Posted on 09/04/2015 7:40:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Is there something in the water in the Washington State University faculty lounge, or are its professors conspiring against common sense?
Three faculty members, showing their contempt for free speech, threatened to punish students who disobeyed them on race, gender or immigration terminology.
The Daily Caller reports that in his "Introduction to Multicultural Literature" syllabus, professor John Streamas warned white students that "to do well in this class," they must "reflect" their "grasp of history and social relations" by "deferring to the experiences of people of color." This professor once berated a student who advocated limits on illegal immigration as "just a white s---bag."
He continued in his syllabus: "Conservative skeptics wonder why we need to study 'multicultural' texts, suggesting that the only criterion for selecting books should be literary excellence. ... The conservative notion is flawed by the very fact that it is advanced by white people who just happen to think that the very best books and ideas come from white people -- they have an investment in proving themselves superior."
There was also this gem: "Finally, understand and consider the rage of people who are victims of systematic injustice. James Baldwin wrote that people of color have an obligation to feel rage over this nation's history of racism. If injustice does not fill you with rage, then perhaps you should ask yourself why."
Professor Selena Lester Breikss told students of her "Women & Popular Culture" class that they would risk "failure for the semester" if they used the terms "males" or "females," because they are "gross generalizations" and "derogatory/oppressive language."
American studies professor Rebecca Fowler advised students they would "suffer a deduction of one point" each time they said "illegal alien."
It would be alarming enough if these mini-despots occasionally sneaked such bizarre ideas into their lectures. It would be worse if they intentionally indoctrinated their students with this poison. But they went further and penalized students who wouldn't echo their views.
To its credit, the school nixed this censorship, forbidding professors to dock students for "using terms that may be deemed offensive to some," saying the practice is "not consistent with the values upon which this university is founded."
I began by asking whether a faculty conspiracy is driving this insanity. I can see one angry kook on any college faculty, but what are the odds of three?
If a conspiracy's afoot, it's clear the university is not on board, thank heavens. But I suspect that something more disturbing than a coordinated effort among professors is at play. It's likelier that leftist groupthink is simply the norm in academia. Leftist dogma, after all, leads to intolerance and oftentimes censorship. It's happening on campuses throughout the country.
A case in point: Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania fired astronomy professor Dwight Anderson for mentioning God in a farewell letter to his students. He wrote, "If each of us, little by little with God's help, can incorporate these foundation stones of goodness into our lives, we will find an anchor for our lives, which will result in deep and lasting satisfaction through life, and allow us to influence the world for good as we live out our lives."
How far have we fallen when innocent references to God offend us? But that wasn't the professor's first "offense." At the end of an earlier semester, he offered his students Pastor Andy Stanley's book "Since Nobody's Perfect ... How Good Is Good Enough?" Placing one on each of their desks, Anderson said they could accept or reject it without consequence.
One student threatened to tell the administration about the book if Anderson didn't raise his grade. When he refused, the little malcontent blew the whistle, and college officials warned the professor not to do anything "overtly Christian" in the future.
It appears Anderson's letter was the final straw in his evil pattern of events. A disgruntled student reported his "sad" and "disturbing" words to the dean, who promptly terminated him.
What are the chances that this dean would reprimand, much less fire, a professor for sending a letter to his students praising earth goddess Gaia, urging tolerance for Islam or exalting life apart from God?
Would any school rebuke a professor for offering students Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion," which asserts that belief in God is irrational and that religion has inflicted grievous harm on society?
We all know the answers. Regardless, I am encouraged that many, like Anderson, are starting to fight back against progressivism's excesses -- and not just on university campuses. The tyrannical left, with shocking impunity, has overplayed its hand so extensively that people are at the breaking point. Happily, we are seeing this frustration bubble up in the political world, as well.
I predict that one day these arrogant bullies will regret that they finally pushed too far and unleashed an overdue reaction from the long-suffering majority. I can already smell it.
Remembering a quote (and mangling it):
If you want to destroy a country, put the members of the faculty lounge in charge.
Stop right there! A violation of white students' rights under the 14th Amendment. he should be directed by a court to immediately cease and desists his activities under penalty of being shackled and jailed.
That’s not a syllabus, it’s a manifesto.
At least I can fix his name: John Streamass
Injustice DOES fill me with rage. The problem this professor would have with me is that ALL injustice fills me with rage, whereas she wants me to be enraged ONLY the injustice she recognizes.
We, as a nation, are paying the price for letting groups like the SDS and Weatherman and Black Panthers operate freely and prosper in this country as far back as the 60’s and 70’s. Their filth and venom have permeated society and it will be a herculean effort to purge it. Marxism and its associated lawlessness are in the social structure at every level.
Fat, commie, gender neutral, pot smokers need only to apply.
Our institutions of higher learning have been converted into indoctrination facilities. It’s been so for a while now.
It wouldn't bother me so much if their work met objective quality standards for scholarship. In general, it doesn't, even in some of the sciences. I routinely find older books in my research that blows the doors off modern work for the quantity of work required, analytical integrity, thoroughness, clarity, and literacy. There is no comparison.
Yepper.
A society that prizes freedom is not required by its ideals to provide comfort and support to those who stand opposed to freedom.
What does a white sh*tbag professor really know about the rage of people of color anyway? Sounds pretty paternalistic to me; a white sh*tbag’s burden.
ONLY time awaits someone going into the Faculty Lounge and cleaning out the riffraff..
That would terrible.. /snark..
Worth repeating: “We, as a nation, are paying the price for letting groups like the SDS and Weatherman and Black Panthers operate freely and prosper in this country as far back as the 60s and 70s. Their filth and venom have permeated society and it will be a herculean effort to purge it. Marxism and its associated lawlessness are in the social structure at every level.”
They totally took over “public schools” in the 70s. They started covertly with the evil Humanist, John Dewey, who eliminated Classical Education (the ability to transmit OUR Traditions and Worldview to the next generation), when Truth/God was ejected whenever possible and Christianity was demeaned and mocked (covertly, at first), so they could literally destroy the Wisdom and Traditions. Christian Worldview not only created the Minds that created the USA, but that Worldview created Modern Science (Reason and Logic) and coherent, rational, and the most perfect, free cultures. The Marxists/Progressives ejected all morality, so “good and evil” could actually be flipped and Just Law (virtue system) could actually promote evil (unconstitutional).
The Marxist’s Lens is forced on ALL CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS like sodomy is a “Natural Right from God”, using others as a “”Means to an End is “good”(objectification), and Welfare (slavery) is a Natural Right, and Truth/God is ejected for their utopian “fairy” tale world, where a few elites control everything your child thinks and desires.
Because of the “operant conditioning” of children using Media and schools, people become brain-dead adults-—addicts and irrational-—incapable of Reason because their foundational Knowledge is lies and misinformation and they are incapable of Virtue (They are lazy and have no work ethic).
We are nothing but godless animals to be herded and controlled and culled from even before the cradle, like all tribal, serf, or peasant nations. These cultures are all a collectivization of people which eliminates individuality and tries to make males/females interchangeable to destroy biological connections for the NWO, where all are just cogs in a machine-—all controlled in every way by a few men who become god.
We have to take back today’s education “system” and our Constitution which makes God supreme, not men into our masters. We have to rid our culture of this artificial creation (Prussian “school system” for mass indoctrination).
We need to have parents take back the worldview of their children in Real Life (natural—the family) situations where they embed Common Sense and true understanding of Love/selflessness and Reality, and they can grow into unique moral individuals, who can resist “group think” for Reason and Logic (be critical abstract thinkers, instead of having tribal, puerile minds).
Virtue is habituated in children. Wisdom has to be instilled—not Marxist garbage and satanic ethics of hate. Public schools deliberately destroy Virtue in children (without Virtue, freedom is impossible) and schools program the “kids” to be tolerant of evil and dependent on others.
All individiuality and unique identity is destroyed, so they are unable of going against popular culture (satanic ethics). Think of Lincoln’s childhood-—how did he get so brilliant???????????? He would NOT have been-—either would Mark Twain or Newton or Adam Smith-—etc., if they went to the “schools” that exist today.
Prior to Dewey, all memorized sections of the Bible as young children-—the only Book which created rational, abstract critical thinkers. Everything else is devoid of Truth and Wisdom and children under 8 were NEVER removed from the Natural Family for group think programming, and demonization of Christianity, except in the case of orphans. We all know how orphans fared in the artificial institutions, yet we designed a “system” for deliberate dehumanization and destruction of individualism “for the children”.
Parents deliberately turning the minds of their children over to strangers BEFORE THE AGE OF REASON so they can be completely WARPED and programmed (embedded with warped emotions and desires in artificial institutions, removed from Nature (natural family).
Why do libs tend to look like frumpy lumps? (no answer expected).
Typical LIB goof “professor”. I wonder if he still lives in his mother’s basement.
The first question is why would any one with intelligence take a course called Multicultural Literature? What a waste of one’s time, especially in view of the nut cases teaching this junk.
Multicultural Literature, must be an elective filler.
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