The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

[mystery-ak]

September 9, 2018
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
By David Solway

There can be little doubt that the modern university, in its obsession with race, gender, and sexual orientation under the rubric of "social justice," has violated its core mandate, which, in the words of Matthew Arnold from Culture and Anarchy, is to familiarize readers and students with "the best that has been thought and said."  The Academy has turned Arnold's maxim on its head, instructing students in the worst that has been thought and said – and done.  The curricular fetish of "social justice," which is destroying the university as an institution of higher learning, continues to metastasize.

Indeed, the university as a social and cultural institution is a slow-motion train wreck picking up speed: equity hiring, affirmative action, anti-conservative and overt leftist politics, the "diversity and inclusion" myth on which the academy prides itself, groupthink, speech codes, snitch lines, trigger warnings, safe spaces, microaggressions, the attack on academic freedom – the list goes on.

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[skeeter]

Its difficult to imagine what scholars like Rachel Fulton Brown are going through in the anti-intellectual insane asylums universities have become. Leftist activists covering their faces with bandanas and carrying pikes in the streets would be happy with a fraction of the real courage she apparently possesses.