Nailing Sensitivity Into Your Tiny Mind
Dave Huber at The College Fix reports:
The University of Michigan unveiled a five-year Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan on Thursday to which the school will commit $125 million.
All other possible uses of said money having been exhausted, presumably. What with the investment in a $13,000 vibrating nap machine for the soothing of emotionally fatigued students. And the $400,000 spent on relocating one tree.
According to the Michigan Daily:
The university is piloting a culture training programme for students that will ultimately include the entire freshman class in five years. The training will require a preliminary assessment to evaluate the students’ cultural sensitivity levels.
WrongThought™ will be detected. Worldviews will be harmonised. Intrusive condescension will be the norm.
Participants will receive a unique training programme based on assessment results targeting specific areas for cultural development. At the end, students must take a follow-up assessment and receive a certificate for completion.
The university’s “strategic plan” for “diversity, equity and inclusion” tells us that the political correction on offer is “increasingly in demand… among employers,” and that “the ultimate goal” is to subject “all incoming students” to this or similar corrective processing. The document also boasts of encouraging “many voices.” Though as the stated object is to “shift cultural perspectives” and to “adapt” any behaviour deemed insufficiently sensitive and therefore improper, readers may wonder whether diversity of opinion will be the ultimate result.
… Greece will rush to seize Constantinople.
Although probably not before 10, or between 1 and 5 in the afternoon. And when you say rush …
Greece will rush to seize Constantinople
I would bet my entire retirement account that no such thing will happen.
That Russia will invade at least one of the Baltic states, on the other hand? : no bet.
(Of course, this is assuming that the next administration leaves anything for me from my current retirement account. Seems there are so many folk more deserving than me …)
How can the functionally illiterate and innumerate be re-educated? Herded, perhaps.
Gleischaltung, as Insty so often reminds us.
I’m reminded of the question; Just what part of Gestalt don’t you understand??
Yes, that confused me as I traversed from the Constantine IX or whoever wiki down through Georgia and its history.
Now I’m reminded of the grand strategy game Europa Universalis IV, where there’s a cosmetic prize for conquering all three Georgias: the one on the Black Sea, the one above Florida, and the one in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Namespacing is hard.
I love that they call it a 5-year-plan.
It’s just so……Stalin.
Theophrastus
Indeed, the Greeks did call the peninsula Iberia, probably from the same root as the Ebro. But the Romans from the time of their conquest didn’t and nor did anyone else until the late 20th Century.
Why?
It’s like calling the East Roman Empire, or Greek Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire. Calling it by a name no-one for the whole its life called it.
Why?
It’s like calling the East Roman Empire, or Greek Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire. Calling it by a name no-one for the whole its life called it.
Why?
To separate the peninsula from the political variations that occupy all or part of it.
By using Iberian we know exactly what we mean — the geographic area and nothing else. Not using a name that has also had a political life is therefore an advantage.
And what do you think the peninsular should be called? “Hispanic” is taken as the adjective for the language group, so is out. The Portuguese would react poorly to it being called the “Spanish Peninsular”. “Andalusia” is no good, as it already taken for a province. I’m running out of options.
It’s like calling the East Roman Empire, or Greek Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire
Again, I think it is much clearer. The Greek (part of the) Roman Empire needs to not be confused with the Greek “Roman Empire”. The “East Roman Empire” is best used for the eastern part when there was also a Western Part, which is a useful distinction. (For a while the Byzantine Empire held Italy, much of North Africa and Spain, so it wasn’t even particularly “eastern” at that time.)
And it’s not like the Byzantines called it the “Eastern Roman Empire”, since to them it was just “The Roman Empire” so pretty much any name will be anachronistic.
Chester
Why Iberia?
Why use a term that was not used by anyone for upwards of 2,000 years?
What’s wrong with Hispanic?
Locals DID call it the Greek Roman Empire. East Roman is accurate. Roman Empire, whilst official, is difficult to justify as the last time the Roman Empire was in charge at Rome was late 6th Century