I, also, asked my class about reparations and the pervasive attitude of a west Can uni that claims we are on “ancestral lands”. I used a more direct approach. I asked the students if they felt I should give all the women in the class an extra 20% because of past inequities. This was met with stunned silence. Illiberalism only applies to “someone else”.
Just as all past iterations of this most basic human delusion collapsed from their internal inconsistencies, so too will this one. The question is what will be the damage and with what will we be left to rebiluild. With regards to our secondary educational institutions, I fear there is little salvageable. A new paradigm must rise from the ashes.
For years now I have noticed that anyone who questions the orthodoxy of an imminent climate catastrophe is assumed to be morally suspect, misinformed, or in the paid service of "fossil fuel interests." Whereas those who further the cause are on the right side of history, dispassionately following the science where it naturally and empirically leads. As if the enforced ideological conformity and pressure to keep a job or funding for a lab don't have any effect on the direction of their academic pursuits. Not many have the courage to speak out and leave, as you did.
While at the University, did you have any opportunity to get to know or interact with Roy Spencer or John Christy at UAH? Based upon my readings they share your perspective but have chosen to remain in their positions. Perhaps the “climate” at UAH is distinct from that In Tuscaloosa.
I fear what I think started in a small enclave of academia has now spread far and wide within academic and educational institutions and from there into wider society over a period of 30 decades. Its been initiated by people who simply want power and control and perpetuated by weak compliant individuals. Rational thought, the ability to see alternative arguments and views and a considered approach denigrated as part of the collective group speak, and irrational emotive behavior often violent behavior is rewarded. The particular topic really does not matter, climate, race, gender, economics, religion, particular countries, it makes no difference what the topic. Each is played in the same way, different symptoms of the same disease. This cancer is there, its spread and now it can only be remedied by some powerful and painful actions to expose the perpetrators and so stop the mob.
The stakes are high.......if one values Western Civilization. Thank you for taking a leadership position in promoting Scientific Method and exposing the evil of the global boiling and "oppressed" whiners. They are a real and present danger to out Republic. Keep up the great work.
Dr. W : like others here, I hold little hope for the universities. Decades ago, I first came across something called "Critical Legal Theory" in universities, which at the time seemed only to involve a small cadre of sociologists . Now it has morphed into Critical Race Theory and all the DEI propaganda that comes with it, and its philosophy is to be found in many if not most universities and has moved into K through 12 schooling as well. It is essentially Marxist.
The same thinking is responsible for the moral condemnation aimed at all forms of "oppression" that the progressive left can identify including slavery, racism, takeover of Native land, sex and gender issues, and yes, climate change. All associated, according to the illiberals, with Capitalism and meritocracy, which are mistakenly considered to create inequality but in truth gives everyone an equal chance to make the best of themselves, and is inevitably associated with "bastions of free expression and critical analysis.".
Keep fighting the good fight, and thank you for this substack you write.
Since you are going there: Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing of Palestine. I can't understand how anyone can pretend otherwise. It's inherent in the notion of a jewish homeland - and inevitable that attempts will be made to substantially eliminate by some means or other the non jewish natives.
Obviously I support your right to say anything you like about anything. But fyi personally I'd be much more likely to stay subscribing if you stick to climate.
I, also, asked my class about reparations and the pervasive attitude of a west Can uni that claims we are on “ancestral lands”. I used a more direct approach. I asked the students if they felt I should give all the women in the class an extra 20% because of past inequities. This was met with stunned silence. Illiberalism only applies to “someone else”.
Just as all past iterations of this most basic human delusion collapsed from their internal inconsistencies, so too will this one. The question is what will be the damage and with what will we be left to rebiluild. With regards to our secondary educational institutions, I fear there is little salvageable. A new paradigm must rise from the ashes.
For years now I have noticed that anyone who questions the orthodoxy of an imminent climate catastrophe is assumed to be morally suspect, misinformed, or in the paid service of "fossil fuel interests." Whereas those who further the cause are on the right side of history, dispassionately following the science where it naturally and empirically leads. As if the enforced ideological conformity and pressure to keep a job or funding for a lab don't have any effect on the direction of their academic pursuits. Not many have the courage to speak out and leave, as you did.
This beautifully written column / post merits becoming a paid subscriber!
Well said. We are in deep do-do but I really appreciate your efforts to battle the propaganda.
While at the University, did you have any opportunity to get to know or interact with Roy Spencer or John Christy at UAH? Based upon my readings they share your perspective but have chosen to remain in their positions. Perhaps the “climate” at UAH is distinct from that In Tuscaloosa.
I fear what I think started in a small enclave of academia has now spread far and wide within academic and educational institutions and from there into wider society over a period of 30 decades. Its been initiated by people who simply want power and control and perpetuated by weak compliant individuals. Rational thought, the ability to see alternative arguments and views and a considered approach denigrated as part of the collective group speak, and irrational emotive behavior often violent behavior is rewarded. The particular topic really does not matter, climate, race, gender, economics, religion, particular countries, it makes no difference what the topic. Each is played in the same way, different symptoms of the same disease. This cancer is there, its spread and now it can only be remedied by some powerful and painful actions to expose the perpetrators and so stop the mob.
The stakes are high.......if one values Western Civilization. Thank you for taking a leadership position in promoting Scientific Method and exposing the evil of the global boiling and "oppressed" whiners. They are a real and present danger to out Republic. Keep up the great work.
Dr. W : like others here, I hold little hope for the universities. Decades ago, I first came across something called "Critical Legal Theory" in universities, which at the time seemed only to involve a small cadre of sociologists . Now it has morphed into Critical Race Theory and all the DEI propaganda that comes with it, and its philosophy is to be found in many if not most universities and has moved into K through 12 schooling as well. It is essentially Marxist.
The same thinking is responsible for the moral condemnation aimed at all forms of "oppression" that the progressive left can identify including slavery, racism, takeover of Native land, sex and gender issues, and yes, climate change. All associated, according to the illiberals, with Capitalism and meritocracy, which are mistakenly considered to create inequality but in truth gives everyone an equal chance to make the best of themselves, and is inevitably associated with "bastions of free expression and critical analysis.".
Keep fighting the good fight, and thank you for this substack you write.
Since you are going there: Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing of Palestine. I can't understand how anyone can pretend otherwise. It's inherent in the notion of a jewish homeland - and inevitable that attempts will be made to substantially eliminate by some means or other the non jewish natives.
Obviously I support your right to say anything you like about anything. But fyi personally I'd be much more likely to stay subscribing if you stick to climate.