch your back” was a mantra. Academia can be the same. LEFT LEANING ACADEMIA, that is.
Dana Bash tried ( pitifully) to retry the EXPERTS BS with RFK JR and got squashed. Cambridge proves it is in the same league as Harvard ( remember Claudine Gay, perhaps also a cousin of Arday) when it comes to academic expertise and Veritas. Maybe the fine folks at Oxford will be debated this matter at an upcoming Oxford Union event. Maybe Santos can be invited to tag team w Arday.
Unfortunately it looks like El Said will still win in Michigan. I hope those who voted for Stevens votes for the Republican or doesn't vote. A message needs to be sent to the DNC head honchos -do something about the commies and the Jew-haters in their party. If not, if its we will still vote for anyone with a D next to their name, then I hope the democratic party implodes.
Good for Singapore. They don't want "Palestinianism" infecting their society. Too bad most western nations don't see that bullshit for what it is. Western destruction. Next time you see someone in a keffiyeh ask what are they really doing for Palestinians or are they simply virtue signaling because its the cool political movement of the day? (they think their little marches do something other than annoy people who have actual jobs or don't live with their heads up their butts)vOh and also ask them to find Gaza, the river Jordan or the mediterranean sea on a map. Most won't be able to. They couldn't give you a history of the conflict either. They couldn't even name 1 Palestinian leader. Ask the for the dates when Palestine existed as an independent state. Ask them a little history of the region. They can't do it. Then give them 5 minutes they will go down the rabbit hole of antisemitic conspiracy theories and start sounding simply like a Nazi/commie/fascist. Oh yeah free of speech. Does that idiot from what ever band that is think that Israelis or "zionists, aka Jews" or people who aren't living with a mind virus have a right to freedom of speech too. Bet he doesn't. That is how fascism works.
Oh the things you find in the Danube....makes you think that your civilization is just a blip in time. Are they really sure its the bones of a mammoth? Seems odd that they would appear on the same strata with the Nazis boats. Unless maybe the bones were stolen by the Nazis and put on one of those boats. Very odd doings...
democrats can win because Trump is in power and Trump is awful it won't take much for them to win the house and even potentially the senate because when you have a lying, grifting, drifting and sundowning president who launches a war nobody wants except Israel then loses it , things are made much easier even if dems own policies are dubious at best. Republicans will need to find an answer and the answer is not more of Trump and Maga
Once again, all creation trembles in awe at the searing logic of Nobody's fiery intellect. What's more, he/she/they/ze/zr/whatever possesses such a command of the written word that it makes one wonder if Nobody is a nom de plume for one of Kamala Harris' regular speechwriters.
Yeah it’s the MAGA that is causing Trump’s sundowning, which is not happening. And it’s the crypto coin and the reflecting pool and Trump lying about his crowd size that have people upset and not the price of everything going up from the Iran war.
Trump being removed from office will not fix your brainwashing or the fact that you approach politics like a 10-year-old girl.
I still want to know if he or she is the fourth or fifth reincarnation of Comp Prof? Or YT MANN ( a great pen name by the way)? They seem to have disappeared
On the PHONY ACADEMIC - ARDAY - DEI, ALLIES, Academic RACISM, AND THE “EXCESSES OF IDENTITY” FINDING A RECKONING.
I really don’t have much to add but ask to read my previous post on THE LAZY LEFT IN ACADEMIA, BEING ADJACENT TO THE LEFT LAZINESS AND DUPLICITY.
In fact, the article on ARDAY’s duplicity which was full throated accepted by CAMBRIDGE, who did no due dilligence. WHY? He was an “under-represented” person, so-called. That, in essence, what brought him to the pinnacle of academia. Nothing else. In fact, we can see it in all fields where credibility and credentials are offset, eschewed, in place of RACE. If you are NOT WHITE, you are in. It doesn’t matter your research or publishing history. And no one will provide due diligence to prove you did what you say you did. You will be called a RACIST. And guess what, WE DON’T CARE ANYMORE. CALL ME WHAT YOU WANT. IT’S TIME TO TALK STRAIGHT.
Need I say more?
Forgive me. One more thing. When I was in my first year of university, my wonderful Father, gave me a piece of jewelry which said “BA today, PhD tomorrow.” That was in 1965. It took me until I was almost 50 to EARn my PhD, after law school. He got to see me hooded. Proud day of my life. But just because my wonderful Father did this, did not mean it was fortuitous, and I deserved to be a PhD. No. ARDAY’s script on the wall, theatrical, did not make him deserving. It’s all THE THEATRE OF THE LEFT.
This is but one example out of thousands, where race supersedes rigor. And “deserving” means “giving” and NOT EARNING. Academia is replete with this.
Maybe the people of Michigan are waking up and realizing their state has been hijacked. All they have to do is read the reports from NYC to know that the lake house they bought from working hard or (heaven forbid) inherited will be taxed away from them. Family owned small grocery stores will be replaced by government feeders of the people.
I don’t know if I would call today’s establishment Democrats “Blue Dogs.” I’m old enough to remember, and am lucky enough to have worked with, the Blue Dogs of decades past, and today they would be labeled as Conservatives.
Here's a dose of reality. Elections are determined not by who is running but who actually votes.
Those seeking to burn it down are more energized than the vast majority of Americans because they can now smell the possibility of finally getting the power they so lust over.
There are very few Dems who will die on their swords when oush comes to serve if the burn it downers increase their power in 26 or acquire real power in 28?
They have the momentum. And their power will only increase if Sherrod Brown and Roy Cooper win. They will be further emboldened for 28 and their torch may be carried by an AOC or Khanna ( the latter does not suffer from word salad disease and he checks lots of boxes)
In two years another few million time if voting age. They have been indoctrinated to be activists since pre K and they are likely to support the burn it down mentality. And THEY WILL VOTE.
How to reverse the momentum? The schools aren't about to change. Nor is media. The answer is better candidates and communication. And heres a reality that many hear dont want to hear : while the trump base is still on the trump train, trump will not be running; and in the meantime he is backing candidates who MAY LOSE in November and he has lost whatever support he has from many independents( and while many of those independents will not vote for an el sayed or a cooper or a Brown or a talerico or an ossoff they will ( or may) stay home. Who votes ( for whom ) and who stays home in three months will be more important than who actually wins because it will help predict the future and whether the DSA phenomenon is about a lot more than whether Americans support or reject socialism ( a concept most cannot even define in rudimentary terms)
I get what you're saying, but who votes and who wins have about a 100% correlation, my friend.
Spot on. We’re not voting for individuals - we’re voting on the direction of the nation. W Euro redux? Or maintaining our Republic.
Yes. That's true. For those who in fact vote
38% (R) / 34% (D). No room to b*tch about poor quality candidates, terrible policies, etc. unless you get involved.
But who will vote. And then there are the I's. I thought bitching was protected under the constitution
ANYONE WHO HAS WORKED FOR, WITHIN, OR ADJACENT TO LEFTDEMMCOMMS DOESN’T NEED TO READ BARKER’S BOOK. THE LAZIEST, THE CRAZIEST, THE MOST ENVIOUS can be found an ANY LEFTIST ORGANIZATION. THEY EAT THEIR OWN.
Why do I say this? Gather round. Anyone out there who has worked within a leftdemcomm ouevre knows the ethos. Constant bickering over resources, laziness, and anything goes (no structure) and NOT OUTCOME DRIVEN unless forced to do so. My experience goes back to my time in academia and throughout, about 30 years.
Yes. I spent decades as an academic, mostly doctoral level, as professor then dissertation chair, after law school, in left-leaning programs that focused on, what I realized soon, was “victim-creation.” And the principles were the most victimized of all.
Glad to say, I was also a business owner/practitioner/contractual academic as well. Internationally. That meant, I didn’t have to the bow to the ACADEMIC GODS FOR MY LIVING. I love teaching. I loved being doctoral chair. My other gigs saved me from the ire of leftist academics who were constant complainers, lazy as hell, either totalitarian or “anything goes” in their classes. As long as you stuck to the academic script of the lazy left, you were in. I distinctly remember during my oral doctoral defense (PhD) I mentioned I was a “capitalist” in answer to a deep question on my research. I was met with shrugs and ugly faces, and for a moment, I thought I had “f”d up. I knew my stuff, and challenged their ire. I went on. But it was clear then and during my tenure, I was an outlier. We are talking about 1990s. The laziest. Not the students or doctoral candidates, but the professors, the administration, the committee chairs, the department heads. Once they earned their PhDs, their work ethic and their proclivities toward leftist envy and laziness took over. I was also asked to be on hiring committees. I soon learned, my car, my finances, and my hard work and interest were used. USED. Never compensated. Again, the department never considered remuneration. They call it “sharing.” But ask them for anything, and there was always a price to pay. Their time and talent were valuable. Your’s were not. Unless you became one of them. Thanks. But no thanks.
I was asked to create new courses. One, for a major university, one of my dissertation committee members, asked me to create a new course. It is not a simple thing. I spent untold hours, thinking that it would add to my gravitas as an academic/practitioner. I presented it. It was used. I expected payment. I trusted. And guess what? Just like Kamala, who ended up owing over a billion dollars, this department chair, put me off, until I finally demanded, and explained, there was no money left in the department. Maybe next year. WHAT? Remember now. This was almost 30 years ago. Added to many financial insults along the way, it was obvious that aspiration and rigor did not get you anywhere. Certainly not more money. Sharing your money, your time, your talent, your car, your academic or analytical product, was JUST THE WAY THEY ROLLED.
In the business world, a product had worth. In leftist academia, your time and your product, had not worth. Worth meaning financially. It was pro forma to NOT GET PAID FOR YOUR SERVICES. Again, I had other gigs. I loved my professorships. I was willing to accept the reality of academia, at least for the LEFT.
I had untold numbers of experiences where, in the real world, a person would have been remunerated, and were not. Pro forma. Department heads, more administrative, however, were constantly whiners demanding more money, more attention, more, more, more, and hateful and spiteful to their fellow “COMRADES” (PROFESSORS). Having practiced in a maximum security prison, “watch your back” was a mantra. Academia can be the same. LEFT LEANING ACADEMIA, that is.
Is Jason Arday a distant cousin of George Santos?
Dana Bash tried ( pitifully) to retry the EXPERTS BS with RFK JR and got squashed. Cambridge proves it is in the same league as Harvard ( remember Claudine Gay, perhaps also a cousin of Arday) when it comes to academic expertise and Veritas. Maybe the fine folks at Oxford will be debated this matter at an upcoming Oxford Union event. Maybe Santos can be invited to tag team w Arday.
That Cambridge debate was excellent.
Unfortunately it looks like El Said will still win in Michigan. I hope those who voted for Stevens votes for the Republican or doesn't vote. A message needs to be sent to the DNC head honchos -do something about the commies and the Jew-haters in their party. If not, if its we will still vote for anyone with a D next to their name, then I hope the democratic party implodes.
Good for Singapore. They don't want "Palestinianism" infecting their society. Too bad most western nations don't see that bullshit for what it is. Western destruction. Next time you see someone in a keffiyeh ask what are they really doing for Palestinians or are they simply virtue signaling because its the cool political movement of the day? (they think their little marches do something other than annoy people who have actual jobs or don't live with their heads up their butts)vOh and also ask them to find Gaza, the river Jordan or the mediterranean sea on a map. Most won't be able to. They couldn't give you a history of the conflict either. They couldn't even name 1 Palestinian leader. Ask the for the dates when Palestine existed as an independent state. Ask them a little history of the region. They can't do it. Then give them 5 minutes they will go down the rabbit hole of antisemitic conspiracy theories and start sounding simply like a Nazi/commie/fascist. Oh yeah free of speech. Does that idiot from what ever band that is think that Israelis or "zionists, aka Jews" or people who aren't living with a mind virus have a right to freedom of speech too. Bet he doesn't. That is how fascism works.
Oh the things you find in the Danube....makes you think that your civilization is just a blip in time. Are they really sure its the bones of a mammoth? Seems odd that they would appear on the same strata with the Nazis boats. Unless maybe the bones were stolen by the Nazis and put on one of those boats. Very odd doings...
democrats can win because Trump is in power and Trump is awful it won't take much for them to win the house and even potentially the senate because when you have a lying, grifting, drifting and sundowning president who launches a war nobody wants except Israel then loses it , things are made much easier even if dems own policies are dubious at best. Republicans will need to find an answer and the answer is not more of Trump and Maga
Have you tried proof-reading?
But you loved Biden didn't you?
"...a lying, grifting, drifting and sundowning president..."
Now there is a well balanced and stronly supported argument.
😉😉😉😉😉
Once again, all creation trembles in awe at the searing logic of Nobody's fiery intellect. What's more, he/she/they/ze/zr/whatever possesses such a command of the written word that it makes one wonder if Nobody is a nom de plume for one of Kamala Harris' regular speechwriters.
Yeah it’s the MAGA that is causing Trump’s sundowning, which is not happening. And it’s the crypto coin and the reflecting pool and Trump lying about his crowd size that have people upset and not the price of everything going up from the Iran war.
Trump being removed from office will not fix your brainwashing or the fact that you approach politics like a 10-year-old girl.
Not sure why I responded to this jerk.
He never makes an argument based on logic and/or facts.
BUT from time to time I do need to vent.
Since he never makes a case, I intend to block him unless there is some improvement today.
I have little patience for tedious jerks.
BUT thank you for picking up the gauntet.
P.S. Maybe don’t be so hard on 10 year old girls comparing them to him.
I still want to know if he or she is the fourth or fifth reincarnation of Comp Prof? Or YT MANN ( a great pen name by the way)? They seem to have disappeared
Jerkiness is kinda the common thread.
Sorry I responded to him.
He is a lonely guy who thrives on ttention no matter how negative.
When we respond we feed his need.