Hey, do you know who’s to blame for the rise of white supremacy? College campuses, of course. Forget David Duke. Your SPANISH 201 instructor is the real evildoer.
Some people’s obsession with campuses rises to the levels of actual pathology. They honestly think that what we do all day is “dismissing “dead white males,” celebrating diversity, and championing multiculturalism.” When in reality what we do is the eminently boring “and now let’s conjugate the verbs in the column B” and “remember that ‘Essay 1’ is not an original and meaningful title.”
I can’t imagine even using the words “multiculturalism” and “celebrating diversity” either with students or colleagues. Except maybe as a joke at the expense of dumb clerks at the Diversity Office. I’m way too busy making sure everybody remembers to answer the exam questions in complete sentences to waste my breath on that dumb shit.
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I know… This academia I supposedly belong to, focused on pushing the leftist agenda and whatnot, is not the academia I know. I spend my time teaching vector calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations in the context of applied physics problems. I also ad hoc teach pre-college algebra, arithmetic, and trigonometry to students who really should know this stuff but don’t, so they cannot follow what I am actually trying to teach them. This would be a full-time job in and of itself. And then I also write grants and research papers, I discuss complicated math and physics and coding with graduate students, and read comparably complicated stuff reported by others. Political correctness or whatever does not enter my daily life or the interactions with my students, unless you count treating (the rare) female or minority students like human beings an act of political correctness…
I don’t think I have ever actually said the words “political correctness” or “multiculturalism” out loud, only used it online.
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Exactly. And when I talk with colleagues, it’s all about things like senior assignment requirements and study abroad paperwork. We don’t ever talk about the strategies of brainwashing students with our leftist agenda. I never even talked about the election with my colleagues, let alone anything ideological.
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I did not hear much about multiculturalism in college. A couple times I heard that the world is moving in a global direction but nothing over the top.
It was yuge thing in high school. Multiculturalism and diversity was talked about more than feminism and economic inequality combined. There was a day called multicultural day we had annually. Classes stopped to celebrate multiculturalism. Many white students skipped that day and it became a competition between the Dominicans and Puerto Ricans of who could have the biggest and loudest tables.
I found this video from my former high school about the event, to prove I’m not making this up.
At 1:40 the teacher talks about how the day had divided people in the past.
If you search multicultural day on YouTube you can see other schools’ versions of the event. The bad parts are probably not shown.
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Jesus. It’s like they are doing it on purpose to get everybody to detest each other and the very word “cultures.” Ridiculous.
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On my campus there is a push to become more “diversity friendly,” by which the admins mean “Hispanics have money. Hispanics are Catholic. Hispanics should give us their money because we are a Catholic school. Quick! Everyone pretend to care about Latino issues!” Eye roll. The only thing anyone cares about in the administration is money.
We are a very white school, though — like 85% white, and almost all students who are not white are athletes who are being used for their talent, or the coveted Catholic Hispanics who are being used for their dollars. But the administration has figured out that rich white kids are going to leave the city of their birth and go somewhere else more famous for their education. So they have to recruit someone. And enrollment is up 26% for first-time, full-time freshmen this year. So… that’s the situation here.
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