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Category: Progressives

  • Rebecca Blank is the chancellor of cancel culture

    She winnows but does not sift. We bear no ill will toward Northwestern University, the only private institution among the 14 schools of higher education that comprise the Big Ten athletic conference. (We were told there would be no math.) Don’t blame us for Rebecca Blank, Mildcats. Blank is moving on from chancellor of the…

  • Taking nominations for Woke Racist of Year

    CRT is not taught, it’s practiced! UPDATE: Becky Blank leaving UW-Madison to become president of Northwestern University at the end of this school year. Reported here. Where would Woke progressivism be without its trademark arrogance and condescension? The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus is a prime example. Attempting to justify turning civil right…

  • No restroom for the wicked

    Intimidation trumps persuasion We now know why Chancellor Rebecca Blank caves to the handful of social justice warriors scouring the UW-Madison campus for sources of umbrage. She wants to pee in peace. Because the shock troops of Woke progressivism will follow you into the loo shouting their slogans, then post your humiliation on social media.…

  • Hooray for stasis!

    But you tell me over and over and over again my friendAh, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction! All these years later, the 1965 folk/protest song “Eve of Destruction” remains a big buzz kill. That dire dirge plays like the anthem of our perpetually peeved progressive acquaintances (for they ARE …).  Yeah,…

  • Make this the Best Years of Their Lives

    Our plea to Tommy Thompson on behalf of university students everywhere! Dear Governor, Mr. Cabinet Secretary, UW System President, My Old Boss: Restrained, moderate Blaska sez: I have some appreciation for the separation of powers at our great university system. Don’t know that you have to go all S.I. Hayakawa about this but get your chancellors…

  • Wisconsin’s university chancellors are craven cowards

    The progressive cancel culture is canceling our culture The NAACP, faith leaders, actors, and alumni wrote this week to the chancellors of the University of Wisconsin campuses at Madison and Oshkosh and to Gov. Tony Evers to restore the good name of a real-life civil right activist. Or, as academic John McWhorter puts it “repeal…