The Educators of Tomorrow

Dear sweet Stephanie has, following pushback, protected her Tweets and is apparently mystified that anyone reading them might find her even a little bit racist and perhaps unsuitable for classroom work.

Note that those who find her sentiments somewhat objectionable are casually dismissed as “white nationalists” and “Nazis.” Which makes me wonder how any students who object to her “progressive stacking” policy – i.e., blatant, self-satisfied racial discrimination – will also be designated, and subsequently treated.

Saying?
Yes, the obliviousness is remarkable. When her comments met with pushback, including from parents and other educators, Ms McKellop didn’t pause to reflect on her own assumptions. Instead, she doubled down, declared her own self-evident righteousness, and of course her victimhood, and dismissed those who criticised her as “Nazis.”
Again, you have to wonder how that attitude plays out in the classroom.

Somewhat related:

In Professor Judy Haiven’s classes, male students learn their place in the progressive pecking order.

Because gender condescension mixed with misandry is the path to utopia.

As a white woman (only ranked #3 on the victimhood scale) shouldn’t she want a black woman (ranked #1) to take her teaching assistant job?
I’m trying to imagine the mentality of continually categorising people by their imagined victimhood quotient, irrespective of whether any of the people being patronised in this way are in fact victims, or anything close to victims, and doing it every day, year after year, until it becomes a habit, a mental reflex. I don’t imagine that kind of presumption is conducive to realism, or personal happiness.

“Hey, fellas, I say, fellas. Now you don’t suppose there could be some kind of connection here, do you?”

The Atlantic August 8th, 2017: Why Men Are the New College Minority – Males are enrolling in higher education at alarmingly low rates, and some colleges are working hard to reverse the trend.
The Denver Post June 4th, 2017: Men saying “no thanks” to college – The proportion of men on college campuses is dropping.
tcu360 November 14th, 2016: Gender gap increases in colleges around the nation
The Guardian May 12, 2016: UK’s university gender gap is a national scandal, says thinktank – Report calls for efforts to recruit more male students, including a ‘take our sons to university day’
Forbes May 4, 2015: The Disappearing College Male
The Guardian January 29, 2013: The gender gap at universities: where are all the men? – Male students are outnumbered by females at most UK universities.
The Telegraph August 19, 2012: White males now classed as a ‘minority group’ at university – Women now dominate Britain’s universities and professions to such an extent that a leading institution has launched a campaign to recruit more “white males”.

“My black women”. How progressive! No vestiges of racism there.
“Other POC”. Warm and human isn’t the right word for this statement. She could work with Mrs Clinton to warm up her persona.

What could this person possibly teach anyone, that they would be prepared to enroll in the school and spend tens of thousands of dollars and spend the time to go to her lectures?

And she says all this proudly. As if it were a basis for applause.

Say something vile, get called on it, then race to the fainting couches as the helpless victim.
And yet we’re told, quite often, that calling out racism and sexism is a wonderful, beautiful thing. Generally by people very much like Ms McKellop.

I had the cute idea that Penn could defend me against Nazis.

Woe is she.

I think the notion that there would be any male in one of her classes is likely a fiction.
She looks white to me.
How can she allow a Nazi to be teaching her class?
Indeed. If you note on her U Penn bio she has the website Nursing Clio linked. If you go to the link you will notice that the Nursing Clio “Editorial Team” spans the POC spectrum from pearl to eggshell, and the contributors likewise with but a couple of exceptions. If that isn’t nazi white supremacy I don’t know what is, but as she linked them, she must be a crypto-nazi.

I think the notion that there would be any male in one of her classes is likely a fiction.
Sadly, no. There are indeed males who eagerly lap up that sort of poison.

[Professor] Daniels said she didn’t know how pervasive progressive stacking is, but underscored that it’s nothing new. As for the situation at Penn specifically, Daniels said it would be unfortunate for the university to punish someone trying to “uphold its values. It would be a very misguided step on the part of Penn.”

The rot goes deep.

Of course, what’s really going on is that the police are only responding to the criminals’ progressive stacking.
On that thought, and slightly off topic, can anyone on the eastern side of the pond explain what is going on with your cops ?
First: Slavery is closer than you think.

It could be happening in your area. It could be happening right in front of your eyes; you could be a victim of modern slavery or you may know someone who is a victim.

Second: The response is: Rozzers paint their fingernails.
However, if you call them on the foolishness:

Avon&Somerset Police‏Verified account
@ASPolice
Follow Follow @ASPolice
Replying to @DoubleThinker84 @ASPJoeIles
Hateful comments will not be tolerated. Repeat offenders will be blocked. Any hate crimes reported will be taken seriously.

Evidently more seriously than slavery, unless toenails are painted to raise awareness of “hateful” tweets to the 5-0.

And, if I have to, white men.
She sounds nice.

I bet it’s new to plenty of parents who are paying for this shit.
That.

Specifically, their [sic] dissertation will focus on practices of self-marriage and self-divorce in “backcountry” spaces, with an emphasis on wife-selling.

That dissertation will be enthralling. What “backcountry” spaces anywhere are into self-marriage and self-divorce? What are the terms of self-divorce? Who gets custody of the cats? Where does wife-selling fit into self-marriage?
Enquiring minds want to know.

Worse, she says, the university is cowing to such groups instead of supporting her.
Of course. First, it’s an apparent Title IX violation, which leaves them open to federal financial penalties and perhaps student lawsuits.
Second, universities know full well that an institution that gains a reputation for being hostile — perhaps I should say especially hostile, since most are already hostile — to white males risks falling enrollment and revenue.

More here:

“The university’s policies prohibiting discrimination are intended to reinforce our commitment to equity and inclusion,” [Steven Fluharty, the dean of UPenn’s School of Arts and Sciences,] wrote, noting that the school recognises “the importance of ensuring that students in groups that were historically marginalised have full opportunity to participate in classroom discussions.”

However, as “equity” translates as something like “equality of outcome regardless of inputs,” i.e., double standards and discrimination in favour of those deemed “marginalised,” contradictions and hypocrisy are difficult to avoid. Mr Fluharty might as well be saying, “The university’s policies prohibiting discrimination are intended to reinforce our commitment to discrimination.”

That. 🙂
The evasions and dishonesties in academia are now so pervasive and elaborate, so entrenched in the culture, and in any number of policies and official positions, that it makes realistic discussion, or anything approaching realistic discussion, both hazardous and unlikely.

Second, universities know full well that an institution that gains a reputation for being hostile — perhaps I should say especially hostile, since most are already hostile — to white males risks falling enrollment and revenue.
See comments elsewhere regarding falling white male enrollments. It has been falling for years. If they were truly interested in retaining white makes, none of this would have gotten anywhere near this far. The revenue, in so far as modern university administrators understand such vulgar things, will simply be made up by appealing to their government buddies for more subsidies for “underprivileged” youths. They just need to keep up a bit of a ruse when their little acolytes like this one go too far. It will all blow over by the time the next budgetary crisis occurs and by then they will have had the time to attribute the problem to other causes. See Mizzou’s excuses.

I just had a Twitter convo with a Scot living in Amsterdam (“citizen of the world”) who claimed to be laughing him/herself silly over the notion that Western civ could be destroyed when the Muslims reach majority in Europe.
Among the “refutations”:
— I’ve never heard of a society collapsing from low birth rates (Me: contraception and abortion are an unprecedented situation, so you can’t cite precedent as evidence)
— Are you really suggesting Europeans should stop using birth control? (Me: hardly)
— Western civ is too strong to collapse (Me: History is all about civs rising and falling. How’s Egypt these days?)
— You’re living in a paranoid fantasy (Me: Demographics are destiny and you’re reproducing below replacement)
I was going to compliment my Twitterlocutor for being civil (he/she was, by Twitter standards), but now I see that I’ve been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours.
That’s just amazing.

but now I see that I’ve been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours.
What did you do? You’ve not been spitting at orphans again, I hope.

*sigh*
[ Slides impossibly fancy cocktail towards bad girl dicentra. ]

I hate that Mark Steyn is usually right.
I’ve been a fan of Mark’s for over a decade and I’m a founding member. I noticed that even the Happy Warrior seems to be losing some of his elan these days; he’s rerunning more and more old columns because, well, nothing has actually changed but to add “that, and more since” at the bottom. I think the Lawsuit That Never Ends has affected him more than he’s letting on.

I just had a Twitter convo with a Scot living in Amsterdam…
He should have a conversation with Bruce Bawer. His head might explode trying to reconcile the conflicting Privileged Victim narratives.
…(“citizen of the world”)
There are few people more contemptible than those who proclaim themselves “citizens of the world”.

“Lawsuit That Never Ends”
I don’t know how Mann can get away with that never ending delaying. There’s also the one against Tim Ball.

Are you really suggesting Europeans should stop using birth control? (Me: hardly)
Why not? If Europe doesn’t start righting her demographic pyramid soon, the Dar al Eurabia will become a reality. Importing a new people isn’t the solution, especially barbarians. More native babies are.
So yes, stop using birth control. Stop subsidizing childlessness. Stop encouraging people to live for the day while expecting the non-existent next generation to support them in their old age.

For all universities’ kvetching about white male privilege, being seen as a de facto woman or black college means a substantial loss of prestige, and eventually revenue.

Agree, in the context of the real world. But the real world is evil and racist. Universities are tasked with being sperm donors to the Great And Glorious Future, the momentum of which shall roll over the ignorant and uneducated. As Lenin said, “Study! Study!”
The volume of teh stupid going on here is still much louder and will continue to be seen as the Strong Horse relative to those opposed because the push back is still quite weak. The culture is still firmly in their grasp. No politicians are speaking up forcefully about this problem. Who is going to deny struggling minorities an “education”? Meanwhile the academia machine, due to low and/or nonexistant standards, churns out more “credentialed” lefists than the opposition can ever hope to create.
And remember, the Left still has its favorite trump card to play, of which it has been very quiet about lately, abortion.

I don’t know how Mann can get away with that never ending delaying.
As Mark has pointed out, it’s the corrupt DC court system that allows it to go on.

dicentra:
I see that I’ve been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours.
Could have been worse.

…but I don’t think it is what Robert Peel intended.
The Police decided in the 1960’s to abandon Peelian policing.
A book I could recommend on the subject is ‘ A Brief History of Crime‘ by Peter Hitchens, who gives his opinion, backed up by plenty of evidence, as to why the British police and Government have failed the public so badly in the last 50 years. It was published in 2000, so the situation is worse now than that described in the book.

The one whose areas of expertise include “race, gender and the body,” “self-marriage” and, wait for it, “racial blame.”
Why Race Is Not a Thing, According to Genetics

In many ways, genetics makes a mockery of race. The characteristics of normal human variation we use to determine broad social categories of race—such as black, Asian, or white—are mostly things like skin color, morphological features, or hair texture, and those are all biologically encoded.
But when we look at the full genomes from people all over the world, those differences represent a tiny fraction of the differences between people. There is, for instance, more genetic diversity within Africa than in the rest of the world put together. If you take someone from Ethiopia and someone from the Sudan, they are more likely to be more genetically different from each other than either one of those people is to anyone else on the planet!

Why, you’d almost think that different breeds of the same animal (such as cats or dogs) were all exactly alike in disposition and intelligence.
Thirty days in the cooler!

Why, you’d almost think that different breeds of the same animal (such as cats or dogs) were all exactly alike in disposition and intelligence.
Yeah, I’m always confusing Border Collies and Chihuahuas.

And they always seem to forget what the S in NSDAP..
I remember seeing an interview with Friedrich Hayek who said that when he was in Vienna before the war, he was amused by how interchangeable the membership of the Communist and Nazi parties were. One day Fritz would be battling for the Commies and next week for the Nazis.

I just had a Twitter convo with a Scot living in Amsterdam (“citizen of the world”) who claimed to be laughing him/herself silly over the notion that Western civ could be destroyed when the Muslims reach majority in Europe.
I rather agree with Jonathan; I’m always struck how they all end up living in London, New York or Tokyo rather than, say, Lagos or Dhaka…. . . .
And a bit of catchup reading reminded me of the overall reason why anyone gleeful about the demographical end of “Europe” should rather wind up quite disappointed . . .

The right response to low-tech terrorism in every Western country is to keep calm and carry on, even knowing that the attacks will probably continue until the present generation of jihadists age out. (Generational turnover is what really ends most ideological fashions.)

Di is quite correct when noting that the issue isn’t whether Western civ is too strong to collapse (Me: History is all about civs rising and falling. How’s Egypt these days?).
The issue is . . . when the Muslims reach majority in Europe.
When?
What when, pray tell?

One fact that gets lost among distractions … is that the birthrates of Muslim women in Europe — and around the world — have been falling significantly for some time.
[S]harp reductions in fertility among Muslim immigrants reflect important cultural shifts, which include universal female education, rising living standards, the inculcation of local mores, and widespread availability of contraception. Broadly speaking, birthrates among immigrants tend to rise or fall to the local statistical norm within two generations.
The decline of Muslim birthrates is a global phenomenon. Most analysts have focused on the remarkably high proportion of people under age 25 in the Arab countries, which has inspired some crude forecasts about what this implies for the future. Yet recent UN data suggest that Arab birthrates are falling fast, and that the number of births among women under the age of 20 is dropping even more sharply.
The falling fertility rates in large segments of the Islamic world have been matched by another significant shift: Across northern and western Europe, women have suddenly started having more babies … Immigrant mothers account for part of the fertility increase throughout Europe, but only part. And, significantly, many of the immigrants are arrivals from elsewhere in Europe, especially the eastern European countries admitted to the European Union in recent years.

What came to mind was a general observation that—very much more or less—when the village gets TVs and a refrigerator in every house, the local birthrate drops.
Everywhere.
The first thing I see with https://www.google.com/search?q=asian+indian+birth+rate is a rather interesting chart that one can actually play with.
When playing with the chart m’self, I left China in given the Muslim population there, and tossed in Japan given Japan having reproductive demographic issues.
There does indeed appear to be a very likely outcome in some areas, where in those areas there will indeed be someone demanding that So yes, stop using birth control. Stop subsidizing childlessness. Stop encouraging people to live for the day while expecting the non-existent next generation to support them in their old age. . . . except that in such an instance, the much more likely opening phrase will be something like As the Koran states, stop using birth control. Stop subsidizing childlessness . . . . .