ne of the most pernicious aspects of the culture of racial preferences is that it has taught all of us to think of black people as inherently less intelligent than other people. Oh, not overtly, of course. But the problem is clear in assorted cultural tropes that could owe their existence to nothing else.
Consider the conception of “welcome” that has become so entrenched in these discussions. “If you don’t admit me, then it means you don’t like me,” we instruct the young black student to think. This notion of welcoming would make sense if it were done after actually comparing people with the same grades and test scores. But when the “welcoming” is amidst changing qualifications for brown people, then it can only mean that the whites “welcome” people despite their lesser dossier stats—with the implication that this lesser performance is eternal, an inherent facet of the body of black and Latino students.
This is, quite simply, calling brown students dim. Yes, Lyndon Johnson said, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race, and then say ‘you are free to compete with all the others.’” But ladies and gentleman, is this quotation not now a bit elderly? It works beautifully today for a brown student who grew up disadvantaged. But only a small fraction of today’s black and Latino students at selective universities grew up in anything like poverty, as we know from endless reports of how grievously few poor people of any kind gain admission to selective schools.
— Read on www.the-american-interest.com/2018/06/28/affirming-disadvantage/
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He, she or ze? Pronouns could pose trouble under University of Minnesota campus policy
Using the wrong pronoun could turn into a firing offense at the University of Minnesota.
The U is considering a new “gender identity” policy that would assure transgender men and women, as well as others, the right to use whatever pronoun they wish on campus — whether it’s he, she, “ze” or something else.
And everyone from professors to classmates would be expected to call them by the right words or risk potential disciplinary action, up to firing or expulsion.
— Read on m.startribune.com/he-she-or-ze-pronouns-could-pose-trouble-under-u-campus-policy/488197021/
if I consider all thing thing I CAN’T BE FIRED FOR as a tenured professor, the idea that I COULD be fired for calling someone by the ” wrong” pronoun is ridiculous.
If we didn’t have tenure faculty would all eventually be forced to think alike! What? They do all think alike? And with tenure? So….
In Tennessee and elsewhere, professors worry that their arguments to legislators and the public are falling on deaf ears.
— Read on www.chronicle.com/article/Frustrated-Faculty-Struggle-to/243675
Yea! But “diversity”! About 1,000 DC Public Schools Teachers Are Unlicensed!
Approximately 1,000 D.C. Public Schools teachers do not have a D.C. teaching license, according to a yearlong investigation by the News4 I-Team.
— Read on www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Approximately-1000-DC-Public-Schools-Teachers-Are-Unlicensed-486076271.html
Who needs minimum wage laws? Socialism will turn the poor into millionaires—with hyperinflation!
It’s the great irony of the country’s cruel decline. Sitting atop the world’s largest reserves of crude, Venezuela — once Latin America’s richest country — is now a state of millionaires, but the millions are in bolivars and practically worthless.
— Read on news.abs-cbn.com/business/06/19/18/venezuelas-millionaires-the-new-poor
Let’s be honest. “Diversity means Black,” as a Latina academic once told me. Harvard admissions are stacked against Asian Americans. That’s racial bias.
We’ve decided that doling out opportunity on the basis of race is wrong. Even when it changes an institution’s ‘character.’ Even when Harvard does it.
— Read on www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/18/harvard-admissions-policies-against-asian-americans-racial-bias-column/708444002/
What in the hell is going on at Michigan State? Bestiality? Or diversity?
A Michigan State University staffer has been charged with bestiality for allegedly having sex with a dog. It comes after the college was implicated in the Larry Nassar case and as a former dean faces sexual assault charges.
OMG! Harvard students call for intellectual/political diversity, and want to be challenged!!!!
Maybe this will spread! What a concept! And its interesting that the editorialists also note that the current lack of intellectual diversity has a negative impact on perceptions, and on public support.
The student editors cite their recent poll which found only 1.5 percent of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences identify as conservative or very conservative, compared to 83.2 percent who identify as liberal or very liberal, then essentially call on campus leaders to hire more right-of-center professors.
“These statistics do not reflect America: 35 percent of Americans identify as conservative, 23 times the fraction of the faculty survey’s respondents, and 26 percent identify as liberal. This stark divide has harmful effects on the University’s ability to train our nation’s leaders, and it risks alienating current and potential conservative students,” the Crimson argues. “It has also likely contributed to the declining trust of Americans in higher education, which has deleterious effects.”
“Much more work is needed to make this important element of diversity a priority. We believe the University must emphasize hiring professors with diverse beliefs and backgrounds who can challenge prevailing campus ideas through tough ideological conversations.”
The student editors went on to say hiring such professors is not enough to solve the problem. They want to be challenged intellectually.
THE ABYSS BECKONS! 