Via View from the Right is this first person account of PC indoctrination at Yale. A student describes his freshmen orientation in 2006:
The freshman counselor set the tone, and then student after student performed a series of variations upon a single theme: white men are bad, Islam is fabulous and judgment is bad. We need to be eternally vigilant and morally courageous in the face of the innumerable male WASP bigots around us.Pretty standard stuff in our elite university system. For my orientation, there was a MANDATORY presentation on diversity, oppression, and discrimination. Each person was assigned a session during orientation week. The sessions presented potential "bias" situations where white, heterosexual, Christian males always seem to be the bad guys and gays/NAMs are always the "normal" ones. A discussion followed where moderators pushed discourse in the "proper" direction.
I still remember the looks of shock and disgust on the faces of my classmates and my freshman counselor, as, losing caste, I found myself labeled a bigot and a political pariah. Questioning the narratives of the self-appointed leaders of 'disempowered' groups was not acceptable, and the next day I found myself on the receiving end of suspicious looks of the Dean and Master to whom my freshman counselor was expected to report.
At the time I was mostly an apathetic moderate conservative (and a non-HBDer), but I refused to participate. Over the first month and a half of school, I got an almost daily e-mail from the "Diversity Office" demanding that I attend a session and reminding me it was mandatory of all incoming students. They mentioned the difficult adjustment for "people of color", the embracing of diversity, and the need to meet "new" people. Of course, this is all code for "White people are racist." They also warned us that any speech deemed "discriminatory" would result in expulsion from the dorms.
To the elite university system, only racial diversity matters, not that of opinion or independent thought (especially from a non-PC, conservative perspective).
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It is little wonder most degrees are now conferred upon women.
Did you go to an elite college OneSTDV? If so, which one?
Sounds a lot like a struggle session ("the session is held ostenibly to benefit the target, by eliminating all traces of counterrevolutionary, reactionary thinking.").
That's funny. I just graduated from the most liberal university in Canada, and even there they don't pull that junk.
I find it hard to believe that leftist secular professors are indoctrinating students to believe that the entirety of ISLAM is peaches and cream.
Come on, this is an exageration.
ISLAM is not the mascot of the West, especially not since 9/11.
"I find it hard to believe that leftist secular professors are indoctrinating students to believe that the entirety of ISLAM is peaches and cream.
Come on, this is an exageration.
ISLAM is not the mascot of the West, especially not since 9/11."
You're right. I tried to leave a message to that story but it was never published. Talk about not valuing free speech! I said something like "That hasn't been my experience at all. Basically, Muslims are the last nonwhite group that liberals want to defend. Their hearts belong to blacks. Mestizo criminals are a very distant second."
Anybody who wants to claim that Muslims are the biggest beneficiaries of PC is a neo-con scum bag or hopeless idiot.
"Their hearts belong to blacks. Mestizo criminals are a very distant second."
What about the gays?
You're right. Definitely gays before Mestizos. Women are in there too, but race trumps gender in PC.
I don't believe that Yale singles out Muslims as the world's main oppressed group. No way. This kid's been reading too much National Review.
I think a similar story could be repeated by many of the readers of HBD and conservative blogs.
That link to "Struggle Session" left by an Anonymous was right on. It's been several years since my orientation, but I remember having never felt so low about being who I was before I got to college. It was like my existence had been invalidated. I don't know why I didn't transfer.
I will never, EVER give money to that school.
"Did you go to an elite college OneSTDV? If so, which one?"
Yes, two of them. But I'd rather not disclose what schools in particular.
Just to give you a general idea, even if you're not American, you're familiar with both of them.
The standard elite university line on Islam is that its grossly misunderstood and that the bad people are extremists.
Also, and this one is very popular because it denigrates the West, Islam is not nearly as bad as Christianity. Then they will bring up the Crusades and Inquisition as if we're living in the 16th century.
see some comments here for evidence of my second point:
http://unreasonablefaith.com/2009/08/28/islam-is-of-the-devil/#comments
"What about the gays?"
They don't own the liberal's hearts, they own a different part of the body entirely, located somewhat further down. =)
FWIW, I graduated from an elite American college in the early 90s. My freshman lit professor heaped lots of praise on Islam and had nothing bad to say about it.
"The standard elite university line on Islam is that its grossly misunderstood and that the bad people are extremists"
I agree. The fact is that your typical American University professor (in the humanities) hates the West with a passion.
I also had two profs (one Asian, one white, both females) say that race was a social construct and one tell me that gender was as well (she also had us read an article she penned that argued the fighter jet was anti-female because it was shaped like a penis, seriously she said this, and because its designs were better suited for the male physique...hmm wonder why?).
I've probably got more stories, but at the time, I wasn't so sensitive to racial issues like I am now. I just didn't notice the prof going on about race is just a social construct, but if she said that today, I would have jumped all over that crap.
We could reduce the influence and number of liberal humanities professors by allowing students to bypass the Gen-Ed and concentrate only on courses relevant to their major.
Most non-far left students wouldn't take, say, "Colonial Studies" classes if they didn't have to fulfill the core curriculum requirements.
Maybe somebody should look into forming some sort of facebook group for students to lobby state legislators to require public universities to offer full bachelor degrees that don't have a core curriculum?
The group could say that the core curriculum should be dropped so students can save money on soaring tuition by graduating sooner, but the real reason would be to put liberal arts professors out of a job.
Richard Hoste, I also left a comment, politely requesting a word for word transcript of the orientation, but it was not posted by the moderator, even though just above the comments box they have this:
Leave comments here. Unless they are vicious or obscene, they will be printed.
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Sure, they will be printed!
It seems to me that in this day of (dis)information technology, we are expected to believe any and everything some stranger writes on the internet, despite lacking any evidence or proof.
While it is true that many ordinary American citizens who happen to be Muslim are unjustly discriminated against, including police officers (google it), and that is indeed something that both the "right" and the "left" should be addressing, overall, Islam is way to socially conservative to ever make "beloved mascot" status amongst leftists and liberals.
I am still trying to figure out who "hates" the "West" more - leftists or rightists.
I think what neither of them understand is that whatever sort of "culture" (or lack thereof) that the West currently finds itself mired in, did not happen in a vacuum but is rather the result of the core values that gave rise to both leftists and rightists.
You cannot value "rugged individualism", for example, and still expect people to strong family values.
So these "right" and "left" values, though they seem to be at odds, have actually worked in perfect harmony to create what we have now in the good ol' USA.
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That's funny. I just graduated from the most liberal university in Canada, and even there they don't pull that junk.
I was going to say the same thing. The Canadian university I attended is considered more left wing than average yet not only did we NOT have diversity workshops but most history and politics tutorials had a right winger or two participating without any apparent fear.
Generally speaking U.S. libs and leftists are more extreme on racial and other identity issues than lib-left Canadians and Europeans.
I remember a female western civ (or should I say sieve?) professor making a snarky comment about professional athletes making high salaries. I wondered whether she thought it more proper for someone such as herself to be more highly compensated. It really bothered me because I think achievement should be rewarded. If some athlete can draw millions of spectators and their $$, why should all the $$ go to the owners, promoters and tv radio that cover his performance? In western culture, success is rewarded with $$. She wasn't as successful, and I thought she was jealous.
I guess my point is that she seemed to be saying people don't "deserve" the compensation they earn. It was a sort of soft socialist attitude that no matter how honestly you earn your money, it is not right to earn too much. Maybe she thought beer vendors at the stadium should get the $$. We all know they draw the crowds. =)
Academics are a pathetic and lazy lot in general in many Western nations.
I mean, these people 'work' no more than 10 hours a week (sometimes only 6-8 hours) and get paid quite a bit for doing so.
"If some athlete can draw millions of spectators and their $$, why should all the $$ go to the owners, promoters and tv radio that cover his performance? In western culture, success is rewarded with $$."
Well said. I've always argued that athletes deserve their money because they bring in what they receive. Pretty simple stuff.
WHen I hear someone complaining about high ahtlete salaries, I tell them: When you're one of the top 400 people in your chosen profession, then come talk to me. What's funny is that most people in any profession, if they're at such a high level (like top 400) they are probably multi-millionaires as well.
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