Selective Outrage Week in Education

MIKE LACHANCE JAN 7, 2023 8:00 AM

Christian values are insulted on college campuses on a regular basis, but this was apparently a bridge too far.

• Hamline University Under Fire for Not Renewing Art Prof’s Contract for Showing Images of Muhammad

Speaking of selective outrage, compare these two stories.

• Columbia University Hires Hillary Clinton for Professor ‘of International and Public Affairs’
• Stanford Student Senate: Matt Walsh Visit Would Produce an ‘Unsafe Environment’

The good news? People are pushing back on the DEI agenda.

• Ron DeSantis Asks Florida University and College Systems to Report Expenditures ‘Related to DEI Programs and Critical Race Theory’
• U. Houston Prof Tells Students to Report Teachers Berating ‘White People or Christians to DEI Office’
• Kern Community College Trustee Apologizes for ‘Provocative Comments’ Towards Faculty Who Oppose DEI Initiatives

Legal Insurrection gets results!

• ProPublica/The Atlantic Investigation of CRT Pushback Focuses on “Something Called the Legal Insurrection Foundation”

What is going on in England?

• University of Warwick in England Gives Classic Novel ‘Ivanhoe’ a Trigger Warning
• Imperial College London Urges Students to Have ‘Hard Conversations’ With Friends and Family Who Deny White Privilege

Good for them.

• MIT Faculty Adopts Resolution That Protects Free Expression Including Offensive Speech

This is insulting to history.

• ‘Racial Equity Task Force’ at James Madison U. Pushes Laundry List of Recommendations
• West Point To Remove Robert E. Lee Portrait and Other Confederate Artifacts

This qualifies as higher education?

• California College Students Can Get Up to $10,000 for Climate Change Activism

This story gets weirder all the time.

• Suspect in University of Idaho Murders Allegedly Stalked Victims

Truth.

• “Gender ideology is an attack on language, truth, and logic”

Too late.

• Professors Denounce Taliban Decision to Ban Afghan Women From Higher Education

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