Tiny Little SJW Despots
I increasingly get the idea that the "diversity!" and all the other SJW mandates they're screeching for on campuses aren't really the point.
I increasingly suspect that the point for students -- especially those in subjects where the word "hegemony" gets used with some frequency -- is to get their tiny little authoritarian rocks off.
Consider that if you are in the "hegemony!" arena of study, you are unlikely to learn skills or insights that will ever help you get your hands on real-world power. (Out here in the real world, people want to know what you're talking about relatively speedily -- without having to wade through a lot of post-structuralist bullshit.)
If you will never have real-world power, it's then important to get yourself some, well, TSA-style -- that is, to get yourself in a position to tell people who actually do run things how they're doing to have to do it.
That's what's happening on campuses -- like Ithaca College. At Campus Reform, Anthony Gockowski reports that weekly diversity discussion circle was launched -- in response to last fall's student demands (natch!), but nary a student has attended either of the first two sessions.
Out of 30 participants at the first discussion group on September 4, not one was a student. Attendance was even lower at the next week's meeting, and still no students were in attendance.
Hmmm, kind of like it's more about making the college do things than actually having a session anybody cares about.
There's doing something of value and then there's the look of doing something of value.
Like the rape crisis centers on campus that Katie Roiphe wrote about.
Nobody called. Nobody came.
Hmm...perhaps that because the women most in danger of being raped are poor and homeless women in dangerous urban areas.
Now there's where those shiny rape crisis centers would come in handy. Hmm, and maybe even a bed or two and a sandwich.
Unfortunately, getting all of that done doesn't fit any multi-culti mandates.
via @rogerlsimon
The only thing you are missing is that the administration is in on it too. Not all the faculty but most of the administration. When students try these gestapo techniques without administration support they get shut down toot sweet.
Ben at September 22, 2016 5:10 AM
"Out of 30 participants at the first discussion group on September 4, not one was a student. Attendance was even lower at the next week's meeting, and still no students were in attendance."
Are you blaming the victim (the students)?
Wow! Next thing you know they'll have to look both ways before crossing the street!
Bob in Texas at September 22, 2016 5:37 AM
"Like the rape crisis centers on campus that Katie Roiphe wrote about.
Nobody called. Nobody came."
Well you have to give these "women" a year or so to figure it out in a "girls only night out" session.
It's not like it matters to the college administrators if it happened months and months ago.
Bob in Texas at September 22, 2016 5:41 AM
If I had been raped during my time at Smith, I would not have called the women's resource shelter or the rape crisis center, I would have called the cops. Or health services.
NicoleK at September 22, 2016 6:22 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2016/09/tiny-little-des.html#comment-6528229">comment from NicoleKThat would be the appropriate thing to do, NicoleK, since rape is crime, not a campus activity.
Amy Alkon
at September 22, 2016 6:24 AM
Until you have to report it to the campus police by default (i.e., your 911 call is routed there) and they decide it's a campus discipline matter instead of a criminal matter.
Conan the Grammarian at September 22, 2016 7:10 PM
If you go to the hospital, though it would get reported. Which you'd want to do to get a rape kit and stuff.
NicoleK at September 23, 2016 12:08 AM
Until you have to report it to the campus police by default (i.e., your 911 call is routed there)
All municipal police departments have phone numbers.
dee nile at September 23, 2016 4:38 AM
True, but your tendency after being the victim of a crime is to call 911. When the kindly campus rent-a-cop later tells you the perpetrator will be punished, you think you're in good hands. As a student, you may be legally an adult, but you tend to defer to adult authority figures.
The law should require all crimes on college campuses to be reported to the actual police and have a prescribed punishment for campus officials who fail to do so. And the rule should be that if a university committee is convened to try someone for something that is a real crime (e.g., rape, robbery, etc.), the actual police should be called in immediately, if not already involved.
Too often, the idea is that handling things "internally" spares the student from having a criminal record and permanent ruin. So, the campus officials strive to keep out the authorities.
I went to college at state school at which the campus police were duly certified law enforcement officers of the state, so there was no mall jail and being busted by the campus police meant having a real criminal record and a trial in front of a judge. We were informed at orientation that our "rent-a-cops" were in fact cops and to behave accordingly.
Conan the Grammarian at September 23, 2016 6:50 AM
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