tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post4991375222841071703..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: College SnitchesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-66686630057941514552017-05-13T12:47:06.803-04:002017-05-13T12:47:06.803-04:00At the end of 'A Man for All Seasons', Pau...At the end of 'A Man for All Seasons', Paul Scofield<br />as Thomas Moore rebukes John Hurt as Richard<br />Rich, saying (words to the effect) 'A man should not<br />sell his soul for the whole world. But for Wales?'<br /><br />(Having just given false testimony to send Moore<br />to the executioner's block, Rich is wearing the chain<br />of office for his newly obtained position, Attorney<br />General of Wales).<br /><br />These people are selling their souls for $10 an hour.<br /><br />DougDoug Mayfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14620167852028046807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-16157274077112395392017-05-12T23:22:59.778-04:002017-05-12T23:22:59.778-04:00From a reader who wasn't able to post a commen...From a reader who wasn't able to post a comment:<br /><br />"The position also aims to increase understanding of one’s own self through critical reflection of power and privilege, identity and intersectionality, systems of socialization, cultural competency and allyship as they pertain to the acknowledgement, understanding and acceptance of differences. Finally, this position intends to increase a student staff member’s ability to openly lead conversations, discuss differences and confront diversely insensitive behavior."<br /><br />In other words, a re-education camp guard job at 10 bucks an hour. Sort of a combination whore, snitch, and thug, which should be treated with appropriate contempt and defiance. Except that when mommy and daddy are shelling out 40 grand annually to send you to this glorified Ivy League version of a Moonie "love-bombing" weekend, Scientology e-meter "auditing", or, as Greenfield aptly points out, North Korea, the healthy impulse to poke a sharp stick in the eye of some little twit trying to coerce you into "difference discussions" to "confront diversely insensitive behavior" is, unfortunately, likely to be inhibited. In other words, they have got you where they want you.<br /><br />Since most of the administrators and faculty members assumed leadership positions in this cult long ago and have no interest in defending the right of their students to think and speak freely -- which should have been a primary concern of their institutions -- it's going to be up to rational parents to determine which colleges and universities are relatively free of this ideological tyranny and refuse to foot the bill for their offspring to attend 40 grand a year postmodernism brainwashing sessions. If too many of them punt this responsibility the future appears rather bleak.Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.com