If you do not follow what passes for today’s college experience in many of our so-called institutes of higher learning, you would think this is poorly written satire.
Well, it isn’t. It is real.
From Matthew Stein’s article at campusreform.org:
A Marxist student group at Swarthmore College disbanded itself earlier this year after realizing that its members were too rich and too white to be real commies.
According to screenshots confidentially provided to Campus Reform by an individual with access to the group’s private Facebook page, the demise of the Swarthmore Anti-Capitalist Collective (SACC) came in the wake of a farewell letter from a member who had decided the group could never be an effective proponent of “unproblematized anticapitalist politics” due to its “history of abuse, racism, and even classism.”
“From my understanding SACC disbanded because they realized the makeup and tactics of their group was at odds with their espoused principles,” Swarthmore Conservative Society President Gilbert Guerra told Campus Reform. “Their main support base was middle-upper class white kids who enjoy jogging.”
The farewell letter corroborates Guerra’s understanding, asserting that “SACC’s fundamental failure” was that “at its formation, it was made up of entirely white, with the exception of one person of color*, students,” and to make matters worse, “not one of [the founding members] are from low-income and/or working class backgrounds.”
Poor babies. Too privileged to succor their inner marxism.
Let’s invent a new word, and call it a classic case of academicfluenza.
Too bad these wannabes see people not as individuals but as skin colors and bank accounts. Because if they saw people as discrete individuals, they could continue to pretend they are marxists, thus indulging their ideal of complete economic equality….on a campus that has an estimated tuition for the upcoming 2017-2018 year of $65,774.
Put another way, these people are about as marxist as nicolas maduro is libertarian.
Maybe they should change the school’s name to Swarthless.
Under the heading “Another Reason Why I Hate Liberals”
Preschools are rife with ‘heteronormativity,’ prof claims
A University of Michigan instructor recently claimed that preschool classrooms are rife with “heteronormativity” that perpetuates “inequalities related to gender.”
Heidi M. Gansen, a Ph.D. student who teaches sociology at UMich, advanced these claims in a July 14 article that examines the prevalence of “heteronormativity” in a set of nine Michigan preschool classrooms she visited.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9525