This story is in one sense hilarious, yet horrifying at the same time. Three highly credentialed academics named Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian set out to write absurd papers focused in areas like gender studies, women’s studies, and the like.
They submitted the papers to respected peer review journals...
Is this the beginning of a new pointless administrator class like the diversity administrators?
Campus Reform reports:
College seeks paid social justice activist
The University of California, Santa Cruz is seeking to pay a social justice activist from outside of...
This post isn’t primarily about Kavanaugh and Ford, although obviously that’s the jumping-off spot. It’s about the larger issues that the controversy reflects, which have to do with the nature of justice.
Cant you imagine the lesson plans? If I have two apples and you have one apple, how much more racist am I?
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Feds Spend $1,009,762 Training ‘Social Justice’ Math Teachers
The National Science Foundation is spending over $1 million to train two-dozen “social justice” math teachers in Philadelphia.
The Drexel...
The left is methodically replacing serious academic study with left wing indoctrination. This is just the latest example.
The College Fix reports:
Boston U. honors college abandons Socratic method, Western canon in favor of social justice curriculum
Students enrolled in the Kilachand Honors College at Boston University used to have a required class called...
The left’s agenda is eclipsing academic study all over the place. Five million dollars is serious money.
Campus Reform reports:
Syracuse University opens $5 million social justice center
Syracuse University in New York plans to open a $5 million Social Justice Center within its School of Education on Friday, thanks to an alumni donation.
The...
Naomi Osaka made history by becoming the first Japanese born woman to win the US Open. But the headlines following the event are hardly focusing on Osaka. Instead, the discussion has largely focused on Serena Williams who suffered a “sexist” umpire.
It’s pathetic, really. (more…)
Some people on the left can’t talk about anything without injecting their political views.
Campus Reform reports:
Penn State math course covers ‘imperialism’ and ‘cultural intolerance’
A professor teaching a general education math course at Penn State University included pages of his personal opinion on politics and social justice issues in exams.
Campus Reform received...
The left’s ideas are so great that they have to be mandatory.
Campus Reform reports:
Task force suggests ‘compulsory social justice training’
A “Social Justice Task Force” is recommending that SUNY Plattsburgh make wide-ranging and potentially costly efforts to promote “diversity and inclusion” on campus.
In March, the State University of New York at Plattsburgh...
This is a great reminder of what the left will do when they think they can get away with it.
Campus Reform reports:
Clemson RAs freed from mandated ‘commitment to social justice’
Clemson University RAs no longer have to “demonstrate a commitment to social justice” to be eligible for the position.
Last year, the Resident...
The word and thought police have reached brand new levels of crazy. Professional race car driver Conor Daly has lost a sponsorship because his father reportedly uttered a racial slur in the 1980’s. To put this in some perspective, Conor wasn’t born until 1991, yet he is paying for the sins...
The program already employs 20 students but it’s just not enough.
Campus Reform reports:
At UCLA, 20 paid diversity advocates isn’t enough
The University of California, Los Angeles hopes to pay more students to fight “toxic masculinity” and “microaggressions” on campus, just two weeks after announcing it had already hired 20 foot soldiers for...
The game is described below and is every bit as bad as you might imagine.
The College Fix reports:
‘White Privilege Symposium’ allows people to play racial ‘social justice’ video game
A private college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will host a “symposium” on white privilege next month, a gathering that will feature, among other...
Can we please stop encouraging kids to engage in political protest and give them time and space to be kids?
Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald appeared on the Tucker Carlson show last night to address the culture on college campuses which influences people like Sarah Jeong, the controversial new hire at the New York Times.
Why would this even be necessary at Oberlin? It’s like preaching to the choir.
Campus Reform reports:
Oberlin scraps ‘social justice’ program
Oberlin College appears to have axed a program that initially sought to recruit students...
