In the name of sustainability, students were pressured to embrace university-approved dogma on race, same-sex marriage and wealth redistribution. Dorm resident advisers interrogated them with questions such as "When did you discover your sexual identity?" Underclassmen were expected to develop ideological "competencies" like the following: "Each student will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression." Eventually, a public outcry led to modifications in the program.
” institutions such as the University of Delaware.”
Remember, parents, state schools may be “cheaper” than Harvard, but they’re not necessarily less Communist.
>>>Underclassmen were expected to develop ideological “competencies” like the following: “Each student will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression.” <<<
Damn! What a shame that I’m 54 years old! In my youth, such an arrogant and obviously rude declaration from the authorities would have immediately led me to state that THEY were oppressing me with THEIR system of conformity, and that would have led to creative protest and street theater mocking their sneering elitism. Man, it would have been fun just seeing their hip little frowns when confronted with a complaint about “lack of tolerance for diverse viewpoints.”
Which is, sadly, the problem with conservatives in general, of which I consider myself to be. We need to embrace the rules for radicals and use them against the dictatorship of the left. The best two rules against the left: always use the values of the enemy against them, and ridicule is impossible to defend against. The left is an implacable destroyer of cultures around the world; they have had their eyes on undermining American republican values for decades, since we stand against them. We don’t win brownie points for politeness and upright behavior. If the left succeeds in complete destruction of the country I love, they will be no more benevolent here than they were in Cuba or Cambodia or Venezuala.
Hopefully, though, my son will follow in my footsteps.
I asked my sister about the Residence Life Program because she knew several U.Delaware students who graduated from there a few years ago. She said that the program was all over the news in the Delaware Valley because some of the students refused to participate and answer the questions. I’m amazed that there weren’t law suits regarding the privacy rights of the students.