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  1. 6 hours ago, Red Five said:

    My dad (RIP) pulled me out of middle school to go see this movie. Not permanently, he just showed up and told them I had a doctor's appointment or something. "I do?"  "Nah we're going to see Indiana Jones." 

    That’s fukkin bad ass.  Tip o the hat to the old man for Father’s Day.  

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  2. 18 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:

    A long but informative article from a former student, they are who we thought they were.

    https://thenewinquiry.com/an-american-education-notes-from-uatx/

    I'm on chapter 74 of this article, and just came across this quote.

     

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    In the ensuing Q&A, however, at least one person in the audience evinced disappointment. This student asked Bari Weiss why a school that promised “constructive debate” had failed to invite any speakers who were left-of-center. Weiss had difficulty with that one. Perhaps because it so plainly pointed to what most attendees knew but blithely kept unspoken. UATX quite clearly embraces some “truths” over others, and the discussions it fosters are like those that might take place at the Hoover Institution or a rightwing message board. There was only the most superficial range to the opinions and ideas held. Almost all the speakers droned smugly on about the same points. DEI is ruining higher education. Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies are worthless. “Gender ideology” is destroying America’s social and moral fabric. IQ is the best measure of merit. These positions have as their end the maintenance—the naturalization—of existing race and class hierarchies. Inviting speakers from the left would pose an obstacle to that naturalization.

    I wonder if there are two people dumb enough to attend that didn't realize what it was, or if this was the author of the prior article?

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    If UATX officials want to prevent their school from operating merely as a high-concept redoubt for conservative culture warriors, they should re-commit to the school’s own founding principles, and leave the vitriolic “anti-wokeness” fusillades to podcasters and YouTubers.

    Yes.  "If."

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