"As we prepare for the start of the fall semester, the nation is still reeling from the violence that erupted last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia. Our hearts go out to the victims, families, and individuals whose lives were torn apart by such horrific actions. Organizations built on racism and hate, such as the KKK, have no place in our society. They do not reflect our values and certainly not the values of XXXXXXX.
"Our institution was founded with the goal of providing opportunities for everyone seeking an education. Since the beginning, we have championed peace, tolerance, and equity. Our open doors have helped the college become a richly diverse community of students and employees. We must continue to provide a welcoming and supportive environment.
"Our policies and procedures ensure everyone has the resources needed to be successful, and we do not and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or hatred in any form.
"We must remain vigilant against hatred. Student Services and the Diversity Committee are currently developing a series of programs for the college community on race and the broader topic of bias. These will take place in the first few weeks of the semester. The college will also collaborate with XXXXX and serve as a host for upcoming XXXXXX events. I hope that this programming will provide a safe space for thoughtful dialogue.
"By working together, we can continue to build understanding within our diverse community."
BARF-O-RAMA.
I want to write scathing letters to this pres who has the temerity to think we all think liberal and that if we don't, we're just mean dangerous bigots. Problem is I need this low-pay PT job, my mother referred me into it so it reflects on her though she hasn't worked there in a while, so I bite my tongue and "deal with it".
What is one to do? Maybe, I just want to gripe and have others listen!
All US universities and colleges declare that all white people, conservatives, christians, and republicans are NAZIs, and must be exterminated!
Are there any colleges in your area which are not liberal? I notice you live in Maryland. St. John’s is supposed to be pretty good. Or at least find one that is not so blatant.
I share your antithapy for such things. A lot of problems come from elevating a description like ‘diverse’ to the status of a virtue, at the expense of actual virtues such as ‘excellence’ and ‘achievement’. We have probably hit the nadir of academia in the US.
At least at your university the workshops still seem to be voluntary. The university where I used to work was making them mandatory just before I retired in 2008. What a crock of BS.
I suggest printing Damore’s Google memo & sending anonymous copies to your university officials through campus mail.
Subvert the Dominant Paradigm! ;-)
Need some details. What is a PT job? How old are you and what sex? Are you locked into a retirement plan or benefits you can’t do without? What are your credentials? What other opportunities are open to you? Are you a veteran? What are your long-term goals? Can you move? Are you stuck in the area because of divorce/children?
I think many jobs are like being a citizen of the Soviet Union. You have to be very careful who you talk to and what you say. I got reported by a black employee for, I think the phrase was, “politically incorrect speech.” Seriously. The HR manager came to my cube and sat down. Leaning forward so nobody would overhear he told me about it and suggested I never speak to the guy again. What bothered me is, he felt it necessary to warn me; not the guy who reported me. This was at General Dynamics.
Basically, any education job, defense job or tech company job has the potential to get a conservative into trouble or have his career sidelined for politically incorrect views. I am friends with a former fifth grade teacher. He told me the school warned them not to have a Facebook account because if somebody reported something they said as offensive the school would probably have to fire them.
Fortunately, I think the pendulum will swing back the other way, but it won’t swing as far as it was in, say, the sixties.
First thing you should do is send a reply to all, in the spirit of those concerned about violence, Homeland Security has issues a warning about ANTIFA
https://www.njhomelandsecurity.gov/analysis/anarchist-extremists-antifa
If you read/research the illuminati or world government, you will find they took control of the state run, gov run colleges and the public schools... along with the media. Parents who can afford it, send their kids to private schools... still having to pay taxes for the public schools, they choose to keep them out of the indoctrination that goes on in the public education world.
They knew how to control the masses and then tell them we all are not bright enough to think for ourselves... they believe they are so much superior and need to tell us how and when ... their supposedly superiority makes them below par. But you can see that pattern in the clintons and in obama... they, being the superior, have to tell us what we can do and not do... buy and not buy... where to live and how to live..
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Redirect the emails to your junk mailbox so you don’t even have to look at them.
Actually, I’d scrounge up a bunch of Nazi quotes, replace Juden with “Free Speech Advocates” and put them on fliers with “Antifa” as the author. Start a riot,show how violent that side is, just don’t get caught.
You go on by swallowing hard and learning from this. Look at the overt bias in that letter. Appreciate the left’s arguments and learn how to rebut them. You say you need this part time job, so keep your head straight, don’t expose yourself, but don’t do anything that compromises your principles. You will come out of this much stronger in your conservative beliefs.
1. Find your tribe, whether on campus or off. When you have a community of like-minded, the rest of the travails of the world become easier.
2. Know that it is NOT just you.
3. You can try to argue it and fight it, though I understand why you’d be afraid for your actual safety and job because of liberal bullies. Being reminded how you are in the right, though, and hearing others’ stories can help.
Compulsory Political Education: A Real World Case Study at the U of Toronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-7YGGCE9es
Dr. Jordan Peterson: The Dangers of Unconscious Bias Testing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veAPVuuUSUY
2017/02/25: Jordan Peterson: Postmodernism: How and why it must be fought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2nqmQIfxc
Start lobbying your state legislature. Make the point that the purpose of the state subsidizing higher education is so that students will be able to get better jobs than with just a high school diploma.
The list the majors offered by your school, and job placement in those majors six months after graduation. Then a simple question to your state legislators:
“If these college majors do not improve either the lives of students, or our economy; in fact leaving many students deeply in debt; then *why* is the state subsidizing them?”
Stop giving schools money to impoverish and indoctrinate. Make them clean up their act.
If you could get away with it without being seen, I would write “Trump” in chalk everywhere on campus
You have support here.
Know that you are not alone and you may actually have some conservative compatriots there even though they are not saying anything either.
This sort of thing is going around - wife came home from mass this afternoon p*ssed that the congregation had to listen to some long letter from some bishop lecturing them on the evils of racism and urging them all to be nice to one another - it is condescending, demeaning, and arrogant in the extreme that these people take it one themselves to judge others they know nothing about and sermonize to them en masse - literally in this case - as though they really did have some special moral superiority and those they’re addressing hadn’t heard the message before a hundred times - it’s group hysteria from a bunch of cowards who don’t know their own minds and aren’t centered enough to say here’s what I believe take it or leave it, and I respect what you believe too - eventually it will fade - righteous indignation gets stale pretty quickly - just keep griping and venting until people start to get their senses back.....
Once they decide to just build the best community/society they can by being productive members who are courteous to others and only use violence against violence, they will fail due to their own ignorance.
Well, hope they feel better about themselves now, the hand wringing little puppets. Be strong mate. Feel for ya.