By Professor Doom
Quite often in my
blog, I reference things I’ve seen with my own eyes. I completely understand
that many of the things I’ve claimed are so ridiculous as to be impossible to
believe. Faculty forced to nod their heads in agreement as an ideologue tells us
there were no European battles in pre-colonial North America because they
united to keep the black man down? Sure. Documentation that 1/3 of the courses
on campus were so void of material that students who didn’t know they were
signed up for the course still got an “A” grade? Absolutely. Have I seen times
on campus when 1,000 students were supposedly in class but with only a dozen
cars in the parking lot? Of course.
Hey, you’re just
reading on the internet, I commend the gentle reader for viewing my assertions
with suspicion. Understanding and respecting my readers, I have no choice but
to highlight when others give eyewitness testimony confirming the things I
claim (and my apologies for patronizing those who, hopefully long since, have
come to understand that I’m simply telling the truth here).
Here goes:
I’ve dealt with
similar things myself, of course. Often the Poo Bah uses some racial incident
(typically a hoax) to justify forcing faculty to come and listen to ideology
for a while, and what we have here is no exception:
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Several
months ago the president of Loyola University Maryland, Brian Linnane,
announced to the faculty that he had been thinking a lot about the Baltimore
riots that took place two years earlier.
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I don’t know how
anybody can take Poo Bahs seriously, they don’t even try to make their lies
credible. If the Poo Bah honestly thought he could do something relevant to
those riots, taking two years to decide
upon a course of action in response to rioting
bespeaks a horrific level of incompetence. At least we can be deeply grateful
that he’s not head of a fire brigade.
Tossing his
pathetic excuse for faculty indoctrination aside, it’s clear the Poo Bah is
looking to pad the ol’ resume. There’s big, big,
money in diversity these days, so “politely asking” a bunch of scholars
to endure indoctrination will go a long way towards a huge pay raise.
In response to
all of this the college president decided that what is needed to reduce the
likelihood of such events in the future is to put the affluent, mostly white,
Loyola University Maryland faculty through a round of cultural Marxist “racial
justice” training. Such language reminded me of Chinese and Vietnamese
communist “re-indoctrination camps”…
The professor
doesn’t consider the real reason the Poo Bah is doing this, but I feel it’s
important to understand this great flaw in the structure of higher ed right
now: our “leaders” receive great financial rewards for pushing this ideology on
us. Take away those rewards, and I suspect the pushes will become less common.
So, what did the
professor learn at the camp?
What I learned is that all the problems of the 65
percent black population in Baltimore city (one of the highest murder rates in
the world, poverty, horrible government schools, criminal gangs randomly
attacking tourists at the Inner Harbor, street crime run amok, “no-go zones”
where even the police won’t go for fear of being shot at, etc.) are caused by
“white privilege.” The lowliest, indigent, white redneck who lives in a
rusted-out old school bus down by the river in Tennessee is “privileged,” by
definition, whereas the children of multimillionaire Barack Obama or multimillionaire
Tiger Woods are not privileged.
In fact, since they are black they are, by definition, “oppressed” by the white
redneck who lives in the rusted-out old school bus down by the river.
Well, gee, that’s
pretty much the same stuff I “learned” too. That said, there’s a dog not
barking here that annoys me greatly.
The professor
giving his testimony sure doesn’t mention a single scholar challenging this
stuff being foisted upon them by race hustlers, but, seriously, it’s the lack
of challenge that’s the problem here.
See, to advance
human knowledge you must challenge
what is already “known.” I don’t have a problem with people standing up and
saying things like the above, challenging how (rational) people view the world.
The problem is faculty are now scared, far too frightened to dare point out how
ridiculous the assertions are.
Yes, we have
plenty of professors too entrenched in the ideology, or are themselves outright
frauds, so I wouldn’t expect them to challenge this narrative. But the
professor giving this testimony knows he’s having lies shouted at him:
A close second in terms of the
causes of Baltimore’s problems, I learned, was the bigotry of white men who
died fifty years ago or longer. We were shown parts of a video
documentary about “the history of racism” up to the 1950s and were told that
little or no progress has been made in Baltimore’s black community because of
this permanently-debilitating history….No
mention was made of the fact that, just a few miles down the road in Columbia,
Maryland one will find some of the most affluent black professionals in the
world who share this same history.
--emphasis added
It’s so sad that
this professor, possessing knowledge in direct contradiction to the assertions
being made in indoctrination camp, did not speak out. I’ll give him a pass,
because I know the culture of fear in higher ed today.
After having
their intelligence insulted, at last the scholars speak up, sheepishly (to use
the professor’s own words):
I also learned that only white
people can be racists or commit racist acts. This is because the cultural
Marxists have redefined racism to mean an act of discrimination plus “power,” and only white
heterosexual males can wield this “power.” Several of my faculty
colleagues sheepishly questioned this obviously bogus idea, based on their life
experiences, but got no response from the presenters.
Again, this is
what I noticed, too, when I experienced indoctrination: even if you gently
point out how what you’re being told makes no sense, you get no answer. I’ve
seen it before: if you ask a question, they simply repeat the lies they just
told you, as though you simply didn’t hear them the first time. So, it’s not
all fear in higher education, there’s also futility.
The professor
himself does try to ask a question:
I asked the presenters the
following hypothetical: If the Congressional Black Caucus got a law
passed that funded “minority scholarships” for black students and advertised
that white people need not apply (we do have
such programs), would that be discriminatory? I did not get a yes or no
answer, but another mini lecture about white privilege.
This really is key
to an ideology: it simply cannot tolerate questions. All it can do is repeat,
and repeat, and repeat. Again, I suppose it’s not entirely fear that keeps
faculty from challenging the narratives presented at these indoctrination
camps, but the established futility of trying to make even a little headway
against the tsunami of fake information washing over the scholars.
The professor
does point out how terrible the ideas presented here are, in his essay…but he
sure didn’t do so at the actual “seminar” of indoctrination. Again, I’ve seen
what happens when you try that: the dean will send you a formal statement, telling
you how disappointed she was that you weren’t collegial at the meeting, and
that further displays of non-collegiality on your part will lead to
termination.
So, for me, the
“futility or fear” question is easily answered by “fear,” but reasonable people
can disagree.
Just don’t do
that at an indoctrination camp.
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