College student's brilliant take on enforced diversity training

[quiller]

This should become the model for all such cases where some college (or even a court!) dictates you are a racist because you are white, and must therefore endure political indoctrination....

It's long. It's good. It's from Young Conservative.

As you are probably aware, all new TAs in the History Department are required to attend one orientation session, two TA training sessions, and two diversity sessions. Yesterday (Friday, September 20th), we new TAs attended the first of the diversity sessions. To be quite blunt, I was appalled. What we were given, under the rubric of "diversity," was an avalanche of insinuations, outright accusations, and suffocating political indoctrination (or, as some of the worksheets revealingly put it, "re-education") entirely unbecoming a university of our stature.

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and students at probably every other public institution of higher education in this country, have long since grown accustomed to incessant leftism. It is in the very air that we breathe. Bascom Hill, for example, is roped off and the university is shut down so that Barack Obama (D), Mark Pocan (D), and Tammy Baldwin (D) can deliver campaign speeches before election day. (The university kindly helped direct student traffic to these campaign events by sending out a mass e-mail encouraging the student body to go to the Barack Obama for President website and click "I'm In for Barack!" in order to attend.) Marxist diatribes denouncing Christianity, Christians, the United States, and conservatives (I am happy to provide as many examples of this as might be required) are assigned as serious scholarship in seminars. The Teaching Assistants Association (TAA)–which sent out mass e-mails, using History Department list-servs, during the attempt to recall Governor Scott Walker, accusing Gov. Walker of, among other things, being "Nero"–is allowed to address TA and graduate student sessions as a "non-partisan organization". The History Department sponsors a leftist political rally, along with the Socialist Party of Wisconsin, and advertises for the rally via a departmental e-mail (sent, one presumes, using state computers by employees drawing salaries from a state institution). In short, this university finds it convenient to pretend that it is an apolitical entity, but one need not be particularly astute to perceive that the Madison campus is little more than a think tank for the hard left. Even those who wholeheartedly support this political agenda might in all candor admit that the contours of the leftism here are somewhat less than subtle.

At the "diversity" training yesterday, though, even this fig leaf of apoliticism was discarded. In an utterly unprofessional way, the overriding presumption of the session was that the people whom the History Department has chosen to employ as teaching assistants are probably racists. In true "diversity" style, the language in which the presentation was couched was marbled with words like "inclusive", "respect", and "justice". But the tone was unmistakably accusatory and radical. Our facilitator spoke openly of politicizing her classrooms in order to right (take revenge for?) past wrongs. We opened the session with chapter-and-verse quotes from diversity theorists who rehearsed the same tired "power and privilege" cant that so dominates seminar readings and official university hand-wringing over unmet race quotas. Indeed, one mild-mannered Korean woman yesterday felt compelled to insist that she wasn't a racist. I never imagined that she was, but the atmosphere of the meeting had been so poisoned that even we traditional quarries of the diversity Furies were forced to share our collective guilt with those from continents far across the wine-dark sea.

http://youngcons.com/college-student-forced-to-go-to-diversity-training-and-is-called-a-racist-his-response-is-legendary/

Also see their home page: http://youngcons.com/

[TboneAgain]

This should become the model for all such cases where some college (or even a court!) dictates you are a racist because you are white, and must therefore endure political indoctrination....

It's long. It's good. It's from Young Conservative.

http://youngcons.com/college-student-forced-to-go-to-diversity-training-and-is-called-a-racist-his-response-is-legendary/

Also see their home page: http://youngcons.com/

Holy cow. Common sense from somebody at UW-Madison. Be still, my heart.

My younger boy got his doctorate there. It ruined him. The last time I spoke to him, he called me a "Randist" and hung up on me. He used to be a nice kid.

[kopema]

During law school orientation, they had a big meeting and asked new students to get up and tell what "stereotype" they belonged, to and how wrong everyone is about them.  They asked me to talk about engineers, and I told them I think the idea of stereotypes is stupid.  It took several laps around the retard track before they finally figured out I wasn't pitching a concept; I was telling them I wasn't going to do it.

One by one, they got up and told their sob stories:  "Everybody believes we 'jocks' think we're better than anyone else..."  "Everybody assumes musicians are 'hippies,'" "journalists are 'arrogant,'" etc...

The whole time I sat there thinking: you know, I didn't particularly believe any of those things before I listened to you narcissistic assholes condemn me for the crime of belonging to the rest of the human race -- BUT I DO NOW.

The only stereotype I buy into is that the people who believe in the concept of class warfare are all dangerous imbeciles.  As if the past hundred years of history weren't enough, liberals continue to prove me right about it every single day.

[Greystone]

When the Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus had it suggested to him that Sparta should set up a democracy, Lycurgus answered: "Begin with your own family"

We should reply in similar fashion to these liberal academics who lecture us about diversity. We should reply: "Begin with your own universities"

Not the diversity of race or sex, but the diversity of ideas, a diversity we know they would be reluctant to get behind, because they just can't stomach the thought of having those who reject their doctrines as their colleagues.

[Solar]

When the Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus had it suggested to him that Sparta should set up a democracy, Lycurgus answered: "Begin with your own family"

We should reply in similar fashion to these liberal academics who lecture us about diversity. We should reply: "Begin with your own universities"

Not the diversity of race or sex, but the diversity of ideas, a diversity we know they would be reluctant to get behind, because they just can't stomach the thought of having those who reject their doctrines as their colleagues.

Good point...

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This appeared in the University of Michigan campus newspaper...during the mid-1980s. I hope it illustrates Greystone's point.