ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL ROT THAT INFESTS ACADEMIA:

I find it hard to believe that people are willing to be so vengeful over a single instance of bad judgment. Whatever happened to mercy and forgiveness? And what about our shared interest in living in a culture where people aren’t fearful that their lives could be ruined if they said one thing wrong — even when they were trying to say something quite bland (like why can’t we all get along)?

By the way, the professor, Nancy Shurtz, was not just a white person dressing up as a black person, she was also a woman dressing as a man, and a law professor dressing as a doctor. Why is the one crossover an outrage when the other 2 are not? How about some actual intellectual exploration of the subject of inhabiting alternate identities?

It’s Gleischschaltung all the way, even when you’re not sure what you actually believe in. . . .

Related: “Now, I’m not dumb enough to go there. And my own politics are very strong — I’m a left communist. But I think that in fact, the crazier and crazier that this left gets, this version of the left, the more the more the alt-right is going to be laughing their asses off plus getting more pissed. Every time a speaker is booed off campus or shooed off campus because they might say something that bothers someone, that just feeds the notion that the left is totalitarian, and they have a point.”

Plus: “That is, he’s a lefty, criticizing lefties, but he wanted to disguise himself as a righty. Talk about costumes! When do we get to inhabit someone else’s identity?” When it sends the right political message, and no other time, because what is not mandatory is forbidden.