It's because they've been hijacked by "Activist Scholars" who use them to spread woke ideology.
These political activists are using universities as vehicles to indoctrinate students into far left ideology
Here are the receipts:🧵
2/ Let's get something clear first.
The problem is NOT merely that some professors have blind-spots that can be corrected by other professors with different views. That's not what I am talking about here....
Activists Scholars are an entirely different problem.
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It used to be that University professors would try to teach about ideas as evenhandedly as is possible. Of course everyone has biases, but the idea was that professors would at least TRY to put their biases aside and teach the material in a balanced, fair, evenhanded way...
4/ This is no longer the case.
"Activist Scholars" think education is ALWAYS political. because we choose what to teach children, and in doing so we are teaching certain values, and that's political.
So, they think choosing to teach kids that 2+2=4 is a political act.
so...
5/ Because the Scholar activists see their job as a political, in accordance with woke politics they use university classrooms to indoctrinate students into their politics
This Paper by Kia M. Q. Hall is about activities for training Black Lives Matter activists in the… https://t.co/mtqBssF76etwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
6/ You see, the Scholar Activist does not even attempt to teach from neutral ground. They have an ideology, and use their classroom to train students to become activists on behalf of that ideology.
Here Deborah Lowry suggests a way to teach that "supports student-activists":
7/ And this is where we can see this leading to rot in the Universities.
Because the goal of "Scholar Activists" is to spread their political ideology, not to find truth, they end up adopting bad academic methods because those methods help them with their political goals.
8/ They explicitly state that they don't want theories that lead to truth, they want theories that help them gain political power. Here, Kelly Oliver says explicitly that feminist theories do NOT have to be true...they have to be STRATEGIC, because the goal is power, not truth.
9/ This is not just one paper that says this either. I could bring receipts all day.
IE: Joan Scott tells us that they seek a theory that will be relevant for political practice, and transgender Sociologist Raewyn Connell seeks a theory of Gender that takes politics into account
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Remember, the radical left advances their ideology dialectically: they set up a thesis (identity politics), and antithesis (economic class warfare), then create "synthesis" made from elements of both.
What AOC is trying to do is mix identity politics with class warfare...
The goal here is to try and pick up economic issues (inflation, poverty, wage stagnation, unemployment) and link them into the identity politics "intersectionality" framework.
The way this will work is by connecting their map of class to their identity politics framework...
2/ Disparate impact in the United States refers to practices refer to rules that adversely affect one group of people more than another, even if the rules applied are neutral.
This means disparities in outcome at the group level can be taken as evidence of discrimination...
3/ This means even if the rules are neutral and applied fairly to everyone, if a group is underrepresented that group can potentially sue for discrimination.
This is the anchor at the core of civil rights law that allows woke activists to engage in legal warfare.
1/ A Hospital in Missouri gave "Transgender Medicine" to an 8 year-old.
A study of trans identified youth in Missouri included children as young as 8 years-old. Red states have some of the worst offenders for giving experimental cross-sex procedures to kids.
Let's take a look🧵
2/ According to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City has performed up to 34 sex change procedures on children. Researchers from that hospital say kids as young as 8 years old come in for what they call euphemistically call "gender affirming care" stoptheharm.com
3/ It is very common for hospitals in red, conservative, republican voting states to engage in some of the worst forms of experimental cross-sex procedures on children unless laws are passed that stop them.
Missouri has such laws, but laws in other states have been struck down.
The Privy Council's Office (which supports the Prime Minister) issued a report saying by 2040 Home ownership will be unaffordable, Social mobility will decline, the economy will shrink, and building a better life will be impossible.
2/ The job of the Privy Council's Office is to support the Prime Minister, so this report was issued by the branch of government whose job is to specifically support the current government.
According to this report, downward Social Mobility is about to become the norm in Canada.
3/ The report says Canada's education system is headed toward failure, and that soon Canadians will not be able to rely on post-secondary education as a way to increase their social mobility and income.
1/ LifePoint Health is an $8 Billion healthcare institution, and they, like many other large healthcare institutions, have fully embraced DEI and wokeness.
Let's take a look/🧵
2/ LifePoint is explicitly committed to DEI, and in service to this goals they have created an number of Employee Resource Groups based on various racial and sexual identities.
3/ The result is that we have a group for each of the common political race and sexual identities: LGBT, Black, Women, Asian, Hispanic, etc.
Also we see the use of the woke term "latinx" to refer to hispanic people.
The question the right needs to answer is this: "The left captured all of our cultural institutions so they could use their credibility, prestige, and ability to confer legitimacy, to advancing the left's social and political agenda. Now, what are we going to do about it?"
This is a much harder nut to crack than people think, because the credibility, prestige, and legitimizing functions of our social institutions depends on those institutions being oriented by truth rather than a pre-determined political agenda, and the truth seeking capability...
of these institutions is compromised by their being oriented by politics first and truth second. This is what the Gramscian project does. However, we can't just ignore Gramsci; he was able to put his finger on something: social legitimacy in conferred by cultural institutions...