Thus spake this English professor in Canada, who apparently doesn't know what words mean:
If only Hitler had realized that a book could constitute "organized violence," he could have just published his way to the Third Reich. Naturally, the University of California professor who flagged this for me said,
I hate to have to add that, if you say anything about this on your blog, I’d be grateful if you didn’t mention my name. My husband is still working at [our UC campus], which, as you know, is a hotbed of Diversity etc. I am looking forward to his retiring so I can speak my mind about the [insert expletives here] mess we’re in with regard to gender and biological sex.
The academy, or at least some campuses, are in a "mess" if faculty don't feel they can object in public to stark-raving idiocy like the tweet, above.
UPDATE: An alert reader points out to me this extraordinary response on Twitter:
Apparently Professor De Cruz is the only person in the Western world unaware that the Third Reich involved actual organized violence: the arrest and murder of political opponents, the invasion with actual armies of other countries, the use of concentration camps to murder opponents and Untermenschen and so on. It was created by actual violence, not by publications. There really is no bottom to dumb in cyberspace.
ANOTHER: Matt Weiner (Vermont) apparently can't read:
Even by the standards of Twitter stupidity, this is extraordinary: the screen shot of the tweet is there for anyone to read, it laments that X is legitimating Y, "organized violence". X is OUP publishing a book. Y is the book. Therefore, Y is being equated with "organized...violence." Next some other malevolent genius will suggest that I'm ignoring the possibility that Lawford-Smith's book is as bad as Mein Kampf!
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