By Professor Doom
In Ye Olden Days
of Higher Education, college was about classes during the week and partying on
the weekends. You didn’t even party every weekend, since sometimes you had
papers and tests, and you certainly didn’t party final exam weekend.
That’s pretty
much gone. Administration moved in, and the Student As Customer paradigm
changed that.
Now faculty are
wary of giving tests on Fridays (because many students are too drunk from
Thursday night partying, in preparation for the weekend partying) or even
Mondays (too many students too exhausted from partying all weekend). Assigning
papers has fallen off sharply, as studies have shown—many students make it
through their whole degree program never having to read or write more than a
dozen or so pages a semester.
College being a “4
year party” caused many students to flow onto campus, and their money poured
into administrative pockets, increasing their power. Unfortunately, many administrators
are “Progressive” and saw fit to use their newfound power for Social Justice
concerns. Education became irrelevant, and “leadership,” whatever that means,
became the goal of Education.
First came warped
hiring practices, where hiring was ever
more based around skin color and genitals. As more Deanlings were
hired based on questionable reasons, administrative power became even
stronger—the questionable hires were loyal, since they had nothing else to
offer but loyalty.
This power then
turned on the faculty. Faculty were steadily stripped of power, and a culture
of fear evolved on campus. Faculty are dead meat on campus, but administrative
lust for power is not satiated.
Now administrators
are turning their baleful gaze toward students. It will, of course, start with
the weakest and most vulnerable of the students. That means those not loyal to the Social
Justice cause, and daring to speak out about it.
“Black
Lives Matter is trash because they do not really care about black lives. They
simply care about making money and disrupting events for dead people.”
The kid has an
opinion, he posted it. Back when higher education was about education, someone
having outspoken political views was hardly unusual (cf “the 60s”). Back then
there wasn’t a horde of ridiculously overpaid administrators with absolutely
nothing to do. And, of course, there
weren’t demented Social Justice Warriors around back then either.
So, instead of
simply ignoring what some guy said, Admin now steps in with a letter:
Consider the
arrogance and expense here. Considering just how much money administrators and
support staff are paid, typing up and sending out this letter probably cost
$1,000 or more of administrative time.
This overinflated
Deanling doesn’t even ask the student to make an appointment, instead demanding
this student show up at a particular time and place. The arrogance here is
amazing. Can you imagine having a stranger demanding to meet you at a
particular time and place? I grant convicts get this kind of treatment…is that
really the status of students that don’t comply with the Social Justice
narrative now? It was then summarily moved to a later date.
And, once again,
I’ve produced an administrator whose title, the hysterical “Director of Student
Assistance, Leadership and Conduct” is well over twice as long as his name. How
did higher education get so demented that we now need a Director of Student
Assistance, Leadership and Conduct? We seriously need to start terminating the
administrative class with extreme prejudice; considering the capriciousness with
which they do their jobs, it strikes me as comparably fair to just fire every
administrative whose title is more than twice as long as his name.
With
administration putting blood in the water, the student became a target, and the
SJW students closed in:
In addition
to the reaction from Purdue, Nash found himself the target of multiple online
threats from fellow students, some of whom he says called him a “dirt racist
conservative scumbbag [sic],” and promised “if i ever see u on campus i am
going to cut u till i see blood.” Nash reported these comments to Facebook, the
university administration, and filed a police report.
While I don’t
believe administration should pay attention to political statements by students
(much less order them to come to campus and explain themselves), I do believe
that when one student threatens another with physical, mortal, violence, that’s
when admin should do something.
The deanling
won’t move to stop the violence against the outspoken student, of course,
because he’s intellectually dishonest here: this guy doesn’t care about student
conduct (despite his ponderous title)…he cares about Social Justice warfare, a
warfare that doesn’t have much in the way of compassion or tolerance for
opposing views.
The vitriol is
particularly strong here, because the SJWs feel like the student has betrayed
them:
“I believe
students are mad about me being a gay conservative because it’s so foreign and
unheard of,” Nash says. “Most students on my campus are extremely liberal and
have a hard time understanding how a gay man could be conservative. These
students hold the false belief that gay people are being oppressed by
conservative groups. They think of me as a traitor of sorts, I appear to be
siding with the enemy.”
I’ve mentioned
before the incredible hatred and bigotry that conservatives must endure on
campus; I’m sure it’s a big factor in why most faculty and students are
liberal.
Please understand
this whole movement is toxic and self-destructive. Ultimately nobody is pure
enough, everyone who is against this movement is “the enemy” and a “betrayer of
the cause.” As their power grows, more and more effort will be made to weed out
the impure, until…?
I can’t
understand the end game here, although I suspect it will involve administrators
with titles fifty times longer than their names.
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