Rod Dreher wrote about what he called a "primitive root weiner" and boy howdy if you didn't think racism, imperialism, and gender were fundamentally intertwined I would like to introduce you to exhibit A right here
Today is a bad day to be able to read on the internet
Imagine being so invested in the "reasonable centrist" role that you come into the mentions of someone you don't follow in order to defend Dreher and *that piece*
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I know there will be scolds who lecture me about "different buckets of money" and all that, but the fact remains that institutions are getting wealthier yet faculty (and thus students) are being treated as if the university is broke. It's mission failure. dukechronicle.com/article/2021/0…
"Massive financial deficits" are not the same thing as "the returns are good but not the massive ones we wanted." This is like the owners of billion-dollar sports teams who claim crippling losses every year and cry poor when it comes to labor salaries. It's simply not true.
This reminds me of the saying (I don't call it a joke because it's kinda true) that Harvard is a hedge fund that has a side gig as a university.
Where are all the smug centrist white dudes so quick to lecture us about "free speech" when it means they can punch down at college students? Where are the Atlantic thinkpieces from those brave avatars of courageous speech? Where are the NYT op-eds about cancel culture run amok?
Fucking Kyle the anti-vaxxer powers down monster energy drinks by the case while rolling coal in his truck on his way to the gym where he roids to the gills, but wants me to address him as "pure blood." "My body is a temple." To what, bitch? The god of high fructose corn syrup?
Halder was a Lost-Causer, too. And, just like in the 19th century, the US government embraced a pernicious myth because it was politically convenient for powerful whites.
Halder's Wikipedia entry actually does a good job detailing his postwar rehabilitation by, among others, the US goddamn army. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hal…