I want to wish all readers of Bias Incident: The World’s Most Politically Incorrect Novel a happy and a healthy new year.

Of course, as a commentator, it’s traditional to offer predictions for the upcoming year.  I won’t make an exception of myself.  So, here it is.  My prediction for the New Year:

When they censor your right to speak, Leftists are fond of telling you how sensitive they’re being in shutting up beastly people like you.

Suuuuuuuuure.

Case in point:  the University of Wisconsin–Stout’s censoring a professor’s right to put up a poster quoting the television series Firefly.

In relieving professor James Miller of his rights to free speech, Lisa Walter, Chief of Police and the university’s head sourpuss in charge of enforcing political correctness claimed that it is “unacceptable to have postings that refer to killing.”

Why do I doubt this?  Why is it that I would bet pretty much my entire life savings that if the professor had a poster graphically depicting George W. Bush being hanged, disemboweled, beheaded and/or otherwise fatally mistreated the sourpuss-in-chief of ideological conformity would have given him a pass? (more…)

Commenter Ashley pointed me to a post by Equality Matters (EM).  It bashes a post I did several months ago at the Ruth Blog on the George Gilder interview posted here recently.

EM’s response to my post mainly involves the shrieking and swooning normally associated with Leftist criticism of debate it disfavors.  EM’s summary of the relevant parts of the interview was as follows:

To summarize, Gilder’s “excellent” analysis of the same-sex marriage debate includes arguing that homosexuality is “learned,” “addictive” behavior that boys can be “inculcated” into thanks to their easily manipulated brains.

I’m guessing EM believes his readership to think these propositions to be so patently silly as to refute themselves.

I disagree. (more…)

No politically incorrect blog that deals with higher education would be complete without a discussion of affirmative action.

So, Jeff Jacoby’s recent column on affirmative action is a good excuse to discuss this controversial issue.

IF RACIAL preferences in higher education were good for racial minorities in higher education, we surely would have seen definitive evidence of it by now. Instead, a widening shelf of empirical research suggests that the opposite is true – that affirmative action in academia is not advancing minority achievement but impeding it. (more…)

Here’s a fantastic interview with the always politically incorrect George Gilder.

Enjoy.

I took a minor in economics.  Not one time was Friedrich Hayek or Milton Friedman mentioned.  Not.  One.  Time.

So, it’s no surprised that, even though I took a history major, Vaclev Havel wasn’t mentioned.  Not once.  Nohow.

Why is that, do you think?  Havel was a dissident playwright.  The left, and therefore professoriat, love dissident playwrights.

Well, it’s because he was the wrong kind of dissident, that Havel  Here’s what Transterrestial Musings had to say on the occasion of Havel’s death:

Don’t expect the media to make a big deal of it. He was the wrong kind of dissenter, being too American for Europe. The fact that he never won a Peace Prize, while Yasser Arafat and Barack Obama did, says something very fundamental about the corruption and uselessness of that once-honorable achievement. I’d also note (to cite a tweet) that he’s an example of the ancient dictum (that I just made up) that a country can do a lot worse than having a dissident playwright as a president. Mamet, 2012!

In Bias Incident: The World’s Most Politically Incorrect Novel, the humanities take a lot of heat for being a sinkhole of fetid nonsense.

There’s a good reason for this.

In the last fifty years, the humanities have gone from being the great repository of the wisdom of the west to being the aforementioned sinkhole of fetid nonsense.

Humanities professors are not so thrilled that this inconvenient truth has gotten noticed.

Why are they so unhappy about the notice? (more…)

We here at the Politically Incorrect Novel Blog hate those ultimate bullies, those ultimate practitioners of “shut up” with all of our hearts.  Those ultimate bullier are the evil dictators.

So, let’s take a moment to give thanks to G-d that one notable specimen of the species is dead.

Please remember to send your cartons of cigarettes for his funeral to Pyongyang ASAP.  He’s going to need an eternal supply of them very soon because everybody smokes in Hell.

The feminist war against reality has been raging for decades.  Ten years ago, they had mastered the tactics necessary to shut up their ideological opponents.  Now women are paying the price for the snake-oil the feminists were selling them.

NPR reports:

“A decade ago, a campaign by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine sparked a vicious backlash. Ads on public buses in several big cities featured a baby bottle shaped like an hourglass, to warn women their time was running out. But women’s rights groups called it a scare tactic that left women feeling pressured and guilty.”

Feminists, desperate to get women into boardrooms and onto soccer teams made sure that women knew how to prevent pregnancy.  Just as importantly, they made sure to use their “shut up” tactics to hide the awful truth from those foolish women who wanted to submit their bodies to the patriarchy and bear children.  At least, that is, until it is too late. (more…)

As I’ve mentioned before, the theme of this blog is how leftists use force rather than reason to shut up their ideological opponents.

In Bias Incident: The World’s Most Politically Incorrect Novel, our protagonist gets in big trouble for writing an essay full of things that must not be said.  His topic: things that must not be said on the subject of religion versus sexual preference.

Similarly, James Delingpole is a sayer of things that must not be said.  One of his main topics in which he ventures to point to despised and inconvenient truths is the environment.

To honor a fellow sayer of things that must not be said, I present to you this interview with Delingpole for your enjoyment.

We here at the Politically Incorrect Novel Blog don’t have much intellectual respect for college professors.  Not, at least, the ones who teach subjects other than math, physics, engineering, and other real subjects.  (P.S. I was a history major).

Anyway, yesterday, we expended the intellectual energy (I’d hate to use the term “effort” on such an easy task) of proving that we’re smarter than the English Department at Duke University.

Today it’s your turn.

Are you smarter than a Harvard professor?

If your answer was “no”  then you were probably thinking that I was talking about a math professor or somebody who teaches a real subject.

Actually, I was thinking about Elizabeth Warren.

Here’s what Michael Graham has to say about the intellectually-challenged prof:

Ready for your Massachusetts IQ test? Which sounds smarter to you:

A) Building a pipeline to bring oil from Canada, or B) Continuing to import oil from terror-sponsoring nations like Saudi Arabia.

A) Killing jobs in the middle of a recession, or B) Putting 20,000 blue-collar American workers to work.

Running for U.S. Senate as, A) The candidate in favor of American jobs and energy independence, or B) As the candidate who opposes them.

If you picked A on all of the above, congratulations. You’re smarter than a Harvard professor! And her supporters.

Well, that wasn’t too tough, now was it?

Here’s the kicker:

This isn’t about partisan debate. There are legitimate points to debate on the economy and energy policy. But just shouting “No war for oil!” isn’t a debate. It’s adamant stupidity.

By the way, why aren’t we shouting “No war for oil!” anymore? If you really believed that, you’d support domestic drilling and the Canadian pipeline, right?

Instead, the Liz Warren left starts with “No war for oil,” then “No oil from Canada,” “No nukes,” “No coal” and then the inevitable, “Hey — wait! My iPad just died and there’s no electricity to charge it. Where’s my oil?!”

Remember: They’re the smart ones.

Well, look at that!  Being smarter than a Harvard prof* isn’t so tough after all!

I wonder if they’ll give you tenure?

*  A prof, that is, in one of the soft (i.e. stupid) subjects.

Not like that at all.

Oops.  Sorry.  Yes it is.

Write to your representatives.  Let them know that YOU want to protect free speech.

https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8336

In Bias Incident: The World’s Most Politically Incorrect Novel, a student faces expulsion for writing a paper that challenges his college’s leftist orthodoxy.

You think that doesn’t happen in real life?