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Editor's Note: I met Malcolm at a National Association of Scholars (NAS) meeting a few years ago. He describes himself thusly, "Malcolm Allen is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, where he has taught since 1990. Openly conservative, since the mid-nineties, he has been glared at, publicly hissed, and urged to perform a physical impossibility upon himself."
Lucky guy has tenure, but Dissident Prof still applauds him for advocating for a safe space for conservatives. He says what few dare to say and with a witty British accent to boot. We preface his manifesto with his brief explanation of the concept of a "safe space" on campus for the benefit of lay readers, who might think of safe spaces as those where a hard hat or a Glock can be set by one's side.
Safe Space for Conservatives by Malcolm Allen
In early 2009 the then Secretary of the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley's Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) sent a general e-mail asking if staff and faculty would volunteer their offices as "Safe Spaces." Those who responded favorably were given ad hoc stickers bearing an inverted pink triangle to put on their office doors (the illustration shows the much fancier one handed out recently). These stickers indicate that the staff or faculty members who display them do not, in the words of Wikipedia's entry on the "Safe Space" movement, "tolerate anti-LGBT violence and harassment and [are] open and accepting, thereby creating a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and all students." Well, I am not myself an LGBT person but I would protest against bad behaviour directed at those who are, and I hope too that my LGBT colleagues, students, and friends think I treat them exactly as I treat heterosexuals. Furthermore, I would be surprised to learn that any "space" in the world is more friendly to homosexuals than the academy, even without pink triangles. What we have here is a little passive aggression on the part of the "Safe Space" movement's instigators, usefully combined with the opportunity for an ever-so-slightly self-conscious display of public virtue on the part of the elect. The people on college campuses who do regularly come in for casual rudeness--or systematic harassment--are conservatives. Hence my appeal below.
Public Education Jihad: Islam Is Infiltrating Our Schools and Indoctrinating Our Youth:by Martin Slann, Posted May 26, 2017: (Editor's note: Dissident Prof is delighted to feature another post by Professor of Political Science, Martin Slann, on the problem of Islamic indoctrination in our schools, which is spreading from the "Wear a Hijab for a Day" events at a community college where she taught 2007-2010 to such appreciation in elementary schools.)
From Europe to America: In much of Europe, public education is being successfully undermined by the growing Islamic presence in schools at all levels. The problem is not a new one, but has become increasingly pervasive during just the last few years and it is spreading to the United States.
Read more: Public Education Jihad: Guest Post by Prof. Slann
No Hunting or Fishing Allowed...Another offering by Scott Herring, UC-Davis
Last summer, returning from a trip to Greater Yellowstone, I was sitting in a cramped Alaska Airlines puddle jumper, thumbing through the in-flight magazine out of simple boredom. What I found was so memorable that I stole the magazine, and still have it. Here was direct evidence of subject I have been thinking about often for some years: how environmentalism has ceased to have anything to do with the environment, and everything to do with making its upmarket leftist supporters feel good about themselves.
Dissident Prof notes Time Magazine's celebration of the Protestor by its designation of the Protestor as the Person of the Year. Some Protestors, however, are more equal than others and the U.S. media turned its gaze on the Protestor from one of the most pampered and flattered groups in history: the American college student, who ostensibly were inspired by protests in the Middle East. The equally self-flattering media, however, little noted the assault on Poland by the communist leftovers. Ewa Thompson, Professor of Slavic Studies, here brings us up to date on the alarming developments.
by Scott Herring
Not a month has passed, and yet I have had enough Pepper Spray Incident to last a lifetime. In case you have been hanging out with the Coneheads on the planet Remulak, and have not heard the news, on November 18, campus police officers pepper-sprayed a line of student protesters who had been occupying the Quad at the University of California, Davis, in a small, very small-scale imitation of Occupy Wall Street. The protesters had been asked and finally ordered to remove themselves, the orders ultimately issuing from the University Chancellor, Linda Katehi.
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