tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8980795636648027106..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Campus ControversiesAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-24994761919075891502015-12-04T19:49:41.973-05:002015-12-04T19:49:41.973-05:00I'm relatively insulated, since I don't wo...I'm relatively insulated, since I don't work much directly with students. <br /><br />What I've seen is that incoming students have an orientation session at which they must burn their pinch of incense, and afterwards when the subjects with prescribed answers come up in random conversation, the students by and large tend to give the expected answers. Whether that's because of the university environment or the general cultural climate I can't tell. But those topics tend not to come up very often in the STEM fields. I can't say much about Arts and Humanities. Or Law--I've been over there a time or three and the groups posting on the bulletin boards suggest that the place turns out reliably progressive lawyers.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-65436963363396483612015-12-04T17:16:46.547-05:002015-12-04T17:16:46.547-05:00Yes, those are in the minority, but they are the a...Yes, those are in the minority, but they are the active, NOISY, PUSHY minority. See squeaky wheel and grease saying.<br /><br />Identity politics all the time is mind-numbing...which may be a purpose or just a desired side-effect.<br /><br />Ignorance of the past, now, I'm pretty sure that's a desired effect. After all, we presume people like us live pretty much the same way we do and think the same ways; that presumption is DEAD WRONG. (Having lived in various places and visited many others, that's been my experience. Example of one, but still...Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-87540477311758386372015-12-04T10:19:38.585-05:002015-12-04T10:19:38.585-05:00I keep assuming the barbarians are in the minority...<b> I keep assuming the barbarians are in the minority and everyone else mostly goes about their business of teaching and learning. I am perhaps naive.</b><br /><br />It is probably a case of the squeaky wheel getting the grease. And when the grease means initiatives from campus administrators and government, we get problems.<br /><br />There is an interesting comment at Heterodox Academy about the screaming SJW student at Yale. <a href="http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/11/24/the-yale-problem-begins-in-high-school/" rel="nofollow">The Yale Problem Begins in High School.</a> <br /><i>But reports out of Yale do not suggest a politically correct orthodoxy imposed by activists on the students body generally. Quite the contrary. The activists seem to be personally unhappy and alienated from the general student body. Several of their “demands” (including universal sensitivity training) indicate that alienation. And very few Yale students are reported to have actively participated in the problematic events there. For example, the screaming student certainly has not received general support from other Yalies: She reportedly had to take down her Facebook and other social media pages because the response – including from other Yale students – was so immediate and overwhelmingly negative. I can’t tell from the video of the Christakis screaming incident what the number of finger snappers was, but it does not seem to have been large</i><br /><br />What many SJWs neglect in looking at the paucity of women in many historical lists of prominent people is that women filled the role of household managers. The care of 5-10 children took a lot more time than caring for 2. Before the advent of labor saving devices for the household, such as washing machines and refrigerators [not to mention electricity], household affairs took a lot more time than they do today. Even when the family was upper class, where the wife didn't do the washing or cooking herself, managing the crew of household servants could be a full time job.<br /><br />Not that men necessarily had it much better. My parents had a book of turn of the century cartoons which I perused during my childhood. One cartoon that stuck in my mind was the one where the woman says this to her husband: "Here you are working in a nice cool sewer all day while I slave over this hot stove."RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.com