This story is the latest reason for my despair.
The unethical and diabolical woman on the left, physically and politically,
… is UC Berkeley professor of ethnic studies, gender and women’s studies and performance studies Juana María Rodríguez. Not content to rot the brains and values of her students, she has weaponized her charges to inject Leftist propaganda into the general population through Wikipedia, itself a propagator of biased and left-slanted disinformation.
Beginning in 2016, Rodríguez has assigned her students to create and edit Wikipedia articles about LGBTQ+ people. Her special focus is on gay and transgender “people of color,” of course, because that’s how people like her roll. The manipulating of the online encyclopedia gets credit in three of her classes: “Documenting Marginal Lives,” “Queer of Color Cultural Production” and “Queer of Color Critique.”
I would not hire any job applicant who had taken any of those courses, nor would I send my child to any school that treated those subjects as worthy of academic study.
“I want my students to think of themselves as not just consumers of knowledge but as being able to produce knowledge as well,” Rodríguez explained in a smoking gun email. This is new: a college professor who doesn’t know what “knowledge” means. One doesn’t produce knowledge, (“facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject”) one seeks, acquires, conveys, and distributes knowledge. Producing knowledge is called “making stuff up.”
The professor allows students to skip finals in exchange for doing her propaganda work.
Rodríguez integrates Wikipedia into her curricula in collaboration with Wiki Education, a nonprofit organization that encourages faculty in the United States and Canada to assign their students to create content for Wikipedia articles, aiming to fill in “knowledge gaps” on Wikipedia regarding gender, racial and ethnic diversity. Rodríguez’s students alone have added more than 300,000 edits and 3,000 citations to Wikipedia. the professor says she’s “really proud” that her students’ propaganda has been viewed an estimated 96 million times. Isn’t that wonderful?
How many societal termites like this are being paid by institutions of higher learning to distort reality, then education, and finally the culture? I’m beginning to fear that Americans were asleep at the metaphorical switch so long that the progressive body- and mind-snatchers spread their sinister pods so deeply in our comunities’ collective consciousness that the battle was already lost before it was even discovered.
Ethics Alarms 
I wonder why so many in academia embrace the LTBGQ+
Isn’t that a rhetorical question, ME?
As someone who has worked in higher ed or been in it since my 20’s, I can confidently say that there are people like this everywhere, even in the STEM department. Feckless, incompetent deans, provosts. etc., all of these nonsense positions for people who don’t actually do anything to keep institutional standards in check.
And if you try, God help you. I’m still amazed how some of these institutions even run. In a Race and Ethnicity class, the professor once went off about how Michael Brown was murdered. The main paper for the class assume sracism and tells you to find examples and apply a sociological theory.
“I can confidently say that there are people like this everywhere, even in the STEM department.”
You don’t say; to wit:
From “The Higher Education Bubble.” by Glenn Harlan Reynolds (bolds/caps/italics mine throughout)
“Even as the once-mighty University of California system SLASHES PROGRAMS AND RAISES TUITION, it has created a new systemwide ‘vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion.’
“This is on top of the already enormous University of California diversity machine, which, as Heather Mac Donald notes, ‘includes:
*the Chancellor’s Diversity Office,
*the associate vice chancellor for faculty equity,
*the assistant vice chancellor for diversity,
*the faculty equity advisors,
*the graduate diversity coordinators,
*the staff diversity liaison,
*the undergraduate student diversity liaison,
*the graduate student diversity liaison,
*the chief diversity officer,
*the director of development for diversity initiatives,
*the Office of Academic Diversity and Equal Opportunity,
*the Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues,
*the Committee on the Status of Women,
*the Campus Council on Climate, Culture and Inclusion,
*the Diversity Council,
*the Directors of the Cross-Cultural Center,
*the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center, and,
* the Women’s Center.”
“While the UC system LOSES TOP CANCER RESEARCHERS to Rice University, it is CREATING NEW CHAIRED PROFESSORSHIPS in, you guessed it, diversity studies.
“Likewise, in North Carolina, UNC-Wilmington is COMBINING THE PHYSICS AND GEOLOGY DEPARTMENTS WHILE DIVEWRTING MORE FUNDS TO CAMPUS DIVERSITY OFFICES.”
Have we gone from bad to diverse? This was published in 2012, with the research being compiled in the years prior: Have things gotten better, stayed the same, or gotten worse?
PWS
I’m not even referring to the diversity stuff (though that is bad). There are a lot of incompetent people in higher education who have degrees in God knows what. They make a lot of money in administrative roles going to pointless meetings and doing nothing, and they draw large salaries.
A chair for this. A dean for that. Everything just keeps growing, and the corrupt incompetency continues to self-perpetuate.
At the place I work, the new president hired a “president’s liaison” who, in her words, is “not HR and has the president’s ear” all while other areas are underfunded. It’s B.S. positions like that. That doesn’t include professors who suck either, not out of politics, but just because they are bad at their jobs.
Add on the even more ridiculous diversity positions, and that’s part of why higher ed is the way it is.
It will not be fixed at the higher ed level. It can only be fixed at the primary and secondary ed level.
Freshman come in extremely indoctrinated from their 13+ years of indoctrination camp. They accept gender studies, grievance studies, etc because that is what they are used to. They view college as a credentialing system, not as a place to learn new and important information. The colleges push this by saying “we aren’t here to prepare you for a job, we are here to make you an educated person (teach you to think, etc)” while at the same time stating people need to go to college to get a good job. The students accept indoctrination because they have been indoctrinated into the idea that indoctrination=education. They have never experienced anything else.
At this point, any attempt to educate college students is met with resistance because they don’t recognize education, they have never seen it. They flock to indoctrination as the only ‘education’ they know. If we can get rid of the early indoctrination and grow some actual Americans again, they will rebel against the indoctrination at the college level and those things will go away.
To do this, as a country, we are going to have to stop treating public school teachers like upstanding citizens. We are going to have to hold them accountable for the education they are failing to deliver. If you knew a surgeon who had a 20% success rate at their surgeries, how would you treat that person? If all the hospitals in the state had a 20% success rate in their surgeries, how would you treat the employees of hospitals? Why don’t we hold our public schoolteachers accountable for their 80+% failure rate (in many cases) in educating students?
Si!
No truer words were ever spoken
To say nothing of school administrators who didn’t come from the teaching profession in the first place and refuse to back up teachers who attempt to enforce standards in their classrooms.
“Freshman come in extremely indoctrinated from their 13+ years of indoctrination camp.”
A Pal-o-Mine calls it INDOCTRICATION…and a PICTURE’S worth 100 words…
PWS