Fellow travellers, as we all know, birds are often mocked for their alleged stupidity. Take that appalling insult "bird brain", for example.  

(Notice also that women are often called birds, implying that they too are bird-brained. Yet more evidence that speciesism and sexism are almost invariably intertwined!)

But where does this offensive stereotype of cognitively challenged birds actually come from? The sick minds of appalling peenie wavers, that's where! There is no evidence for it. It's j...
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Fellow travellers, we often hear from the reactionary right that academia has been overtaken by the left. Nothing could be further from the truth. Universities across the globe are still completely dominated by eeevil white peenie-wavers who are hell bent - or should that be straight? - on oppressing women, minorities and Gaia.

Take this latest so-called "experiment": Psychologists in California have looked into how young children cope with fears both real and imagined. They were read stories...
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Fellow travelers, it's almost appropriate that the horse who won this year's Melbourne Cup was called Shocking, because I found the whole exercize shocking in the extreme. In fact it wasn't just shocking. It was appalling!

Firstly, it was extremely elitist, as races invariably are. Finding the fastest horse was highly discriminatory, since horses have a lot more to offer than just speed. And I'm sure they don't judge themselves merely by that criterion. Were their values considered? Of course ...
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