6/26/17

Academic Tempests of Tuval and Durden

Lisa Durden was fired from Essex C.C. after defending a blacks only event. Rebecca Tuval- a philosophy professor, was criticized after writing an article published in a feminine journal defending the right to change race.

Racist events aren't good. If one were to exclude the media, that might be better, yet what if one excludes only media of select race?  Phys.org ran an article on another female college professor (Rebecca Tuval) who ran a controversial article called 'In Defense of Transracialism'. She was soundly chastised for suggesting that its ok for people to change their race if possible. I would think that changing culture would be the more important issue, or at least improving it so far as to benefit society with security, technological and spiritual progress.

  At any rate, phys.org assured readers that genetically race is de trop. Yet one knows that besides the behavorial differences in different cultures such as exist in deviant theologies of trans-African Christian communities (i.e. Evans of Nigeria), skin color matters for purposes of sunburn and absorption of vitamin D. Apparently white male pattern baldness evolved in order to let men get more vitamin D in cloudy northwestern Europe long ago.

Someone explained to me that even though Oregon legalized dope, they can't allow it on a community college campus that received federal funds-because its still illegal in federal law (dope). A community college that receives federal funds, would want to be in compliance with federal policy. I would think that would exclude support for segregation advocates, race-only events, neo-nazi supremist adjunct professors etc. Colleges are said to run toward effite leftism (I don't know if that's true or not), and a racial policy preference of any color in any way might not sit well with the left.

A white female Professor of Law was 'lynched' last year as much as was adjunct Professor Durden. At a private party the University of Oregon professor wore a costume with blackface. She was then fired. Apparently colleges have discretionary power to fire people for creating bad public impressions. They may want to seem politically correct. With so many Asian students working hard the administration may not want to seem like hillbillies or something. The new black college President may have dismissed Prof. Durden for that same reason. They may be able to fire people for wearing scandalous attire or bad breath.

  Instead of people changing their race or learning rap-hip-hop-gangsta-kentucky billy sorts of plain unintellectual cutlure, hthey should learn more technical material such as is available often for free on-line at COURSERA and elsewhere. One may utter sillyness in or out of academia as cultural waves of empowerment put the letter patches on people of different suits and pantsuits. Racist events that are exclusive to particular groups are and will remain politically unpopular however. The Federal government cannot support organizations financially that advocate racist activities-even if race exists only in skin and various other areas of the genome that phys.org regards as unimportant or trivially differentiating. People do that with the public debt economics too.

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