"At the heart of this effort lies a bizarrely totalitarian ideology: student-activists think they have all the answers--everything is settled, and people who dissent are not merely wrong, but actually guilty of something approaching a crime. If they persist in this wrongness, they are perpetuating violence, activists will claim."

I am often told that the National Socialist Party were actually right wing because the left never does anything totalitarian.

"Have you seen the new edition of the Newspeak dictionary? It's *this* thick. The next edition will be -this- thick. It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

"Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc."

Orwell was just early by a few years, as the proletariat imagines themselves to be in charge of the surveillance they insist upon.

Cosh on point.

"young Robespierres in training"

Yep, that is a very accurate adjective - Robespierre.

Not only are they bringing about a "Reign of Terror" like Robespierre - all because they, like Robespierre, want a "Republic of Virtue"; but, they might end up under the guillotine themselves.

Instead of trying to rewrite history; they should try to learn from it.

Live by the sword; die by the sword.

Memo to legislators: stop subsidizing stupid.

Wow -- on the Cosh piece. Young woman running for office:

“I didn’t know what Auschwitz was, or I didn’t up until today.”

Where do these kids find the time for all this nonsense? My daughter attended a very liberal university; she took, on average, 18 units a semester, worked part time, and was captain of the women's crew team - and still managed to graduate in 3.5 years. There was very little free time in her schedule for hand-wringing and looking for problems where there weren't any. My head hurts to think what these babies will try to impose on the rest of us once they're out in the real world.

"And there's nothing wrong with that. These programs undoubtedly have much to offer ..."

No! They are racists and bigots and they have nothing of value to offer. They may wrap themselves in the words of inclusion but any glance at their actions show they are all about segregating and discriminating.

Ben beat me to it, but no, those courses have nothing to offer and never did. It's all of a continuum, and what is happening now is what was intended all along. They didn't go full Stalin right away simply because the lacked the political muscle to do so; for a while, it was necessary to soft-pedal and speak high-minded words, in order to win sympathy and draw in recruits. Now their armies are strong and, as they see it, there is no longer any need to make nice or engage in intellectual pretenses. The mask is coming off, and we now see the unbridled hatred that was there all along.

...with a major in social justice & peace studies.

WTF is a social justice and peace studies major? How am I supposed to take anyone seriously with a degree in social justice and peace studies?

“I didn’t know what Auschwitz was, or I didn’t up until today.”

Perhaps these advocates of changing the word "history" should spend more time studying it.

but, they might end up under the guillotine themselves. ~ Posted by: charles at March 8, 2016 2:32 AM

They will, whether literally or figuratively. The Revolution always eats its own, perhaps even ours. The French and Russian revolutions devolved quickly into chaos and terror. Perhaps the American revolution was doing a slow burn.

How to appease a psychopathic god:

Islamists shoot and behead dead poet's statue.

Argh! Wrong thread.

Nurse! I need 500ml of espresso, stat!

Office for Social Transformation, which would employ 15 students--young Robespierres in training

I look forward to the day they share the same fate as their predecessor did. Then I will cackle like Hillary - say, has anyone seen Hillary and Darth Sidious together? - and tell them:

Young fools... Only now, at the end, do you understand...Now, you will pay the price for your lack of vision!

Muslims shoot and behead dead poet's statue.

Fixed it for ya

Argh! Wrong thread.

I know you meant the linkies thread, but I think it fits just fine:

Activists have also demanded...which would employ 15 students...for the purposes of monitoring...Islamophobic

They'll accuse the dead poet of Islamophobia, and justify his statue's shooting and beheading as being an issue of social justice.

Don't you feel empowered?

Where do these kids find the time for all this nonsense?

There was an article about social justice worrier burnout. Ah, here it is:

http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/17308-when-activist-burnout-meets-anxiety-and-depression

See, your daughter stayed on point getting her studies done in excellent time, and doing crew. I would guess these people are taking 12 hours of credit, are living off their student loans, Pell grants, and other sources of money and working for their cause full time.

Remember that fact down the road, because they'll be at an #OCCUPY rally crying that they have $100,000 in student loans and no job prospects.

And they're loathe to dig ditches.

"Peace Studies", and she apparently knows nothing of the Holocaust, or likely any other aspect of WWII, I'll wager. Joe Halderman had it wrong: to understand (or appreciate) peace, you must study war. There is no other way.

From the Cosh article:

It seems some part of our system for producing intellectually responsible grownups has failed Johnstone.

Whatever could it be?

If the woman arrived at college without being an "intellectually responsible grownup," where oh where could the problem be?

If she arrived at college not knowing how to use a knife and fork, wipe herself, or do a load of laundry, we'd know where the problem was. Yet for some reason a generation of non-"intellectually responsible" adults — well, it must be the fault of the teachers. Or the administrators. Or... how dare you tell me how to raise my child?

Only problem with that Kevin is the teachers act in loco parentis all the time. Look at Gott v. Berea College. The courts upheld that the college could forbid students from patronizing a restaurant because of in loco parentis. There are plenty of other examples. So either be the parent and take responsibility or don't be the parent and don't take responsibility. You can't have it both ways and you can't separate the two.

Academia Delenda Est

Only problem with that Kevin is the teachers act in loco parentis all the time.

As I said: If the woman arrived at college without being an "intellectually responsible grownup," where oh where could the problem be?

Basic thinking skills and common sense are taught in the home, or should be. Where's the personal responsibility for these ding-dongs and their ding-dong parents?

"Look at Gott v. Berea College."

Do you have any cases decided within the last 100 years?

Sorry Dee I picked the first thing off the google search. You can use google as well as I can. It's not like this is a rare of unusual situation. The college acting as a parent increasingly is rare but grade schools and high schools do so quite often.

How about the school that strip searched a student over contraband ibuprofen? Safford Unified School District v. Redding, 2009.

So they want to put the variable x in History to make it Hxstory?

So when it is about men is it History and when it is about women it is Hostory?

The Latest In The Campus Idiocy Olympics: Replace The "His" In History With An "X"

I never thought of it as His Tory. I mean, what the fuck...Tory? What's that fucking mean?

It's Hi Story, you campus crusaders, the story of people through the ages greeting each other.

Don't call it Xstory. Bad move. That sounds like a name Microsoft or Comcast or a drug company would come up with. If you must change it, go for something like hi.story, to emphasize what it's about.

The presumed gender bias in the word, "history" is based on the assumption that the root of the word is "his story" due to the presence of a simulacrum of a male pronoun in the arrangement of the letters in the word.

It's an imagined slight. In a world in which women in non-Western societies are genitally mutilated, sold as marriage chattel, and forced to wear burlap sacks while having their intelligence and competence called into question in every facet of society, the slight that has these ninnies up in arms is the arrangement of letters in a word.

Keep in mind this offends them in only one language. In French, "histoire" does not contain that language's male pronouns; nor does "historia" in Spanish.

Notice that these horribly offended students are not storming the gates of the Académie française demanding that "histoire" be changed to "hxstoire."

The presence of letters arranged into "his" in the word make it, for some feminists, a male-oriented word and subject.

These are the same simpering ninnies who want "man" removed from "woman" because of the implied subjugation of womyn and who want a gender-neutral pronoun written into English by fiat, as exists in German (as if my ancestors didn't flee Germany in part to get away from German language nonsense).

The word "history" comes from the ancient Greek "historia" which means "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation"

"Historia" comes from the really ancient "histor" which referred to a judge, a learned and wise man (man only because Greek women were not allowed to serve as judges).

It was borrowed into Latin and from there, into the Romance languages and eventually into English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History

They want us to study Christery?