Posted on 06/19/2024 7:13:05 AM PDT by karpov
As a history professor with over 30 years of teaching experience at the community-college level, I have spent most of my career secure in the idea that the values I have been teaching my students, such as natural rights, freedom of speech, and the right to self-expression, were the bedrock of Western Civilization, American history, and academic institutions like mine. These values were almost universally accepted by faculty, staff, and students alike.
Yes, there was always the lunatic fringe, espousing ideologies that emphasized conformity, mediocrity, and the “greater good” of some utopia. But they usually attracted only the youngest and most undeveloped intellects, and then only until age and experience taught them better. While I had hoped that point of view would die out when the Berlin Wall came down, it was a mere minor annoyance over the first 20 years that I was teaching.
However, about 10 years ago, I noticed a change. I mark it from the time of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Mo., which sparked months of riots and led to the rise of Black Lives Matter (BLM) as a major activist organization. Of course, this wasn’t the first time I had seen civil unrest in my life. I was born in the 1960s and grew up with the Civil-Rights Movement, but 2014 felt different. This was something deeper, more sinister, and certainly better organized than anything I had previously seen.
Over the next several years, I saw increasing intolerance at many institutions of higher learning across the country. An ever-bolder minority began to dominate the academic conversation regarding topics like race, sex, rights, and equality. Those few faculty who dared to challenge their views were shouted down or, worse yet, pushed out completely. They learned to stay silent.
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DEI is another Scam , it just allows angry people to be very very angry at whites
This is nitpicking, but “scam” isn’t the right word.
A scam only ruins those who buy into it.
DEI only ruins those who DON’T buy into it.
“Tyranny” would be a better word.
The universities are turning into North Korea.
Obey or be “re-educated”.
Defund them all—and close them.
Times like these require courage. Don’t be a weakling and back down. Take the fight to them, if you have to.
DEI - Didn’t Earn It
The author misspelled 'terrorist'.
It is the fate of every institution to last only a few generations before it is terminally corrupt.
People struggle, at that point, to discard it entirely. It is sentimental, like Great Aunt Wanda’s crusty quilt in the back of the closet.
Notice how the antichrist spirit always always always mimics God. Imago Dei is image of God. So they rip off DEI.
bkmrk please
DEI is a way to put incompetent. Marxist, and sexual weirdo idiots in high government positions. Think ‘infiltration’...
His mistake was remaining in a communist State.
Divisiveness Evil Isolation
Didn’t Earn It
Denying Excellent Individuals
DEI
Defund the universities until they give up on the DEI garbage.
It looks like even community colleges can be messed over by DEI! Do any also have the “Palestinian” virus, too?
But we all still can see for free the Frontline documentary “Crisis on Campus”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HESNxDn6Efs
This PBS product is much more conservative-friendly than most such productions. It features Harvard’s Shabbos Kestenbaum, and conservative activist Christopher Rufo (himself a Harvard Extension alum).
It also makes several Palestinian activists in US universities look bad!
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