One asymmetry is that the people who choose what goes in the library are all insane leftist ideologues, while the sensible parents who object are people with real jobs. So when the librarians or other decision makers choose to stock pornography, while declining to stock, say, Thomas Sowell or other conservative authors, they are just exercising discretion. When parents object to the curation decisions already made, they are engaged in “book banning.” Because parents are only involved in the library curation process on the back end, and because no one likes “book banning,” they’re set up to fail. They have no other recourse.
The other asymmetry is that ideologues write books specifically geared towards indoctrinating children. Cultural conservatives, as far as I know, do a lot less of this.
So… more sensible people need to become librarians and write children books, I suppose. Maybe it’s time for me to become a YA graphic novelist…
They'll never let you into a Library Science program of they know you're not a fellow traveler. They guard those spots like earth sciences programs protect the global warming narrative.
Actually (I'm speaking as a retired librarian), just about anyone can get into a library science program. S/he can even get a Ph.D in Library Science. However, from an intellectual standpoint, it is about as meaningful as a DSW from California Baptist University.
Can confirm. I work in lowly circulation. The talent showcased in our public library is so utterly unimpressive my department has rules against answering simple "reference" questions including googling a business's phone number. You know, because that's for the special ones who paid God-knows-what for this monumental task. 🥴
Oh, and you'd be delighted to know that we value diversity above all! Just not of the thought or viewpoint kind.
Agreed. Outside of some core skills, library schools in Canada seem to exist for the sole reason of churning out more Information Studies PhDs who I wouldn't hire to clean the library's toilets, much less staff a reference desk.
Sorry, but any time I see someone use “s/he” in any written piece I jump back, make the sign of the cross and figuratively run like hell. I couldn’t read the rest.
Yeah, but Stuart, you make my point. They (the ones who manipulate the language for "power purposes") are just jerking our collective chain. You bought into the s/he thing and then they pulled the rug out from under you and changed it AGAIN - which I am certain they will do AGAIN if you continue to play their game. Run away from their playground as if the fires of hell are licking at your backside.
This has been pretty standard for about the past 40 years, since the usage of "he" or "she" could no longer be used to designate individuals. That is, until about 5 minutes ago when gender ideology required the use of "they" for both individuals and groups, resulting in a subject/object singular/plural schizophrenia, grammatically speaking. In any case, sorry to make you run like hell, since that sounds exhausting.
Believe me, I do what I can. The profession - at least here in Canada - has been subject to institutional capture by the same coterie of SSRI-ed, weaponized Bolshevist longhouse harridans as seems to have happened down there. It's at the point where I don't even call myself a librarian anymore or am involved with the profession in any way. Being a straight, white male I am now an *extreme* outlier in the profession.
Exactly, the books that are being “banned” are the ones with a nonwoke viewpoint. People should be protesting that prestigious black authors like Sowell are being banned.
The whole con comes down to a bogus distinction between acts and omissions. Because not stocking a certain book or type of book is a mere omission, it doesn’t warrant scrutiny. But because seeking to have a book removed is an affirmative action, it is to be condemned.
But of course in reality, these two things are exactly the same. Library curation decisions are being made in both cases. What it really comes down to is: who decides? Parents or woke apparatchiks?
Just another example of the left using disingenuous word games to gain power.
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’
Brave Books raises yet another asymmetry. A public school librarian would claim these books are “religious” and therefore exclude them on that basis. The leftist ideologues, on the other hand, have managed to convince people that woke propaganda is somehow “secular,” and thus more appropriate for a school library.
It’s a stacked deck all the way through. Heads, they win, tails, we lose.
I thought you had to do substantial and original research to get a PhD. Thanks for introducing me to Dr. Corey Jackson, ugh. With a cast of characters like him in the legislature and Newsom in the governor’s office, it’s no wonder we get a steaming pile of awful new laws every year.
The PhD is the new associates degree. Anyone who thinks that any degree now represents some kind of scholarly (or practical) competence is ripe for quite the surprise upon hiring one of these folks. And a two year online doctorate qualifies one for a job as a barrista, upon completion of a year of additional on-the-job training. I really feel bad for people who earned real degrees 20+ years ago and now compete with diverse job candidates with the two year online PhDs. There is a reason so many experienced people are taking early retirement.
These are the kinds of people we used to keep far away from any decisions regarding children. Far away like in jail. They are way too interested in sexualizing children, & it’s ALWAYS to the deviant side. Is anyone asking these sickos why the intense interest in kids? Reading recently that an 11 year old was confused about her sexuality!? I find it crazy that at 11 it even crosses her mind. She’s 11!! The idea was obviously planted, definite grooming going on at school while it’s kept a secret from the parents. Parents - wake the hell up, it’s past pitchfork time.
Gist, fervent effort to keep American black individuals dependent to slavery/victim mentality so that they can be tools for the manipulative and immoral ruling class. Utter immoral abuse of people and community, disrespectful of the dignity of good portion of Americans. Shame on the patronizing perverts and dehumanizers.
The whole Maafa thing. Do people really believe that it was only whites of European descent that kept/bought/sold slaves? Slavery existed among African tribes--they bought and sold each other; likewise among Native Americans. I refuse to feel guilt for being white.
here is what stood out to me “ignoring the Maafa…would not be a trauma informed response”!
in normal psychotherapy practices, the goal is to BREAK trauma informed responses as they are unhealthy.
for example, the father who was beaten as a child for misbehavior will beat his own child for the same thing. this is a trauma based response.
it seems our credentialed class want to KEEP black people in a cycle of trauma to keep their outcomes unequal in order to ensure votes for Democrats and plenty of money for their bills and laws.
this is everything Malcolm X was pointing out about Democrats in the early sixties…
during the summer of Floyd and subsequent fallout, I wondered why were weren’t seeing more images and mentions of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers until I started reading his autobiography.
Malcolm might have agreed with the BLM crowd on the shameful history of black treatment in America, but the similarities end there. he despised and saw through the Democrats fake virtue and called out the welfare state as just another system of control…he had the problem analyzed 60 years ago.
Pretending that dumb is the same as smart leads to having to pretend that perverse is the same as healthy and more generally that lies are the same as truth.
Actual serious question here: Is there any OBJECTIVE criteria for a person being L, or G, or B, or T, or Q? ....Plus ("+") what?.... Given what "T" means, can't ANYBODY now be lesbian or gay? Thus, isn't the gender binary now negated? I'm trying to take this seriously, but it sounds too much like mental masturbation in public, - I hope you see what I mean!....
Canada now puts the 2S people first and then the rest of the rainbow. 2SLBTQI+. They are so enlightened. The 2S community has been the target of enough repression! And it’s twice as bad because they have two spirits to be wounded in.
2S (Two Spirit)“a term used by some indigenous North Americans to describe certain people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial role in their cultures”
BTW, I'm a transgender female lesbian, thus improving my rank on the totem pole with no change in proclivities. Fortunately, my wife is a transgender male gay. Alas, we’re both retired, so no organizational dividends to reap.
I’m surprised they use the term “openly LGBTQ.” By now, I would think they would say “proudly LGBTQ.” But I suppose they need to emphasize that he’s oppressed.
By the way, I am writing this statement while occupying land which is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Tuscarora, Neusiok, and Pamlico Nations. I am a tall White man with light brown hair and a beard. I am wearing a blue and white plaid flannel shirt and jeans.
It's clowns all the way down, isn't it. Dr. Corey, meet Dr. Jill - have you read her dissertation, by the way? It's floating around on the web, middle-school level writing. She used roughly the same sample size to support her findings too.
My dad has a Ph.D. in microbiology. He's worked in research all his career and developed things that actually saved people's lives, but most folks who meet him have no idea. He's never insisted on being called doctor, never introduces himself as such, and rarely talks about his work except with family and co-workers. He paid his way through graduate school doing roofing and siding, by the way - back when every nail had to be put in by hand. With a hammer. I'm proud to be descended from such stock.
Somewhere recently I saw a meme about how people with PhDs in education, social sciences, black studies, etc., insist on being called “Doctor,” while people with PhDs in physics, engineering, etc. say, “Just call me Bob!” Sounds like your dad.
Living in TX, I am so jealous that you in CA have such an extremely dedicated professional, with highly professional credentials, from a top tier academic institution, that is highly credentialed, as well. I don't know, but CA seems to have large numbers of these obviously much smarter and much better, people than we do in TX. I don't know how we have been able to survive without them. We do have Sheila Jackson Lee, but I don't think she has the credentials that are needed from a highly credentialed institution like you have in CA.
I don't have time to add anything more to this missive, as me and my White supremacist, Christian, Nazi, homophobic, Islamophobic, illegal alien phobic friends are going out to find more books to burn and people of color to oppress.
From an academic perspective, DR. Corey Jackson is superior to Claudine Gay. As half-assed & comical as his survey & 56 pg dissertation were, he actually did them, while Gay merely ripped off the very real & authentic Dr. Carol Swain.
I think CA Republicans need to establish the “NAMBLA Pedophiliac of the Year Award” and award the initial certificate and prize of a tube of KY to DR. Corey Jackson.
I’m not sure how you would tell if any of these papers were plagiarized. They all seem to be circularly self referential. Somebody asserted something based on no data, so I’m referencing that as a proven fact.
It’s interesting that local governments in CA prosecute teachers who rape/seduce their students, while the state government is doing everything possible to sexualize students as early as possible.
We lived in Houston for 30 yrs, and at least at the beginning (1979-88), the Houston Chronicle would report the votes of local Congressmen on a weekly or monthly basis. It was easy to see what your congressman supported and how he thought. (Don’t know about post-1988: we left TX for 6 yrs and upon return, the HC had devolved to a liberal rag.) Bill Archer was our Congressman and it was amazing – on every issue he voted the way we would have.
The issue today is that tracking legislative votes on substantive bills is EXTREMELY time consuming. The data is out there, but you have to sift out all the procedural votes and also identify the final version of bills. And the average (& above average) citizen just doesn’t have the stamina or time to see it through every week or month for Federal & State House & Senate legislators.
This is the raison d’être of the news media, and they utterly fail at it. Easier to report on Taylor Swift’s airplane’s parking arrangements in LV.
"He actually did them . . . " Or, we just haven't seen the crap paper or papers he plagiarized. As I recall, Frau Dr. Jill Biden's thesis was also based on a silly survey of her colleagues or students, and it amounted to a study of building capacity-building in the community college environment.
Building on your comment, it’s important for us to to remember that a doctorate in education (Ed.D.) is what you get to be a senior level teacher or principal. A Ph.D. in education is what you get to work in evaluating educational systems. The former is easy to achieve and the latter is hard (well, maybe not in comparison to PhD’s in STEM, but certainly in comparison to non-PhDs).
It’s amazing how much societal & educational damage is being accomplished by partisans with ersatz-credentials.
Reading those excerpts, I was thinking, "this reads like GPT gobbledygook, but with worse grammar." But realized this was anachronistic. GPT reads like this nonsense because it was trained on this kind of nonsense. Garbage in, garbage out.
Maybe I should go get a fake degree. All I'd have to do is pay some money, bullshit my way through a few writing assignments.... No, who am I kidding. I'd study and try to make a meaningful contribution, like a sucker.
Wish I could lay out the FULL, 4-family connection, with names, but YES. They are aunt & nephew. Almost as if a Democrat-family crime & corruption clan runs California. Not "secret" by any means, but NOT publicised, either. This info SHOULD BE more widely known. You could probably easily research it.... btw, I'm in Keene, NH, LOL!....
Pelosi is a literal Mafia princess whose connected, bagman father was mayor of Baltimore in the 1950s, and covered up a gang rape committed by his son (Nancy's brother).
Our leadership class is like the European royalty from the 18th and 19th century with all the intermarrying stuff. In the states we call that West Virginia (apologies to any West Virginia readers).
When the CA legislature has completed its great work to provide unfettered access to "Timmy's First BJ", I wonder what the availability of an unedited copy of, say, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" will be? Asking for my Grand Wizard neighbor.
The only people I ever refer to with the word ‘doctor’ are those with a stethoscope around their necks - and then only when they’re about to perform a procedure on me that could be especially unpleasant …
I have a good friend with a PhD in economics (the minimum degree needed to get a real job in that field) and we always had a good laugh when I’d refer to him as “Doctor.”
When I was in graduate school (also economics) it was firmly pounded into our heads that even *suggesting* that we should expect to be called "Doctor" in any situation not directly relevant (like delivering a paper at an academic symposium, or applying for a professorship) was tacky, and every other PhD within range would be as embarrassed on our behalf as if we'd audibly farted on stage.
Well that explains it – given the Left’s proclivity for on-camera farting, they no longer feel shame, so claiming the honorific “Dr.” comes at zero additional cost.
It’s not been that long ago that it was illegal here in Oklahoma to refer to anyone as “Doctor” who wasn’t an actual medically degreed professional. Oh how we’ve fallen.
One asymmetry is that the people who choose what goes in the library are all insane leftist ideologues, while the sensible parents who object are people with real jobs. So when the librarians or other decision makers choose to stock pornography, while declining to stock, say, Thomas Sowell or other conservative authors, they are just exercising discretion. When parents object to the curation decisions already made, they are engaged in “book banning.” Because parents are only involved in the library curation process on the back end, and because no one likes “book banning,” they’re set up to fail. They have no other recourse.
The other asymmetry is that ideologues write books specifically geared towards indoctrinating children. Cultural conservatives, as far as I know, do a lot less of this.
So… more sensible people need to become librarians and write children books, I suppose. Maybe it’s time for me to become a YA graphic novelist…
They'll never let you into a Library Science program of they know you're not a fellow traveler. They guard those spots like earth sciences programs protect the global warming narrative.
Unfortunately that's very true. The long march through the institutions has been a smashing success.
A smashing success at smashing the institutions.
Actually (I'm speaking as a retired librarian), just about anyone can get into a library science program. S/he can even get a Ph.D in Library Science. However, from an intellectual standpoint, it is about as meaningful as a DSW from California Baptist University.
Can confirm. I work in lowly circulation. The talent showcased in our public library is so utterly unimpressive my department has rules against answering simple "reference" questions including googling a business's phone number. You know, because that's for the special ones who paid God-knows-what for this monumental task. 🥴
Oh, and you'd be delighted to know that we value diversity above all! Just not of the thought or viewpoint kind.
Agreed. Outside of some core skills, library schools in Canada seem to exist for the sole reason of churning out more Information Studies PhDs who I wouldn't hire to clean the library's toilets, much less staff a reference desk.
Sorry, but any time I see someone use “s/he” in any written piece I jump back, make the sign of the cross and figuratively run like hell. I couldn’t read the rest.
Yeah, but Stuart, you make my point. They (the ones who manipulate the language for "power purposes") are just jerking our collective chain. You bought into the s/he thing and then they pulled the rug out from under you and changed it AGAIN - which I am certain they will do AGAIN if you continue to play their game. Run away from their playground as if the fires of hell are licking at your backside.
This has been pretty standard for about the past 40 years, since the usage of "he" or "she" could no longer be used to designate individuals. That is, until about 5 minutes ago when gender ideology required the use of "they" for both individuals and groups, resulting in a subject/object singular/plural schizophrenia, grammatically speaking. In any case, sorry to make you run like hell, since that sounds exhausting.
Believe me, I do what I can. The profession - at least here in Canada - has been subject to institutional capture by the same coterie of SSRI-ed, weaponized Bolshevist longhouse harridans as seems to have happened down there. It's at the point where I don't even call myself a librarian anymore or am involved with the profession in any way. Being a straight, white male I am now an *extreme* outlier in the profession.
SSRI-ed, weaponized Bolshevist longhouse harridans
Wow. That conjures quite the image.
You’re a hero. Keep fighting the good fight!
Exactly, the books that are being “banned” are the ones with a nonwoke viewpoint. People should be protesting that prestigious black authors like Sowell are being banned.
The whole con comes down to a bogus distinction between acts and omissions. Because not stocking a certain book or type of book is a mere omission, it doesn’t warrant scrutiny. But because seeking to have a book removed is an affirmative action, it is to be condemned.
But of course in reality, these two things are exactly the same. Library curation decisions are being made in both cases. What it really comes down to is: who decides? Parents or woke apparatchiks?
Just another example of the left using disingenuous word games to gain power.
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
David’s comment is true and also written much better then the junk from “Dr.” Jackson.
Brave Books is Kurt Cameron’s quest to do just that. He’s making an uplifting TV show for kids, too.
Brave Books raises yet another asymmetry. A public school librarian would claim these books are “religious” and therefore exclude them on that basis. The leftist ideologues, on the other hand, have managed to convince people that woke propaganda is somehow “secular,” and thus more appropriate for a school library.
It’s a stacked deck all the way through. Heads, they win, tails, we lose.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
I thought you had to do substantial and original research to get a PhD. Thanks for introducing me to Dr. Corey Jackson, ugh. With a cast of characters like him in the legislature and Newsom in the governor’s office, it’s no wonder we get a steaming pile of awful new laws every year.
The PhD is the new associates degree. Anyone who thinks that any degree now represents some kind of scholarly (or practical) competence is ripe for quite the surprise upon hiring one of these folks. And a two year online doctorate qualifies one for a job as a barrista, upon completion of a year of additional on-the-job training. I really feel bad for people who earned real degrees 20+ years ago and now compete with diverse job candidates with the two year online PhDs. There is a reason so many experienced people are taking early retirement.
A reminder that Kissinger's *undergrad* thesis ran to 400 pages.
Wow.
You used too but that changed. I’m guessing in the late 70’s early 80’s. Whenever the professional “hippie “ got tenured.
These are the kinds of people we used to keep far away from any decisions regarding children. Far away like in jail. They are way too interested in sexualizing children, & it’s ALWAYS to the deviant side. Is anyone asking these sickos why the intense interest in kids? Reading recently that an 11 year old was confused about her sexuality!? I find it crazy that at 11 it even crosses her mind. She’s 11!! The idea was obviously planted, definite grooming going on at school while it’s kept a secret from the parents. Parents - wake the hell up, it’s past pitchfork time.
Gist, fervent effort to keep American black individuals dependent to slavery/victim mentality so that they can be tools for the manipulative and immoral ruling class. Utter immoral abuse of people and community, disrespectful of the dignity of good portion of Americans. Shame on the patronizing perverts and dehumanizers.
Yes, and bizarrely so. SLAVE SLAVE SLAVE, he shouts at black children. To empower them.
The whole Maafa thing. Do people really believe that it was only whites of European descent that kept/bought/sold slaves? Slavery existed among African tribes--they bought and sold each other; likewise among Native Americans. I refuse to feel guilt for being white.
While he works on legislation to sexualize childhood and break families apart, by the way. There's a theme.
Great illustration of Conquest's 3rd law: the gov't of our society appears to be run by a cabal of enemies of our society
He must be buddies with Scott “Oh I wish I were an Oscar Meyer” Weiner.
absolutely diabolical
are we reaching the time of separating the wheat form the schaf?
here is what stood out to me “ignoring the Maafa…would not be a trauma informed response”!
in normal psychotherapy practices, the goal is to BREAK trauma informed responses as they are unhealthy.
for example, the father who was beaten as a child for misbehavior will beat his own child for the same thing. this is a trauma based response.
it seems our credentialed class want to KEEP black people in a cycle of trauma to keep their outcomes unequal in order to ensure votes for Democrats and plenty of money for their bills and laws.
this is everything Malcolm X was pointing out about Democrats in the early sixties…
He also said you should never let your enemies educate your children.
exactly!
during the summer of Floyd and subsequent fallout, I wondered why were weren’t seeing more images and mentions of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers until I started reading his autobiography.
Malcolm might have agreed with the BLM crowd on the shameful history of black treatment in America, but the similarities end there. he despised and saw through the Democrats fake virtue and called out the welfare state as just another system of control…he had the problem analyzed 60 years ago.
Pretending that dumb is the same as smart leads to having to pretend that perverse is the same as healthy and more generally that lies are the same as truth.
Unfortunately for us, our ruling class will spare no expense and will accept any catastrophe in order to keep pretending!
“Corey Jackson on track to be California's first Black openly
LGBTQ state lawmaker”
A movement or organization can be “LGBTQ,” but how can a PERSON be “LGBTQ?” How can a person simultaneously be:
Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual
Transgender
Queer
He's very advanced.
I sense a new program in development.
“Dr. of LGBTQ Legislative Studies”
Actual serious question here: Is there any OBJECTIVE criteria for a person being L, or G, or B, or T, or Q? ....Plus ("+") what?.... Given what "T" means, can't ANYBODY now be lesbian or gay? Thus, isn't the gender binary now negated? I'm trying to take this seriously, but it sounds too much like mental masturbation in public, - I hope you see what I mean!....
Canada now puts the 2S people first and then the rest of the rainbow. 2SLBTQI+. They are so enlightened. The 2S community has been the target of enough repression! And it’s twice as bad because they have two spirits to be wounded in.
OMG! I left out the “A”! I’m guilty of othering the androgynous.
Don’t care. Androgynous don’t get a letter. You gotta pay to play.
But I'm a 3spirit!....so it isn't "LGBTQ+abcxyz"?....
My bad.
LOL!, thnx 4 that!
what is 2S?
2S (Two Spirit)“a term used by some indigenous North Americans to describe certain people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial role in their cultures”
You know, that traditional third-gender role.
The most “inclusive” list I can find is:
LGBTQIIAANBPPKS2+ folx
BTW, I'm a transgender female lesbian, thus improving my rank on the totem pole with no change in proclivities. Fortunately, my wife is a transgender male gay. Alas, we’re both retired, so no organizational dividends to reap.
But do you now switch who's on top? Or should I not ask that?
Side by side in perfect harmony
We use a non-puncturing rotisserie to even things out. 😂
I’m surprised they use the term “openly LGBTQ.” By now, I would think they would say “proudly LGBTQ.” But I suppose they need to emphasize that he’s oppressed.
By the way, I am writing this statement while occupying land which is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Tuscarora, Neusiok, and Pamlico Nations. I am a tall White man with light brown hair and a beard. I am wearing a blue and white plaid flannel shirt and jeans.
“…White man with light brown hair and a beard. I am wearing a blue and white plaid flannel shirt…”
I’m oppressed just by the image.
(My vote would be for “bravely LGBTQ” because of the white Christian heterosexual assassination squads roaming Northern Cal. 🤣)
It's clowns all the way down, isn't it. Dr. Corey, meet Dr. Jill - have you read her dissertation, by the way? It's floating around on the web, middle-school level writing. She used roughly the same sample size to support her findings too.
My dad has a Ph.D. in microbiology. He's worked in research all his career and developed things that actually saved people's lives, but most folks who meet him have no idea. He's never insisted on being called doctor, never introduces himself as such, and rarely talks about his work except with family and co-workers. He paid his way through graduate school doing roofing and siding, by the way - back when every nail had to be put in by hand. With a hammer. I'm proud to be descended from such stock.
Somewhere recently I saw a meme about how people with PhDs in education, social sciences, black studies, etc., insist on being called “Doctor,” while people with PhDs in physics, engineering, etc. say, “Just call me Bob!” Sounds like your dad.
It's here:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/18ae779cb3291a65bed8bf125f6e155d12ff3d93e9941f498f2fad40d9fecc6c.jpg
"Clowns all the way down"--wonderful!
Thanks!
What do you expect from someone who's highest level achievement before marrying "The Big Guy" was the family's babysitter.
I think she still is.
I think she added mule to the job description. How do you think they get all that blow into the WH?
As you should be, your dad sounds like an amazing man. We need more like him now more than ever.
Chocolate Wiener. Excuse me, that's DR. Chocolate Wiener.
Living in TX, I am so jealous that you in CA have such an extremely dedicated professional, with highly professional credentials, from a top tier academic institution, that is highly credentialed, as well. I don't know, but CA seems to have large numbers of these obviously much smarter and much better, people than we do in TX. I don't know how we have been able to survive without them. We do have Sheila Jackson Lee, but I don't think she has the credentials that are needed from a highly credentialed institution like you have in CA.
I don't have time to add anything more to this missive, as me and my White supremacist, Christian, Nazi, homophobic, Islamophobic, illegal alien phobic friends are going out to find more books to burn and people of color to oppress.
Danny Huckabee
From an academic perspective, DR. Corey Jackson is superior to Claudine Gay. As half-assed & comical as his survey & 56 pg dissertation were, he actually did them, while Gay merely ripped off the very real & authentic Dr. Carol Swain.
I think CA Republicans need to establish the “NAMBLA Pedophiliac of the Year Award” and award the initial certificate and prize of a tube of KY to DR. Corey Jackson.
I've already sent Rob Bonta a NAMBLA life membership certificate.
Not sure if Corey Jackson really did his own -- haven't run it through any plagiarism programs.
I’m not sure how you would tell if any of these papers were plagiarized. They all seem to be circularly self referential. Somebody asserted something based on no data, so I’m referencing that as a proven fact.
That's the modern social "sciences" "scholarly literature" in a nutshell": a self-referential carousel of sophistry.
It’s interesting that local governments in CA prosecute teachers who rape/seduce their students, while the state government is doing everything possible to sexualize students as early as possible.
We lived in Houston for 30 yrs, and at least at the beginning (1979-88), the Houston Chronicle would report the votes of local Congressmen on a weekly or monthly basis. It was easy to see what your congressman supported and how he thought. (Don’t know about post-1988: we left TX for 6 yrs and upon return, the HC had devolved to a liberal rag.) Bill Archer was our Congressman and it was amazing – on every issue he voted the way we would have.
The issue today is that tracking legislative votes on substantive bills is EXTREMELY time consuming. The data is out there, but you have to sift out all the procedural votes and also identify the final version of bills. And the average (& above average) citizen just doesn’t have the stamina or time to see it through every week or month for Federal & State House & Senate legislators.
This is the raison d’être of the news media, and they utterly fail at it. Easier to report on Taylor Swift’s airplane’s parking arrangements in LV.
"He actually did them . . . " Or, we just haven't seen the crap paper or papers he plagiarized. As I recall, Frau Dr. Jill Biden's thesis was also based on a silly survey of her colleagues or students, and it amounted to a study of building capacity-building in the community college environment.
Building on your comment, it’s important for us to to remember that a doctorate in education (Ed.D.) is what you get to be a senior level teacher or principal. A Ph.D. in education is what you get to work in evaluating educational systems. The former is easy to achieve and the latter is hard (well, maybe not in comparison to PhD’s in STEM, but certainly in comparison to non-PhDs).
It’s amazing how much societal & educational damage is being accomplished by partisans with ersatz-credentials.
Which one does Dr. Jill (the greatest doctor who ever lived) have?
Ed.D. of course! If she hadn’t insisted on being addressed as “Dr.”, there’d be nothing amiss.
Great use of the word “ersatz!” That’s a word we need to see more of.
Yup, like “ersatz-Administration.”
Reading those excerpts, I was thinking, "this reads like GPT gobbledygook, but with worse grammar." But realized this was anachronistic. GPT reads like this nonsense because it was trained on this kind of nonsense. Garbage in, garbage out.
Maybe I should go get a fake degree. All I'd have to do is pay some money, bullshit my way through a few writing assignments.... No, who am I kidding. I'd study and try to make a meaningful contribution, like a sucker.
I watched the first video with the sound off and I thought Governor Hairgel looked like he was performing a magic trick with a deck of cards.
Let's remind people that yes, he IS Nancy Pelosis nephew....maybe mental illness is genetic, after all?....
Seriously? Pelosi and Newsom are related? Didn't know that, but it explains a lot.
Wish I could lay out the FULL, 4-family connection, with names, but YES. They are aunt & nephew. Almost as if a Democrat-family crime & corruption clan runs California. Not "secret" by any means, but NOT publicised, either. This info SHOULD BE more widely known. You could probably easily research it.... btw, I'm in Keene, NH, LOL!....
Pelosi is a literal Mafia princess whose connected, bagman father was mayor of Baltimore in the 1950s, and covered up a gang rape committed by his son (Nancy's brother).
A Democrat family crime and corruption clan currently runs the US. Why should California be any different?
Keene isn't too far, at least by rural New England standards of distance. We're in Windsor County, in the vicinity of Chester. Practically neighbors.
Our leadership class is like the European royalty from the 18th and 19th century with all the intermarrying stuff. In the states we call that West Virginia (apologies to any West Virginia readers).
He looked even more psycho in that clip than he has before. Maybe it's the graying hair.
It is hilarious, even if hideous. And taken seriously by those is power.
I mean that shit's funny!
All of us laughing and pointing will be noticed.
When the CA legislature has completed its great work to provide unfettered access to "Timmy's First BJ", I wonder what the availability of an unedited copy of, say, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" will be? Asking for my Grand Wizard neighbor.
Or better yet huckleberry, Finn, it will have to be banned. It says the forbidden word , we can't let the children see that.
The only people I ever refer to with the word ‘doctor’ are those with a stethoscope around their necks - and then only when they’re about to perform a procedure on me that could be especially unpleasant …
I have a good friend with a PhD in economics (the minimum degree needed to get a real job in that field) and we always had a good laugh when I’d refer to him as “Doctor.”
When I was in graduate school (also economics) it was firmly pounded into our heads that even *suggesting* that we should expect to be called "Doctor" in any situation not directly relevant (like delivering a paper at an academic symposium, or applying for a professorship) was tacky, and every other PhD within range would be as embarrassed on our behalf as if we'd audibly farted on stage.
Well that explains it – given the Left’s proclivity for on-camera farting, they no longer feel shame, so claiming the honorific “Dr.” comes at zero additional cost.
I’m a “doctor” — but not the useful kind. (No stethoscope.)
Let's remember, post Covid, that even the supposedly useful kind often aren't.
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It’s not been that long ago that it was illegal here in Oklahoma to refer to anyone as “Doctor” who wasn’t an actual medically degreed professional. Oh how we’ve fallen.
Holy cow, really? Doctor Doom, Doctor Who, and Doctor Johnny Fever would all like a word.
On the other hand, I guess Doctor Strange really *is* a doctor.
I'm so. Tired.
Right?