Shot in the Dark

Category: Indoctrinate U!

  • Compromise

    Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you. Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”. Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum. Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle…

  • America’s Hitler Youth

    Americans overwhelmingly consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and condemn the wanton slaughter of October 7. But among Americans under 24 years old, the split between pro-humanity and pro-Hamas is not only depresslingly closely-fought, but the pro-terror side has a slight edge. Putting it bluntly, a thin majority of young Americans are OK with genocide. They…

  • Buyin’ Time

    You knew it was coming. And here it is — student loan “forgiveness,” baby: President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will forgive $10,00 in federal student debt for most borrowers, fulfilling a campaign pledge and delivering financial relief to millions of Americans. Biden will cancel up to $20,000 for recipients of Pell Grants. “Both…

  • As The Kids Get Ready…

    … for another year of school, their teachers are getting ready as well: “Interrupting whiteness“ Now, here’s a little dirty little secret of mine; I can and do ignore people who create new adjectives by adding “–ness” to the ends of nouns, willy-nilly. When I first started hearing “progressive“ activists jabbering about “whiteness“ a few…

  • A square thought in a round mind

    Yesterday Mr. D posted on what any conservative more than five minutes old has learned, which is conservatives are not allowed to have certain thoughts. And, a couple days ago I posted on an irony I’ve longed noticed on the Left, that they view themselves as tolerant and open and decry attempts to enforce, as…

  • For The Children

    Less anyone wonder why the teachers unit in Minneapolis is out on strike – besides grabbing “their share“ of the “surplus“ – their union boss spells it out pretty clearly: At least she was honest-ish.

  • That’s A Daring Stance Indeed

    Professor “joins the lowercase ‘movement’” (sic) to reject the “symbols of hierarcy”. Let’s forget for a moment that she’s keeping the “Doctor” in front of her name – as noxious a symbol of hierarchy as there is. But let’s dig a little further. Writing in pure lower case is the sort of stylistic affectation afforded…

  • Immolation

    The late Nick Coleman used to accuse my fellow Northern Alliance bloggers and I of trying to “burn down the public schools“ for suggesting that maybe, just maybe, the teachers union and the administrative/industrial complex weren’t necessarily working in kids best interests. It’s taken 15 years – but it sounds like all the smart parents…

  • Not An Animal

    “Protect” Minnesota has a new executive director. We’ll come back to that. Modern American “progressivism”, like all its many forebears in the past 200 years, has been all about rallying people against boogeymen. From “monarchists” in the French Revolution, to “Wreckers” in Stalin’s USSR to the Wobbly’s “Bosses”, up through “the patriarchy” and “the man”…

  • And Then…

    White, Jewish girl from Kansas City pretends to be Black girl from the ‘hood, for her entire career.   She has a Ph.D.  from U-W, Madison.  Figures. What do you bet she rode the Affirmative Action express all the way up?  “Black” woman applying to college and then to grad school – guaranteed admission.  “Black” woman…

  • Root Hog Go Hungary

    Hungary bans Gender Studies courses at state universities: A Hungarian government spokesman told Breitbart the country’s employers have “no demand for gender studies graduates.” The new rule won’t affect many; only eleven students were admitted to the gender studies program at ELTE, and only two more at George Soros’s CEU according to the Breitbart report. Wonder if we can get…

  • Trigger U

    At least one donor has had enough of the U of M’s pathological suppression of conservative dissent:  

  • The High Cost Of “Woke”

    Evergreen State College – the ultra-“progressive” school in Washington State that’s spent the past couple years in an orgy of virtue-signaling and PC-witchhunting – has seen its enrollment projections drop by 20% this year – and its budget is accordingly in freefall:’ Both announcements come nearly a year after the college endured persistent riots following…

  • The Higher Education Butane Balloon

    Students at the University of Wisconson’s Stout Campus must prove they’ve absorbed the PC narrative to Big Brother’s satisfaction before being granted a diploma: In order to fulfill the requirement, students must complete at least six credits from a list of approved courses that address at least two out of four categories: Global Self-Awareness, Global…

  • What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    And to think they say the left is utterly clueless about economics;   Feminist Business School promises to remove the profit motive from the free market The Feminist Business School, founded by Evergreen State College graduate Jennifer Armbrust, teaches that capitalism is an “economy that values masculine traits” such as “meritocracy,” “competition,” and “individualism.” The California-based…

  • “It Takes An Elite Education To Be This Stupid”

    Failed former Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges has left the US, dodging the opprobrium from progressives outraged over what her mismanagement of Minneapolis did not only to the city, but to the reputation of American progressivism. “It’s not completely justice, but it’s a start” said Ramona Beel-Zebab, spokeswoman for The Association Of Progressive Associations”. When last…

  • Shocked. Shocked.

    Mahdatory diversity courses do nothing useful A crminiology prof at Eastern Carolina University found out that: After assessing the bias of students before and after the course—using prompts such as “a woman should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers” and “if blacks would only try harder they could…

  • Rebooting Berkeley

    This email was circulated at Berkeley earlier this week, according to an acquaintance of mine:  “Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, This fall, the issue of free speech will once more engage our community in powerful and complex ways. Events in Charlottesville, with their racism, bigotry, violence and mayhem, make the issue of free speech even…

  • There Is No Space Safe From The Social Justice Cheka

    Purdue hires a social justice warrior to head its engineering program.   While overt sexism and homophobia are less common than historically, they still play out in ways that are subtle and, therefore, insidious and hard to combat. How do you see this happening in the sciences, and how do you deal with it? One…

  • The New Puritans

    SCENE:  Mitch BERG is shopping for a generator at Menard’s.  As he pores over the spec sheet, Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK steps around the corner.   BIRKENSTOCK:  Merg!   The “christian” college, “Liberty University”, is building a gun violence range for its students. BERG:   It’s a gun range.  And so what? BIRKENSTOCK:  It’s weird. BERG:  …

  • Whatshisorherface

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Students in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania took down a portrait of Shakespeare and replaced it with a portrait of that other one.  You know, that author whose works have passed-the-test-of-time, delighted billions around the globe.  What’s the name again?   Help me out here, it’s that…

  • Disindoctrination

    On the one hand, it’s depressing that incoming college Freshmen need to be taught free speech. On the other hand, at least one University president is doing it.   BTW, Mitch Daniels 2020.

  • Mystery!

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Why are families leaving St. Paul schools?  It’s a mystery.  Now that the staff member doing the survey has been let go, we may never find out.   Looking at the chart, there appears to be some overlap in causes since the percentages work out to 114% and even…

  • Defining “Crime” Down

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “That means minor crimes that take place at school, such as trespassing, truancy, theft and drug use, she said, would be “dealt with more appropriately in other ways” that don’t involve arrest and prosecution.” All crimes?  Or only crimes committed by Students Whose Lives Matter, to make the statistics…

  • If There’s A Bubble In Education Administration…

    …then one can only hope that this is the needle. A student  on a school bus, seeing another student pointing a gun at a third student, wrestled the would be shooter to the ground, almost certainly saving the intended victim’s life. The school administration reacted… Well, you’ve read this blog for a few years, right?…