Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Important read-----What the Campus Crybully Wars Are Really About

What the Campus Crybully Wars Are Really About | Frontpage Mag
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.

...While black students are the public face of the campaign, behind them are embedded faculty radicals like Melissa Click whose abuses recently led to her firing from the University of Missouri.
Click’s body of work, gender, race and sexuality analyses of popular culture, is fairly typical of the activist faculty behind the power grab.
Media studies is often confused with journalism, but the two have little in common. 
Media studies has become a guide to politicizing culture by viewing it through the intersectional lens.
...When we talk about political correctness, it isn’t just about banning certain jokes.
That’s the smallest part of it.
Political correctness is about making the political filter, the left’s lens, mandatory for all.
The campus wars are dividing universities between academic departments and activist departments. 
The activist demands call for embedding activism deeper into the structure of universities with more activist deans, departments and professors dedicated to their agenda.
Funding is diverted from education to activism. 
Activist curriculums become mandatory to recruit more student activists.
...While race is being used as a Trojan horse for the crybully movement, the practical outcome of such policies would make academic departments subservient to activist departments. 
The latter would take over and hollow out the former leaving nothing but worthless degrees and student debt.
Graduates would be qualified to do little except be activists and “allies” in their chosen fields.
Their mission would be to propagate and enforce politically correct doctrines in the classical Soviet political commissar sense.
Safe space culture would silence dissent among faculty and students while creating activist student-faculty organizations empowered to conduct an endless cycle of purges and protests.
College would be free and utterly useless for anything except turning out the next generation of community organizers. 
It is not only the ideas themselves that are endangered, but the entire mechanism for exchanging them.
The activist model would not only eliminate intellectual diversity, it would eliminate education.
The campus wars are about political correctness as a way of life. 
Inside every crybully wailing about their fragility is a totalitarian screaming to be put in charge of every single professor and student.

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