Or maybe it is the Spanish Inquisition.
Posted on 06/16/2015 10:06:30 AM PDT by RightGeek
Phrases such as “America is the land of opportunity” and “America is a melting pot" are "micro-aggressions" that could leave some students feeling discriminated against, according to a new faculty training guide put out by the University of California that one former professor in the system says shows "how crazy it's become."
The guide, which says those phrases and others can be interpreted by minorities as “denying the significance of a person of color’s racial/ethnic experience and history,” or that they “assimilate to the dominant culture,” is used across the vast, 200,000-student University of California system. Specifically, it is for training professors in “faculty leadership seminars” that aim to “enhance department and campus climate toward inclusive excellence.”
The guide, first exposed by the student-run The College Fix, uses the same argument to condemn a number of seemingly innocuous statements, such as:
“I believe the most qualified person should get the job.”
“Affirmative action is racist.”
“Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough.”
“When I look at you, I don’t see color.”
“I don’t believe in race.”
“Gender plays no part in who we hire.”
[snip]
“Just before I left UCLA, a liberal colleague and I talked about how disgusting the new micro-aggression policy is. I asked him if he ever worried about being dragged before some investigatory board via some trumped up charges. He responded, ‘That’s why, around here, I just try to minimize my contact with other humans.’”
[snip]
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Or maybe it is the Spanish Inquisition.
I’m offended by the University of California.
So then he still talks to the faculty, I assume.
Except that nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
More and more, identification as a lib arts faculty member guarantees that the individual is 1) not very bright, 2) has a worthless degree, 3) would be confused by a 1900 6th grade curriculum, and 4) has never had, nor ever will have, a job requiring that they produce anything of value.
Lookout Lefties, you are condemning your own kind.
Bill Nye the Anti-Science Guy just used that one a few days ago...
"But why did the Stasi collect all this information in its archives? The main purpose was to control the society. In nearly every speech, the Stasi minister gave the order to find out who is who, which meant who thinks what. He didn't want to wait until somebody tried to act against the regime. He wanted to know in advance what people were thinking and planning.
The East Germans knew, of course, that they were surrounded by informers, in a totalitarian regime that created mistrust and a state of widespread fear, the most important tools to oppress people in any dictatorship.
…the Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It was called Zersetzung, and it's described in another guideline. The word is difficult to translate because it means originally "biodegradation". But actually, it's a quite accurate description.
The goal was to destroy secretly the self-confidence of people, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships. Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship. The Stasi didn't try to arrest every dissident. It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many institutions."
http://www.ted.com/talks/hubertus_knabe_the_dark_secrets_of_a_surveillance_state/transcript
this is getting past crazy. It’s getting close go fighting words.
now you cant call America the land of opportunity?
The supreme court will shoot that down in a second, no?
“Have you now or have you ever sought to attain profit?”
Stephen Colbert: “Now, I don’t see race ... People tell me I’m white, and I believe them, because I own a lot of Jimmy Buffett albums.”
the stupidity of these millennials and their faculty enablers hurts my brain.
There is "Good think" and there is "Bad Think."
"Bad think" is prohibited.
I’m offended by California.
bill nye is a huge arsehole. he’s a freaking mechanical engineer. not a scientist in the traditional sense. but he puts on his white coat and talks down to children about simple science experiments and he’s duped a whole generation of kids into thinking he’s an authority on science. which he then uses to push his political and anti-religious views as if they are scientific facts.
he’s a bigot and fool, but then again i’ve never met anyone on his side of the political aisle who wasn’t also secretly a bigot and publicly a fool, so he fits right in with the democRATS.
PS - i’m an electrical engineer and although i’m very much grounded in scientific pragmatism, that in no way requires me to be an atheist. there is no scientific proof for or against God, so there is nothing that science can offer on that matter. the vast majority of the greatest mathematicians, physicists, engineers, etc. the world has ever known have been Christians. it’s only since the advent of cultural marxism that the “scientific community” has begun to believe that they are above the need to find a place in their philosophy for God.
PSS - bill nye is also apparently a horrible human being. nasty to those he thinks beneath him. mean-spirited. rude to fans who try to approach him. this does not surprise me one bit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/19rq7a/whose_the_biggest_asshole_famous_person_youve
lots of other links saying he’s awful to interact with. just google “bill nye celebrity jerk” or something similar.
“Bill Nye....talks down to children about simple science experiments and he’s duped a whole generation of kids into thinking he’s an authority on science.”
I agree. It’s a shame all those kids were duped by his hateful nonsense. Now he seeks to destroy them and their children.
I am Generation X this generation Millennials give me migraine LOL!
I disagree with regard to evidence however, as mathematics and physics offer it in abundance. The internal consistency of the universe...or even the multiverse, if you will, seem too fantastic not to have been conceived.
IMHO, God knows.
I’m sure it has been said elsewhere here but the rural one room schoolhouses our grandfathers and even great-grandfathers went to back in the day probably gave youth a much better education than insane asylums like the University of California do today.
i don’t disagree, but you can’t apply the scientific method to the question, so science can’t answer the question.
i see the fingerprints of God in the simplicity of the universe.
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