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By Jon Obermeyer on February 12, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Our English word for writing derives from the Proto-Germanic “writan,” which means to tear or scratch.

I never learned to type

By Philalethes on February 5, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

It has become very difficult to evoke the feel of that lost time. It is not just the demise of the typewriter or the phone booth: libraries have lost the sanctity with which our sense of a civil free culture imbued them.

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Hostis Publicus

  • Lake Oswego Schools
    November, 2020
    Claim: Hotbed of Racism
    Consequence: Public Penance
  • MOSCAIC SCIENCE MISSION
    Sept. 2020
    Claim: Sexism (dress code was aimed at curtailing women's realities)
    Consequence: undetermined
  • Drs. Without Borders
    September, 2020
    Claim: Racism, White Savior Complex
    Consequence: undetermined
  • Glossier, Skin Care Company
    September, 2020
    Claim: Racism.
    Consequence: Undetermined
  • Greg Patton, USC Professor
    August, 2020
    Claim: Racism. For describing how Chinese professors use a filler word "nega, nega, nega," between sentences or thoughts, the same as English speakers might say "that that, that."
    Consequence: suspended
  • Dell Roy Hansen, "Real Salt Lake" Soccer Team Owner
    August, 2020
    Claim: Racism (allegedly used the word "lynch" in front of a player)
    Consequence: Suspended, investigation pending
  • Jeb Rubenfeld, Yale Law Professor
    August, 2020
    Claim: Sexual harassment
    Consequence: Suspended pending results of investigation
  • Nathaniel Hiers, Math Professor, U of N. Texas
    August 2020

    Claim: Racism

    Consequence: Fired for making a joke about "microaggressions".

  • Leslie Neal-Boylan, Dean of Nursing U Mass
    August 2020
    Claim: Racism

    Consequence: Fired for an email saying "All Lives Matter".

  • Pinterest
    August, 2020
    Claim: Too many white people
    Consequence: public penance, hired Black executive to Board of Directors
  • Lawrence Mead, Professor NYU
    August. 2020
    Claim: Racism
    Consequence: offensive commentary retracted, firing or resignation demanded
  • Alex Morse, (gay) Mayor of Holyoke
    August, 2020
    Claim: sexual harassment for hooking up with students at UM-Amherst using Tinder and Grindr
    Consequence: No apology from Morse, investigation by UM-Amherst underway
  • Robert Frodeman, Professor of Philosophy
    August, 2020
    Claim: sexism, sexual harassment
    Consequence: fired
  • Adolph Reed, Black Marxist Scholar
    Adolph Reed, Black Marixst Scholar
    August, 2020
    Claim: insufficiently focused on race, as opposed to poverty to explain Black plight
    Consequence: cancelled talk
  • University of North Carolina, Admin
    August, 2020
    Claim: Racism (for allowing in-class schooling to resume in Fall)
    Consequence: Public shaming, denunciation, demand that "White Faculty" lead a strike
  • Professor Charles Negy, UCF
    Date: July, 2020
    Claim: Racist tweets, etc
    Consequence: public denunciation, humiliation. Firing pending.
  • Cards Against Humanity Leadership
    Date: June, 2020
    Claim: Toxic Culture, sexism, racism: head writers wanted to add a card that included the phrase “the N-word” to the game.
    Consequence: Unspecified
  • Colorado State Football Coaches
    Date: August, 2020
    Claim: Racism, including not supportive enough of BLM
    Consequence: Pausing all football related activities indefinitely
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  • Millburn HighSchool, NJ, Yearbook Staff
    Date: August, 2020
    Claim: Microaggression+promulgating symbol of racism. Yearbook included photo of football players waving flag in honor of police killed in action
    Consequence: Public penance by Principal.
  • Play Pen, Philadelphia
    Date: July, 2020
    Claim: Racism, insufficient diversity
    Consequence: Cancelled Season, public penance
  • Gary Urton, Harvard Professor
    June, 2020
    Claim: Sexual harassment, seduction
    Consequence: leave of absence
  • Ian Samuel, Professor
    Date: July, 2020
    Claim: Unspecified, but probably partying too hard with students
    Consequence: Willful resignation and penance
  • Neal Caren, Professor UNC
    Date: July, 2020
    Claim: Racism
    Consequence: Pending investigation
  • Steven Lamonby, Professor
    Date: July, 2020
    Claim: Spoke highly of Jews
    Consequence: Fired
  • Mike Adams, UNC Wilmington Professor
    Date: July, 2020
    Claim: Racism
    Consequence: Suicide
  • Gary Garrels, SFMA Museum Curator
    Date: July, 2020
    Claim: Racism
    Consequence: Resignation
  • John Muir, naturalist and founder of Sierra Club
    Date: July, 2020
    Claim: Racism
    Consequence: denunciation by club he founded
  • James Bennet, NY Times
    July, 2020
    Claim: Made editorial decision to publish ideologically incorrect op-ed
    Consequence: Resignation
  • Bari Weiss, NY Times
    July, 2020
    Claim: Wrongthink
    Consequence: Resignation

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