The Continual Creep of Social Justice into Higher Education

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | December 16, 2019 | David Randall

[karpov]

Social justice activists say they want to bring about a golden age. The road to the golden city always requires more gold from our pockets to pay the activists’ salaries. Social justice activists always work to create more activists. Everything they do in higher education has an eye to the bottom line—seizing control of general education requirements, of departments, of administrative offices. They want to do well for themselves as they do what they think is good.

Duke University diverts tuition and tenure to steer jobs to social justice activists by forcing students to take a Cross Cultural Inquiry course, which “encourages critical and responsible attention to issues of identity, diversity, globalization, and power.” That means courses like Organizing for Equity, Activism and Social Change, and Sounding Latinx: Literature, Listening, and Ethnoracial Othering in the U.S. The CCI requirement doesn’t just steer jobs to activists. It also forces students to sign up for social justice propaganda.

Wake Forest University’s Residential Engagement Communities program tempts students with the Community Engagement Theme house, where “We function as a home away from home that builds community and works to broaden what we define as ‘community’ while engaging in talks about the intersections of social justice and community.” Social justice colonizes the dormitory.

Elon University’s Center for Race, Ethnicity & Diversity Education boasts about its Intergroup Dialogue, “an interactive co-curricular experience designed to increase students’ awareness about diversity and activism for social justice.” The “co-curriculum” at Elon means administrators training students to create “action plans” for more social justice at Elon.

University presidents sell social justice to the public as all-American niceness. The Federal Trade Commission should book ‘em for false advertising. At UNC-Charlotte, ... the Office of Identity, Equity, and Engagement in the Division of Student Affairs runs a “White Consciousness Conversation”

[karpov]

Thomas Sowell: Social Justice Philosophy Is a Blank Check for Government Power.

[PGalt]

Beware the military, industrial, media/propaganda, EDUCATION/INDOCTRINATION, political/criminal complex.

Hey hardworking FReepers/Americans...have a great week at work...make that money, watch it burn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - “The Law”; Frederic Bastiat

[cranked]

Higher education is like cancer now....libtard progressives have utterly fraked them all up, much like they frak everything up they touch.

[mjp]

Social justice activists say they want to bring about a golden age.

The abstract conceptual framework of social justice is the belief that a man is morally the property of others - of those others it is his duty to serve. As such, a man has no moral right to refuse to make the requisite sacrifices for others. If he attempts it, he is depriving men of what is properly theirs, he is violating men's rights, their right to his service, and it is therefore an assertion of morality if others intervene forcibly and compel him to fulfill his obligations.

[RideForever]

Justice is a concept without a body. Social implies relationships with persons with bodies. The conflation of such disparate ideas is NOT ‘academic’, it’s pathetic.

[PeterPrinciple]

Justice is a concept without a body.

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Justice requires a standard.

We use to be a nation of laws. Laws that did not change easily. Our founders designed as inefficient government as they could.

Then we became democratic. Now we are a nation of surveys, mob rule.

There are many here that want an efficient govt........................

[GOPJ]

It’s time to split the country so white liberal elites can ‘have it all’ and we can be OUT of the hellhole they’re creating.

We don’t need a civil war - we need a divorce.