Posted on 11/29/2015 6:29:41 PM PST by Kaslin
The Path to Ignorance
One common denominator characterizes almost all unrest on college campuses: the demands to create more “-studies†courses (black, Latino, feminist, gay, etc.) and thus to hire more -studies professors.
An empiricist from Mars might observe that the chief beneficiaries of the protests are -studies academics. They alone will win more jobs and classes, which otherwise few students wish to attend and from which fewer gain any factual knowledge, written and oral speaking skills, or improvement in inductive thinking.
A good leftist would cite conflict of interest: the more -studies professors egg on students to protest for more -studies professors, the more their friends, students, and mentors profit. Or is it more insidious: students also want more -studies courses to ensure more gut classes with easy As to inflate GPAs and free up more time to hit the gym and the local protest? So far there are few demands to make the physics department more diverse or to hire more engineering professors.
If some right-wing nut wished to harm leftist students and wanted to ensure that they stay indebted, leave college poorly prepared, and do not impress future employers, then he would likely advocate for the curtailment of traditional history, language, science, math courses and their faculty, and the expansion of more -studies courses and professors.
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And just wait until these participation trophy winning special snowflakes graduate from these diploma mills with masters in Ubangi transgender studies, or Aztec lesbian drum beating or any other such irrelevancy that wouldn’t qualify them to be Starbucks barristas. Then these precious cupcakes will really have something to bitch about.
The logic here falls apart when the “do not impress future employers” stage is reached.
HR departments are infested with -studies majors who go out if their way to ensure that -studies majors are pushed into positions for which they aren’t qualied. Then it’s the EEO Offices job to both validate the “diversity-driven” hiring criteria and ensure that the “diversity” hires can’t be fired.
And remember that “diversity” here has nothing to do with race or gender or any other big demographic identifier. It has absolutely everything to do with conformity and adherence to the ideological orthodoxy foisted by -studies classes and their professors.
Yup.
It’s increasingly a no-win situation for anything but the big multinationals, who can afford the overhead associated with all the different staff members, from HR to EEO to the lawyers to deal with the snowflakes. And the $$$ for the inevitable jackpot justice payouts.
Mid-sized business are getting killed on all this. Small businesses not so much, but they’re getting suffocated by overregulation
Which really helps the big multinationals ...
Shortly after I graduated back in the late 60's the cream puffs at my "University" went to socialized grading and eliminated letter grades in favor of "pass/fail because the little darlings couldn't handle letter grade competition. It took about 5 years for the situation to backtrack when graduating students couldn't get jobs or into graduate schools and demanded the opportunity to receive letter grades in order to be able to compete with their peers from other institutions. The Law of Unintended Consequences won yet another round against the victimized liberals.
Brilliant.
The high school I went to used a form of the pass/fail system, it was intended to give a more accurate indication of how we students were performing. Instead it caused all kinds of confusion. Needless to say our parents were not happy with this crazy grading system.
I have a good friend who works for Intuit software. They have a list of “diversity” employees who cannot be fired for any reason. They are just overhead expense.
(Yes, there were a few who studied hard and wrecked grading curves, even there.)
Phys-ed majors had to pass the same Anatomy and Physiology courses the pre-Med students did, so they were not as thick.
I only took one elective course pass/fail because I just wasn't going to spend the time on it I was going to devote to the science and math classes I was taking. I regretted that, ultimately, as that low-effort A would have put me over the top for graduating cum laude.
“Outside the needle exchange there is a more-or-less open drug market. Dozens of users and dealers cut deals unmolested by police. Last year a crack-down on heroin users in the notorious Nygaards Park in the center of town drove them into the tourist-heavy city-center. Straxhuset leader Hugo Torjussen says the unofficial policy is to allow them to congregate here instead. The proximity of health professionals makes it safer in case of overdose, and the new local government has cut through political deadlock to sanction a safe injecting room for users to shoot up their own gear inside.”
Funny how the city-center folks never want a needle exchange in THEIR neighborhood.
How embarrassing, Kaslin. Forgive me. I had two FR windows open. Seriesly.
No problem, I was still sleeping at 2:30 this morning and am hardly awake now,
The big multinational corporations are shedding employees at a heavy rate in favor of more automation. The snowflakes and cup cakes are in trouble and will live lives much poorer than their parents.
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