Posted on 10/02/2021 5:37:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As parting shots go, it packed quite a punch. But then it had been coming for some time.
In an open letter announcing his resignation from Portland State University in Oregon, assistant philosophy professor Peter Boghossian condemned his former employer as a “social justice factory, whose only inputs were race, gender and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division”.
What had once been a bastion of free inquiry was gripped by “a culture of offense where students are too afraid to speak openly and honestly”.
His broadside echoed right across the United States. […]
Today, most US universities have entire departments headed by members of the equality “police”. It recently emerged, for example, that Michigan University has a total of 82 “diversity officers” with a combined annual salary of more than £7.5 million.
Top speakers like Dr. Bernice King, daughter of Civil Rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King, or Robin DiAngelo, author of the bestseller White Fragility, can charge up to £20,000 per campus speech.
One professor told The Mail on Sunday that one of the most prestigious universities in Los Angeles now forces professors to undergo compulsory two-hour “diversity training” sessions each week, overseen by a consultancy that charges a reported £250,000 a year.
Never mind that one conclusion of the drive for justice is the very thing America fears most: the return of segregation and the growing racial divisions that implies. Last week, Western Washington University announced “black only” housing as part of its diversity and inclusion program. …
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“Hi, I’m the new diversity officer in charge of 3rd floor restrooms.”
It’s tragic what the college-age generation grew up with, and is going through now. Horrible. They’re being throroughly cheated out of what should be a wonderful time in their lives.
Yup...my near 30 yr old law degreed niece is a perfect example of failure of education. Living with parents, a super woke woman who will likely never marry and be bitter forever.
Everything woke turns to shit - President Donald J. Trump
They should fire all 82.
They should be paid in rubles instead of pounds.
Someone, please enlighten me. WTH does ‘diversity’ mean, and HTH does it make things better for blacks?
Young militant blacks and woke whites who want to destroy the USA push this divisive BS.
Call it for what it is; misdirection which pushing an agenda that this anti-USA.
After recent experiences I am just fine with segregation. How else can we protect black college students and LeBron James from evil white folks?
Wasn’t Mitchell Obama a diversity officer in a Chicago area hospital ?
We almost made it. We almost became the first multi-racial society where people generally got along with each other.
Almost.
Until the left came along, that is.
JFTR, I haven’t experienced any racial antagonisms of late directed towards my person. I experienced more of that during the 1980s when I was a teen, however. The left may not be succeeding as much as the media portrays it, even with the left’s stranglehold on federal power in DC.
Remember, peace has only one source.
It makes it so some people get a weighted participation grade even if they never attend class.
You are exactly right. I worked hard and played pretty hard in college too, and it set me on a path I needed to find.
Lord, those were wonderful times, new doors and pathways opening up almost every day. A helluva exciting opportunityfor a country boy.
My daughter was like that, but landed a super gentleman boyfriend when she was about 33. They bought a house together are are doing extensive remodeling together. They’ve been together almost three years now,
There is hope for your niece.
Great. I knew my degree in “Black Studies” would come in handy. Where do I apply?
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