Creative Education’s Tradecraft in White Supremacy
The Eugenic Rhetoric of SUNY Buffalo’s International Center for Studies in Creativity
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Before we begin to break down the semantics of Dr. Puccio’s new “disruptive behavior” policy, introduced in the previous post, it’s worth taking a moment to reground ourselves in the purpose of this inquiry. Over the course of two independent studies, I began to identify a concerning number of semantic indicators linking creativity theory with various pseudosciences, logical fallacies, sentiment chasing and selective data inference, social eugenics, scientific racism, religiosity, misogyny, white nationalism, and fascism.
My program, SUNY Buffalo’s International Center for Studies in Creativity refused to accept data corroborating these perspectives, attempted to have me academically dismissed as retaliation; and when that failed at the administrative level, instituted a regressive behavioral policy that was worded specifically to target my neurodiversity indicators.
I, like many Americans and fellow citizens of the world, grew up with an ethic that if you see fascism a-brewin’ in your backyard you call it out, you laugh at it, you kick it in the dick, and then you excise it — root, stem, and seed. We knew what our grandparents fought for, and it wasn’t to find that decades on, fascism was not only alive and well on American soil, but that it was gaining ground in our higher education systems. And so, I write to preserve an account of the loyal opposition, the dissenting opinion; and to give voice to a wing of the creative community who would see critical theory responsibly enter our education.
Dr. Puccio’s new behavioral policy isn’t merely an effete attempt at retaliation, nor just an obvious expression of his hatred towards the neurodiverse — it’s proof of his commitment to the ideals of fascism. He has crafted a policy that, in his mind, entitles him to aggressively and non-consensually pursue the suppression of free, dissenting, and scientific speech within every corner of his students’ personal and private communications. Make no mistake, Dr. Puccio’s vision of creativity is the dark handmaiden of totalitarianism.
Take a look at the articles below and explore for yourself the disturbing rhetorical narrative he offers, and how he bastardizes and corporatizes the construct of creativity. Look for references to intelligent design and a Christian militant view of evolution, and how he associates these with Western, consumer-capitalism. This is the tradecraft of white supremacy — to lead with and blend weak science into a swirling milieu of pseudoscience and rhetoric. Beyond the gross exaltation of speciesism and anthropocentric ideologies, there is a chilling call to recognize convergence as divergence’s better half, correcting for humanity’s neurodivergence and dissent.
As you read, look for all of the unfalsifiable claims, look for the false timeline of prehistoric technology, look for the masculinization of the creativity construct; and look for all of the claims that only hold if you live in an affluent population or embrace hypercapitalism.
It’s the sort of light reading one might do before firing up their vintage movie projector and rubbing one out to Triumph of the Will.
Enjoy…
From the Dawn of Humanity to the 21st Century: Creativity as an Enduring Survival Skill
