I just got sent the "Addressing Race in the Classroom" module that University of Guelph educators recently had to go through .... an especially good example of the way anti-racism is now being taught as a circular, unfalsifiable faith-based belief system ... 
The course teacher is the school's Cultural Diversity Officer, who uses the course to promote her scholarship on the "exhausting" nature of microaggressions....
The theme of the course is that whenever anyone complains to you about a student or prof being racist, they're right. Don't argue. Instead, *thank* them. She provides a script for your apology, in fact.
Here are the things that count as racism:
- merit
- colorblindness
- saying the words "we need qualified people"
- mentioning 'bootstrap theory'
- arguing about if something is racist
- saying the words "there's only one human race"
- and my fav, "denying institutional racism"...
- merit
- colorblindness
- saying the words "we need qualified people"
- mentioning 'bootstrap theory'
- arguing about if something is racist
- saying the words "there's only one human race"
- and my fav, "denying institutional racism"...
What's so brilliant about all this is that it pathologizes any form of dissent as a manifestation of the evil that the ideology supposedly targets. It's like a preacher who says the devil is everywhere, and the surest symptom of demonic possession is denying the devil's existence
Many principled conservatives & liberals alike say that educators just need to "stand up" to this stuff. But how? The act of "standing up" is now officially classified as racism. And who evaluates your claim that 2+2=4? Why, the very admin who just lectured you that 2+2 = racism.
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