The Viciousness Of Academic Liberals

IBD Editorials ^ | June 23, 2009 | WALTER E. WILLIAMS

[Kaslin]

Ward Connerly, former University of California regent, has an article, "Study, Study, Study — A Bad Career Move" in the June 2, 2009, edition of Minding the Campus that should raise any decent American's level of disgust for what's routinely practiced at most of our universities.

Mr. Connerly tells of a conversation he had with a high-ranking UC administrator about a proposal that the administrator was developing to increase campus diversity.

Connerly asked the administrator why he considered it important to tinker with admissions instead of just letting the chips fall where they may. His response was that unless the university took steps to "guide" admissions decisions, the UC campuses would be dominated by Asians.

When Connerly asked, "What would be wrong with that?", the UC administrator told him that Asians are "too dull — they study, study, study." Then he said to Connerly, "If you ever say I said this, I will have to deny it."

Connerly did not reveal the administrator's name. It would not have done any good because it's part of a diversity vision shared by most college administrators.

With the enactment of California's Proposition 209 in 1996, outlawing racial discrimination in college admissions, Asian enrollment at UC campuses has skyrocketed. The UC Berkeley student body is 42% Asian students; UC Irvine 55%; UC Riverside 43%; and UCLA 38%. Asian student enrollment on all nine UC campuses is over 40%. That's in a state where the Asian population is about 13%.

[Carley]

In every college and university in the country there is a subset of students admitted to meet a ‘diversity’ quota.

Once there they are very often ‘given’ unearned grades, accommodations for poor performance is the norm and awards given without being earned.

[ladyjane]

What percent are female?

[Jack Hammer]

Oh, dear - meritocracy is just SO un-PC....

[Williams]

I learn a lot listening to black athletes on the sports channel. They will talk matter of factly about the need for black kids to hide their intelligence so as not to be called “white”.

And then the university reinforces that cultutral tragedy rather than send the message that hard work and study are paramount.

[ETL]

"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Interview with Bill Ayers:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845

[NotQuiteCricket]

Title should be

Viciousness Vacuousness of Academic Liberals

[YHAOS]

Asians. The new white race?

[Billthedrill]

Ward Connerly is a genuine American hero. IMHO.

BTT.

[Maine Mariner]

Wow a college administrator objecting to having too many students on campus who study hard. Who would have thought.
Perhaps he or she didn’t study hard and fears the future competition.

Some administrators are political appointees-given a sunset job when a governor leaves office. Not the brightest bulbs on campus.

[pabianice]

Obama ordered that 1/3 of the incoming class at the US Naval Academy be women and/or “people of color.” Wonderful.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“They will talk matter of factly about the need for black kids to hide their intelligence so as not to be called “white”.”
Many college kids hide their intelligence so well they can pass for turnips. Having said that, it sure is pathetic that any race would buy into the whole “affirmative action” bull crap. We've had 50 years of dumbing down everything in the public education system to the point it's worthless for many students. The attitude of liberals that disses Asians because they are too studious and unfairly smart is asinine. Of course liberals don't believe in hard work and rewards in the first place.

[goodnesswins]

When did he do THAT????

[muawiyah]

California recurringly has these spasms of anti-Asian agitation.

It's a disease that appears to know no bounds ~ but this time around it's the Leftwingtards who are in the vanguard leading the mobs.

[Carley]

Bubba ordered that all promotions in the US Army be race and gender BEFORE merit.

It created so much disruption that the announcements of promotions had to be delayed one year while they tried to save the moral of white men.

Pathetic and inexcusable.

The head of the US Naval Academy admitted that he lowered standards to achieve the diversity required.

The recipients don’t seem to have enough pride in themselves to be insulted. Just something for nothing they think they deserve.

[Carley]

My child attended a private high school that accepted black students on scholarship. The group constantly ridiculed members of their clique as being white for doing homework.

An opportunity for a quality education for little or no cost and they threw it away.

[secret garden]

Bump for later read.

[ViLaLuz]

I may be a boring asian who studies all the time, but I’d rather be that than a stupid, ignorant bigot like Connerly.

[Albion Wilde]

Another slam dunk by Walter Williams.

An academically talented white youth I know was turned down by a University he wanted, even though his SATs were 150 points higher than the foreign student who was his tour guide.

[Hiro Protaginast]

What the h#ll are you talking about? The bigot is th UC Administrator not the great Ward Connerly.