It’s mocking me:
Yes, good luck to me, absolutely.
Bitch.
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Clarissa's Blog 
The whole ad is sheer poetry! Don’t you want to work at a place that uses this language to abase itself? ‘We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ‘!
Also, as part of their commitment to equity and inclusivity, all you have to do to get the job is lop off some of your body parts and stitch on some others.
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The most ridiculous part of this is that they are looking for a person who can’t possibly exist. Today’s transgender theory is a recent invention. No people exist who started a career in it 25 years ago. Anything anybody said about it in year 2000 would get you destroyed in academia today.
The authors of this job ad are trapped by their own ideology. They have convinced themselves that transgenderism is eternal and not a recent fad, so they are acting like it’s actually eternal.
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“they are looking for a person who can’t possibly exist”
That’s the neoliberal worldview. By saying “research chair in transgender studies” they are manifesting a field that will magically appear.
It’s the same reason they don’t understand people’s objections to DEI: They can’t distinguish between position and skills — put a person from a ‘marginalized’ community in a position and voila! They have the skills because… they have the position (a self-reinforcing feedback loop).
It’s easy to forget this crucial aspect of neoliberalism – the belief that saying things makes them real, that holding a position is the same as being qualified to hold a position (and lots more that ties into that).
It’s simultaneously a pre- and post- modern view of reality.
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Absolutely. It’s Word made God where God is the self. Conjuring reality with spells and incantations. The most disturbing part is this is done in a very sincere way. Like a toddler who screams “I wanna”, a neoliberal confuses his desire with reality.
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“a toddler who screams “I wanna”, a neoliberal confuses his desire with reality”
Also found in russian rhetoric where pro-russian accounts on twitter and youtube have been declaring hostilities over with a russian victory for about two years now… Just a few days ago, one was talking about a massive build up of elite troops somewhere and a fall offensive that would bring total russian victory (I couldn’t find any confirmation of the buildup and have no idea what ‘elite’ could possibly mean in relation to the russian army….).
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maybe it’s one of those weird administrative things where they have to post the job listing, but they don’t actually want to hire anybody, either because they know the budget will be cut and the position eliminated anyway, or because they already have someone in line for the job, and they want to make sure there are zero competing applicants.
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“…because they already have someone in line for the job, and they want to make sure there are zero competing applicants.”
BINGO! WE HAVE A BINGO! Will everybody please retain your cards while we verify the winning card.
Afterall, it is the NDP government, the sad pathetic remnant of the CCF. The latter was once an idealistic political party bravely, if rather idealistically, seeking a way through the human hopelessness of the Great Depression coupled with the dustbowl of “The Dirty Thirties”, but now infected with the crooked authoritarians of every modern vicdumbhood from feminism to racism.
Sorry, my apologies, I was once a CCFer as a youth ;-D
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Doesn’t take a genius: employers do this *everywhere* they are legally required to advertise a job opening for non-discrimination compliance.
My mom was a teacher, and she *hated* this. She’d get called in to help interview candidates for para jobs sometimes, and would come home ranting about it, like “they already have someone for this job– it’s (name), but they’re still gonna waste the time of these fifteen other applicants, and waste my time and the time of everybody else who has to do the interviews, and get these poor job-searchers’ hopes up about it, to satisfy some idiotic legal requirement…”
We weren’t even talking about high-level well-paid uni jobs. They were effing around with people applying to be teachers’ aides which doesn’t even pay enough to live on. It was cruel.
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In Canada, “research chair” consolidates the fact that it is indeed a fake search. It is usually meant for a professor who managed to receive important grants for their research.
I have to correct Clarissa on one point: transgender studies has been a thing at UVictoria for decades. Which is probably why, and careful with your blood pressure before reading this Clarissa, the chair was made possible by Jennifer Pritzker’s Tawani Foundation.
Ol.
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O1.
That’s really, really special, as a taxpayer on the island of Fruits and Nuts I am really, really happy, to fund such really, really useful studies, really ;-D
on a more serious comment, I would like to hear Veissière’s second class.
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I used to enjoy a bit of decoupage myself.
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Here’s an interesting scenario:
U Vic succeeds in finding someone to fill this position
The researcher is honest and publishes evidence that the transgender movement is a fraud
U Vic then publicly fires the researcher for some breach of their ethical code unrelated to the research
Raymond R
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Haha I was going to say the same. Clarissa probably knows enough about this movement to critically analyze it, and ironically make more significant contributions to the body of knowledge than some blue haired troon they would hire.
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