Academia's Pervasive PC Rot

National Journal ^ | Nov 12, 2007 | Stuart Taylor

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"A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. 'The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture, or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists.' " [emphasis added]

Such stuff has long been a staple of the totalitarian "diversity" obsessives who pollute -- and often dominate -- political discourse at almost all of our universities, from coast to coast. The University of Delaware recently got a step ahead of its peers by including the all-whites-are-racists dogma in training those who administered a systematic thought-reform program for incoming (and other) students.

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Taylor sinks the knife deeply in a few places in this excellent column. Read the whole thing.

[Enchante]

One such report, for example, classified a young woman as one of the "worst" students in the residence life education program for saying that she was tired of having "diversity shoved down her throat" and responding "none of your damn business" when asked "when did you discover your sexual identity?"

She sounds like one of the BEST students anywhere, not one of the "worst"...... so at least one student recognized that the pc-gruel being force-fed to the dormitory students was not to be swallowed. Good for her!! [leftists are supposed to love "speak truth to power" but of course they only mean to applaud leftists speaking propaganda......]

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"Taylor sinks the knife deeply in a few places in this excellent column."

It's a great article but unfortunately it won't be widely read by the people who need to see it, namely leftist thugs who keep coming up with this nonsense. It's one thing to point it out and humiliate the losers who implemented the policy in the first place, but until PC is uprooted and completely killed it will just come back again and again.

[beckett]

The same topic was covered on FR a few days ago, and here I did a little research on the author of the pamphlet Taylor cites above.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

[leftists are supposed to love "speak truth to power" but of course they only mean to applaud leftists speaking propaganda......]

Very well said!

The obvious analogue to this, of course, is that leftists are utterly enamored by "diversity"--just as long as that does not include diversity of thought. (Actually, this is a point Stuart Taylor made in the above article; I am merely reiterating it.)

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[Puzzleman]

Thank you for this post. We have some very serious problems in this country. We need to discuss them.