What Exactly Has North Korea Done That Progressives Don’t Do Every Single Day?

Apparently the academy is no longer the place for academic debate.

Apparently Ace has been living under a rock for the past 45 years.

Seriously, this sort of thing has become a favored mode of argument on the wonkish right:  A raised eyebrow and a pretension of shock, shock, at an incident of the sort that has been occurring for decades, which the commenter knows perfectly well.

I suppose it is intended as a mechanism by which to gently awaken those who have been living under rocks for the past 45 years.  The problem, though, is that anybody who isn’t by now aware of the sort of academic gulags our college campuses have become has remained ignorant only by a sustained act of will.  Nor will this approach work with those who aren’t ignorant, but who approve of these crimes against academic freedom – or freedom in general.

For myself, I much prefer a detailed explanation accompanied by a full-throated denunciation, rather than this sort of faux-ignorance that makes the analyst appear painfully ignorant of the world upon which he is commenting