{"id":17349,"date":"2020-11-18T01:53:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17349"},"modified":"2020-11-18T01:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:53:34","slug":"berkeley-professor-supports-book-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/11\/18\/berkeley-professor-supports-book-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley Professor Supports Book Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley\u2014who <em>of course<\/em> specializes in, in part, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/imK72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Critical Theory<\/a> and Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies\u2014has come out lauding that liberal value of \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/8l1bj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book theft and book burning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since some ppl have misunderstood my tone, and censorship is an important matter and as a public educator I have a duty to be precise, let me clarify:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udeab I do NOT advocate defacing library books.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 I DO encourage followers to steal Abigail Shrier\u2019s book and burn it on a pyre.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Grace Lavery \ud83d\udc2c (@graceelavery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/graceelavery\/status\/1327743400553172997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17350\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17350\" class=\"wp-image-17350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nazi-book-burnings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nazi-book-burnings.jpg 600w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nazi-book-burnings-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured: A typical day on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And just what is the justification? That is it like a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/stjsQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contaminated idea<\/a>\u201d akin to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/hJYhy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contaminated crop<\/a>\u201d that can be stolen and burned. Why? \u00a0 Because said Professor invokes the Karl Marx\u2019s concept of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alienated labor<\/a>\u201d and it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/navikater\/status\/1327760333965045760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OK<\/a> to burn the book (or presumably any commodity waiting to be sold) because the people who physically put the book together don\u2019t own the books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><sarcasm><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Plz make sure you use a safe pyre, and that you have an extinguisher to hand. Be safe, when you are burning books. <\/p>\n<p>Remember: all you\u2019re doing is removing a commodity from circulation\u2014much as one might destroy a contaminated crop, or take action if a distributor failed to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Grace Lavery \ud83d\udc2c (@graceelavery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/graceelavery\/status\/1327746546851524608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/sarcasm><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn.jpg 480w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/target-gets-backlash-pulling-book-due-complaint-transgender-activist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book that prompted this<\/a> is a book critical of transgenderism by Abigail Shrier entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/52076947-irreversible-damage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Irreversible Damage<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Why did this book critical of \u201cgender dysphoria\u201d trigger this Berkeley Professor? \u00a0 Perhaps because said professor not only embraces ideas that are \u201cnotoriously dubious in a philosophical sense\u201d, but outright declares that \u201c[m]y work in trans feminist studies is likewise focused on the belief that transition works; that it is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/imK72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">truly possible to change sex<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No wonder why there is such rage against a book that questions the Professor\u2019s <em>magical thinking<\/em>.<\/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=\"Berkeley Professor Supports Book Burning\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"An English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley\u2014who of course specializes in, in part, Critical Theory and Gender &#038; Sexuality Studies\u2014has come out lauding that liberal value of \u2026 book theft and book burning.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nazi-book-burnings.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley\u2014who of course specializes in, in part, Critical Theory and Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies\u2014has come out lauding that liberal value of \u2026 book theft and book burning. 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