{"id":13819,"date":"2017-09-07T00:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T07:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13819"},"modified":"2017-09-07T00:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T07:16:18","slug":"quick-takes-political-correctness-opposing-incorrectness-out-with-the-incorrect-celebrating-the-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/09\/07\/quick-takes-political-correctness-opposing-incorrectness-out-with-the-incorrect-celebrating-the-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes &#8211; Political Correctness: Opposing Incorrectness; Out With The Incorrect; Celebrating The Correct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: The &#8220;Correct&#8221; person is the new &#8220;New Soviet&#8221; person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7IDmF1O4cNM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The only woke way to immanentize the eschaton is to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=9231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abolish Whiteness<\/a>&#8221; and thus the original sin of a oh-so-woke <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">man<\/span><strong>person<\/strong>-kind&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Hunter College will offer students an &#8216;Abolition of Whiteness&#8217; course this fall to discuss how &#8216;white supremacy and violence&#8217; influence individual identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The course, taught by Women and Gender Studies Professor Jennifer Gaboury, is cross-listed for both her department and the Political Science Department, where it fulfills one of four required courses in the &#8216;4 subfields of political science&#8217; under the umbrella of POLSC 204: Contemporary Issues in Political Theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, this requires those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/32751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">icky professors<\/a> who dare spout <em>incorrect<\/em> believes be purged:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A Duke University Divinity School professor who called diversity training a &#8216;waste&#8217; of time has resigned after disciplinary proceedings were launched against him and he was barred by his dean from faculty meetings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;At issue is a February email in which Professor Paul Griffiths advised his colleagues not to bother with a proffered volunteer diversity training, called &#8216;Racial Equity Institute Phase I Training.&#8217; Slated for March, it would work to ensure the divinity school is &#8216;equitable and anti-racist in its practices and culture,&#8217; according to the invite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;I exhort you not to attend this training,&#8217; Griffiths stated in his Feb. 6 listserv reply to his peers. &#8216;Don\u2019t lay waste your time by doing so. It\u2019ll be, I predict with confidence, intellectually flaccid: there\u2019ll be bromides, clich\u00e9s, and amen-corner rah-rahs in plenty.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;\u2026 We have neither time nor resources to waste. This training is a waste. Please, ignore it,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;For that, he was accused of racism and sexism, and disciplinary proceedings against him were launched.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who, then, will be elevated as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=9223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paragon of wokeness<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A University of Hawaii professor has crafted a non-professional &#8216;liberated CV&#8217; boasting that she has &#8216;survived external and internalized misogyny&#8217; and &#8216;racism&#8217; throughout her education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;\u2026 University of Hawaii at Manoa Professor Piper Harron recently wrote a post on a mathematics blog arguing that white, cisgender males should immediately resign from their positions because &#8216;actual solutions require women of color and trans people.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;Not to alarm you, but I probably want you to quit your job, or at least take a demotion,&#8217; Harron wrote in a blog for the American Mathematical Society, which has since been amended to note that it is no longer allowing for comments. &#8216;If you are a white cis man you almost certainly should resign from your position of power. That\u2019s right, please quit.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Quick Takes - Political Correctness: Opposing Incorrectness; Out With The Incorrect; Celebrating The Correct\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: The 'Correct' person is the new 'New Soviet' person.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: The &#8220;Correct&#8221; person is the new &#8220;New Soviet&#8221; person. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/09\/07\/quick-takes-political-correctness-opposing-incorrectness-out-with-the-incorrect-celebrating-the-correct\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13820,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819\/revisions\/13820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}