When Questions Become Harassment
…search for universal truth. It argues that the subjective identities of oppressed groups must be “made real” so that they can empower themselves and fight for social justice. This means…
…search for universal truth. It argues that the subjective identities of oppressed groups must be “made real” so that they can empower themselves and fight for social justice. This means…
…the Constitution and continue the American experiment. Consider the enthusiasm for “equity” as the new metric for social change: Equity as action. Social and economic justice and racial equity requires…
…if they do not repeat identity politics talking points, and they fear social isolation if they are attacked as enemies of “social justice.” Professors fear both students and administrators, especially…
…or even a formal complaint of harassment. Campus life now resembles walking on eggshells; paranoia meets the quest for social justice. These impressions are confirmed by what colleges themselves report….
…the social-justice theme: For example, calls to decolonize higher education and academic disciplines ask those of us in dominant groups not only to update and change our curriculum and syllabi…
…about “anti-racist pedagogy,” “whiteness,” and “decolonizing the classroom.” According to the “anti-racism” guide, university teaching must be oriented toward social justice, decolonization, and “teaching for Black lives.” UCSD’s EDI Office…
…minor in social justice that is geared toward graduating students for activist careers after saturating them in Critical Race Theory (CRT). Perhaps even worse than the teaching of DEI concepts…
…environmental racism; climate justice; genomic justice; war technologies; medicine; public health; governance of science and technology; science policy; criminology, surveillance, and policing; border control; educational technologies; new media studies; critical…
…is a double-edged sword. Students are not saddled with the useless social justice courses that many now have to take at traditional institutions. But is it right for one’s curriculum…
…care more about appearing virtuous than they do about benefiting the victims they have both created and continue to harm with their well-intentioned, but destructive, campaign for social justice and…
…reading, math, and science, but a demonstration of virtue, of social justice. When schools teach the counterfactual lie that police every day murder innocent black and brown people, a lie…
…a college’s admissions rate low, and thereby maintain its elite status, is to entice students with struggles for the social justice most of them crave. Ergo, Hamilton invites to campus…
…today. No, the threat to academic freedom, according to the AAUP, is not the “social justice” political ideology that has become mandatory for all university employees today. Adherence to this…
…in implementing programs and institutional practices that serve the outcomes of social equity, inclusion, and justice, both internally and externally. America’s history soon will be rewritten to forward social justice…
…commitments to racial justice … [Universities] can consider a commitment to racial justice as part of a holistic admissions process.” [Related: “Moving Forward: Is Legacy Higher Ed a Lost Cause?”]…
…be placed on the scales of justice, individual versus intersectional identity, and the reality, or illusion, of social change. But these elements mean different things in each paradigm. See Figure…
…word “studies” is a reliable sign, if not an infallible one, that a department is devoted to activism rather than inquiry into truth. Other such departments include social justice, sustainability,…
…frivolous majors unable to repay crushing student loans. Or the many social justice programs whose purpose is only to provide iffy degrees to academically challenged youngsters who should not have…
…An ideology is a set of definitive and final answers to basic questions which allows no different or contrary ideas. “Social justice” ideology is based on a neo-Marxist social analysis…
…student plaintiff, who “endeavors to learn more about racial justice,” feels that she wouldn’t “fully explore certain views and modes of analyses,” including the idea of white privilege, as they…
…Justice.” The Heller School offers four concentrations for its graduate students, with social justice at the forefront of all of them. Heller’s “Economic and Racial Equity” concentration centers on how…
…both as a political form and a social structure. Basic reasons for reading Democracy in America include the author’s multicausal explanations of the traditions, customs, and habits driving the history…
…to fight and stand for justice in Palestine,” “justice” presumably meaning the continued murder of Israelis in the name of Palestinian self-determination. One of those named “martyrs,” Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, also…
In my recent discussion with Michael Rectenwald—a former New York University professor and author of Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage—we discussed how satire was one of…
…somehow represents social justice, rationality, equity, morality, or diplomatic exigency. Only on campuses peppered with woke, seemingly tolerant social justice warriors could such demands even be uttered, let alone acted…
Where To Begin? When tracing the origins of today’s academic chaos, many point to the social upheaval that rocked America in the 1960s and ‘70s. Others go a bit further…
…from them looking like justice and law. History also clarifies Tocqueville’s concerns. The French Revolution spawned Napoleon, who left 3.25 to 6.5 million dead after sacking Europe’s Ancien Régime in…
…like Kahane Chai to harass her campus enemies (“No Justice, No Peace”), including thinly veiled threats of violence. In other words, it’s the same old story—Jews resort to intellectual brilliance,…
…Dorr LLP, which bills its clients up to $1,000 an hour. The UNC brief, filed by both the university and the State of North Carolina Department of Justice, was written…
…the theories of racial “equity” that now abound in medical schools will be ill-equipped to treat patients who suffer from actual ailments, as opposed to figments of the social justice…