tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post1851947909939316638..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: Checking in with the Group of 88kcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-18840773257959313692014-07-21T18:20:20.631-04:002014-07-21T18:20:20.631-04:00Why don't we just abolish the "studies&qu...Why don't we just abolish the "studies" these people are supposedly holding professorships in?<br><br /><br />Am I the only one who's noticed that these people's semi-coherent "arguments" always boil down to "We shouldn't have to abide by the rules and norms of modern civilization, because we're barbarians and making us do that is 'oppressing' us."? They reject logic, rationality, and justice in favor of a worldview right out of the Neolithic- a world where invisible and often malevolent entities (racism, etc.) control events, where objective reality is a myth, and where magic (altering reality via ritual, incantation, etc.)is real. Mentally, these self-proclaimed "progressives" hold a worldview that was dated when Socrates was around.<br /><br />People whose worldview not only predates but precludes the sciences & humanities (and indeed all Western Civ.) AS CONCEPTS shouldn't get paid to supposedly teach them to the next generation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-75069857697510600342014-07-10T18:43:04.939-04:002014-07-10T18:43:04.939-04:00I hope KC continues the blog as well, because Coha...I hope KC continues the blog as well, because Cohan may be only the first salvo in a barrage of attempts to rewrite history.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-85673528960578461172014-07-10T11:21:40.317-04:002014-07-10T11:21:40.317-04:00And don't forget Mr. "Amerikkka," (B...And don't forget Mr. "Amerikkka," (Bonilla-Silva), who was promoted to chair of the Dept. of Sociology.<br /><br />Duke ProfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-73914134363563216432014-07-08T15:32:04.972-04:002014-07-08T15:32:04.972-04:00Wahneeeema just ended a few years as associate cha...Wahneeeema just ended a few years as associate chair of Afro-American Studies and director of undergraduate studies at the same time. Now she is director of graduate studies for the Literature department. I'd say that she is certainly among those G88-ers who have been well rewarded, won't you agree?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-44236951332175659292014-07-08T12:32:54.089-04:002014-07-08T12:32:54.089-04:00I'm in awe of Prof. Johnson's prodigious (...I'm in awe of Prof. Johnson's prodigious (and meaningful) output during the first years of the "case" and more recently the Cohan travesty. There are only 24 hours in a day, and I'm amazed at the quality and quantity. I do hope, instead of totally dropping the blog, he will revert it to some sort of a caretaker status with occasional relevant posts, like he did for the last few years until "The Price of Silence" came out. <br /> <br />I'm 99.9 % sure we haven't heard the last of Cohan and other people who will blithely ignore all the work Johnson, Taylor, and a host of others have done on this subject. Revisionist history! I still have a very hard time, not just with people like Cohan, but Ken Burns and others who comment without doing their homework. I have an equally hard time with the editors, publishers, academics, etc, who are derelict in their jobs, especially those with "name" credibility. Hello Scribner. Hello Wall Street Journal prior to Dorothy Rabinowitz correcting the record. Hello to others, you know who you are. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-75714225354023119572014-07-08T05:36:32.247-04:002014-07-08T05:36:32.247-04:00The title of an old Kurosawa movie seems relevant ... The title of an old Kurosawa movie seems relevant here - "The Bad Sleep Well."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-24347118891623165872014-07-08T05:02:15.606-04:002014-07-08T05:02:15.606-04:00In other words, anyone who shows any common sense ...In other words, anyone who shows any common sense is discredited as a "white supremacist" (or, presumably, an "Uncle Tom" if the person isn't white) by Lubiano.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-88401904247498576952014-07-07T23:18:53.688-04:002014-07-07T23:18:53.688-04:00It would be a great loss if this blog were closed ...It would be a great loss if this blog were closed down. In this post, KCJ describes the career advancement of the group of 88, professors who alleged some of their students were guilty of rape, solely because of their race and that of their accuser. <br /><br />But surely this is the tip of the iceberg. Academia is saturated with political correctness. But it goes beyond academia. Much of the mainstream media recently launched a campaign to imply that the Duke lacrosse three are guilty of "something". Where else but on Durham Wonderland would we have found out about this? <br /><br />May I suggest turning this blog into something broader? A critical analysis of the assumptions of the left about the power of white supremacy, patriarchy and so on, in American society as a whole. The Duke lacrosse case is a symptom of something. What is it? Jay Knottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-87119281031366263962014-07-07T14:28:09.532-04:002014-07-07T14:28:09.532-04:00@ 10:21 AM
You mentioned . " WAC's [sic]...@ 10:21 AM<br /><br />You mentioned . " WAC's [sic] keynote talk in NJ . " (presumably, that is William D. Cohan)<br /><br />The website is a local Morristown, NJ site; the book festival, featuring Cohan, has its first comment on April 22; less than 24 hrs later, new comments were barred.<br /><br />They did leave the first 7 comments; 5 were highly negative.<br /><br />http://morristowngreen.com/2014/04/22/hot-off-the-press-morristowns-first-book-festival-and-the-author-of-price-of-silence/#commentsA Duke Dadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-69144082554915516952014-07-07T13:51:12.861-04:002014-07-07T13:51:12.861-04:00In response to the "end" of the blog, I ...In response to the "end" of the blog, I will paraphrase Senator Blutarsky. "Eight years of blog reading down the drain!" hee hee Thanks, KC.skwillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17216150339054413310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-89096620190612423422014-07-07T11:50:41.977-04:002014-07-07T11:50:41.977-04:00Wahneeeeema'ed.....a new term we now used to d...Wahneeeeema'ed.....a new term we now used to describe what happens when somebody from the race-gender-class crowd opens their mouth, spews verbal vomit and says absolutely bleepin' nothing.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-47426362066849395402014-07-07T11:47:54.702-04:002014-07-07T11:47:54.702-04:00Say it is NOT so! I follow your DIW with joy and ...Say it is NOT so! I follow your DIW with joy and a hunger for truth. Please reconsider, Professor. You are, as my kid would say, the "bomb"!Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02996496732792057827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-78514932981074092442014-07-07T10:49:02.344-04:002014-07-07T10:49:02.344-04:00@Jim Peterson 2:11AM
Duly Noted.. ;)
DM@Jim Peterson 2:11AM<br /><br />Duly Noted.. ;)<br /><br />DMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-63440639166756714102014-07-07T02:11:38.912-04:002014-07-07T02:11:38.912-04:00"You’d almost think that Lubiano is a fiction..."You’d almost think that Lubiano is a fiction, invented by David Horowitz or another right-wing critic of the academy to discredit the entire higher-ed enterprise."<br /><br />Tsk, tsk, tsk....<br /><br />Jim PetersonJim In San Diegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959286127760699852noreply@blogger.com