The Left Is Losing It

The left is really losing it right now. Tidings:

Let’s start with the University of Idaho, which has closed its cultural centers (that is, leftist ideological pods) following a long overdue directive from the State Board of Education to close down DEI programs (though of course some programs will be renamed and staff shuffled around, so there will need to be a second phase of DEI-hunting).

Inside Higher Education quotes a student employee of a now-shuttered “Women’s Center,” which is merely being moved to a new unit under a new name:

“The transition strips away culture and history entirely. We want to be grateful for what is left over and what we are still able to have, while grieving and deeply understanding how dangerous it is to holistically sweep away so many identities and personhood.”

She forgot to say “genocide!” (Perhaps that term is reserved only for speaking of Israel.) “Sweeping away many identities”? And “personhood”? It really does seem that the identitarians are so far gone that they doubt their own ontology unless there is a special campus office devoted to making them feel better. This whole word-salad is a perfect piece of evidence for why all of these programs need to be abolished, under whatever name they try to disguise them. (Recall the definition of “holistic” in Power Line’s Lexicon of Political Terminology: “Leftist adjective for ‘we have no idea how to think about or what to do about a problem and want to change the subject with a fog of pretentious adjectives.'”)

Yale University seems to be going out of its way to collect complete nutjobs. The best example is “philosopher” Jason Stanley, and if you’ve never seen this one-minute highlight reel, you’re in for a treat. But even Stanley has to step aside now in favor of  Yale “historian” Timothy Snyder, who has also been very concerned for several years now about the dark night of fascism descending upon us because of Trump. He’s also concerned, today, about Pete Hegseth. Here’s the big finale of his tweetstorm this afternoon:

Shall we start a GoFundMe page to pay for Snyder’s moving expenses to Canada?

But the cherry on top of this ice cream delight is Jennifer Rubin’s resignation from the Washington Post, and from her self-important standpoint this is a blow from which Jeff Bezos will never recover (though is is reasonable to speculate that she didn’t “resign,” but was pushed out). Seriously, one of the “slugs” (journo-speak for very short summary) reads as follows: “Jennifer Rubin, a high-profile columnist, has left The Washington Post after 14 years, raising eyebrows over Jeff Bezos’ relationship with Donald Trump.

High-profile! (In her own mind at least.) “Raising eyebrows.” Whose eyebrows, as Canada’s Pierre Poilievre would surely ask. Only newsroom junkies.

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