I Am Sure It Is A Really Good Idea.

Which will advance the cause of "human rights" really far. In fact, so far that we may never see it over the horizon ever again. 

Students at the University of Washington are demanding that black students should not face difficult exams and time constraints because they are too “busy fighting for [their] rights to sit down and study”.

Yes, what can possibly define great education better than being busy "fighting for the rights", you know, like not getting an education. As I stated many times, Seattle is increasingly becoming a raving mad cesspool of weirdos, such as this "professor":

“You need to encourage and demand professors to accommodate their black students during this time. If UW truly understands our pain, UW will be a part of alleviating it,” the petition states. Nicole McNichols, UW Psychology Professor told Campus Reform that she supported the move. “Obviously, I support the petition and absolutely believe the accommodations it requests should be honored by all faculty. Students need all of the support and compassion we can afford to give them right now.” The email sent by McNichols to her students reads: “First, the remaining homework chapters are being put into review mode. Everyone will receive full points. Second, I have decided to drop everyone’s lowest exam score. This means that you may opt-out of taking Exam 3 if you just don’t feel up to it, (or if you [are] happy with your scores from exam 1 and 2).”

Here is this lunatic, who also pushed for watching porn as a part of her "curriculum":

She is very enthused about sex (I wonder why) and that is how she is being described: 

Your first week in PSYCH 210, Diversity of Human Sexuality, you might know to expect. Rumors about watching porn in class (which happens around week five) zip around UW social circles but beyond that, most students go in blind. Around week two this quarter, professor Nicole McNichols proclaimed the class was going to watch a documentary that “she absolutely loves,” a 50-minute video on the G-spot (which is actually named after a man). But McNichols’ bubbly attitude to all things sex is what makes her class what it is. At 720 students, PSYCH 210 is the largest and most popular undergraduate course at the UW. Packed into Kane 130, it takes a lot for McNichols to stand up in front of that many students every day and talk about sex toys and fetishes. McNichols has taught this class every quarter for the last five years and loves it.

So, basically this "professor" teaches dildoing and BDSM and students love it. What's next--course in peeing and shitting? Why not. Anything is possible in the world of US universities which employ obviously mentally compromised (and probably not fvcked enough by real dick) perverts with Ph.D in BS and one doesn't have to be a psychologist to recognize that. I am sure UW enjoys a reputation for steadily turning into asylum, but I think this, once respected, school needs to double down and commit research into new genders and into the human-animal sexuality. I am sure students will love it. While at it, I also propose to offer Ph.D courses in "fighting for human rights" (all credits are received remotely by providing time-sheets of being on the street, extra credit for vandalism and robbery) and in playing video games...Oh wait. 

On their first week in class, a group of students is playing a first-person shooter video game in a sleek new digital studio. It's their introduction to the degree in esports they've enrolled in. The group clicking away on their mice are at the University of Staffordshire, one of several U.K. and U.S. schools launching programs aimed at capitalizing on the booming industry's need for skilled professionals. In the U.S., colleges including Virginia's Shenandoah University, Becker College in Massachusetts and The Ohio State University have debuted esports degrees.

Boy, I wish I could get a Ph.D in e-sports. I was actually very good once in Wolfenstein 3D:

I am positive, me missing out on this important degree, together with the course in dildoing and sexual fetishes dealt a massive blow to my self-esteem and contribution to civilization I may have made in the field of practical insanity. But then again, in the world where lunacy is defined as bubbly personality and "human rights" are just a second away from turning into wholesale crime, one should not forget that we are already in 1984, we are just waiting for it to be announced officially. In the end, graduate degree in robbing stores sounds so enticing.

This Is How Victory Sounds.

All Islamic State's units in Syria have been destroyed, head of Russia's General Staff says. 

 

Syria is fully liberated from terrorists, all units of the Islamic State (IS) terror group (outlawed in Russia) have been destroyed, Chief of Russia’s General Staff, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, said at an annual briefing for foreign defense attaches on Wednesday.

That simple.  No fanfares, no chest thumping--just matter-of-factly stating cold hard facts. Life will go on now in war ravaged Syria, some political settlement will be reached and Bashar Assad most likely will still win the elections. Meanwhile, Pentagon didn't waste time in crediting... US Coalition, not SAA, Russia and Iran, with defeating the Islamic State (in Russian). There is an English language version of rather strange statements from Pentagon. I don't even know how to comment on this anymore. Forget about decency but, hey, if Pentagon doesn't respect Russians (which is fine), how about respecting itself? Don't they understand that apart from looking stupid (not the worst case scenario), they actually humiliate themselves with making such statements. Yet, one mustn't forget how this blog started and I will remind how:

The crucible ofthe modern world we live in remains on the battlefields of the World War II. Itwas an event of unprecedented scale in human history. In fact, it dwarfedanything humanity had experienced before. The Allied victory over Nazism seemedto pave the way to a better future but things changed very fast. One way theychanged was the fact that, as David Glantz and Jonathan House note in theirseminal "When Titans Clashed" (pages 275-276):"...the Soviets,by rights, had an undisputed claim to the lion's share of the spoils of this victory over Nazi Germany. In Western perceptions, however, the political consequences of that victory deprived the Soviet Union of that right." Here, these two brilliant American scholars, make one substantial mistake--the claims were not "undisputed", the whole industry, from media to academe, was born to dispute and to completely pervert the history of WW II. This industry is alive and well and it continues to work to reinforce generally Anglo-Saxon, and American in particular, point that it was thanks to the United States that the Nazi Germany was defeated. One of the ways to do it is to, and you may have guessed it already, break the causality link and deprive one of a proper context.

But for those who think that it is all that simple, here is another example. Here I am giving a taste of a small piece of my manuscript (not edited yet): 

In the famous collection of the so called "green books", History of US Army in World War Two first published in 1965, in the conclusion of the volume dedicated to Ardennes, known as the Battle of the Bulge, there is a serious and entirely legitimate American complain about Red Army taking partial credit for preventing a "rout" of US Army in Ardennes. US Army not only had a completely justified but overwhelmingly strong case about what they called "Russian propaganda", when reacting to series of articles by Colonel Nikiforov, which traced Stalin's statements, who made such claims in 1948, later repeated by Marshal Grechko in 1960. [31] The fact of Churchill's telegram to Stalin with request for help with the situation in Ardennes, as well as Tedder's group traveling to Moscow on behalf of Roosevelt and carrying Eisenhower's message to Stalin, together with the box of cigars, were, indeed, used as an excuse to tie together massive Soviet offensive in Poland and to construe it as a relieving effort for Allies' benefit in Ardennes. That, of course, was not exactly the case: in reality, by the start of the massive Red Army Vistula-Oder offensive on January 12, 1945 there was very little doubt in mostly US Army being able to contain and reverse German counterstrike in Ardennes. But that is not what makes American case peculiar, it is the fact that this Soviet bending of the facts was presented as providing for the "untoward result for relations between east and west in post-war era." [32] Yet, from the distance of the years passed since the momentous events of WWII this complaint, however justified, seems almost trivial against the background of overwhelming majority of an American public, 55%, thinking US contributed most to defeat of Germany with only 11% thinking it was Soviet Union as one of many similar polls testify. [33] If those astonishing numbers are not the result of propaganda, one is then forced to contemplate how, other than propaganda, such a complete obliviousness to the basic facts of WWII could have been achieved. If Russians bent the truth in the case of Ardennes, what kind of bending did it take to convince that many people that corps, at most, level engagements in North Africa or Sicily, against by far not the first-rate German units and totally demoralized and refusing to fight Italians, defeated Nazi military machine?

Make your own conclusions. The pattern is, certainly, there. And, paradoxically, Soviet Ardennes "case" is not entirely without at least some merit: the Dietrich's 6th Army began its withdrawal to the Eastern Front  before the Vistula-Oder Offensive commencement.  This, however, in no way diminishes US Army's great fight and the fact that German offensive was stopped and then turned back entirely out of American resources and effort. Yet, read again marked in yellow and experience the language of the wounded pride. This pattern will continue to manifest itself and it will continue to go hand in hand with increasingly bizarre actions in foreign policy and war on the US part. These are the signs and symptoms of a serious decline.

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