Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n
The focus this time: Clean-up in aisle \u201cwoke\u201d.<\/p>\n
First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> 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;\"> The proletariat must be made to <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=21261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embrace the woke revolution<\/a> by their elitist superiors!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cJob listings on Eastern Washington University’s (EWU) \u2018Employment Opportunities\u2019 website appear to require applicants to get on board with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology as a condition of employment, from custodian to associate dean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEach job requires the applicant to write a \u2018Diversity Response\u2019 describing how they will \u2018apply an approach that is supportive to the diverse needs, including universal access, of our students, faculty, staff, and the public.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018[W]e are interested in how your qualifications prepare you to work with diverse faculty, staff, and student populations representing various cultures and backgrounds that may be different from your own,\u2019 each job description reads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA \u2018Tribal Land Acknowledgement\u2019 is also featured with every job posting.\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--> And oh how they want everyone to embrace the woke revolution and its twisted obsession with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2022\/06\/bryn-mawr-college-faculty-approve-new-power-inequality-and-justice-distribution-requirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">power, inequality, and justice<\/a>\u201d…<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn May, faculty at my alma mater, Bryn 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: 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;\"> And that woke revolution is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/scholars-abolish-the-family-speech-hosted-at-umass-boston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going after families<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHillary Clinton once famously wrote a book titled \u2018It Takes A Village.\u2019 One feminist scholar is taking that argument one step further, arguing children should be raised by society rather than just their parents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAn expert on \u2018feminist, trans and queer politics and philosophy,\u2019 scholar Sophie Lewis on Nov. 16 spoke at UMass Boston at an event named after her October 2022 book, \u2018Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLewis has said in her various writing and interviews that her goal through \u2018abolishing the family\u2019 is to reimagine the notion of the family past fatherhood and motherhood into a more universal sense, where children are not \u2018property\u2019 of parents, but raised by society as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> 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=\"Academic Madness: Woke Janitors; 'Power, Inequity, and Justice'; 'Abolish the Family'\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Clean-up in aisle 'woke'.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. 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