Diversity Thursday
the call is coming from inside the building
Remember my oft used phrase "otherwise unemployable people?"
Remember how we've discussed here many Thursdays over the last two decades how the worst of academia was being invited in to our service academies and war colleges - and it would manifest itself throughout the fleet?
Remember how - still to this day - the Diversity Industry's nomenklatura grows and shapes all to serve itself and its interests?
We tried to warn folks back to when it started getting real bad in the Bush43 Presidency.
We were - and still are - called all sorts of nasty names by people who cannot defend their secular religion.
A solid confessional by Professor Russell Jacoby who, while the fetid waters rose around us all, told us not to worry.
Well, he admits he was wrong, and does a solid job describing how we got here. Read it all.
By the late 1990s the rapid expansion of the universities came to a halt, especially in the humanities. Faculty openings slowed or stopped in many fields. Graduate enrollment cratered. In my own department in 10 years we went from accepting over a hundred students for graduate study to under 20 for a simple reason. We could not place our students. The hordes who took courses in critical pedagogy, insurgent sociology, gender studies, radical anthropology, Marxist cinema theory, and postmodernism could no longer hope for university careers.
What became of them? No single answer is possible. They joined the work force. Some became baristas, tech supporters, Amazon staffers and real estate agents. Others with intellectual ambitions found positions with the remaining newspapers and online periodicals, but most often they landed jobs as writers or researchers with liberal government agencies, foundations, or NGOs. In all these capacities they brought along the sensibilities and jargon they learned on campus.
It is the exodus from the universities that explains what is happening in the larger culture. The leftists who would have vanished as assistant professors in conferences on narratology and gender fluidity or disappeared as law professors with unreadable essays on misogynist hegemony and intersectionality have been pushed out into the larger culture. They staff the ballooning diversity and inclusion commissariats that assault us with vapid statements and inane programs couched in the language they learned in school. We are witnessing the invasion of the public square by the campus, an intrusion of academic terms and sensibilities that has leaped the ivy-covered walls aided by social media. The buzz words of the campus—diversity, inclusion, microaggression, power differential, white privilege, group safety—have become the buzz words in public life. Already confusing on campus, they become noxious off campus. “The slovenliness of our language,” declared Orwell in his classic 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language,” makes it “easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
The invasion of the military is already well in to Phase-3. As we've reported here, Milley & Gilday proved this fact the last couple of years in case there are still holdouts not seeing the depth of the incursion.
Elite overproduction. Too many people versed in theories and not enough people versed in map reading. Your kids' tuition is so high because half the employees of the university are now administrators who add zero value to their education.
This began years ago courtesy of LBJ who offered draft deferments to students and seminarians. And what did these people do from age 18 to 26? They stayed in school earning BAs, MAs, MSed, and other less than valuable degrees or skills. Since they have no job skills, where do they go? On to the PhD and then the university systems. We are now in the 3rd generation of committed leftists in the university structure. Time to defund education.