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"Bari Weissamatta U."

Is perfect in so many ways - like a crisp fall morning or a perfectly made tamale.

I'll be honest though - I'm pretty sure verbal manhood skills are in short supply on the Red Team bench.

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Outstanding. And yesterday was a great day on Twitter with everyone dunking on this latest conservative grift. So the “university” isn’t accredited and offers no degrees, but “students” can still say tranny and the n-word without getting disciplined, so boo-yah, :::FREEDOM::: I guess.

It seems like every disgruntled racist, homophobe and misogynist who got booted out of -- or stormed off in a huff -- respectable institutions over the past several years is on the faculty, all with a tale of woe about how culture done gone and cancelled them. The entire curriculum will probably consist of these losers’ paywalled Substack newsletters and “students” will have to buy a subscription to “attend.” What a bunch of grifting, butt-hurt clowns, lmao.

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Also part of the core curriculum:

"Nice Tits: How Genuine Compliments Get Twisted, and How Show You Mean It."

"Punching Down 101: Making Fun of the Less Fortunate."

"Anti-Gravity: How to Discuss Your Being Cancelled During Your Book Tour, Speaking Engagements, TV Appearances, and Op-Ed Writings."

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

By the way, how long before Rod Dreher joins the “faculty” with his course Media and Meaning for Preschoolers: When is Blue’s Clues No Longer A Clue But a Jeremiad Of The Gay Agenda?

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

“Make Money Like Me” with promised (but no-show) instructor President Donald P for President Trump, who is President. “How to Do Your Own Medical Research on Fox News” with Aaron Rodgers. “Hypocrisy as an Alternative to an Open Mind” with David Brooks, et al. “War War, Not Jaw Jaw, the Military Genius of Donald Rumsfeld” with Oliver North. “Make War, Make Money, Not Love” with Dick Cheney.

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Great perks at this uni: There are no penalties for tardiness to classes, because alarm clocks are part of the woke agenda

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

The NYT, no doubt dazzled by the millions of dollars these grifters have hoovered up already, treated this as a serious intellectual enterprise. But that rumbling sound you hear is the famous pop professors like Steven Pinker who were roped into lending their names to the opening announcement running away shouting over their shoulders, “Just an advisor! I’m just an advisor!”

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Yascha Mounk, the guy who periodically reminds me I really do need to get around to cancelling that subscription to the Atlantic:

“History lessons in some high schools teach that racism is not just a persistent reality but the defining feature of America”

OK, name ONE other "feature of America" that has been as persistent or as influential in the lives of its people as racism. I'll wait.

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Was gonna post a comment, but I see your other commenters have the vorpal blade well in hand. Thanks for the column, Roy, I needed a rueful but reality-based laugh today.

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Oh, I see the wit here but cannot feel the funny. Maybe too close to the stygian sewer depths of the fake intellectualism -- or is that Dunning-Kruger? -- of conservatives. Maybe it's that for the life of me I absolutely do not get -- and y'all who refuse to explain what I'm missing -- the importance of Weiss, Sullivan Greenwald, Taibbi and so and so on ad nauseam.

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

This was very swell. How long before the forbidden course offerings start sounding like a Learning Annex catalog or an Enquirer cover?

- 10 Ways you can stop being a woker-lover - Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, instructor

- A Beginner's Guide to Corporal Mortification: Practical instruction in whips and chains: Choosing a discipline, sharpening a celice, etc. Rod Dreher, Dominatrix

- Female Anatomy: How Does It Work? Ben Shapiro, Field Guide

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"Bari Weissamatta U." Thanks for this one, Roy. I was just looking over her list of tenured advisers, The names weren't a surprise but I was dismayed at all the glamour-shot authors' photos.

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"If the skull don’t fit, diversity is shit!" I smell an online gift shop

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"Weissamatta U" alone was worth the subscription price.

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Nov 9, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"Lambada: The Forbidden Courses"

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For the umpteenth time, Edroso: marry me!

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