I'm pretty sure we would know from the Soviet archives whether or not this happened. This is so ridiculous

    • yoink [she/her]
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      7 days ago

      a tenured crank who apparently hated tenure because he saw it causing 'Leftimania'

      https://web.archive.org/web/20070519174724/http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_freedomspeace_archive.html

      this man fascinates me like he cannot be real

      also I'm calling my communist Phoenix cover band 'Leftimania'

      • yoink [she/her]
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        7 days ago

        In my 2/21/05 blog “On Ward Churchill and Academic Leftimania” ( link here), I described the state of American universities, particularly the social sciences, humanities, and special studies or programs (woman’s studies, ethnic studies, etc.). In effect, they constitute anti-American, socialist, and leftist propaganda factories. I will refer to them all as leftsville.

        requesting a c/leftsville