Posted on 01/16/2024 7:22:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Here’s another good reason not to plunk down $126,584 (that’s the total for four years of tuition unless it goes up between now and 2027) to send your kid to Rutgers. Long considered to be one of America’s premier universities, the beloved alma mater of Mr. Magoo is now a sinkhole of woke indoctrination, with academic standards sinking lower than Old Joe Biden’s ethics.
A professor at Rutgers Law School has lied openly in an academic paper and has refused to back down, knowing that she will face no consequences from an administration that is as corrupt and compromised as she is.
In this, of course, Rutgers is like virtually every other university in America today. First, there was the remarkable public self-immolation of the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania during a congressional hearing; then Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, was forced to resign after her repeated plagiarism was revealed, although she claimed that her resignation was due to “personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus,” and many in the academic establishment and elsewhere bought her nonsense.
These incidents, however, were just the latest and highest-profile manifestations of an intellectual and spiritual rot that is everywhere. One small example of it came in a recent pseudo-scholarly study from Rutgers University Law School’s Center for Security, Race, and Rights, entitled “Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes In the Palestine–Israel Discourse.”
This “study” is 65 pages of Marxist agitprop, woke psychobabble, and pure fantasy, all thrown together in a thick propaganda stew that’s designed to show “how race and racism infect foreign policy and the treatment of minority communities who espouse unpopular views or dissent from the political orthodoxy, including the defense of human rights for all.”
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What happen? The mission changed from educating to indoctrination.
How did this happen? Government money (in the form of student loans and grants).
None of this is new, it’s just more out in the open now. How else could suck lackluster people rise to high positions in academia? “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach”.
This kind of nonsense only happens because it’s paid for with OPM.
Cut off the money...the problem goes away.
Self-loathing white liberals:
Genuflect to those they feel superior to.
Put them in charge to assuage their ill-perceived guilt.
Learn why they weren’t in charge in the first place.
Thurston Howell the 3rd (the voice of Mr. Magoo) on Gillian’s Island was from Harvard.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
The meat of the book is a careful empirical analysis of dozens of politically-correct policies and theories, from the “war on poverty” to crime, environmentalism, the public school monopoly, affirmative action, and many others. In each case, Sowell shows how the anointed simply ignore evidence (and common sense), invent vocabulary designed to preempt issues rather than debate them (i.e., referring to the U.S. Postal Service, but not your typical grocery store, as a “public service”), and persistently declare their moral superiority over those who would disagree with them.
It is quite obvious that American universities are infested with Islamic jihadists sponsored by - wait for it - oil money. Unfortunately for the jihadists it’s impossible to have sympathy for murdering and raping monsters nor their parading terrorist supporters. Universities need to be defunded. No public money should flow to these unAmerican sh@t shows.
Another Thomas, Tom Wolfe, had their number, back to the ‘60s and ‘70s, with a slew of publications as well.
We just “celebrated” a National Holiday for a supreme plagiarizer and womanizer to placate a segment of our population. This acceptance has bled throughout academia and our society. In a real world the man would have his accolades stripped.
No - the author is trying to cover up that it already happened decades ago.
Mr. GG2’s nephew is the President of a Well known southern college. He is being heavily recruited because one head hunter recently told him so many college presidents dissertations were being looked at for plagiarism that the openings at the top Are starting to pile up due to resignations.
A lot if the BS slung by academics is simple intellectual dishonesty. I have witnessed some of it. It might sound good, but underneath that veneer is a lie.
Why would anyone be surprised that such people cut corners on issues of academic ethics and integrity?
The teaching job became immune from real life financial pressures and certain types migrated there. Then there’s the bankrupt philosophy of “perception IS reality”. People who really wanted to do something innovative with their education and ideas got out of there.
So what you have left is a bunch of mouthy, huggers, safety conscious,self aggrandizing mediocrities running the U.
I would not recommend anyone going there unless they were going to learn something no one else could teach. Y’know...if they had somethings like astronaut or pilot training major or nuclear engineering, or advanced particle physics with an in-house particle accelerator
I thought Plagiarism was lying.
“First Plagiarism, Now Lying: What’s Happening to America’s Universities?”
Simple. The Left, under the cover of cluelessness, saturated universities with Leftist Professors who now control them. They are well on their way to accomplishing that in the el/hi school systems. The next is their “Free Child Care for all 3 to 5 year olds to finish their agenda:
“Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.” ... V. Lenin
Plagiarism is copying someone else’s work.
Lying is fabricating the results.
What happened? Loss of STEM competencies... said it more than once and I’ll say it again... get a degree or cert that is attached to electrical work... not Electronics work, electrical because electrical services are not going away.
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