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students about the plight of “marginalized communities,” the list also demands that the school erect a display of historical documents and photographs chronicling their activism to be placed in a “centrally located space” on campus.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.
Damn. You're good!
If one chooses to be offended by something, it’s by one’s own choice and is one’s own fault.
The victim card carriers simply lack moral conviction and self-confidence. It’s a character flaw.
Somebody send this screed to Mike Adams. It deserves his masterfully disdainful commentary.
The exactitude of math is patriarchal and oppressive.
Chicken shit administration (i.e. craven cowards) and dress-wearing fascists. Yep, that’s the Un. of Minnesota. Oh, throw in a few communists/marxists too. Don’t forget the Al Shahab jihadists in Minneapolis. Oh, sorry, They kill crossdressers. Wrong bunch of fascists.
If one needs to wonder what the end result of giving up one’s own dominant culture in the name of multi-culturalism, coexistence, and tolerance is, just go ask a Native-American. They, after all, did it.
There’s no better example of the need for the dominant culture to reassert itself.
“Dean of Students... Danita”
How do you spell Oi Vey?
Mental illness is spreading among the liberals more every day...
Transgendered, liberal, freaky types don't seem to strike me as the type who will fare well when the power goes off and food becomes sparse.
And when those hormone medications dry up in supply and their true, natural selves emerge overwhelming the artifice of reality they've created for themselves, the mental collapse that follows won't be pretty.
Let's see who walks out of that situation, pilgrim...
Has anyone informed the group they have no power over such things?
I propose a radical solution to this manifesto - ignore it and its authors. I am morally certain that they will promptly hold their collective breaths and beat their feet in a classic tantrum. That will be an expected action given their obvious intellectual age of ‘2’!
Methinks that an above poster may be correct in this being a hoax, it is just to far gone. However I’ve been wrong before.
“We demand an acknowledgement that the university exists as a product of colonialistic processes”
could someone please explain this to me in ENGRISH???
<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.”
I’m an academic. I’m black. I’ll be damned if some undergrads (or even grad students) are going to tell me what I have to teach and do research in. Do they realize how that demand sounds? It’s as if minorities can’t work in any areas other than those that have to do with social justice. And, news flash, kids, it’s gonna be hard as hell to find 2 minorities for each department. Ain’t gonna happen; there just aren’t that many minorities, evenly distributed across disciplines, and assuming that they don’t include Asians (the forgotten minority) in their demands.
Jeesh. I thought we left this stuff in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s.
Proper response from university: “f””k off”
When will these Univ. Boards and Presidents grow some backbone and just tell the students demanding changes that they are free to go elsewhere, because no one forced them to enroll. The professors and other Univ. employees who sign in support of these idiot students should be told the same.
I can’t imagine a bunch of recent hires at a big employer pulling such crap to try to force the company to change their policies. Such a group would find themselves unemployed very quickly.
Simple solution, Chancellor...expel every single one who belongs to the group.
You’re right. they won’t make it. along with the people who are so used to having government help that they can’t solve a problem for themselves.
How are they in a position to demand anything except their tuition money back?
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