Western Civilization = White Supremacy
New York City school administrators have been taught that pillars of Western Civilization such as objectivity, individualism, and even belief in the written word all are examples of … white supremacy, the New York Post reports.
A slide presentation obtained by the Post from the workshop “Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change” includes claims that a belief in an “ultimate truth” (objectivity) leads to a dismissal of “alternate viewpoints or emotions” as “bad” (this is straight out of the critical race theory playbook), and that emphasis on the written word overlooks the “ability to relate to others” and leads to “teaching that there is only ‘one right way’ to do something.”
Other “hallmarks” of white supremacy include a “sense of urgency,” “quantity over quality,” and “perfectionism.” Read more at The College Fix
The Civility Problem
Maybe a few courses on how to create a civil society would help America's so-called "social warriors" learn how to deal with their fellow men and women. Let's start with Amherst College in Massachusetts, where former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was scheduled to address the ongoing issue of free speech on campus. Campus Reform reports that Sessions got a dose of today's SJW tactics when a stinkbomb was set off before he went on stage. Then, a walkout was staged by a gay pride group punctuating the assault on the former A.G. Stinkbombs? What is this, 7th grade?
Studying 'Angry White Males'
The University of Kansas has approved a course called “angry white male studies,” open to all students willing to take a women’s studies course first. The course on white males will explore recent changes in demographics since the 1950s. Republican Congressman Ron Estes took a dim view, arguing that ”KU is offering a class that divides the student population and could pose a TitleIX violation by creating a hostile campus movement based on gender.”
The course will be taught by Christopher Forth, who focuses on gender, fat-shaming, and masculinity.
Erasing White Men from Politics
Believing that courses on American political thought are too fixated on white males, Professor Chad Shomura of the University of Colorado at Denver has solved the problem by banning discussion of white men in his course on the nation’s political thought. This means nothing from Washington, Jefferson, Tocqueville, Rousseau or any of the pre-Obama presidents. Discussion of the Hillary Clinton race for the presidency in 2016 is allowed, but how she managed to lose while apparently “running unopposed” is unclear.
No Free Speech: Heckler Cancels Another Student Meeting
Last week, a group of at least 4 Portland State University police officers stood by and declined to intervene as a heckler with a cowbell single-handedly canceled a College Republicans meeting. This is the second time in 2019 that PSU allowed hecklers or would-be hecklers to shut down campus expression — and the second time the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has demanded the university adhere to its First Amendment obligations. FIRE first wrote to the university Feb. 18 after PSU’s law enforcement unilaterally canceled a meeting of a socialist student group after the founder of the group Patriot Prayer said he would show up.
Be Careful What You Wish For on Social Programs
Nathan Glazer, the last of a group of famous neocon social scientists, died at the age of 95 on January 19 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. (He resisted the label “neocon.”) Glazer consistently warned that vast government plans to improve the lives of the poor often come to grief or create new problems of their own. “The evaluations of the specifics of the first ten years after the launching of (the War on Poverty) confirm that nothing worked and in particular, nothing in education worked.” He concluded that the family was the key institution to positive social change and that rights are inherent in individuals, not groups. The article here by Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute ran in 2011 when President Obama planned an extension of the War on Poverty.
Just to clarify: Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a separate institution. The President of Pomona College would have no say in the hiring of the CMC dean.
My alma mater. Ranked #1 US college/university by Forbes this year. Under no circumstances should Oxtoby accede to the mob. Pomona has the 5th largest endowment per student. Ill-advised actions could jeopardize alumni support.
Compared to what some student groups are demanding, this doesn’t really seem all that bad. A few rainbow unicorns, and, of course, lost of things that will cost some money, but much of what they want is provided by other expensive schools of Pamona’s caliber.
Diversity and inclusion officer-it’s getting pretty standard
Increased funding for mental health-I am personally quite ambivalent about campus mental health, especially now that so many insurance plans cover private mental health. Campus mental health center staff are university employees. Ask the University of Oregon how that one is working out. Still, beefing up mental health services on campus is pretty routine.
Counselors trained in gay and trans issues-setting aside my personal grievance that this fails to acknowledge that bisexuals are a distinct category (tee hee!!), I think it would be very easy to find gay/trans-issue trained counselors who would be happy to work at a university
Half of all tenure-track faculty positions going to underrepresented groups: Not. Going. To. Happen. And it it is not a realistic demand. The only caveat is that there are so few tenure track job offers these days that it might be easier than I think. But in any case, hiring should not be constrained by demands that are so divorced from reality.
Native American Studies department-Personally, not a big fan of “studies” departments, but this is pretty par for the course at expensive liberal arts colleges
Student representation at Dean of Students hiring-when appropriately managed (representatives are vetted, not so much for opinions as for professionalism and leadership potential, student voice is not over-represented), this is just good practice, and an educational opportunity for students
President meeting with people-again, just good practice, and an educational opportunity for students
So this is it, then? The domino effect, one university after another falling as it capitulates to the demands of a bunch of spoiled, narcissistic “victims”?
Pathetic.