Manufacturing Social Justice Warriors on an Industrial Scale

American Thinker ^ | 22 Jun, 2022 | Robert Weissberg

[MtnClimber]

For over a half century, American institutions of higher education have been guilty of promoting oikophobia -- hatred of one’s own people and, more generally, Western civilization. Instruction initially only occurred in traditional academic disciplines like English and Sociology where youngsters learned about America’s racism, sexism, and multiple other sins. Within a few years, America-bashing had its very own departments, notably Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and other “grievances studies” departments.

Remarkably, despite the plain-to-see pernicious impact of this “education,” it continues to thrive and expand. America-hating academics resemble drug addicts unable to achieve highs from the original dose and thus must move on to ever-larger amounts. At some point, alas, this addictive pursuit may prove fatal, and the same may be true in education as our schools continue to demonize America.

The latest installment of this national suicide on-the-installment urge is the burgeoning field of “social justice” as a separate academic major. This is not just sneaking in some criticism of Americas in a traditional history course; nor some freshman orientation lecture to exorcize white privilege. Far worse. This is ROTC for the woke.

The parallel are faith-based schools who train missionaries to spread the gospel. But unlike traditional missionary programs targeting heathens, these freshy minted preachers will spread the Doctrine of Woke to the elite. Why proselytize among the poor when you can preach the gospel at National Public Radio?

Academic programs in “social justice” are rapidly multiplying, and this includes our most prominent institutions such as Brandeis University, Rice, Smith, and Columbia plus multiple less prestigious schools. There are also numerous master’s programs whose existence signifies that being a “social justice warrior” is a certified profession akin to social work. Such professional programs exist at Cornell, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Columbia University, George Mason, Harvard, and elsewhere.

[MtnClimber]

These are the real “useless eaters”.

[Cboldt]

James Burnham, “Suicide of the West”

[gundog]

They’ll be quite useful when the denunciations begin in earnest.

[NicoDon]

The problem that most people are not seeing is that Freedom is already gone.

What I mean by that is this: Freedom is the ability to think and reason for yourself and then take action based on your results. Action is Liberty. Most people don’t understand or have never thought to differentiate Freedom and Liberty. You can be without Liberty and still have Freedom because it exists within your mind. The law can take away all liberty but to remove Freedom you have to indoctrinate children into a dogma without teaching them to think for themselves.

When you teach a person to reason out why 1+1=2 and not just recite the numbers from memory you are teaching them Freedom.

Freedom in the younger generations is dead or dying because the communist teachers have not taught them to figure things out for themselves. To take a given situation and add in the next situation and determine what is going to happen next in an A + B = C manner. If A happens and has bad results and then B happens and has bad results, then the two of them together are going to equate to bad results.

This is why people continue to vote democrat. They do not equate failed democrat policies with the democrats. They democrats blame other variables on their perpetual disasters and dem-voters are too indoctrinated to understand it- they cannot reason that 50 years of failed democrat policies in Chicago are why the streets are so bloody there.

[Jumper]

Alright. Let’s declare that the degrees awarded are moot and kill all jobs that applicants can get using those worthless social justice degrees; then go one better, give only those who jobs and degrees are killed $10,000 to get a useful degree or they pay back their loans;)