The suspension of The Harvard Salient this winter has been widely treated as a morality play about extremism, nationalism, and the eternal vigilance required to keep fascism at bay.
"Flawed premise"? "Category error"? Those are white supremacist terms, no? Applying the rules of logic to the situation at Harvard is the category error.
The only possibility for surprise in this situation was a different decision by the board.
"When racialized hostility is used by left-aligned speakers against whites, it is contextualized, excused, or celebrated. Students notice this asymmetry."
We have taken a generation or two of kids and taught them that they are evil incarnate, that they are so innately powerful that society must disadvantage them for others to have a fair chance to compete, that they must repent for the sins of their ancestors till the end of time. KKK could not have designed a better system to promote their racial ideology. And we act surprised by the result?
Although not yet labeled DEI, political correctness was well-established when Gen X would have attended college. Dinesh D’Souza wrote Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus in 1991. He clearly documented then what now goes by the label of DEI.
"Flawed premise"? "Category error"? Those are white supremacist terms, no? Applying the rules of logic to the situation at Harvard is the category error.
The only possibility for surprise in this situation was a different decision by the board.
"When racialized hostility is used by left-aligned speakers against whites, it is contextualized, excused, or celebrated. Students notice this asymmetry."
Dare we add, monetized?
We have taken a generation or two of kids and taught them that they are evil incarnate, that they are so innately powerful that society must disadvantage them for others to have a fair chance to compete, that they must repent for the sins of their ancestors till the end of time. KKK could not have designed a better system to promote their racial ideology. And we act surprised by the result?
Although not yet labeled DEI, political correctness was well-established when Gen X would have attended college. Dinesh D’Souza wrote Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus in 1991. He clearly documented then what now goes by the label of DEI.
As soon as "affirmative action" was implemented in the 60s and 70s, our current situation was inevitable.,
Great writing uncovering a truth lost in the milieu.