Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
By The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
The Education Department announced Friday it is formally rescinding its guidance on how colleges and universities should adjudicate sexual assault under Title IX, ending a policy that denied basic due process to accused students and was often used to silence dissenting voices on campus.
Eschewing the rule-making procedures required by the Administrative Procedure Act, the Obama Administration imposed this far-reaching policy through a 2011 “Dear Colleague” guidance letter, providing additional clarification in 2014.
In contrast, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos withdrew the guidance only after she had spent months carefully considering the perspectives of all parties affected by the Title IX regime. Her listening campaign will continue as she solicits public comment on a new draft rule.
On Friday the Education Department also provided schools with a Q&A outlining how they should handle allegations of sexual assault, misconduct and harassment in the interim. It addresses the most minimal fairness issues, which speaks volumes about the Obama-era directives. The agency’s Office for Civil Rights felt the need to explicitly require these provisions for clarification.
For instance, the department now says, Title IX investigators should be free from bias and conflict of interest, and they should consider both incriminating and exculpatory evidence. Imagine that. Accusers shouldn’t be given preferential treatment over the accused during the adjudication process, and training materials and investigative techniques shouldn’t include gender-based stereotypes or generalizations.
I haven’t commented on this much, save for the occasional reference to an on-campus rape hoax. I’ve been trying to educate myself on what “guidance from the Education Department” has to do with due process, or what the institution that is the college has to say about what’s supposed to be a function of the police, and the justice system. I’m still unclear on the basics there.
The motivation behind what’s been happening, however, I think I understand with crystal clarity. Our technologically advanced society, in recent years, has been moving into a posture in which it should not & cannot expect any further significant technological advancement; into the mode of “Everything worth inventing has been invented already,” or to express it with a bit more pinpoint accuracy, “Next thing that gets invented had better be invented by someone female, or else don’t bother us with it.”
This is a diving posture, the posture of a society on a downgrade. “Who exactly is stopping the car from going over the cliff, or trying to get the baby out of the back seat? If it isn’t the right hero, then let her go.”
But this has not been some rash impulse. It’s been planned. We want more chicks to succeed, that means we want fewer dudes. Women have caught up & passed men in college enrollment, in earning degrees, in career advancement, and in a number of other metrics…but there’s no sign of anyone slowing down on, or reconsidering any policies anywhere. Because all this is not some unforeseen side-effect, it is the point. Checking out, sitting down, playing video games their whole lives is exactly what men are supposed to be doing.
By…someone.
Succeeding, building something? That just creates problems. But it’s a whole lot less likely you’ll succeed or build something, if you’re under the microscope all the time for a crime you may or may not even be thinking about doing. If you don’t get to enjoy due process. If you could be convicted, at any time, without having done anything.
The natural and expected response, for anyone put in a situation like that, is to hunker down and lumber onward under a cloud of lifelong mediocrity. The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hammered.
That’s the point. Make the boys sit down, so the girls have a chance to do something amazing…in their own time, on their own terms, on an uncrowded field. And if they don’t, well, it’ll be a generation or two without anything significant being done by anybody, well spent. We’ll just lower the standards on what’s “amazing.”
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Theodore Dalrymple nailed it:
- Severian | 09/25/2017 @ 16:46[…] Our technologically advanced society has a posture in which it should not & cannot expect any further significant technological advancement; into the mode of “Everything worth inventing has been invented already,” or to express it with a bit more pinpoint accuracy, “Next thing that gets invented had better be invented by someone female, or else don’t bother us with it.” House of Eratosthenes […]
- - American Digest | 09/26/2017 @ 13:06