{"id":45629,"date":"2018-11-09T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45629"},"modified":"2018-11-07T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:16:04","slug":"sniffing-out-the-heretics-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/09\/sniffing-out-the-heretics-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sniffing out the heretics in academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s apparently an easy way to figure out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/my-first-post-retirement-election-day\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who the secret conservatives are<\/a> in the academic world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Evan Maloney\u2019s fun little campus-bashing documentary <em>Indoctrinate U<\/em>, there\u2019s a psychology prof who\u2019s been outed as a conservative (and, of course, harassed out of employment and blackballed from academia, because Liberals are all about the dissenting viewpoints and how dare you suggest otherwise!!!). Maloney then interviews several of her former students:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yeah,\u201d they say, \u201cwe all knew.\u201d He asks them just how they knew, and they all reply with a version of \u201cbecause she was the only professor we had who didn\u2019t go off on political rants all the time in class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which is how all but the deepest-cover shitlords get blown. Unhinged political rants are so common in academia, in every class from the loopiest Angry Studies seminar to the hardest of STEM labs, that simply not acting like an SJW lunatic during class time is unusual enough to get you noticed. It\u2019s like being the first guy to stop clapping for Dear Leader at a North Korean politburo meeting.*<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>*It\u2019s a mark of Orwell\u2019s genius that he even thought this through. I always wondered why the put a time limit on the Two Minutes\u2019 Hate\u2026 until I realized that, Stalinists being Stalinists, no work would get done otherwise; they\u2019d keep ranting until they dropped from exhaustion (and the first guy to pass out would probably <strong>still<\/strong> get shot).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s apparently an easy way to figure out who the secret conservatives are in the academic world: In Evan Maloney\u2019s fun little campus-bashing documentary Indoctrinate U, there\u2019s a psychology prof who\u2019s been outed as a conservative (and, of course, harassed out of employment and blackballed from academia, because Liberals are all about the dissenting viewpoints [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,53,41,13],"tags":[354,1020,764],"class_list":["post-45629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-georgeorwell","tag-progressives","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bRX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45630,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45629\/revisions\/45630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}