Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n
The focus this time: When stupidity and fantasy collide.<\/p>\n
First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21268\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/what-a-stupid-time-to-be-alive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/what-a-stupid-time-to-be-alive.jpg 640w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/what-a-stupid-time-to-be-alive-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Watermelons: Green on the outside and red on the inside. Case in point: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article\/new-school-course-poses-ecofeminism-ecomarxism-viable-alternatives-capitalism-\/26268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Critical Political Ecology\/Economy: From Extraction Regeneration<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA private university in New York City is offering a course titled \u2018Critical Political Ecology\/Economy: From Extraction Regeneration\u2019 that puts forward \u2018(eco)feminism\u2019 and \u2018(eco)Marxism\u2019 as \u2018viable alternatives\u2019 to current political structures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAccording to The New School\u2019s website description, the fall course\u2019s premise examines capitalism\u2019s alleged failures from an ecological and economic perspective. Students will study what is \u2018necessary\u2019 to \u2018substantiate viable alternatives\u2019 to the system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe course\u2019s subject matter uses several disciplines to examine how capitalism supposedly \u201cdisrupts Earth system processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018. . . in analyzing the making of the world-system economy\/ecology of Euroamerican colonial capitalist modernity, [the course] also charts the histories of alternative social ecologies,\u2019 the description says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe \u2018living history\u2019 course seeks to \u2018substantiate viable alternatives and transformative paradigms like (eco)feminism,(eco)Marxism; postcolonialism, decolonialism, Indigenous, post-development, degrowth, post-extractivism, and environmental\/climate justice.\u2019\u201d<\/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;\"> Magical healing of the planet is something that education is intended to dispel from students minds. Harvard, on the other hand, thinks saving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/harvard-to-train-planetary-healers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaia requires confronting \u201cstructural racism\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe planet is sick, so says the environmentalists, but here comes Harvard University heal it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Ivy League university, where freshmen need refresher courses on algebra, will now offer a concentration (fancy word for \u201cmajor\u201d) in \u2018Climate Change and Planetary Health.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018The idea is that we move from an understanding of planetary health to training planetary healers,\u2019 Professor Christopher Golden told The Crimson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018We see climate change as one of the most important existential threats that is affecting public health,\u2019 the faculty co-director also told the student newspaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHealing the planet includes confronting \u2018structural racism,\u2019 too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Students in this concentration will also learn about the health inequity born out of environmental degradation,\u2019 the Chan School of Public Health description states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Structural racism and international economic policy have exacerbated the climate crisis, with communities of color, poor communities, and the Global South being disproportionately impacted,\u2019 the website states. \u2018You will be equipped to use research, leadership, advocacy, and policy to implement solutions that better serve these populations.\u2019\u201d<\/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;\"> Nothing says academic rigor like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article\/columbia-offers-trans-history-us-instructor-researched-radical-faeries\/26564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201ctrans history\u201d of \u201cradical faeries\u201d<\/a>…<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cColumbia University is offering a course titled \u2018A Trans History of the United States.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe class covers \u2018the diversity of gendered experiences across the history of the United States with an emphasis on the individuals, communities, and movements that have been interpreted as trans,\u2019 and aims to \u201coffer an in-depth survey of the history of trans and gender nonconforming experiences across the history of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe \u2018key themes\u2019 to be examined include the \u2018experiences of trans\/gender in relation to race and colonialism, labor, migration, medicine, kinship and sexuality, legal and carceral systems, activism, performance, media, and technology,\u2019 as well as \u2018the political stakes of trans history during times of backlash and hostility towards trans communities.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe class instructor, Nikita Shephard, who goes by \u2018they\/them\u2019 pronouns, is currently working on a doctoral dissertation that \u2018documents a political history of the public bathroom in modern America.\u2019 His work focuses on \u2018histories of LGBTQ communities, gender\/sexuality and race, social movements, data and surveillance, and radical politics in the twentieth century United States and beyond.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHis past work included research on \u2018Radical Faeries,\u2019 a group that includes \u2018drag queens, leatherfolk, political activists, witches, [and] magicians,\u2019 who get together to \u2018do drag,\u2019 \u2018make love,\u2019 \u2018dance naked,\u2019 \u2018cry, sing, laugh, argue,\u2019 \u2018sew,\u2019 \u2018commit heresies,\u2019 and \u2018cover each other with mud.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Crazy Colleges: Ecofeminist Ecomarxism; 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