the gatherers telling the hunters how the meat will be divided, and to who?
Posted on 07/26/2021 12:13:28 PM PDT by karpov
At Davidson College, the frog finally realized that it’s being slowly cooked alive.
As the theory goes, if you put a frog into boiling water, it will immediately jump out, but if you put it in lukewarm water and gradually raise the heat, it will not realize what is happening until it’s too late. The parable is often used to describe a social phenomenon by which an initially unpopular agenda can be made successful through gradual and subtle manipulation of opinions and language, without the populace being aware of what is happening.
It appears that the Davidson College administration cranked up the heat a little too fast on their radical agenda early this year, alarming some formerly complacent alumni. And, after a long slow erosion of tradition at the prestigious private college outside Charlotte, those alumni are starting to fight back.
Like many colleges, Davidson has been moving left politically for several decades. But unlike many other schools with Christian roots, it has clung steadfastly to its Presbyterian origins.
Until recently. In January of this year, the trustees—spurred by the administration—voted to amend the governing by-laws by removing two requirements. (Davidson’s board is almost entirely self-perpetuating; such boards tend to function as extensions of their administrations rather than as independent authorities). One of the dropped requirements was that the school president had to be a practicing Christian. The other was that 80 percent of the board of trustees had to be members of a Christian church. (A requirement that 25 percent of the board be members of a Presbyterian church remains).
These changes are drastic: the governance structure of the school no longer has to be pro-Christian, but can instead be assertively non-Christian.
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The fact that all the board and administration principals involved in this are all, or seem to be, women should not be lost in the bigger picture. If you look closely, the liberal female element is always near the crux of wokeism.
the gatherers telling the hunters how the meat will be divided, and to who?
I dare to say that the founders of so many of these colleges & universities would feel betrayed and horrified at what their efforts have been perverted! Like many well known foundations, these institutions have become institutionally LEFTist due (probably) to their administrators coming from the LEFT themselves. Regardless of why, the fact is that mission statements and founder’s desires mean nothing when current administrators wish to slip the strait-jacket of that history that they despise!
The bigger, Bigger picture, repeal XIX !
Or anti-Christian.
The unspoken and un-addressed elephant in the room.
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