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The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid.
The Gonski panel is the chorus and we are the audience. The play is the ongoing tragedy of Australian education.
Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project “Ethics and Empire” was launched.
The panic provoked by accusations of racism led the bakery’s management to issue a series of contradictory and clumsy statements.
Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life?
The ignoble tradition of Jung-bashing has had a steady following by lazy minds ever since, most recently evidenced in Jeet Heer’s article, Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths.
Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers.
The largest part of the privilege they passed on to me was the privilege of good habits, good manners, a good work ethic, and a good general philosophy of life.
Source of conflict between the two best-selling authors was the extent of white privilege, and the question of how it should be accounted for in public debate
Tribalism isn’t a toy and academics who think they can regulate it up and down like a set of dials to determine who’s in which group
John Nerst suggests that what is actually at issue is whether the discussion of the racial IQ gap is a matter of science or of politics.
The hyperbolic uniformity of the leftist attack on Peterson is emblematic of the growing tendency to reduce left-of-center thought to the status of a rigidly simplistic ideology.
The idea of bringing traditional ways of knowing together with empirical data and science is important.
Conservatives and others who find themselves opposed to campus activists might uphold the values of the dignity culture the activists reject
If racism still looms large in our social and political lives, then, as one left-wing commentator put it, “progress is debatable.”