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.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
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.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
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.