Posted on 08/26/2011 5:39:51 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Parents sending children off to college for the first time, beware: Their “freshman orientation” is all too likely to include being herded through a “tunnel of oppression” to learn about the evils of “white privilege,” being lectured about how they’re part of a “rape culture” or being forced to discuss their sexual identities with complete strangers -- before they even meet their first professor.
That’s right: For all we hear about faculty ideological or political bias, campus administrators are often worse when it comes to brainwashing students.
Consider the shocking account from a student trained to be a dorm supervisor -- a resident adviser, or RA -- at DePauw University in Indiana. One of her first duties last fall was to lead her new students through a house decorated as a “Tunnel of Oppression,” where supposedly “realistic” demonstrations in each room taught lessons such as how religious parents hate their gay children, Muslims would find no friends on a predominantly non-Muslim campus and overweight women suffer from eating disorders.
Indeed, in her training to become an RA, “We were told that ‘human’ was not a suitable identity, but that instead we were first ‘black,’ ‘white,’ or ‘Asian’; ‘male’ or ‘female’; ... ‘heterosexual’ or ‘queer.’ We were forced to act like bigots and spout off stereotypes while being told that that was what we were really thinking deep down.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. must be spinning in his grave.
Unsurprisingly, she turned down the school’s offer to be an RA this year -- she’d rather find another job. DePauw is no rare case. At least 96 colleges across the country have run similar “tunnel of oppression” programs in the last few years.
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“our group’s “facilitators” ended up having to call in the organizer of the event, Jacqueline Wade, to moderate our group’s discussion. The “facilitators” were out of their depth because I was arguing a position they had, evidently never encountered before”
That is hilarious. This whole multicultural movement is an anti-intellectual movement and you proved it. Take away their script and they have nothing. Good on you.
My daughter did a science project on the golden mean and facial proportions. She had 10 pictures of people she cut out of magazines and she had people order them from most attractive to least attractive and then she measured the proportions of each face to see if the ones closest to the golden mean were judged most attractive. We were at the regional finals and while I was in the bathroom this Hispanic studies professor at Adams State College chastised my 12 year old because she had only white people in the group. I wish I had been there because I would have made her cry in public. I told my daughter to point her out to me if she saw her but I think she was afraid I would make a scene.
How intelligent are people who pay large sums of money for that? What about the many students who have government pay the fees for them?
You know it’s almost criminal what is being taught to these young people. This is very depressing to hear; if we are successful at stemming this god awful trend toward marxism, how will we be able to sustain that when the young people have been taught nothing but BS? Once these things take hold in their minds, it will be next to impossible (imo) to reverse or unlearn the lies.
2 questions for you my FRiend...Just what is “unicorn”? (am I showing my ignorance there? lol)
AND just how old are you? (I only ask that because you called yourself a cynical old fart...well that and because I’m nosey too. LOL!)
“Unicorn” is just a way to show how detached from reality the place is. Alternatively, I could have said something about sunshine, lollipops, and singing “Kumbiyah.”
LOL! Here I thought it was an actual name of a program...OK so I’m a bit on the slow side but only because society is so upside down now that the bizarre is often true.
Don’t dodge the age question... lmao (j/k)
The young people are getting an objective lesson right now in the efficacy of Marxism.
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