Berkeley professor calls for book burnings

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[–]BiologyIsReal[S] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Prof. BookBurner says it was a "joke" but, interestingly, he spends too much time justifying book burning.

[–]MarkTwainiac 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Here's a fawning interview of "Grace" from June of this year, accompanied by a photo array that shows being a "transwoman" nowadays means a guy wearing his hair shaggy, a Freddy Mercury mustache, a touch of lipstick and a spiky metallic necklace. Woo-hoo.

Note that he was hired as an English lit professor in 2013, and began "transitioning" (whatever the hell that means) in 2018. Also, the intro says Lavery has now obtained tenure, though it's not clear whether that happened before or after he started claiming to be trans. For opportunistic men like Lavery, I bet claiming a trans identity would be be a big plus in tenure decisions nowadays, coz men who say they are women are the new sacred caste especially in academia - and being trans and doing "trans studies" seems to be taken as a reasonable excuse for producing shoddy, self-serving drivel that pretends to be legitimate scholarship. As the case of Ragehell Rhys McKinnon being granted tenure at his college so well illustrates.

Why it was necessary for the publication to reprint the same photo three times is not clear. But since this was in an official UCal Berkeley publication, "Grace" must have provided and/or approved the photos.

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2020/transitioning-with-grace-lavery-coming-out-in-academia

Also, Lavery's life partner (spouse?) is a TIF who takes testosterone and calls herself Daniel Lavery:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/daniel-m-lavery-trans-memoir-interview-11582032767

On his website, Lavery says that he and his TIF partner have decided to cut off all contact with the partner's family. Presumably they're "toxic" and insufficiently "validating."

One of "Grace's" scintillating recent scholarly papers is "The King's Two Anuses: Trans Feminism and Free Speech." Abstract:

“The King’s Two Anuses: Trans Feminism and Free Speech” critically examines the discourses of trans feminism and free speech absolutism as they have converged in a number of public controversies in the wake of the 2016 election of Donald Trump. It argues that the crisis of democratic institutions precipitated by that election revealed the surprising susceptibility of the dominant strains of critical and queer theory to cooptation by the far right and exposed the inadequacy of institutionalized rhetorics of trans affirmation, which generally comprise defenses of indeterminacy or gender ambivalence—the very conditions many trans people contest. Drawing on the late work of Michel Foucault and the private writings of Ernst Kantorowicz, “The King’s Two Anuses” articulates a critique of the Lacanian account of subjective sexuation (in the work of Judith Butler, Joan Copjec, and Slavoj Žižek), which it holds especially influential and especially inadequate to the task of accounting for the diversity and assertiveness of trans accounts of personhood.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/differences/article-abstract/30/3/118/148289/The-King-s-Two-Anuses-Trans-Feminism-and-Free

Other recently published papers of "Grace" are “Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique" published in the journal Critical Theory and “Egg Theory’s Early Style" published in Transgender Studies Quarterly.

It's all navel-gazing aboard a gravy train by an apparent conman.

[–]emptiedriver 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ugh especially depressing that this person's so called scholarship began with deciding that George Eliot was actually trans

[–]Shesstealthy 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The partner is Mallory from The Toast! I used to love that site.

An odd situation.

[–]yousaythosethings 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And I could tell immediately that this professor is a so-called "trans woman." Apparently married to a "trans man." So another weirdo heterosexual with extra steps couple that people will misattribute as "gay" because they are so obsessed with calling themselves "queer" to give meaning to their mediocre lives and selves.

[–]grixit 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

We need a new horror movie. Current Berkeley professors and students are terrorized by the ghosts of 60s radicals from the Free Speech movement.

[–]Finnegan7921 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The left is about thought control ? NOOOOOOOOOO say it isn't so. Every socialist regime around the world does this sort of thing. The fact that so many people buy into this horseshit, which is as about as anti-American as it gets, is disturbing. It is one giant gaslight by them and their media allies. Trump was the one "destroying the norms" and "threatening democracy" yet this is the bunch that wants to instill simple majority rule in the Senate, add DC and PR as states to ensure that majority rule, do away with the electoral college so that low-income, high density urban areas where they rack up votes decide elections, pack the court so they'll only rule one way on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE, pretend Antifa doesn't exist and that BLM is more than just an excuse to riot, and oh, yeah, by the way, cancel everyone who disagrees with them, happily burning books along the way.

They banged on about Trump's "corruption" yet happily elected a guy whose middle aged crackhead son was running around the world, sometimes on Air Force Two, with his hand out collecting the millions people were readily giving him for reasons passing all understanding. "Joe didn't know, so it was all above board." GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK. Somebody is still paying Hunter's bills, and it sure ain't Hunter; according to Joe, it can't be him either b/c he didn't make that much money over his 40 plus years in gov't. What a load of shit.

[–]Rationalmind 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Professor doesn’t value books or knowledge. Professor should not be a professor.

[–]diapason 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And we all know that when someone advocates for book burning, that's always a sign of progress, right?