GREAT MOMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION:

YOU WOULD NEED A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

ELON MUSK vs. the Globalist Censors. “Australia’s top thoughtcop – let’s call a spade a spade – is one Julie Inman Grant. She has the power under the Online Safety Act 2021 to demand the removal of ‘Class 1 material’ from the internet. That’s anything that depicts ‘revolting or abhorrent phenomena [that] offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety’. The vast bulk of what gets wiped off the web is child porn. Sometimes clips of violence are culled, too. Right now, Ms Inman Grant is seeking to excise a video of a stabbing. But here’s the twist: she doesn’t only want to block Aussie eyes from seeing it, but everyone’s eyes. Everyone in the world. All of us. Tyrant much?”

Australia is basically reverting to its prison origins.

TRUTH ISN’T A DEFENSE:  A judge on the Superior Court in San Diego has been disqualified from hearing cases under the Racial Justice Act on the ground of bias.  In part he is accused of having said:   “There is absolutely no evidence that … the proportion of persons in an ethnicity committing a crime must be the same as the proportion in the population.”  The problem, of course, is that statement is plainly true.

 

 

“PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERY SINGLE ATTEMPTED AND SUCCESSFUL DISRUPTION WE HAVE SEEN RELATED TO THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT IN 2024.” In my latest for the Eternally Radical Idea I remind readers that this is the context in which the chaos currently unfolding on college campuses takes place & that colleges have failed in upholding the free speech rights or promises of their students and faculty for decades.

I ALSO DON’T HAVE THEM. I DO HOWEVER HAVE A BAD FEELING:  All the Answers.

SHE’S BAAACK: Big Sister Returns: Criticism of My Work Is a Dire Threat to Democracy.

Remember the Biden Administration’s Ministry of Truth? Almost exactly two years ago, Joe Biden attempted to launch a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ within the Department of Homeland Security. The mission would focus on correcting what the Biden administration’s bureaucrats considering ‘disinformation’ and demand that tech platforms intervene to remove it.

Biden appointed supposed expert Nina Jankowicz as the “disinformation czar” to run the board, and … hilarity almost immediately followed. A quick search of Nina Jankowicz’ social media feed turned up her efforts to spike the Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020, calling it “a Russian influence op,” a “fairy tale,” and suggested six months later that it was part of a Kremlin election-influence operation. The next day, John dug up several videos of Jankowicz singing her way through various claims, among other oddities.

Within a week, Republicans in the Senate called this idea of speech control “un-American” and vowed to defund it. A fortnight or so later, Biden threw in the towel — and threw Jankowicz out, too. The very next day, coincidentally or not, NBC News reported that the Hunter laptop was real and spectacular.

After a brief bout of claiming victimhood over right-wing attacks, Jankowicz disappeared from the national scene. Now Jankowicz is back to reclaim the mantle of Big Sister, Luke Rosiak reported late yesterday at the Daily Wire, and wants to silence all critics in her new role, too. Because democracy depends on shutting down criticism, or something.

As a great man once said, “do the letters F O mean anything to you?”