Tab Clearing Tuesday
Misc. stories for your enjoyment.
- Via CNN: The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022.
- Via Reuters: ‘We did it!’ Chile’s Boric seals leftist revival with election win.
With over 99% of ballots counted, Boric, 35, who leads a broad leftist coalition, had 55.86% of the vote, compared with 44.14% for far-right rival Jose Antonio Kast, who conceded defeat.
- Via WaPo: Highly vaccinated countries thought they were over the worst. Denmark says the pandemic’s toughest month is just beginning.
- Tom Nichols aksed in The Atlantic: Why Are Republicans Siding With Russia?
- Inside HigherEd: Louisiana AG Calls for LSU to Punish Professor Over Tweet.
Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry has formally requested, on state letterhead, that Louisiana State University take disciplinary action against a tenured professor for referring to one of Landry’s political staffers as a “flunkie” on Twitter after she spoke at an LSU Faculty Senate meeting.
The letter, dated Dec. 9 and addressed to LSU president William F. Tate IV, accuses LSU journalism professor Robert Mann of violating the “Commitment to the Community” guidelines found in the faculty handbook, which emphasize values such as personal and social integrity, compassion, respect, and positive contributions to the campus and surrounding community.
“Inside HigherEd: Louisiana AG Calls for LSU to Punish Professor Over Tweet.”
I am sure the Bari Weisses of the world who decry cancel culture in higher education will be all over this. /sarcasm
This demonstrates the rise of a superfluous class of pseudo-elites whose role is to teach and enforce an astro-turfed pseudo-morality manufactured by academics in activist pseudo-disciplines and spread by disordered personalities on social media before becoming entrenched as a pseudo-culture.
See, I could never be a University President because my response letter would absolutely be addressed “To: Attorney General Jeff Landry and His Flunkie”
Touchy touchy…
@John430: Why you botha?
Robert Mann is pro-vaccine and testing of unvaccinated students. Landry seems to be opposed to this.
Mann’s a professor of communications, so I assume he’s quite familiar with the First Amendment.
@John430: The irony of the deployments of “pseudo” is deep.
Beyond that, I honestly have no idea what your point is.
@John430:
Huh? What’s that word salad supposed to mean??
@John430: Was your account hacked by Lounsbury?
@Steven L. Taylor: @Sleeping Dog: @wr:
My guess is it has pseudo purpose.
@John430: Whatever drugs you’re on clearly weren’t pseudo.
@Steven L. Taylor:
I have to admit I spent a moment trying to figure out what authentic-elites teaching an authentic-morality based on authentic-disciplines would entrench as an authentic-culture. But, I could feel a headache coming on, so I stopped.
@John430: Help me out here–is your comment pseudo gravitas or pseudo snark? I can’t decide.
…astro-turfed pseudo-morality…
Calling your boyfriend Donald Trump’s “you can grab them by the pussy” utterance locker room talk.
@John430: I quasi-enjoyed your comment. It was quasi-interesting in a quasi-absurd sort of quasi-fashion. Quasi Christmas!
@Scott O:
That’s so meta.
@John430:
You wot, mate?