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August 14, 2021
THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO IS “JOIN[ING] THE NATIONWIDE EFFORT TO DECONSTRUCT ANTI-BLACKNESS [AND] DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY”: I received this invitation yesterday from my employer:
HUMC 294: Black Lives Matter: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Course
Course Description: Faculty across all academic units are invited to participate as instructors in an interdisciplinary 5-week class about the movement for Black lives. Drawing upon the expertise of scholars from the humanities, arts and architecture, business, engineering, education, and the social sciences, this course will consider this historical moment of social and political change. All USD faculty are encouraged to apply.
Heeding the call of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and global network, this course joins the nationwide effort to deconstruct anti-Blackness, dismantle white supremacy, center Black resistance, and build solidarity movements that support the wellness and self-determination of Black communities. The collaborative and team-taught course will not only contextualize the complex histories of Black people in the US but also center Black wisdom, joy, and antiracist praxis. It is our intention to reorient canon to recognize Black contribution; to learn about Black networks across the world and throughout history; and to imagine futures that support Black excellence. Students will be exposed to a range of interdisciplinary analyses of the movement for Black lives and engaged in critical, transformative reflection.
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Compensation: Each faculty participant will receive a $600 stipend.
Could a course description be any clearer that it is about inculcating and supporting a fringe ideology? The course description literally states that the course is part of a “nationwide effort to deconstruct anti-Blackness [and] dismantle white supremacy.” The problem is that you couldn’t find a white supremacist in these parts if your life depended on it. These folks are barking mad.
The suggested topics for the sessions include “Black internationalism,” “Labor and U.S. Racial Capitalism,” “Black Epistemologies and Education,” “Environmental Racism,” “Black and Womanist Theology,” “Anti-Blackness in Science and Technology,” and lots more. It’s hard not to wince while reading through all the neo-Marxist jargon.
By the way, as a result of the pandemic, the University of San Diego is so strapped for cash that it initially stopped paying into the retirement accounts of its faculty and staff. At this point, it has re-evaluated and is paying 50% of the retirement benefits it used to pay. In effect, everyone, down to the lowliest assistant gardener, has received a pay cut. And guess who is harmed the most? The lower you are on the pay scale, the more it hurts when it comes time to retire and your nest egg is insufficient. Recently the law school announced that under its new “fiscally prudent” policy, faculty and staff will even have to bring “their own coffee mugs, cutlery, dishware and condiments (i.e. coffee pods, tea bags, sweetener/creamer, etc.).” But never fear: There is plenty of money—ridiculous sums—to hire someone into the newly created position of Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. And there is plenty money for faculty stipends to “join the nationwide effort to deconstruct anti-blackness [and] dismantle white supremacy.”
I wonder when boards of trustees, parents and donors are going to get wise to the foolishness on college campuses these days. While I’m not what you’d call optimistic, I’m not willing to give up the fight. I’ve been told I have an abnormally long attention span ….
FUNNY, NOT FUNNY:
DISPATCHES FROM SANDY’S WAR: Tucker Carlson Mocks AOC’s Jan 6 ‘Rape’ Fear: ‘Get a Therapist, Honey!’
(Classical reference in headline.)
DEMOCRATS AND CRONYISM: A LONG HISTORY. Documents: FDR pressured Hitler to meet with his oil buddies. “Hitler eventually blew them off, but the memos show the president’s efforts to help his personal friends in their businesses, something that today would be impeachable at the least.”
Well, not if a Democrat did it.
BIDEN VOTERS POSTING THEIR L’S ONLINE: “Blame Biden for Afghanistan’s Return to the Dark Ages,” says…The Bulwark?
MAYBE WE SHOULD CALL IT THE “CHOOM GANG VARIANT.” CONFIRMED: Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard Birthday Bash a Super Spreader Event. “Blood on his hands?”
Related: Private jets and no masks — how Obama’s party was height of elite hypocrisy.
HOW IT STARTED: Oakland City Council Votes to Defund Police, Stripping More Than $17M from Department Budget.
—Bay Area CBS affiliate KPIX, June 24th, 2021.
How it’s going: After shooting in broad daylight, Oakland’s Chinatown asks Gov. Newsom to send in the CHP.
—John Sexton, Hot Air, yesterday.
BURIED LEDE: SNL STILL HAS FANS. SNL’s Horatio Sanz Hit With Lawsuit For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Underage Fan.
JUDGE ORDERS BIDEN TO REIMPLEMENT KEY TRUMP BORDER POLICY AS BIDEN’S BORDER CATASTROPHE WORSENS:
A federal judge ordered Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration late on Friday to reimplement a key policy from former President Donald Trump that forced foreign nationals seeking to enter the U.S. through the southern border – illegally or without proper documentation – to be returned to Mexico and wait there while their legal cases are adjudicated.
More like this, please.
HECKUVA JOB, BARRY: At least 63 people on Martha’s Vineyard have tested positive for Covid-19 since Barack Obama’s maskless 60th birthday bash — the most cases on the island since April.
Buried lede: Here’s proof at last that it’s actually possible for woke Democrats to get Covid.
August 13, 2021
PARTY LIKE IT’S 1975: In desperation, U.S. scours for countries willing to house Afghan refugees.
I REMEMBER WHEN THEY CALLED HIM A SUPERLAWYER: Michael Avenatti’s Libel Lawsuit Against Fox Thrown Out by Judge.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Jonathan Fesmire, Bodacious Creed: a Steampunk Zombie Western.
OPEN THREAD: Hark the Critical Race Theory anthem.
BIDEN VOTERS POSTING THEIR L’S ONLINE:
● Yikes: Obama Flack on MSNBC Struggles to Defend Biden on Afghanistan.
● CNN: Boy, Biden sure is facing a lot of crises all of a sudden.
Although some at CNN still maintain their Baghdad Bob style: Biden forges ahead where Trump and Obama failed on infrastructure and Afghanistan.
IN THE PHOTO, THE ROCKET/CAPSULE COMBO LOOKS A LOT LIKE BLUE ORIGIN’S PENIS-ROCKET, BUT I HAVEN’T HEARD THE SAME JOKES: Stuck valves on Boeing’s Starliner keep critical space station test flight on hold.
Not even a “failure to launch” jape.