This week in bigoted academia
Since October of last year I have been posting weekly reports listing the variety and frequency of intolerant actions by college administrators, facility, and students on American campus. This week, I want to highlight the bigotry that now runs rampant on these campuses, all centered on the bad idea to create entire departments and fields of study focused expressly on race, ethnicity, or gender, rather than ideas.
- Professors at San Diego State University:: Farmers’ markets are “insidious white space”
- Controversial ‘Problem of Whiteness’ course reintroduced at UW-Madison
- Professor at Diablo Valley College in California calls for overthrow of ‘white democracy,’ violate laws of ‘white man’s Constitution’
- Masters thesis by student at SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont claims that teachers must prevent ‘assimilation’ of ‘whiteness’
- ‘White Genocide’ prof leaves Drexel, takes role as ‘Visiting Scholar’ at NYU
- University of Hawaii prof demands that colleges ‘stop hiring white cis men’
- Prof at Morgan State University says ‘white Christians’ facing an ‘existential crisis’
- Year in Review: 17 campus hate crimes that turned out to be hoaxes in 2017
The last story highlights how the hate and bigotry against whites has gotten so bad at colleges that minority students and teachers are now frequently faking hate crimes against themselves in order to prove how evil whites are.
As I said above, the problem here is the focus on race, ethnicity, and gender rather than ideas. Any one from any race, ethnic group, or sex, can come up with a great idea. In fact, it is irrelevant what their race, ethnicity, or sex is. What matters is the idea. Unfortunately, colleges have become obsessed not with ideas but with race and gender diversity, and so the teachers teach students to see everything in that light, and that light only. It is bigotry and hate, at its worst. And it is poisoning the American intellectual community, preventing it from doing what we need it to do, to think deeply, thoughtfully, and maturely, and to do it without hate or rancor.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Since October of last year I have been posting weekly reports listing the variety and frequency of intolerant actions by college administrators, facility, and students on American campus. This week, I want to highlight the bigotry that now runs rampant on these campuses, all centered on the bad idea to create entire departments and fields of study focused expressly on race, ethnicity, or gender, rather than ideas.
- Professors at San Diego State University:: Farmers’ markets are “insidious white space”
- Controversial ‘Problem of Whiteness’ course reintroduced at UW-Madison
- Professor at Diablo Valley College in California calls for overthrow of ‘white democracy,’ violate laws of ‘white man’s Constitution’
- Masters thesis by student at SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont claims that teachers must prevent ‘assimilation’ of ‘whiteness’
- ‘White Genocide’ prof leaves Drexel, takes role as ‘Visiting Scholar’ at NYU
- University of Hawaii prof demands that colleges ‘stop hiring white cis men’
- Prof at Morgan State University says ‘white Christians’ facing an ‘existential crisis’
- Year in Review: 17 campus hate crimes that turned out to be hoaxes in 2017
The last story highlights how the hate and bigotry against whites has gotten so bad at colleges that minority students and teachers are now frequently faking hate crimes against themselves in order to prove how evil whites are.
As I said above, the problem here is the focus on race, ethnicity, and gender rather than ideas. Any one from any race, ethnic group, or sex, can come up with a great idea. In fact, it is irrelevant what their race, ethnicity, or sex is. What matters is the idea. Unfortunately, colleges have become obsessed not with ideas but with race and gender diversity, and so the teachers teach students to see everything in that light, and that light only. It is bigotry and hate, at its worst. And it is poisoning the American intellectual community, preventing it from doing what we need it to do, to think deeply, thoughtfully, and maturely, and to do it without hate or rancor.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
That an agenda to mould the students’ collective world view into one compatible with the new ‘state orthodoxy’ is common to the highlighted articles. In our greater society, individuals need not, and largely do not, conform to this pattern of cerebral segregation. It is intellectual dishonesty ‘adorned’ with a sophist’s pernicious self-righteousness.
If I may, I would contradict the politically-challenged theologian:
‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.’
Laurie- good stuff.
Related–
Jordan Peterson enlightens Joe Rogan
–on Academia & Universities
[clip from Joe Rogan Experience #877]
https://youtu.be/1MuOd8LZRH0
4:33
“A bill introduced Wednesday in the Nebraska state legislature would require the University of Nebraska Board of Regents to guarantee free speech on campus and institute regulations to that effect.”
Nebraska Legislative Bill 718
First reading: 1-3-18
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/105/PDF/Intro/LB718.pdf
wayne: This is good, but it is also mostly showboating. Nebraska is one state that had no incidences last year, and likely does little or nothing to oppress freedom of speech on its campuses.
Still, it is good they are taking action to put their public universities on notice. A good offense is better than a late defense.
If a ‘hate crime’ was not faked; that would be news.
Finally, someone has to pay for the chaos they created.