Please note. My next biblio, on Diversity, won’t be published for a few weeks — lest I overwhelm Viminitz’s blog. I’ll upload that biblio as a PDF, which will be an in an easier format to read and save. The… Read More ›
EDI
Addendum to Pamela Lindsay’s recent Guest Post on implicit bias testing and training.
The following is an addendum to my Guest Post: “The ubiquitous, questionable, and possibly unethical use of implicit bias tests and training at Canadian universities under the auspices of EDI.” It’s designed to serve as a segue to my next bibliography,… Read More ›
IMPLICIT BIAS TESTING
I’d like to complain about my research assistant. A research assistant is supposed to look into things I need to know about, so that I can write about them without having to just bullshit. Instead, she researches whatever she wants… Read More ›
THE MANDATORY EDI LETTER
What I’ve been discovering is that the woke-ness one espouses in public, and the opinion of it one holds in private, are often two very different things. Why is this? Others may not put it as eloquently as did my… Read More ›
Guest Post. Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Why would I lie on my mandatory diversity pledge?
Universities Canada principles on equity, diversity and inclusion, October 26, 2017 “Universities Canada make an explicit public commitment to seven principles [on equity, diversity, and inclusion],” available here. (accessed 11 February 2022) “A Guide to Preparing Your Diversity Statement,” Algonquin… Read More ›
THE UNIVERSITY SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE
It’s good that I’ve recused myself from all hiring committees here at the University of Lethbridge, because if I hadn’t I’d worry I might succumb to overkill and vote against any candidate who wasn’t able-bodied, heterosexual, white, and male. “Huh?!”… Read More ›
ADMINSPEAK
Had we been able to complete the tower we’d have been up there to take Him on face to face. And so to prevent this – He’s a jealous god, remember – He broke us up into different languages, so… Read More ›
INTERSECTIONALITY
SJWs have just discovered something no one knew before, namely that sexual discrimination affects a black woman differently than it does a white woman, and racial discrimination affects a black man differently than it does a black woman. Now whodathunkit?… Read More ›
TWO CALLS TO ARMS: GRIEVANCE ACTIVISM AND THE RESISTANCE OF THE PRIVILEGED
There’s a lot of variation within white. I happen to be swarthily white, but I’m white nonetheless. I know that all us whites are privileged, but I’m especially privileged. And yet, though I probably should, I don’t seem to suffer… Read More ›
Guest Post. Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Paranormal Activism. (scroll past image)
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 ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 