Post by robeiae on Sept 30, 2020 8:45:50 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/ohio-state-professor-cancels-himself-for-praising-football/
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At Inside Higher Ed, a Professor Matthew J. Mayhew of Ohio State University has managed to pen a piece of craven absurdity so perfect in scale and composition that it is difficult to imagine how it might ever be topped. Mayhew’s essay has it all. It possesses the quality of a confession extracted under torture. It contains a generous smattering of the meaningless academic buzzwords that have so adroitly corrupted our universities and our thought. And, most important of all, it clings desperately to the pretense that one can meaningfully describe “being told what to think by a mob on pain of being canceled” as “learning.” Mayhew is the writer of our age. His is a tale of grievous sin, of newfound scholarship, and, ultimately, of redemption. In his range, he is almost biblical.
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Those who are aghast at what Mayhew did should stop to recognize just how lucky he has been in the long run. Not everyone’s “center is as a learner,” as his is; not everyone can “unlearn and relearn” by “listening, reading, dialoguing, reflecting and writing”; and, of course, not everyone can recruit to his side a set of minds as notoriously dazzling as those belonging to Donna Ford, Joy Gaston Gayles (yes, that’s the Joy Gaston Gayles), and Gilman Whiting. Mayhew is a fortunate man, indeed. We must hope that the new America is populated by men of his character and fortitude, rather than by the rest of us here on Planet Earth, who have never read anything so stupid in our entire lives.
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Those who are aghast at what Mayhew did should stop to recognize just how lucky he has been in the long run. Not everyone’s “center is as a learner,” as his is; not everyone can “unlearn and relearn” by “listening, reading, dialoguing, reflecting and writing”; and, of course, not everyone can recruit to his side a set of minds as notoriously dazzling as those belonging to Donna Ford, Joy Gaston Gayles (yes, that’s the Joy Gaston Gayles), and Gilman Whiting. Mayhew is a fortunate man, indeed. We must hope that the new America is populated by men of his character and fortitude, rather than by the rest of us here on Planet Earth, who have never read anything so stupid in our entire lives.
Lol.