Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Thursday, July 28. 2022

The persecution of Prof. Amy Wax

Kimball: The Ivy League scolds come for Amy Wax. The law professor is fighting for her job after students allege racism



 All the old liberal virtues — disinterested inquiry, due process, colorblind justice, advance according to merit, not some extraneous racial, ethnic, or sexual quota — all that has been rebranded as the invidious patent of reactionary and therefore impermissible vice. In sum, the educational establishment in its highest reaches is today a cesspool, contaminating the society it had been, at great expense, created to nurture.


Still, parents are willing to climb naked over broken bottles and impoverish themselves to send their children to this cauldron of iniquity. The light from those extinguished stars still, for a short while yet, beams down upon us, and people still utter the words “Harvard,” “Yale,” “Princeton” with something approaching awe.



Posted by The Barrister in Education at 12:03 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

I've listened to Amy Wax, being sensible defending Bourgeois values, and then being nutty about other social issues. People who are slightly nutty or erratic are hard to defend - they make easy targets for the Progressive Left mob. Alex Jones was their first big trophy scored - he's in court this week for his show trial, so named because of the restrictions that have been placed on his testimony and defense, similar to the Congressional show trials on going, where the 'defendant' is not really allowed to defend themself - their role is only to stand in front of the camera silently, preferably with a pointed hat and a sign around their neck.

The French had their Reign of Terror at about the same time we were declaring our Independence, and writing our Constitution. It looks like our own Reign of Terror has gotten up a fine head of steam. I think Ms. Wax might be fighting cancer as well, just another added benefit when you're the mob.
#1 Aggie on 2022-07-28 13:09 (Reply)
Dennis Prager likes to separate Liberals from the Left. He says all Liberals vote democrat, but they are not all Leftist. That is probably true, but most Liberals readily accept all the worst aspects of other cultures and try and mix it with Western thought, while simultaneously extinguishing the values that made Western Civilization the best of all civilizations. Thus they will readily accept the Marxists dogma, while rejecting Christianity. Christianity is to hard; there are high expectations. The act of loving God with all your heart, requires you not to be a nihilist.
#2 B. Hammer on 2022-07-28 16:42 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.