Orwell Re-Visited

[PoliticalChic]

Prescient.

That's the only word for Orwell.

What we are suffering through under the Bolsheviks....er, Democrats, simply proves how correct Orwell was.

Remember the mandated hatred of Emmanuel Goldstein...?

"Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the principal enemy of the state according to the Party of the totalitarian Oceania. ... Goldstein is always the subject of the "Two Minutes Hate", a daily programme beginning at 11:00 a.m. at which an image of Goldstein is shown on the telescreen and subjected to extreme contempt. "

Emmanuel Goldstein - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Everyone was forced to watch, and participate, with hisses and boos.







"Theater Prof Faces Termination Petition for Allegedly Falling Asleep During Online Anti-Racism Meeting
Posted by Mike LaChance Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 3:00pm
“This action has only capitalized on a pattern of negligence and disrespect that Patricia Simon has exhibited over and over again”

A professor of theater at Marymount College Manhattan is now dealing with a petition demanding her termination. Her crime was appearing to doze off during an online anti-racism event. "

Theater Prof Faces Termination Petition for Allegedly Falling Asleep During Online Anti-Racism Meeting

"This action has only capitalized on a pattern of negligence and disrespect that Patricia Simon has exhibited over and over again"

legalinsurrection.com

We better fear that we'll have to live through A Tale Of Two Cities, next.

 

[kyzr]

Small potatoes.
How about Trump issuing an EO defunding colleges that do not have at least 45% conservative professors, and also lose funding if any professor penalizes independent thought?
PC was always bashing colleges for programming students to be Leftists by any and all means necessary.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Small potatoes.
How about Trump issuing an EO defunding colleges that do not have at least 45% conservative professors, and also lose funding if any professor penalizes independent thought?
PC was always bashing colleges for programming students to be Leftists by any and all means necessary.

Not sure what your point is.


Certainly not this:

"We are not big fans of Dems or Republicans. However political registrations can provide a handy, if fuzzy tool for accessing a general political bent. When an institution of higher learning, indeed almost half of the surveyed colleges have NO registered Republicans on the ENTIRE faculty there’s a problem.

It speaks to the widespread and very deep bias, “bias” is too nice a word, persecution, of those who hold less statist, more classically liberal beliefs. And God forbid if one is a social conservative.

Notice by the way that engineers tend to be much more Republican, yet there are NO Republican “communications” professors at this sample of “elite” colleges. Think about that. Engineers must deal with reality, things like gravity, amplitude, chemical reactions, tinsel strength. “Communications” on the other hand is about crafting narratives and spin. These people often end up going to journalism school. What does that tell you?"

39% of "elite" liberal arts colleges have 0 registered Republican professors - as in NONE

We are not big fans of Dems or Republicans. However political registrations can provide a handy, if fuzzy tool for accessing a general political bent. When an institution of higher learning, indeed...

www.ac2news.com

 

[kyzr]

Its spelled "tensile" strength.
Otherwise, totally agree, colleges need more balance in the Leftist Arts curriculum.

 

[PoliticalChic]

UPenn Prof Faces Calls for Removal After Questioning Wording Of Proposed Anti-Racism Statement
Posted by Mike LaChance Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 4:30pm
“We are asking you to act on this statement and prohibit Carlin Romano from teaching at Penn this fall or ever again.”

If there is one thing we have learned in recent months, it is that certain subjects are simply not open to debate. In this case, UPenn Professor Carlin Romano did not even object to the spirit of an an anti-racism statement, he simply questioned the language of it.

Now he is facing calls for his removal.


Professor Jonathan Turley writes at his blog:

Penn Professor Faces Calls For His Removal After Questioning An Anti-Racism Statement [UPDATED]
We have been discussing efforts to fire professors who voice dissenting views of the basis or demands of recent protests including an effort to oust a leading economist from the University of Chicago as well as a leading linguistics professor at Harvard. It is part of a wave of intolerance sweeping over our colleges and our newsrooms. Now, an effort has been launched to fire University of Pennsylvania Professor Carlin Romano and to kick him off a prestigious literary group because Romano questioned the language of a proposed statement on racism in the publishing industry and even spotted an embarrassing typo…
Professor Romano is an attorney who teaches at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication. He became the latest target in academia when he questioned the language of a proposed anti-racism statement. Romano has publicly declared support for the movement and has written in the past of the need to diversify the publishing industry. However, he wrote to object to statements that he felt failed to acknowledge the past efforts by people like him and to paint the entire industry as racist. There was a time when such criticism would have been welcomed on boards and faculties. This is not “those times.”…

UPenn Prof Faces Calls for Removal After Questioning Wording Of Proposed Anti-Racism Statement

"We are asking you to act on this statement and prohibit Carlin Romano from teaching at Penn this fall or ever again."

legalinsurrection.com

 

[jwoodie]

Unfortunately, the ChiComs may have it right: Large populations in urban environments have proven that they are unable to govern themselves without strict authoritarian controls. We in the U.S. have had it too good for too long as we developed a new continent with little interference from foreign powers. Now we are facing a future that the rest of the world has known for some time.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Unfortunately, the ChiComs may have it right: Large populations in urban environments have proven that they are unable to govern themselves without strict authoritarian controls. We in the U.S. have had it too good for too long as we developed a new continent with little interference from foreign powers. Now we are facing a future that the rest of the world has known for some time.

Perhaps you've seen a thought that I have published several times.....

I'm thinking that civilizations may simply have a 'sell-by' date....and we've reached ours.

It was great while it lasted.



Here's the thing: the Leftists, the totalitarians are not rational, they are like the scorpion in the fable:

A scorpion, which cannot swim, asks a frog to carry it across a river on the frog's back. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung the frog despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I couldn't help it. It's in my nature."