Posted on 05/01/2008 12:25:14 PM PDT by Caleb1411
The academic left is fond of buzzwords that sound harmless but function in a highly ideological way. Many schools of education and social work require students to have a good "disposition." In practice this means that conservatives need not apply, as highly publicized attempts to penalize right-wing students at Brooklyn College and Washington State University revealed. "Social justice" is an even more useful codeword. Who can oppose it? But some schools made the mistake of spelling out that it means advocacy for causes of the left, including support for gay marriage and adoption, also opposition to "institutional racism," heterosexism, classism and ableism. Students at Teachers College, Columbia, are required to acknowledge that belief in "merit, social mobility and individual responsibility" often produce and perpetuate social inequalities. Even in its mildest form "social justice" puts schools in a position of judging the acceptability of students' political and social opinions.
Now the left is organizing around its most powerful codeword yet: sustainability. Dozens of universities now have sustainability programs. Arizona State is bulking up its curriculum and seems to be emerging as the strongest sustainability campus. UCLA has a housing floor devoted to sustainability. The American College Personnel Association (ACPA) has a sustainability task force and has joined eight other education associations to form a sustainability consortium. Pushed by the cultural left, UNESCO has declared the United National Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014, featuring the now ubiquitous symbol of the sustainability movement - three overlapping circles representing environmental, economic and social reform (i.e., ecology is only a third of what the movement is about).
Only recently have the goals and institutionalization of the movement become clear. The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability is Higher Education (AASHE) says it "defines sustainability is an inclusive way, encompassing human and ecological health,
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I'm having an opportunity with my computer. Doesn't seem to work...unless you find getting mad at your computer just another opportunity to bash Microsoft.
“The establishment of an American Soviet government will require the confiscation of large landed estates in both town and country and the entirety of lakes, forests, rivers, and mineral deposits.”
Warren Z. Foster - National Chairman, Communist PArty USA, 1932.
Foster was the founder of Fosterite Communism.
Here’s more:
“The future of Communism in America is the environmental movement.”
That was Gus Hall, NAtional Chairman, Communist Party USA back when he was in office (think Hippy Times)
“We reject the idea of private property”. - Peter Berle - President of National Audubon Society.
“Let’s be unreasonable! Let’s take it all.” Brock Evans, Vice President of National Audubon Society under Berle.
Communism in America can be traced to the first years of the Pilgrims. Governor William Bradford used “community” instead of the alter “communism” but he attributed the Starving Winter to the Pilgrim experiment with communism.
I think q 384 year learning period is a bit excessive. It is time for America to stop trying to perfect Communism, even if it takes other names like “environmentalism”, “sustainability”, “prevention of global warming”, ad nauseam.
Those can be among the most rewarding. First you spend some futile days trying to fix the thing. Then you snipe a few innocents. Then you buy a new puter that works just fine.
language is such a beautiful thing until a leftist gets ahold of it.
don't forget diversity and inclusiveness. If you are not "diverse" and "inclusive", you might be in store for some "sustainable" "social justice".
Bummer. The marxists stole another meaningful word from modern civilization.
Our farm business plan includes the word “sustainable.”
Cheers,
OLA
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