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> What "indoctrination" is present at the college level in the US? There is a disturbing trend of mob rule where student activists become increasingly obsessed
by ggdG 9y ago
> What "indoctrination" is present at the college level in the US?
There is a disturbing trend of mob rule where student activists become increasingly obsessed with the silliest things they perceive as "opression" and try to silence every voice at university campuses that doesn't toe the line with their worldview of intersectional feminism, cultural marxism and postmodern power games.
Points in case:
The idea that Yale students are smart enough to choose their own Halloween costumes made a mob of activists feel "unsafe" and they threw a fit, bullying two professors (who voiced this idea) for days until they resigned. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-intolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new...
A transgender candidate (masculine-of-center genderqueer) for the position of "multicultural affairs coordinator" at Wellesley college had to pull out of the race because his opponents accused him of having become a white male and that's not "diverse" enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/magazine/when-women-become-men-at-wellesley-college.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/magazine/when-women-becom...
Then there's Evergreen College. I'm at a loss of words to describe the level of crazy that went on there, but here's Jonathan Haidt's take on it: https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/05/27/this-weeks-witch-hunt/ https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/05/27/this-weeks-witch-hun...
- jhanschoo 9y agoI'm pretty sure this is only a small bit of the college experience, though I can see how this can actually affect one's perception of the value of college, especially among those in families with few college graduates.