Posted on 09/29/2013 10:13:48 AM PDT by Hacksaw
Jason Morgan, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student earning his doctorate there, has told his supervisor he objects to the school’s mandated diversity training for teaching assistants (TAs) because leaders of the first session he attended essentially called him – and the whole class – racist.
What’s more, the next session – on how to support transgender students – is something Morgan said he cannot support, as it runs in direct contradiction to his religious beliefs.
The letter, sent by email Sept. 22, states all new TAs in the university’s history department are required to attend one orientation session, two training sessions, and two diversity sessions. Morgan, in his letter, called the first of the two diversity sessions, held Friday, “an avalanche of insinuations, outright accusations, and suffocating political indoctrination (or, as some of the worksheets revealingly put it, ‘re-education’) entirely unbecoming a university of our stature.”
Below Morgan’s letter has been reproduced in its entirety. Morgan, a College Fix contributor, also sent copies of the letter to various Wisconsin news outlets:
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
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I’ve been to several of these sessions. They’re not as bad as described, they’re worse.
There goes his doctorate.
Good for him, that he was not intimidated and decided to speak up. Some of Generation X young adults may be the ones to put a stop to this institutionalized race baiting or assumption of guilt by color. Some, like this man are saying NO! I wont attend you brainwashing clinics, or give false homage to your violent antisocial heroes. We as a society need to have the open discussion on how much we are willing to allow someones gender or sexual preference to be the deciding factor in every single area of life. We are fast approaching the saturation point, I hope.
Tell them you are offended and you have a civil right not to be offended like all the other victim groups.
If they refuse to listen.
Burn down the college.
//sarc
Toward the end of my active duty in the Navy, the CO reviewed my annual fitness report (FITREP) with me. I was startled when he noted that I treated all sailors and officers equally, regardless of race or national origin (there were no women in combat squadrons then). My response was that such a statement was an insult, implying that I might NOT treat everyone fairly. My CO looked embarrassed, agreed, but said that the Navy was now (then) requiring this disclaimer on all FITREPS.
It was an insult then; it’s an insult now. Neither of us could have conceived of the poisonous circus that has evolved since.
Here’s hoping he uses different routes home each night, parks his car in various locations, and invests in a remote starter.
Pretty much.
Isn’t this actionable under Civil Rights laws?
Diversity training is such complete BS. Mainly, it provides jobs to losers who push this crap.
These “diversity” training sessions have become an industry where the professionally offended can offend as many other people as they can. They are doing what they love, so as the old saying goes, “they are not working”.
Pretty much? Definitely.
No faculty member will be first reader on his dissertation. He needs to find another career.
Freedom.
Nothing quite like falling in love with a bitch.
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Yeah, I think this whole transgender thing is a regrettable charade—let folks change their names and dress as they’d like. They can even have amenable friends and colleagues use contrary pronouns in referencing them, if they’d like. That’s as far as I’d go with that.
But UW, like most colleges, clearly has transgender students now, and if this dude’s religion forbids his treating such students professionally in that environment—he needs to work as something other than a TA for this school.
At work, we had a mandatory diversity training session for our outsourced tasks to India. We covered a lot of things we shouldn't do that would offend Indians. Someone (not me sad to say) asked if the Indians had to take a similar course on not offending Americans. There was a big silence.
For what it is worth, 75% of the Indians I have worked with are great workers and have a work ethic that should be emulated by a lot of us. I still thought the session was very offensive.
Years ago (early ‘80s) I attended a “diversity” seminar. At the time I worked for a rather huge computer company, now no longer in existence. My guess was that if the facilitator had not landed this cushy gig, he would have been on the street selling drugs. I didn’t see any particular skills in the guy except for spewing diversity crap.
That is some excellent writing. Anybody who uses “to wit”, “hectorees”, “marbled”, and “redolent” with the casual perfection that he does needs to be read.
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