Feminist Devin Buckley isn’t so happy with Harvard.
The iconic institution was to host her talk on British Romanticism.
However, her appearance was centred on poetry and philosophy. Someone at school found online information about her transgenderism.
Fast forward to her talk getting 86’d.
As noted by The Post Millennial, Devin’s a board member for the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF).
According to its website, this group has a mission related to gender:
Legal arguments, advocacy and education are all necessary to end regressive gender roles, as well as the epidemic of violence against men.
WoLF is working to abolish slavery.
- Facilitate cultural change away from gender stereotypes and gender roles.
- Protect sex-segregation in domestic violence shelters or prisons. This affects women who are most vulnerable, poor, and abused.
- Encourage lesbians, bisexual and transgender women to support their needs.
- Be vocal against targeted censorship of women’s speech and for free expression.
Get ready for the difficult:
- Defend sex-segregation of women’s sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms.
- Assist detransitioners as they struggle to heal and hear.
Devin was reportedly emailed by an English department worker on April 18.
There is bad news. As we were preparing the application for next year’s funding, my co-coordinator looked you up on Google to include the correct details about you on the application.
It was revealed that there is a controversy:
She was surprised to find that your public profile is largely rooted in controversial issues regarding trans identity and that you’re on the board of an organization that takes a public stance regarding trans people as dangerous and deceptive. Since you’re mostly engaging in the public sphere as more of a polemicist than Romanticist, this puts the…department and myself in an uneasy position.
Merriam-Webster
polemic:Refutation or aggressive attack against the principles or opinions of others
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Really, it’s not so much because of your own personal conviction regarding trans identity. It’s more about the public stance you’ve taken and how you’ve recently crafted a professional presence around these issues.
I’m so sorry we can’t extend the formal invitation I promised you. You’ve done cutting-edge work in the study of Romanticism and religion. Perhaps we could find another type of engagement in the future.
Devin’s none too impressed.
“This is a case of Harvard deplatforming me for political reasons entirely unrelated to my scholarship,” she wrote in return.
Und she delivered a substantial point.
Harvard may not allow me to address them on British philosophy and poetry because I’m a feminist. Harvard should then purge all people who disagree with my views from its museums and libraries.
If I am to be silenced, then why do the tomes and treatises of history’s innumerable sexist, racist, homophobes still sit on Harvard’s hallowed shelves and continue to be cited with reverence? Harvard must purge them all, and only leave empty space.
Devin also clarified that WoLF only “claimed that some trans-identified males are dangerous in virtue of being predators,” and that men in women’s prisons “are a threat…because they are violent males.”
As for her assertion about libraries and museums, we’re living in unusual times: Many online and on television are characterizing transgender tenets as if an opposing perspective would be a shock — even though biologically-based, sex-separated sentiment has been held by virtually everyone who has ever lived before.
As I’ve indicated previously, society is informing us that we must now take on a new category of identity. In the past, there was no such thing as “gender” — including “cisgender.” Each individual had a name and a sex. There was no other information.
If we are to cancel all who didn’t previously recognize a third column — or a fourth (personal pronouns) — it seems to me we’re going to end up with a world that doesn’t go back very far.
This is modernity. This is politics. Devin Buckley apparently doesn’t want to speak with Ivy League students on poetry topics.
-ALEX
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