It takes the slippery tongue of a trained linguist to fan the flames of tribal hatred while garnering MLK accolades. But that’s business as usual at MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Socialist Scientism (SHASS).
In all fairness, MIT Professor Michel DeGraff has a weighty axe to grind. There are few chapters in colonial history as ugly as that of the French slave colony of Haiti, or the blood-soaked race war that brought it to an end. Haiti’s modern history is no walk in the park either, its political system a sinkhole of corruption, incompetence, and carpetbagging and its economy an NGO-nurtured basket case.
But how do you turn a passion for preserving the Kreyòl language of your youth into a woke war on the West? Easy. Marinate your brain in critical race theory, season it with decolonization ideology, then sauté in intersectionality and you can transform a Caribbean linguistics scholar into a Hamas cheerleader and world-class antisemite.
Noam Chomsky, the éminence grise of MIT’s linguistics department, has been mixing politics and language science for a long time, so perhaps it’s a department tradition. Along with a fondness for Palestinian terrorists. Yet in passing the social justice warrior baton to the next generation, we have apparently devolved from the search for a universal grammar that ties all of mankind together to the championing of Creole.
At least this comes with 1,800-word raging diatribes triggered by hearing the word voodoo. Gotta keep the anger of historical grievances simmering until it spreads far and wide. What better way to make sure the privileged life of an ivory tower professor stays “authentic.”