Fear of Woking
Fear of Woking
Interesting opinion piece about the exaggerated fear of cancellation in the Academy. Goldberg uses the recent Netflix series, The Chair, as the pivot to say that academics are having "histrionic" fits over so called, "Cancel Culture".
In the article, she makes reference to Joy Division. As a GenXer sort of adjacent to the world of "The Chair", I gotta say that I'm gleaning some long lost pleasure knowing that my music has become rebellious again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/opin ... lture.html
Thought this might offer a nice bookend to the conversation about right wing paranoia about wokeness.
In the article, she makes reference to Joy Division. As a GenXer sort of adjacent to the world of "The Chair", I gotta say that I'm gleaning some long lost pleasure knowing that my music has become rebellious again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/opin ... lture.html
Thought this might offer a nice bookend to the conversation about right wing paranoia about wokeness.
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As I have been saying all along, who is afraid of the opinions of freshman in college?
The whole hysteria around CRT and wokeness has been manufactured by the right, in order to limit the free speech of the left, as the article cogently points out.
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Insecure college professors.
To an extent, it's exacerbated by administrators who evaluate professors based on student ratings and comments. Freshmen are given inordinate power on campuses that affect everything from spending on lavish student accommodations to grade inflation. Don't underestimate the power of an 18 year old at an elite university.
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NY Times is part of clown world.
When students search the campus with baseball bats in hand for supposed racist professors something is off. This happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College in 2017 literally because he refused to take a day off.
When students search the campus with baseball bats in hand for supposed racist professors something is off. This happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College in 2017 literally because he refused to take a day off.
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That did not happen: timeline here:Archie2009 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:21 pm NY Times is part of clown world.
When students search the campus with baseball bats in hand for supposed racist professors something is off.
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/ ... 61841.html
Only an idiot refuses to take a paid day off.This happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College in 2017 literally because he refused to take a day off.
He was also engaged in performative silliness. It paid off. He and his wife also received 500K for their troubles. Now he is a major player in the Covid Antivaxx movement, so a total idiot. It's also telling that he blames "postmodernism" and "critical theory" for his woes. What a putz.
More performative silliness.
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To be fair, performative silliness is not just a right wing thing. There's plenty of performative silliness on college campuses. Actually, I think that's a big point of college... performative silliness is part of the promise of college campuses, though its patronized with much more noble descriptions. If one doesn't take a chance at college to be someone or something else, they've wasted an opportunity, IMHO.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:37 pmThat did not happen: timeline here:Archie2009 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:21 pm NY Times is part of clown world.
When students search the campus with baseball bats in hand for supposed racist professors something is off.
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/ ... 61841.html
Only an idiot refuses to take a paid day off.This happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College in 2017 literally because he refused to take a day off.
He was also engaged in performative silliness. It paid off. He and his wife also received 500K for their troubles. Now he is a major player in the Covid Antivaxx movement, so a total idiot. It's also telling that he blames "postmodernism" and "critical theory" for his woes. What a putz.
More performative silliness.
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The whole US progressive social justice movement pivots on performative hysteria.
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You mean like this?Archie2009 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:02 pm The whole US progressive social justice movement pivots on performative hysteria.
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I believe one should consider intention to some extent when evaluating cultural items on the "cancellation" chopping block, as well as the individuals who are responsible for said items' existence.
It's not the whole story but it's part of it.
Did the person in question who created the offending artifact intend to be racist, sexist, etc. when giving rise to a hurtful or offensive result? If not, they should be cut some degree of slack.
That doesn't mean that the hurtful or offensive result isn't hurtful or offensive. And it doesn't mean that a hurtful or offensive result should be tolerated or accepted. By all means cancel it, but at the same time have some compassion for its perpetrator if they did not act with malicious intent.
Thus, one can cancel inappropriate cultural artifacts without necessarily demonizing the people who gave rise to them out of innocence, ignorance, thoughtlessness, or previously unexamined norms.
It's not the whole story but it's part of it.
Did the person in question who created the offending artifact intend to be racist, sexist, etc. when giving rise to a hurtful or offensive result? If not, they should be cut some degree of slack.
That doesn't mean that the hurtful or offensive result isn't hurtful or offensive. And it doesn't mean that a hurtful or offensive result should be tolerated or accepted. By all means cancel it, but at the same time have some compassion for its perpetrator if they did not act with malicious intent.
Thus, one can cancel inappropriate cultural artifacts without necessarily demonizing the people who gave rise to them out of innocence, ignorance, thoughtlessness, or previously unexamined norms.
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I believe that takes the cake in terms of performative silliness.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:03 pmYou mean like this?Archie2009 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:02 pm The whole US progressive social justice movement pivots on performative hysteria.
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FFS I go to Evergreen, they didn’t chase him down with bats, they cornered him and yelled a bunch of dumb, senseless crap at him.
The whole thing is really dumb. Evergreen used to have this tradition of a ‘day of presence’ where people of color or whatever wouldn’t show up one day as a protest. That year they reversed it and suggested white people don’t show up.
So it was this silly thing where Weinstein reacted like the weird intellectual type he is, in some way they perceived as racist, and there was a group running around campus screaming about racism.
Eventually they provoked the Neo Nazis nearby and the school got shut down for a week. Nothing really happened, it’s the kind of silly shit that passes for ‘activism’ and happens here all the time. ‘Per formative’ is an accurate word for all of it, including Weinstein.
Evergreen certainly had that kind of behavior, it also has anti-Vaxxers, TPUSA tables and all the other types you find at a liberal arts college in an insular ‘left coast’ college town.
This kind of thing actually ends up being much worse for the left than the right because any political actions taken there are run by a small group of activists who will shout anyone down who they disagree with *on their own side*, usually via vague accusations of racism.
To a degree this is what happened with Weinstein, but also, turns out he’s just a kook anyway. He could have handled the situation much differently, but he did what he did and joined The Intellectual Doofus Web or whatever.
So, fake wholeness and cancel culture are more an actual problem for the heterodox left than the right, by far. The right uses it the way you would expect, basically to pass an actually racist agenda but most of the ‘soft censorship’, (in fact nearly all of that I’ve seen) has been a result of this brand of juvenile wokeness within the discourse on the left.
The whole thing is really dumb. Evergreen used to have this tradition of a ‘day of presence’ where people of color or whatever wouldn’t show up one day as a protest. That year they reversed it and suggested white people don’t show up.
So it was this silly thing where Weinstein reacted like the weird intellectual type he is, in some way they perceived as racist, and there was a group running around campus screaming about racism.
Eventually they provoked the Neo Nazis nearby and the school got shut down for a week. Nothing really happened, it’s the kind of silly shit that passes for ‘activism’ and happens here all the time. ‘Per formative’ is an accurate word for all of it, including Weinstein.
Evergreen certainly had that kind of behavior, it also has anti-Vaxxers, TPUSA tables and all the other types you find at a liberal arts college in an insular ‘left coast’ college town.
This kind of thing actually ends up being much worse for the left than the right because any political actions taken there are run by a small group of activists who will shout anyone down who they disagree with *on their own side*, usually via vague accusations of racism.
To a degree this is what happened with Weinstein, but also, turns out he’s just a kook anyway. He could have handled the situation much differently, but he did what he did and joined The Intellectual Doofus Web or whatever.
So, fake wholeness and cancel culture are more an actual problem for the heterodox left than the right, by far. The right uses it the way you would expect, basically to pass an actually racist agenda but most of the ‘soft censorship’, (in fact nearly all of that I’ve seen) has been a result of this brand of juvenile wokeness within the discourse on the left.
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Yes, because people are threatened by freshman in college. Give me a break.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:53 pm but most of the ‘soft censorship’, (in fact nearly all of that I’ve seen) has been a result of this brand of juvenile wokeness within the discourse on the left.
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Freshman in college canmake up a large part of whatever political activism goes on a campus. While I don’t think most professors worry about it much, college freshman can certainly sway the terms of debate within their own social groups.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:20 pmYes, because people are threatened by freshman in college. Give me a break.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:53 pm but most of the ‘soft censorship’, (in fact nearly all of that I’ve seen) has been a result of this brand of juvenile wokeness within the discourse on the left.
Anyway, the dynamic here is older activist types with a following of kids usually. I don’t think it’s dangerous the way right wingers claim, but it does make the left wing landscape here amazingly ineffective and self-facing.
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You've obviously never been the reason for a college sit in. There are strength in numbers. And can change the policy of a University provost. Don't underestimate the degree to which changes in social mores now are radical. What's happening now is far more radical than anything pior, namely gender non identity. This changes what we call a species. It's fundamental. The Gen Zknow their power by way of numbers and social media. They are welding it.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:20 pmYes, because people are threatened by freshman in college. Give me a break.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:53 pm but most of the ‘soft censorship’, (in fact nearly all of that I’ve seen) has been a result of this brand of juvenile wokeness within the discourse on the left.
There's a very insightful series on HBO called Hacks about a politically incorrect baby Boomer comedian mentoring a politically correct Gen Z comedy writer who expressed herself in vulgar terms. It's very interesting to see this dynamic. It's mutually destructive is the conclusion.
The human race is in a total death spiral. Also mentioned there.
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It's always been like that, as far as I can remember.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:28 pm but it does make the left wing landscape here amazingly ineffective and self-facing.
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Considering how technology allows biological choice about everything hereditary, and the enormous force opposition by the religious activists, there will be amazing and overwhelming force brought to bear on both sides.Crazywisdom wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:56 pmYou've obviously never been the reason for a college sit in. There are strength in numbers. And can change the policy of a University provost. Don't underestimate the degree to which changes in social mores now are radical. What's happening now is far more radical than anything pior, namely gender non identity. This changes what we call a species. It's fundamental. The Gen Zknow their power by way of numbers and social media. They are welding it.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:20 pmYes, because people are threatened by freshman in college. Give me a break.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:53 pm but most of the ‘soft censorship’, (in fact nearly all of that I’ve seen) has been a result of this brand of juvenile wokeness within the discourse on the left.
There's a very insightful series on HBO called Hacks about a politically incorrect baby Boomer comedian mentoring a politically correct Gen Z comedy writer who expressed herself in vulgar terms. It's very interesting to see this dynamic. It's mutually destructive is the conclusion.
The human race is in a total death spiral. Also mentioned there.
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I have lived in college towns for my entire life. Ithaca, the Happy Valley (Western Ma), Cambridge, Burlington, VT., Boston, and back to the Valley again. I've seen more sitins than I can remember. Freshman come and go, get on with their lives, forget about their youthful political passions, get married, have families, etc.Crazywisdom wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:56 pmYou've obviously never been the reason for a college sit in.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:20 pmYes, because people are threatened by freshman in college. Give me a break.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:53 pm but most of the ‘soft censorship’, (in fact nearly all of that I’ve seen) has been a result of this brand of juvenile wokeness within the discourse on the left.
What freshman in college think is just not a big deal.
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Why else do you think the likes of Shapiro or pastors are more bent on debating and "destroying" mostly college students rather than the likes of Noam Chomsky or Angela Davis?Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:28 pmFreshman in college canmake up a large part of whatever political activism goes on a campus. While I don’t think most professors worry about it much, college freshman can certainly sway the terms of debate within their own social groups.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:20 pmYes, because people are threatened by freshman in college. Give me a break.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:53 pm but most of the ‘soft censorship’, (in fact nearly all of that I’ve seen) has been a result of this brand of juvenile wokeness within the discourse on the left.
Anyway, the dynamic here is older activist types with a following of kids usually. I don’t think it’s dangerous the way right wingers claim, but it does make the left wing landscape here amazingly ineffective and self-facing.
Lmao, as a freshman here, duly noted!
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