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"Students will inevitably be graded on politically correct thinking"
Posted on 10/10/17 at 7:42 pm
Posted on 10/10/17 at 7:42 pm
Amazingly the NY Times of all people called it in 1990...
And we wonder why the Next Gen is a bunch of campus crazies.
Last weekend, a meeting of the Western Humanities Conference in Berkeley, Calif., was called " 'Political Correctness' and Cultural Studies," and it examined what effect the pressure to conform to currently fashionable ideas is having on scholarship.
Central to p.c.-ness, which has roots in 1960's radicalism, is the view that Western society has for centuries been dominated by what is often called "the white male power structure" or "patriarchal hegemony."
The view that Western civilization is inherently unfair to minorities, women and homosexuals has been at the center of politically correct thinking on campuses ever since the recent debate over university curriculums began.
"You cannot tell me that students will not be inevitably graded on politically correct thinking in these classes," Alan Gribben, a professor of English, said at the time the change was being discussed.
Affirmative action is politically correct. So too are women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, and African-American studies, all of which are strongly represented in the scholarly panels at such professional meetings.
The cluster of politically correct ideas includes a powerful environmentalism and, in foreign policy, support for Palestinian self-determination and sympathy for third world revolutionaries, particularly those in Central America.
"It's a manifestation of what some are calling liberal fascism," said Roger Kimball, the author of "Tenured Radicals," a critique of what he calls the politicization of the humanities. "Under the name of pluralism and freedom of speech, it is an attempt to enforce a narrow and ideologically motivated view of both the curriculum and what it means to be an educated person, a responsible citizen."
Professor Gribben, who opposed the curriculum change at the University of Texas, has been denounced in the campus newspaper as a right-winger; a rally was held on campus to harangue him. "I just wanted to question a few features and my world fell apart," he said.
But there were worries expressed in papers and conversations that p.c.-ness has become a rigid concept, a new orthodoxy that does not allow for sufficient complexity in scholarship or even much clarity in thinking. One speaker, Michel Chaouli, a graduate student in comparative literature at Berkeley, said that "politically correct discourse is a kind of fundamentalism," one that gives rise to "pre-fab opinions." Among its features, he said, are "tenacity, sanctimoniousness, huffiness, a stubborn lack of a sense of humor."
The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct
And we wonder why the Next Gen is a bunch of campus crazies.
Last weekend, a meeting of the Western Humanities Conference in Berkeley, Calif., was called " 'Political Correctness' and Cultural Studies," and it examined what effect the pressure to conform to currently fashionable ideas is having on scholarship.
Central to p.c.-ness, which has roots in 1960's radicalism, is the view that Western society has for centuries been dominated by what is often called "the white male power structure" or "patriarchal hegemony."
The view that Western civilization is inherently unfair to minorities, women and homosexuals has been at the center of politically correct thinking on campuses ever since the recent debate over university curriculums began.
"You cannot tell me that students will not be inevitably graded on politically correct thinking in these classes," Alan Gribben, a professor of English, said at the time the change was being discussed.
Affirmative action is politically correct. So too are women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, and African-American studies, all of which are strongly represented in the scholarly panels at such professional meetings.
The cluster of politically correct ideas includes a powerful environmentalism and, in foreign policy, support for Palestinian self-determination and sympathy for third world revolutionaries, particularly those in Central America.
"It's a manifestation of what some are calling liberal fascism," said Roger Kimball, the author of "Tenured Radicals," a critique of what he calls the politicization of the humanities. "Under the name of pluralism and freedom of speech, it is an attempt to enforce a narrow and ideologically motivated view of both the curriculum and what it means to be an educated person, a responsible citizen."
Professor Gribben, who opposed the curriculum change at the University of Texas, has been denounced in the campus newspaper as a right-winger; a rally was held on campus to harangue him. "I just wanted to question a few features and my world fell apart," he said.
But there were worries expressed in papers and conversations that p.c.-ness has become a rigid concept, a new orthodoxy that does not allow for sufficient complexity in scholarship or even much clarity in thinking. One speaker, Michel Chaouli, a graduate student in comparative literature at Berkeley, said that "politically correct discourse is a kind of fundamentalism," one that gives rise to "pre-fab opinions." Among its features, he said, are "tenacity, sanctimoniousness, huffiness, a stubborn lack of a sense of humor."
The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct
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Posted on 10/10/17 at 7:43 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
High grades, but no jobs.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 7:45 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
They already are. If you don't give the politically correct answers you get bad grades. It was like that when I was in school twenty years ago.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 7:52 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Wow, prescient article
Posted on 10/10/17 at 7:53 pm to Seldom Seen
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They already are. If you don't give the politically correct answers you get bad grades. It was like that when I was in school twenty years ago.
Beat me to it...everything I wrote in one composition class was anti-machiavellian, anti-che, anti-mao because my professor was a self-proclaimed commie and I graded Ds by that same professor twice.
If you kissed his arse, good grades.
I dropped and eventually left for the military...dude didn't like hearing about abortion culling Brown people, starving millions to death, or eventually watching the professors that put these feel-gooders into power eventually end up in the rice fields
Posted on 10/10/17 at 7:59 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
The Left have made great advances that we can see with our own eyes. That's why I have predicted that the USA will no longer exist in 100 years. It will have been replaced by a new Progressive Globalist Governmental Entity.
I wonder whether anyone will bother to mourn the passing of the USA when it finally happens. I kind of doubt it. Folks will be quite indoctrinated by then, so, I kind of doubt it.
I wonder whether anyone will bother to mourn the passing of the USA when it finally happens. I kind of doubt it. Folks will be quite indoctrinated by then, so, I kind of doubt it.
This post was edited on 10/10/17 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:36 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It was that way when I went back to college in the 90s. Very eye opening
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:39 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Just think that in 5-6 years, the nurse who'll be caring for you passed nursing school with an A in political correctness and an N/A in every other related class.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:41 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Inevitably? I was in college almost 10 years ago and I 100% had professors that graded based on your opinion more so than your argument. Same in law school too. You just have to know that going in and be smart enough to write what the professor wants to hear.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:42 pm to FutureRATeammember
quote:This...
Wow, prescient article
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:55 pm to BradPitt
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Just think that in 5-6 years, the nurse who'll be caring for you passed nursing school with an A in political correctness and an N/A in every other related class.
A girl I went to college with the other day posted an article that, no shite, claimed TEACHER certification tests were racist and the only reason there weren't more black teachers is because a 3.0 GPA was required for graduate programs (not a 2.5) and required you pass the praxis (an equivalency test). So basically teachers, of all people, shouldn't have to make good grades or pass tests.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 9:04 pm to Knight of Old
IM glad I did engineering where I was able to let my conservative heathenism flourish with zero reprecussions
Posted on 10/10/17 at 9:05 pm to lsufball19
I'd tell that count if she truly cared (I'm assuming she's a teacher), she'd give up her position to a minority - especially one who failed all certification tests and didn't put forth 1/4th of the effort she did in obtaining her career goals. She should be the change she wants to see in the world... fricking dumbasses, man.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 9:09 pm to BradPitt
She's a director at Teach for America...
Posted on 10/10/17 at 9:33 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
They were grading that way in the 1980s
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