Posted on 02/11/2007 4:59:55 AM PST by Nextrush
Next week an eyewitness account of "diversity training."
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Oh, I love this:
"Diversity is the politicizing of our differences by left-wing people who want to exploit our differences so they can gain political power."
That's a keeper.
As Dennis Miller said the other night on fox "I don't think our racial issues are so much because of the color of our skin as from the thickness of it."
I have been predicting that by the time my 1.5 year old is old enough for college, the current system will have collapsed and there will have been a radical reworking of higher education in favor of lower cost entrants into the market. This article points to yet another reason: parents will eventually get sick of stories like this and of paying escalating prices for colleges that are nothing but leftist propaganda wings.
As a teacher who belongs to a staff that was forced to go through "diversity training" I can tell you it's highly destructive nonsense.
It's all about power. Once a "victim" makes charges the easiest thing an administration can do to make the charges go away is to forced everyone into "training".
In "training" people are forced to stand up in front of the group and announce their sins and what they are going to do about them. At the end, the leader of this "training" essentially absovles everyone of their "guilt" and says in a secular-humanist way: "go and sin no more".
That's about the size of it.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this phrase. What are "lower cost entrants"?
Wow! It's seems all that's missing is the bell, book, and candle.
New competitor colleges who don't charge nearly as much as the current behemoths.
At some point, white people will increasingly not give a damn if non-Europeans are offended
The problem is that a diploma from an accredited college is currently needed as a gate-pass into most professional jobs, and the groups that control accreditation are under the control of the diversity crowd
They need to recreate the "white guilt" of the 1960's that greased the skids for the "the Great Society" social programs.
We all know that racism existed then, it exists now and will exist in the future. The real question is about whether bigger government is the solution.
Repentence and change in attitude is good, but in the context of one's own faith. Not in the secular- humanist church of public education. Is that an establishment of religion you are describing?
Paging PSU's alumni...Your alma mater is running amok. Sure you still wanna keep shelling out all that cash?
The administration went after Renee Portland because they thought they could get away with it and mollify the radicals. People still have this mystical attachment to their high schools and colleges quite often based on sports which drives financial support.
I just shredded the invite to a college reunion at my alma mater that was no doubt a funraising pitch in disguise.
Joe Paterno is untouchable and I guess sports still has some power in the ideological war, but I rhetorically asked if he is next. That may stir some people up. His successor will have to toe the line.
Our legislature held hearings last year to say there is no liberal bias in education. Ha....Ha....
The public is far from outraged at this point here in PA.
It just blows my mind how far our nation has fallen into the pit of depravity. I will NEVER accept homosexuality as anything other than the "abomination" that God declares it to be. It is a sick perversion.
She should have gone to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for help in fighting such an outrageous injustice.
1. Not everyone needs to go to college.
2. People gravitate to this stuff because they're too stupid/lazy to grasp actual college topics.
3. We're going to get creamed in the global marketplace if we don't get rid of the flakes in higher education.
Depends on what you mean by racism. I have not personally heard the N-word uttered aloud by anyone other than a black person for a good twenty years now. I work with high-achieving black folks every day, who are subject to no job discrimination except the benefits of affirmative action. I see racially mixed couples every day, and nobody is lynching them or even giving them a second look. My next door neighbor is black, and somehow my other neighbors and I have refrained from burning a cross in his yard.
What's left of "racism" is minor prejudicial slights like women tucking their purses under their arms when they pass mobs of teenage black male loiterers on street corners. Most of it is good common sense, even if it does occasionally insult someone with no evil intentions. Any sensible person would do the same if they were passing a crowd of boisterous, idle young men of any ethnicity.
I don't think this country, and in particular its white inhabitants, get nearly enough respect and gratitude from minorities for the major changes that have already been made in their favor. My ancestors shed their blood to end chattel slavery, and dismantled Jim Crow. My children will be at a vast disadvantage to theirs when it comes to college and job prospects. I think we can jettison the white guilt and bullying sensitivity seminars any time we want.
-ccm
One can only hope!
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