Paulosophical Vimplications

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• PRIVILEGE AND ACADEMIA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 20, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Imagine two colleges side by side with everything being equal, save that one has all and only white faculty and students, the other all and only black faculty and students. Imagine too that there’s some objective measure of student outcomes…. Read More ›

• THE OTHER UNDRIP AND INTERSECTIONALITY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 19, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Shortly after having passed its Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, the UN ran out of acronyms. So just to avoid confusion, it’s the other UNDRIP that’s the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Invisible People. Women and… Read More ›

• Guest Post. Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Paranormal Activism. (scroll past image)

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 19, 2020 • ( 2 )

  When you deny my ‘lived experience’, you deny my existence! We, the undersigned, petition our flesh and bone (zombies excluded) oppressors to recognize the following, Article 1. We are beings who refer to ourselves as ghosts. All other terms of… Read More ›

• TO THE HUMANS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 13, 2020 • ( 2 )

  Trans women aren’t women, and indigenous people aren’t indigenous. But they’re both people. So are white people. So are rich people. Start with that. And if you do, you’ll notice that all people get constipated, and when they’re not they… Read More ›

• WHAT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 12, 2020 • ( 9 )

  I’m a much better person than my wife. When I have an unconscionable thought I immediately suppress it. When she does she puts it on the table and toys with it like a cat does a mouse. Her latest is… Read More ›

• THE WOKE AND THE UNWOKE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 30, 2020 • ( 2 )

  There’s the woke, there’s the yet to be woke, and then there’s the out-of-my-cold-dead-hands unwoke. I think I’m the latter. And, as could have been expected, our numbers are growing. The counter-revolution needed spokesmen – notice the unabashed performative sexism… Read More ›

• IN DEFENCE OF THE HUMBLE PRONOUN

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 27, 2020 • ( 6 )

  Those of us who speak English find it weird, though not offensive, that Latin-based languages – French and Spanish and Italian – assign gender to their nouns, and indicate that assignment with a gendered article. It’s possible that a very… Read More ›

• ON THE THRUSTUPONEDNESS OF GREATNESS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I have a brother who’s retired now, but he spent his career teaching recreation technology, whatever that is, at a community college in the next province over. Sometime mid-career, there was a faculty strike. A couple days into the strike… Read More ›

• DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 24, 2020 • ( 8 )

  If you ask me what’s beauty, or ugliness, or maybe even the distinction between right from wrong, I likely wouldn’t be able to tell you, except to say I know it when I see it. That’s why, as I’ve already… Read More ›

• ROADS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 24, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Save for recent immigrants, there are no African Americans. Percentages have nothing to do with it. You’re black in America just in case the rest of us think you are. You’re white in America just in case you can pass… Read More ›

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