{"id":15675,"date":"2019-06-13T00:32:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T07:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15675"},"modified":"2019-06-13T00:32:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T07:32:51","slug":"quick-takes-current-college-wokeness-out-with-heterosexism-in-with-queer-feminism-always-doubleplusgood-newspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/06\/13\/quick-takes-current-college-wokeness-out-with-heterosexism-in-with-queer-feminism-always-doubleplusgood-newspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes &#8211; Current College Wokeness: Out With Heterosexism; In With Queer Feminism; Always Doubleplusgood Newspeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: And the baby out with the bathwater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5oVBvxA0mm0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Heterosexuality, better known as the natural and normal inclination of human beings to engage in reproductive acts (<em>i<\/em>.<em>e<\/em>. f**k), is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doubleplusungood<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The University of Minnesota Housing and Residential Life Department is hosting a &#8216;Social Justice Leadership Retreat&#8217; during which students can spend a weekend of &#8216;immersion&#8217; in social justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Students going on the Jan. 18-20 retreat will spend the weekend participating in various activities surrounding social justice topics, such as &#8216;race and racism, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and campus climate,&#8217; according to the department website. They will also attend &#8216;training sessions&#8217; on &#8216;privilege&#8217; and explore their &#8216;identities,&#8217; as they share their stories in a small group setting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No matter what the courses to be taught are, they are to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taught with social justice<\/a>!!1!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Texas A&amp;M University-Commerce is seeking a new assistant English professor, preferably one versed in topics such as social justice or &#8216;queer&#8217; and &#8216;decolonial&#8217; &#8216;rhetorics.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The job listing reads like that of a typical tenure track English professor opening but specifies that the ideal candidate\u2019s background would include an &#8216;active research agenda&#8217; in one of a number of specified categories. Aside from &#8216;community writing,&#8217; and &#8216;public rhetoric,&#8217; the desired topics are largely focused on writing through social justice or identity politics-themed lenses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In addition to researchers of &#8216;writing in social justice,&#8217; the listing also calls for applicants with a background in &#8216;feminist,&#8217; &#8216;latinx,&#8217; &#8216;(trans)gender,&#8217; &#8216;decolonial,&#8217; &#8216;transnational,&#8217; or &#8216;queer&#8217; &#8216;cultural rhetorics.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The proposed minimum annual salary for the selected candidate, who will start in August 2019, will be $66,666.60.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#8217;s easier, isn&#8217;t it, to win by simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2019\/04\/amherst-flirts-with-orwellian-language-guide.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defining terms<\/a> that mandate pre-determined conclusions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Last month, Amherst College\u2019s office of diversity and inclusion issued a 36-page &#8216;Common Language Guide.&#8217; The document seeks to impose left-wing identity politics on the campus through the creation of a common way of talking about the left\u2019s favorite issues. The document is truly Orwellian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The &#8216;Common Language Guide&#8217; isn\u2019t easy to find on the internet, but you can access it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/402959759\/Amherst-College-Common-Language-Guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. The document consists, as the name suggests, of an endless series of definitions \u2014 36 pages of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Nearly all of the terms are politically charged. By defining them, Amherst\u2019s diversity and inclusion gang seeks to foreclose debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Current College Wokeness: Out With Heterosexism; In With Queer Feminism; Always Doubleplusgood Newspeak\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: And the baby out with the bathwater.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: And the baby out with the bathwater. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/06\/13\/quick-takes-current-college-wokeness-out-with-heterosexism-in-with-queer-feminism-always-doubleplusgood-newspeak\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[55,25,42,69,68],"class_list":["post-15675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-gender","tag-higher-ed","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15676,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions\/15676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}