They don’t tell parents their children will learn “whiteness is a form of racial oppression”
by Walter Williams
The average taxpayer and parents who foot the bill know little about the rot on many college campuses. “Indoctrinate U” is a recently released documentary, written and directed by Evan Coyne Maloney, that captures the tip of a disgusting iceberg. The trailer for “Indoctrinate U” can be seen at http://www.indoctrinate-u.com/intro//>
“Indoctrinate U” starts out with an interview of Professor David Clemens, at Monterey Peninsula College, who reads an administrative directive regarding new course proposals: “Include a description of how course topics are treated to develop a knowledge and understanding of race, class and gender issues.” Mr. Clemens is fighting the directive, which applies not to just sociology classes but math, physics, ornamental horticulture and other classes whose subject material has nothing to do with race, class and gender issues.
Professor Noel Ignatiev, of the Massachusetts School of Art, explains his concern is to do away with whiteness. Why? “Because whiteness is a form of racial oppression.” Mr. Ignatiev adds, “There cannot be a white race without the phenomenon of white supremacy.” What’s blackness? According to Mr. Ignatiev, “Blackness is an identity that can be plausibly argued to arise out of a resistance to oppression.” Bucknell Professor Geoff Schneider agrees, saying, “A lot of our students, I think, are unconsciously racist.” Both Mr. Ignatiev and Mr. Schneider are white.
The College of William & Mary and Tufts and Brown universities established racially segregated student orientations. At some universities, students are provided racially segregated housing; at others, they are treated to racially separate graduation ceremonies.
Under the ruse of ending harassment, a number of universities have established speech codes. Bowdoin College has banned jokes and stories “experienced by others as harassing.” Brown University has banned “verbal behavior” that “produces feelings of impotence, anger or disenfranchisement” whether “unintentional or intentional.” University of Connecticut has outlawed “inappropriately directed laughter.” Colby College has banned any speech that could lead to a loss of self-esteem. “Suggestive looks” are banned at Bryn Mawr College and “unwelcomed flirtations” at Haverford College. Fortunately for students, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has successful battled such speech codes.