I have always assumed that email is akin to writing postcards. The trouble is that email is how we talk. I email by boys, my Mum, the Photog… and last week when it was tough I sent a very snarky email to the Photog, the Mum, and my friends. Who I can trust to keep things private.

But not good enough. Doxxing must happen. Shaming must be public. The latest example in the Antipodes is New Matilda — who are publishing a partial list of emails to demonstrate that a professor does not think correctly.

I call this bullshit. I do not care of Professor Burr offends the SJW. So would Beethoven. Or Ezra Pound — a fascist, but he could write.

I have brought the great ball of crystal;

Who can lift it?

Can you enter the great acorn of light?
But the beauty is not the madness
Tho’ my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.

But the SJW, akin to the Maoist Red Guard, must denounce. A previous generation locked Pound up in an asylum rather than executing him (for he was a traitor) this generation merely drums one out of tenure. Particularly if you are white, and male. Which is why I am now using a notebook to define ideas, and emails to publish them. As a commentator said:

To think that this has been going on for two years, or has been recorded via email for two years, and his friends and colleagues think it is acceptable.

My son once told his teacher, during his HSC year a few years back, that he thought the curriculum was too ‘white’ and she said to him, ‘You’re just daydreaming.’ Yesterday (he now studies at Sydney Uni, but not English – he loathed English after enduring Advanced English) he told me the following: “Now that this has been exposed, I wonder what the same high school teachers think. There I was thinking I was an idiot for thinking the course was biased toward one culture – white.”

The only positive thing to come from this horrid revelation is that the university will need to address the issues, investigate the other members of staff that engaged with Spurr and participated in this sick ‘whimsical linguistic’ game. Hopefully the curriculum will be overhauled, with new individuals appointed to oversee it and add some balance.

But Spurr is not the only pompous boor in the English department at Sydney University. There are others who are just as ridiculous.

Yeah, freaking right. Spurr used words you should not use: Darkie, Fatso…. he is a chauvinist for the Aussie. He looks back to a monoculture, and he misses it: my main critique of what he has published is that he is too sentimental. But most artists are bastards: actively unpleasant. Many are drunk — in NZ that includes McCahon and Baxter, the two best modernists we have.

Please note that we all have to be re educated into this fresh hell.

This is standard shaming tactics. The best thing Spurr could do is write some poetry. And keep on teaching. Do not fold, do not apologize. Rejoice in the scabrous underbelly of our language.

For if the SJW cannot find anything to shame us with that is public, they will demand that we reveal all: that we name ourselves, that we Doxx ourselves.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley regarding the city of Houston’s preliminary response Friday to an ADF motion to quash the city’s request for the sermons and communications of pastors in Woodfill v. Parker:

“The city of Houston still doesn’t get it. It thinks that by changing nothing in its subpoenas other than to remove the word ‘sermons’ that it has solved the problem. That solves nothing. Even though the pastors are not parties in this lawsuit, the subpoenas still demand from them 17 different categories of information – information that encompasses speeches made by the pastors and private communications with their church members. As we have stated many times, the problem is the subpoenas themselves; they must be rescinded entirely. The city must respect the First Amendment and abandon its illegitimate mission to invade the private communications of pastors for the purpose of strong-arming them into silence in a lawsuit that concerns nothing more than the authenticity of citizen petitions.”

It is time to work and love and produce. And completely ignore the regulators. Do not ask their permission. Do not beg their forgiveness. We need to form again the invisible college, and support those who think badly, but make beauty. Be they pastors, poets, or even academics.