By Professor Doom
A weird identity
politics madness has been steadily taking over our campuses for a few decades
now. Individual faculty who stood up against the madness were dogpiled by rabid
admin, and eventually removed; I’ve seen it with my own eyes enough times.
Last
January, I covered such a dogpile at Laurier University. In this
case, a teacher decided to have an open discussion of the “23 gender pronouns”
symptom of the madness, and was called into the palace of the Diversity
Fiefdom, for re-education: use of these pronouns was not a topic open to
discussion. While I maintain these types of “conversations” between faculty and
identity politics admin are commonplace, what made this particular incident
remarkable was the teacher actually recorded the conversation, so that later
all could hear with their own ears just how pathological the commissars on our
campuses are.
The short
description of that meeting is as follows: a pack of Diversity admin tells the
teacher that secret witnesses of unknown number have complained that discussion
of gender pronouns creates a toxic environment, and that having this topic in
the classroom be something that is open to debate is illegal. It’s disgusting
stuff, and even
globalist Jordan Pedersen came out against this sort of behavior by admin.
President Deborah MacLatchy took responsibility for the
“institutional failure” revealed by the “independent fact-finder report”
commissioned by WLU.
--this is a very rare case of admin
investigating itself, and finding itself at fault. Much like with police
self-investigations, having a PUBLIC tape of the incident made it impossible to
whitewash.
Having been
caught in the act with indisputable evidence, admin quickly backed down and
apologized…but I assure the gentle reader this stuff occurs on many campuses.
The apology rings very hollow to me, because I know they’ll be back up to their
dirty tricks just as soon as the public eye looks elsewhere.
Laurier Finance Prof. William McNally pointed out the
university’s admissions confirmations as of June 7 have declined 15.2 percent
from a year ago, while first-place choices are down 12.5 percent, both the
worst in the province.
I assure the
gentle reader, this level of drop in admissions is a hard blow to the campus,
and it’s clear a good proportion of the students are only going to this school
for lack of a better option. Being a state school, they’ll survive this massive
setback. Most likely, they’ll accomplish it by expanding class size and cutting
down faculty—removing the Diversity staff who caused the problem is never an
option.
I really want to
point out, the whole purpose of Diversity staff is to create this kind of
strife. If people weren’t so heavily devoted to the intense navel-gazing of
identity politics, there’d be no need for Diversity staffers. So, they cause
more problems, securing their position and if the problems are big enough, like
at Mizzou, even more Diversity staffers will be added to admin.
Mizzou
demonstrates this death spiral quite well, as
they’ve lost huge amounts of students unwilling to go to a school wracked by
race riots and more interested in Diversity than education.
Another school
with race riots due to excess Diversity staff is Evergreen college. They too are losing a catastrophic
number of students, over 20% in the last two years.
So the schools
publicly known for this behavior are losing students. What is the
administrative response? You can bet it won’t be about integrity or education,
and definitely won’t involve thinning the ranks of admin:
--Shepherd
is the teacher who made the recording.
As I mentioned
seven months ago, steps will be taken to reduce recordings on campus. Admin
sure doesn’t want to be put in another situation where they’ll have no choice
but to rule against themselves based on publicly known evidence. What else is
happening on this campus?
As I also
predicted, the teacher who made the recording will likely find herself
unemployed, and unemployable, soon. Admin is vicious and spiteful, and hates
admitting it’s wrong. I remember spending well over a year trying, and failing,
to convince admin at my own school of things like “12/5 is not 2.35” and
“consensus and arithmetical mean do not have the same meaning,” to no avail
beyond receiving punishments. I foolishly kept assuming good faith on their
part (because it’s hard to believe this level of incompetence or malevolence)…I
should have made recordings, but I’ve kept my documents. It is certain they’ll
get rid of the teacher as soon as they can get away with it.
Anyway, my
successful predictions above are not due to any metaphysical powers on my part:
I’ve simply seen these things play out many times, and I’ve observed admin more
than long enough to have a firm grasp of their behavior patterns. “Punish the
whistleblower and make it harder for us to get caught again” is as predictable
behavior on their part as a cockroach’s response to the kitchen lights being
turned on, for much the same reason.
She promised “mandatory and standardized”
training and support between course instructors and TAs for “clarity and
consistency.”
I predicted the
above as well, because it’s well known that admin always wins when admin screws
up. So, now additional admin will be hired to set up this new standardized
training, and the old admin will receive pay raises for being part of a larger
bureaucracy. There’s more to it than that, however.
The president implied that the entire policy
could be on the table. Not only will WLU search for an “appropriate structure”
to oversee the policy’s execution, but it will “undertake a full review” of the
policy itself.
By “appropriate
structure,” they’re talking about yet another university fiefdom, filled with
highly paid vice presidents to oversee a policy that wouldn’t need to exist if
there was a scrap of integrity on campus. They might even take “structure”
literally, and build a new administrative palace in honor of their mistake (I
concede I didn’t predict at the time they’d go this far). There’s even more to
it than more waste.
Recall that the
system on our campuses is edu-fascism, the merger of administrative and
ideological interests. Admin wins, above, so next the ideology will need to
win:
After the teacher
who made the recording finds her career in higher ed annihilated, admin will
hold mandatory meetings making sure everyone gets the message: “Identity politics
is to be accepted as objective fact, and is not open to discussion. Anyone who
records this statement will be summarily fired, as per policy.”
But at least we
now have a recording of an example of the conversations that quite commonly
occur behind closed doors in Diversity fiefdoms on our campus. Thus, there’s
one fewer thing I’ve said about higher education my gentle readers need no
longer take on faith is true.
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