{"id":20831,"date":"2024-06-05T08:40:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20831"},"modified":"2024-06-05T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:40:04","slug":"quick-takes-academic-madness-racist-picnics-woke-medicine-black-is-the-new-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/06\/05\/quick-takes-academic-madness-racist-picnics-woke-medicine-black-is-the-new-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Academic Madness: Racist Picnics; Woke Medicine; Black Is The New Gender"},"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: Maybe it\u2019s time we should retake the asylums from the inmates?<\/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\/uGHsxMqpL0c?si=gsBpAD2CceChjSxj\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" 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-3371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Marx_Graduation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Marx_Graduation.jpg 550w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Marx_Graduation-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Even if something isn\u2019t racist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/unlv-law-school-apologizes-for-using-word-picnic-changes-it-to-lunch-by-the-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it\u2019s still racist<\/a>, at least at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA scheduled \u2018picnic\u2019 sponsored by the University of Nevada Las Vegas law school\u2019s Environmental Law Society has been renamed \u2018Lunch by the Lake\u2019 due to \u2018diversity and inclusion\u2019 concerns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAccording to a memo obtained by Libs of TikTok, the law group informed members that the word \u2018picnic\u2019 has \u201chistorical and offensive connotations,\u201d and apologized for \u2018any harm or discomfort\u2019 caused by its use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe group\u2019s view mirrors that of the University of Michigan\u2019s IT department from several years ago: \u2018Picnic\u2019 was included in a \u2018Words Matter Task Force\u2019s\u2019 list of offensive words and phrases along with \u2018brown bag,\u2019 \u2018blacklist\u2019 and \u2018long time, no see\u2019 among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAt the time, Reuters did a fact check on the alleged offensiveness of \u2018picnic\u2019; its verdict: It \u2018does not originate from racist lynchings\u2019 but instead comes from the 300-plus-year-old French word \u2018pique-nique,\u2019 meaning a potluck-like social gathering.\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;Most <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2024\/02\/most-people-dont-realize-how-bad-the-situation-is-in-medical-schools-worse-than-in-general-higher-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical schools<\/a> have gone full woke.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe \u2018racialization of medical education\u2019 has created a \u2018national emergency\u2019 because many of America\u2019s future doctors are being inundated with critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to the founder of CriticalRace.org.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCriticalRace.org, which monitors CRT curricula and training in higher education, has expanded its Medical School Database to include all 155 accredited U.S. medical schools. Findings revealed a staggering 70 percent provide mandatory or voluntary CRT-related coursework or training for students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018The extent to which CRT\/DEI and related programming has worked its way into medical schools is truly shocking and worrisome. Racial and other activism should not be the focus of medical education,\u2019 William Jacobson told Fox News Digital\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018The ideological capture of over two-thirds of medical schools demonstrates that CRT\/DEI has become a part of the fabric of medical education. We are training future doctors to look at patients through a racial lens, with potentially frightening consequences for society,\u2019 Jacobson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018It\u2019s often said that collapse happens slowly, and then very suddenly. Medical school education is slowly collapsing, but it\u2019s not too late,\u2019 he continued. \u2018We need to stop the CRT\/DEI medical agenda before that collapse becomes irreversible.\u2019 \u2026.\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;Being Black isn\u2019t about race, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article\/my-gender-black-texas-state-textbook-full-leftist-insanity-exclusive-photos\/24860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moral purity<\/a> now\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA textbook used in a Texas State University English class contains multiple essays related to ideologies and theories associated with the left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe textbook, \u2018Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers\u2019 (Fifth Edition) by Barclay Barrios contains a collection of essays that are mostly focused on left wing-associated causes and subjects, and seemingly only one essay that focuses on conservative-leaning principles. The textbook is being taught to students at the English 1310: College Writing course at Texas State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe syllabus describes the class as an \u2018expository writing\u2019 course, and states: \u2018You will study the principles of effective composition, with emphasis on the improvement of your own texts through revision and the critical reading of substantive nonfiction texts. While self-expressive and narrative writing may serve as a means of supporting ideas within a given paper, such writing is not, in itself, the focus of the course.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Blackness ruptures the laws of gender just like the laws of the state seem intent on rupturing Black life. My gender is Black,\u2019 reads an excerpt from an essay titled \u2018My Gender Is Black\u2019 by Hari Ziyad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe essay argues that \u2018Blackness is not a race . . . Blackness is that which is denied access to humanity, and thus Blackness is denied access to human gender\/sexuality identities,\u2019 that \u2018[g]ender identity under whiteness is a tool, not an end,\u2019 and that \u2018none of us Black folk can \u2018conform\u2019 to manhood and womanhood as those constructs have been formed.\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_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Academic Madness: Racist Picnics; Woke Medicine; Black Is The New Gender\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Maybe it\u2019s time we should retake the asylums from the inmates?\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Marx_Graduation.jpg\"><\/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: Maybe it\u2019s time we should retake the asylums from the inmates? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/06\/05\/quick-takes-academic-madness-racist-picnics-woke-medicine-black-is-the-new-gender\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8,17],"tags":[25,42,69],"class_list":["post-20831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-higher-ed","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831","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=20831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20832,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions\/20832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}