8 thoughts on “Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ activism”

  2. The author’s courage reminds me of George Carlin’s “The Seven Words You Can’t Say On TV” routine. We humans surround ourselves with taboos that help define our societies. Thank goodness we have artists and philosophers who challenge those mind straitjackets.

  4. Bravo. Vitriolic excesses such as these, and we see them so often these days, are just attempts at intimidation. From people who claim to be oppressed. They are in service of the goal of having no discussion, brooking no debate, simply pummeling anything vaguely resembling a divergent point of view into submission. No questions allowed. I am so tired of this nonsense but it isn’t going away soon.

  5. A man with a penis is a women, a god in the sky is the creator of all.

    Living to a lie IS crazy…… evidence? a penis & the other, none to be found.

  6. —how such attacks can easily reinforce and indeed fuel portrayals of entire fields and disciplines—including ethnic studies, critical race theory, and gender studies—as “political” and “ideological” projects and not serious subjects or research disciplines.
    There is no Crit Studies text, teacher or class that doesn’t state upfront that their project is conjoined with political activism, as their entire field is rooted in Marx’s idea that “Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” To say Crit Studies isn’t specifically and blatantly a form of Left politics (when all its founders and leading lights would never deny it) is false and dishonest.
    “not serious subjects or research disciplines”—all of Crit Studies come with their conclusions baked in and the job of the Crit Studies prof or student is to identify the Oppressor and their crimes—there is no other possibility allowed and to posit that the cause of some inequality isn’t ipso facto Oppression is considered blasphemous and “dangerous”. Also, the academic field most famous for the autoethnography where a person shares their tale of woe but simply adds jargon and where there’s always the same answer to every question—Oppression!—is the opposite of any idea of legitimate scholarship.
    Allowing Crit Studies to infiltrate the Academy was like wheeling a Trojan Horse inside the gates of our society and we can see the results—the moralistic politicization of everything, which has poisoned our culture and personal relationships, and the destruction of academic standards and the idea of scholarship as the disinterested pursuit of truth and knowledge.

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