I think you will find this is true in most colleges and universities today. The American education system has become what it was always meant to be way back in the days of Owens, Mann and Dewey.....a system of indoctrination not academic education. I have always said college was nothing but communist finishing school and I believe it even more today than ever before. The communists know in order to change a culture it starts in the education system. The planned destruction of the family plays a strong part as well. In my day college was only for those students that wished to advance in a career that required college.....doctor, lawyer, engineer, teacher. The rest of us went out got a job, learned skills and for the most part were successful. The push to get EVERY student into college to me was only part of the indoctrination agenda. If parents really cared about their children's future and the future of this country they would home educate and make sure their children learn a craft that does not require college. I know many kids that have graduated college in the past 5 years and not one of them is working in a field related to their degree. They are working at menial jobs they could have gotten without college and without a ton of college debt.
Well, there was a very strong push for college education in the Soviet Union to get more scientists, engineers, and physicists. While they were not teaching the destruction of the family (quite the opposite was true), the ideological communist indoctrination was also very strong.
I only wish many kids that have graduated college recently, have chosen their degrees more wisely before they had committed a tremendous amount of time and money for something that has no value today.
The commie professors of American higher ed have never had to deal with any sort of actual responsibilities, so the sexual revolution never endured any sort of stampout nor persecution as was the case of actual commie countries. While the logical conclusion of socialism should lead to the abolition of the family, this weakens any group too much for those both in power and on a war footing to tolerate, so socialist countries are almost always more conservative sexually than capitalist countries. Everyone hears about the Nazis anti-gay campaign, but the Soviets were just as persecutory of homosexuality under Stalin, and still pretty bad even post-Stalin. Certainly way worse than anywhere in the Free World at the time.
Though truthfully, despite the danger-hair protestations, persecuting gays is also a logical conclusion of socialism. If your goal is equality at all costs, you absolutely should see to it that everybody possible has as similar a background as possible, and you can't very well have that when you can't even get people to behave the same in their sexual and familial lives.
While I agree that nowadays college campuses, faculty and administrators are all falling to this woke DEI bullshit, I have issue with the belittling you seem to espouse to those of us that went onto college to continue our quest for knowledge whether or not it enhanced our capabilities to advance ourselves in the workplace or not. My college experience in the early 80’s enabled me to think for myself where I learned that hard work and determination payed off whether on the college basketball team or working side jobs cleaning houses thus enabling me to study abroad my jr. year. So get off your high horse and consider that the “school of hard knocks” was also part of a college education of those that truly sought higher thought
I still stand firm on the fact that there is more to learn from living life as the best experience to teach people how to survive and think for themselves. If you had to go to college to learn to think for yourself then something was lacking in your younger years. I believe you are in a small minority and I am talking about the current education system not the system from the 60's, 70's 80's.....although it started in earnest in the 80's you probably escaped the worst of it. But sorry going to college just to expand your horizons is a waste of money and time. Today college teaches WHAT TO THINK not HOW TO THINK. I am not on a high horse I am facing reality. Like I said every child of my friends that has graduated (as I stated) in the PAST 5 YEARS is working a job they could have gotten with a GED and they are in debt for an expensive college degree that has gotten them nowhere but in debt and most of them are still living at home unable to live on their own.
You missed my point. I too agree with you about college these days and sad to hear about grads of your friends in the past 5 years inability to secure lucrative careers….maybe it’s the parenting, the current economic crisis or the kids themselves who are to blame. Fortunately, my kids and their cousins are all successful, well adjusted members of society “in spite of their higher education”
Career that require a college degree of course they need to additional education but personally I would hesitate to venture in to many of those careers because they too are filled with globalist, anti-american, anti-science BS. When I graduated HS the majority of us went into the workforce not college. Only those that were looking to be doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers etc. went on to higher education. I was one of those that went into the work force and I ended up making more money and accomplished more success than many of my friends that went on to college.
It's not only about doctors or teachers. With only a very few exceptions, the vast majority of the Fortune 500 CEOs have college degrees, because a good useful college degree helps you a lot.
We will just agree to disagree. The most intelligent people I know do not have a college degree. I achieved great success in my career and made a ton of money with a high school diploma. College would have probably proven to have done more harm for me than good and I see that in many other kids as well. Being smart is not enough. Most of the CEOs are so disconnected from the real world and they have done more harm to this country than the every day blue collar working man.
Damn right Lulu. Let’s not project our failure to discover the possibilities in carving your own path through American higher education. I got a BA in Finance and graduated months prior to financial crisis of 08’. Then on to grad school for an MHA. I’m not in the finance industry nor am I hospital administrator or in a C-suite of the like… but like Lulu says, I learned how to educate myself, respect and be humbled by those that know and DO more, speak up when I’m lost or need help, and respectfully disengage with countless idiots. Most young adults (then and even more so now) never learn critical thinking or the value of self reflection. I believe there are plenty like me and Lulu that DID obtain something of incredible value by going to college. Let’s not generalize to the point we dismiss real shared experiences that are still accessible to young minds today. Let’s walk AND chew gum. And maybe even whistle from time to time.
I worked for several years at Stanford's "feeder college" in San Mateo (CSM). They radicalized within the span of 3 years. They also had a lot of corruption going on - the former chancellor is under investigation, not sure where that's gone, and I watched the process from normal to DEI... it was not pretty. I had a seat at the table and saw directly how there was really no discussion, just demands handed down. They did spend some time conditioning us (or attempting to), and most bought in. For instance, they brought in latina (latinx - hahahaha) or black women to speak on our big days that featured guest speakers. They'd all be PhDs with published works about hate whitey, basically, and they would stand in front of us (mostly white) admins and faculty and tell us what racist scum we were. I saw conversion throes of the brainwashed in webinars, one woman crying and renouncing her former "racist" status. This took place between 2017 and 2020. Then Covid took over and doubled down on everything. This is such an engineered process. I could write a book.
I think during and after covid there was a human instinct to think we must have angered the gods, and so we sent out sacrificial lambs/cancelled people to appease the gods because we recreated original sin with CRT and the NYT project. The need to believe new creation stories and that plagues are caused by woke sin (as opposed to US & China funded gain of function research, still waiting on the debate to stop funding it) is so much stronger than I would have imagined a decade ago. Back then I thought we were over and had evolved from antisemitism, too.
We have evolved past racism, antisemitism, etc. If you think suddenly people are bigots, you might be in the throes of mainstream media programming. The US kowtows to Israel in every way. People don't like it, they believe that money is needed here. That isn't antisemitism. Neither is it antisemitism to be criticial of politicians being forced to pledge allegiance to a foreign country (Israel) upon election. This was exposed by Tulsi Gabbard and others. Wokeism is simply communism - you can listen to James Lindsay's copious articles and lectures on the subject, or Peter Bogdassian's studies as well. They've done the homework for us. Lindsay ties every facet of it directly to Marxism in practice (not the toughest thing as it's been done before). If gain of function was the weapon it sure wasn't a great one. The "great pandemic" wasn't. A pandemic requires 4% of the population to die. For us, even with the grotesquely inflated numbers, old people and sick people killed on ventilators and marked "covid deaths" etc, the death rate was still well under 1%. So, a fake pandemic. Never before in the history of our planet has any country bent over backwards more for "BIPOC" (an insane term), giving them special rights, privileges and opportunities over the majority white population. So, the racism as well as antisemitism is just another accusatory tool used against anyone who doesn't succumb to the wokie belief system.
That’s why we call it the Demoralized DIEvy League. Saller is the interim president who stepped in after its previous president resigned due to academic fraud. Jonathan Levin, the current Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business, was appointed earlier in April and will begin his term in August. Most alums are bullish on him, but he let DIE/ESG take root in the business school and serves on Biden’s science and technology advisory board. Perhaps he should spend some time reading Rufo…
Perhaps Victor Davis Hanson might be approached for his thoughts on how best to roll back DEI at Stanford. He has long-time associations with the university directly (awarded his PhD and served as a visiting professor) and through his membership in the Hoover Institution there.
There is no magic formula, wise though VDH may be. The solution requires purging lots of people, and the clubby atmosphere of the academy makes that unpalatable for almost anyone who has risen its ranks.
Publicize Stanford’s racism frequently and everywhere. Let the country understand how depraved it has become so that young people will not apply. Let the best and freer thinking students go elsewhere. Let Stanford nail its own coffin.
I wouldn’t attend my alma maters again (Smith, M.I.T.). One has to do deep research. Even Berea College in Kentucky which we used to support has a huge DEI component now. Chicago U is known for its support of ‘free speech’.....
I appreciate your stance, but current you has an MIT degree, and alternate reality you would certainly be looking for the same level of prestige. Much to be said for Hillsdale, but the sheepskin they issue doesn’t carry the same weight. As for U of Chicago, seems like a slightly less crazy version of the Ivy formula—a difference in degree, not kind.
Replacing prestige is hard, and takes time. Ycombinator is the most interesting high-prestige institution created from scratch in the last 50 years. Lots to learn from it, I think.
Forbes just ranked the flag ship University of Florida in the national top ten for curriculum leading to the graduates being among the most sought after recruits for full time employment post graduation. This is due to many factors but one of the most important is the disbanding of destructive DEI initiatives throughout the state university system in Florida. Many kudos to Christopher Rufo and Ron DeSantis for leading the way and remaining steadfast to the principle of meritocracy.
This United States is becoming a better place with Christopher now more visible across all media in his push to inform and to eradicate this Hegelian Dialectic Process that is consuming our institutions..government and education. Total respect, Chris!
Hear! Hear! I don't have many heroes left, alas, but Christopher F. Rufo is among the select few and, I expect, will remain for many years in that august company.
This is great news. Congratulations to Christopher Rufo and associates, and what a pleasure to see that employers are adjusting their recruiting priorities toward competence, ability, and merit, and away from DEI. These kinds of real-world results usually don't occur so quickly. The fact that results have occurred quickly shows that other educational institutions will be well-advised to dismantle their DEI bureaucracies if they want their graduates to get employment offers. Thanks Laurie Newsom for flagging this key news.
"The highest concentration is in Stanford’s medical school, which has at least 46 diversity officials."
"In the sciences, explicit race and sex discrimination in pursuit of diversity.”
Translation: your research shall be evaluated first by your melanin content and a distant 2nd and 3rd by its veracity and replicability.
This is the same way the Soviet Union ended up with Lysenko's genetics theories. His quackery was 100% wrong (and resulted in crop failures that starved millions) but were promoted by the highest levels of power in the USSR because they comported with communist political ideology about environmental conditioning.
We are making the same mistake, judging science on its support of a political agenda instead of on its ability to describe the world accurately.
After nearly 30 years in charge of Soviet genetics, Lysenkjo was finally dethroned by a brave scientist named Sakharov, who dared to denounce him publicly, but hundreds of good scientists were sent to gulags as heretics during Lysenko's reign. (Any similarity to the DEI and trans crazes currently sweeping the West is purely coincidental, of course.)
Highly recommend reading Scott Walter’s remarkable book, Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America. Those minds of mush are bought & paid for across the US.
The truth is what no one under these regimes will say out loud: There simply are not enough qualified diversity hires to fulfill this mandate. You have to have blinders on not to see this and I suspect many responsible for ensuring diversity hires know this. If these DEI apparatchiks really cared about equality* they would devote their efforts to finding out why there aren't enough qualified people in underrepresented groups and work to solve that. *Since that is not the DEI mandate, equity is a stand-in for true equality. This is dishonest and will one day backfire.
It’s not only this place. Pretty much all aspirational Ivy League universities, gov’t alphabet agencies, many companies, especially high tech, and a host of other nooks and crannies in our world have been taken over by ideologues.
What is the difference between the DEI and the Politburo?
Same ideology, same tactics, and pushing for the same result: elites running the country.
Imagine weekly DEI meetings. Its a job where your work is never done. Somewhere somehow there
is racial inequality that needs to be rooted out. It must feel like a Sunday church service without the music. I'm guessing its the kind of meeting that would make the Politburo or KGB proud.
I don't know why the right and MAGA don't ask America the obvious question: Do you want to be governed like China or Russia?
I laugh at the suggestion by the left (its total projection) that fascism is coming from the right.
Lower taxes, owning your own gun, free speech, & free social media expression doesn't sound like the pathway to authoritarian governance.
It is textbook communism, and I say that as someone who bought into it for a good number of years. James Lindsay is doing excellent work on connecting the dots in that regard, I highly recommend him. He was also considered a "lefty" but like me, I'm pretty sure now he does not do labels.
They also have 10? 15? Administrators for every 1 student. Something like that. It's ridiculous. Coming from another top-heavy, admin-filled college, it's why colleges and universities are looking at collapse. That and recruiting and educating for free their precious "BIPOCs" who don't earn their diplomas but are shuffled through and hand-held for their entire experience as part of this great experiment in communism.
At Columbia University in the City of New York New York, there are 19,076 full-time and 3,209 part-time staffs work at Columbia University. It has a total enrollment of 34,782 including undergraduate and graduate schools and students to faculty ratio is 6 to 1.
AND the administrators make tons of $$$ - bloated salaries. And the faculty are screwed, they don't make much. Especially adjuncts. It's a horrible situation.
I think you will find this is true in most colleges and universities today. The American education system has become what it was always meant to be way back in the days of Owens, Mann and Dewey.....a system of indoctrination not academic education. I have always said college was nothing but communist finishing school and I believe it even more today than ever before. The communists know in order to change a culture it starts in the education system. The planned destruction of the family plays a strong part as well. In my day college was only for those students that wished to advance in a career that required college.....doctor, lawyer, engineer, teacher. The rest of us went out got a job, learned skills and for the most part were successful. The push to get EVERY student into college to me was only part of the indoctrination agenda. If parents really cared about their children's future and the future of this country they would home educate and make sure their children learn a craft that does not require college. I know many kids that have graduated college in the past 5 years and not one of them is working in a field related to their degree. They are working at menial jobs they could have gotten without college and without a ton of college debt.
Well, there was a very strong push for college education in the Soviet Union to get more scientists, engineers, and physicists. While they were not teaching the destruction of the family (quite the opposite was true), the ideological communist indoctrination was also very strong.
I only wish many kids that have graduated college recently, have chosen their degrees more wisely before they had committed a tremendous amount of time and money for something that has no value today.
The commie professors of American higher ed have never had to deal with any sort of actual responsibilities, so the sexual revolution never endured any sort of stampout nor persecution as was the case of actual commie countries. While the logical conclusion of socialism should lead to the abolition of the family, this weakens any group too much for those both in power and on a war footing to tolerate, so socialist countries are almost always more conservative sexually than capitalist countries. Everyone hears about the Nazis anti-gay campaign, but the Soviets were just as persecutory of homosexuality under Stalin, and still pretty bad even post-Stalin. Certainly way worse than anywhere in the Free World at the time.
Though truthfully, despite the danger-hair protestations, persecuting gays is also a logical conclusion of socialism. If your goal is equality at all costs, you absolutely should see to it that everybody possible has as similar a background as possible, and you can't very well have that when you can't even get people to behave the same in their sexual and familial lives.
yeah, I've always been wondering how they were going to make everyone of the same age lol. Otherwise, you will never get equality at all costs
While I agree that nowadays college campuses, faculty and administrators are all falling to this woke DEI bullshit, I have issue with the belittling you seem to espouse to those of us that went onto college to continue our quest for knowledge whether or not it enhanced our capabilities to advance ourselves in the workplace or not. My college experience in the early 80’s enabled me to think for myself where I learned that hard work and determination payed off whether on the college basketball team or working side jobs cleaning houses thus enabling me to study abroad my jr. year. So get off your high horse and consider that the “school of hard knocks” was also part of a college education of those that truly sought higher thought
I still stand firm on the fact that there is more to learn from living life as the best experience to teach people how to survive and think for themselves. If you had to go to college to learn to think for yourself then something was lacking in your younger years. I believe you are in a small minority and I am talking about the current education system not the system from the 60's, 70's 80's.....although it started in earnest in the 80's you probably escaped the worst of it. But sorry going to college just to expand your horizons is a waste of money and time. Today college teaches WHAT TO THINK not HOW TO THINK. I am not on a high horse I am facing reality. Like I said every child of my friends that has graduated (as I stated) in the PAST 5 YEARS is working a job they could have gotten with a GED and they are in debt for an expensive college degree that has gotten them nowhere but in debt and most of them are still living at home unable to live on their own.
You missed my point. I too agree with you about college these days and sad to hear about grads of your friends in the past 5 years inability to secure lucrative careers….maybe it’s the parenting, the current economic crisis or the kids themselves who are to blame. Fortunately, my kids and their cousins are all successful, well adjusted members of society “in spite of their higher education”
I assume that you would still like your doctors, engineers, lawyers, dentists, vets, etc etc still to have university educations?
Career that require a college degree of course they need to additional education but personally I would hesitate to venture in to many of those careers because they too are filled with globalist, anti-american, anti-science BS. When I graduated HS the majority of us went into the workforce not college. Only those that were looking to be doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers etc. went on to higher education. I was one of those that went into the work force and I ended up making more money and accomplished more success than many of my friends that went on to college.
It's not only about doctors or teachers. With only a very few exceptions, the vast majority of the Fortune 500 CEOs have college degrees, because a good useful college degree helps you a lot.
We will just agree to disagree. The most intelligent people I know do not have a college degree. I achieved great success in my career and made a ton of money with a high school diploma. College would have probably proven to have done more harm for me than good and I see that in many other kids as well. Being smart is not enough. Most of the CEOs are so disconnected from the real world and they have done more harm to this country than the every day blue collar working man.
Damn right Lulu. Let’s not project our failure to discover the possibilities in carving your own path through American higher education. I got a BA in Finance and graduated months prior to financial crisis of 08’. Then on to grad school for an MHA. I’m not in the finance industry nor am I hospital administrator or in a C-suite of the like… but like Lulu says, I learned how to educate myself, respect and be humbled by those that know and DO more, speak up when I’m lost or need help, and respectfully disengage with countless idiots. Most young adults (then and even more so now) never learn critical thinking or the value of self reflection. I believe there are plenty like me and Lulu that DID obtain something of incredible value by going to college. Let’s not generalize to the point we dismiss real shared experiences that are still accessible to young minds today. Let’s walk AND chew gum. And maybe even whistle from time to time.
It appears that "thinking for oneself" is the last thing these colleges are teaching. Can't have that sort of thing taking hold, can we?
Not true.
What percentage of Stanford students do you suppose are working side jobs? How many “hard knocks” kids are in attendance?
I worked for several years at Stanford's "feeder college" in San Mateo (CSM). They radicalized within the span of 3 years. They also had a lot of corruption going on - the former chancellor is under investigation, not sure where that's gone, and I watched the process from normal to DEI... it was not pretty. I had a seat at the table and saw directly how there was really no discussion, just demands handed down. They did spend some time conditioning us (or attempting to), and most bought in. For instance, they brought in latina (latinx - hahahaha) or black women to speak on our big days that featured guest speakers. They'd all be PhDs with published works about hate whitey, basically, and they would stand in front of us (mostly white) admins and faculty and tell us what racist scum we were. I saw conversion throes of the brainwashed in webinars, one woman crying and renouncing her former "racist" status. This took place between 2017 and 2020. Then Covid took over and doubled down on everything. This is such an engineered process. I could write a book.
Wow
FYI
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Write the book. Or at least a Substack. These first person accounts are invaluable.
Yes. Do it!!
Thank you for the encouragement :)
Amazing that you survived Mary Rose. Please do write a book….I’ll be your first sale 🇺🇸
I kept my mouth shut 'til I could quit. And thank you for the encouragement.
This sounds so much like Mao's China. Truly scary.
That webinar was literally a struggle session. I am not even exaggerating.
I second others comments. Write about this. Substack is a place you can do it easily.
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here is one
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Might be too dangerous. I have considered doing it, I go back and forth about it.
Please do, it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
I think during and after covid there was a human instinct to think we must have angered the gods, and so we sent out sacrificial lambs/cancelled people to appease the gods because we recreated original sin with CRT and the NYT project. The need to believe new creation stories and that plagues are caused by woke sin (as opposed to US & China funded gain of function research, still waiting on the debate to stop funding it) is so much stronger than I would have imagined a decade ago. Back then I thought we were over and had evolved from antisemitism, too.
We have evolved past racism, antisemitism, etc. If you think suddenly people are bigots, you might be in the throes of mainstream media programming. The US kowtows to Israel in every way. People don't like it, they believe that money is needed here. That isn't antisemitism. Neither is it antisemitism to be criticial of politicians being forced to pledge allegiance to a foreign country (Israel) upon election. This was exposed by Tulsi Gabbard and others. Wokeism is simply communism - you can listen to James Lindsay's copious articles and lectures on the subject, or Peter Bogdassian's studies as well. They've done the homework for us. Lindsay ties every facet of it directly to Marxism in practice (not the toughest thing as it's been done before). If gain of function was the weapon it sure wasn't a great one. The "great pandemic" wasn't. A pandemic requires 4% of the population to die. For us, even with the grotesquely inflated numbers, old people and sick people killed on ventilators and marked "covid deaths" etc, the death rate was still well under 1%. So, a fake pandemic. Never before in the history of our planet has any country bent over backwards more for "BIPOC" (an insane term), giving them special rights, privileges and opportunities over the majority white population. So, the racism as well as antisemitism is just another accusatory tool used against anyone who doesn't succumb to the wokie belief system.
That’s why we call it the Demoralized DIEvy League. Saller is the interim president who stepped in after its previous president resigned due to academic fraud. Jonathan Levin, the current Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business, was appointed earlier in April and will begin his term in August. Most alums are bullish on him, but he let DIE/ESG take root in the business school and serves on Biden’s science and technology advisory board. Perhaps he should spend some time reading Rufo…
Ahhhh, DEI
Didn't Earn it.
Democrat tokenism taken to the obscene extremes.
"Didn't Earn It"- BRILLIANT
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Perhaps Victor Davis Hanson might be approached for his thoughts on how best to roll back DEI at Stanford. He has long-time associations with the university directly (awarded his PhD and served as a visiting professor) and through his membership in the Hoover Institution there.
There is no magic formula, wise though VDH may be. The solution requires purging lots of people, and the clubby atmosphere of the academy makes that unpalatable for almost anyone who has risen its ranks.
Publicize Stanford’s racism frequently and everywhere. Let the country understand how depraved it has become so that young people will not apply. Let the best and freer thinking students go elsewhere. Let Stanford nail its own coffin.
Where to go? A sincere question
Hillsdale College
I love Hillsdale. I give them money and take free courses all the time.
I wouldn’t attend my alma maters again (Smith, M.I.T.). One has to do deep research. Even Berea College in Kentucky which we used to support has a huge DEI component now. Chicago U is known for its support of ‘free speech’.....
I appreciate your stance, but current you has an MIT degree, and alternate reality you would certainly be looking for the same level of prestige. Much to be said for Hillsdale, but the sheepskin they issue doesn’t carry the same weight. As for U of Chicago, seems like a slightly less crazy version of the Ivy formula—a difference in degree, not kind.
Replacing prestige is hard, and takes time. Ycombinator is the most interesting high-prestige institution created from scratch in the last 50 years. Lots to learn from it, I think.
Good stuff Christopher!
Thank you!
Keep up the good fight and be happy!
Forbes just ranked the flag ship University of Florida in the national top ten for curriculum leading to the graduates being among the most sought after recruits for full time employment post graduation. This is due to many factors but one of the most important is the disbanding of destructive DEI initiatives throughout the state university system in Florida. Many kudos to Christopher Rufo and Ron DeSantis for leading the way and remaining steadfast to the principle of meritocracy.
This United States is becoming a better place with Christopher now more visible across all media in his push to inform and to eradicate this Hegelian Dialectic Process that is consuming our institutions..government and education. Total respect, Chris!
Hear! Hear! I don't have many heroes left, alas, but Christopher F. Rufo is among the select few and, I expect, will remain for many years in that august company.
This is great news. Congratulations to Christopher Rufo and associates, and what a pleasure to see that employers are adjusting their recruiting priorities toward competence, ability, and merit, and away from DEI. These kinds of real-world results usually don't occur so quickly. The fact that results have occurred quickly shows that other educational institutions will be well-advised to dismantle their DEI bureaucracies if they want their graduates to get employment offers. Thanks Laurie Newsom for flagging this key news.
"The highest concentration is in Stanford’s medical school, which has at least 46 diversity officials."
"In the sciences, explicit race and sex discrimination in pursuit of diversity.”
Translation: your research shall be evaluated first by your melanin content and a distant 2nd and 3rd by its veracity and replicability.
This is the same way the Soviet Union ended up with Lysenko's genetics theories. His quackery was 100% wrong (and resulted in crop failures that starved millions) but were promoted by the highest levels of power in the USSR because they comported with communist political ideology about environmental conditioning.
We are making the same mistake, judging science on its support of a political agenda instead of on its ability to describe the world accurately.
After nearly 30 years in charge of Soviet genetics, Lysenkjo was finally dethroned by a brave scientist named Sakharov, who dared to denounce him publicly, but hundreds of good scientists were sent to gulags as heretics during Lysenko's reign. (Any similarity to the DEI and trans crazes currently sweeping the West is purely coincidental, of course.)
Highly recommend reading Scott Walter’s remarkable book, Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America. Those minds of mush are bought & paid for across the US.
"...say, Arabella, what's a fella to do?"
I'm completely fine with elite universities burning their reputations into the ground.
Agreed.
Democrats screech, NEED MORE CESSPOOL
The truth is what no one under these regimes will say out loud: There simply are not enough qualified diversity hires to fulfill this mandate. You have to have blinders on not to see this and I suspect many responsible for ensuring diversity hires know this. If these DEI apparatchiks really cared about equality* they would devote their efforts to finding out why there aren't enough qualified people in underrepresented groups and work to solve that. *Since that is not the DEI mandate, equity is a stand-in for true equality. This is dishonest and will one day backfire.
It is truly astonishing to see this magnificent edifice crumbling before our eyes.
It’s not only this place. Pretty much all aspirational Ivy League universities, gov’t alphabet agencies, many companies, especially high tech, and a host of other nooks and crannies in our world have been taken over by ideologues.
I gave up on my undergraduate alma mater Georgetown quite a few years ago.
Problem is, it hasn't given up on you (and yours).
The Stanford campus is beautiful and should be repurposed to some kind of productive use.
😂😂😂
What is the difference between the DEI and the Politburo?
Same ideology, same tactics, and pushing for the same result: elites running the country.
Imagine weekly DEI meetings. Its a job where your work is never done. Somewhere somehow there
is racial inequality that needs to be rooted out. It must feel like a Sunday church service without the music. I'm guessing its the kind of meeting that would make the Politburo or KGB proud.
I don't know why the right and MAGA don't ask America the obvious question: Do you want to be governed like China or Russia?
I laugh at the suggestion by the left (its total projection) that fascism is coming from the right.
Lower taxes, owning your own gun, free speech, & free social media expression doesn't sound like the pathway to authoritarian governance.
It is textbook communism, and I say that as someone who bought into it for a good number of years. James Lindsay is doing excellent work on connecting the dots in that regard, I highly recommend him. He was also considered a "lefty" but like me, I'm pretty sure now he does not do labels.
This isn’t going to stop until ALL government funding ends. Stanford has $36Bil in endowments. They don’t even need gov money.
https://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances/
They also have 10? 15? Administrators for every 1 student. Something like that. It's ridiculous. Coming from another top-heavy, admin-filled college, it's why colleges and universities are looking at collapse. That and recruiting and educating for free their precious "BIPOCs" who don't earn their diplomas but are shuffled through and hand-held for their entire experience as part of this great experiment in communism.
At Columbia University in the City of New York New York, there are 19,076 full-time and 3,209 part-time staffs work at Columbia University. It has a total enrollment of 34,782 including undergraduate and graduate schools and students to faculty ratio is 6 to 1.
One can tell the degree of indoctrination by looking at these numbers. The higher the number of bureaucrats the most intense the indoctrination.
Can you give us your opinion on the ratio of bureaucrats to teaching staff and student that would not lead to indoctrination?
You know, the US still has the best universities anywhere.
Although this discussion on DEI is useful, you guys are "throwing out the baby with the bathwater".
AND the administrators make tons of $$$ - bloated salaries. And the faculty are screwed, they don't make much. Especially adjuncts. It's a horrible situation.
Chris, thank you for continuing to shine a light on this ideological plague infecting all aspects of our society.
The Stanford downward spiral begins….I don’t care what the subversive indoctrination camps do…..