Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Why do we pay so many loons to lie to our children??!!-----‘Colonial dysphoria’ causes ‘distress’ for minority students, professor says - Gabrielle Temaat

The event, hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, was titled “Bridging Decolonial Feminist and Queer Theory, and Materialist Feminist Theory.”
“Colonial dysphoria” causes “distress” for “marginalized” students while “anti-intellectualism” fueled by President Donald Trump’s administration suppresses dissent, a University of Utah professor said during a Tuesday webinar...
  • University of Utah Professor Omi Salas-SantaCruz defined “colonial dysphoria” as “the profound dislocation and distress experienced by marginalized individuals, particularly minoritized populations due to colonial legacies that shape identities and experiences within colonial universities.”...
  • Further exacerbating “colonial dysphoria” is “anti-intellectualism” and what the scholar called the “war on woke.”
“Anti-intellectualism is a growing force undermining academic life, characterized by skepticism toward experts or in a preference for a ‘common sense’ over research,” the professor said...

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