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A weird identity politics madness has been steadily taking over our campuses for a few decades now. Individual faculty who stood up against the madness were dogpiled by rabid admin, and eventually removed; I\u2019ve seen it with my own eyes enough times.<\/p>\n
Last January, I covered such a dogpile at Laurier University<\/a>. In this case, a teacher decided to have an open discussion of the \u201c23 gender pronouns\u201d symptom of the madness, and was called into the palace of the Diversity Fiefdom, for re-education: use of these pronouns was not a topic open to discussion. While I maintain these types of \u201cconversations\u201d between faculty and identity politics admin are commonplace, what made this particular incident remarkable was the teacher actually recorded the conversation, so that later all could hear with their own ears just how pathological the commissars on our campuses are.<\/p>\n The short description of that meeting is as follows: a pack of Diversity admin tells the teacher that secret witnesses of unknown number have complained that discussion of gender pronouns creates a toxic environment, and that having this topic in the classroom be something that is open to debate is illegal. It\u2019s disgusting stuff, and even globalist Jordan Pedersen came out against this sort of behavior by admin<\/a>.<\/p>\n President Deborah MacLatchy took responsibility for the \u201cinstitutional failure\u201d revealed by the \u201cindependent fact-finder report\u201d commissioned by WLU.<\/em><\/p>\n –this is a very rare case of admin investigating itself, and finding itself at fault. Much like with police self-investigations, having a PUBLIC tape of the incident made it impossible to whitewash.<\/em><\/p>\n Having been caught in the act with indisputable evidence, admin quickly backed down and apologized\u2026but I assure the gentle reader this stuff occurs on many campuses. The apology rings very hollow to me, because I know they\u2019ll be back up to their dirty tricks just as soon as the public eye looks elsewhere.<\/p>\n Now that everyone knows what kind of school this is, how are potential students responding<\/a>?<\/p>\n Laurier Finance Prof. William McNally pointed out<\/strong> the university\u2019s admissions confirmations as of June 7 have declined 15.2 percent from a year ago, while first-place choices are down 12.5 percent, both the worst in the province.<\/em><\/p>\n I assure the gentle reader, this level of drop in admissions is a hard blow to the campus, and it\u2019s clear a good proportion of the students are only going to this school for lack of a better option. Being a state school, they\u2019ll survive this massive setback. Most likely, they\u2019ll accomplish it by expanding class size and cutting down faculty\u2014removing the Diversity staff who caused the problem is never an option.<\/p>\n I really want to point out, the whole purpose of Diversity staff is to create this kind of strife. If people weren\u2019t so heavily devoted to the intense navel-gazing of identity politics, there\u2019d be no need for Diversity staffers. So, they cause more problems, securing their position and if the problems are big enough, like at Mizzou, even more Diversity staffers will be added to admin.<\/p>\n Mizzou demonstrates this death spiral quite well, as they\u2019ve lost huge amounts of students unwilling to go to a school wracked by race riots and more interested in Diversity than education<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another school with race riots due to excess Diversity staff is Evergreen college<\/a>. They too are losing a catastrophic number of students, over 20% in the last two years.<\/p>\n So the schools publicly known for this behavior are losing students. What is the administrative response? You can bet it won\u2019t be about integrity or education, and definitely won\u2019t involve thinning the ranks of admin:<\/p>\n Professor bans laptops to prevent Shepherd from recording her<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n –Shepherd is the teacher who made the recording.<\/em><\/p>\n As I mentioned seven months ago, steps will be taken to reduce recordings on campus. Admin sure doesn\u2019t want to be put in another situation where they\u2019ll have no choice but to rule against themselves based on publicly known evidence. What else is happening on this campus?<\/p>\n Shepherd could lose her job under parameters of investigation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n As I also predicted, the teacher who made the recording will likely find herself unemployed, and unemployable, soon. Admin is vicious and spiteful, and hates admitting it\u2019s wrong. I remember spending well over a year trying, and failing, to convince admin at my own school of things like \u201c12\/5 is not 2.35\u201d and \u201cconsensus and arithmetical mean do not have the same meaning,\u201d to no avail beyond receiving punishments. I foolishly kept assuming good faith on their part (because it\u2019s hard to believe this level of incompetence or malevolence)\u2026I should have made recordings, but I\u2019ve kept my documents. It is certain they\u2019ll get rid of the teacher as soon as they can get away with it.<\/p>\n Anyway, my successful predictions above are not due to any metaphysical powers on my part: I\u2019ve simply seen these things play out many times, and I\u2019ve observed admin more than long enough to have a firm grasp of their behavior patterns. \u201cPunish the whistleblower and make it harder for us to get caught again\u201d is as predictable behavior on their part as a cockroach\u2019s response to the kitchen lights being turned on, for much the same reason.<\/p>\n She promised \u201cmandatory and standardized\u201d training and support between course instructors and TAs for \u201cclarity and consistency.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I predicted the above as well, because it\u2019s well known that admin always wins when admin screws up. So, now additional admin will be hired to set up this new standardized training, and the old admin will receive pay raises for being part of a larger bureaucracy. There\u2019s more to it than that, however.<\/p>\n The president implied that the entire policy could be on the table. Not only will WLU search for an \u201cappropriate structure\u201d to oversee the policy\u2019s execution, but it will \u201cundertake a full review\u201d of the policy itself.<\/em><\/p>\n By \u201cappropriate structure,\u201d they\u2019re talking about yet another university fiefdom, filled with highly paid vice presidents to oversee a policy that wouldn\u2019t need to exist if there was a scrap of integrity on campus. They might even take \u201cstructure\u201d literally, and build a new administrative palace in honor of their mistake (I concede I didn\u2019t predict at the time they\u2019d go this far). There\u2019s even more to it than more waste.<\/p>\n Recall that the system on our campuses is edu-fascism, the merger of administrative and ideological interests. Admin wins, above, so next the ideology will need to win:<\/p>\n After the teacher who made the recording finds her career in higher ed annihilated, admin will hold mandatory meetings making sure everyone gets the message: \u201cIdentity politics is to be accepted as objective fact, and is not open to discussion. Anyone who records this statement will be summarily fired, as per policy.\u201d<\/p>\n But at least we now have a recording of an example of the conversations that quite commonly occur behind closed doors in Diversity fiefdoms on our campus. Thus, there\u2019s one fewer thing I\u2019ve said about higher education my gentle readers need no longer take on faith is true.<\/p>\n www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"