Why I love a good hoax

I don’t know why, but people seem to think that fabricating a crime is a reasonable way to bring awareness to an issue. Of course, no one seems to consider how stupid that makes you seem and just how it comes across as a desperate cry for attention and just utterly pathetic. If they did consider that, they wouldn’t do it.

In a long line of “hate hoaxes,” the latest of which occurred at a church, the MO is similar. Someone who believes that they are marginalized by society goes and commits an atrocity meant to give the impression that they were the victim of a hate crime.

The beauty of this stupidity is that it simply proves the point that racism, sexism, and every other form of “ism” out there just isn’t as widespread as we are led to believe. Of all the instances of so-called hate crimes in recent memory, I can count on one hand the number of them that were actually genuine, and that doesn’t include the numerous Jihadist attacks that have killed hundreds of people in the last few years which is just as equally hateful.

The reason I bring these up on a blog about college liberal bias, is because most of these hoaxes happen at colleges. These self-defeating incidents of hate, simply serve to make the crowd of intersectional oppression look like the snotty, nasty people that they are. The most amusing part, is that they say that simply because these incidents are faked, doesn’t invalidate their insistence that white supremacy, racism, nazism, homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, are all rampant in our culture and are institutionalized.

Really, it’s quite pathetic if you think about it. If I make up a lie about something, aren’t you less likely to believe me about anything else? I seem to remember a fable my parents told me growing up about a boy, a wolf, and a lie…

Open War in Academia

Of all the public forums where President Donald Trump has received threats, hatred, and vitriol, perhaps non is most significant than those in academia.

Every week it seems, there is a new story of a professor coming under fire for calling for the assassination of the President of the United States of America. In most cases the professor ends up losing their job. But why on earth are there people who are supposed to be promoting knowledge and critical thinking, advocating for murder?

The issue is that those professors see the election of Donald Trump as a threat. A threat to what? No one is quite sure. But my personal best guess is that he is posing a threat to their desired world order of a communist utopia where they can suppress all disagreement.

The pathetic temper tantrum rants of those that are supposed to be the brightest minds in the world just goes to show how politically slanted academia has become and how intolerant of opposing opinions.

College used to be a center of critical thinking and learning. Now it is a center of indoctrination. Approximately 1 out of every 8 college professors are conservative. In some schools the ratio is even higher. But this is not a problem that will easily be fixed. Meanwhile we can only expose it.

***Tolerance*** Guidebook Season

Aren’t you all looking forward to Halloween? The horrific time of year where the scary, the bizarre, and the fun all collide?

Fantastic! Here are your guidelines this year so that your costume does not appropriate any culture and take all the fun, bizarre and scary parts out of your Halloween.

If you attend the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota, (not the Houston one) make sure that your costume does not include  “wearing Native American headdresses, dressing up as a ‘Mexican’ by wearing a sombrero, dressing as a ‘geisha,’ any form of blackface.”

So all you Narcos fans out there, I’m sorry, but your Pablo Escobar costume that I know you were dying to wear, is probably cultural appropriation.

Do you want to dress up as a mighty Native American chief? You go right ahead. BUT make sure that your skin isn’t white. You killed all the Native Americans after all and if you put on a headdress, you are dancing on the graves of the victims of the war crimes of Lewis & Clark, and George Custer.

Is it just me or did Lewis & Clark befriend the natives they came in contact with? Didn’t they have Sacajawea guide them on their journey? Just me? Ok. I’m sorry, my white privilege is showing. But hey, I speak Spanish and I’m 1/4th Mexican so I’ll appropriate all the cultures I damn well please. Especially Italians because they have the best food.

Public Policy and Higher Education

Lawmakers have a difficult job. It revolves entirely around their ability to agree with people who for the most part, completely disagree with them.

Of course, it’s ridiculous to say that no politician can agree with another at least on something, but you get the idea. On the other hand, those agreements come with a price which is why you get the saying that something is only messed up when the government gets involved.

And a prime example of this is higher education. The actions of public policy makers at the state and local level have mired higher education system in bureaucracy. The Department of Education has so many different sub-departments that each address a different aspect of education and create more and more problems for those involved. Whether it is the students, faculty or staff of a given institution, everyone suffers.

The worst part about this is that once policies and laws are enacted that are harmful to institutions, it’s extremely difficult to fix the problems that have been created by those who had promised to solve problems to begin with.

In principle Title IX is not a bad idea. It has promoted participation in sports for women and is the main reason that the U.S. Olympic Team in 2016 had more women than men. But by the same token, it has prevented men from participating on sports because women are greatly outnumbering men in college and it is making it more difficult for men to participate in sports because the number of sports teams at a university must correspond to the percentage of students of that sex. So if a school has 10 sports and an even split of male to female, there must be 5 female and 5 male sports. But if the student body is 60% female and 40% male, the ladies must have 6 sports and the guys 4.  Thus this prevents sporting opportunities for those that may want it.

The place where Title IX has arguably done its worst damage has been in regards to sexual assault investigations. The issue can be narrowed down to the basic question: Why is the national government involved in crimes that should be handled at a state and local level?

Stay tuned, more to come on so-called “rape-culture” on college campuses.