Great interview!

University of Wisconsin got rid of DEI statements a little while back. Yesterday (Dec 13) the Republican Party dominated legislature successfully negotiated a rollback of DEI staffing with the Democratic Party appointed regents. The legislature used their control over funding. There were many statements of outrage from many corners of the University community, some Dems, and local print media. This despite same print mediapresenting reporting indicating they couldn't find any evidence of positive effects from the multi millions in spending on DEI efforts. Chat GPT says dropping DEI statements was also a response to legislature, but I haven't confirmed. .... I suspect, the prominence of recent administrative failures in the USA elite campuses, softened support yesterday as less than a week ago the regents voted to maintain status before flipping yesterday. The Wisconsin Republican program largely unappealing to me, but the House speaker's defiance of Trump, and effective push back to some of the bad practices that have gained popularity amongst Dems... Makes me happy. Never voted R, and given hold of Trump I still won't, but D's are pushing me away hard on this.

@bobbresnahan8397

4 ай бұрын

DEI seems like part of the trans-gender ideology or at least captured by it. I'm appalled at Dems, actually always have been. Back in the 60s people who claimed to be adherents o fFDR were conducting the Vietnam War. I vote Democratic but only truly support Bernie Sanders. I visited the FDR Library for a day last year and was struck by how far ahead of us they were. Universal health-care was fully accepted and probably would have been enacted in FDR lived. We might even have had a meaningful full-employment jobs program. I wonder if FDR would have dropped the bombs?

@Individual_Lives_Matter

3 ай бұрын

@@bobbresnahan8397DEI/intersectionality came first. Trans ideology is a more recent development. The trans identity group currently sits atop the intersectional victocracy.

I like this term, "non-complying opinion".

Props on the Alpha Flight t-shirt.

The Byrne era Alpha Flight shirt is an auto-win.

50:45 to 51:01 😮

49:45 can you explain what " fire" and " hza" is?

@andybrice2711

3 ай бұрын

They're the two organizations these guys are from. FIRE is the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. HXA is Heterodox Academy.

Do either of you have any thoughts on the cancelling of Pro-Palestinian professors and students?

@willmercury

4 ай бұрын

I do. 1) They haven't been canceled. 2) They're not pro-Palestinian, they're pro-Hamas, who are not pro-Palestinian, but anti-Semitic. 3) They can say whatever they like, but if it turns into calls for violence and proceeds to direct physical harassment, they may get what they get and they don't get upset. 5) They suck.

@willmercury

4 ай бұрын

I did, but apparently KZread removed it.

@carolyna.869

3 ай бұрын

Good question! Florida is going nuts running over the first amendment. There is now an Israeli flag and statement of support for Israel on the web site of the public college I went to there. I see no reason why public colleges should have foreign flags on their web sites.

@makeadifference4all

3 ай бұрын

​@@carolyna.869Which college? Is this a student group webpage?

@Individual_Lives_Matter

3 ай бұрын

I’m surprised it’s happening at all. The woke in universities have been openly pro-Palestine for years.

Do you have a list of professors fired?

@carolyna.869

3 ай бұрын

You should look into the situation of Charles Negy at the University of Central Florida. It's a miracle he was victorious after having his life destroyed.

@Primalxbeast

3 ай бұрын

​@carolyna.869 From an article I found. "He teaches a course on cross-cultural psychology, which combines psychology, sociology, and race/ethnicity studies, and asks students to critically examine issues within all races, cultures, and ethnic groups." Wow, that seems hard to do in today's environment. I don't know how someone could teach that subject honestly without some woke kids complaining, and the administration should have understood that. His tweets were just an honest look at the subject, but I don't think he would have gotten his job back in a blue state. I actually went to UCF, around 25 years ago, back when biology instructors didn't have to pretend that there were more than two sexes.

Why is this video have an echo effect? We are not recording a rock concert.

@hamm0155

3 ай бұрын

Sound engineering for this podcast seems to need some work.

@Michael-yi4mc

3 ай бұрын

@@hamm0155 👍Thank you for clearing that up.

@vhgfhfghj

3 ай бұрын

Valuable conversations but the production values are problematic in so many ways!

29:12 it was fair to characterise mask use by non-professionals not trained to correctly handle the mask as having high failure rate - months of nurses and pharmacists showing the public how to wear and dispose improved its use. So I see the argument that it was plato’s noble lie but a truism just as there was a supply crisis and without health care workers we would have been up shit creek without a paddle.

@awuma

3 ай бұрын

At the very beginning of the epidemic, even the need for any masks for the public was denied. This was a lie used to avoid a run on masks, all of which were in short supply then.

@Individual_Lives_Matter

3 ай бұрын

Masks were useless.

Sounds too familiar, "horse of a different color" stuff and nonsense.., aka mostly bs.

So tell me you don't know shit about McCarthy without telling me. He was a senator, not a representative. He was not in the house on un-American affairs.

Calling any book other than the bible "a bible" strikes me as counter to a heterodox approach.