Posted on 03/09/2024 7:22:36 AM PST by karpov
After decades of the academy’s never-ending stream of new jargon, one can’t be blamed for ignoring another entry. But as with all the others, what begins as a crackpot idea quickly finds its way into university rules and regulations. That’s what’s happening with “cultural taxation.”
For a few years now, individual campuses of California State University have been considering turning what seemed like just another grievance into an opportunity to promote a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda.
A typical university policy statement (such as this one from California State University, Fullerton) reads, “Faculty members from traditionally underrepresented groups may experience additional demands on their time, a phenomenon termed ‘cultural taxation.’ Cultural taxation involves the obligation to demonstrate good citizenship towards the institution by serving its needs for ethnic representation and cultural understanding, often without commensurate institutional rewards.”
An article promoted by the California Faculty Association further explains that “minority faculty are expected to serve as role models and mentors for minority students.” It adds, “Clearly, serving on university and department committees as the ‘minority’ representative is taxing in itself. But being expected to ‘speak for your people’ as well, is a form of ‘taxation without representation’ at whose mere consideration, would make most faculty shudder” [sic].
Really?
The argument is that minority faculty members are so overwhelmed by the “cultural taxation” they experience that they neglect their research and teaching duties, which in turn makes their academic advancement very difficult. They need additional compensation for that supposed burden. The suggestion is that they should get credit towards tenure or advancing in the professorship ranks for the time spent working with “underrepresented” students.
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Man, these folks have to much time on their hands! They just sit around coming up with new ways to grift.
LOL, I worked with a great black teacher once who transferred into our school (0% black) - he’d come from a black school and said every time there was a fight, which was every single day, an administrator would come and get him to “talk” to the miscreants involved as a “strong black man” - he absolutely hated this task and ended up transferring out. Even after he transferred, his old school continued to call, wanting his help with problem students. He finally blocked their number - said his blood pressure and mental health improved 100% that first year.
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I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, “How do you do?”
They’re really saying
I love you
I hear babies cry
I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more
Than I’ll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Ooh, yes
Republicans are doing a poor job convincing Americans of the dangers of Marxism. Some of them even try to score points by using Marxist terms like “working class”. They talk like they don’t really belive in the freedom that made America great.
I love that song.
Most Republicans are grifters no different from Democrats.
They just sit around coming up with new ways to be compensated for sitting around.
If they want credit for tenure then perhaps write a book on the daily grind of dealing with hoodlums. A published book can enhance a tenure prospect.
as the old saying goes “a rose by any other name is still a rose”. in today’s political realm “a republican by any other name is still a democrat...until proven otherwise”. sad but true.
Maybe I’m hopelessly old fashioned, but I thought ALL teachers were supposed to be role models and mentors for ALL students.
So what are the DEI grifters arguing here? That it is uniquely and unfairly difficult for certain kinds of teachers to perform tasks that are inherent requirements of their jobs?
That would mean they are unsuited to their jobs. Which is what rational people will conclude.
BTTT
So token affirmative action diversity hires are complaining that the reason why they have substandard professional credentials and poor work histories is because it’s such an overwhelming burden being a token affirmative action diversity hire?
It would be cheaper for everyone and easier if black high school dropouts were placed in elites colleges and universities and given the power, money and prestige of full professorships (with tenure) Why force 'people of color' to spend 6 or 8 years in college pretending to be educated? Let them start at the top pretending to be professors. (of course this is a total insult to black citizen who earned the right to teach University students and who proved themselves worthy of tenure... but hey those folks are the enemy of DEI anyhow.. so insult away)
After a few terms in office they certainly are!
That’s called “rent-seeking behavior.” You can google it.
Do I have this right: The Black school kept calling for help when he was at a different (White) school?
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