Common Sense in Academe (MIT)

[DGS49]

Goodbye, MIT

We graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than 50 years ago. MIT was academically rigorous, and it taught us our crafts and the

www.city-journal.org

To cut to the meat of it:

First, facts are not racist, and stating facts is not racism. Second, a person’s ethnicity or skin color does not define him or her as a racist, oppressor, or victim. Third, intellectual ability and achievement are the principal requirements for admission as a student or faculty member to any university. Fourth, diversity of opinions is desired and supported. Fifth, a just, democratic society requires equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal responsibility; it does not require equal outcomes. And finally, adherence to the statements above must not be sacrificed for political, social, or public relations considerations.

Are these fukkers out of touch, or what? Do they really expect any college or university to sign on to this nefarious nonsense?

 

[DudleySmith]

Recent editorial in the WSJ about about that crap, too, by a professor banned from speaking at MIT for having unapproved opinions and facts.

 

[MarathonMike]

Universities all over the country are going full Woke, full DEI. A lot of it is not coming from the administrations, but rogue Woke professors and whiny students.

 

[Darkwind]

Goodbye, MIT

We graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than 50 years ago. MIT was academically rigorous, and it taught us our crafts and the

www.city-journal.org

To cut to the meat of it:

First, facts are not racist, and stating facts is not racism. Second, a person’s ethnicity or skin color does not define him or her as a racist, oppressor, or victim. Third, intellectual ability and achievement are the principal requirements for admission as a student or faculty member to any university. Fourth, diversity of opinions is desired and supported. Fifth, a just, democratic society requires equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal responsibility; it does not require equal outcomes. And finally, adherence to the statements above must not be sacrificed for political, social, or public relations considerations.

Are these fukkers out of touch, or what? Do they really expect any college or university to sign on to this nefarious nonsense?

Given the evidence of discrimination and racism at all these major universities, we need to be electing individuals who will pull ALL PUBLIC funding from ALL of these universities.

 

[DGS49]

Having lived through the 60's and subsequent, it is discouraging how the campaign to fight for "equal rights" devolved into a demand for unequal rights, coupled with a claim that if you are so retrograde as to support EQUAL RIGHTS, you are a racist. Irredeemable.

Glad I'm old enough not to really give a shit.