Guest post: Away from intellect and towards submission

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Ophelia Benson

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Originally a comment by Papito on An academic project.

It could never be enough to “intellectually dispel” ideas like evolution or laws of physics. Intellect is not the route through which one may dispel such ideas. Inevitably, violence is the route through which these ideas will be dispelled.

The first step towards this inevitable violence is the installation at the university of an individual who wants to guide the university away from intellect and towards submission. The second step is for that individual to tell students that when the university tries to encourage them towards intellect and away from submission that this is harm done to them. The third step is to compare the harm done by, say, stabbing a professor who teaches evolution with the supposed harm done to students whose minds may be lead away from submission by hearing about evolution. After that, it’s just a matter of time and probability.

Ahmed’s purpose in being there is to destroy the university, and her colleagues think that’s really cool. She wants to get one of her colleagues killed, and she will succeed. That murder will be hailed as liberatory by the people who celebrated October 7.

Ahmed wasn’t just making coffee at the terrorist group, she wrote the part of their doctrine about education. Ahmed: “the Muslim community as a whole in Britain needs to recognise that western education is a threat to our beliefs and values”. The university is so dedicated to free expression that they accept the expression of the idea that there should be no freedom of expression, and no university.

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2 responses to “Guest post: Away from intellect and towards submission”

  1. Lady Mondegreen Avatar
    Lady Mondegreen

    Thanks, Papito. This sort of thing worries me deeply. I know some dismiss Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe as alarmist, but I think that, at the least, we all need to stay vigilant.

    Many people can’t seem to wrap their heads around the fact that every brown foreigner isn’t an oppressed would-be liberal who shares their basic values. And this is odd, because they’re the first to laud (what they call) “diversity”.

  2. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    Many people can’t seem to wrap their heads around the fact that every brown foreigner isn’t an oppressed would-be liberal who shares their basic values.

    And these are the same people who believe that every white person is an oppressing racist (not excepting themselves, except…they only include themselves for the purpose of self-righteous self-flagellation, in order to demonstrate that, in fact, they are different from the run-of-the-mill white person, and in fact, seem to have the idea that ‘black’ and ‘white’ are not referencing color of skin but a ‘proper’ or ‘improper’ attitude to people of color).

    They are also often the same people who believe men are women if they say so… ‘nuf said.

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