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| WHEN WITCH HUNTS ARE LED BY WITCHES |
| 2015-06-22 |
| h/t Instapundit Though it was meant as a joke, it turned out to be a deadly serious affair. When Professor Tim Hunt, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, recently addressed a major conference in Seoul about women in science, he said he had three problems with 'girls in laboratories', namely that: 'You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them, they cry.' As a media storm erupted, Hunt insisted that his remarks were made in 'a totally jocular, ironic way'. But none of that matters to today's self-righteous crusaders against offensive opinions, for whom language is never a laughing matter. Professor Hunt was immediately surrounded online by an outraged Twitter mob demanding his head on a pike. These boycott-and-ban zealots are not content with exercising their right to criticise somebody who makes an offensive joke. Quivering with self-righteous indignation, they want to silence those who fail to conform to their group-think. In this case, their bullying worked. The scientific authorities immediately caved in. Not only was Hunt forced to resign from his post at University College London, but he was also dismissed from the science committee of the European Research Council. So biochemistry loses a brilliant pioneer, while we lose more ground to the forces of oppressive censorship. For the saga of Tim Hunt's downfall is just the latest example of how a culture of verbal prohibition is taking over society, led by an army of self-appointed militants who see themselves as the guardians of correct thinking. The technical terms for what we see in western institutions of higher learning is gynocracy. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 Hmm... in the game Left4Dead 'witches' are protrayed as young, scantily clad, teenage, girls who are either sitting or wandering around and uncontrollable weeping. Something you might want to console... Only when you get too close or startle them do they look at you with their glowing red eyes and run to rip you to shreads with their 6" long razor sharp claws. they are one of the major 'monsters' being able to kill with 1 or 2 hits and very tough to kill. looks like they live on Twitter too... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-06-22 15:41 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-06-22 11:24 |
| #6 Who needs biochemistry anyway? Let's give his chair to Gender Studies. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2015-06-22 09:57 |
| #5 In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies, Greek: ἅρπυια,[1] harpyia, pronounced [hárpyi̯a]; Latin: harpȳia) was a female monster in the form of a bird with a human face. personally, I'd classify them along the lines of China's Red Guard. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-22 08:36 |
| #4 Steve: Ginocracy ia Greek not Latin word. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-06-22 07:59 |
| #3 Anyone see where the SJW types filed a bug report to have a contributor removed from an open source project for his remarks elsewhere? The fascists want to control every aspect of life. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-06-22 07:19 |
| #2 Basically it's a pathetic behavior of University College London. This is a truly ridiculous reason to remove an eminent scholar. A lame joke? You apologize (better not "I'm sorry that I made you cry"), and that's that. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2015-06-22 06:28 |
| #1 gynocracy A Latin word meaning whiny-ass bitches. I finally got around to watching "Idiocracy" the other night. I needn't have bothered. It appears to be playing out in real time before our eyes. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-06-22 02:30 |