On “Cultural Taxation”. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion arsenal has a new weapon.

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | March 8, 2024 | Mariusz Ozminkowski

[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.

[T Ruth]

Marxist terms like “working class”

Not to mention "capitalism," which is a Marxist construct. Free enterprise is the system that the Marxists want to destroy with their propaganda about "capitalism."

[Bon of Babble]

Yes.

They wanted him to return and do mediation sessions and talk to miscreants and their parents. He said he’d had enough for a life time and never wanted to do any of it in the first place.

[Noumenon]

They talk like they don’t really belive in the freedom that made America great.

They don't. They are Vichy Republican swine.

[Theophilus]

I do too!

And I won't ever let the DEI crowd agitate me.

Psalm 24:1
The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein