Outside the hard sciences, academia has only one purpose: as a laughing stock to troll and ridicule. Outrageous pranks can succeed, because not even the experts can distinguish between sincere expressions of their own ideology and parody.

Steven Crowder, posing as a “queer fat pride activist” named Sea Matheson, had a paper entitled “Embracing Fatness as Self-Care in the Era of Trump” accepted for presentation at the New Zealand Fat Studies Conference 2020 at Massey University, which was held online due to Covid. The parody presentation was met with rave reviews from the Ivory Tower establishment, which thought it was on the level. Watch and laugh as Crowder documents his stunt (short version available here):

If anything could be almost as much a waste of time as academic topics like black/gender/fat studies, it would be what moonbats have done to the art of poetry. So countermoonbats at the Burkean trolled Icarus Magazine, considered the most respected poetry journal of Trinity College Dublin, by submitting deliberately awful but politically correct verse — which was accepted for publication:

Among the poems printed was an erotic tribute to Ebun Joseph as well as an anti-racist screed by a woman named Adaku Dyport-a-me, documenting structural racism in the Direct Provision system and the fact Ireland’s original inhabitants were a race of black pygmies.

Ebun Joseph is a Nigerian-Irish “race relations consultant” and founder of the Black Studies module at University College Dublin.

Less hilarious is that academia is largely financed on a coercive basis by taxpayers.

On a tip from Varla. Hat tips: Not the Bee, Summit News.

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