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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our culture no longer has any guiding values or convictions. Just a general sense of shame and an unquestioning belief that any idea put forward by oppressed or non-western people is categorically correct. [/quote]

I’m a professor, though I am not in the humanities. It’s wild to think about how much has changed in even the past 10 years. I have really had to think about how I talk about certain topics for fear of saying the wrong thing. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to be more mindful of our language and consider how it impacts others, but I think the pendulum has swung too far. There’s a lot of talk and pressure to “decolonize your syllabus”, include works from more diverse voices, hire faculty focused on DEI no matter what the discipline. It seems that in the effort to combat “the WEIRD problem” young people have gotten the message that Western = bad. The intention behind this stuff makes sense to adults who can appreciate the history and nuance. The point was to include non-Western perspectives *in addition to* the traditional Western voices. But it’s not being received in the intended way by people who lack the proper education, experience, and brain development. And now they’re getting exposed to some crazy ideas on TikTok where they spend a lot more time than they spend in class. It’s not good.[/quote]

No it's not good.

And it's not just confined to professors being hyper sensitive to what they say for fear of inciting these social-media addled students. It's all the other students. Better to keep your head down than note that what's occurring in Gaza is not remotely the same as what happened during the Holocaust. Or the Rwandan genocide. Or the Armenian genocide. And this applies to a number of other issues. A student that notes that there was a lot of good that came out of both the Renaissance and the Enlightenment will be regarded as a racist fascist oppressor these days.

Frankly, I blame the universities themselves. Faculty hiring in the humanities and social sciences has been overwhelmingly ideological in recent years. I recall watching the Cornell professor cheering on the massacres by Hamas. He called it "exhilarating." What was striking is the total lack of self-awareness. Not for a minute did he think he was saying something objectionable. The humanities and the social sciences are so lost in their far-left silos that all reason, logic, morality, empathy, discussion, examination, and history are all gone now. Education in these fields has become a left-wing purity test. And you can never be too far left in academia. It's all about resistance. Fighting the oppressor.

And these are the people with power in universities. They decide tenure. And every kid that has gone through this for the past ten years has experienced this. From micro aggressions to cultural appropriation when you have braids or eat a Korean taco to gender fluidity. And a thousand other issues.

When I see those young people on TikTok celebrating Osama Bin Laden, I see the Nazi Youth. Fundamentally innocent and ignorant people. But utterly indoctrinated. More so than social media, I blame the colleges and universities. They set the tone for everything. And admiring Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda is a very logical outcome to what's been going on in colleges for a while now.[/quote]

Yes, I agree completely.

Things are getting out of hand.  Dangerous, really.[/quote]

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