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Home Front: Culture Wars
WHAT THE CAMPUS CRYBULLY WARS ARE REALLY ABOUT
2016-03-07
h/t Instapundit
The campus wars aren’t really about race. Race and the rest of the identity politics roster are the engine for transforming an academic environment into an activist environment.

The average campus already skews left, but it maintains the pretense of serving an educational purpose. The demands put forward on various campuses begin with racial privileges, but do not end there. These demands call for politicizing every department, the mandatory political indoctrination of all students and faculty, and the submission of non-political academic departments to activist political ones.

The campus wars are a declaration that activist non-academic departments that offer identity politics analysis while contributing nothing and which often owe their existence to campus clashes from a previous generation, should dominate all areas of life and thought at every university.

Imagine if physics majors rioted and demanded that every single area of study on campus had to incorporate theoretical physics and hire physics majors. That is exactly what is happening with identity politics studies. It’s a naked power grab that has the potential to redefine academia as we know it.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#13  Glenmore, I stopped taking physicists seriously the third (maybe fourth) time one tried to explain to me that evolution can't work (apparently some minds just can'r encompass the idea of variation followed by selection)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-07 16:27  

#12  Such requirements would destroy the Journalism school.

You speak as if that is a bad thing.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-03-07 15:37  

#11  Glenmore, the last time I talked to a physics professor I got the impression that political correctness and the necessity of toeing the line in certain subjects (like global warming) were becoming a problem.

You're aware of Hal Lewis' resignation letter, right?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-03-07 15:30  

#10  grom, I think elementary particle physics should be included in the Education classes, especially Elementary Ed.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-03-07 15:11  

#9  I am willing to leave the math at pre-calculus until upper level English Lit classes.

Yeah, that's funny until you see it.
Grad students and Teaching Cert refreshers sweating, shaking and fainting at the mention of minor statistics.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-03-07 14:49  

#8  Such requirements would destroy the Journalism school.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-03-07 13:56  

#7  Partial Differential Equations (I hadda lookit up).

Laplace Transforms, anyone?
Posted by: Bobby   2016-03-07 13:44  

#6  A lot of new elementary particles, Glenmore?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-07 13:11  

#5  I like the idea of requiring Physics content and faculty in every major - add a dose of reality. I am willing to leave the math at pre-calculus until upper level English Lit classes. And PDE & tensors until grad level Socialogy.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-03-07 13:10  

#4  Don't forget, if you aren't a 'named' institution these are in the business of enrollment, not education. Headcount is student loan finance. Funded work-study programs are magnets for INTELS (international and telecommuting students).

Pretty much government funded late-term indoctrination and money wash.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-03-07 12:01  

#3  These activist non-academic departments should be chopped entirely. That is if a university wants to protect its own name value.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-03-07 10:51  

#2  JQC, I thought Tenn. had pulled that plug.

This is also why government takeover is so important in education. If we have a free market the response is the institution of private schools that don't play these games.

It is classic rent-seeking behavior to get laws and regulations passed to prevent this kind of competition.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-03-07 08:36  

#1  These demands call for politicizing every department, the mandatory political indoctrination of all students and faculty, and the submission of non-political academic departments to activist political ones.
 If allowed to happen, more rot will set in and it is doubtful one will be able to get a decent education in these institutions.

Things have gotten so bad at the University of Tennessee that the Legislature has threatened to cut off funding to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion; the office that came up with the non-celebration of Christmas recommendations and new pronouns to satisfy LGBT demands.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-03-07 07:57  

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