THE LEFT IS LOSING IT

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-15 15:04:41 | Updated at 2025-01-19 03:39:45 3 days ago

THE LEFT IS LOSING IT
Powerline ^ | 15 Jan 2025 | Steven HAyward

Posted on 01/15/2025 6:18:13 AM PST by Rummyfan

• Let’s start with the University of Idaho, which has closed its cultural centers (that is, leftist ideological pods) following a long overdue directive from the State Board of Education to close down DEI programs (though of course some programs will be renamed and staff shuffled around, so there will need to be a second phase of DEI-hunting).

Inside Higher Education quotes a student employee of a now-shuttered “Women’s Center,” which is merely being moved to a new unit under a new name:

“The transition strips away culture and history entirely. We want to be grateful for what is left over and what we are still able to have, while grieving and deeply understanding how dangerous it is to holistically sweep away so many identities and personhood.”

She forgot to say “genocide!” (Perhaps that term is reserved only for speaking of Israel.) “Sweeping away many identities”? And “personhood”? It really does seem that the identitarians are so far gone that they doubt their own ontology unless there is a special campus office devoted to making them feel better. This whole word-salad is a perfect piece of evidence for why all of these programs need to be abolished, under whatever name they try to disguise them. (Recall the definition of “holistic” in Power Line’s Lexicon of Political Terminology: “Leftist adjective for ‘we have no idea how to think about or what to do about a problem and want to change the subject with a fog of pretentious adjectives.'”)

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But the cherry on top of this ice cream delight is Jennifer Rubin’s resignation from the Washington Post, and from her self-important standpoint this is a blow from which Jeff Bezos will never recover (though is is reasonable to speculate that she didn’t “resign,” but was pushed out). Seriously, one of the “slugs” (journo-speak for very short summary) reads as follows: “Jennifer Rubin, a high-profile columnist, has left The Washington Post after 14 years, raising eyebrows over Jeff Bezos’ relationship with Donald Trump.

High-profile! (In her own mind at least.) “Raising eyebrows.” Whose eyebrows, as Canada’s Pierre Poilievre would surely ask. Only newsroom junkies.

1 posted on 01/15/2025 6:18:13 AM PST by Rummyfan

To: Rummyfan

The left never really had it to begin with.

2 posted on 01/15/2025 6:24:04 AM PST by ComputerGuy

To: Rummyfan

“...though of course some programs will be renamed and staff shuffled around...”

They should have a hot-line for students to call to help identify the hold-overs.

3 posted on 01/15/2025 6:24:40 AM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")

To: Rummyfan

On CSpan this morniing, delusional “progressives” plan to destroy MAGA. lol
https://www.peoplefor.org/
“The Resistance Starts Now “.

4 posted on 01/15/2025 6:39:40 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)

To: Rummyfan

I like the term in the article “DEI hunting”.

I will find these programs and expose them no matter what they call themselves—and there are millions more like me who refuse to be conned by these insane leftist dirtballs.

5 posted on 01/15/2025 6:46:37 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)

And the world keeps spinning. So what is new?

6 posted on 01/15/2025 6:50:08 AM PST by deport

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