“Kendi demands a totalizing approach that means everything must be actively anti-racist, and if you’re not actively anti-racist, you’re racist,” Haidt told me...
...but becoming 'anti-racist' requires that you adopt racism as your personal ethic, deciding who is - and is not - worthy of 'special' treatment according to the color of their…
“Kendi demands a totalizing approach that means everything must be actively anti-racist, and if you’re not actively anti-racist, you’re racist,” Haidt told me...
...but becoming 'anti-racist' requires that you adopt racism as your personal ethic, deciding who is - and is not - worthy of 'special' treatment according to the color of their skin.
As is the case with the third law of thermodynamics, "you can't get out of the game." The University of Rochester tried to paper this over in the most recent edition of their alumni magazine. A year ago, a Penn State professor was bullied into removing his name from an academic paper over political correctness concerns raised by the campus 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Climate Change' committee - no, I am NOT making this up - which had taken it upon themselves to censor the rest of the university's academic research according to the new paradigm.
You can't fix stupid, but you can refuse to support it. That recent fund-raising letter from your dear old alma mater? The two universities I attended were guilty as hell. Neither received a single dime - nor will they, until they clean up their act.
University presidents are a rather spineless bunch. They'll kowtow to the squeakiest wheel in order to avoid confrontation: principle be damned, and they don't care how much it costs. Their funding model is to pluck at the heartstrings of alumni to paper over their spendthrift ways. Tuitions climbing at twice the rate of inflation is unsustainable: the baby boom cash cow is drying up, the incoming classes get smaller every year, and the college debt burden has made recent college graduates - and their parents - less able to give. In short, the proverbial fan is about to splatter the campus with something brown.
It's 'Equal Opportunity for all who apply', or go bust. Sooner or later, the financial realities of worthless initiatives like DEI will surely bite.
“Kendi demands a totalizing approach that means everything must be actively anti-racist, and if you’re not actively anti-racist, you’re racist,” Haidt told me...
...but becoming 'anti-racist' requires that you adopt racism as your personal ethic, deciding who is - and is not - worthy of 'special' treatment according to the color of their skin.
As is the case with the third law of thermodynamics, "you can't get out of the game." The University of Rochester tried to paper this over in the most recent edition of their alumni magazine. A year ago, a Penn State professor was bullied into removing his name from an academic paper over political correctness concerns raised by the campus 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Climate Change' committee - no, I am NOT making this up - which had taken it upon themselves to censor the rest of the university's academic research according to the new paradigm.
You can't fix stupid, but you can refuse to support it. That recent fund-raising letter from your dear old alma mater? The two universities I attended were guilty as hell. Neither received a single dime - nor will they, until they clean up their act.
But did you let them know why? Because they're really too dim to put two and two together if not.
University presidents are a rather spineless bunch. They'll kowtow to the squeakiest wheel in order to avoid confrontation: principle be damned, and they don't care how much it costs. Their funding model is to pluck at the heartstrings of alumni to paper over their spendthrift ways. Tuitions climbing at twice the rate of inflation is unsustainable: the baby boom cash cow is drying up, the incoming classes get smaller every year, and the college debt burden has made recent college graduates - and their parents - less able to give. In short, the proverbial fan is about to splatter the campus with something brown.
It's 'Equal Opportunity for all who apply', or go bust. Sooner or later, the financial realities of worthless initiatives like DEI will surely bite.