Washington University in St. Luois has a bad racism problem and it's name is Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier

 

Washington University in St. Louis lecturer warns medical students not to challenge her 'anti-racism' training and vows she will 'shut that s*** down' as she insists medicine 'has a really bad racism issue'

• Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier is named on Washington University in St. Louis's website as a co-lead, community engagement, in the Understanding Systemic Racism Team
• Reedy-Rogier works within the school of medicine and spoke to students about implicit bias and 'systemic oppression'
• She said she would not accept challenges to her lecture, saying: 'If you try to fight me or debate me, I will shut that s*** down real fast'
• Reedy-Rogier said that race was a deciding factor in medicine, telling students to 'think about your own identities, and what that means to be anti-racist' 

Claudine Gay Update

 From the comments by E Olsen:

"The real story is not that a leftist lied and cheated to get a position of power they were not intellectually qualified for. The real story is that most people think this is unusual."

This is one of the biggest DIE myths. Most people have been led to believe by the mainstream media and DIE industry that racial/gender preferences favoring blacks/Hispanics/women/LGBQT are only used for "tie-breakers" against privileged white (+ Asian and Jewish whites), male, heterosexuals. Thus when the black lesbian has the same SAT score and GPA as a white male who likes girls, the black lesbian gets the spot at Harvard, and the white male needs to take his privileged toxicity elsewhere. Support for affirmative action and racial/gender quotas tends to drop off greatly when the public is informed that such tie-breakers are rare, and that in fact the black lesbian is likely to have 20+% lower SAT scores than the rejected Asian/Jewish/white male.

And of course this myth trickles down through the system. The low scoring "victim" benefiting from affirmative action admission struggles in school against higher scoring "oppressors" classmates, but gets graded well by professors who have been told that "diversity is a strength" and to go easy on poor performing students from the victim classes. The victim eventually graduates with weak skills, but an inflated GPA and ego, and gets hired to enhance the diversity statistics of the hiring firm where she performs poorly. Nevertheless, she is coddled and promoted despite a weak record because HR is pressuring managers about the need to maintain high ESG scores that require diversity in upper-management positions. When the diversity hire eventually reaches the top despite her weak record, she turns out to be a disaster because she has never had to earn anything honestly as all her moral and performance related shortcomings were overlooked to maintain the "diversity is a strength" fantasy. Meanwhile the public who believes in the "tie-breaker" myth, readily buys into the the cover story that the failure of the diversity candidate to perform in her elite position is due to rampant misogyny, racism, and the legacy of slavery/patriarchy, which can only be cured with more DIE staffing and mandatory sensitivity training for all privileged employees, while anyone who publicly questions this narrative is branded a "racist", "sexist", "homophobe" and gets fired.

Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor. Why? (mini-doc)

How Harvard Suddenly Discovered Free Speech...

AN IDEOLOGICAL PURGE AT HARVARD

The Princeton Historian Mugged by Reality

 

On December 7, 2019, an American graduate student named Xiyue Wang was freed after 40 months in an Iranian prison. His captors roused him in his cell early that morning and put him on a plane to Zurich. The Swiss had offered to mediate a trade for Masoud Soleimani, an Iranian scientist arrested by the United States for violating sanctions against Iran. At the airport, the Iranian ambassador to Switzerland exchanged a few words with Wang in Persian and told him, “Well, at least you learned Persian in prison.” Wang, who considers his treatment by the Iranians to have been torture, was unsmiling. The ambassador then turned to address the Swiss and objected to Soleimani’s arrest. Wang was meant to keep silent, but instead asserted his right of reply, unexpectedly, in French. “Excuse me,” he said, acidly. “But I did nothing wrong. I went to Iran to do research with the permission of the Foreign Ministry, but Iranian intelligence arrested me and forced me into confessing that I was a spy.” The Iranian ambassador was taken aback. “It seems M

r. Wang has not only learned Persian in prison,” a Swiss diplomat observed, “but French as well.”

[snip]

“I’m still psychologically struggling,” he said. The struggle is perceptible in his voice. Iran has let him go, but he will not let Iran go—and the sense that Iran might, in a Biden administration, be rewarded rather than punished for its serial kidnapping of innocent Americans, Iranians, and others, leaves him seething. “The homecoming has been deeply traumatic,” he told me.

“Forty months,” he continued. “That’s a lot of time to think about things.” He reflected on his months in prison but also on his months as a free man in Tehran, when he spent more time among Iranians than nearly any other American who is not a dual national. During that period, he said he met no regime supporters. “But to my surprise, when I came back to the United States, there were many sympathizers with the regime,” he said. These were in some cases people who disliked America—“people who thought because Iran is anti-American, there must be some redeemability there,” Wang told me. “Can you imagine how furious this makes me, every single day?”

Tucker: Left ignores Ivy League discrimination against Asian, white students

Tenured Law Prof Suspended For Use Of N-Word In Torts Class Sues Emory And Former Dean For Libel And Retaliation

 Punch back twice as hard.

Arizona: Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent

The college administration is backing the would-be killers.

Harvard Canceled Human Rights Event as Its President Met With Xi Jinping

Harvard trades free inquiry for Chinese dollars

Harvard is a sellout.

Civilization Is History at Yale

Yale announced last week that it will stop teaching its famous survey course, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present.” Taught for decades by Vincent Scully, one of Yale’s most celebrated professors, the course was a riveting introduction to pulse of humanism.

It is being cashiered for all the usual reasons. Its focus is too white, too European, too male, too “problematic,” as Tim Barringer, chairman of the art history department, puts it. Mr. Barringer will substitute a course that challenges such Eurocentrism and promises to be very up-to-date. Mr. Barrginer says he’ll introduce a “global” perspective. Naturally, he writes, the course will consider art in relation to “questions of gender, class and ‘race.’ ” (Why the scare quotes around “race”? Is today one of those days when race is only a social construct?) It will also ponder art’s “involvement with Western capitalism.”

Globalism, gender, class, race, capitalism. Has Mr. Barringer neglected any trendy concern? How about the Greta Thunberg gambit? On it! Art’s “relationship with climate change will be a ‘key theme,’ ” the Yale Daily News reports.

The Daily News adds that the removal of “Introduction to Art History” is “the latest response to student uneasiness over an idealized Western ‘canon’—a product of an overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male cadre of artists.”

It is also yet another sign that Yale has succumbed to a life-draining decadence. A decadent institution isn’t necessarily impoverished or licentious. Rather, it is desiccated because it has lost the life-giving pith of its purpose. To a casual observer, a decadent institution may look healthy. The buildings may be expensive, well-kept and plentiful. Tidy, well-heeled people may bustle about. But the animating élan has evaporated. A decadent institution is one that has repudiated itself.

All in all, I'm glad that I never attended Yale, Harvard or any of the other "elite" universities that are busy committing intellectual and political suicide.

The political philosopher James Burnham once observed that “suicide is probably more frequent than murder as the end phase of a civilization.” As Yale has been demonstrating for some years now, elite institutions are eager to take the lead.

Law school student interrogated by FBI, expelled over ‘It’s Okay to be White’ flyers

I blame the New York Times and its racist cheerleading.

Lesson: do not hire a lawyer who graduated from Oklahoma City University of Law

Punch back twice as hard

Students cleared in college rape say SC school discriminates against men, lawsuit says

Two former male students from Wofford College say the way the school handled an unfounded sexual assault complaint against them amounts to sexual harassment.

The unnamed men sued the Upstate, South Carolina college saying that it destroyed evidence that was favorable to the men and that “hundreds of students at the school heard the false allegations that the Plaintiffs were rapists.”

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The men also say there is evidence the woman sexually harassed one of them.

Scientists horrified that Trump wants to require universities to honor free speech

This is not a Babylon Bee story. An article today in the science journal Nature actually expressed outrage and concern about President Trump’s executive order last week tying the grants a university gets to its willingness to protect the free speech of all its students and teachers.

What evil thing did Trump’s order require of these universities? To quote the Nature article itself,

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on 21 March that requires universities to certify that they protect free speech, or risk losing federal research funds.

Public institutions will have to certify that they are following free-speech protections laid out in the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and private institutions must promise to follow their stated policies on free speech, a White House official told reporters on 21 March.

The order applies to 12 research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and NASA. It affects only money for research, not financial aid for students.

O the horror! The universities will have to show that they support free speech! What a travesty!

The Nature article then proceeded to find quotes from a number of scientists and organizations who oppose Trump’s action. One even claimed that Trump was not trying to protect free speech, “but the enhancement of conservative voices.”

In other words, to these scientists, there is plenty of free speech in academia. Liberals and leftists are all free to say whatever they want. However, any attempt to allow conservatives right to speak is clearly a biased threat to freedom and must be stopped at all costs. And to threaten their funding because of this? The nerve of that bad orange man!

The intellectual dishonesty exhibited here is mind-boggling. And for it to come from scientists, whose entire field is built on the need for brutal intellectual honesty at all times, is quite appalling.

9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up

Everything is going as planned.

It’s been about nine years since the Obama administration lured states into adopting Common Core sight unseen, with promises it would improve student achievement. Like President Obama’s other big promises — “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” — this one’s been proven a scam.

The Biggest Higher Education Scam Isn’t Hollywood Fraud, It’s Academia Itself: The justifications for propping up universities, which often act as little more than elite sorting mechanisms as well as left-wing indoctrination centers, are growing thin.

Hat tip: Instapundit

Illegal new money bribery aside, the justifications for propping up universities, which often act as little more than elite sorting mechanisms as well as left-wing indoctrination centers, are growing thin.

The federal government spends $75 billion a year on higher education. Taxpayers also hold the ultimate dance card for the $1.5 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, much of which will likely not be fully repaid. For public universities, state-level funds also play a large role.

For their massive investment, Americans enjoy the fruits of their left-wing radicalism incubators in the form of a generation that views socialism as better than capitalism, free speech as dangerous, and America as irredeemably racist, sexist, and bigoted. And don’t forget the brilliant academic research co-authored by felines we all underwrite.

taxpayers would be forgiven for questioning the efficacy of a professor at an accredited university that receives federal funding publishing a paper on how she dealt with the death of her cat.