Posted on 08/10/2015 9:42:27 AM PDT by jazusamo
George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." If one wants to discover the truth of Orwell's statement, he need only step upon most college campuses.
Faculty leaders of the University of California consider certain statements racism and feel they should not be used in class. They call it micro-aggression. To them, micro-aggressive racist statements are: "America is the land of opportunity." That is seen as perpetuating the myth of meritocracy. "There is only one race, the human race." Such a statement is seen as denying the individual as a racial/cultural being. "I believe the most qualified person should get the job." That's "racist" because it gives the impression that "people of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race."
These expressions don't exhaust the list of micro-aggressions. Other seemingly innocuous statements deemed unacceptable are: "Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough," "When I look at you, I don't see color," or "Affirmative action is racist." Perhaps worst of all is, "Where are you from or where were you born?" For more of this, see a document released by The College Fix (http://tinyurl.com/ne8ckqn) titled "Diversity in the Classroom," UCLA Diversity and Faculty Development.
This micro-aggression nonsense, called micro-totalitarianism by my colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell (http://tinyurl.com/nxulxc), is nothing less than an attack on free speech. From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Free speech is a basic tool for indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. Once the leftists gain control, as they have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is increasingly the case on university campuses.
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I am macro-offended by their academic groupthink! But because I am white and conservative, my opinion does not count. Guess what...the American eduction system has outlived its usefulness, and price point. It is in the last stages of its death throes. In an information age, why do we need little gods teaching our kids. We have the “information superhighway” (for now)...
As long as PC is political, you can’t expect it to be correct.
Agreed...For the most part our colleges and universities have become institutions for PC and leftist indoctrination rather than the teaching of higher learning and critical thinking.
Oh, cut the college profs some slack - you are dealing with adults who never left school.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
- Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
Affirmative action is racist. That is the point.
Great post jaz...
Frank Herbet was an Islamonazi? Who knew?
As one of the last “Pogo” cartoons said,
“How can you be politically correct if your morally wrong?”.
One of the last because (I believe) there were not enough who believed the...
“...we have met the enemy and he is us” could pertain to them.
Actually, the list of “micro-aggressions” was not promulgated by “faculty leaders”, but by Janet Napolitano’s office.
Most of the really egregious rot in academe, at least outside of departments and programs with names of the form [name-of-affirmative-action-beneficiary-group] Studies, comes not from the faculty, but from administrators, in this case if not a former Obama administration hack who got a fancy sinecure as the top administrator of the UC system, then one of the overpaid drones in her office, with some overwrought title like “Senior Vice-President and Chief Diversity Officer”, who contributed nothing to the actual mission of a university — the service of knowledge by passing on established knowledge (teaching) and uncovering new knowledge (research) — but draw fatter salaries than the faculty who actually do.
Thanks for the post.
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