{"id":19405,"date":"2022-07-06T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19405"},"modified":"2022-07-06T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:03:29","slug":"quick-takes-mandatory-wokeness-in-academia-mandatory-bias-test-for-admission-mandatory-maoist-diversity-training-mandatory-power-inequity-and-justice-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/07\/06\/quick-takes-mandatory-wokeness-in-academia-mandatory-bias-test-for-admission-mandatory-maoist-diversity-training-mandatory-power-inequity-and-justice-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Mandatory Wokeness In Academia: Mandatory Bias Test For Admission; Mandatory \u201cMaoist\u201d Diversity Training; Mandatory Power, Inequity, and Justice Classes"},"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: College isn\u2019t about education; it\u2019s about indoctrination<\/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\/jniRK1AVQXI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; 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;A British university will require students to accept \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/pass-bias-test-to-enter-st-andrews-rgcvcglx3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personal guilt<\/a>\u201d and agree with wokeness\u2026 just to enter the institution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAfter making their grades and unpacking their bags, new students may be forgiven for thinking they are ready to launch themselves into university life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut at one of Britain\u2019s leading institutions, they must now clear one more hurdle before beginning their studies: they must accept \u2018personal guilt\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSt Andrews has introduced compulsory modules on sustainability, diversity, consent and good academic practice and will not allow students to matriculate if they do not \u2018pass\u2019 by agreeing with certain statements. The university is one of a growing number insisting that students undertake training on subjects including anti-bullying and climate change.\u201d<\/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;How dare anyone not submit to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/patriotism-unity\/duke-professor-under-fire-for-refusing-to-attend-maoist-diversity-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggle session<\/a>!!1!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA professor at the Duke University School of Medicine is under fire after he blasted a mandatory equity training as \u2018Maoist political propaganda\u2019 and refused to attend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBryan Cullen, a professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, drew the ire of several doctoral students after he announced to his department that he would not take part in the medical school&#8217;s mandatory training put on by the Office of Institutional Equity, according to a report by the Duke Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018My initial reaction is I refuse to engage in left-wing Maoist political propaganda workshops and, as a tenured faculty, that is my choice,\u2019 Cullen reportedly said in an email reply to the announcement of the training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSeveral doctoral students included on the email chain quickly denounced Cullen, with one calling the professor out for \u2018a history of xenophobic, homophobic and racist behavior.\u2019\u201d<\/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;Yet again, you will be <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2022\/06\/bryn-mawr-college-faculty-approve-new-power-inequality-and-justice-distribution-requirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mandated<\/a> to see things the woke way.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBryn Mawr College, approved a new \u2018Power, Inequity, and Justice\u2019 requirement. It will be implemented at the beginning of the 2023-24 academic year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUnder this new addition to existing distributional study requirements, students will be required to take a single course focusing on issues of power, inequity, and justice. The curriculum committee, which proposed the new requirement, explained it this way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Our curriculum needs to foreground more explicitly a basic ethical component of a 21st-century education: an understanding of the ways that power dynamics and hierarchies shape the production of knowledge and access to opportunity, as well as engagement with histories and futures of social transformation and justice.\u2019\u201d<\/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=\"Mandatory Wokeness In Academia: Mandatory Bias Test For Admission; Mandatory 'Maoist' Diversity Training; Mandatory Power, Inequity, and Justice Classes\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: College isn\u2019t about education; it\u2019s about indoctrination\" \/><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: College isn\u2019t about education; it\u2019s about indoctrination &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/07\/06\/quick-takes-mandatory-wokeness-in-academia-mandatory-bias-test-for-admission-mandatory-maoist-diversity-training-mandatory-power-inequity-and-justice-classes\/\">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":[19,9,25,42,69],"class_list":["post-19405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-europe","tag-higher-ed","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405","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=19405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19406,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions\/19406"}],"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=19405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}