Happens all the time; the Soviet Union and China were big examples of that. Stalin’s purges, Mao’s cultural revolution, and the normalization in both countries of the “reactionary counter-revolutionary” thinker who could be thrown in a prison camp or executed for the slightest perceived lack of devotion to dogma.

See, now THAT’S something you can legitimately bring a Title IX complaint over.

As I see it a lot of the victim feminists grabbed onto ideas about pervasive power structures in Foucauldian and other post-structuralist writings without also grabbing the more nuanced analytical and ethical dimensions of power relationships and ethics.

They did it with Dole in 96, and Reagan in 80 and 84 as well.

Just wanted to say I agree completely. And also that is an interesting username and would you be willing to disclose the source? I loved the New York Regents Exams because if it weren’t for them I would have failed math a couple of times, but by getting a high enough grade on the Regents they had to pass me...

I responded before but just to elaborate on a factual assertion:

Here’s a few:

You’re not faking it, though. Nobody knows what they’re doing; being clueless and trying to convince others that you know what you’re doing is the norm. It’s the ones who THINK they know what they’re doing that are the dangerous ones.

“power dynamics between professors and students on my campuses are insanely skewed”

It’s not even whether it’s protest worthy or not; they filed a formal complaint arguing that it constituted “retaliation.”

Assuming for a second that everything you said is true — the idea that expressing a viewpoint that you don’t like constitutes “retaliation” is repellent and disgraceful.

This is extending the Title IX retaliation claim past the point of sanity.

I was a little impressed myself; I’ve been following this story on the philosophy blogosphere and it is surprising how many feminist philosophers have supported the students here.

That’s a good point. That’s why I always found personally insulting the common statement “Family is very important in my culture” and “my culture values education.” There’s an implicit criticism there.

Ugh, I hate it when people try to give me islands. They rarely give you a good one.

I will actually watch any videos where dogs are just beyond excited because their owner is coming back after a long absence, whether it’s just a trip, prison, or whatever.

The only ones that get me crying are the dog rescue videos where they segue from showing the terrified, filthy, injured dog trying to avoid the rescuers to months later when the dog is happily playing.

It’s just a bad pic at a bad angle in bad lighting; Lil Kim was very cute back then and there is plenty of photographic proof of that.

Why do the GOP want to discredit Sanders? They would love if he beat Hillary in the primary.

Who would have thought...