American universities are becoming less tolerant of pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas protests, worried about ‘blowback from elected officials and donors.’ Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University of Texas and Vanderbilt have opted for new policies of institutional neutrality.
If a re-invigorated GOP ever did really get their act together (and the votes to back it), what kind of fight-back against those Monasteries of Lefty Groupthink could they mount? It would need to be an unashamedly sledgehammer legislative approach and pursued with Machiavellian sleight of hand. It might include:
- ending the decades-long absurdity of left wing proselytising organisations being actually funded by the taxpayer.
- a clear-out of the kind of senior academics who have so cravenly caved in to spoilt-brat ‘radicalism’.
- a complete clear-out of the multi-billion DEI bureaucracy racket.
- a complete overhaul of teacher training that has long been a training ground in progressive ideology.
- an end to public sector security-of-tenure unrelated to performance.
But in order for any such fight-back to have any realistic chance of popular support – either at state or at federal level – it would need to radically up its game in challenging - and unpicking - fallacies about 'higher education' that long ago took root amongst many of their own voters. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
By coincidence, I wrote this on the DT blog earlier in response to a Tom Harris article totled "Labour are as Delusional as ever", with reference to Eric:
"The key issue with Labour is not that they are either (economic) socialists or social democrats, but that they are now Cultural Socialists (Eric Kaufmann). This is a far more dangerous and amorphous concept as it moves from the simple mantra of “a fairer distribution of economic resources (tax & spend)” to an enforced redistribution of ‘rights’, ‘power’ and ‘status’.
Social Democracy/Economic Socialism was based on empirical and value judgements around the distribution of economic resources without destroying economic growth. It focused on “equality of opportunity” and a tilting of tax and spend decisions.
Cultural Socialism, for which most of Sir Kneeler’s party support, focuses on victimhood, grievance, historical hand-wringing and harm protection. It emphasises an “equality of outcome” or “equity” which is an ideological concept that is naïve, utopian, unattainable and counter-behavioural. Labour is looking to pull at least 3 levers to implement this agenda:
1. More Tax and spend (economic Socialism)
2. More Quangocracy as the population can’t be given political say—the technocrats, lawyers and experts must be in charge.
3. More ‘Woke’—hate laws, compelled speech, DEI, islamophobia legislation, watered down Trans guidance etc."
Also aren’t there ways to push favorable policies within this framework…like shortening college, teaching slavery as a global issue, putting business classes in high school, etc
Isn’t it funny how these groups and social justice issues are becoming ‘sacred’, while any tolerance for the upholding of traditional Judeo-Christian foundations is being continually abolished.
If a re-invigorated GOP ever did really get their act together (and the votes to back it), what kind of fight-back against those Monasteries of Lefty Groupthink could they mount? It would need to be an unashamedly sledgehammer legislative approach and pursued with Machiavellian sleight of hand. It might include:
- ending the decades-long absurdity of left wing proselytising organisations being actually funded by the taxpayer.
- a clear-out of the kind of senior academics who have so cravenly caved in to spoilt-brat ‘radicalism’.
- a complete clear-out of the multi-billion DEI bureaucracy racket.
- a complete overhaul of teacher training that has long been a training ground in progressive ideology.
- an end to public sector security-of-tenure unrelated to performance.
But in order for any such fight-back to have any realistic chance of popular support – either at state or at federal level – it would need to radically up its game in challenging - and unpicking - fallacies about 'higher education' that long ago took root amongst many of their own voters. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
By coincidence, I wrote this on the DT blog earlier in response to a Tom Harris article totled "Labour are as Delusional as ever", with reference to Eric:
"The key issue with Labour is not that they are either (economic) socialists or social democrats, but that they are now Cultural Socialists (Eric Kaufmann). This is a far more dangerous and amorphous concept as it moves from the simple mantra of “a fairer distribution of economic resources (tax & spend)” to an enforced redistribution of ‘rights’, ‘power’ and ‘status’.
Social Democracy/Economic Socialism was based on empirical and value judgements around the distribution of economic resources without destroying economic growth. It focused on “equality of opportunity” and a tilting of tax and spend decisions.
Cultural Socialism, for which most of Sir Kneeler’s party support, focuses on victimhood, grievance, historical hand-wringing and harm protection. It emphasises an “equality of outcome” or “equity” which is an ideological concept that is naïve, utopian, unattainable and counter-behavioural. Labour is looking to pull at least 3 levers to implement this agenda:
1. More Tax and spend (economic Socialism)
2. More Quangocracy as the population can’t be given political say—the technocrats, lawyers and experts must be in charge.
3. More ‘Woke’—hate laws, compelled speech, DEI, islamophobia legislation, watered down Trans guidance etc."
Maybe you should call it
liberal fundamentalism
Also aren’t there ways to push favorable policies within this framework…like shortening college, teaching slavery as a global issue, putting business classes in high school, etc
Isn’t it funny how these groups and social justice issues are becoming ‘sacred’, while any tolerance for the upholding of traditional Judeo-Christian foundations is being continually abolished.