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[somedaybitch]

The ideological force-feeding of undergraduate students that characterized the University of Delaware’s residential life program had numerous components: radical environmentalism, an attempt to stigmatize traditional moral sentiments, foregrounding questions of sexual orientation, efforts to promote deep distrust of American society, promotion of identity politics, and an aggressive focus on racial grievance. As we looked at other colleges and universities, we found this combination of themes to be widespread, but organized in a variety of ways. Residence halls aren’t the only venue. Many campuses have a contingent of administrators whose job seems to be to turn late adolescent social anxieties into radical alienation from American society … .

if they'd tried that bullshit at SDSU the years i was there, they'd have had a campus-wide revolt.

edumakashun is about teaching people HOW to think, not WHAT to think. it's a shame colleges and universities keep forgetting that.

the first sign that what you're doing is an ideology - and that your ideology might be a problem - is if you feel the need to indoctrinate people to get them to be "followers".

think however you like, but don't presume to tell me the fuck how to think, or that your belief system is the ONLY ONE that's valid. you're likely to find me shoving that system someplace small and dark and uncomfortable.

it's one thing to be exposing students to all walks of life and experience and culture, but it's quite another to be forcing students to conform to those things.