- This week’s international note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from the Irish Examiner as the Trump administration coins an Orwellian phrase, calling child captive facilities tender age shelters.
- Frances Langum looks at the evidence. Trump immigration policy attacking little kids is very deliberate. My President apparently thinks my country as a whole enjoys this as much as does he.
- Tommy Christopher seems to regard with some skepticism the latest excuse for the Trump resistance to reuniting families torn about by … well … Trump. Seems there were too many hours devoted to Congressional Representatives who helped reveal the caging of those infants. Damn liberal interference!
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil listens to, and reads, abusive threats of violence and suggests that 1) the mental illness at the source is generated by a political point of view mostly from 2) one side of the political spectrum.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz marvels that Trump supporters are now indignantly demanding civility.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post celebrates the unexpected political rise of Alexandroa Ocasio-Cortez
- It was one of the more absurdly petty of the many petty scandals. John Scalzi at Whatever takes a break from book reviews to perform a very funny 5 minute dramatic reading of a very funny column about whether Scott Pruitt can stay moist without the lotion he ordered EPA staff to run around town finding for him.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors goes beyond newly announced Trump Communications Director Bill Shine’s protection of various sex predators at Fox. tengrain goes after the poor guy’s wife. Oh come on, tengrain! I thought the general consensus was to avoid attacking families!
Wait. She said WHAT in public tweets about black people?
- Let’s see. A graduate student teaching an undergraduate class stopped a rant by a student against gay people because said rant had nothing to do with the classroom subject. Later, a conservative professor from another department disagreed. So far so good.
The professor published a piece on-line attacking the graduate student. So farther so good.
But the professor also published the name of the graduate student, contact information, and how to find her. After receiving a number of violent threats, the student left the college in fear for her well being.
The college suspended the professor for publishing private contact information, potentially putting the student at risk. The professor sued and the issue went to court. The professor won because of academic freedom.
Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson celebrates the decision as a conservative victory for freedom of speech over a liberal college that is intolerant of conservatives who dare to speak out. Well, that’s what he says.
Okay, he doesn’t say quite all that. James is a very busy individual who must deal with all manner of important issues. He forgot to mention the part about publishing private contact information or that it was the sole reason for the suspension. Limitations of space, I would guess. Could have happened to any ideologue blinded by conservative passion.
- Jonathan Bernstein celebrates Wednesday’s Independence Day with a thoughtful piece about a bold gamble by James Madison.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, former pastor, current atheist Bruce considers how to advise secret doubters among the faithful. How can they find the courage to come out of the closet?
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a statistical study on what most of us high school nerds have wondered once every decade or so. What happened to cool kids later in life.
- Infidel753 brings back his continuing, intellectually hilarious, series of words — and the meanings they would have if the spelling was consistently parsed. One I’ll try out on our pastor after tomorrow’s worship service – Preacher: One who makes you sore in advance.
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Actually, John McAdams didn’t publish the “graduate student’s” contact information. He linked to an instructor’s publicly available blog. Elsewhere on the blog she posted her contact information publicly. McAdams did not encourage anyone to contact Cheryl Abbate.
As for the “graduate student,” she was the paid instructor for a class in the philosophy department. She told a student at a Catholic University that he could not bring up the Catholic position on same-sex marriage because that would be homophobic and bigoted. If that’s not worthy of discussion on a blog about political correctness (among other subjects), what is?
Mr. Wigderson failed to mention why McAdams linked to Cheryl Abbate’s blog, which is no longer public after numerous violent threats were sent. Must be those “principles” of his.
WILL President Rick Esenberg said, “Since the beginning, the only thing Professor McAdams wanted to do was to teach students without having to compromise his principles.”
And:
Marquette University said, “Academic freedom must include responsibility. Unfortunately, Marquette can’t undo the significant harm that he caused to the former student teacher’s academic career.”
Could it be Cheryl Abbate was the one defending HER principles? That’s a no-no, uppity woman! Let the bigot take the lectern, like a good passive little gal should.
And then McAdams retaliated by doxing (publishing private or identifying information about a particular individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent) her and unleashing the far Right Troll dogs to hound, hate, and harass her. It’s OK If You Are Republican, after all. Once again their Gilded Rule applies.
The cowardly radical Right loves nothing more than punching down, as they follow the despicable pattern of their vile, corrupt, and criminal Dear Leader.
Then the whine like spoiled crybabies, howling “free speech” when their hate is rejected by students with a conscience.
But it’s just fine for Liberty University or Bob Jones University to refuse liberal or BLM speakers, amirite? They see no double standard of course.