Today’s blacklisted American: History professor slandered and ostracized for noting the many historical errors of the NY Times 1619 project
A witch hunt: What passes for intellectual discussion
at Central Connecticut State University
Persecution is now cool! A tenured history professor is under vicious and slanderous attack by the faculty and administration of his college because he has publicly and privately opposed the use in its history curriculum the New York Times 1619 project.
Jay Bergman, a professor of history at Central Connecticut State University [CCSU], wrote to the state’s superintendents earlier in the year asking them to not embed the curriculum, saying it “presents America’s history as driven, nearly exclusively, by white racism” and that “nearly everything else in the 1619 Project, is entirely false, mostly false, or misleading.”
As Bergman also noted,
“In all, faculty in 12 academic departments attacked me, some more than once, for my letter to superintendents,” Bergman told The College Fix. “This does not include my own faculty union, the executive committee of which denounced me formally as a racist. In none of the attacks was any empirical evidence provided to substantiate them.”
“I was also denounced by six of the twelve active members of my own department,” he said, adding “one of whom … at a department meeting, called me a racist to my face.”
None of these attacks addressed the substance of his position, because the substance was correct: The New York Times 1619 Project badly slanders American history by falsely claiming slavery was central to the country’s founding. (And I should know, having just published a new book on the very subject, Conscious Choice, after reviewing all of the original source material describing the origins of slavery in America, as well as almost all of the later historical literature.)
Instead, his attackers lashed out with personal ad hominem abuse against Bergman, employing ridicule and insults and slanders. This is what counts today as modern academic debate. If you take a position that disagrees with the dominant leftist anti-American culture in academia, the response will be a two-minute hate, shouting defamation and libels and vilification as loudly as possible, with no intelligent discourse at all.
No one however should be surprised by the ugliness and shallowness of the attacks from the faculty and administration at this state college. This same college was previously featured in one of my earlier blacklist columns, where its administration teamed up with the NAACP to ban the American flag.
Bergman is tenured, so at the moment his position appears secure, though in today’s climate that is hardly certain. However, the viciousness of the attacks from so many at his college has poisoned his life there.
“[A]fter 31 years of loyal and dedicated service to the institution as a teacher and scholar whose books have been published by several of the most prestigious university presses in the world, I am disenchanted with the moral and intellectual caliber of my attackers would be an understatement,” he told The Fix. “Notwithstanding the university’s public commitment to ‘diversity,’ it is obvious that faculty there will not tolerate any deviation from a radical political orthodoxy and that anyone who does so is not only wrong but evil,” Bergman said.
Modern diversity: Every race must be represented, but only one point of view will be allowed. All other opinions will be destroyed, in as ugly a manner as possible.
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A witch hunt: What passes for intellectual discussion
at Central Connecticut State University
Persecution is now cool! A tenured history professor is under vicious and slanderous attack by the faculty and administration of his college because he has publicly and privately opposed the use in its history curriculum the New York Times 1619 project.
Jay Bergman, a professor of history at Central Connecticut State University [CCSU], wrote to the state’s superintendents earlier in the year asking them to not embed the curriculum, saying it “presents America’s history as driven, nearly exclusively, by white racism” and that “nearly everything else in the 1619 Project, is entirely false, mostly false, or misleading.”
As Bergman also noted,
“In all, faculty in 12 academic departments attacked me, some more than once, for my letter to superintendents,” Bergman told The College Fix. “This does not include my own faculty union, the executive committee of which denounced me formally as a racist. In none of the attacks was any empirical evidence provided to substantiate them.”
“I was also denounced by six of the twelve active members of my own department,” he said, adding “one of whom … at a department meeting, called me a racist to my face.”
None of these attacks addressed the substance of his position, because the substance was correct: The New York Times 1619 Project badly slanders American history by falsely claiming slavery was central to the country’s founding. (And I should know, having just published a new book on the very subject, Conscious Choice, after reviewing all of the original source material describing the origins of slavery in America, as well as almost all of the later historical literature.)
Instead, his attackers lashed out with personal ad hominem abuse against Bergman, employing ridicule and insults and slanders. This is what counts today as modern academic debate. If you take a position that disagrees with the dominant leftist anti-American culture in academia, the response will be a two-minute hate, shouting defamation and libels and vilification as loudly as possible, with no intelligent discourse at all.
No one however should be surprised by the ugliness and shallowness of the attacks from the faculty and administration at this state college. This same college was previously featured in one of my earlier blacklist columns, where its administration teamed up with the NAACP to ban the American flag.
Bergman is tenured, so at the moment his position appears secure, though in today’s climate that is hardly certain. However, the viciousness of the attacks from so many at his college has poisoned his life there.
“[A]fter 31 years of loyal and dedicated service to the institution as a teacher and scholar whose books have been published by several of the most prestigious university presses in the world, I am disenchanted with the moral and intellectual caliber of my attackers would be an understatement,” he told The Fix. “Notwithstanding the university’s public commitment to ‘diversity,’ it is obvious that faculty there will not tolerate any deviation from a radical political orthodoxy and that anyone who does so is not only wrong but evil,” Bergman said.
Modern diversity: Every race must be represented, but only one point of view will be allowed. All other opinions will be destroyed, in as ugly a manner as possible.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in the past two weeks has the mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuses to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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It’s getting to the point that “who will be eaten last?” is becoming an interesting question.
The obvious answer: Whoever is the penultimate victim group. The problem is that the hierarchy is not stable.
It’s clearly not women; the trans folk have eaten feminists, already. It’s clearly not the Jews; aside from being “white”, they’ve already been eaten, too. I’m voting for black, trans, differently-abled. This could, of course, include any number of other people who identify as such, despite all evidence to the contrary.
How long can something be so insane and yet continue? No doubt, we will find out.
Related, its all related. I call this:
INTELLECTUALIZED REALITY
Then there is this, I will call this a prime example of: “INTELLECTUALIZED REALITY”.
Now this is scary:
https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1413184739167535106?s=20
Not a skit apparently, that is a real baby, and they are not actors.
And its not because two differently oriented people have had a baby, not at all. This is not an attack on differently oriented people. And if you do think that you can go jump off a bridge. A very high one.
Although it is not an ideal IMO situation, as long as they love the child and provide for it it may have a chance to live a life. BUT.
Just the other day a customer (A woman) who I know and has several children came in with a week old baby hanging in a baby pack on her front. I jokingly asked: “You had another!?”
No, no she answered. I take new borns in for a few weeks after they are born.
I asked: “He has no family?”
No, was the answer. “Hopefully he will be adopted, but he will probably be in a foster home”.
HUH, It was a real world heart breaking moment for me. Its one thing to discuss it, but its another to see that little helpless week old head poking out of that pack and his little hand holding on to the strap and realizing that he is essentially all alone in the world.
What is irrational here? It is their irrational expectation that what they so dearly desire, a man to be a woman and a woman to be a man has in the real world crashed and burned and they are now faced with that irreconcilable “Intellectualized” reality.
How does one come to this irrational expectation? Mental illness and / or conditioning and indoctrination may well be the answer. And that real reality is what must be looked at because now they have a baby and they apparently by their own words do not really understand where it comes from and I assume may not fully understand what their responsibilities are.
Who will they blame for their failure? Themselves? Society? God? or the baby?
And that is the objective, reasonable, rational conclusion.
Just another slice, another gift of the irrational and cantankerous, destructive Left.