Institutionalizing Systemic Antiracism Racism

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | April 29, 2022 | David Richardson and Ray M. Sanchez

[karpov]

The educational bureaucracies from the state level down to local school boards, including community college boards of trustees, are rushing to implement administrative regulations and board policies, as well as approve curricular changes, that will normalize antiracist and gender identity politics in our education systems for years and perhaps generations to come. The sudden rush to augment and cement these ideas in ways that will be practically impossible to dislodge from our institutions should give us pause to ask: “Why now and why so intensely?

As “flyover country”—as it is disparagingly referred to by the coastal progressive elites—begins to wake up to the fact that education at all levels has been embracing an ideology steeped in racial and social division, the political and cultural leaders of these movements, who have used them to attain considerable administrative and political power, are desperate to enshrine them.

A primary goal of the recent rush to make these administrative policies permanent is to ensure that institutions hire the right instructors or that skeptical instructors will be forced to bow down and pay homage. The basic idea is to embed race and intersectionality so deeply into the “culture” of education that the only way to get rid of it is to dismantle the institutions themselves, something the masters of education don’t believe flyover country is willing or able to do.

[Terry L Smith]

college education had its heyday, when business, and the sciences, started growing.

then college became just one more school to finish, ho hum.

now, college has become a hot bed of cockamamie ideas, tasked to teach things not congruent with the real world, at a never-ceasing upward sliding scale. engineering, with its mathematics base, is deemed racist. business curriculum are deemed obsolete. law, with an ever-burgeoning field of future litigation before it, is the only course of study to ot be found, racist something something.

parents, do you really wish to send your kids to a school where the kid might end up with a degree in basketweaving?

i can take you to Arizona or New Mexico, and find artisans who can outperform, without a degree in hand!

[Albion Wilde]

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