By Professor
Doom
As we see our campuses descend into riots
over the most idiotic, non-academic issues of concern only to the most rabid of
Social Justice Warriors, many huge questions arise. Why did Berkeley police stand down in
the face of Leftist rioters? Why are the administrators and staff
assaulting students who support free speech? Why is it the independent press that
identifies the attackers, and not the mainstream media or police?
One question stands above all others: how
did the SJWs take over higher education? While the answer is “one position at a
time,” it’s interesting to follow the tactics involved. An incident at Duke Divinity
demonstrates how it works, and while the incident occurred a few months ago,
only recently did the documentation finally get leaked to the public.
On behalf of the Faculty Diversity
and Inclusion Standing Committee, I strongly urge you to participate in the
Racial Equity Institute Phase I Training planned…
I’ve certainly been to a few of these,
and they are positively nuts. One quick standout line from a Diversity meeting
I was forced to go to:
“You should teach blacks the same way
you teach pedophiles and rapists…”
--I’m serious, and this wasn’t even
the most insulting part of the ‘training’ I was given credit for at the
meeting...
In a word, these meetings are
excruciating. Other, less professional, words come to mind, of course, but
bottom line the meetings are a huge waste of time, on top of just how insulting
much of the material is. Of course, the people putting on the meeting do what
they can to make it sound like a great idea:
Those who have participated in the
training have described it as transformative, powerful, and life-changing. We
recognize that it is a significant commitment of time;
Life-changing is one of those buzzwords
that’s turned into a flag meaning “avoid at all costs.” I’ve mentioned other
disastrous things in higher education presented as life changing; if you have to overblow what you’re
selling by such a huge margin, you must be selling crap so foul that any
positive description would be a massive exaggeration, so you may as well go
with something huge like “life changing.”
I really want to emphasize just how
painful these meetings are:
8:30—5 pm both days. Participants
should plan to attend both full days of training…It is the first step in a
longer process.
The very highly paid commissars who put
on these shows really have nothing better to do with their time…but I assure
you scholars can easily find something superior to being subjected to 16 hours
of being insulted, and being told that more is to follow doesn’t help.
Now, the first time around, faculty don’t
know better, and we diligently file in to the meeting. These meetings pile up,
however, and sooner or later, one faculty snaps, and decides to try to kill
some of this infestation with a touch of truth. This is what happened at Duke
Divinity: a professor tried to speak out against the madness the commissars are
trying to impose.
Let’s see what the professor has to say.
Normally I’d snip the highlights but a quotation in full is in order here:
I’m responding to [Commissar] Thea’s exhortation that we should attend the Racial Equity Institute Phase 1 Training scheduled for 4-5 March. In her message she made her ideological commitments clear. I’ll do the same, in the interests of free exchange.
I exhort you not to attend this training. Don’t lay waste your time by doing so. It’ll be, I predict with confidence, intellectually flaccid: there’ll be bromides, clichés, and amen-corner rah-rahs in plenty. When (if) it gets beyond that, its illiberal roots and totalitarian tendencies will show. Events of this sort are definitively anti-intellectual. (Re)trainings of intellectuals by bureaucrats and apparatchiks have a long and ignoble history; I hope you’ll keep that history in mind as you think about this instance.
We here at Duke Divinity have a mission. Such things as this training
are at best a distraction from it and at worst inimical to it. Our mission is
to thnk [sic], read, write, and teach about the triune Lord of Christian
confession. This is a hard thing. Each of us should be tense with the effort of
it, thrumming like a tautly triple-woven steel thread with the work of it,
consumed by the fire of it, ever eager for more of it. We have neither time nor
resources to waste. This training is a waste. Please, ignore it. Keep your eyes
on the prize.
Now, Duke Divinity is a religious school,
and he reinforces what the school’s mission is. All our institutions of higher
education have mission statements, and, much like at Duke Divinity, they’ve
fallen far astray.
The Dean had to respond with a mass e-mail
to counter our brave professor’s heresy. Naturally, she (at the risk of being
redundant) smacks down the heretic in her response, and one line in particular
is obnoxious:
The use of
mass emails to express racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry is offensive
and unacceptable, especially in a Christian institution.
Wow, good thing I quoted the professor in
full above. Does the gentle reader see any racism, sexism, or bigotry in the
professor’s rant? Why is it that every…single…time…someone tries to speak out
against what’s happening on our campuses they get buried under such labels?
Administration has incredible power over
faculty now. The professor’s heresy is not simply countered with a mass
e-mail/libel/humiliation from the Dean, there’s more, as the professor
explains:
These disciplinary proceedings are designed not to engage and rebut the views I hold and have expressed about the matters mentioned, but rather to discipline me for having expressed them.
--in case the gentle reader is curious, the exact charges against the heretic are “unprofessional conduct” and “harassment.” One can be certain the kangaroo committees will be unanimous of their findings.
This is key to what happened in our
institutions of higher ed: you speak out, and you are punished. Instead of the
two full days of being insulted at the training session, the heretic will now
endure weeks of being disciplined and dealing with hearings and written
responses. It’s nuts, and the other faculty realize that in terms of time
wasted, they’re better off with the indoctrination.
The kangaroo court system gets away with
so much because it operates in secrecy. The heretic is doing what he can to
reveal it:
[Dean]
Heath’s and [Commissar] Portier-Young’s disciplinary proceedings are not
public: they’re veiled, and accompanied by threats of reprisal if unveiled. I’d
like them to take responsibility for what they’re doing, and so I’m making it
public...
This is not
simply a disgruntled professor making wild claims. I’ve been on secret
committees where, after the accused made his defense, the accuser was secretly
invited in to provide more secret testimony and secret evidence the accused
never knew about, or had a chance to respond to (I’m certain much of the
testimony/evidence was rubbish, but there were threats of reprisal if we didn’t
do as admin wished…).
There are numerous
documents regarding what’s being done to the heretic. Yes, he has tenure, but
the endless harassment and piling on of charges can lead to only one conclusion
because this treatment will not allow him to pursue honorable work:
According
to a source close to [Heretic] Griffiths, he has resigned, effective at the end
of the 2017-18 academic year.
And this,
gentle reader, is how our educational system was lost. A faculty member makes
even one complaint in an attempt to stop the takeover, and he’s buried under
accusations of racism, unprofessionalism, harassment, or a host of other
ridiculous possibilities. He can try to defend himself, but our institutions
use a kangaroo court system where even the most ridiculous of charges merit
convictions and punishments (with the Game of
Thrones Professor saga being the best example so far, even if he did
eventually get a pardon by taking things to the “real” court system).
In the face of a
system completely hostile to the mission of higher education, the scholar sees
no better option than to leave. His position will be filled by another
Commissar, and she’ll do a fine job.
As always the
comments section gives a bit more information:
[Commissar]
Anathea Porter-Young…A quick Facebook search allowed me to investigate exactly
what it is she teaches about the bible. She’s bragging on Facebook about
‘queering’ the bible and inserting Transgender Teachings as required Textbooks.
Once again, another Institution has been successfully subverted by dead-eyed,
socialist creeps.
Hey, remember
when a professor at a Jesuit school was suspended for being pro-heterosexual
marriage, and saying as much publicly online? I do. Why
doesn’t this madness go both ways? Oh yeah: madness.
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