Minding The Campus: Not long ago, I wrote a piece for City Journal about my alma mater entitled, unsubtly: How My Friends and I Wrecked Pomona College. I saw it as a very belated mea culpa, for it detailed the malicious glee with which, back in the Sixties, we student radicals forced well-meaning, weak-willed administrators to abandon the standards, both behavioral and academic, that had sustained Pomona since its founding; leading, inevitably, all these years later, to an institution depressingly in the grip of all-encompassing PC.
In fact, the article was prompted by events in Claremont (Pomona is one of five schools in the so-called Claremont consortium) just this past fall, as other campuses from Missouri to New Haven were experiencing their own paroxysms of madness. Claremont’s crisis, (in the comic bouffe fashion common to such affairs), was touched off by a do-good progressive; in this case, a Claremont-McKenna administrator who sent a sympathetic but ineptly worded email to a Hispanic student; and whose resignation in disgrace prompted the Social Justice Warriors at the other schools to in turn start howling about racism and present their presidents with the inevitable lists of non-negotiable demands. Pomona’s cry bully contingent demanded, among other things, the hiring of full-time counselors “specially trained in queer and trans mental health issues” and a department of disability studies.
And by ‘specially trained in queer and trans mental health issues’ they mean ideologically brainwashed in a way that no professional association would acknowledge them.
I may be the only one to see this, but does that ‘safe space’ sign look like someone is having their tits groped from behind?
JMV, that Safe Place sign is actually a micro-aggression.
It has a white asserting their privilege over a black.
Indeed it posits that blacks must be saved by whitey.
This must not stand!
Loco, I saw that too, but I was trying to not be a racist white supremacist creepy ass cracker by pointing it out. It was bad enough that I was being sexist and misogynistic by pointing out the groping aspect.
But then again, I am white, and therefore evil…
Loco, I saw that too, but I was trying to not be a racist white supremacist creepy ass cracker by pointing it out. It was bad enough that I was being sexist and misogynistic by pointing out the groping aspect.
But then again, I am white male, and therefore evil…
If the university excludes professors who are not sufficiently “inclusive,” doesn’t that make the university non-inclusive?
I think that’s the sign for a reach-around.
And to think that these “educational” (MENTAL?) institutions have admisisons policies (ASSUMPTION:) to filter out these crazies!!!