Thank you for your service to academia, the students who benefited from your instruction, and to the greater good. There is no valor in fighting a mob. Mobs usually end up killing all the supposed believers in a massive "beggar thy neighbor" ideological wipeout long before they gain power, leaving behind a vacuum for the anarchists and morons to take over. Perhaps, we have arrived at that destination.
Which brings me to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged you can readily see the characters present in today's woke ideologues.
The head of the NEW Civil Rights Office at UCLA is speaking at Kimberle Crenshaw’s CRT conference this week. This is part of a complex of DEI / CRT offices at UCLA. The situation is hopeless. You are smart to retire. KC is a bain on UCLA and US society.
The unwarranted attacks on Jews ( Israel and Jews are one despite the BS espoused by the elite) is created by most who have never been to Israeli and who believe the history of the Jewish State began a few years ago. When Ehud Barack offered Arafat 93% of the West Bank and was flatly rejected; you know where the Palestinian leadership is coming from. Only the destruction of Israel will possibly satisfy the power hungry.
Thankfully Joseph Manson and others are speaking out to illuminate the woke hypocrisy. I have the urge to quote Martin Niemoller because there is complicity in silence. The loss of freedom in out academic institutions is a loss for ALL of us.
For years I felt and believed that, while the Right posed a more physical danger, the Left's anti-Zionism/antisemitism was much more insidious and dangerous. Until I read Bari's book, I couldn't articulate it; now I can. Our colleges and universities have become indoctrination centers for anti-Zionism and antisemitism and the administrators and MSM have bought into it. As a result the MSM, especially the Washington Post and NYTimes have spread this hatred wide and far. Antisemitism has become normalized. People like me and those on this site are stuck in the middle between two extremes and have very few voices, like Bari and Bret Stephens, to speak for us. Bari, keep fighting the good fight knowing that there are many of us who have your back.
Meritocracy to educate the best and the brightest! China has arrived and you can best bet they don’t worry about equity and inclusion to the point of destroying their educational system! I feel old as well when it comes to the gender bullshit! Men Women be who you are and stop obsessing about it!! So many labels nowadays I wouldn’t last a minute in corporate America! I’m actually proud to say that
Scruton (I think) said something to the effect of ~blasphemy is most found in the narrowest of disagreements.~
While I feel some sympathy for liberals being eaten by other liberals I find it baffling that it appears that they are only recognizing this problem at this late date rather than 30 years ago.
What I really want to say to the author is, “how could you be such a goddamn idiot?”
Please Prof Manson, 2 requests. (1) Do not leave until the personal harassment becomes truly unbearable. (2) Scream very loudly non-stop until the very end. Those are my personal rules. I graduated UCLA Public Health in 1994. If I were to take the Equity sentences, then falsely claimed myself as author, then time-machined back to 1994 - I would have been expelled or at least assessed by a psychiatrist. Equity rule: Once an equity sentence is typed or spoken, nobody may question or challenge it ever. If Equity types “1+1=8”, the entire math department has to shut up. Your anthropology story is identical to my story at SF DPH. I retired in December. During George Floyd protests, there were 2 buckets of “police behavior” information. The scholars’ bucket and the activists’ bucket. Equity covered the scholars’ bucket with duct-tape. As in duct-tape across everyone’s mouth. And every parent in the nation needs people to stay and fight.
I am an elementary teacher in California. I have experienced the same sort ostracization as you describe and have learned to keep to myself at my school and refrain from sharing my thoughts at staff meetings. Many of my colleagues are bullies. I only stay because I am still allowed a modicum of freedom within my own classroom, and I believe I am providing a service to my beloved students. I derive a great deal of joy from teaching and nurturing the leaders of tomorrow. I will continue to work for as long as it is feasible, yet I fear for what is coming.
Thank you for your courage, Integrity, and and bravery for your decision. Equally worrisome to the ideological wokeness bordering on nonsense is the repudiation of intellectual standards. So now the graduate schools are filling up with ideologues who are intellectual mediocre. Are they still required to write dissertations?? Or can they submit a video or a slide presentation of a communist re-educstion camp?
Thank you, Professor Manson. That UCLA has gone down the Woke Rabbit Hole is sad enough. That overt antisemitism is embraced in so-called liberal academia is intolerable and must be resisted at every turn.
Super article, and I admire you for voting with your feet. I love the quote from Roy D’Andrade: “Isn’t it odd that the true enemy of society turns out to be that guy in the office down the hall?” For those who don't feel impelled to act, or do feel impelled to act but don't follow your lead and actually do something , the enemy may well be the guy in the mirror. I would love to get a list of books you think we non-anthropologists should read for accessible enlightenment in your world. Again, well played, sir.
Thank you for your service to academia, the students who benefited from your instruction, and to the greater good. There is no valor in fighting a mob. Mobs usually end up killing all the supposed believers in a massive "beggar thy neighbor" ideological wipeout long before they gain power, leaving behind a vacuum for the anarchists and morons to take over. Perhaps, we have arrived at that destination.
Which brings me to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged you can readily see the characters present in today's woke ideologues.
The head of the NEW Civil Rights Office at UCLA is speaking at Kimberle Crenshaw’s CRT conference this week. This is part of a complex of DEI / CRT offices at UCLA. The situation is hopeless. You are smart to retire. KC is a bain on UCLA and US society.
College alumni: stop donating to universities that tolerate this far left "woke" ideology!
Tried to email you but it bounced back. I'm glad you wrote this. Thank you.
The unwarranted attacks on Jews ( Israel and Jews are one despite the BS espoused by the elite) is created by most who have never been to Israeli and who believe the history of the Jewish State began a few years ago. When Ehud Barack offered Arafat 93% of the West Bank and was flatly rejected; you know where the Palestinian leadership is coming from. Only the destruction of Israel will possibly satisfy the power hungry.
Amen.
Thankfully Joseph Manson and others are speaking out to illuminate the woke hypocrisy. I have the urge to quote Martin Niemoller because there is complicity in silence. The loss of freedom in out academic institutions is a loss for ALL of us.
For years I felt and believed that, while the Right posed a more physical danger, the Left's anti-Zionism/antisemitism was much more insidious and dangerous. Until I read Bari's book, I couldn't articulate it; now I can. Our colleges and universities have become indoctrination centers for anti-Zionism and antisemitism and the administrators and MSM have bought into it. As a result the MSM, especially the Washington Post and NYTimes have spread this hatred wide and far. Antisemitism has become normalized. People like me and those on this site are stuck in the middle between two extremes and have very few voices, like Bari and Bret Stephens, to speak for us. Bari, keep fighting the good fight knowing that there are many of us who have your back.
Meritocracy to educate the best and the brightest! China has arrived and you can best bet they don’t worry about equity and inclusion to the point of destroying their educational system! I feel old as well when it comes to the gender bullshit! Men Women be who you are and stop obsessing about it!! So many labels nowadays I wouldn’t last a minute in corporate America! I’m actually proud to say that
Scruton (I think) said something to the effect of ~blasphemy is most found in the narrowest of disagreements.~
While I feel some sympathy for liberals being eaten by other liberals I find it baffling that it appears that they are only recognizing this problem at this late date rather than 30 years ago.
What I really want to say to the author is, “how could you be such a goddamn idiot?”
Please Prof Manson, 2 requests. (1) Do not leave until the personal harassment becomes truly unbearable. (2) Scream very loudly non-stop until the very end. Those are my personal rules. I graduated UCLA Public Health in 1994. If I were to take the Equity sentences, then falsely claimed myself as author, then time-machined back to 1994 - I would have been expelled or at least assessed by a psychiatrist. Equity rule: Once an equity sentence is typed or spoken, nobody may question or challenge it ever. If Equity types “1+1=8”, the entire math department has to shut up. Your anthropology story is identical to my story at SF DPH. I retired in December. During George Floyd protests, there were 2 buckets of “police behavior” information. The scholars’ bucket and the activists’ bucket. Equity covered the scholars’ bucket with duct-tape. As in duct-tape across everyone’s mouth. And every parent in the nation needs people to stay and fight.
I am an elementary teacher in California. I have experienced the same sort ostracization as you describe and have learned to keep to myself at my school and refrain from sharing my thoughts at staff meetings. Many of my colleagues are bullies. I only stay because I am still allowed a modicum of freedom within my own classroom, and I believe I am providing a service to my beloved students. I derive a great deal of joy from teaching and nurturing the leaders of tomorrow. I will continue to work for as long as it is feasible, yet I fear for what is coming.
Thank you for your courage, Integrity, and and bravery for your decision. Equally worrisome to the ideological wokeness bordering on nonsense is the repudiation of intellectual standards. So now the graduate schools are filling up with ideologues who are intellectual mediocre. Are they still required to write dissertations?? Or can they submit a video or a slide presentation of a communist re-educstion camp?
Thank you, Professor Manson. That UCLA has gone down the Woke Rabbit Hole is sad enough. That overt antisemitism is embraced in so-called liberal academia is intolerable and must be resisted at every turn.
Super article, and I admire you for voting with your feet. I love the quote from Roy D’Andrade: “Isn’t it odd that the true enemy of society turns out to be that guy in the office down the hall?” For those who don't feel impelled to act, or do feel impelled to act but don't follow your lead and actually do something , the enemy may well be the guy in the mirror. I would love to get a list of books you think we non-anthropologists should read for accessible enlightenment in your world. Again, well played, sir.
Here's that goofy leopard eating a face
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