Monday, March 21, 2016

Activism U and the End of Education

Sultan Knish   "The campus wars aren’t really about race. Race and the rest of the identity politics roster are the engine for transforming an academic environment into an activist environment.

"Think of it as the Post-Educational University. Or Activism U.
"The average campus already skews left, but maintains the pretense of serving an educational purpose. The demands put forward on campuses begin with racial privileges, but do not end there. These demands call for politicizing every department, the mandatory political indoctrination of all students and faculty, and the submission of non-political academic departments to activist political ones. "
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"Safe space culture would silence dissent among faculty and students while creating activist student-faculty organizations empowered to conduct endless purges and protests. College would be free and utterly useless for anything except turning out the next generation of community organizers. It is not only the ideas themselves that are endangered, but the entire mechanism for exchanging them. 

"The activist model would not only eliminate intellectual diversity, it would eliminate education. 

"The campus wars are about political correctness as a way of life. And we are only beginning to discover what that truly means."


1,200 Signatures for Petition to Reinstate DePaul Professor, 800 More Needed   . . . "In an interview with Walking Eagle Productions, a documentary film company covering the DePaul controvers y, Klocek said that he was suspended by DePaul administration and ultimately lost his position and teaching benefits after engaging in an out-of-class argument with pro-Palestinian students at a student activities fair on campus." . . .

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