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After Told He’s Racist, UW-M Student Rejects Further Diversity ‘Training’
The College Fix ^ | September 23, 2013 | Jennifer Kabbany

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No phd for Jason at Madison but good on him.

He is probably not gen X but Millennial one of the 30 and down persons. One individual does not represent a group so read nothing into this but that Jason is fed up with labels and accusations.

So am I. Why have we allowed such a minority of perverted people and special interests so thoroughly screw up life for the majority? Their chip has to be fed and their perversions have to be sanctioned to them. To hell with them all.


41 posted on 09/29/2013 11:46:37 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Hacksaw

In the comments section, there appears to be one leftist, nominally “Nullifidian”, who seems to be suffering from a severe case of Toxoplasmosis in the brain.

That is, a protozoa is in effect controlling his mind, having retrained him to think weird and unnatural thoughts, and to crave self destruction.


42 posted on 09/29/2013 11:55:29 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: Hacksaw
This is one practical application of Leninism - creating the New Soviet Man homo sovieticus. And how civilized - no Lublyanka, no gulags, no hard labor (denouncements and squealing are a different thing, can't do re-education without informing and information.) And they're succeeding beyond their wildest dreams. One student protests. One among how many thousands? Outside of the university, check the human resources dept of any corporation. Or try here to refer to St. Obama as 'Osambo', YOU RASSISS!
43 posted on 09/29/2013 11:56:36 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: jiggyboy

He also got in a “proclivity”!


44 posted on 09/29/2013 11:56:55 AM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: Hacksaw

Years ago there was a huge outcry against ‘brainwashing’ being used by Hitler and his thugs to promote Naziism. Other nations used similar euphemisms. The avoiding of such terms was a problem for persons who really wanted to do/use the same methods. Vala, these hucksters found a new term ‘diversity training’. This is nothing more than old fashioned mind control wrapped in an evil intent against personal freedom.


45 posted on 09/29/2013 11:59:23 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Calamari

Ah, “Diversity Training”. That’s what we call reeducation camps in America.


46 posted on 09/29/2013 11:59:42 AM PDT by Robwin
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To: Hacksaw

Good for him. Unfortunately this is one way colleges assure that only approved group think will survive. Such tactics are one reason the term “peer reviewed” as a sort of scholar’s imprimatur is almost laughable these days as it implies an independent intellectual rigor for published work when such independence as been rendered moot by the realpolitik of the contemporary University.


47 posted on 09/29/2013 12:11:26 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: Hacksaw
Another thread about the writings of Jason Morgan: In Defense of Stereotypes .
48 posted on 09/29/2013 12:11:48 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1
"Indeed, one mild-mannered Korean woman yesterday felt compelled to insist that she wasn’t a racist. I never imagined that she was, but the atmosphere of the meeting had been so poisoned that even we traditional quarries of the diversity Furies were forced to share our collective guilt with those from continents far across the wine-dark sea."

Laughed out loud at this one-- liked the reference to Homer, also.

49 posted on 09/29/2013 12:34:20 PM PDT by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: Sequoyah101

I had to attend a diversity training course. It ruined a whole Sunday. There’s no way I can get those eight hours back.


50 posted on 09/29/2013 12:34:52 PM PDT by Ax
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To: Sequoyah101

I had to attend a diversity training course. It ruined a whole Sunday. There’s no way I can get those eight hours back.


51 posted on 09/29/2013 12:34:53 PM PDT by Ax
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To: Hacksaw
" There was a big silence. "

Holy Cow, whatta big surprise.

52 posted on 09/29/2013 12:39:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Gentleman’s e-mail read like an Opus.


53 posted on 09/29/2013 12:52:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>> There goes his doctorate.

In liberty or medicine?


54 posted on 09/29/2013 12:54:13 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Hacksaw

Since everyone’s sharing their stories, I’ll share mine :)

A few years ago I was a training coach for tech support agents at a virtual call center. Which means that everything we did was done via telecommuting and conference calls. One of the guys in training kept insulting people, playing his TV so loud we could hear it through the phone, making very inappropriate remarks to female staff members, etc, so we fired him. He immediately ran to HR and claimed we only fired him because he was black, so of course HR got the entire training staff together for a lecture on “diversity”.

About 5 minutes into the lecture, I just had to pipe up and say “I have a question: how are we supposed to know what skin color someone has?”

It took a second for it to sink in that, we had never seen each other, we had never seen the people we trained, everyone to us was just a voice on the phone, because everything we did was by teleconference. “Diversity Training” was immediately cancelled, because the trainer couldn’t stop laughing.


55 posted on 09/29/2013 1:04:47 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: Hacksaw

Good for him. Past time to seriously push back on all this race BS


56 posted on 09/29/2013 1:17:01 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Old Sarge

And to think I almost attended that school—55 years ago.


57 posted on 09/29/2013 2:02:01 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Robwin

It has been 49 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That is 2 to 3 generations. The main group that this was supposed to help has really performed in a stellar manner. We now have the Knock out game, affirmative action, minority set asides, reverse discrimination,section 8 housing, some of the most illiterate members of congress, an Attorney General of the United States that refused to prosecute black on white voter suppression and the beat goes on.

At some point there will be a backlash.


58 posted on 09/29/2013 2:13:29 PM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: Billthedrill
They are disgusting usually.

But if you don't care if you get fired you can raise a ruckus in the class that will become office legend.

59 posted on 09/29/2013 2:38:50 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: GeronL

Burn the college first. Then say you did so because it offended you.


60 posted on 09/29/2013 3:07:45 PM PDT by jmacusa (If you're always looking back to yesterday you can't see tommorow.)
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