rightscholar.bsky.social
Canadian, disaffected Catholic, PhD in Wyndham Lewis. @rightscholar on X. My Substack is called Agony: https://open.substack.com/pub/theagony/p/welcome-to-agony
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Try it, enjoy it, live it.
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If they had lost they wouldn't be saying that.
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...going to be something other than populist conservatism in disguise, has to look at universities as they really are, and not the false reality created by pundits and influencers.
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...have immense influence on government, culture, corporations, schools, the military, and more. That is what people were reacting to—not the reality—when they voted for Trump in 2016, and that's what they were reacting to once again in 2024. Any critique of academia from the inside, if it is...
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...populist conservative outlets and influencers who used Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms to amplify the conservative critique of academia to levels that had never been seen before. They created an alternate reality within which many people thought universities really did...
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The idea of pc indoctrination, etc. in academia was always greatly overstated, even if it pointed to *some* truth, and so was the influence of academia. Humanities profs dream every day of having real influence on society...but most of them don't. What DID change in 2014 was the rise of a wave of...
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...and not just since 2014. When I started university in 1994, campus political correctness and "feminazis" and such were the targets of rw commentators like Rush Limbaugh and co. Some of the same conservative loudmouths we see today, like Dinesh D'Souza and Roger Kimball, were around then too.
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Anyone familiar with academia knows that there is a *strong* tendency in the humanities and social sciences toward social liberalism and left-wing thought, including the use of annoying PC terminology. It can be oppressive. All of that is true. But it's been the case since at least the 1960s,...
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Didn't know this magazine existed! Great to have a forum for non-TT historians.
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...Red Bull and candy for every meal, day after day, year after year, but they ate it! They do love owning libs, but they also love saying the same stuff over and over to each other. It's remarkable.
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Rumble was an echo chamber, and then there were podcasts like Bannon's War Room that were on every single day featuring a rotating echo chamber cast. I thought that there was no way people could ingest that kind of content 24/7, but then *can.* They love it. It's like having...
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Twitter was turned into a MAGA echo chamber by Musk. Like he literally rigged everything to make it happen. Truth Social kept Trump in touch with his followers for 4 years. Gab was always too explicitly Nazi (though X is as bad now), and Parler just failed, but echo chambers absolutely worked.
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Wow, that's incredible. Great playing from you both.
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It's remarkable how MAGA turned social media into a forum for just two things: 1) cheerleading Trump, and 2) attacking and destroying anything and everyone else. That's what it all boils down to.
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Decoding the Gurus is one of my favourites decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm
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We need the MMMBop mass
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hey, nice to see you!
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Trump and Elon prepared the public for this. The endless, endless demonization of illegal immigrants. Consciences have been numbed. People are convinced everything will be better after the "occupation" is over. They will help it all happen. Years from now, though, people will look back in shame.
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Elon turned Twitter into a propaganda machine. Basically a $44 billion campaign contribution for Trump. He did everything he could to maximize rw influencers, trolls, and content that would desensitize people to violence and hate. Coming here made me realize just how terrible Twitter had become.
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Nice to see you here!
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It does all seem kind of unreal. The fake world of the scam artists and online influencers is now ascendant. Maybe some quiet is good, though, in response to what's happening. Time for discernment.
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Keeping in mind of course that the great thinkers of liberal Protestantism (Schleiermacher, Harnack, etc.) had a vastly more sophisticated grasp of the bible and the history of theology.
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I hear you. Even in Canada, dialogue has become impossible with those who have adopted the MAGA worldview. It shuts down reason and replaces it with combative rhetoric.
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I find woke excesses annoying. And yes "cancel culture" does exist in academia and similar environments. But I find some expressions of anti-woke absolutely horrifying. It went from justified pushback to psychotic obsession.
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I will!