Thought provoking piece. They are judge and jury because they are superior. Kind of like the Nazis.
I “encountered” my next door neighbor the other day and we went from discussing back yard chicken coops to the state of the world. He gave the requisite groan about the Ukraine and then launched into January 6, a favorite topic of the liberal elites. I asked him if he wasn’t concerned about censorship and he explained that he has a “post-graduate degree” (architect) and that he’s capable of digging for the truth but that uneducated people aren’t capable of that, hence Jan. 6, and that “disinformation” isn’t the same as censorship. He said that it’s “sad” that the country is now divided into educated and uneducated. Such an elitist snob, as I’ve found myself surrounded here in Boulder and as you have found with “fellow academics.”
They are so certain of their superiority that they miss the kind of big part about censorship serving whoever is in power and that could change and are they against censorship then?
The authors of this hit piece against you have lost their ability, if they ever had it, to think independently … I.e., to think. Everything is about moral outrage these days giving idiots an excuse to be idiots.
Such attacks from clueless, ethics-free, bought and paid for idiots are the sincerest from of flattery - at least in my book. These two censorship promoting clowns using the phrases "academic integrity" and "academic freedom" in the same sentence is perhaps the most perfect distillation of academic "wokeness" I could imagine. "In opposing academic freedom - I am supporting academic freedom!" Uh, yeah, right. Amazing!
Apr 4, 2022·edited Apr 4, 2022Liked by Mark Crispin Miller
This is truly beyond appalling, academics claiming to be proponents of academic freedom calling for Nazi or Soviet-style committees to enforce some sort of orthodoxy. Who, pray tell, will decide what is orthodox and what is not ? Let’s get Berubé and Ruth some wigs and black caps so they can pronounce dead any line of thinking of which they disapprove. As for academic rigor and command of facts maybe they should try reading Miller’s books, his essays on film and television, and most important of all, I have a question for them: How can you accuse a professor of these things when you haven’t attended a single class he’s taught over a decades- long career? That amounts to journalistic and academic malpractice. Also, this attack piece gives the false impression that the lawsuit was filed in the wake of the university clearing Miller’s name, but that’s not how things transpired. I would suggest the possibility that the attacks by these esteemed academicians and self-appointed censors comprise a proxy war in behalf of like-minded friends and colleagues some of them among the defendants in Miller’s lawsuit. Furthermore, Miller’s assessment of vaccine safety or any other issue has nothing to do with his teaching, strictly speaking. Everyone in this country is free (or so we claim) to express opinions without being prosecuted or persecuted. As to the vaccines it is clear that Berubé and Ruth accept uncritically and without having done any research whatever the CDC puts out despite the mounting evidence that a. The Pfizer clinical trials were fraudulent (see whistleblower Brook Jackson). b. Just about everything the government has claimed about the vaccines has proven false. Just to cite a couple of examples: they said the spike protein and lipid nanoparticles would stay near the injection site but they do not. They said the vaccines would prevent disease transmission, but they do not. Why do Berubé and Ruth think that the FDA asked for 75 years to release the Pfizer clinical trial data? Is that fact made up by conspiracy theorists like Miller? Odds are they are ignorant of that fact, just as they are likely ignorant of the fact that the Pfizer vaccine failed the all cause mortality endpoint but was nevertheless unleashed on an unsuspecting and vulnerable world, a world created in part by people like Berubé and Ruth.
I find it so disturbing that so many women are so eager to shut down speech they don't like and people they disagree. I know there's a fair amount of men doing the same but there's something quite ingrained my sex' chromosome when it comes to this, whether it's forever banning their children from ever playing again with the neighbor kid because they got into a typical childish squabble or deciding another person whose ideas they disagree with forever be banished from society.
Without personally knowing the two intellectuals in question I find myself drawn to the conclusion that they are proponents of censorship due to the fact they, and their vaunted ilk are incapable of teaching students how to think for themselves. This, of course leaves them the only other option they can conceive, imposing their ignorance on others via force.
As a recently retired professor who could no longer bear the absence of critical thinking in a pervasively woke academic environment, I applaud your tenacity and admire your willingness to take on such mindless insulting monsters head on. Bravo!
The people I follow, are all the people the Universities now deem unacceptable, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Peter Boghossian,Camille Paglia, Jordan Peterson, Janice Fiamango and you. In this day and age, few are willing to take risks and not go against the script. If you could go on the Darkhorse Podcast, that would be cool. Colleges like Evergreen and PSU can't be saved, and this is where much of this crap started around 2015.
Whores gonna whore, I guess. Mighty impressed by their using of magic silver bullet words that absolve them from having to actually falsify something instead of only saying "it could be done, easily".
Apr 4, 2022·edited Apr 4, 2022Liked by Mark Crispin Miller
For decades now, as I understand it, active suppression of "hate speech", as a moral necessity, has been indoctrinated to university students. I can't remember the name of the philosopher who was the first inspiration for it (a French surname.) So now what we seem to have is a generation of intellectuals who in large numbers reject the very notion of free speech (even as the range of speech that's the target of their repression has expanded.)
So this is scary. One need not revere the First Amendment just because it's venerable law but because it's a thoroughly considered response to some of the most potent lessons of all of history.
it must feel quite validating knowing that you have become so powerful that the monied interests behind these two shills feel the need to try to take you down. but that comes as no surprise. you've been a step ahead of everybody for a long time. you nailed it on wtc, you've been spot-on regarding fukushima and especially the plandemic. i would imagine that this ridiculous hit piece has earned you plenty of new subscribers.
maybe it's time to get miller college off the ground!
Short sighted to their own detriment. Not sure how they missed history telling us censorship/propoganda will turn to something you care about. (Not that you can use Google to do a deeper dive into either 9-11 or Sandy Hook in 2022. Maybe still on yandex.com .) It always amazes me those who profess a belief in Free Speech, offer limits and encourage 'cancel culture', as if only allowing speech you agree with is standing up for Free Speech. Protecting Free Speech means sometimes you're required to stand up for a person's right to say something which may make your blood boil. This goes for speech both on and off university campuses. Do they offer a solution to combat a prevailing narrative when it's wrong? How do we speak against it if our speech is censored.
We cannot trust anything the MSM says. I wouldn't trust the NYT on how to cook a carrot cake, without checking with the C.I.A. -----(Culinary Institute of America).
Look at the latest hit piece on Robert Malone, "The Latest Covid Misinformation Star Says He Invented the Vaccines".
Thought provoking piece. They are judge and jury because they are superior. Kind of like the Nazis.
I “encountered” my next door neighbor the other day and we went from discussing back yard chicken coops to the state of the world. He gave the requisite groan about the Ukraine and then launched into January 6, a favorite topic of the liberal elites. I asked him if he wasn’t concerned about censorship and he explained that he has a “post-graduate degree” (architect) and that he’s capable of digging for the truth but that uneducated people aren’t capable of that, hence Jan. 6, and that “disinformation” isn’t the same as censorship. He said that it’s “sad” that the country is now divided into educated and uneducated. Such an elitist snob, as I’ve found myself surrounded here in Boulder and as you have found with “fellow academics.”
They are so certain of their superiority that they miss the kind of big part about censorship serving whoever is in power and that could change and are they against censorship then?
The authors of this hit piece against you have lost their ability, if they ever had it, to think independently … I.e., to think. Everything is about moral outrage these days giving idiots an excuse to be idiots.
Universities are owned by the powers that should not be, just like the governments, media and regulatory agencies. Prepaid services..
Pfizer Offers Millions in Bribes To Buy the Silence of Outspoken Doctors
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/pfizer-offers-millions-in-bribes?s=w
Such attacks from clueless, ethics-free, bought and paid for idiots are the sincerest from of flattery - at least in my book. These two censorship promoting clowns using the phrases "academic integrity" and "academic freedom" in the same sentence is perhaps the most perfect distillation of academic "wokeness" I could imagine. "In opposing academic freedom - I am supporting academic freedom!" Uh, yeah, right. Amazing!
This is truly beyond appalling, academics claiming to be proponents of academic freedom calling for Nazi or Soviet-style committees to enforce some sort of orthodoxy. Who, pray tell, will decide what is orthodox and what is not ? Let’s get Berubé and Ruth some wigs and black caps so they can pronounce dead any line of thinking of which they disapprove. As for academic rigor and command of facts maybe they should try reading Miller’s books, his essays on film and television, and most important of all, I have a question for them: How can you accuse a professor of these things when you haven’t attended a single class he’s taught over a decades- long career? That amounts to journalistic and academic malpractice. Also, this attack piece gives the false impression that the lawsuit was filed in the wake of the university clearing Miller’s name, but that’s not how things transpired. I would suggest the possibility that the attacks by these esteemed academicians and self-appointed censors comprise a proxy war in behalf of like-minded friends and colleagues some of them among the defendants in Miller’s lawsuit. Furthermore, Miller’s assessment of vaccine safety or any other issue has nothing to do with his teaching, strictly speaking. Everyone in this country is free (or so we claim) to express opinions without being prosecuted or persecuted. As to the vaccines it is clear that Berubé and Ruth accept uncritically and without having done any research whatever the CDC puts out despite the mounting evidence that a. The Pfizer clinical trials were fraudulent (see whistleblower Brook Jackson). b. Just about everything the government has claimed about the vaccines has proven false. Just to cite a couple of examples: they said the spike protein and lipid nanoparticles would stay near the injection site but they do not. They said the vaccines would prevent disease transmission, but they do not. Why do Berubé and Ruth think that the FDA asked for 75 years to release the Pfizer clinical trial data? Is that fact made up by conspiracy theorists like Miller? Odds are they are ignorant of that fact, just as they are likely ignorant of the fact that the Pfizer vaccine failed the all cause mortality endpoint but was nevertheless unleashed on an unsuspecting and vulnerable world, a world created in part by people like Berubé and Ruth.
Hang in there. BTW you have become my favorite "leftist media theorist".
I find it so disturbing that so many women are so eager to shut down speech they don't like and people they disagree. I know there's a fair amount of men doing the same but there's something quite ingrained my sex' chromosome when it comes to this, whether it's forever banning their children from ever playing again with the neighbor kid because they got into a typical childish squabble or deciding another person whose ideas they disagree with forever be banished from society.
Without personally knowing the two intellectuals in question I find myself drawn to the conclusion that they are proponents of censorship due to the fact they, and their vaunted ilk are incapable of teaching students how to think for themselves. This, of course leaves them the only other option they can conceive, imposing their ignorance on others via force.
As a recently retired professor who could no longer bear the absence of critical thinking in a pervasively woke academic environment, I applaud your tenacity and admire your willingness to take on such mindless insulting monsters head on. Bravo!
The people I follow, are all the people the Universities now deem unacceptable, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Peter Boghossian,Camille Paglia, Jordan Peterson, Janice Fiamango and you. In this day and age, few are willing to take risks and not go against the script. If you could go on the Darkhorse Podcast, that would be cool. Colleges like Evergreen and PSU can't be saved, and this is where much of this crap started around 2015.
Whores gonna whore, I guess. Mighty impressed by their using of magic silver bullet words that absolve them from having to actually falsify something instead of only saying "it could be done, easily".
For decades now, as I understand it, active suppression of "hate speech", as a moral necessity, has been indoctrinated to university students. I can't remember the name of the philosopher who was the first inspiration for it (a French surname.) So now what we seem to have is a generation of intellectuals who in large numbers reject the very notion of free speech (even as the range of speech that's the target of their repression has expanded.)
So this is scary. One need not revere the First Amendment just because it's venerable law but because it's a thoroughly considered response to some of the most potent lessons of all of history.
That is just two lib opinions. Value = 0!
it must feel quite validating knowing that you have become so powerful that the monied interests behind these two shills feel the need to try to take you down. but that comes as no surprise. you've been a step ahead of everybody for a long time. you nailed it on wtc, you've been spot-on regarding fukushima and especially the plandemic. i would imagine that this ridiculous hit piece has earned you plenty of new subscribers.
maybe it's time to get miller college off the ground!
Short sighted to their own detriment. Not sure how they missed history telling us censorship/propoganda will turn to something you care about. (Not that you can use Google to do a deeper dive into either 9-11 or Sandy Hook in 2022. Maybe still on yandex.com .) It always amazes me those who profess a belief in Free Speech, offer limits and encourage 'cancel culture', as if only allowing speech you agree with is standing up for Free Speech. Protecting Free Speech means sometimes you're required to stand up for a person's right to say something which may make your blood boil. This goes for speech both on and off university campuses. Do they offer a solution to combat a prevailing narrative when it's wrong? How do we speak against it if our speech is censored.
For anyone who may have missed it, here is Mark being interviewed on The Corbett Report, October 2021. https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-propaganda/
Academic freedom has gone the way of evidenced based medicine. There is more reality at Disney World than most college campuses.
We cannot trust anything the MSM says. I wouldn't trust the NYT on how to cook a carrot cake, without checking with the C.I.A. -----(Culinary Institute of America).
Look at the latest hit piece on Robert Malone, "The Latest Covid Misinformation Star Says He Invented the Vaccines".
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/technology/robert-malone-covid.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Technology