EP78: Intersectionality Catches Up With Claudine Gay - Gracearchy with Jim Babka

Or, why Republicans suddenly love cancel culture! The demotion of Harvard's Claudine Gay opens up the chance to probe the philosophy of Intersectionality. Plus, a Harvard donor starts a war and is surprised when it comes to his home The way this drama is playing out, we also get to explore the motives of billionaire donor and Harvard alum, Bill Ackman, and his sudden interest in plagiarism by academics. From this episode, you will get distinct, insightful, and virtuous things to say whenever the conversations you're in move to Harvard, Claudine Gay, Bill Ackman, intersectionality, and plagiarism. The people in earshot will be amazed by your wisdom. Must you pick a side? As you'll learn during this episode, there's an "assumption that if the bad guys stopped being bad, then everything would be good." That view is normal yet naive. It leads to judgmentalism, blame, and even scapegoating. Worse, the incentives of the Conflict Machine (politics) and culture war run in an ugly, escalating direction. They induce fear. And... You'll also discover, in this program, that once people start acting inside the Conflict Machine, they strongly tend to almost completely shed their principles and, instead, start focusing on the destruction of other persons. The "side" you should pick is the path to harmony, and the path itself is grace. So perhaps very little of what I have to say about Claudine Gay or Bill Ackman will make either side happy. P.S. During the recording, I lost track of Bill Ackman's actual name and called him Ackerman instead. Both the moderator, Bill Protzmann, and I, do it more than once. It's a human mistake, and one I suspect Ackman has experienced scores of times in his life. To him and my listeners, I apologize for my human error. An AI would do better, but it also wouldn't have produced the creative and personal analysis you'll find in this episode. 0:00 Theme 0:43 Finding the gracepoint each time 2:10 Where the story begins 6:28 Iron sharpening or Anti-ism 9:16 Rep. Stefanik stokes the Conflict Machine 11:48 Republicans surrendering their position for politics 12:45 The First Amendment is a grace thing 14:23 Blasphemy doesn't invite the apocalypse 16:34 Acceptance of being held to a higher standard 19:54 Refusing to be part of the problem 22:55 The Exemplar of Non-Violence 24:42 Backfire 26:06 Intersectionality 28:02 Three confused presidents 28:53 Three hypocritical presidents 30:36 Donor awareness and the president's job 31:44 The real reason Claudine Gay "stepped down" 32:54 Bill Ackman starts his own war 34:09 Jim is naive or why we must stoop to Claudine Gay's level 36:06 Plagiarism as a political war tactic 37:25 Ackman's war comes home 38:55 Ackman's next and coming war 40:05 Now who is being naive? 45:17 Free association will reward and punish 46:11 Jim in Bill Ackman's shoes 50:40 Jim in Claudine Gay's shoes 53:31 Right issue for wrong reasons 54:15 Summary of gracepoints Bill Protzmann is your moderator. ZERO AGGRESSION PROJECT is our sponsor. But the views expressed are exclusively those of the participants, and not necessarily those of the board, staff, or supporters of the Zero Aggression Project. Thank you to Randy Garbin for our amazing thumbnails: http://randygarbin.com/ We are grateful to Sergio at https://www.youtube.com/@KeysofMoonMusic for our intro theme. ► https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10500501 or you can purchase his music on BandCamp: ► https://keysofmoon.bandcamp.com/ ► If you have any questions please feel free to write to Sergio at: serjo.de.lua.music@gmail.com Be grace-full to each other.