Posted on 08/09/2020 8:07:46 AM PDT by karpov
Princeton university is consumed from top to bottom with what seems to be the question of the moment: How should it reorder itself to fight racism?
The school’s president, Christopher L. Eisgruber, ordered 23 of the institution’s most senior academic and administrative leaders to focus on how to marshal Princeton’s teaching, research, operations, and partnerships in service of “eliminating racism” on and off campus. By August 21, they are to report on what specifically can be done “to identify, understand, and combat” it. The university is also giving $1,500 grants to students who want to fight racism, and has made available new funding for faculty to run scholarly projects or expand course offerings related to racism.
These efforts, though, don’t come close to satisfying the calls for change coming from within the Princeton community. Groups of students have variously described the composition of Princeton’s faculty and its “institutional culture” as “pillars of its oppressive past,” declared that their education failed to prepare them to vanquish racism, and urged a “comprehensive transformation” of curriculum, programming, and faculty.
More notable, roughly 350 faculty members and staff signed an open letter, published on July 4, that set forth nearly 50 demands. These were premised on the claims that anti-Black racism plays a powerful role at Princeton, that it has “a visible bearing” on Princeton’s makeup and hiring practices, and that “indifference to the effects of racism on this campus has allowed legitimate demands for institutional support and redress in the face of micro-aggression and outright racist incidents to go long unmet.”
Among the demands: Exponentially increase the number of faculty of color; elevate more faculty of color to leadership positions; use admissions as a tool of anti-racism; implement anti-racist training that “moves participants through stages of vulnerability, productive discomfort, and reflection”
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
“The university is also giving $1,500 grants to students who want to fight racism.”
Maybe they could offer free brown shirts with the money.
when seeking solutions to problems, one method is sit around the table for a brainstorming session and the first step is to establish the “ideal.” In a perfect world what would the university look like. Then establish the “actual.” Where are we failing? Where are we over-zealous? Then, how do we move from the actual to ideal realizing perfect is never attainable. I doubt there is not much to be done. Perhaps nothing. What say ye??
Wonder what the position of the 350 faculty members is regarding the Congressional BLACK Caucus in Congress. The CBC is for black members of congress only and all others are excluded. How can this organization be more racist if it tried?
But one thing is for sure. Racism is really a non issue in the U.S. if we didn't have race hustlers whose livelihood didn't depend upon the agitation of race relations in this country.
“These were premised on the claims that anti-Black racism plays a powerful role at Princeton...”
And that is the problem. Racism is properly defined as “the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.”
But the distinguishing is done by each race, not one or two unless it is further distinguished from all directions. So by projecting the act of discrimination on one race, by one of all other races, they are creating their own exceptionalism of that one race which is the charge against the process they blame. They aren’t any different other than from the direction they are coming. They scream it’s about equality...but putting one race as more important is exceptionalism. They are not treating the problem, they are treating the symptom. If all other races didn’t have people disliking them, then it could be narrowed. But there are blacks that are anti-white, and everyone hates the Irish (sarc). So, they spend three generations teaching discriminated racism, that which is aimed at one race, then try to stop it after the horses have left the barn? Day late.....
Can’t blame someone for this. The ones that started this have died of old age. (Probably rich)
rwood
I’m amazed that libs don’t see the new segregation, forming before their eyes.
Does Princeton have an affirmative action program?
They’re not trying to reorder themselves to fight racism; they are trying to find ways to entrench it further. Ignoring their Orwellian Newspeak, it is blatant racism to give people academic jobs and promotions and to admit students who are not qualified based on their skin color. And it is a blatant volation of civil rights to eliminate people’s free speech except for what is pre-approved.
They own it.
Any business person will tell you that.
Princeton needs to fire 98% of their faculty and staff and replace them with people from Morehouse College.
Since Morehouse is smaller, random seniors (only of color) can be appointed to faculty positions at Princeton. On the job training will show the world any black instructor is equal to OR superior to any racist white instructor.
It’s a start.
And the student body? Any black person who applies will be admitted until the limit of students is met. Test and standards are inherently racist and biased against blacks. It’ll be ‘first come, first served’...
All student costs will be paid for out of Princeton’s massive endowment... Fancy racist homes of white professors will be given to new incoming black professors on a ‘first come, first served basis’. Which will be the ruling subculture of Princeton from this time forward. All private schools for children of privileged white children will be shuttered.
Former White Princeton Professors will be required to attend classes at the new Jeff Bezos Center for Racial Reform - and be publicly spanked at the end of each lesson. The demons of white guilt must be driven out...
It’s a start. The problem with the Salem Witch Trials is they gave up too soon... a mistake Princeton won’t make...
I would assume they do, but the honest answer is I haven’t a clue. 8>)
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