Posted on 06/18/2014 6:26:52 PM PDT by massmike
A liberal group at the University of Minnesota (U of M) has ordered the school to admit it is a product of the evil actions of colonial Americans and must fundamentally alter its structure to make it up to marginalized communities.
“We demand an acknowledgement that the university exists as a product of colonialistic processes,” states the official website for the group, which calls itself “Whose Diversity?”
The group has created a list of “permanent and substantial structural changes” that the school must enact to right these wrongs and has vowed not to stop.
The list of changes gives the school two years to have at least two “faculty members of color” in every single department who are “engaging in critical race and ethnic studies scholarship with a social justice emphasis.” It also demands that students with “historically marginalized backgrounds” have the opportunity to be involved in hiring these faculty.
Further demands include hiring more “medical providers of historically marginalized identities whose work is rooted in social justice” and increasing the number of “non-white” students to meet very specific proportions.
“In two years, the university student body should be proportional to three-fourths of the city demographics of non-white groups. (For example, the student body should be 13.5% Black in two years compared to the city demographics of 18% Black residents).”
The list also calls for a gender-neutral restroom in every building and a faith-neutral “meditation and healing” room on every campus.
“The decor shall be approved by a committee of students, staff, and faculty who embody multiple religious and spiritual beliefs to ensure that these rooms are as respectful and encompassing as possible,” it states.
In terms of “restructuring curriculum,” the group orders the school to force every student to take at least one course on “gender non-conforming issues,” and offer “substantially more” courses on “marginalized peoples.”
In case those courses are not enough to constantly remind students about the plight of “marginalized communities,” the list also demands that the school erect a display of historical documents and photographs chronicling their activism to be placed in a “centrally located space” on campus.
“There should be transparency about the university and its past dealings with race relations,” the group explains.
It also wants to ban the U of M police department from mentioning race in crime alerts, and stop the construction of luxury apartments near campus because they “gentrify and displace local communities.”
The group has promised that summer break will not stop them from fighting for these demands.
“They probably are hoping that over the summer we are going to stop working, but we are not going away,” organizer Tori Hong told the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, a local news source.
The group presented the list of demands to the school on April 30. At the time of publication, more than 700 students, faculty, professors and alumni had endorsed it.
Administrators have said efforts to meet with the group have been unsuccessful.
“We don’t want to keep going back and forth, bantering in the media about some issues that are real, and I think are doable and solvable if we all can come together at a mutually agreed time and date and talk,” Dean of Students Danita Brown Young told the Spokesman-Recorder.
But according to its website, “Whose Diversity?” does not want to become an official campus group, because that would force it to be “complicit in reproducing a homogenized notion of diversity.”
Neither “Whose Diversity” nor U of M responded to a request for comment from Campus Reform.
I may emigrate sooner rather than later, at this rate.
I say that the reification of the societal superstructure -- in so far as a patriarchal landscape can have a societal superstructure -- mandates the teaching that a post-colonial nexus which can only be alleviated by a post-Marxian praxis.
They are actually arguing for so-called ‘historically marginalized groups’ to have hiring preference and consultation, to literally become a twisted aristocracy. Minneapolis is a s***hole
Mars is nice this time of year.
So what else did these four morons pontificate about while avoiding any actual class work? This surely can’t be all, as there is no mention of other marginalized species.
yeppers definitely its all the fault of my white European colonial heterosexual ancestors...
oh the level of my shame is so .....
non-existent...
Bet they didn’t much care for this episode of “Turn” where the turdburglar was turned into a British spy to hide his shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQVLP9Pu9pk
Sad product of modern academia.
These young idiots and hooligans will generate a nation in which it’s impossible to live.
If you want to live in a foreign country, then just stay here for a couple more years.
Hope for their sake they hire a decent staff rather than just tokens...
“It also wants to ban the U of M police department from mentioning race in crime alerts...”
If one of that group is ever a victim they should be banned from giving a description of the perp..
What in the h#ll does that mean? By definition diversity is not homogenous. Does it mean that they want diversity of diversity? Why can't they be content to be Americans and enjoy the bounty and opportunity this country still offers (albeit getting smaller by the day).
What does colonialistic processes mean? Do they actually believe that the US colonized the world or do they just have a problem with colonial America and three cornered hats?
Completely nuts.
Where on the planet is there to hide?
But according to its website, “Whose Diversity?” does not want to become an official campus group, because that would force it to be “complicit in reproducing a homogenized notion of diversity.”
I sense a hoax being perpetrated.
The Physics department will be delighted to learn it has to rehire and change its curricula. Any staff and faculty that puts up with this deserves what it gets.
if they don’t like it, they can leave. if they don’t leave and keep whining, expell for disrupting the education of others
great scene and great show. Who would have thought a Revolutionary War show would garner such attention. I say Kuddos to AMC. Now in regards to those student, had it not been for Colonial America they all would be living in Huts and lord knows doing what. Speaking some Aztec language and eating each-other I suppose. Yet even with the Colonial America establishment and the liberal subversion they still came out DUMB!
Come on bro.
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