Journalism School’s ‘Diversity and Civility’ Course Teaches Students ‘About Racial Microaggressions’ and ‘Cisgender Privilege’
“The Cronkite School is supposed to be one of the country’s preeminent training grounds for journalists; instead it’s forcing cultural and political indoctrination down students’ throats”
It sounds like they’re training the next generation of CNN and MSNBC hosts.
FOX News reports:
Top journalism school teaches students to avoid harmful ‘microaggressions’ that display ‘myth of meritocracy’
A top journalism school is being accused of “forcing political indoctrination” on students in a required diversity course for undergraduates.
A new report from the Goldwater Institute claims students at Arizona State University’s The Cronkite School are required to learn about racial microaggressions,” and “cisgender privilege” in a course called “Diversity and Civility at Cronkite.”
“More than 400 students were required to take this class in the Fall 2023 semester alone, with more than 2,000 hours of class time spent on what may as well be called Trendy Topics in Progressive Politics 101,” Goldwater wrote in a press release.
“The Cronkite School is supposed to be one of the country’s preeminent training grounds for journalists; instead it’s forcing cultural and political indoctrination down students’ throats,” the group said.
Assignments allegedly given in the first unit of the course break down diversity in the categories of race, gender, sexuality, citizenship and disability.
This suggests a person’s race, gender identity, and sexuality are viewed as “the most important aspects of his or her experience,” the report said.
In the second unit of the course, students are allegedly taught about avoiding harmful racial microaggressions, such as calling America a “melting pot,” which sends the message that immigrants should “assimulate/acculturate to the dominant culture.”
Other problematic phrases include, “I believe the most qualified person should get the job” and “Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough.” The assignment says these phrases display the “myth of meritocracy,” and send the message that “People of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race,” and “People of color are lazy and / or incompetent and need to work.”
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“The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.”
― Booker T. Washington
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
― Booker T. Washington
Cisgender privilege? We’re back to using chemistry terms to give some feeble credence to some idiotic social justice terms that are otherwise intellectually bankrupt. This inappropriate use of scientific terms flies out of social “scientists” asses like birds off a lake during a BBC nature documentary by David Attenborough. The difference being that David Attenborough doesn’t try to bamboozle anyone about intersectionality and CRT, just global warming hysteria. And I can forgive him for that given his age.
I’m old enough to remember when identity politics was a bad thing (I also remember when Democrats were afraid of electronic voter fraud and were reasonably patriotic, but I digress).
“Microaggressions” are most keenly felt by macrowussies. (You can imagine my real spelling of that last word)
The blue haired bints on campus need to get a life beyond refusing sexual favors that nobody asked for. Ever.