Saturday, July 28, 2018
Woke Wars
Ben Shapiro:
Why all this effort to blame the fans for the series' troubles? Because we must never – ever, under any circumstances – blame Kathleen Kennedy. Kennedy, you see, is woke.More here from John Sexton:
And now we come to the Disney era and what's new this time, as Ben Shapiro points out, is we get to see a bunch of new characters killing the old ones we loved to advance a story that isn't 1/10th as compelling. I don't think people disliked Rey because she's a woman. I think they disliked her because she seemed to know everything without even trying.
Because Diversity
George Leef:
For the last 25 years, a huge growth area for American higher education has been offices of "diversity and inclusion," which now provide highly paid pseudo-jobs for many thousands of administrators. At UCLA, the vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion rakes in a cool $444,000, for example.Make sure you read Professor Staddon's article.
Do we actually need any of this, however? In today’s Martin Center article, Duke University professor John Staddon argues that we don't. These make-work offices actually work at cross purposes with education. Their activities are "tangent to the university's core function, which is open and free debate in search of veritas."
