Posted on 12/09/2019 2:19:54 PM PST by karpov
Social-justice ideology is turning higher education into an engine of progressive political advocacy, according to a new report by the National Association of Scholars. Left-wing activists, masquerading as professors, are infiltrating traditional academic departments or creating new ones—departments such as “Solidarity and Social Justice”—to advance their cause. They are entering the highest rung of college administration, from which perch they require students to take social-justice courses, such as “Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse” or “Hip-hop Workshop,” and attend social-justice events—such as a Reparations, Repatriation, and Redress Symposium or a Power and Privilege Symposium—in order to graduate.
But social-justice education is merely a symptom of an even deeper perversion of academic values: the cult of race and gender victimology, otherwise known as “diversity.” The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization. It is worth first exploring, however, why social-justice education is an oxymoron.
Why shouldn’t an academic aspire to correcting perceived social ills? The nineteenth-century American land-grant universities and the European research universities were founded, after all, on the premise that knowledge helps society progress. But social justice is a different beast entirely. When a university pursues social justice, it puts aside its traditional claim to authority: the disinterested search for knowledge. We accord universities enormous privileges. Their denizens are sheltered from the hurly-burly of the marketplace on the assumption that they will pursue truth wherever it will take them, unaffected by political or economic pressures. The definition of social justice, however, is deeply political, entailing a large number of contestable claims about the causes of socioeconomic inequality. Social-justice proponents believe that those claims are settled, and woe to anyone who challenges them on a college campus. There are, however, alternative explanations—besides oppression and illegitimate power—for ongoing inequalities, taboo though they may be in academia.
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Time to shut down all curricula except those that actually teach knowledge, like engineering, medicine, math, accounting, literature, languages, etc.
And tap deeply into these billion dollar endowments to lower tuition and lower realistic salaries for these professors.
Over $100,000 to teach one course of gender studies?
Really?
bkmk
“Time to shut down..”
It’ll be time next year, too. Right?
All the above funded by out-of-touch parents who still operate under the illusion that any college degree is a landmark accomplishment in their precious child’s life.
1. GOD
2. family
3. friends.
There just AIN'T nuthin' else.
Heather Macdonald: my favorite woman in the world (besides my wife)
Time to shut down all curricula except those that actually teach knowledge, like engineering, medicine, math, accounting, literature, languages, etc.
s well as the most important one: HISTORY
They’re in the lower schools to. Teachers take their classes out of school to protest whatever the teacher’s don’t like. They should be fired immediately but the school boards are full of progressive cat ladies that were elected by suburban cat ladies.
Agree
I couldn’t list all the valid ones, just some examples.
More on the same political teaching pushed by unions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3793464/posts
School dist rules girl is boy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3771555/posts
Heather Mac Donald is a treasure.
Mac Donald is both intelligent and fearless, boldly going forward where few fear to thread. I love this woman.
bump
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