History at the University of Wisconsin
has never been more political!
With the help of Ol’ Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer, the gray labcoats at the Werkes are developing a theory. It’s what they do.
The theory is that the backlash against Joe Biden’s absolution of student debt is driven less by economics or even class resentment. “Tradespeople” aren’t the only ones resentful, nor even college graduates who paid off their debt. What’s hacking us off is the Soviet-style totalitarianism of today’s college campus. Academia’s hectoring intolerance of dissent. Dissidents are shunned, harassed by thuggish students, disinvited, canceled and thrown down an Orwellian memory hole. Maybe college should be unaffordable!
The last thrilling episode of The Werkes explored the unconscionable un-personing of one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, Wisconsin’s own Fredric March. More absurdly, a 42-ton glacial erratic boulder known as the Chamberlin Rock was banished from campus. A big stone! Trucked away from its 10,000-year resting place because a small clatch of students, inflamed by instructed grievance, feigned injury! (!!!) UW-Madison, after all, helped birth critical race theory.
‘Sifting and winnowing’ in the search for truth at the University of Wisconsin has become more fearful than in Joe McCarthy’s time.
So we pose this thought exercise: Let’s say for one year back in the 1920s, a student from Racine named Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel really did admire the Ku Klux Klan and — conscious of its evils — founded a student social club in its name. (Although the actual evidence is to the contrary.) Subsequently, he and his fellow students came to Jesus and scrapped that horrible name and renounced the horror it represents. In the next 50+ years amid an honored acting career, as Fredric March, this UW graduate went out of his way to work for civil rights. Is nothing to be learned from redemption? No second acts in American lives? No room for the prodigal son?
Can we not expect more — as our progressive … acquaintances like to say — NUANCE in the lives of our saints? Even Peter doubted.
Lysenko history
Not in today’s university! A professor at UW-Madison dared question his profession’s obsession with distorting history through the lens of today’s identity politics. Prof. James H. Sweet is president of the American Historical Association. Writing “Is History History?” in the association’s magazine, he warned that “bad history yields bad politics.”
Too many historians, Sweet argued, use history “as an evidentiary grab bag … to articulate their [own] political positions.” He cited The NY Times’ 1619 Project as an example. His critique “immediately raised howls of protest on Twitter from left-wing academics.,” NY Times columnist Bret Stephens reports.
Within two days, Sweet produced a groveling apology, in which he indicted himself for a “ham-fisted attempt at provocation” that “alienated some of my black colleagues and friends” and for which he was “deeply sorry.”
Stephens gets The Bottom Line: “Anyone looking for further confirmation that modern academia has become a fundamentally ideological and coercive exercise masquerading as a scholarly and collegial one need have looked no further.”
Education
Blaska Policy Werkes 
In the illogical world of Liberalism, the only ones worthy of redemption and second chances (or 3rd, 4th, 5th etc.) are the criminals who roam the streets with total disregard for property or human life.
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Colleges value every kind of diversity except the most important one: diversity of thought.
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To take that a step further:
Despicable Lefty (campus dwelling, or otherwise) respect ALL religions (except Judaism & Christianity), ALL cultures (except Western, and ALL nationalities (except the good ol’ U. S. of A.).
Tolerantly, of course!
Most (not all) Lefties are terminally unhappy, laughably unfulfilled, and monumentally self-loathing li’l puds!
#Sadz!
The Gotch
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And do you think the right-wing people respect ALL religions, cultures, nationalities? Not from what I’ve seen.
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Boston Children’s Hospital received Bomb threats today from a right-wing group because they dared to help transgender kids. Sounds like this group is “terminally unhappy, unfulfilled and self-loathing. Am I right?
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There is zero evidence of who called it in. If I had to put money down I’d bet on the caller being Antifa, a pro-abortion activist (they’ve been firebombing and vandalizing churches and pregnancy help centers all over, for real) or a radical LGBTQIAEIEIOLMNOP activist.
Meanwhile the Hospital and their media sycophants are straight up LYING when they say they don’t do radical transgender surgery on minors. In fact they do and have done so and before they scrubbed their own website they advertised such “services” (chopping off penises, female breasts, etc.) for minors.
Find and prosecute whoever phoned in the threat, no matter who they are, but also remember that hospital and fake media continue to lie about what they do there in terms of minors and radical irreversible transgender surgery
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You’re chasing the foulest of balls, AC, the terminally clueless Blogge Idiot neither dwells in, nor acknowledges, the fact-based Universe.
Bolstered by an always wrong/never in doubt threadbare skill set with a shoe-size I.Q., it reads a headline on a sites that makes bank catering to crippling stoopidity, nods furiously like a bobble-head on a bad piece of road, and takes it unquestionin’ly glassy-eyin’ly lock-steppin’ly as secular Gospel.
#PitiablyPathetic!
The Gotch
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The Gotch must confess he’s less than tolerant of 75 year-old despicably imbecilic, hopelessly illiterate Blogge Idiot TROLTS…
The Gotch
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And I’m less than tolerant of old, fat righties who are blind to what’s going on around them. Your constant one-sided attacks are wearing thin with me and the general public. you are the idiot for believing that the left is 100% responsible for what ails the country when you support that orange faced criminal who can’t even pay his bills. Trump belongs in jail along with a host of other lawyers, politicians and militants who support him. LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! TRAITOR !!
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Sir, we are unsure it’s wise to incorrectly discredit President Trump with the misnomer “can’t even pay his bills” when the progressives are running Mandela “Deadbeat” Barnes to unseat Senator Ron “The Man” Johnson. Just sayin’
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To tell de troof, it wouldn’t bother me if both you and the Gotch would keep your beefs to yersef once in a while.
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Heh!
Nemo–1000
Blogge Idiot–0
Heh! But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but doesn’t Barnes’ ads showing him visiting…um…barns and riding on the hubs of tractors counterbalance all that…?
He’s a bad BAD joke…just like DementiaJoKe!
The Gotch
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Not Sweet at all.
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This all really saddens me as College was one of the best experiences I’ve had in my life. Our oldest child escaped because they focused on a STEM degree. However the youngest one wasn’t so lucky and is now battling through some indoctrination now that she’s getting into the real world.
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The Blogger-in-Chief asks:
“Does a college education produce stupidity?”
The answer is — in many cases, yeah. Especially in big bubble universities where actual thinking and going against the grain is not encouraged, or classified as “hate” or “white supremacy” or both.
And another way to look at it is — stupid people go to college and some of them get degrees in things like “public policy” — and then go on to jobs with places like the City of Madison where they soak city taxpayers for tens and hundreds of millions of dollars for asinine projects like THIS.
MADISON’S LONGEST-RUNNING JOKE
Can you hear the voice of Robin Leach (“Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”) intoning,
“Twenty! …. million! …. dollars! — all for a failed ‘public market’ project that after decades of planning and promoting may just yet go down…. like the Titanic. ”
WILL ANYONE LOSE THEIR JOB FOR THIS HIGH- PRICED INCOMPETENCE!??
KILL THE PUBLIC MARKET! (A private firm would have built it 20 years ago already. And there already is a thriving international market by East Towne or Sun Prairie if I recall correctly. )
https://madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/madison-public-market-delayed-funding-setback-threatens-project/article_7948290e-6388-5309-98ac-c6c228d9d2d1.html
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Hurrumph. The city needs to stop financing all the boondoggles for white people and instead focus on the boondoggles for black people.
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The Gotch’s pal & former Alder Thuy Pham-Remmele was adamant against this Lefty pipe-dream boondoggle from the git-go.
But despite despicable Lefty’s laughable claim that ALL minority voices ought be heard, she had committed the ONE Lefty secular Cardinal Sin for which no redemption exists: She chose to think for herself and didn’t toe the Lefty Line.
The Gotch
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Oh, for some Thuy Pham-Remmele on the Madison Common Council!
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And the MMSD & County Boards?
The Gotch
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You haven’t seen anything yet. BRT will be so much more money spent on a bad idea nobody will remember the Public Market that we were all told will make money. Did you hear that the city and county will come up with more money for a new men homeless shelter.
It will be interesting how the mayor and city council will juggle the budget for next year. Maybe they can double the registration fee to $80 or make the police and other city departments take a 5% cut
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Yeah BRT will probably be mind boggling on so many levels. Didn’t the City have nothing but problems for the past 3 years after spending millions on a handful of those stupid electric buses that don’t even work?
The City and County just threw another $10 million of our tax dollars towards another homeless shelter.
“Come to Madison and Dane County, people who cannot function on any level, work, or provide a single thing for themselves. Free Housing! Free Food! Free Bus Passes! Free Money! Don’t worry about a thing, we’ve got you covered. The racist white people and those white-adjacent model minorities who go to work every day will pay for it all!”
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“The racist white people and those white-adjacent model minorities who go to work every day will pay for it all!”
Bravo Indigo November Golf Oscar!
The Gotch
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If you wonder why despicable Lefties are so hopelessly confused, wonder no more:
From Dr. Lyle Rossiter Jr.–The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes Of Political Madness:
“The radical left’s efforts to regulate the people from cradle to grave. To rescue us from our troubled lives, the liberal agenda:
*recommends denial of personal responsibility,
*encourages self-pity and other-pity,
*fosters government dependency,
*promotes sexual indulgence,
*rationalizes violence,
*excuses financial obligation,
*justifies theft,
*ignores rudeness,
*prescribes complaining and blaming,
*denigrates marriage and the family,
*legalizes all abortion,
*defies religious and social tradition,
*declares inequality unjust, and
*rebels against the duties of citizenship.
“Through multiple entitlements to unearned goods, services and social status, the liberal politician promises to ensure everyone’s material welfare, provide for everyone’s healthcare, protect everyone’s self-esteem, correct everyone’s social and political disadvantage, educate every citizen, and eliminate all class distinctions.
“Radical liberalism thus assaults the foundations of civilized freedom. Given its irrational goals, coercive methods and historical failures, and given its perverse effects on character development, there can be no question of the radical agenda’s madness.
“ONLY AN IRRATIONAL AGENDA WOULD ADVOCATE A SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF THE FOUNDATIONS ON WHICH ORDERED LIBERTY DEPENDS.” (bolds/caps/italics added)
Ah Lefty; so MUCH all-consuming delusion, so little time!
The Gotch
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