Posted on 05/27/2019 6:28:46 AM PDT by reaganaut1
In 2017, the North Carolina legislature passed House Bill 527 (now State Law 2017-196) to foster open inquiry in the states public colleges and universities. One of the provisions ordered the University of North Carolina system Board of Governors to produce an annual report on two categories of intellectual freedom: free speech and institutional neutrality.
The law states that colleges should aspire to institutional neutrality, where schools do not take a stance on a political issue, so that students and staff dont feel pressured to share the views of the political majority on campus.
However, during the political science commencement ceremony at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I saw institutional neutrality fail. The last official event graduating students would attend with Chapel Hill was suffused with politics rather than reflections on knowledge and truth.
This year, the political science department at UNC-Chapel Hill chose Gina Collias, a conservative-turned-liberal North Carolina politician running for Congress in the 10th District, to give the commencement speechwhich she used as a platform to campaign for Congress and praise liberal students.
Collias began her speech by correcting an error in the commencement program, clarifying that she was no longer a Republican. During her speech, Collias spoke about her time at UNC-Chapel Hill, but she also brought up abortion. With states like Alabama recently passing abortion restrictions and other states like Vermont protecting their citizens right to abortion, mentioning abortion positively was a way for Collias to flush out the audiences partisan leanings.
When she received a positive reaction from the crowd, Collias then told a story about correcting her white privilege and urged members of the audience to do the same. Collias spoke about being at an African American church when she was young and didnt know who Martin Luther King Jr.
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This isn't white privilege....it's an indictment of a poor education system.
‘White Privilege’ — what an idiot. Check your stupidity.
“Political Science” is one of the major oxymorons of our time.
Appears the “speakers” get the weekly “dumbass” awards.
Politically neutral Carolina?
Hah...like asking a leopard to shed its spots.
Better yet...like asking poop not to stink.
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
They could start with elimination of affirmative action in the admissions process, in student awards including fellowships and support, and in faculty selection and promotion. That would be a logical part of "institutional neutrality."
Not likely. They'll just follow the law as stated above, by "aspiring."
Honestly...when was the last time a major university (successfully) invited a conservative...hell, even a RINO...to deliver its commencement address?
Let me translate White Privilege: White self hate.
Let’s ask UNC about it’s neutrality with Silent Sam, its failure to prosecute the thug vandals who pulled him down and their refusal to carry through on putting him back on display.
The entire UNC education system is corrupt. Chapel Hill is a cesspool.
She needs to check her “stupidity privilege”.
White Lives Matter.
Yep.
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