Professor Ghassan Hage, of the University of Melbourne, apparently presented a lecture today at MIT, which explored the links between Islamophobia and Global Warming.
According to the description of the event;
Is ISLAMOPHOBIA accelerating global warming?
This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’
Ghassan Hage has held many visting positions across the world including in Harvard, University of Copenhagen, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and American University of Beirut. He works in the comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and racism and on the relation between anthropology, philosophy and social and political theory. His most well-known work is White Nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society (Routledge 2000). His is also the author of Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imaginary (Melbourne University Press 2015). He is currently working on a book titled Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming? and has most recently published a piece in American Ethnologist, titled: “Etat de Siege. A Dying Domesticating Colonialism?” (2016) that engages with the contemporary “refugee crisis” in Europe and beyond.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by Global Studies and Laguages, Global Borders Research Collaboration, MIT Anthropology
Read more: https://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/islamophobia-accelerating-global-warming
I’m sure we’re all looking forward to the video of the presentation.
The University of Melbourne is making quite a name for itself, exploring unusual climate related themes, such as a 2014 attack on democracy, which discussed why Democratic freedom paralyses efforts to combat climate change, and how to restructure government, to maintain the flow of green subsidies when climate skeptics win elections.
There are plenty of other lectures by Professor Hage available online, such as the following.
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Professor Hage was born in Lebanon. Hardly the best place to grow up with a social conscience. And he had to migrate to clean, green Australia and go to Macquarie Uni to learn all about Global Warming and Islamophobia?
Old Bruno,
you know you can walk 2 months through lebanon without ever sightIng a cedar tree.
And it’s in their national flag and their not ashamed at all.
Such a talk would have to be free to get anyone to attend.
Bzzzz! Wrong, Kevin. The attendees probably were paid to be there.
P.S. There were rumors of threats of prosecution, incarceration, and waterboarding if you didn’t accept the money and attend, but those were just rumors. ;o)
(In all seriousness, it’s scary that there were a fair number that wanted to attend his lecture. He gets paid to swing a hammer, so of course all he talks about are nails, but the attendees had a choice. Who are the crazy ones in that room?)
The ecological crisis is the dominant form of fascism today.
It’s not a “Phobia” if it is rational.
Is it rational to ban the new London Mayor from entering the USA because of of his religion?
Is it rational for England to ban Donald Trump?
I wasn’t aware that the Mayor of London wanted to move to the US.
‘England’ doesn’t want to ban Donald Trump – it was some of our media, and a few politicians. Speak to the people here, and you’ll find a LOT of support for Mr Trump…a lot! We (here in England) can see how ‘pro-America’ he is, and wish we had someone pro-England! Our current Prime Minister is a chickenhead who bows to everyone, like the Germans, and that gimp, Obama. We long for a Thatcher again (and I didn’t even support what she did), as she put Britain first. With it looking likely that Scotland will vote Out in the next referendum (after June 23rd), we Englanders are looking for a suitable strong leader. Currently, none of the ones in Parliament have any testicles.
Reality check. I suggest it is not rational to do either, and would not reccommend voting for anyone that proposed either policy. There are differences. One was suggested by someone who plans to become president of the USA and actually try to implememt the policy. If David Cameron called for banning Trump I would think he had gone a bit potty. The same one was not targeted at one individual, but includes 2 billion people, of whom the Mayor is only one.
seaice1
The 2 billions Muslims are NOT “banned”. Your liberal bias and its biased lies posing as your sources in Oboma’s ABCNNBCBS national press corpse are exposed again.
Trump has rationally proposed preventing the deliberate import of 100,000 Muslim military-age males, none of whom are employable nor bearing any trained or with skills, nor any even trainable (they speak no English and cannot write in their native languages), none of who are bringing inate existing talents or training (other than radical Islamic jihad tactics and religious hatred) directly from their radical Islamic roots in order to come onto permanent European and American welfare roles as voting democrats. There are NO “innocent refugees” nor any “climate refugees” nor many hundred “innocent children” in this group of 100,000 military-age males. The women in their group have been assaulted raped during the travels, and the 2% Christian worshipped in their camps have been beaten, assaulted, raped, intimidated and crucified for THEIR religion.
Trump HAS proposed banning these invaders UNTIL EACH INDIVIDUAL “refugee” is vetted and verified who he is, where he came from, and why he should be allowed entry unto American welfare roles. ONLY until such vetting is complete. The Islamic mayor of London is NOT an “immigrant” and is NOT “unknown” nor is he demanding the rights of US citizenship. His rants – your rants and exaggerations about Trump’s proposals – are dead wrong. Deliberately dead wrong.
I suggest that seaice go live in an area that is dominated by Muslims. It’s easy for eggheads to tell others how to live, when they are not facing the problems that others face.
Trump said London’s new mayor is welcome.
London’s new mayor is known and already vetted, and is not a threat to the U.S., so he is welcome to come visit any time.
That is Trump’s only requirement of Muslims: that they be known, and known not to be a threat to the U.S. If they fit in that category, then they are welcome to come to the U.S.
Come on, there should be a limit to linguistic silliness unless one wants to render language utterly useless.
Islam is not a race, it is a religion. Therefore islamophobia is not a form of racism, dominant or otherwise, but part of a perfectly legitimate anti-clericalist tradition.
As pointed out by several other here a phobia is an irrational fear.
And since Islam means submission, the fear to be submitted is perfectly rational.
The opposite, islamophilia, is pathological, it is a form of intellectual masochism.
Which is why some tack it on to any that hold a different opinion.
“Homophobia”, “Transphobia”, “Islamophobia”, etc.
It gives those who irrationally tack “phobia” onto people’s opinions an excuse not to listen to them.
PS Aside from Hansen and what they might be hauling, what do some have against trains? 😎
“unless one wants to render language utterly useless”
I think the obfuscationists have already won, their victory accelerated by the internet.
Language is already being rendered useless. It is deliberate. Reality is also being rendered useless. Soon, gravity will be illegal in places and fear of mice will be called rodentophobia and declared hate speech. Welcome to the new world.
Berényi Péter on May 10, 2016 at 9:52 pm
Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today
Come on, there should be a limit to linguistic silliness unless one wants to render language utterly useless.
Islam is not a race, it is a religion. Therefore islamophobia is not a form of racism, dominant or otherwise, but part of a perfectly legitimate anti-clericalist tradition.
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Berényi Péter, everybody knows noadays ‘still hungarish right wing’ ai’nt rassist: but osman.
You KruziTürken kneel for left been alive.
Or kneel for throwning Erdowans fat base.
My 14 year old son told me the other day that people are prejudiced against Muslims. I asked him if he was, and he said no. I said I wasn’t. I asked him how many of his friends at school are and he said none. I asked him how many people he thinks there are at his school that hate Muslims, and he wouldn’t offer a guess. I pushed him for an answer and he said maybe 3.
So I asked him what evidence there was that this supposed prejudice is pervasive in society, and he explained that some Muslim terrorists do horrible things, so people hate all Muslims.
We live in Utah, and there were 3 Mormon missionaries blown up in Belgium. I asked him if he heard about it, and of course he had. I asked him if he thought it was common knowledge, and he said yes. So I asked him where was the retaliation? Where were the beatings, the harassment, the burning of mosques? Of course there has been none.
So I asked him if he still thought most people were prejudiced against Muslims and believed that all Muslims are terrorists, and he said he guessed not…
Ktm, as an interesting thought experiment, how do you think the conversation would have gone if your son had said people are prejudiced agains Jews?
Why not Christians, seance? Aren’t Christians, by far, the most persecuted religious group in the world?
DBStealey has missed the point, as I think has JohnKnight. If you had followed through the thought experiment you might have seen the point. If you put Jew instead of Muslim you can use the same arguments to demonstrate that there is no anti-sematism. There is anti-semitism, therefore it is not a good argument.
As usual, seaice missed the point. I am predjudiced against Islamists, not against jews.
I have very good reasons for both. But since seaice never understands, I won’t waste my time trying to educate someone who can’t learn.
seaince,
” If you had followed through the thought experiment you might have seen the point. If you put Jew instead of Muslim you can use the same arguments to demonstrate that there is no anti-sematism. There is anti-semitism, therefore it is not a good argument.”
So, why not Christians? Aren’t Christians, by far, the most persecuted religious group in the world? Too ho hum?
seaice1,
You’re deflecting again, but I’ll answer anyway:
Jews don’t tie suicide bombs to their children. They don’t fly airliners into buildings. They don’t wantonly rape and pillage in the countries they invade. In fact, they don’t invade other countries.
So there is no comparison at all. But I suppose that’s the best you can do.
Exactly DB, The moral equivalence nonsense is just that.
In Religion TODAY, other then Islam, there is no call to murder or stab or kill those of a different perspective. There is no call for a state mandated religion. There is no call for a caste system.
Islam, in its current form, is fundamentally not compatible with the US constitution due to Sharia law as practiced and interpreted by hundreds of millions of the worlds 1.4 or so billion Muslims. Islam in this sense is not just a religion but a geo political force, the very foundation of which is to convert the world and set up political structure based on Sharia law.
The worlds Muslims population is primarily Sunni, whereas the Shia population is much smaller with Iran being the largest Shia controlled state. Saudi Arabia is dominantly Sunni, as are the Muslim Brotherhood. The M.B. is a radical terrorist group active in over 80 nations with the goal of establishing the “Caliphate” or Islamic Sharia government worldwide. The M.B. has strong ties and connections to hundreds of organizations (over 300 unindicted co-conspirators) as well as to Hamas, the Taliban, Al Queda, and dozens of other Sunni terrorist groups that share the common goal of dismantling American institutions and turning the US into a Muslim Nation. In the US Holy Land Foundation trial a great many of their records were captured and documented, outlining their agenda and methods which included “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America which can be summed up in this quote of their objective,
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“ their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.”
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Their primary initial method is “stealth jihad” into corporations, local, state and federal governments, schools of every level, charity groups, etc. As stated their idea is that “you cannot break the egg shell before the chicken is ready to hatch”; thus violent Jihad is initially only occasionally used if it can be portrayed as a “fringe” group” yet still promote fear and acquiescence.
One cannot understand the fundamental and legally incompatible nature of Islam in its current form, without understanding Sharia and Islamic jurisprudence as practiced. It allows murder, as in honor killings (Islam is responsible for over 95 percent of the worlds honor killings) killings of non Muslims for being non Muslim, “submit or die”, an Islamic caste system or second class status for non Muslims, who must pay a separate special tax to Muslims, and the subjugation of women in many forms including allowing legal rape by their husbands and forbidding a stranger entering their house without their husbands permission, stoning as punishment, complete abolishment of separation of church and state with Islam as the only state, Halah food where in many forms of practice the animal must see the murder weapon before slaughter, and even slavery, which is still being practiced.
As stated, hundreds of millions of Muslims live under this system. Not all incorporate every aspect of it, but many do, and all have large percentages of the population that support it. Ten percent [supporting violent jihad] of 1.4 billion is 140 million, and ten percent is far [too] low.
David… A “Picture” is worth a 1000 words.
http://k7ktr.com/images/quotes.jpg
You are correct in one way… They get “Others” to do it for them! Though I hate to compare this to ALL Jew’s I would say that Zionist’s (Khazars) are the issue as well as neocons are.
Within this… They control the US Congress who loves to give them standing ovations, decide US foreign policy, send American boys to fight and die in wars based on 100% lies.
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpQdg4D78Jc
They also in violation of Article 1 Section 8 (Whereas the US Government) CAN coin it’s own currency FREE from DEBT and INTEREST and have not only installed the non-federal FEDERAL RESERVE that pays NO TAXES and is above ALL LAWS as well as the IMF/World Banks that enslave the masses to “National Debt” that none of Us signed for. This is Usury condemned in both Christian and Muslim faiths.
Also Please Note: THE UNITED STATES is a CORPORATION as defined by LAW.
28 U.S. Code § 3002 – Definitions | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002
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The United States is a Corporation. This is why through Corporate Bailouts/Bail-in’s that the Banks and Corporations get bailouts as well as Bankers are never prosecuted for laundering hundreds of billions in Cartel monies, not prosecuted (Individually) for the financial crisis woes that have left millions with destroyed credit, lost homes and so on.
Also… The FACT that our Police State today is solely trained by current and former members of the IDF reflects the racism within America today.
Ref: http://www.critraining.com/
Ref: http://www.adl.org/learn/learn_main_training/default.asp
I should also add: That ALL US Terrorism is a byproduct of the FBI (Stings) that are used to keep the people in fear of said Muslim’s.
Ref: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?_r=1
Ref: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/government-agents-directly-involved-us-terror-plots-report
As well as the NSA whom shares all RAW DATA with Israel.
Ref: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents
As an American I would think this is an act of TREASON! As well as when US Politicians travel to Israel to “Touch” a damn wailing wall. You can also freely Google the photos of this and then be outraged when my cousin Obama bows to an Arab King?
I personally have MANY Jewish friends that agree with me as well as Muslim ones. But again I MUST say that while the Media whom also is “controlled” blocks the videos of 1000’s of Jewish Rabbi’s here in America of who denounce the Statehood of Israel.
I’ll conclude with also the 20,000 Plus Jew’s who refuse to leave the Islamic Republic of Iran to move to Israel and who have a seat in the Iranian political system. One nice note is that Iranians HANG BANKERS! As well as the ENTIRE IAEA Report on Iran is ONLINE. Which deals with the Iranian nuclear energy program that the UNITED STATES gave Iran under the Atom’s for Peace program in 1954.
Ref: http://www.haaretz.com/beta/mossad-cia-agree-iran-has-yet-to-decide-to-build-nuclear-weapon-1.419300
Summery: While we daily are pitted against one another. You should realize that these are all a distraction from what’s really going on. 93,000,000+ Americans unemployed, our cities going bankrupt, 300,000 dead veterans, 22 a day more who commit suicide, lead in water across the US as well as the Native’s in Arizona, Colorado who have had their lands destroyed by corporations which is also to include the Bundy and Hammond ranches as well as others that were seized by the Fed’s (Strip Mining) of Americas lands to no mine Uranium and drill for Oil and now they are going into the Grand Canyon?
Locally to give you an idea… The alleged “Security Barrier” WALL in Israel is in length would cover 2/3rds the State of Montana’s I-90 which Montana is our nations 4th Largest State! Also while they bash Trump for border walls (Vatican) that the Government here is building larger walls around the White House?
Oh I should also include that if ANYONE knows history (Common Core) That the so-called Refugee’s are in fact “WAR REFUGEES” so common to the Allied “TERROR BOMBINGS” of WWII that left much of Europe’s Cities looking like Swiss Cheese and lined the roads of Europe with Millions fleeing those Allied Terror Bombings. Finally we have Gen. Wesley Clark in 2002 who said the United States through the Project for a New American Century was to ATTACK (7 Countries in 5 Years) NONE of which attacked the United States.
How many countries does the US have to attack before you call it a World War? As with all the lies about “Russian Aggression” whereas the US overthrew the democratic government in the Ukraine and those in Crimea VOTED to succeed from that Junta under International law and it was granted. Yet like all votes in the PEOPLES Democracy the (WEST) – US refuses to accept that WILL of the People.
This would include the Libyan Government’s overthrow which emails from Hillary prove that is was because of OIL and GOLD and now into Syria whereas yet another government democratically elected and monitored elections is also not recognized by the United States. Now we have Brazil another member of BRICS being ousted as well as the US in Venezuelan area where inflation due to US Sanctions has people eating dogs and burning alive others whom are stealing for food. Much like the US Sanctions on Iraq that murdered 500,000 Iraqi children. Whereas Saddam in the Oil for Food got UN approval to sell Iraq’s oil in the Euro bypassing US Sanctions.
You might review the video: “ALL WARS ARE BANKERS WARS” on YouTube and remember WHO Controls those banks today also as aforementioned above.
[Left in queue, recommend removing. Not really sure this is appropriate, even in this political-social issues thread. .mod]
The nutty Professor drones on and on, a bad case of verbal diarrhea on the taxpayers dime a waste of academic training gone to the bottom of the gene pool. The old English/Australian saying fits him to a tee – He’s a real fruit and nut case if I ever saw one!
He need a heavy hand upon the nuts.
“Education doesn’t improve intellect: the percentage of idiots among PhDs is the same as among general population.”
Actually, the dominant form of racism, sexism, etc. today is [class] diversity. It is an insidious and progressive form of institutional prejudice that denigrates individual dignity.
As far as I know the only link between Professor Gassan Hage and Queens College (pictured) is that they are both linked to the University of Melbourne. Prof Hage likely works and teaches in one of the modernist buildings on the main campus.
It is disappointing that the University of Melbourne is associated with “learning” of this type.
The sooner Universities become independent of Goverment funding the better. This is what Vice Chancellor wants to happen, but the benefits are not yet apparent.
A phobia is an irrational fear. It is perfectly rational to fear islam.
Irrational people can never see their own irrationalism.
I’m not sure what Hage means by “domesticating colonialism,” but from his other references to things like “colonial forms of capitalist accumulation” and “Fantasies of white supremacy,” he seems to have a big problem with western whites. Of course that’s not racism in his book. I would also bet that the over 500 battles initiated by Muslims in the middle ages as a means to spread Islam around the world would not be considered “colonialism” to Professor Hage, either.
“Professor Ghassan Hage, of the University of Melbourne, apparently presented a lecture today at MIT, which explored the links between Islamophobia and Global Warming …”.
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Nothing new here, it’s further confirmation of Blair’s Law ‘coined by Australian journalist Tim Blair’:
“… the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force …”
It’s Settled Science™.
The link between islamophobia and global warming is as indisputable as the link between elves and fairies.
Unless you live on planet Zog or some other place not of this world it is impossible not to know that certain adherents of Islam are clearly at war with anyone who does not share in their own violent and obscene interpretations of this creed. Death by any method is the common currency of such people, the preferred targets being so called infidels, that is anyone who is not Moslem, or if that is not possible the slaughter based on sectarian interpretations, in this case Shia Moslems who are considered heretics by the Sunni majority. That this has created a degree of fear of where this is going is entirely rational. What any of this has to do with the world’s climate is incomprehensible. Professor Hage is clearly certifiable.
Barry wrote:
“[…] Professor Hage is clearly certifiable.”
Agreed, but I admire his ability to get paid for it.
Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. The film tells the story of two people who take part in a top-secret military hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years later in a dystopian society where advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and that is devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.
And there was me thinking like 1984, it wasn’t a work of fiction, it was an instruction manual.
Coincidentally, mass surveillance began in the UK, in 1984
Cue the Twilight Zone music…
Islamophobia and racism are the wrong argument here, and if some think the lines are not blurred then.. I cant help you. There is not enough logical reasoning in many of these comments.
If you burn and pillage the middle east and the put in your puppet governments, expect a reaction, especially from the victims. It seems some dont understand cause and effect when wondering why some Muslims might be angry at some western nations. Mainly UK France US, the very nations that have been flooding the place with weapons, installing dictators and starting wars and invading and total destruction of a nation on lies, not mistakes.
If you lie and say there is WDM in my home, jump over my garden wall and kill most of my family, all based in lies. I will kill you, and anyone who helped you. I am a christian. I will torture you and kill you, as slowly as I can, anyone who hurts my family, will suffer
Lovely story.
Every Muslim has a book that says he should kill you.
But it is the West’s fault that Muslims want to kill you? The book wasn’t written last year.
Gamecock wrote: “Every Muslim has a book that says he should kill you. But it is the West’s fault that Muslims want to kill you? The book wasn’t written last year.”
Excellent point, Gamecock.
Cause and effect. Sometimes some people get the two confused.
You don’t know what you are talking about. While a lot of the western involvement in the Middle East is beyond stupid and poorly thought out, it is not the cause of islamic terrorism. Islamic terrorism began 1400 years ago with Mohammad’s mandate to spread islam throughout the world, by the sword if necessary.
Jihad terrrorists had been conquering for 1100 years before the US came into existence.
If you lie and say there is WDM in my home, jump over my garden wall and kill most of my family, all based in lies. I will kill you, and anyone who helped you.
Excuses.
Furthermore, WMDs were found stashed in numerous locations in Iraq. But belief is a funny thing. It becomes reality to those infected, and it gives them the license to go on murdering sprees. And don’t fool yourself, 9/11 would have happened with or without the Iraq war.
The same World Trade Center was attacked by the same Islamists, years before 9/11/01. Their van didn’t contain enough explosives to do the job right, so the next time they used airliners.
Thank you for showing how the West has created the situation with Muslims and how cause and effect work here. I don’t agree with your last paragraph, I am non-violent and would not react that way, but I understand how some people would. I am not a Muslim or a Christian or a Jew.
Islamists have killed Russians, Asians, Europeans, mass brutal murder of civilians and children. They do this daily, the equivalent of three Parris massacres each month, every month. Islamic terror has little to do with the US except the more we stand down, they advance in violence. The truth is Iraq was advancing economically very rapidly, until Obama took over. Read jihad watch, or Pamela Geller, and see the daily violence brutality, and demands to submit. If all the west left the middle east, and Israel disappeared, they would kill each other until one side emerged victorious. They kill any of their own who try to moderate Islam. It is what they have always done
I’m guessing you never bothered to actually read the responses to you.
I’m fascinated at how some people are determined to blame everything bad in the world on the West. No matter how badly they have to twist logic to do so.
Embarrassed as a graduate of that institution. Gee, they have some clowns going around now.
Consider than the arrow of cause and effect here has been reversed. Dissatisfaction with depauperate living conditions drives emigration as terrorism.
“terrorism” has become meaningless as a term now.
lack of education and exposure to outside ideas. Food poverty. Idle significant youth demographic, religious zealousness (usually brought about by agitators with their own agenda accompanied by propaganda which is very effective on a highly uneducated population in the poorer parts of the world).
Throw on top every other lunatic out there with an agenda, this can be applied to global warming, look at how many ignorant people it has caught up in it’s net, and that is our “first world” (I hate that term).
This is because people thanks to Liberal controlled education are now much less able to negotiate life. They want life to adapt to them.
Education education education and negotiation, life is about negotiation not a static set of “dos and donts”
Do you really believe environmentalists will not resort to violence, or Regressive Liberals, they are the ones who react most violently to opposition, they become angry at the suggestion there may be opposition.
This regressive thinking where the world must adapt to one’s view, IS INSANE and no different than thinking the world should follow Sharia law for example
Wait – I thought it was GlobalWarming™ that was causing Islamophobia. Which is it now?
And I thought it was “Climate Change”. He needs to keep up with the ideology. It keeps changing its spots.
Read before the internet gets ‘halal’:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucifer_Principle
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-Race&Groups-General/+Doc-Race&Groups-General-PC&Suppression&Censorship/IslamicInfluence&CensorshipInTheWest.htm
mod: I’d call that ‘1300 Jahre Festung Europa’
and as always: no need to broadcast, who wants to / needs to know already does.
The only culturally acceptable form of racism is conservatophobia. But only flat earther, science denying, right wing fools and country hicks would tell you so.
In all honesty, how can people so smart be so blind? I can only think that they are insulated in bubbles of group think for such long periods of time that it becomes an alternate reality.
Education. That is the cause. People are no longer given the tools to negotiate life. College kids are being turned into activists to varying degrees where you are to go out into the world and change it to your match your views, people with similar ideas group together to form what is essentially a cult. A macro culture, except, this liberal progression has turned sour, Liberal professors are now terrified of liberal students because liberal education has created these self interested authoritarian idiots who are motivated and imbued with concepts, concepts that trap thinking within the confines and protocols of a given concept.
Such a protocol is dealing with opposing positions to one’s own, the new Liberal protocol is close ranks and be aggressive, polarizing and decisive. Things anathema to intellectual and social growth and understanding. Again, this is a refusal to negotiate life, and it is a product of more normal liberals which make up most professors I think, they have created a monster even they now fear
..Well said Mark…
+97 for that post, Mark.
In short, while they are intelligent, they lack wisdom.
It’s perfectly fine to discriminate against anyone with a southern accent.
I’ve had plenty of Liberals tell me that anyone from the south is a racist.
Also white males are always fair game.
‘In all honesty, how can people so smart be so blind?’
Decadence. The West’s success has made it too comfortable.
Islamaphobia ate my dog.
In listening to the video (I could only stand about 1 minute), he appears to be rambling on incoherently. These social science academics have a severe case of OCN. Obsessive compulsive narcissism.
I always find it a bit frightening when a lecturer/professor cannot clearly communicate their “expert” opinion. It is particularly alarming when the person is unable to do so in a planned lecture. If this man is such an expert on these subjects, has written several books, and is a professor, he should have some sort of “stock” lecture at the very least. He ought to be able to speak “off the cuff” about the topics with little difficulty. It is one thing to be a little rough (we are humans not robots), but it is quite another thing to be unintelligible. Word salad does not equal erudite!
People really need to stop shoving random words together just because they like the words and/or think the combination makes them appear smarter/visionary/competent. Pro tip: it does the opposite.
Personally, if you keep changing the discussion, keep finding different ways to occupy ones thoughts, eventually you will check your pockets and find them empty. often when you give, more will then be needed to maintain. Give an inch to have a foot taken. A perfect example of this is the history of Environmental Easements. As with all religions, there will always be those who will use it against the simple minded to gain power of money. There are never any other reasons. All religions, when thoroughly reviewed have one true process. “THINK” If your thoughts are clear, your actions will follow.
Haven’t read a word of the article – there’s no need. Its mere existence is proof positive that almost everyone in the alarmist ‘climate change’ and physico-analysis industries are off their collective rockers.