Joseph Feldblum and Sammy Feldblum: A Moronic, Politicized Response to Deresiewicz and Clune

My God this is stupid.

I'm going to try to resist the urge to go through this idiotic piece of shit paragraph-by-paragraph...but it ain't gonna be easy...

This is one of the many problems with cultists educated beyond the ordinary capacity of their intelligence--they can fight logorrheic delaying actions that provide excuses for those already passionately committed to not facing facts...even after the basic facts should be clear to everyone.

Their basic, fatuous argument is that Woketarianism really isn't to blame for the Democrats' recent drubbing, and academia isn't to blame for woketarianism...in fact...the politicization of academia is coming from the right! And the Dems lost because they didn't go far enough left!

Honestly, with something like this, it's rarely clear how much of it is attributable to the authors' slavish commitment to the Woketarian cult, and how much to them just being rather dim bulbs.

One of the most brainless bits is just another version of the x is political argument in its academia is political form. As is standard in such arguments all sorts of different relations are confused and conflated, so that any link to politics whatsoever--no matter how distant, no matter the relation, and no matter which directly the causal arrow (if any) might point--counts as an argument for x being political. Academia gets money from the government and the government is political! Academia has investments and investments are about money and money something something political! 'Academia' has vowels in it and so does 'political'!!!11111 SEE?????

Politicization is one of the biggest problems in play. The other one is the adoption of literary standards of "reasoning" that replace logic with, basically, free association...

And, of course, starting with one's conclusions and working backwards to accept whatever weak-ass reasons might be required to provide the illusion of support for them.