{"id":5435,"date":"2017-06-13T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/13\/the-bret-weinstein-heather-heying-caper-at-evergreen-state\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T11:05:13","slug":"the-bret-weinstein-heather-heying-caper-at-evergreen-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/13\/the-bret-weinstein-heather-heying-caper-at-evergreen-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bret Weinstein-Heather Heying Caper at Evergreen State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having come to expect lunacy from lefties, I was not dismayed, but entertained, by the absurd bigotry that seeps out of the following passage from this<\/a> Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> piece:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now the couple weighed a new option. A producer for Tucker Carlson Tonight,<\/em> a prime-time show on Fox News, had asked if Mr. Weinstein wanted to make his case to the conservative commentator and his millions of viewers.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a nauseating thought, says Ms. Heying. Theirs was an NPR family. Back in college, Mr. Weinstein had stood up to fraternities<\/a> at the University of Pennsylvania over sexist and racist behavior at their parties. In an ideal world, says Ms. Heying, they would have talked to The New York Times<\/em> or The Washington Post<\/em>. But that\u2019s not who had come calling.<\/span><\/p>\n

"He was horrified, I was horrified," Ms. Heying told The Chronicle.<\/em> "Tucker Carlson is someone he mocks in his classes."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Weinstein teaches biology and he wastes class time on political commentary and mockery of talk show hosts?<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing I do like about lefties, though, is that they eat their own with a hunger and ferocity unlike anything on the Right. The 'progressive' Weinstein, who is now a 'racist,' is learning this the hard way. May he come to his senses. May he come to appreciate that conservatives are the new liberals, and liberals the new fascists. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have written a number of articles critical of NPR and PBS. Here is an excerpt from National Public Radio and the Tit of the State<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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"If the product is so superior, why does it have to live on the tit of the State?" (Charles Krauthammer)<\/span><\/p>\n

One answer is that the booboisie  of these United States is too backward and benighted to appreciate the high level of NPR programming.  The rubes of fly-over country are too much enamored of wrestling, tractor pulls, and reality shows, and, to be blunt, too stupid and lazy to take in superior product.<\/span><\/p>\n

Being something of an elitist myself, I am sympathetic to this answer.  The problem for me is twofold.  NPR is run by lefties for lefties.  That in itself is not a problem.  But it is a most serious problem when part of the funding comes from the taxpayer.  But lefties, blind to their own bias, don't see the problem.  Very simply, it is wrong to take money by force from people and then use it to promote causes that those people find offensive or worse when the causes have nothing to do with the legitimate functions of government.  Planned Parenthood and abortion.  NEA and "Piss Christ."  Get it?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Having come to expect lunacy from lefties, I was not dismayed, but entertained, by the absurd bigotry that seeps out of the following passage from this Chronicle of Higher Education piece: Now the couple weighed a new option. A producer for Tucker Carlson Tonight, a prime-time show on Fox News, had asked if Mr. Weinstein … Continue reading “The Bret Weinstein-Heather Heying Caper at Evergreen State”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,163,120,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-media-matters","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}