Robert Jensen

Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. At UT, Jensen teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the College of Communication.

In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men's violence. In more recent work, he has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism.

In addition to teaching and research, Jensen writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, and race have appeared in papers around the country. He also is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic domination of the rest of the world.

Jensen is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002); co-author with Gail Dines and Ann Russo of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998); and co-editor with David S. Allen of Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (New York University Press, 1995).

Curriculum Vitae: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Erjensen/vita.htm

Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota.

While I know these types pervade universities everywhere, the UT system harbors some truly notable anti-white professors. I wonder if Jensen is big buddies with this famous UT face:
http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/JoseAngelGutierrezQuote.html

The Threats to Sustainable Democracy
The Four Fundamentalisms

By ROBERT JENSEN

...

FUNDAMENTALISMS

One way to come to terms with these forces is to understand the United States as a society in the grip of four fundamentalisms. In ascending order of threat, I identify these fundamentalisms as religious, national, economic, and technological. All share some similar characteristics, while each poses a particular threat to sustainable democracy and sustainable life on the planet. Each needs separate analysis and strategies for resistance.

Let's start by defining fundamentalism. The term has a specific meaning in Protestant history (an early 20th century movement to promote "The Fundamentals"), but I want to use it in a more general fashion [Translation: "I want to change the meaning so as to set up a straw man to knock down." --L.D.] to describe any intellectual/political/theological position that asserts an absolute certainty in the truth and/or righteousness of a belief system. Such fundamentalism leads to an inclination to want to marginalize, or in some cases eliminate, alternative ways to understand and organize the world. [Which is exactly what Political Correctness is intended for. --L.D.] After all, what's the point of engaging in honest dialogue with those who believe in heretical systems that are so clearly wrong or even evil? In this sense, fundamentalism is an extreme form of hubris, a delusional overconfidence not only in one's beliefs but in the ability of humans to know much of anything definitively. In the way I use the term, fundamentalism isn't unique to religious people but is instead a feature of a certain approach to the world, rooted in the mistaking of very limited knowledge for wisdom.

The antidote to fundamentalism is humility, that recognition of just how contingent our knowledge about the world is. We need to adopt what sustainable agriculture researcher Wes Jackson calls "an ignorance-based worldview," an approach to world that acknowledges that what we don't know dwarfs what we do know about a complex world. Acknowledging our basic ignorance does not mean we should revel in stupidity, but rather should spur us to recognize that we have an obligation to act intelligently on the basis not only of what we know but what we don't know. When properly understood, I think such humility is implicit in traditional/indigenous systems and also *the key lesson to be taken from the Enlightenment and modern science (a contentious claim, perhaps, given the way in which modern science tends to overreach). The Enlightenment insight, however, is not that human reason can know everything, but that we can give up attempts to know everything and be satisfied with knowing what we can know. That is, we can be content in making it up as we go along, cautiously. One of the tragedies of the modern world is that too few have learned that lesson.

Fundamentalists, no matter what the specific belief system, believe in their ability to know a lot. That is why it can be so easy for fundamentalists to move from one totalizing belief system to another. For example, I have a faculty colleague who shifted from being a dogmatic communist to a dogmatic right-wing evangelical Christian. When people hear of his conversion they often express amazement, though to me it always seemed easy to understand -- he went from one fundamentalism to another. What matters is not so much the content but the shape of the belief system. :rolleyes: Such systems should worry us.

That said, not all fundamentalisms pose the same danger to democracy and sustainability. So, let's go through the four I have identified: religious, national, economic, and technological.....

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Note the assumption in the title of his article: That democracy is sustainable (at all).

Robert Jensen

Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. At UT, Jensen teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the College of Communication.

In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men's violence. In more recent work, he has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism.

In addition to teaching and research, Jensen writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, and race have appeared in papers around the country. He also is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic domination of the rest of the world.

Jensen is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005)]Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002); co-author with Gail Dines and Ann Russo of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998); and co-editor with David S. Allen of Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (New York University Press, 1995).

Curriculum Vitae: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Erjensen/vita.htm

Again note the Minnesota nice connection, U of MN or U of Morons as I prefer as an unwelcome Alumus is ran by jews brought in from UT, LOL I am lovin it, but the good Minnesota nice boy will probably be back soon as the Mexicans take over texas and give his fat ass the boot, texas fell the last state of five in 2004, now 51% mexicano, oh but what about Brown Privilege Herr Jensen, bye bye fool.

Let's encourage this moron to buy a plane ticket to Johannesburg or Zimbabwe and ask him to report to us on how much he liked it there and how much he loves his darker brother and sisters. Let's see how much research he can actually perform.

As a personal example, Jensen says that he worked and studied hard to rise from his North Dakota lower-middle-class background to earn his doctorate in journalism and land a job at a prestigious university. He knows that, along the way, he received a significant boost from the fact that he grew up in an almost all-white city, attended all-white schools, had white bosses and never believed that his failures were because he was white.

Another white idiot who worked hard to achieve whatever he achieved and now feeling guilty that the blacks aren't given what he got.

naturally, he got a boost in all-white school. In almost black school he'd finish as some crack addict with a fractured skull.

I can't wait to see his head hanging from the hand of a determined Patriot, accompanied by a GLR speech in the background and a little swazi at the top of the video

Man, there is something wrong with people in the Dakotas. They have Dakota Life on RFD-TV and you'd swear it was a half hour show about indians.

The White Race has a Death Wish, this is the concept of Thanatos, which is an ancient concept which was modernized and put into science mainly by Jung but has of course been attributed to the Jew Freud. This is what Wiki has to say about it:

The most curious feature of highly unpleasant experiences for Freud was that subjects often tended to repeat or re-enact them. This appeared to violate the "pleasure principle," the drive of an individual to maximize his or her pleasure. Freud found this repetition of unpleasant events in the most ordinary of cirumstances, even in children's play (such as the celebrated Fort/Da ("Here"/"Gone") game played by Freud's grandson). After hypothesizing a number of causes (particularly the idea that we repeat traumatic events in order to master them after the fact), Freud considered the existence of a fundamental death wish or death instinct, referring to an individual's own need to die. Organisms, according to this idea, were driven to return to a pre-organic, inanimate state—but they wished to do so in their own way.

In psychoanalytical theory, the death instinct (or death drive) opposes Eros. The "death instinct" signals a desire to give up the struggle of life and return to quiescence and the grave.

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So there you have it. The Jew leads and the White degenerates follow because they love what the Jew is doing to them. Let these garbage people get culled out. Hitler said "The strong is strongest when alone." When we are only left, the Jews will be screwed because they cannot control us, and there will be no white human cattle for them to coerce us with. The Jews might kill off 99% of the White race, but they had better get deep into Asia by the time they do because any within out borders will be hunted down and dealt with.

I'm still corresponding with Professor Jensen. He said that I am using sarcasm and caricature to misrepresent him and misunderstand him. He does this in order to avoid my question, "Why should a white privileged person who advocates the end of white privilege not take the first step by giving up his job and giving it to a person of color?"

He's taking a very cowardly and evasive tack. He cannot argue directly, because there is no intelligent opposition to White nationalism.

I hope he will reply, after I assured I wasn't insulting him personally, but rather challenging him to practice what he preaches.

He said that I am using sarcasm and caricature to misrepresent him and misunderstand him.

Seems like he's the one using sarcasm and caricature to tar his whole race.

I'm sure he already knows, being a Dakota boy, how little "white skin privilege" has done for the white working class over the last generation. One or two VDARE articles can show anyone who's interested how non-college whites are the main victims of globalization and open borders. In fact, one of VDARE's writers even statistically proves the current job climate only benefits nonwhite immigrants.

If Jensen pretends he don't know this he's just another shill and not worth your time.

I wrote to him, he wrote back, and below that is my reply intertwined with some of what he said.

The important conclusion here is that according to Professor Robert Jensen, Whites getting killed in Rhodesia doesn't even deserve discussion because of colonialism killing "millions" of muds. He dismissed it out of hand, and turned the discussion to "colonialism," that process where we unfortunately provided modern technology to non-Whites and made their numbers skyrocket.

So he's fine with any of us getting killed, raped, tortured, etc. I wonder if he'd beg for his life if some Blacks got him alone for the same purpose. He'd be like, "But I'm on your side! Go kill some evil middle class White family, not me!" probably.

>> Also, you didn't address the historical precedent of what happens when
>> White
>> people turn their country over to people of color - namely
>> Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
>> You certainly would have agreed with turning over Rhodesia to Black
>> rule.
>> Knowing of the thousands of White people who have been gang raped,
>> tortured
>> and murdered in the former Rhodesia since then, done with the approval of
>> dictator Robert Mugabe, what would you have to say about those White
>> victims.
>> Did they get what they deserved? Do I deserve to be tortured and
>> murdered
>> for being White? Or, alternatively, was it a mistake to turn over
>> Rhodesia
>> to a Black dictator?
>
> Forgot to address this.
> If you want to count bodies, I suggest you start at the beginning, of
> European
> colonialism. The toll is in the millions. And ask yourself what you might
> do if
> an invading force destroyed your society and exploited you for decades.
> It's not unusual for people trying to justify a former illegitimate regime
> to
> point to the failure of subsequent governments to try to retroactively
> justify
> their own brutality. But it's not a particularly admirable move.
>
> bob> [color="Red"]HEAR THAT FOLKS? IF WE GET KILLED, WE DESERVE IT ACCORDING TO THIS SPECK OF SPIRITUAL EXCREMENT.

He wrote back, and my replies are intertwined:

<<And ask yourself what you might do if an invading force destroyed your
society and exploited you for decades.>>

So I got my answer then. The murder of White farmers in Zimbabwe is
justified, in your opinion.

Your view of colonialism is inaccurate. When Rhodesians first settled the
land, there were only about 275,000 Africans living there. The presence of
White civilization and the generosity of hiring Black farmworkers caused the
population to rise from 275,000 to 6 million! If that's "exploitation,"
wow, I wish I could get exploited like that!

Next point:

<<It's not unusual for people trying to justify a former illegitimate regime
to point to the failure of subsequent governments to try to retroactively
justify their own brutality. But it's not a particularly admirable move.>>

So the White settler regime of Rhodesia was illegitimate? It functioned
just fine -- ask the Blacks who live in Zimbabwe now.

Many many Blacks in Zimbabwe would love to have the good old days of
Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa back. Do a google search "South Africa"
+ "better under apartheid"

By any objective standards, life is much worse for the vast majority of
Blacks under Black rule in both Zimbabwe and South Africa. And all you do
is call it "justifying an illegitimate regime." Calling it that doesn't
make it so. Professors living in the Ivory Tower are always "doing Midrash
on reality" but that doesn't work. Reality is wholly independent of your
tenured mental constructions.

So why don't you go live in the "legitimate regime" of Zimbabwe that people
like you created? Every single White traitor like you deserves to live in
the Hell that you create, and should be forced to "practice what you
preach."

You think you are some angel on high "doing good" for the benighted masses
out here. Ha! Liberals think that "it's the thought that counts," and for
now, while you are getting a nice salary, I guess it does, for you.

But your angelic thoughts from on high translate into a demonic reality for
the rest of us who have to deal with the reality of your utopian
multicultural ideal.

Every time some liberal gets offed by their beloved diversity, like for
example Amy Biehl, we can't help but laugh and hope for more of the same
poetic justice.

Rob

Could Jensen be....GAY?

It would explain why he holds such beliefs.