Other than random comments I’ve never posted a diary, but this latest idiocy from my home in the Gret Stet of Louisiana I couldn’t let pass. It seems a state legislator (R) has discovered that some of the instructors at our state universities are furriners. My first thought when I read this was the quote by Joe McCarthy "While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.".
https://lailluminator.com/2024/01/13/louisiana-legislator-probes-for-certain-foreign-professors-at-state-universities/
I’m sure he’s only asking questions but the blog he released his findings to is charitably referred to as conservative.
“A recent inquiry into the university systems in the State of Louisiana revealed things that concern me greatly,” Owen wrote. “We have citizens from other countries — places some call enemies — who are on faculty at our universities.”
“What I have found out, however, is that in some universities, faculty members from places where no freedom exists and where freedom of speech and thought are non-existent have been hired,” Owen continued.
I wonder if he has considered that they may be here because there is no freedom and freedom of speech and thought are non-existent.
The whole article is worth reading. It’s by an up and coming, and already one of the best, journalists here in Louisiana, Piper Hutchinson. I hope no one poaches her because we need her and more like her here.