If I Was Trying to Write a Parody of Leftist Nonsense, I Could Not Beat This

Hat tip to SmallDeadAnimals:

ABSTRACT
Although food and media scholars have studied gendered performances on cooking shows, limited scholarship exists on shows that combine food preparation with business ownership. My study, a textual analysis of DC Cupcakes and Cupcake Girls, seeks to fill that gap, pointing to issues of gender representation that are complicated by taking on the dual roles of chef or baker and business owner. I argue that these two shows reinforce heteronormative stereotypes and gender polarization by reproducing negative relationships between women and food and by constructing women as incompetent business people. Additionally, I suggest that because these women are shown as business owners instead of just home cooks, such portrayals could potentially disrupt the dominant, often essentialist ideas about men and women on food television. Instead, however, these shows, as part of the wider cultural cupcake phenomenon, resort to stereotypical portrayals of women and help cultivate their at times oppressive relationships with food.

Google and YouTube Upset That Professor Defends "Him" and "Her" Pronouns

8/2/17 The Blaze:

A Canadian psychology professor who refuses to use gender-neutral pronouns was banned from his YouTube and Google accounts and he believes it’s because he criticizes the social justice movement. His accounts were restored without explanation after his story was published at a conservative news outlet.

Professor Jordan B. Peterson of the University of Toronto told the Daily Caller that he believed he was targeted over his political views....

He emailed Google after being locked out of his account, saying, “Please tell me what principle I have violated. I have not violated any terms that I am aware of and have not misused my account.”

“We understand you’ve recently been unable to access your Google account, and we appreciate you contacting us,” responded Google. “After review, your account is not eligible to be reinstated due to a violation of our Terms of Service.”

Peterson said that he had the Google account for 15 years and had hundreds of thousands of emails saved on it.

“But the fact that they reviewed it and then decided that my account is not eligible to be reinstated indicates to me either that this is quite a curious mistake,” he explained, “or that there’s something that’s political going on that is associated with censorship.

Remember "him" and "her" are signs of bigotry.

A New Sin: "Tourist Privilege"

3/14/16 National Review:

Students at Clare College in Cambridge are objecting to an “Orient Express” themed party on the grounds that it’s racist, “toxic,” “gross,” and perpetuates tourist privilege. “The vibe they are going for with the Orient Express is white people traveling in first class on a train, visiting ‘exotic’ places with the inherent sense of privilege that comes from being a rich tourist . . . it’s going to be a white presentation of these places they’re trying to represent, full of stereotypes, which is erasing and gross,” student Ploy Kingchatchaval told the Sunday Times, according to an article in the Telegraph. According to The Daily Mail, the school was promoting the party — believe it or not — not as a racism-themed event, but one of “romance and adventure” where “the sights, sounds, and smells of this love letter to luxury travel will blend seamlessly.” But Kingchatchaval doesn’t buy it. In fact, he insists that the school was “clearly” trying to be offensive on purpose: “They clearly didn’t intend for it to be about travel because Orient is such a loaded term,” he said.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432772/cambridge-university-orient-express-party-students-racist

 What is causing so many college students to turn into raging fools?  And why do you have your kids in public schools?

For you young'uns, the Orient Express was a train that crossed Europe to Turkey, and the name appears in many novels that some of us grew up on.

Of course, kids attending Cambridge are upset about privilege?

Imagine If This Was Someone Teaching At Falwell's Liberty University...

Tablet:

By now, the story of Joy Karega is familiar to many. An assistant professor at Oberlin College and strident proponent of boycotting Israel on campus, Karega moonlighted as an unhinged anti-Semite on social media. On her Facebook page, she labeled ISIS a “CIA and Mossad operation,” claimed Israel downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, said the Mossad perpetrated the Charlie Hebdo attacks, posted a video arguing that Jews perpetrated 9/11, and shared an anti-Semitic meme of Jewish banker Jacob Rothschild that proclaimed “We own your news, the media, your oil, and your government.”

After the exposure of Karega’s hateful propagandizing was met with a muted response from the university–its president defended Karega’s academic freedom, yet did not exercise his own to condemn her statements–Oberlin’s board of trustees was forced to step in and condemn the postings as “anti-Semitic and abhorrent.” It called for a full investigation into Karega.

Oberlin used to be a pretty serious Christian college. 

 and:

Karega, who received a PhD from the University of Louisville in 2014, publicized claims last year that “Israeli and Zionist Jews” were behind the attacks on the World Trade Center. She shared a blog post that embedded a speech by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has frequently been accused of anti-Semitism. At about 1:04 in the video, Farrakhan offers his theory of the attackers and their motivations:

They say that the World Trade Center building were brought down by carefully placed explosives, not by planes. They say that all three buildings had to have been wired with explosive charges long before September the 11th and this is something that took tremendous sophistication to do, and that sophistication was not with Osama bin Laden or his followers. Listen. But if it was not Muslims then who? Thanks to the exemplary work of scholars like Victor Thorn and Christopher Bollyn it is now becoming apparent that there were many Israeli and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attack.

Although Karega claimed to disagree with Farrakhan in many respects, she endorsed the link, writing “Farrakhan is truth-telling in this video.”
Karega’s Facebook history also shows a preoccupation with the Rothschild family, a banking dynasty of Jewish heritage that has been the subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories for hundreds of years. She posted an unflattering photograph of banker Jacob Rothschild in December 2014, with the text accompanying the photograph saying, “We own nearly every central bank in the world. We financed both sides of every war since Napoleon. We own your news, the media, your oil and your government.” The Rothschilds made a reappearance a few weeks later when Karega accused “the same people behind the massacre in Gaza” of shooting down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine. “With this false flag,” Karega surmised, “the Rothschild-led banksters, exposed and hated and out of economic options to stave off the coming global deflationary depression, are implementing the World War III option.”

Trump has gotten a lot of flak for claiming Muslims celebrated 9/11. Why the left goes on about this is that much crazier stuff is part of the leftist movement.

Wondering What Is Driving These College Protests?

Not just whining by football players complaining about privilege (as if football players can talk about privilege).  From Nov. 12, 2015 Inside Higher Education:

At Vanderbilt, many minority students have in recent days renewed a push for the university to take action against Carol Swain (right), a tenured professor of political science and law, over a column she wrote in January after the terrorist attacks in Paris against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

In the January column, Swain asked, "What would it take to make us admit we were wrong about Islam? What horrendous attack would finally convince us that Islam is not like other religions in the United States, that it poses an absolute danger to us and our children unless it is monitored better than it has been under the Obama administration?"

Many students and others said that the column stereotyped all Muslims in a way that was profoundly biased, but the university defended Swain's right to free speech.

In the last week, students started a new petition to have her fired, saying that she engages in name-calling, that her use of the word "Professor" on her Facebook page suggests that she speaks for Vanderbilt and that her biases may lead to discrimination against minority students who are not Christian or straight. (Swain is black, but her conservative political views have angered many black people.)

Progressives Now Prohibiting Color-Blindness

Prof. Volokh reports on new efforts to suppress free speech at UCLA:

Tool: Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send
Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership (from Diversity in the Classroom, UCLA Diversity & Faculty Development, 2014). The first step in addressing microaggressions is to recognize when a microaggression has occurred and what message it may be sending. The context of the relationship and situation is critical. Below are common themes to which microaggressions attach….
[Theme:] Color Blindness[:] Statements that indicate that a White person does not want to or need to acknowledge race.
[Microaggression Examples:] “There is only one race, the human race.”
“America is a melting pot.”
“I don’t believe in race.” …

I can remember a time when denying the existence of race was a sign of being PC!