Wednesday, September 20, 2017

'Hard work, self-discipline' now taboo in academia - The College Fix

'Hard work, self-discipline' now taboo in academia - The College Fix:
"An “ever more monolithic intellectual environment on American campuses” contributed to a recent uproar over a reasonable op-ed, one writer claims...
 writes Heather Mac Donald at The Wall Street Journal.
“To the list of forbidden ideas on American college campuses,” Mac Donald writes, “add ‘bourgeois norms’—hard work, self-discipline, marriage and respect for authority.”
These virtues, Mac Donald claims, are fully practiced by “affluent Americans.” Nevertheless, “Student and alumni petitions poured forth accusing Ms. Wax of white supremacy, misogyny and homophobia and demanding that she be banned from teaching first-year law classes...”
...Instead, he promised more classes, speakers and workshops on racism; more training on racial sensitivity; and a new committee to devise further diversity measures..."
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