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Having read this essay by Laura Kipnis on how Title IX (among other things) is used by academic activists to shut people up, stifle debate – which led her to be sued for supposed Title IX violations – I feel that I can identify the real problem for Professor Kipnis. It’s actually three problems, really:
…And that’s why folks on the Right carefully encourage anybody on our side who might have an interest in academia to instead go find a different line of work. Because Professor Kipnis is still in the middle of her Title IX travails; and it’s just probably going to get worse for her. Especially since she had the temerity to shine a light on the nonsensical Star Chamber process that has the same relationship to due process as the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea has to participatory democracy. Which is, by the way, at least a little unfair: while I understand that you reap what you sow, you also want to encourage people to stop doing dumb things**.
Via @laurakipnis.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
*I will admit having a soft spot in my heart for any liberal who will forthrightly call the late Andrea Dworkin an extremist and be done with it. I’m just squishy that way.
**This is the point where somebody usually blusters something along the lines of Some things are unforgivable. And sure there are: murder-cannibalism immediately comes to mind. Figuring out things well after everybody else did, on the other hand? …Look, the fashion for auto-da-fes went out some time ago.
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