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The New England Journal of Medicine's website just published an article called "Jason Arday and the Perils of Being Black in Academia."
There are no perils of being black in academia, as you know, and the article is the usual hysteria:
"They are trying to kill us. When Black academics say this, I imagine folks outside of our community think we are being hyperbolic. We are not....
"The message to Black academics is clear. Come in, be great and indeed be excellent, but don’t dare dream too big. Don’t dare shine too bright."
This is how the author interpreted the Jason Arday story: he just dreamed too big.
Not that he lied over and over again, stole his dissertation research (and may have fabricated some of the rest), called the police -- to report "harassment" -- when a professor asked him perfectly sensible questions about his research and again when a journalist attempted to do likewise, and let his university call his critics "racist" for weeks when he knew they were telling the truth. He just "dreamed too big."
Jeffrey Flier, Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and former dean of Harvard Medical School (and who follows me on Twitter, interestingly enough), is aghast that the Journal published such a ridiculous article:
"The editorial standards of the New England Journal of Medicine must be questioned for deciding to publish this article as it is presented below. Such terrible judgment."
Now articles like this may be scandalous in the NEJM, but they are par for the course in a great many of what we laughingly call our professional journals.
Over the course of the Arday scandal, for example, I discovered an academic journal called Whiteness and Education.
Now if you're thinking that this journal might discuss the European roots of the modern university system, and that the precursors of the universities were the cathedral schools of the Carolingian Renaissance before that, you have failed to understand that "whiteness" is always meant as a term of abuse.
Nobody would found a journal called Blackness and Education and fill it with articles that do nothing but insult blacks. That isn't how it works.
Anyway, I started looking at some of the articles. I have chosen this one entirely at random and not because it's the worst or stupidest or most jargon-filled:
"Coded words in a demographically changing suburban school district: a critical geography perspective of White spatial imaginary," by Dian Mawene
Here's the abstract (every single article in the entire journal is exactly like this):
This interdisciplinary study investigates how a predominantly White, middle-class suburban community constructed coded words to conceal racialized meanings. This study identified coded words such as "apartment building," "those/these kids/people," and "needy kids," which were used in reference to historically marginalized, particularly Black students and families.
Drawing on critical geography and Critical Whiteness Studies, this study employs critical discourse analysis to examine interviews with parents, community members, and municipal staff, as well as relevant school district and municipality documents and local newspapers.
The analysis suggested that these coded words were embedded in a racialized ontology and epistemology of space, particularly with the suburb as a racialized, spatialized, and classed project. The coded words reflected a White spatial imaginary that simultaneously sustains whiteness and embodies anti-Blackness in education and beyond.
Of course, if the people writing this useless nonsense truly lived in a "white supremacist" society, drivel like this wouldn't be tolerated by anyone; instead, guilt-ridden whites eat it up.
Now your host here is supposed to be taking a week off from Clown World -- this week is the Tom Woods Cruise, after all. And in fact I'm writing to you from Nova Scotia, and everyone is of course having a great time. The outstanding Scott Horton, whom you surely know, was smartly dressed last night:
And finally, all good things must come to an end, and tomorrow I'm pulling down the replay of my (pretty darn good) free, step-by-step presentation on the simplest way to build and then run a solopreneur business that can be operated from a laptop.
Since nobody teaches anyone how to do this, nobody knows how. Now you will:
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