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==its that college is suffused with an ideology that is anti-men, anti-merit and, for the most part, useless for anything but its own self-propagation.== I nev
by long_time_gone 5y ago
==its that college is suffused with an ideology that is anti-men, anti-merit and, for the most part, useless for anything but its own self-propagation.==
I never felt like this kind of victim while in college (mid-2000s). I wonder if all colleges have changed or if society has changed. If it is society that has changed, maybe our colleges are simply reflecting the real-world change.
- vimy 5y agoIt’s only been the last +- 5 years that this became the dominant thinking at colleges.
- long_time_gone 5y agoBased on which metric? Does the same thinking carryover to the construction industry which is 97% male?
- vimy 5y agoIt coincides with the election of Donald Trump. This ideology already had a foothold in some departments and Trump was the accelerant that made it spread everywhere. Longread if you want a more detailed explanation: https://newdiscourses.com/2021/04/rise-woke-cultural-revolution/ https://newdiscourses.com/2021/04/rise-woke-cultural-revolut...
- selimthegrim 5y agoCalling Lindsay a professional mathematician is a stretch. Also he neglects to cite Derrick Bell and Richard Delgado and the whole critical legal studies movement.