{"id":9994,"date":"2007-10-15T05:13:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T11:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9994"},"modified":"2007-10-15T05:13:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T11:13:46","slug":"i-killed-her-and-ripped-the-baby-untimely-from-her-womb-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9994","title":{"rendered":"I Killed Her and Ripped the Baby (Untimely) from Her Womb [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because my stepfather was a bastard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

George Will <\/a>(via Instapundit):<\/p>\n

In 1997, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) adopted a surreptitious political agenda in the form of a new code of ethics, enjoining social workers to advocate for social justice “from local to global levels.” A widely used textbook — “Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skill” — declares that promoting “social and economic justice” is especially imperative as a response to “the conservative trends of the past three decades.” Clearly, in the social work profession’s catechism, whatever social and economic justice are, they are the opposite of conservatism.<\/p>\n

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the national accreditor of social work education programs, encourages — not that encouragement is required — the ideological permeation of the curricula, including mandatory student advocacy. The CSWE says students must demonstrate an ability to “understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Arizona State University<\/font><\/a>, social work students must “demonstrate compliance with the NASW Code of Ethics.” Berkeley<\/font><\/a> requires compliance as proof of “suitability for the profession.” Students at the University of Central Florida<\/font><\/a> “must comply” with the NASW code. At the University of Houston<\/font><\/a>, students must sign a pledge of adherence. At the University of Michigan<\/font><\/a>, failure to comply with the code may be deemed “academic misconduct.”<\/p>\n

Schools’ mission statements, student manuals and course descriptions are clotted with the vocabulary of “progressive” cant — “diversity,” “inclusion,” “classism,” “ethnocentrism,” “racism,” “sexism,” “heterosexism,” “ageism,” “white privilege,” “ableism,” “contextualizes subjects,” “cultural imperialism,” “social identities and positionalities,” “biopsychosocial” problems, “a just share of society’s resources,” and on and on. What goes on under the cover of this miasma of jargon? Just what the American Association of University Professors warned against in its 1915 “Declaration of Principles” — teachers “indoctrinating” students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I seem to recall an oath of this sort getting Chancellor Sir\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Thomas More in trouble some time ago, but this does go a little way towards expressing why\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0faculty in\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the humanities in particular are overwhelmingly “liberal.”<\/p>\n

What if a laughing eye<\/a>\/Have looked into your face–\/It is about to die.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, bioethicists exist for the most part to do some moral chin-pulling before giving the green light to whatever consensus the rest of the elite have reached<\/a>. If you believe, as the Dutch do, that it’s fine for a children’s hospital to euthanize severely disabled infants, you can always find a bioethicist to give you a stamp of approval. If you want to harvest the organs of dying people without waiting for brain death to occur, you can probably find a bioethicist to sign on to that, too. Myself, I’m with Slate blogger Mickey Kaus. In 2003, as the Schiavo controversy was raging and Yale<\/font><\/a> surgeon Sherwin Nuland, author of “How We Die” and an advocate of limited assisted suicide, was pontificating on National Public Radio<\/font><\/a> about her low quality of life, Kaus wrote: “If I’m ever in Terri Schiavo’s situation, and not in any pain, please follow these simple steps: Keep the feeding tube in, and keep Dr. Nuland out.”<\/p>\n

It’s not surprising that many people have reservations about theories of “dying well” that always seem to involve not staying alive. In 2004, the Hastings Center Report, a journal that focuses on bioethics, reported that despite decades of aggressive promotion of living wills, only 18 percent of Americans of all races had them, including only 35 percent of residents of nursing homes. Those most suspicious of the talk about “dying well” are African Americans and members of other minority groups. African Americans are only one-third as likely as whites to have a living will, and only one-fifth as many blacks as whites sign DNR orders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Zombietime has some amusing Code Pink vs Marine Recruiters pics <\/a>from Berkeley, including several of the Frank Rich Trooth Bus. (h\/t LGF)<\/p>\n

Stanley Fish <\/a>understates the pervasiveness of the problem, in view of such travesties as the Duke 88, but ends up saying of the documentary, “Indoctrinate U”:<\/p>\n

Academics often bridle at the picture of their activities presented by Maloney and other conservative critics, and accuse them of grossly caricaturing and exaggerating what goes on in the classroom. Maybe so, but so long as there are those who confuse advocacy with teaching, and so long as faculty colleagues and university administrators look the other way, the academy invites the criticism it receives in this documentary. In 1915, the American Association of University Professors warned that if we didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t clean up our own shop, external constituencies, with motives more political than educational, would step in and do it for us. Now they\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re doing it in the movies and it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s our own fault.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, it is. (h\/t Hot Air)<\/p>\n

Roger Kimball on Terry Eagleton, via David Thompson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThere have always been elements of ironic comedy about the spectacle of Marxist academics fervently proclaiming their revolutionary message while safely ensconced in Western institutions of higher education. As the years have passed and another generation of young radicals has settled into middle age, tenure, and pension calculations, one might have hoped that these freethinkers would have had manners enough to mute their demands for the destruction of the middle class, the bourgeoisie, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153the repressive state apparatus of late capitalism,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 etc. After all, blue jeans or no blue jeans, what these middle-class beneficiaries of capitalism have unwittingly been clamouring for is nothing less than their own destruction. But no, they continue nattering on about \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153the contradictions of capitalism,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 obviously having missed the vastly more palpable contradiction inherent in their own position as tenured radicals\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6<\/p>\n

Professor Eagleton [is] … adamant about declaring his working-class sympathies: In a typical gesture, he dedicated his book on the Bront\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00abs, Myths of Power<\/em> (1975; second edition 1988), to \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Dominic and Daniel and the working-class movement of West Yorkshire.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 What the working-class movement of West Yorkshire (or anywhere else, for that matter) would have to say about a book that emphasizes the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153notion of categorial structures as key mediations between literary form, textual ideology and social relations\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 is amusing to contemplate\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How else could a buffoon such as Ward Churchill obtain tenure, than through travesties of authenticity?<\/p>\n

Ay, caramba: Heart part recall<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 (Haha!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Too bad Cheney didn’t die).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because my stepfather was a bastard. George Will (via Instapundit): In 1997, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) adopted a surreptitious political agenda in the form of a new code of ethics, enjoining social workers to advocate for social justice “from local to global levels.” A widely used textbook — “Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skill” — declares that promoting “social and economic justice” is especially imperative as<\/p>\n

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