On Monday evening, MIT's Ecology and Justice Forum In Global Studies and Languages hosted a talk to examine if there is a link between Islamophobia and global warming, because why wouldn't a really expensive technological school do something so sciency?

Guest speaker Ghassan Hage was invited from the University of Melbourne to speak. He is described as a "Future Generation Professor" at Melbourne's School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry. Hage is also known throughout the world for his studies on multiculturalism, colonialism and nationalism, but especially his work, White Nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society. He is currently working on a book that attempts to link Islamophobia with global warming and that is the reason he was invited to MIT to share his philosophies.

According to an online flyer for the event, here was the topics covered:

This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’

Nobody knows what any of that means, but no doubt is sounds very plausible to young minds stunted by our leftist-dominated educational system. And all for the low, low price of $45,000 per year!