February 27, 2015

Identity Politics Eliminates Learning History, Literature, Science




[From article]
This proliferation of in-your-face sexual identities is all posturing, just part of the dance between students desperate to find one last means of being transgressive and college bureaucrats eager to show their sensitivity and to justify their six-figure salaries. Students who should be studying European history and the roots of the novel—would that such subjects were still taught—are instead combing the farthest reaches of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic Manual for ways to distinguish themselves. By posing what they hope will be rejected demands on their administrations, they seek only to prove that they are living a life of oppression.
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With so many marginalized groups on campus, one wonders who is left to do the discriminating and oppressing.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0226hm.html

HEATHER MAC DONALD
Not Your Parents’ Open House
At Wesleyan University, if you’re oppressed, there’s a “safe space” for you.
26 February 2015

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