HOW 'DIVERSITY IDEOLOGY' KILLED THE UNIVERSITY AND IS INFECTING AMERICA!

HOW 'DIVERSITY IDEOLOGY' KILLED THE UNIVERSITY AND IS INFECTING AMERICA!

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM -  TUES. JULY 2, 2019

DIANEL DAVIS / @JDANIEL_DAVIS / HEATHER MacDONALD / @HMDaTMI / SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

EXCERPTS:

Daniel Davis: U.S. sees a lot of disturbing changes: New pushes for identity politics, new racial tension, battles over diversity. Those things seemed unimaginable 10 to 15 years ago, you argue in your book that this stuff actually stems back to the university. Give us an idea of how that works.

Heather MacDonald: (Author of the book.)

    Well for the moment a student steps on campus today, he is inundated with the message that he is in a racist, sexist environment. We are talking about a college campus right now which is an extraordinary privileged, opportunity-filled environment, the oppressor, or, if he shows sufficient enlightenment and he's one of the oppressors, he can move himself out of the oppressor category into the ally category....

Daniel Davis: So where does this, I mean, when did this really start on university campuses? Surely it started somewhere at a certain time? Does it stem back to the '60s, '70s' or is this more mind of a new rehashed racism or identity politics?

Heather MacDonald:

    Well, there's several strands of it. In the '60s, we had the start of racial preferences, which are an extraordinarily destructive policy that don't do their alleged beneficiaries any good. But the '70s was a sort of hiatus moment. Multiculturalism hadn't hit yet. I went to college in the '70s, and I view myself as incredibly fortunate in that I was allowed to read Chaucer, Milton, Spenser, and Wordsworth without anybody bitching and moaning about the gonads and melanin of those extraordinary gifted, sublime authors.

    I unfortunately wasted my time studying this very arcane, misguided literary theory call deconstruction, but at least I got to read the greatest books without a chip on my shoulder and without anybody apologizing.

    The '80s came.  You had Jesse Jackson at Stanford University leading the student know-nothings, trying to dismantle Stanford' Western civ requirement with the "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ has got to go." Feminism took over, identity politics took over, and the curriculum has never been the same. ...

    Today, deconstruction has morphed into something I would say is more pernicious, which is that you look for ... in Shakespeare, you're looking for signs of racism and sexism. You're looking for the proto-sins that allegedly created a world of oppression. You are not allowed to lose in beauty. Pastoral poetry is an escape into an imaginary world of the beauties of nature and a retreat from oppression of civilization. These days, you're only going to be looking for so-called gender stereotypes.  ....

    This is something that the scientific method to its enormous credit has liberated us, has conquered want and poverty through trying to overcome those blind spots. But there's an additional to this now, that it's not just a human failing. The contempt for reason, the inability to follow reason is now, as they say in high theory, being theorized. It's being affirmatively justified.

    Reason and the Enlightenment are being trashed within the academy as themselves sources of oppression. I was the subject of one these shout-down protests at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Southern California, because I was there to speak about policing and to push back against the Black Lives Matter narrative.... Somehow they're claiming that the pursuit of truth is a way of oppressing minorities, that Enlightenment values are just a way to keep minorities down, The historical ignorance behind this is extraordinary."

George H. Kubeck - Why do we put up with this MARXIST  educational hogwash?