Mea culpa. When one has to explain the joke, it wasn’t funny anyway. Ok, I laughed. Maybe I am the crazy guy who laughs alone when reading memes in the Subway. I posted it here because I think that there are some teachers here who had to attend seminars.
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That’s unfortunate.
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Why? Do you find his newsletter lacking in insight?
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If he was around today, he totally would have a substack newsletter, wouldn’t he. Or worse still, a podcast.
That’s where all the self-important idiots who have nothing to say, but a large number of words to say it in end up, don’t they.
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I dunno… seems like he got a lot right about power works in modern society, how it shapes us to act in particular ways, how language/discourse is used by those who hold power to ensure we’re “good citizens” and how those who don’t conform are punished… Yeah, his mode of writing was often thick and confusing, but that’s got far more to do with the French academy in which he was operating, not the quality of the work itself. 
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Just stumbled across this from 2016:
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There is always one who has some wacko agenda that is nothing to do with what the meeting/seminar/presentation is about.
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That’s why I don’t go to a lot of seminars. I’m always worried that that guy is me.
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Agreed! I found a lot of his writing insightful. It made me see several facets of western society differently, especially prisons, sexuality, and the installation of social power into individuals.
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I do know that there are lots of writers who write like Foucault or french post-structuralists or what have you, because they think that’s how smart people sound when they write, but they’re not really communicating anything worthwhile, and if they do have something to say, they tend to grow out of it once they mature as scholars - some never do and are just BS artists… but you can usually sniff out the real insightful folks from the BS artists the more of that genre of writing that you read (like any other genre, it’s all about familiarity with it…
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Also, they’re putting back all the Confederate statues.
All the slavers, all the KKK Grand Wizards, all the traitors, they’re all coming back.
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I bet a lot of people were scared of what happened after BLM and Antifa. A lot of people were resentful and would certainly forgive the loss of jobs, rights and freedom if these “agitators” were punished and “learned their place”.
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How much you bet he tries to close both the African American history museum and the Holocaust museum in DC… I have not gotten to visit either, but I’ve heard good things about both of them.
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I think closing this one will take time. Maybe one year or two.
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It discriminates against Nazis! I think it will be higher on the list. They could paint it as “supported by globalists and Soros!”
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We should hear both sides of genocidE!!! /s
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You “/s” that, but there are folks who are saying this exact thing, openly. Candice Williams springs to mind, but there are others.
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