The Campus 'Diversity' Menace Comes to Yale

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It is increasingly obvious that modern Americans universities, which are less institutions of unfettered intellectual pursuit than they are "madrasas of wokeness," to borrow from the Independent Women's Forum's Inez Feltscher Stepman, are unsalvageable in most present manifestations. Though there are notable exceptions, many American universities are actually worse than unsalvageable. On-campus debauchery spoils matriculants' lingering senses of virtue and propriety, and woke classroom indoctrination and divisive intersectional poison vitiates the mutually interdependent bonds of citizenry without which no people can cohere. As Arthur Milikh soberly concluded in a 2020 National Affairs essay, "Preventing Suicide by Higher Education": "Universities that spread poisonous doctrines no longer believe in the purpose of the university."
Pedagogical and curricular debasement aside, one concrete manifestation of this now-decades-long corruption has been the engorgement of on-campus administrative bureaucracies tending to all sorts of "diversity" needs. As Heather Mac Donald's 2018 book "The Diversity Delusion" helped demonstrate, the core university mission -- ostensibly, to pursue truth and produce citizen-statesmen capable of advancing the national interest -- has been steadily undermined by the university's imbibing of various woke fetishes and "diversity" diktats like mother's milk. Even hold aside the institutionalized racism of affirmative action, modern "diversitycrat" commissars rove campus for possible Title VI violations, enforce "equitable" faculty hiring quotas and more generally seek to police and enforce intersectionality's hierarchy of alleged victimhood.

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An eye-opening recent report from The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium reveals how this cancerous operation can play out in practice. At top-ranked Yale Law School, a second-year student and member of both the Native American Law Students Association and the conservative/libertarian Federalist Society sent an email inviting classmates to an event: "We will be christening our very own (soon to be) world-renowned NALSA Trap House... by throwing a Constitution Day Bash in collaboration with FedSoc." The student added that the event would include "American-themed snacks" such as "Popeye's chicken" and "apple pie."
Within minutes of the email's mass distribution, the student's wokerati classmates were already signaling intense aggrievement. Some immediately concluded, with all the charity of Ebenezer Scrooge, that "trap house" necessarily connoted a nefarious blackface party. The president of the Black Law Students Association quickly wrote in an online forum available to all second-year Yale Law School students: "I guess celebrating whiteness wasn't enough. Y'all had to upgrade to cosplay/black face." We have fallen a long way from the stirring peroration of Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (conveniently available online via Yale Law School) about the imperative to maintain "malice toward none" and "charity for all."



If the story were to end there, it would be unfortunate, but hardly newsworthy. But it didn't. Twelve hours after the email's distribution, the student was summoned to the Office of Student Affairs and presented by the law school's associate dean and diversity director with a laundry list of already filed grievances. The diversitycrat, a former Obama White House flunky, lamented how the student's affiliation with FedSoc, a very mainstream right-of-center outfit often criticized by frustrated legal conservatives such as this columnist, "triggered" some classmates. The administrators not-so-subtly hinted that the student could face serious professional consequences, such as not being admitted to the bar association, if he did not apologize. The diversitycrat then drafted herself an "apology" letter, Soviet-style, and oh-so-kindly "offered" the student the chance to send the apology in lieu of "character-driven rehabilitation."
But the key takeaway from this sordid ordeal is how the diversitycrat responded to the student's demurring and suggestion to instead let his classmates reach out to him individually: "I don't want to make our office look like an ineffective source of resolution." And there lies the rub.


The diversitycrat's line gives away the entire game, exposing how the very act of mass-hiring professional "diversity" personnel -- especially on campus, but also in the corporate world, where it usually goes under the heading of "diversity, equity and inclusion" -- necessarily leads, without additional firm guardrails in place, to witch hunts such as this. Commissars expressly hired to police "diversity" have, by very dint of what their positions necessarily are, built-in incentives to embellish and fabulize stories such as this in order to justify their very existence. The more the on-campus diversitycrat bureaucracy engorges, the more professionals there are who engage in roving inquisitions to seek, Ibram X. Kendi-style, the eradication of any and all "wrongthink" that may offend intersectional sensibilities. And these professionals must then justify their perches to administrative higher-ups: "I don't want to make our office look like an ineffective source of resolution" might as well translate to, "Help me validate my job's existence."

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The great irony is that, at a campus such as Yale's, the near-ubiquitous and oppressive leftism means there is sufficient social opprobrium to deter most perceived "deviations" such as this. On-campus leftists ought to be comforted, in other words, by their own side's ability to self-police the commons. But they won't because the objective is not to "win" the campus wars. They've already done that. The objective is to make the other side feel pain.




This is teh DPST party of 'tolerance and diversity" - which in reality - as all DPST Lies - is only communist jackboot concentration camps uniformity of racism and marxism.



Buck fiden
Buck yale


From my cold dead hands - DPST communists

Who’s a communist? Maybe you need to reassess your rude and insulting repetitive speech patterns before your hands get cold.

And wouldn’t that be “Yuck Fale?”

You slipping man.

See # 17

SEE # 17 And schools
“… At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen.

1963 COMMUNIST GOALS

1 – U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2 – U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3 – Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4 – Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5 – Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6 – Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7 – Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8 – Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9 – Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10 – Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11 – Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12 – Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13 – Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14 – Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15 – Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. – Democrat Party is now captured.
16 – Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17 – Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks. – Done.
18 – Gain control of all student newspapers.
19 – Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20 – Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21 – Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22 – Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23 – Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24 – Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25 – Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26 – Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27 – Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28 – Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29 – Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30 – Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31 – Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32 – Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33 – Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34 – Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35 – Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36 – Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37 – Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38 – Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39 – Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40 – Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41 – Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42 – Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems.
43 – Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self- government.
44 – Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45 – Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
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we are getting a severe taste of the vileness that couples itself with the authoritarianism of the small-minded left

the dimocrat party, in its present form, is anti-American

there have been only brief stretches of time in its history when it wasn't

Right Are they "tone deaf " or and agenda ,,,

Right Are they "tone deaf " or and agenda ,,, Originally Posted by rexdutchman

What language is this?

Again don't ague the point just personal attacks Hmm

Again don't ague the point just personal attacks Hmm Originally Posted by rexdutchman

Hmm, you need to make a point before someone can ague it. You post a gazillion obtuse threads every morning but run away wherever anybody challenges anything about them.

Glass houses, Rex.

Hmm, you need to make a point before someone can ague it. You post a gazillion obtuse threads every morning but run away wherever anybody challenges anything about them.

Glass houses, Rex. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Says the guy who has me on ignore...
What the American people say to your "free America" ...Let's go Brandon!!

I guess when you ignore all points ( that are inconvenient ) you have no argument

I guess when you ignore all points ( that are inconvenient ) you have no argument Originally Posted by rexdutchman

Do you seriously expect us to argue with you, about Communist goals from 1963?

pfd - when they come for You ............


Buck fiden

From my cold dead hands!

pfd - when they come for You ........... Originally Posted by oeb11

Who is gonna come for me? The communists from 1963? Rexdutchman, Nevergiveitathought, you?

I have no fear...

I do pray for you - pfd!
the Prayer of teh liberal cultists party is:


1963 COMMUNIST GOALS

1 – U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2 – U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3 – Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4 – Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5 – Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6 – Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7 – Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8 – Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9 – Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10 – Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11 – Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12 – Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13 – Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14 – Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15 – Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. – Democrat Party is now captured.
16 – Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17 – Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks. – Done.
18 – Gain control of all student newspapers.
19 – Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20 – Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21 – Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22 – Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23 – Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24 – Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25 – Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26 – Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27 – Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28 – Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29 – Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30 – Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31 – Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32 – Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33 – Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34 – Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35 – Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36 – Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37 – Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38 – Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39 – Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40 – Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41 – Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42 – Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems.
43 – Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self- government.
44 – Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45 – Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
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I do pray for you - pfd! Originally Posted by oeb11

You're wasting your time!

There is no God. I control my own destiny.

If you want to pray, pray for yourself!