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This Is an Interesting Case of Media Bias
There is a story that I first heard on my local Seattle radio station, KTTH 770 AM, this afternoon while waiting in the drive-through line at Starbucks. It involves a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia. It seems that the students of color at our most far-left institution of Higher (?) Education, every year have an event called Day of Absence/Day of Presence, where the students of color leave campus for a day and do their own anti-racism workshops (I assume they skip all their classes that day and talk to each other about how oppressed they are by the faculty and students of pallor). This year, they decided to change the format, and instead of absenting themselves from campus, they “invited” all the white students and faculty to stay away for that day, leaving the campus to them.
Biology Professor Bret Weinstein was not too happy about that, and he said so in an email to the person organizing the event.
Read this article to see what then happened to him.
I checked all the local media Web sites, including KOMO, KING, and KIRO, and saw nary a mention of this issue. Just a normal day in the Leftist Paradise, I guess.
Edit: Added video link, with thanks to Truth Revolt. (Language warning)
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^^THIS!^^
In that case you would be exerting white privilege to keep people of color down by denying them an education.
As others have mentioned, there’s really no way to win at this until the whole system collapses and we start over.
The “Revolution eats it’s own” is always the most entertaining part.
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In meantime, the meaning of “accredited” has changed. It now means passing muster with Progressive faculty interests (unless you are specifically talking about a school of business or engineering, or the agriculture school or one of the hard sciences).
Either we give up on trying to salvage the universities or else we have got to recruit solid conservatives for the accreditation review boards.
End tenure, they need to be accountable for what they say. In fact… elect professors, expose their views to the much wider community for a vote. In some place like Seattle they would still be liberal… but probably not insane.
And student loans have driven tution past all reason, somehow that problem needs to be solved.
What we have now is a system of electing professors and making them accountable – to students. It has terrible effects.
I would not be in favor of ending tenure, but that’s a separate issue.
The student loan system is crazy, though. More means testing will help a lot.
The “properly grateful” theory says that I must thank all the commenters and “likers” on my post. Thanks to everyone.
This is the “Eating their own” phase of the leftist trajectory in history.
The moment is coming where a person is going to get killed. Then what?
That is often the moment when public opinion changes or crystalizes. No guarantee, though. The hate media will try to spin it their way.
I read through the post, comments, and much of the link to the American Conservative. I understand and agree with the lamenting but what now is the best response by those like us. Just let these things proceed until some kind of collapse or, worse for us, our view disappears. Engage in an active confrontation, something like went on after the U of Missouri episode, but stronger. Or do those like us who have some influence on enrollment just stop supporting these institutions? There are surely other avenues as well. We need a strong advocate at every level to go to work on this, is my thinking.
I disagree with the despairing tone stated above. I’m a Phd student at Purdue University. Here the vast majority of the students spend most of their time learning useful 21st century skills. We have some liberal protestors, but they are peaceful and civil. Our President Mitch Daniels has criticized Pres. Trump’s limited travel ban, but he has also let everyone know that we all have freedom of speech and no one will be silenced. This is the model that all American universities should emulate. However, I fear that this model is only possible in red state America, which is why I have ruled out living in any of the more liberal states.
I’ll tell you what: it will be “our” fault. Didn’t you see the Prog postings after Omar Kablam shot up that nightclub in Orlando? “If you opposed gay marriage, you were the bullets in the gun.”
That worked for either version of the shooter’s story:
(1) he hated gay people (but that had nothing to do with being Muslim, in spite of those videos showing ’em pushing gays off buildings, and everything to do with the Sweetcakes bakers);
or:
(2) he was gay himself! So he has to be forgiven anything, because of self hatred induced by opposition to gay marriage and general homophobia in “our” society ( but not the homophobia rampant in Muslim theocracies).
I almost feel sorry for poor Omar: he did and said everything he possibly could to credit his murder spree to his faith. He could not have been clearer!
If they can blame Gianforte’s loss of temper on Trump, it’ll be child’s play to blame any violence, any death, on the Right. They’re that good.
Instead of the unruly students getting expelled, it will be the “racist” professor who will be expelled by the Mob for not toeing the line of collective outrage. I was reading the Wall Street Journal yesterday, and I remember a comment by a student, regarding free speech on campus. He said something like “If you can’t stand being shouted at, you don’t belong here”. Talk about blaming the victim! Being shouted down and at is now the norm, so if you can’t stand the heat, stay off campus. Sigh…
This is the most alarming part of this latest morph of leftism: the faulty understanding of the First Amendment. The schools have now produced an entire new crop of voters who actually believe that “hate speech” isn’t or shouldn’t be protected. So now all they have to do is declare words they don’t like to be “hate speech,” and voila.
The narcissism is over the top. I saw some of the video of the students with the instructor. They were nuts. Just nuts. And somebody should fire the president. He’s a disgrace.
I agree, MJ, except (1) conservatives are not interested in joining the hornet’s nest, since they are less than welcome, and (2) they can make much better money in the real business world. Can’t say I blame them on either count.
A school of “Boilermakers” is likely to have some more rational thoughts than many others. :-)
It seems like just yesterday when the leftists were sneering at the notion that the new laws against hate crime would soon lead to laws against speech.
My late wife worked there in an administrative capacity 1979-1983 — had to keep her head down as to her Christian beliefs even back then, as the atmosphere on campus was overtly anti-religious, especially Christianity.
She liked her boss, despite politics, so we attended a dinner party one evening with her, where all guests were TESC faculty and spouses (back in the 80s dark ages, liberals still married). Sure they were in a “safe space” amongst themselves, they could not refrain from gratuitously mocking religious people, even in casual conversation and small talk.
After several such slams against the world of believers, I took it upon myself to challenge them to account for what had actually occurred on the road to Damascus that transformed the Christian-hunter Saul into the saint we know as Paul —- crickets.
As someone recently was quoted as saying, the left does not want to win the debate, they want to silence the debate.
My blue state state university is also a place where students and profs are most focused on learning. Conservative lamentations about the state of academia often lack real insider knowledge and are based on hysterical accounts from the media, not day in and day out experiences on campuses.
This is not even kind of true.
I think there is evidence, perhaps not for a blanket statement but for some serious problems in this area. Gordon College is the incident that got the most attention.
Actually, it is true that to get and stay accredited, a college must toe the leftist line. Case in point is Hillsdale College. Dr. Arnn has said that accreditation will be the next big battle that they have to fight. Even though they take not one penny of government money, they are still required to be accredited by one of the big accrediting bodies. This is one battle that is hard to fight with money.
Tell you what. You guys tell me about the details of the last accreditation review you took part in, and I’ll tell you about the last one I did, and we’ll compare notes.
Just as an aside, the Puget Sound has lots of Asians and others ( Not sure how to describe the large African population as opposed to the Americans with very dark complexion ) with several reservations in the Seattle metropolitan area. Around the state are a fair number of hispanics as well. Washington may be ‘white’ but it’s a kaleidoscope compared to my experience in New Hampshire.
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