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"The "campus climate" buzzphrase"

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Anonymous Professor of Mystery said...

There was a recent hoax attack on the campus I teach at.

The student was expelled for making up stories.

3/21/14, 4:29 PM

Blogger Fernandinande said...

[very few] said they had experienced intimidating or hostile conduct or felt excluded...

"We don't like almost a quarter of the population feeling like they're having a negative experience,"

Wrong - they had at least 'a' - one - negative experience.

I'm surprised it's not closer to 100% than to only 25%.

3/21/14, 4:30 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

OK, on a bit of a lighter note since it is college and it is march which means that March Madness is yet again upon us.

UCLA better not tank it like last yr. Let's just see how good the Bruins do in that nice new Pauley Pavillion Post Ben Howland. Those nameless and gutless former players just had to hound him out and off the campus, lets just see how well they do in this years NCAA.

Bracket time is once again upon us and you just know the President has his alllll filled out and ready to go!

3/21/14, 4:59 PM

Anonymous Chucklehead said...

These surveys are bs. Actually they're worse than bs. They make bs.

For starters, US Universities could give 3 sh*ts and a d*mn about how 'comfortable' white students are, who make up the majority of most college campuses. So if you're not concerned with the comfort of the 800 lb gorilla who essentially is the campus student body, then is it accurate to even talk about student comfort or campus climate?

No, ironically, the surveys are worse than that because what happens is that some of the white students report quite legitimately that they are feeling intimidated and abused for their race and gender, etc. And then this gets twisted into a statement like a quarter of students feel intimidated for race, so 'we must do something about it' - which leads to more preferences for minorities. You have to assume the administrators know the truth but use this as a way to get their pet liberal policies pushed through. No wonder the surveys are so popular.

3/21/14, 5:00 PM

Anonymous Finian said...

My first thought on hearing about the microagressions (aside from "are you TRYING to make people hate women/gays/coloured people?") is "whatever happened to rude?" Seriously, there are cases where (1) it probably happened and (2) it wasn't quite kosher. But why can't you just say "x did/said y and it was bad manners"? Why does it have to be rape culture, systematic racism, lizard people or whateveryallarehavingyourselves?

3/21/14, 5:01 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd like to hear from the majority of university instructors about how they feel about the "campus climate."

I refer to, of course, the adjuncts.

Academic "liberalism" or "progressivism" is B.S.

3/21/14, 5:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT, NYC's Citi bike a disaster. I remember a few months ago a post here in regards to biking. Anyway, NYC never had a biking culture and attempted to astroturf-manufacture a one.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304256404579451770072629130

3/21/14, 5:24 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Times echoes your blog with an article filled with gems:

“This is racism 2.0.” She added: “It comes with undertones, it comes with preconceived notions. You hire the Jewish economist because you think he’s going to be a good economist because he’s Jewish.” Drawing attention to microaggressions, whether they are intentional or not, is part of eliminating such stereotypes, Ms. Rabie said.

Being offended when a white person claims to be colorblind — a claim often derided by minorities who say it willfully ignores the reality of race?

3/21/14, 5:28 PM

Anonymous Prof McGonigle said...

The only reason these wimps are at colleges is to be around whites.

The irony is incredibly thick.

3/21/14, 5:32 PM

Blogger Jokah Macpherson said...

"The only way to make 19-year-olds feel comfortable is to wait 30 years while they sag into their well-padded maturities. Right now, they are teenagers and their surging hormones have far more important emotions for them to feel than comfort. Adults, however, who make careers out of encouraging kids to mold permanently self-pitying identities around their transient social discomforts have much to answer for."

I don't know who wrote this but it's very thought-provoking. At a higher level than talking about microagressions specifically, it fits in with Agnostic's posts about this generation of kids and teenagers not getting to be kids and teenagers.

3/21/14, 5:35 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Paul Walker begged his mother to retire from work and be his daughter Meadow's guardian only hours before he died"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2586033/Paul-Walker-begged-mother-retire-work-daughter-Meadows-guardian-hours-died.html

3/21/14, 5:41 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

PEDs apparently given to racehorses:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585850/Undercover-film-shows-race-trainers-vets-admit-giving-horses-performance-enhancing-drugs-electric-shocks-make-run-faster-using-superglue-fix-rotting-hooves.html

"During the video, the unnamed investigator filmed as tranquilizers were allegedly given to horses whether they needed them or not.

One vet was also filmed saying all the horses in the yard were given a performance-enhancing drug. "

3/21/14, 6:00 PM

Anonymous Chicago said...

On the subject of micro-aggressions the Daily Mail has a story of Moochelle's mother "barking" at hapless Chinese staff while on their current vacation. Or would this be considered to be in the macro category? In any case it's another huge embarrassment for the US.
Summer is coming so it's time to gear up for another season of polar bear hunting and flash mobs by The Sons of Obama. The microscopic-aggressions seem like a luxury at this point.

3/21/14, 6:05 PM

Blogger Whiskey said...

Stalin thought making people bow before an obvious lie was the ark of power. It is all about power. Female power. Male power is marked by violence. See Stalin.

3/21/14, 6:15 PM

Anonymous Aaron said...

Pico-aggressions are the going to be the next big thing. Get in the ground floor while you still can.

3/21/14, 6:22 PM

Anonymous Fun said...

Oh, but actually, the jargon terms campus climate comfort don't have anything to do with the weather anymore. They have to do with how aggrieved aggrieved groups feel about the level of microaggressions and/or nanoaggressions on campus.

Each newly discovered "aggression" seems tinier and less substantial than the last.

At this rate we'll need CERN-level particle accelerators and intense data analysis to even confirm their existence.

3/21/14, 6:39 PM

Anonymous countenance said...

Speaking of real aggressions on UC campuses:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/03/21/theft-assault-and-vandalism-charges-filed-against-uc-santa-barbara-professor/

I am told that Santa Barbara, California has just about the most perfect climate (i.e. weather) in the world, and that a lot of people would give their limbs to get tenure at UCSB.

3/21/14, 6:44 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Someone with Prestige Press credentials needs to write, in a mainstream outlet, a substantial piece about the disturbing frequency of Hate Hoaxes.

That said, having attended the University of Chicago and therefore lived on the south side of Chicago for a number of years, I'm sympathetic to NAMs complaining about the "climate." If you live on the south side you'll often find yourself in, say, a grocery store or a movie theater as the only white guy surrounded by 20-30 blacks. You feel like a minority. It's uncomfortable. So I feel for the paltry number of black kids attending Berkeley and feeling out of place. I wouldn't be comfortable at Howard, either.

The problem is that professors and administrators encourage the construal of such alienation as a form of racial aggression. It's not.

3/21/14, 6:47 PM

Blogger Shouting Thomas said...

The remarkable part of this is that we've made so much progress in terms of racial and ethnic comity in the U.S. during my lifetime.

Everything is so much better.

Oddly, the better things get, the more the race baiters scream, and the more frauds they perpetrate.

3/21/14, 8:02 PM

Blogger AmericanGoy said...

Off topic but it REALLY irks me that this won't be shown in America.

Heck, even on reddit my submission of this as well as any comment I make with this vid link is instantly downvoted to oblivion.

I think this needs to be seen as part of the news about Ukraine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yrfQP0_Zaw

3/21/14, 8:26 PM

Anonymous International Jew said...

"grocery store or a movie theater as the only white guy surrounded by 20-30 blacks. You feel like a minority. It's uncomfortable. So I feel for the paltry number of black kids attending Berkeley and feeling out of place."

Well, in that grocery store, the reason you were uncomfortable was not that you had no role models or a support network--the usual complaints black students have about elite colleges.

3/21/14, 8:27 PM

Blogger AmericanGoy said...

Off topic but it REALLY irks me that this won't be shown in America.

Heck, even on reddit my submission of this as well as any comment I make with this vid link is instantly downvoted to oblivion.

I think this needs to be seen as part of the news about Ukraine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yrfQP0_Zaw

3/21/14, 8:28 PM

Anonymous ben tillman said...

If you live on the south side you'll often find yourself in, say, a grocery store or a movie theater as the only white guy surrounded by 20-30 blacks. You feel like a minority.

I wonder whether it has anything to do with the fact that you are a minority. What do you think?

3/21/14, 9:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hoax is not a good word for these incidents. It makes it sound like a harmless antic, like tp'ing a house or short-sheeting a bed.

But they are blood libels intended to create murderous hatred towards white people. If anything, they are at least as severe as the crime they mimic. People need to start demanding that the perpetrators of these crimes get the harsh punishment they deserve.

For one thing, even if they are "hoaxes", they are still the same deed if committed by a white/straight/male person, so why don't they ever get prosecuted? I mean, if I knocked off a liquor shop and then explained that I was just engaging in theater and not really a robber, that wouldn't get me off the hook.

Why does it excuse hate crime "hoaxers".

3/21/14, 9:26 PM

Anonymous ben tillman said...

As at many colleges, UC's work to make campuses healthier and more harmonious began after an uproar: In early 2010, students protested a series of acts targeting minority groups on UC campuses....

It's time for this thoughtless usage to be retired. There is no majority group in California, so the term "minority" is completely superfluous. The use of the term perpetuates the false belief that Whites are numerically and thus politically dominant.

3/21/14, 9:27 PM

Anonymous David said...

>But they are blood libels intended to create murderous hatred towards white people.<

Agreed.

>If anything, they are at least as severe as the crime they mimic. People need to start demanding that the perpetrators of these crimes get the harsh punishment they deserve.<

Assuming you mean real crime like destroying property or credibly threatening a specific individual with death, agreed. Rudeness, prejudice, or hatred shouldn't be a crime - a large segment of the nation's population would spend time in the slammer otherwise.

Wait a minute, that could be a boon to private prisons. Lock up everyone at least once: money, here we come. (Cue the national anthem.)

3/21/14, 10:55 PM

Blogger Hubbub said...

'Division of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity'

That's the problem, right there. Self-defeating departments and programs that are contradictory in themselves.

3/21/14, 10:56 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was telling the better half about 'micro aggressions', and she picked up on that pretty quick. It got to the point where every time I did something for her, I felt compelled to remind her that I was doing her a 'micro kindness'.

3/21/14, 11:19 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

At this rate we'll need CERN-level particle accelerators and intense data analysis to even confirm their existence.

Just as there is an MSM diversity event horizon there will be an aggression event horizon. Perceived injustices so small they are undetectable in our universe but we'll still know they are there - somehow.

3/21/14, 11:25 PM

Anonymous doombuggy said...

UC Berkeley's vice chancellor for Division of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity

Yeah, when we started creating positions like this, we turned down the road of defeat.

3/22/14, 12:39 AM

Blogger J said...

Teachers should be allowed to bring a rod or whip into classroom. The Victorians were not stupid - probably they were more intelligent than the current generation. "La letra con sangre entra" - freely translated from Spanish, "Knowledge is acquired with blood", that is, there is no feel-good way of learning but through hard work, discipline, suffering.

3/22/14, 12:53 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Serious question: do departments of feminist studies, queer tsudies,(cis)gender studies, (insert favorite aggrieved minority) studies exist at universities in East Asia and Russia? Or is this an infection than only affects western culture?

3/22/14, 6:54 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have always wondered what a Diversity Director (Equal Opportunity Executive, Affirmative Action Officer, etc.) does to occupy their 40 hours a week. In my own (government) department, we hired such a person to take over these responsibilities, which the department's chief counsel had performed in her spare time, to the tune of maybe 5-10 hours a week, maximum. The difference being that the new hire managed to fill up an entire work week with this stuff, at a healthy salary of approximately $135K, (not bad money during a depression).
Could it be that the real job of such a person on a university campus is to constantly whip up controversy about racial/sex/cultural grievances? If so, the post is really more political in nature than a real administrative function...that might explain why universities, given their progressive political slant, are so eager to spend money on these people: they get to hire minorities who are otherwise unqualified for upper management positions, and at the same time they can be assured that the latest Democratic Party issues (lack of women in STEM fields, white skin privilege etc.) are in constant play on campus.

3/22/14, 7:10 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"UC Berkeley's vice chancellor for Division of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity"

My tax dollars, down the tubes...I really hate what's become of my state.

3/22/14, 9:28 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's nothing like a public school system that removes all traces of the expectation of self-reliance.

3/22/14, 9:29 AM

Anonymous Legion said...

Incredible! 25% of a California college campus is conservation.

Whoda thunk?

3/22/14, 11:28 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Could it be that the real job of such a person on a university campus is to constantly whip up controversy about racial/sex/cultural grievances?"

Could it be? Why yes, yes it could.

3/22/14, 11:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Serious question: do departments of feminist studies, queer tsudies,(cis)gender studies, (insert favorite aggrieved minority) studies exist at universities in East Asia and Russia?"

There are women's studies departments and in China and Russia entire universities devoted to the study of ethnic minorities within their countries.

3/22/14, 1:13 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are they as completely politicized as the ones the the west, or do they confine themselves to legitimate academic research?

3/22/14, 2:23 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The rod and the whip might seem cruel to the bleeding heart types but they got the job done and enhanced education. Discipline matters more than IQ.

3/22/14, 6:48 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

When you pay someone $135,000 a year to find problems, those problems are never ever going too be solved. When there are whole departments based on grievances, there can never ever be harmony.
The lunatics are not just running the asylum, they are running the entire world.

3/22/14, 9:25 PM

Anonymous Comrade Commissar said...

They are commissars.

The Russians don't as far as I know maintain a shadow political officer in all levels of civil and military ranks.

But the west does. And she's down at the diversity office of your school/office.

The USSA or BRA.

3/23/14, 7:39 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The "climate for women" is a big topic of discussion in my field right now. I think they do have some legitimate grievances. For example, sexually predatory faculty are rare but not completely absent, and just one or two in a department can create a very uncomfortable environment for female students there.

The trouble is that legitimate grievances like these get mixed up with other issues that, at best, are legitimate but have nothing to do with women per se, and, at worst, are "microaggression" nonsense like women feeling uncomfortable because of perceived unconscious slights by professors or students. There's an assumption that those of us skeptical about the latter must not be against the former either, and this serves to polarize people unnecessarily, usually (unsurprisingly) along political/ideological lines.

3/23/14, 10:10 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

For example, sexually predatory faculty are rare but not completely absent, and just one or two in a department can create a very uncomfortable environment for female students there.

What if the predator is gay/lesbian? Im guessing the whole matter is handled quite differently - if at all.

3/23/14, 10:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

In my former profession, a few years back, the operative phrase was "feeling safe". An altar guild matron commenting on a retired straight white male priest in the presence of the new lesbian divorcee priest made the new minister feel "unsafe" somehow and a gay parishioner knowing that a particular priest would only officiate at "opposite gender" weddings made him feel "unsafe". This institution is now quite smaller and presumably safer.
I think most of this nonsense is really about the demand to be affirmed and even celebrated by the white breeders.

3/24/14, 9:00 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What if the predator is gay/lesbian? Im guessing the whole matter is handled quite differently - if at all.

Good question. I don't know. I have not heard of many students complaining of harassment from professors of the same sex, but it could be that such stories don't get as much traction as the ones I have heard about women being harassed by male faculty.

3/24/14, 11:52 AM

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