Admin Recorded Humiliating Teacher For Educating Students

By Professor Doom

     When I was at a fake community college, there was one thing I loathed the most: a forced meeting with a boss (by “boss” I could be referring to any number of people with the right to fire me at their displeasure, from dean/assistant dean, to provost/assistant provost, to chancellor/assistant chancellor, to vice president/assistant vice president, in addition to at least half a dozen others).

      These forced meetings began with a summons, and I’d show up to meet with the boss, and possibly a handful of other underlings (too many possible titles to list here).

      What would trigger these meetings? An unhappy student. What could make a student unhappy? Anything at all. I’ve covered micro-aggressions before, and there are pages of those official “errors” which can get a professor in trouble.

“You didn’t say “good evening” in a timely manner.”

--I’m serious, an official, documented, complaint which required formal response from me. The student loan money pays for professional administrators to create this bureaucracy.

     What’s fascinating about these meetings is the moral inversion: the more ridiculous the complaint, the less you’ll be able to defend yourself from it. I’ve had secret complaints filed against me…months before I even knew there was a problem. And, of course, these secret complaints are filed by secret students. I assure the gentle reader, it is not a fun work environment when you can be punished by unknown complaints from unknown persons based on alleged events that may or may not have happened months earlier.

       I’ve made such allegations before regarding the campus discipline system, but I fully understand why the gentle reader might regard such ridiculous claims with suspicion. Thus I seek out when documentation is provided elsewhere that I’m not alone in reporting the things I’ve seen with my own eyes. Here goes:

University president apologizes after recording reveals how a graduate student was questioned over use of a video, which offended at least one student, of debate on nontraditional pronouns.

     The new “gender pronouns” are being slammed down the throats of faculty like so many other strange things…the poor grad student thought it was something open to discussion. Hers isn’t the only campus where this stuff is coming up. She’s called in to a meeting for daring to question an administrative decree, and decides to record the meeting.

      Recordings do a fine job of revealing what was actually said. Did the gentle reader listen to the sad and pathetic Weinstein tape? It truly was sad and pathetic, as the lecher sexually harasses a helpless young model. Weinstein, caught dead to rights, had no choice but to apologize and enter into rehab.. He’s all better now, by the way.  Because he’s fine now, the media sees no need to drag the affair through the mud for months on end, because the media is pretty decent like that…sorry, I was delusional for a moment there, though thinking readers should consider why some people get such a free pass from the media on such things, while others see their reputations destroyed by excessive coverage of obviously fabricated stories. But I digress.

      Anyhow, this tape of administrators harassing this grad student for educating her students is every bit as pathetic as the Weinstein recording, as it eventually brings the grad student to tears. To her credit, she tries to argue using reason: 

   

“I don’t see how someone could rationally think it was threatening.”

       Arguing rationally with admin is classic newbie-faculty behavior (here’s some good advice for new faculty). I hold much sympathy for the grad student here, as the first time you realize that the people who have control over you have no sense of reason is pretty soul-crushing. Arguing rationally with them is such a frustrating activity for new faculty (or grad students), because these people don’t care about reason, don’t care about right and wrong. All they know is they are right, period. Much as the admin at Penn State knew they were in the right when they condoned pedophilia in the showers (and to judge by the cash bonuses they received for their efforts, I begrudge their point of view), the Diversity admin the grade student is forced to deal with here are absolutely certain they’re in the right, as well.

     So of course the poor kid is brought to tears.

     I feel the need to point out the hypocrisy here. If I were caught on tape bringing a student to tears in this manner, I’d be fired. Due process, decency, anything like that? Heck no. I’d be gone. You can’t do that to a student—I again point out how scary it is to work in higher ed, as some students totally have the ability to cry at will.

     Much like with Weinstein, the Poo Bah here, despite her underlings being caught acting in a completely reprehensible manner, will simply apologize. She’ll probably end up getting an extra $250,000 bonus for her “deft handling” of the fiasco. No admin will lose his or her job for this despicable behavior.

     The Poo Bah doesn’t care about education any more than her underlings, what she cares about is happy students.

      Back to the meeting, the teacher continues to argue her case. It’s no surprise that admin ignores her attempts at rational discussion and gets to the heart of the matter:

“The reality is it’s created a toxic climate for some of the students.”

     The poor grad student helplessly fires back with reasonable questions regarding students complaining her classroom is toxic:

“How many? Who?”

     Hey, remember when having to face your accuser was a key part of a justice system? Now you don’t even get to know how many accusers you have. The admin refuses to answer the question. He’s right, you see, so there’s no point in questioning him.

     Despite having all the power, admin don’t have the courage to face faculty one on one, and so there’s more than one boss in the room to terrorize this graduate student. They take turns grinding her down. Poor kid…she didn’t understand that as soon as she set foot in the palace holding the Diversity and Equity Office (I’m serious, that’s where the grilling was held) that no sense of fairness would exist.

      Truth also, is a stranger to the Diversity and Equity Office (and I don’t just mean this campus), as the pack of feral admin bury the poor student in lies, telling her she’s breaking the law by questioning administrative fiat—her discussion in class could be perceived as violence targeting one of our new victim classes.

      The poor kid keeps trying to reason that she’s not attacking anyone here:

“Who did I target?”

      Poor kid, again, her reasonable question goes up against a brick wall. I remember trying to convince admin 12/5 was 2.4, for over a year, to no avail (they asserted in writing multiple times it was 2.35). It’s so hopeless trying to reason with these people.

     The recording ends with admin telling her that’s she’s basically acting like Hitler…these Diversity types really need to get some new material.

     People with more grounding in reality naturally take the grad student’s side:

“…any suggestion that Shepherd violated the law couldn't be true”

     

     Having been caught on tape in an outright lie, there may be some repercussions here, but I assure the gentle reader no admin will be fired for this grotesque abuse. I maintain, with absolutely sincerity, that this taped conversation is representative of many conversations held on campuses throughout North America, as, one by one, faculty have been brought in to private meetings, to be dogpiled by packs of rabid administrators.

      Only one comment merits a response:

Yeah, but even if 99% of them haven't lost their minds it only takes one offended (triggered, what have you) student to set off a silly PR/admin shit storm like this. At least actual *thinking* prevailed to rescue this poor TA.

    

     It’s a decent enough comment, but it merits a simple response:

NO.

      Rational thinking did not prevail here…a recording prevailed. If this grad student had not brought a recorder, it would have been game over. Without the recording, there would have been no apology. There would have been no admission of wrongdoing. Heck, even with the recorder, I doubt there will be an admission of wrongdoing.

     But, because she’s got them in a recording, she’ll be allowed to help her students get an education, at least until the end of the semester. I rather suspect, however, that her position will be closed fairly soon. No money, you see, too bad. But there’ll be a new Diversity Commissar, paid 8 times as much as the grad student was, in charge of making sure meetings aren’t recorded anymore (there’s money for that, of course).

      I repeat: these conversations go on all the time on our campuses, and professors who try to do anything about it simply disappear from one semester to the next, much like we’ll see with this grad student.

     Poor kid, someone should have given her the memo earlier about trying to engage with these people from a rational point of view.

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Watch a White Hate Indoctrination Video (At Your Own Risk)

By Professor Doom

     I know I’ve said many things in this blog that the gentle reader could find unbelievable, and, this being the internet, I completely respect and even encourage skepticism. I’m telling the simple truth, however, and am always eager to provide evidence of the things I say.

      I’ve mentioned before the painful, excruciating “multiculturalism” meetings faculty are often forced to attend, and they go by many names. While going through an account of the Social Justice Warrior (or SJW, or Leftist, or Bolshevik, among other names) takeover of Evergreen College, there was a reference to a “canoe meeting.”

      Amazingly enough, Youtube has a video of this meeting, which is somewhat representative of the things I’ve seen with my own eyes, though more sophisticated than most.

I encourage the reader to at least watch this abomination for a minute or so. While there are quite possibly dangerous mind control techniques involved here, it may be worth the risk, just so the gentle reader can see with his own eyes the things I've claimed are quite true.

     Does the drumming give you a headache? This is supposed to be a college campus, a meeting of scholars…and the obnoxious drumming throughout the meeting makes it impossible to think clearly.

      Is the drumming merely to make it impossible to reason, or is it to put people into some sort of hypnotic trance, where they’re more susceptible to suggestion? I offer no proof one way or the other, but the gentle reader’s own eyeballs and ears can tell something is wrong about any sort of academic meeting going on concurrently with drums pounding away.

     The meeting begins with the Poo Bah heaping praise on his “incredible equity council,” a council, I might mention, responsible for the incredible violence and hatred that marks Evergreen College. Every meeting like this I’ve been to starts with this self-congratulatory praise, even, possibly especially, when it’s completely unwarranted.

      Next comes the discussion of “equity gaps,” though such gaps are never defined, and, far more importantly, shown to exist, shown to be wrong, or shown that attempts to correct the gaps would do more good than harm.

     Always, the problem is created from nothing, to justify huge boondoggles and massive expenses, primarily on things that no rational person could believe would actually help to achieve elimination of the gaps. Assuming, of course, that elimination of the gaps is a good idea, or that they even exist in the first place.

     The Poo Bah goes on to call the gaps pervasive, pernicious, and problematic…but at no point will this imaginary problem be clearly defined enough to address the name-calling.

     The gentle reader should note how none of the scholars at this school dare to speak out against the obvious lies being forced down their throat, or to ask for any rational discussion. I concede some might think it’s just that obnoxious drumming that keeping dissent down, but I assure that it’s the culture of fear in higher education keeping faculty silent.

     Next comes the virtue signaling:

“I refuse to let whiteness consume me.”

     I…have no idea how a rational person could say something like this. What does this even mean, anyway? These people are insane. Yes, there are lots of crazies out there, but why pay $50,000 a year to have this madness shoved at you? This virtue signaling gibberish continues for some time, eventually ranting about privilege, and the poor deluded woman even gets emotional over this shibboleth…while the maddening drums continue.

     The Poo Bah continues to blather about equity, as this is now the new buzzword (I’m grateful, as I’m so tired of hearing about “leadership”). I remind the gentle reader, and the Poo Bah too if he’d deign to hear me, that higher education isn’t about equity. It’s about making humanity, making humans, better, through education and dissemination of knowledge.

     The Poo Bah continues:

“our mission is unique…abiding commitment to social justice.”

--apologies if my transcription is inferior.

     It’s not about social justice, and no, the mission of no college is social justice. I trust the gentle reader notices the resigned faculty just sitting there, doing all they can not to be rendered insensate by the drums.

 “we do equity well here…”

     The requisite minority speaker mis-spoke here, because she corrected herself. But it’s important to know the Social Justice Warrior is never satisfied, they will never, ever, admit equity, whatever that may be, is fine.

      Eventually the meeting ends with everyone getting into an imaginary canoe, leading to this mission of defeating this imaginary problem.

     A common aspect of brainwashing--yes I said brainwashing--methods is to get the victims to utterly deny reality, to acknowledge something obviously false as, in fact to the victim, quite true.

      I’m sure someone far more familiar with mind-control techniques can put together an extensive thesis about how these types of indoctrination meetings  are so effective.

     But the gentle reader need not concern himself with the “how,” as we see the effects of the brainwashing almost every day on campuses now, with rabid, extreme hatred of white people now being expressed in student guides, in school newspapers, and other forms of open, public, media. If this level of hate were directed at any other racial group, the protests would be loud and constant. Since it’s against whites, and many campuses have constant anti-white indoctrination on them, the racist bigotry continues unchallenged.

     Great numbers of people on our campuses are now succumbing to this hatred-indoctrination, and now the gentle reader can see how this is happening, with his own eyes and ears.

     Now that you know, what can be done, short of bulldozing the schools that have been taken over like this? Sadly, I see no options, although I will, as always, suggest ending the student loan scam.

      There’s just no reason the white taxpayer should pay for the brainwashing of people into violent monsters which will someday rip him and his family to shreds, after all.

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How Hatred of Whites Takes Over A Campus

By Professor Doom

     Many (not most) campuses are hotbeds of racial hatred, hatred of white people and white culture in particular. It used to be weird demonstrations of hatred of white people (eg, “Whites Are An Abomination”) were a “once a year” thing…then every six months.

     Today, hardly a week goes by without some idiocy slouching out from campus regarding the evils of white people.

     This isn’t happening at all campuses, however, not by a long shot. In fact, it’s a minority, or so I suspect…we have thousands of colleges in this country, and these reports only come from a few hundred places. What separates these weird places from the normal (ish) campuses is they are converged, i.e., taken over by Leftist lunatics.

     The takeover of campuses by Leftists is normally a slow process. First they take over the hiring committee or HR departments, then after that point only Leftists are hired, to the exclusion of any other political belief. The average of Leftist to Conservatives among faculty is around 12 to 1, but that’s an average: on a converged campus it may be 20 to 1, or even higher. That’s just faculty. Thanks to departmental hiring policies and the tendency of faculty to stay with a school a long time, the convergence of faculty is hard pressed to become complete in less than a couple generations.

      Amongst administration, convergence is much easier to achieve quickly—high turnover amongst administration (most administrators have careers where they rarely spend more than a few years at any institution), combined with HR control, convergence can be achieved in a decade or less.

At Evergreen, a small fraction of students was the face of the protests, some even going so far as to patrol campus with baseball bats, threatening people, and vandalizing property. But the vast majority of students were not part of the protests. Some were yelled at, insulted, assaulted, even battered…they wonder why their experiences are apparently of no interest to the college administration.

     Evergreen College is an example of a converged school, completely taken over by Leftist lunacy. Recently whites were threatened with violence if they even showed up on campus. A recent article gives a long and thorough discussion of how the takeover occurred, but I want to add my own observations.

      If you’re worried about your school becoming converged, I encourage you to read this article in detail so you can at least see it coming. So let’s take a look at the factors leading to the eventual downfall of a school:

In 2015, Evergreen hired a new president.

     The Poo Bah, the grand high ruler of a school, wields incredible power now. Primarily, they use their power to plunder the school, padding both resume and checking account before moving on to another school to repeat the process anew. These guys are paid insane amounts of money (in addition to luxurious bonuses and perks the Emperor of Rome would envy), but have nothing to do with education. I doubt that 1 reader in 100 can recall anything the Poo Bah at his school did for him.

…he hired an old friend to talk one-on-one to members of our community — faculty, staff, and students. We talked about our values and our visions for the college. But the benefit of hindsight suggests that he was looking for something else. He was mapping us, assessing our differences, our blind spots, and the social tensions that ran beneath the surface.  

     The Poo Bah has wide latitude when it comes to hiring cronies—I’ve literally seen dozens of administrators spring up at a school over the course of a few months, even as the student base and general funding drops. Many Poo Bahs use their power to award do-nothing patronage positions.

… fired the provost, Michael Zimmerman. The provost, usually synonymous with the vice president for academics, is the chief academic officer at an institution of higher education. Zimmerman would have disapproved of what [Poo Bah] Bridges had in mind and would have had some power to stop it. But he was replaced by a timid (though well-liked) insider who became a pawn due to his compromised interim status…

     In addition to hiring, the Poo Bah also has considerable firing power. I reiterate that Leftist takeover of administration can be extremely fast as a busload of admin leave and new Leftist admin arrive with the new Poo Bah.

He fattened the administration, creating expensive vice president positions at an unprecedented rate, while budgets tightened elsewhere due to drops in student enrollment and disappearing state dollars.

     I’ve seen the above with my own eyes on other campuses…I’m simply citing the above as reinforcement of my eyewitness testimony.

…forged an alliance with factions known to be obsessed with race. He draped the “equity” banner around everything he did. Advocating that Evergreen embrace itself as a “College of Social Justice,” he argued that faculty autonomy unjustly puts the focus on teachers rather than students, and that the new VP for Equity and Inclusion would help us serve our underserved populations… 

     Again, I’ve seen this before. Anyone reading this and working at a university needs to see the above, to know the signs of when the convergence draws near.

…concerns about policy changes were dismissed as “anti-equity.” What was in the nicely wrapped box turned out to be something else entirely…

     This is the bludgeon that keeps faculty complaints down. Every time someone spoke up, the label of RACIST came out. Nobody wants that label, and so dissent is silenced, even as we know what admin is proposing is stupid and evil.

…he felt he should have let the protesters dominate and derail the proceedings…

     The students eventually pick up how admin is warping the school beyond its mission of education. They’re told over and over again how they’re entitled to more. And when the students ask for more, often violently ask for more, the “leaders” of our schools always do the stupidest thing possible:

     They become intimidated by the protesting students, rewarding them for their un-scholarly behavior.

What happened next was predictable. Protests became more frequent and intrusive.

     Evergreen is now buried in endless protests…if your school gets to this point, brush up the ol’ resume, because there’s no coming back from here. Admin doesn’t care that these protests will eventually destroy the school (Hi Mizzou!), as they’ll reward themselves with golden parachutes on the way out.

     After the administrative takeover, comes the faculty takeover:

Meanwhile, the “Equity Council” that Bridges had appointed and empowered shifted into high gear. It produced a document laden with proposals that tear at the foundations of a liberal arts college. It recommended, for example, using “diversity and equity in the criteria for prioritizing faculty hires.”

     Again, having been on hiring committees, I always found it odd that we consistently gave advantage to “protected minorities.” I kept my mouth shut, of course, because I didn’t want to be called RACIST. When I finally did speak up about the wrongness of what we were doing, admin responded with, as usual, the opposite of integrity: I was removed from hiring committees.

In Nov. 2016, the Equity Council held the “canoe meeting.” 

    There are also indoctrination camps for faculty. The canoe meeting is available on Youtube, and must be seen to be believed. I’ve seen the like, of course, but it’s very clear that these people are insane. The re-education is madness, and here’s where the seeds of massive white hate are planted, while hypnotic drums pound away.

     So, as painful as the video is, I encourage the strong-willed reader to view it, to understand how the weak-willed are indoctrinated into white hate.

The audience was told that there was a binary choice between being allies of the plan or becoming enemies, and that regardless of anyone’s opinion, “we’re going to do it.”

     Again, I’ve mentioned many times how lunatic administrative plans are slammed down the throats of faculty, and so I’m merely showing above that the things I wrote of in this blog, years ago, are nothing but the truth.

    But wait, there’s move. Of course there’s more.

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An Inside Look At A US Indoctrination Camp

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:

What I Learned at the Racial Justice indoctrination Camp

     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:

	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.

     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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Jingle Bells is RACIST?

By Professor Doom

     One thing about the social justice warriors (SJW) is they are never happy. It’s why our campuses are now obsessed with micro-aggressions, offenses so tiny they cannot be seen, and yet still can merit punishment because they annoy the SJW.

      Racism annoys SJWs as well, and because they being miserable and spreading misery, darn near everything is racist, from milk to financial literacy to mathematics.

     In the holiday spirit, then, allow me to address one more thing to make the SJW angry:

Boston University professor claims Jingle Bells is RACIST 

--the title is arguably misleading, however, and I ask some forgiveness if I’ve clickbaited by using their title.

     Filing one more in the “I can’t make this crap up” category, I really think we’ve gone overboard here. Everything, apparently, can be called racist now, and, more importantly, you can get kudos from admin (as well as press coverage) for making a claim that something is racist.

     So why is the song racist?

In the course of her research, Hamill discovered a playbill indicating that Jingle Bells was first performed under the title One Horse Open Sleigh in blackface, for a minstrel show at Ordway Hall on Boston's Washington Street in 1857.

      So, the song was performed in blackface in 1857. And? Almost every professional musical performance in the United States in the mid-19^th century was made in blackface…even black performers put on blackface. An actual history professor knows this, and knows that if “was performed in blackface” makes a song racist, every song sung in that century would be racist.

      SJWs are nuts, plain and simple.

      The song, as I trust the gentle reader knows, is about having fun riding a “one horse open sleigh.” What about that is racist? Essentially nobody in the United States owns a horse anymore, and only a fraction of those rare few have a sleigh…are they racist, too?

      To her credit, the theatre history professor is backtracking and clarifying only that Jingle Bells has racist roots…but I find this pretty thin sauce. Simply singing a song in blackface, at a time when that’s how songs were done, does not make the song racist, or even attribute racism in any way—it would be scores of years later before “racism” and “blackface” would become linked. This it taking “guilt by association” way too far, and the possibility that this song’s possible debut was possibly made by blackface singers is a historical detail, nothing more.

     Checking her other works, I do concede that she’s a legitimate scholar, and probably not a true SJW, so perhaps she’s being honest in saying her work is being misinterpreted. Still, you know the SJWs upon finding out about this legitimate research, will use this as justification to be offended some more.

      If so, I hope some folks will take the opportunity to bellow it out just few decibels higher than reasonable just for the non-benefit of the SJW.

      The comments section uniformly laughs at the idiocy here, and rightly so. However, I take it as a message of hope: the general public is now starting to pay attention not merely to what’s being said on campus, but also to what’s being considered as publishable research.

     Happy Holidays, all, and best wishes for the new year.

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Every Campus Race Hoax Is A Success

By Professor Doom

     I can’t emphasize strongly enough how our campuses are being mismanaged. Yes, many administrators have (bogus) Ph.D.’s in Leadership and Vision, but those degrees really don’t represent any actual knowledge of how to run a campus.

      One of the weird thing about the many hate crimes on campus is how often they are hoaxes. Nearly every day in this country there are such fake hate crimes, so many that I quickly gave up keeping track of them.

     Our incompetent admin always seems to respond to hate crimes, even fake crimes, in the worst possible way: by hiring more Vice Presidents of Diversity. Even when everyone agrees the hate crime didn’t happen, it’s still quite possible for the campus to spend another million dollars a year for all eternity, to “keep it from happening again.”

     Now, when there’s a fake hate crime, a good leader would track down the people (students, usually, but sometimes faculty) perpetrating the hoax and punish them, hopefully punting them off campus. That’s good management: make sure students know they will not benefit, and will be punished, for making fake hate crimes.

      It seems a pretty simple idea, one shouldn’t need a Ph.D. to understand how this works. If students are rewarded for crimes, they’ll continue to commit crimes.

      Kansas State had a couple of fake hate crimes recently. The first was simple confusion:

In October, a Jewish ceremonial tent was destroyed. Initially, it was investigated as anti-Semitic vandalism. Authorities later concluded the tent was damaged during inclement weather. …

     It really is amazing how a storm can push over a tent and the first possibility is “this was a hate crime.” Sheesh. At least Kansas State didn’t decide to blow $1,000,000 a year to keep storms from knocking over tents.

       Could the “leaders” of Kansas State be so competent as to make two good decisions in a row? No way:

In the past week, a 21-year-old black student at Kansas State confessed to law enforcement officers to having defaced his own car with racist graffiti and slurs, including “whites only” and “go home,” in what was described as an out-of-control Halloween prank. No charges were filed against the student.

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     This student actively tried to pull  off a hate crime hoax, could possibly have started a race riot. But no charges were filed?

     What a horrible, horrible decision. How can our leaders not understand that, if there are no penalties for creating fake hate crimes, that this might well lead to more fake hate crimes?

       So, one good decision, one bad decision. Could the leaders at Kansas State make a worse decision? Sure, absolutely:

Classes at Kansas State University will be suspended for two hours Tuesday to allow students, faculty and staff and members of the Manhattan community to participate in a unity walk and assembly in response to a series of racially charged incidents on campus.

     That’s right, the “series of racially charged incidents,” which is to say two non-hate crimes, leads to a reward for the students: classes are suspended.

      Hmm, students know they won’t be penalized for faking hate crimes, and also know that if they fake a few such crimes, classes get cancelled. How can anyone not understand that these decisions will lead to more fake hate crimes?

      I have my “end of the semester” flu today, so I ask forgiveness of the gentle reader for the short post. But I do wish to point out that the guys running these places, even the low level deans, commonly make $100,000 or more a year, while the many vice presidents score $250,000 a  year, and the Poo Bah can easily make $1,000,000 a year.

       Almost all of them have Ph.D.s in university leadership, management, or vision, and all of them put together can’t see how managing these types of decisions might lead higher education into a death spiral of more fake hate crimes.

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