tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post8369842119592126914..comments2024-03-19T13:11:49.614-07:00Comments on Save Send Delete: The Ivory Tower. What You Are Not Allowed to Say. The Hell in Small Things. D Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-13585611657318776182013-08-12T11:49:31.773-07:002013-08-12T11:49:31.773-07:00OMIGOD not an English accent too!
OMIGOD not an English accent too! <br /><br />D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-12990062402952525832013-08-12T09:06:42.015-07:002013-08-12T09:06:42.015-07:00I didn't notice the head shot. :)
And she has...I didn't notice the head shot. :)<br /><br />And she has an English accent. That always helps. Liron Rubinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-47785833467748223362013-08-10T06:24:48.095-07:002013-08-10T06:24:48.095-07:00Liron I just googled Candida Moss. She is a young,...Liron I just googled Candida Moss. She is a young, hot, blonde with a professional head shot on her page. D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-70570991166958396832013-08-10T06:21:06.786-07:002013-08-10T06:21:06.786-07:00Liron, I LOVE what you wrote. Every word of it. I ...Liron, I LOVE what you wrote. Every word of it. I admire your courage. I nod at the mention of the dirty women / no rape nonsense. <br /><br />What can I say. Thank you. D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-1156114096532108992013-08-10T04:28:08.041-07:002013-08-10T04:28:08.041-07:00This is a perfectly depressing blog post. I was sh...This is a perfectly depressing blog post. I was shaking my head in disbelief halfway through. It says a lot about this publication—-none of it good—-that they responded so negatively to what is, in my opinion, a rather restrained criticism of Marxism. <br /><br />Tenure? Get rid of it. There’s no reason why, say, a smug historian with a cozy sinecure at an elite college should be allowed to get away with behavior-—bullying, indoctrination, writing crap, whitewashing atrocities—-that would get people in other professions fired.<br /><br />Like many others, I thought things would change for the better after the Wade Churchill controversy. Correct me I’m wrong, but the evidence seems to suggest that it’s now even easier, on college campuses, to get away with assaults on truth and decency. Just recently, I read an article on Yahoo about a new book by one Candida Moss, a 35-year-old full professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In this book, Moss argues that Christians suffer from a persecution crisis and that the early Christians weren’t really persecuted by the Romans. The book is a real hit. <br /><br />Another example: In 2002 or 2003, when I was wrapping up my MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an Israeli journalist discovered that the sociology department there had approved an MA thesis in which the writer, a female graduate student, argued that contempt for Arab women (the belief that they are dirty) is the only reason Israeli soldiers don’t rape Palestinian women in the occupied territories—-an astounding argument for which she provided not a shred of evidence. The thesis was nevertheless approved.<br /><br />After reading your blog post, I murmured a quiet “thank you” to the untenured professor who, hearing that I had been accepted to the University of Chicago for a PhD program in Near Eastern and Islamic Studies, told me this: "You will spend the next 6 years swallowing your pride and apologizing for your background, your ethnicity, and your first name. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll land a tenure-track job somewhere, but know this: It isn’t very honorable to wait until your livelihood is secure to start speaking the truth.” Bless him. <br /> <br />My apologies for the long comment. This pissed me off. <br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />Liron Rubinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-71394900387745527912013-08-09T05:02:50.119-07:002013-08-09T05:02:50.119-07:00Jeff, thank you! :-)Jeff, thank you! :-)D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-15928257104518211622013-08-08T23:36:12.572-07:002013-08-08T23:36:12.572-07:00I think this is a hugely important post. Not kiddi...I think this is a hugely important post. Not kidding. And I'm glad you posted the review sans short-sighted editing. It seems we're on the verge of another decade of almost bottomless conservatism - the sort that resists truth. Happens every thirty years or so. The fifties and the eighties waved the flag of Fear and Consumption as though the bomb had landed in the backyard. And now, enlightenment of the purest sort is traded once again. Perhaps that's reactionary of me. But after digesting your opening comments, not to mention the doggedly obtuse misapprehension of Catholicism (and its position)_presented by these quislings, I can't help it. The church was practically made by proponents of questioning authority, and that is what makes it great. Bigotry against homosexuals is such a timeworn and archaic response that it makes me want to march ... to festoon myself with a garland of pink triangles, and sing "It's Raining Men" and "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" in caroling fashion on front porches. Egad. Also ... mushrooms? I can't imagine what self-indulgent mindset would find that the least bit relevant. Whew. Poopy-heads. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13026527629288220795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-52984016022829560462013-08-08T16:24:51.671-07:002013-08-08T16:24:51.671-07:00A facebook friend posted this:
"I read it. I...A facebook friend posted this:<br /><br />"I read it. I understood most of it. I don't know how you survive in academia today and I feel sorry that you were born into this time when your clear intellect and opinions don't matter to those in charge of hiring at the college level. I don't feel sorry for you, however, because you, my dear FB friend, will win in the end, whether it's in this life or the next."D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.com