Laurier Censorship Scandal

[Kjesse]

Neither Nathan Rambukkana or Herbert Pimlott should be employed by any institution of higher learning. They are the antithesis of higher learning.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

It's not that surprising. This article explores some of the underlying assumptions that a bunch of people subscribe to, even certain posters on this board.

http://quillette.com/2017/12/09/whit...itical-theory/

GReat article on the application of Critical theory.

It's interesting as this is really Donald Trumps / Bannons playbook. Break down societal structures that preserve order and live in the chaos that ensues.

[Rubicant]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

It's not that surprising. This article explores some of the underlying assumptions that a bunch of people subscribe to, even certain posters on this board.

http://quillette.com/2017/12/09/whit...itical-theory/

That article does a pretty good job of explaining where this stuff is coming from. Approaching everything from a lens of disrupting societal structures based upon historical victimhood doesn't leave much room to search for objective truth.

I am seeing this line of thinking starting to influence education system policy as well.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...ticle37164450/

According to the new education theorists, equal outcomes cannot be achieved by equal treatment. The desired policy, as Ontario's equity plan explains, is "equity of treatment … because it includes acknowledging historical and present systemic discrimination against identified groups and removing barriers, eliminating discrimination and remedying the impact of past discrimination."

[GGG]

Decades of social-science research confirm that the biggest predictors of school achievement are family structure effects – family composition, stability, maternal education and socioeconomic status. These have nothing to do with entrenched systems of power and privilege, and everything to do with factors such as having two parents and close parental supervision. Sad to say, not all the anti-bias training in the world is going to change that.

Here is where the article misses the point. Socioeconomic status, family stability, maternal education etc have everything to do with the entrenched systems of power and refusing to recognize that in education and providing more resources to lower performing groups would be a mistake.

However the actions of desegregation of streams and other changes don't make sense as a solution to the identified problem. It's basically affirmative action taken to a perverse conclusion.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by GGG

It's interesting as this is really Donald Trumps / Bannons playbook. Break down societal structures that preserve order and live in the chaos that ensues.

The difference is Trump and his ilk are doing this deliberately. The identarian zealots have no idea how much those structures protect them, or the kind of ####storm they're unleashing by tearing them down. Their naivete would be touching if it weren't so destructive.

For instance, a few weeks ago the CBC did a story about the new requirement by the Law Society of Upper Canada making it mandatory for lawyers to abide by a statement of principles that recognizes systemic oppression in the legal profession and vow to "promote equality, diversity and inclusion generally, and in their behaviour towards colleagues, employees, clients and the public." In other words, lawyers are being told they must express a political value.

A lawyer expressed his concerns about politicizing the profession, pointing out that the compulsory expression of any political value was illiberal and potentially dangerous. The interviewer (Carol Off), and a woman who championed the statement, said there was no harm in making such a universally agreeable statement. They spoke of sentiment and compassion. He spoke of reason and the principles our laws are grounded in. They utterly failed to understand his opposition to the statement. It was as though they were speaking different languages.

The identarian zealots do not understand the system they're eagerly tearing down. All they see is white and male and CIS and oppression. They never stop to ask themselves why the Western culture they despise is the most liberal in the world. They don't stop to think about how other groups can use the same tactics they're employing to achieve very different ends. They lack the historical understanding or the imagination to see the dire consequences of pulling apart the foundations of liberal democracy.

Originally Posted by Rubicant

I am seeing this line of thinking starting to influence education system policy as well.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...ticle37164450/

Ten years ago we could laugh this stuff off as the rhetoric of powerless academics. No longer. It really is creeping into all of our public institutions.