Reading this book, found a commentary and essay about how Poland was once a great brain and university warehouse of thought, until the Communist disease infected and killed it off. Now we have the disease and there ain’t no approved drug. No wonder Dr. Farrell abandoned his academic track when he saw it happening. Good he found a new career to our benefit.
https://www.thepostil.com/political-ponerology-and-the-rise-of-totalitarianism-in-the-west/
An interesting essay – it’s frightening to think that wokery in academia has made it as far eastward as Poland. I found this paragraph particularly noteworthy:
The fact is, social justice ideology, with roots in “gender theory,” “critical race theory,” and the ever-growing list of unscientific “studies” departments, is a Trojan horse. On the surface level it promotes “diversity,” but enforces strict ideological conformity; “equity,” but only for its believers; and “inclusion,” but only of those who agree with them. If you have the temerity to disagree with them, you will be found guilt of “discrimination” (i.e., thought crime) and of endangering the “safety” (i.e., hurting the feelings) of “historically marginalized groups.” You will have proven yourself not diverse enough to be included, all in the name of equality or equity. Its logic is Kafkaesque and its morality is Orwellian.
Never heard it said better or more succinctly.
Yeah, that pretty well sums it up, it’s pretty bare faced.
And for the “rest of the story” read the diatribe slung at a professor who called out the Polish BS at the Jagiellonian University
https://www.thepostil.com/the-legutko-affair/
Background on Dr. Legutko’s reference and experience…
Also possibly of interest: