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Time and again I\u2019ve heard admin spew the most insane gibberish, things no normal person could believe, or could even\u00a0imagine<\/em>. I\u2019ve looked at\u00a0administrative degree programs<\/a>, and while they are complete frauds, the issue there is a lack of content or requirements, not that they\u2019re filled with insanity.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no secret that our institutions of higher education are vastly over-supplied with administrators. Mostly, they work to make the system less efficient or try to start a race riot but the simple fact is clear: we have so many of them there isn\u2019t enough work for them to do.<\/p>\n One of the things admin do to entertain themselves is go to \u201ctraining seminars,\u201d where they learn ridiculous things\u2026which they then take back to campus. Next comes a mandatory meeting for faculty who must attend and listen to the concentrated idiocy the administrator acquired on her taxpayer-funded adventure.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a look at one of these:<\/p>\n White Privilege Conference 19<\/a><\/p>\n This big conference, supposedly an\u00a0academic<\/em>\u00a0conference, will be held April 4th<\/sup>\u00a0through 7th<\/sup>\u00a0of next year. Could they be any more blatant about whom this is for? I mean, if you\u2019re an actual academic, you\u2019re likely teaching classes April 4th<\/sup>\u00a0through 7th<\/sup>. If there was going to be legitimate academics here, then why would it be held at a time excluding most academics? They\u2019ll just be spewing garbage here, and they know it.<\/p>\n While faculty certainly can’t go, our campuses are loaded down with administrators who serve no purpose, who can easily take a week off during the semester to go to this thing.<\/p>\n What is \u201cwhite privilege\u201d anyway? Their website helpfully attempts to answer the question with a choice quote:<\/p>\n \u201cWhite Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it\u2026 once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin addressing it on an individual and institutional basis.\u201d ~Paula Rothenberg<\/em><\/p>\n I trust the gentle reader is no more illuminated by the above than I am. The \u201cother side of racism\u201d? The opposite of racism, then? Isn\u2019t that a good thing? Unfortunately, this type of training obviously isn\u2019t working, since time and again\u00a0I\u2019ve seen admin use racist (and sexist) hiring policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n With such a bizarre definition, I concede I might be confused here. The site gives some examples:<\/p>\n Being able to\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n You know, in China, I rather expect the students there study primarily Chinese history, filled with Chinese people. I don\u2019t consider them privileged, and I certainly don\u2019t think they owe me anything for it\u2026and it\u2019s the same for pretty much every country.<\/p>\n My family came to this country in the late 19th<\/sup>\u00a0century (to the best of my understanding), and not from England\/Germany\/France. I\u2019m not offended that when I studied history in school, I almost entirely studied people from a different nation than that of my forefathers\u2026nobody owes me anything for that, either. My great-grandparents made that choice for me, and I\u2019m fine with it (assuming I even put much thought into it).<\/p>\n As far as gender goes, well, again, reality is a factor here. Genetically, males are a bit of a mess. Most murderers are male. Most drug addicts are male. Most schizophrenics are male. Pretty much every \u201cbad\u201d thing happens more often to males than females.<\/p>\n Most morons are male, too. Due to quirks in our genetics, males tend to be more vulnerable to everything\u2026they also tend to be more variable in everything. Part of that variation is intelligence. So, \u201cmost morons are male\u201d is statistically equivalent to \u201cmost geniuses are male.\u201d<\/p>\n As far as history goes, you have to be a standout to make it into the history books\u2014we generally don\u2019t study Mr. and Mrs. Smith in Standard House, Plainsville, Everystate, who worked common jobs, ate common foods, and raised 2.4 kids.<\/p>\n History is filled with the special people\u2026and geniuses tend to be special. So, yeah, there are lot more males than females in the history books. That\u2019s reality, it has nothing to with privilege, unless dying 8 years younger than females is also considered a male \u201cprivilege.\u201d<\/p>\n Sexual orientation is similarly a function of reality. It\u2019s a fact\u00a0that around 96% or so of the population<\/a>\u00a0is heterosexual. So, yeah, if you\u2019re studying history, it\u2019s reasonable to conjecture that you\u2019re mostly going to be studying the actions of heterosexual people (that said, because non-heterosexuals tend to be special, they\u2019re over-represented in the history books\u2026just not a majority). Truth be told, I don’t understand sexual orientation as a “white privilege” thing…I’m pretty sure not all whites are heterosexual, and it’s sad that the the people at this conference are so bigoted as to advocate such a thing.<\/p>\n The conference dances around things here, but the key, unspoken, concept is whites have privileges that blacks don\u2019t.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not my fault\u00a0that there no two story buildings in sub-Saharan Africa dating from before Europeans arrived<\/a>. There were no enduring written languages from that part of the world, either. With no documents or architecture extant, I can understand why I didn\u2019t learn much of southern Africa in school.<\/p>\n You know, when I watch a sporting event, I don\u2019t see many people of my color. Once again, I don\u2019t feel penalized by this, or think anyone owes me anything for it. I\u2019m no genius, but if I accept these claims of white privilege, I should also see that there\u2019s a \u201cblack privilege\u201d to watching sporting events\u2026how is it that nobody in 19 iterations of this conference could see it? That, again, is the hint that this is a bogus event filled with pseudo-knowledge.<\/p>\n In any event, this 4 day conference is packed with meeting after meeting filled with one-sided, incredibly biased, points of view. To even call this stuff pseudoscience is quite generous.<\/p>\n To truly get an idea of shallow the people involved in this crap are, please look at the company store for this event, filled with many\u00a0very ugly \u201cGot Privilege\u201d t-shirts<\/a>\u2026and only two books, at $100 apiece, no less. I assure the gentle reader, academics are more into books than t-shirts.<\/p>\n The price of the books is also telling. Whoa, $100 for a book filled with ideology? Do the attendees really spend their own money on this? Of course not, and this leads to my real issue with this bogus conference.<\/p>\n Our tax dollars go to pay to send hundreds of our redundant administrators to fake conferences like this.\u00a0 They\u2019re given expense accounts to pay for the hotel, meals, and, yes, overpriced books.<\/p>\n But wait, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n Then they come back, and force actual academics to listen to whatever garbage they heard at the conference, wasting the time of actual scholars who are in no position to challenge the rubbish they hear.<\/p>\n But wait, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n This garbage counts as actual training<\/a>. So that that means that these $150,000 a year administrators are now entitled to a pay raise,\u00a0which could be 10%, 20%, and even 50% isn\u2019t out of the question here<\/a>\u2026for listening to drivel and forcing it down the throats of faculty.<\/p>\n But wait, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n Enough of this nonsensical training and these guys will get a big promotion\u2026where they\u2019ll even have even more time to go to even more of these conferences, and rake in even more money in the process.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s all paid for by the student loan scam. If we could just kill off this source of money pouring into higher education, many of these corrupt cycles could finally end.<\/p>\n I suspect such an idea will never be advanced at any conference, ever\u2026<\/p>\n www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n