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| Misplaced Contrition: The Psychological Origin of White Guilt |
| 2021-05-11 |
| [American Thinker] "Yes, I am a white woman, and yes, I have white privilege — too many privileges to count and many of which I do not consciously know," wrote Christina Wyman in Detroit Free Press last year. Ms. Wyman — who is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University — is one of many white Americans whom we have watched in the course of the last twelve months lamenting, kneeling and beating their chest in public acts of contrition over the allegedly inherent racism of American society. One cannot but be startled by this behavior, not least because the charges of racism against America are plainly untrue. Whatever faults the Unites States may have, it is certainly not a racist society, which is something that should be obvious to anyone with the eyes to see (see here). |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 Sorry, White is a factor of my parentage, not my fault. I wasn't there, then. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-05-11 16:33 |
| #14 The old saw is: "They learn more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-05-11 10:13 |
| #13 #10 Actually, IMO, it's wrong. Best case outcome, you get tunnel-vision technicians. Worst case, people who are very, very good at exploiting others. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-11 02:54 |
| #12 Even school academics in India are taking their cue from America, altering their 'pedagogy' to reach some progressive standard of schooling. The intent is to dumb down education for everybody in the interest of delinquents and idiots whose parents have been promised class emancipation for their votes. Corporal punishment was outlawed in most states by liberal administrations, more because of their own affirmative action hires being insanely cruel with students. Maybe because of the strong right wing at the centre and because all institutions and leaderships must confirm to the established Indian tradition of 'the teacher is God', things are evenly balanced. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-05-11 02:47 |
| #11 I've come to notice the word 'pedagogy' will be used a hundred times in articles by people who couldn't connect with a child to save their life. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-05-11 02:32 |
| #10 I suppose that's how it's done when one wants to do it right. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-05-11 02:31 |
| #9 #7 In the last few years I've met quite a few people with a degree in Something education. For some odd reason, my impression is that most know very little about Something & all are lousy teachers. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-11 02:28 |
| #8 Where I come from, the tenured perfessers will not let adjuncts or lecturers publish in their journals easily. Where I came from, you publish with your boss as a student. If you one (of the very few) intended for tenure, the boss arranges for a single author publication in a prestigious journal. That's get you into a tenure track - where you have to publish and publish a lot (all a matter of attracting the right students), to get tenure. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-11 02:16 |
| #7 Kinda sorta. My older sister decided it was too much hassle to try to get her PhD thesis published. Also in the Education Academe at the time the fact that her conclusions didn't agree with the *cough* majestic writings *cough* of Dr. Jean Piaget, who was considered gospel at the time, getting a University job was unlikely much less getting |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-05-11 01:44 |
| #6 Oh... didn't read about her articles in the papers there. I was thinking academic journals. Where I come from, the tenured perfessers will not let adjuncts or lecturers publish in their journals easily. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-05-11 01:36 |
| #5 Maybe only the tenured get to publish? Eh? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-11 01:09 |
| #4 Maybe only the tenured get to publish? And others have to opine in the Detroit Free Press until they have pleased their woke admins enough? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-05-11 01:05 |
| #3 Academia is for scientists & scholars, TW. Peer-reviewed publications don't assure the author is one of the above - but their absence proves the contrary beyond any reasonable doubt. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-11 00:44 |
| #2 Why, g(r)omgoru — I do believe you are an academic snob! ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-05-11 00:36 |
| #1 Dr.Christina Wyman is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University. She is published in the Washington Post, The Lily (a Washington Post publication), NBC News, The Independent, Al Jazeera, and other outlets. Notice no mention of peer-reviewed publications. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-11 00:21 |