“Identities, with the exception of straight, white, religious male, could not be banned. Beliefs could.”
It was laughable in its own way, though. My school was ostensibly all about freedom of expression. In our mandatory 5-hour diversity awareness training, we were each asked what pronouns we prefer to use when describing ourselves. We could dress and identify sexually virtually any way we wanted, though some fashion choices and sexual identities were more celebrated than others. We talked about how to approach clients whose gender identities were difficult to pinpoint. There was a special gender-neutral bathroom on the fourth floor that seemed rarely used. We were allowed to differ; we could not disagree. […]
That was why my social welfare and policy teacher felt entirely justified in asking me to stop sharing my opinions in class. She was not allowed to discriminate against me—it would have been wrong to ask me to stop speaking for being gay or a woman or black. She was discriminating against my thoughts, which were not an intrinsic part of who I was. Not important. Identities, with the exception of straight, white, religious male, could not be banned. Beliefs could.
This approach is not unique to Hunter: Two hundred thirty-five master’s programs in the United States are accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), which requires schools to “advocate for human rights and social and economic justice” and to “engage in practices that advance social and economic justice” as part of their curricula. As Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), points out, the CSWE standards act as “an invitation for schools to discriminate against students with dissenting views.” […]
While CSWE is not an official government agency, it might as well be, since virtually all U.S. social work schools must receive its accreditation to be considered legitimate and to give their students a chance of being hired. Since its inception in 1952, it has worked, largely successfully, to transform a profession into a belief system.
This is both unsurprising and frustrating. Frustrating because as the Left has taken over the levers of media and academia, it has also instituted litmus tests, ideological purity tests, to enforce its dogma.
It’s not just universities or Hollywood but even businesses.
Conservatives and Libertarians believe Progressives are mistaken and are willing to engage in debate.
Progressives feel down to their very core that their opponents are evil and don’t deserve even the common courtesy of ‘agreeing to disagree’ but need to be utterly crushed and punished, in public and in private.
The #Gamergate controversy and the on-going Hugo/Sad Puppies war are but modest pushbacks against this modern, Progressive Yezhovshchina. They may even win the skirmishes … But we aren’t winning the war.
Not even close.
(h/t David Thompson)
Well yeah, that was the meaning of the total in totalitarianism. Opinion cannot escape.
I think I get an opportunity to repeat this about once a week: for the left, diversity is only skin deep
Corporations make the mistake that this kind of “awareness” training is mostly harmless just like “green” initiatives.
It would appear that schools of social work are in reality training a large cadre of commissars. And these kids’ parents are footing the bill. Evidently, the Marxists are not averse to participating in capitalistic enterprises when necessary.
This is one of those “almost admirable, as a *strategy*” things, though the results are no less horrific than all the other strategies. It’s kind of a bottom-up totalitarianism.
Mind you, nobody is willing to actually do anything about the long march through the institutions, apart from largely ignored complaining, so it will continue. We can only hope the institutions collapse before the goal is fully achieved and they move on to literal, physical purges, which always happens.
For the record I don’t think I have a great solution, because my ideas about restricting authority and enforcing Constitutional limits are horribly unpopular.
I don’t know if it’s a gross flaw in human nature or something else, but this process will continue until it collapses, and then it will start over.
Shermlaw wrote: …Evidently, the Marxists are not averse to participating in capitalistic enterprises when necessary.
By any means necessary.
Which is very liberating, I imagine, because everything is permissible, nothing off-limits…that is, until you cross a like person who disagrees with you and had more Power than you.
if you go to college in failmerica and all you accomplish is not getting viciously raped by a penis
you’re way ahead of the game
Left-wing seminaries, is what.
Sweet meteor of death, strike us now.
The SMoD contacted me and said it wasn’t worth the trouble, we’re destroying ourselves well enough as it is.
baracky be raping america now = silence
Actually…Cranky: SMod is a deus ex machina dreamed-up by the Producers of the universe’s reality show, Earth.
Ratings were down in 2009 and, in a effort to juice things up, SMod was introduced into Episode #11723321666-01, especially once it became clear that the new plot device, totally unqualified idiot becomes American President, was pulling in the young viewers from Andromeda.
[…] Darleen Click: We are not winning the war […]
The race card is losing its shine. So the “identity” in “identity group” must be redefined as the cloak of color/gender has frayed and the ideology that it covered becomes exposed to public view.
A small meteor or good size volcanic eruption could probably be enough to shut up these SJW whines.
My money is on an Iranian EMP, given how they keep shooting missles up in the air and, oddly oddly oddly they explode at exactly the right altitude for an EMP.
Oopsie doodle!
di, I’ve been out of the loop. Got a link to that EMP thing? May want to let them know the Lat./Long. of the IRS. Thx.
Somebody ought to propose the Theodor Eicke Memorial Scholarship Fund to the powers that be at CSWE
>The EMP Commission found the military doctrines of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran describe a revolutionary new kind of warfare that would use cyberattacks and physical sabotage, combined and coordinated with EMP attack, to black out the national electric grid and crash the other critical infrastructures — communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water.
Thus, high-tech armies and navies would be rendered obsolete.
For the first time in history, failed states such as Iran or North Korea, or terrorists could use a blackout war to destroy the most successful societies on earth. Mr. Franks noted in the congressional record in December 2014 that a recently translated Iranian military textbook calls for exactly such an attack on the United States.
The week prior to the Washington blackout, Turkey experienced a temporary nationwide blackout, all except one small Turkish province that imports its electricity from Iran, by causes still unknown. On Jan. 25, terrorists blacked out 80 percent of Pakistan — a nuclear weapons state.<
link
Without a doubt, we live in
historicinteresting times.Actually…we live in Hysterical Times.
we live in times where you can get pretty decent tablets for like no money