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Evergreen State College is the place that enabled the ultimately-fatal extremism of Rachel Corrie.
And yet..
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But Evergreen faces a deeper, and more long-term threat. It is the only state four-year higher education institution to see enrollment drop steeply since 2011 despite wide-open admission standards. At about 4,080 students, it is about 300 students short of the Legislature’s funded enrollment target.
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/...ing-no-future/
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Und...dEFvT3NnRWVHYwQuote:
His chief concern is that the flagship "is straying into areas that they just don’t need to be in," like LGBT and religious issues. "I don’t think anyone has a problem with the general concept of diversity," he said, but "these are things that tend to offend the people of Tennessee. They’re very sensitive."
Here's the Republican State Rep. of Tennessee calling the people of his state snowflakes and using that as a pretext to defund diversity programs...
How the hell are those not multicultural issues?Quote:
Some lawmakers also want the university to focus solely on multicultural issues and stay away from efforts related to sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.
Maybe the good people of Tennessee are only sensitive to those issues?
Even if I were to go back 50 years so that things like orientation and gender identity were just considered perversion, in what possible world is religion not a cultural (and hence multicultural) area? It's the goddamned ORIGINAL diversity-topic in the country, the one going back to the Colonial era pre-Founding.
I'm going to guess he's sucking up to the "save us from Shari'a law" folks.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Months-After/240722
Big win for academic freedom.
Going to be honest, I did not understand the original article, the furor, or the apology. The whole thing reeked of academic socio-politics to me
You aren't alone there.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
1. The original article argued that if transgenderism exists, so does transracialism (the author supported both).Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
2. You know who got outraged over various transgender-related slights (most of them completely absent from the article). They argued that the article, which was probably read by 3 people at that point, did "violence" to transgender people.
3. A lot of feminists and philosophers, all of them part of group 2, demanded that the article be retracted, because they didn't like the implication of the theory and because the author didn't cite enough transgender people and people of color in the article.
4. The associate editors of the journal signed a letter basically saying the article shouldn't have been published, based on point 3.
5. The actual editors repudiated the associate editors for both talking publicly on behalf of the journal, which they had no right to do, and for undermining the journal's reputation by putting activism above academic merit.
6. Associate editors suspended, decide to resign in protest (see piece above).
And here we are. I don't think it was about internal politics because the original author was a second-year assistant professor. I highly doubt she had any enemies up to that point. It was clearly social justice activism and victimization making its way into a field that was on the border of academia (philosophy) and activism (feminism). If this ended up any differently, any field that's remotely involved with social justice issues would have to walk on eggshells or risk provoking outrage that would destroy its own academic reputation.
Books, not universities, but close enough.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-t...a-twitter.html
I'd hate to be the next generation.
Isn't this the core of leftist thought?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
"No difference of opinion allowed, people reigning, etc… I and other people I know (mostly teens) are terrified about speaking up in this community. You don’t get a chance to be wrong here.”"
There are different strains of leftism. Even within the diversity camp, there are significant disagreements. These people just happen to be the loudest. The real problem is that the rest don't try hard enough to minimize their impact.
I'm offended by your ageism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Because everyone is terrified of the Internet Mob and Thought Police.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Some of us have seen this coming the last 2 years.
As the article says, it's going to get worse before it gets better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
From what I've seen, I'm thinking we may be getting close to that peak, then fall off, but that might be me being overly optimistic.
Ehhh I mean honestly for the vast majority of the country they don't give a shit. You'll have enclaves on college campuses for decades but for most people it isn't a big deal. In fact a lot of it is commonly lampooned by comedians and on the internet in various discussion groups. Hell the number of self proclaimed anti-SJWs outnumber the actual SJWs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
Yet they manage to form lynch mobs , get people, fired, arrested, lose financial opportunities, because being on offense all the time leads to victory more often than sitting on defense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
Surrounding college campuses and events. Occasionally it bleeds over into the real world. If you really want to break the little morons you need to take away their funding. Turn college degrees into something that requires passing standardized testing, encourage remote learning and a drive to lower costs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
Most of these people actually aren't on college campuses. They're centered around various blogs. Most professors know better than to get involved in such endeavors (because of a risk to their career if nothing else).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
This nonsense begins with gender studies and other nonsensical campus activism. You have a bunch of young people with way too much time on their hands (thank you easy liberal arts degrees and overly generous amount of 'free' money washing around the system) that can quickly be mobilized. Make it so student loans can only be used for tuition (not room and board, not misc expenses simply tuition), make degrees possible through testing and you eliminate the breeding ground for this idiocy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Wow...dude watch what is happening to YouTube and how they are going to segregate videos now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
This is NOT just restricted to campus.
That might be how the whole mess started, but it's long moved on from there. Many of the most vocal members clearly have no relevant education. In fact, they attack education as a form of white/cis/ableist privilege. You do occasionally see people who've taken one class in gender studies and decide they're an expert in the field.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
"Occasionally it bleed over into the real world." I mean come on yes there idiocy has gotten into some weird places but the vast majority of people when confronted with it are like 'dude seriously? what is wrong with you?' The crazy left gets most of their air time because we on the right like to make fun of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
The NOT so crazy left are the real problem. The ones who push government control persuasively. Not the screeching fat positive 92 gender people.
Hilarious you say this, but look at the google thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
Lewk, the easily offended are insinuating themselves everywhere and into positions of (modest) power. GamerGate thought they won, but really the SJW's moved too greener pastures.
OMG...Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Favorite comment: I love it when Leftist eat their own.
What is up with the circular firing squad?
I expected it from the religious right...but how is this happening to the Enlightined Side?
It's a circular firing squad because these kind of students tend to major in the kind of departments where this line of thinking dominates. The children cannibalize their parents.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
I feel bad for the professor, who seems like a nice guy who was doing his best.
That's what some folks probably said about Stalin in the late 1920s :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Yeesh what a mess :bulb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Interesting twist:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/2...an-ruling.html
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticke...erkeley/119806
Let's see how this one goes.
Let's see how many transgender persons and undocumented immigrants Milo outs.
Nothing really wrong about outing undocumented immigrants. As far as the transgender item are you referring to Justine Kramer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
All right, look, you disgusting little trollette--I'm going to stop you right there before you waste both our time cobbling together some slimy reddit-sourced defense that would make Martin Shkreli blush. If your moral and ethical standards are such that you see "nothing really wrong" with doing things that expose good people to abuse, harassment, and potentially even to physical harm, then it's almost certain that nothing of value can be gained from engaging you in a discussion about right and wrong.
I'm just pointing out the fact that 'outing' someone typically involves a person who people didn't know was already trans...Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
For Dread and Lewk: http://everydayfeminism.com/2017/08/...ed-poc-spaces/
"Nico Dacumos is an Everyday Feminism Reporting Fellow. Nico is a lower-middle class and college-educated child of a Manila-born Ilocano and a Central California Chicana. He currently writes, teaches high school, runs a decolonial food pop-up, builds spiritual community, loves, co-parents, and instigates non-binary transgender faggotry in Oakland, CA."Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
lol
https://www.economist.com/blogs/grap.../daily-chart-0
But Republicans don't like the courts either so...