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Colleges Are Offering Courses in Social Justice Organizing (and It’s Ridiculous)

Colleges Are Offering Courses in Social Justice Organizing (and It’s Ridiculous)

Last updated on: May 15, 2018 at 11:50 am by Susan Wright

Colleges Are Offering Courses in Social Justice Organizing (and It’s Ridiculous) 2018-05-15T11:50:35-04:00 Susan Wright

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Our children will not be prepared to lead this nation because they are not being taught to think independently, or with any realistic level of maturity.

Was that clear enough and to the point?

I heard someone say some time back, “We’re not raising children. We’re raising the adults they will become.”

It’s sound advice, given in context.

If you want this world left in capable, reasonable, secure hands, then something needs to change – quickly.

If you’re sending your precious progeny into the bowels of society, also known as “institutes of higher education,” know that there is a very high risk of them returning to you with little practical knowledge or skills, and nothing more to show for their time away, other than a massive student loan bill and a bad attitude.

I’m not knocking a college education. I think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. I’m college educated, myself, but I had the unique advantage of having lived life and learned a bit about the world first, before entering into the hallowed halls of academia. My mind was already fully cooked. I had real life experience and an adult outlook. That makes a difference.

I’m not even going to say that every kid sent out straight from high school to college will fall prey to the indoctrination into Marxist idealism and social justice feel-goodism.

Some really do maneuver their time in college to their future advantage.

But it’s hard, and getting harder all the time, especially when you realize they’re after our children.

Let’s look at the case of the University of Connecticut and this ridiculous academic offering – a minor in “Social Justice Organizing.”

Campus Reform covered this groan-worthy course.

According to the university, the minor “provides interdisciplinary classroom instruction in the theories, histories and formation of social identities, structural inequalities, and movements to foster social justice and equity in the United States.”

That means they’re going to tell you how certain people, because of the randomness of their birth situations are very, very bad, and others are the perpetual victims.

Seriously. There’s the course in a single sentence, and I won’t even charge you the outlandish tuition the students signing up for this course are likely paying to be there.

It gets better.

And by “better,” I mean more ridiculous.

In order to complete the minor, students must complete 15 credits from a pre-approved selection of courses, including at least three credits from courses addressing “Identities, Intersections, and Categories of Analysis” (Group A) and “State Structures and Systems of Inequality and Control” (Group B), as well as six credits related to “Creating Social Justice, Equity, and Freedom” (Group C).

In addition, students must complete a “service learning/internship” (Group D), through which they are expected to “learn about valuable experiences and practical skills in social justice community organizing.”

So oppressors and victims, just as I said.

One of the classes available to cover your Group A requirement would be a course on “Masculinities.”

I read the synopsis. Something about the “social construction of masculinity and how maleness is gendered.”

Really? That’s a whole class?

You also have an option to cover “Black Feminist Politics” for Group C.

UConn describes the class as “an introduction to major philosophical and theoretical debates at the core of black feminist thought,” which emphasizes “the ways in which interlocking systems of oppression uphold and sustain each other.”

So super-duper victims. Just what our young women need to be taught.

Here’s where they bring it home:

The final requirement, a “Service Learning/Internship” program, is an “interdisciplinary seminar” during which “students learn and work alongside other University of Connecticut students, instructors, and local activists as they examine the history of social justice organizing in the United States and gain practical skills in community organizing and political advocacy.”

Through “practice in community organizing and political advocacy,” participants are expected to “gain familiarity with the theories, strategies, and practice of community organizing movements, such as those for immigration, environmental, reproductive, and racial justice.”

In other words, for the low, low price of $40,000 or so, your kid can learn to hold cardboard signs and screech in the faces of strangers they may disagree with.

Where do I take my money?

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if a student engaged in this minor, they would likely be drummed out if they expressed that they’d like to promote social justice organizing for the sake of defending the unborn, or maybe even championing the cause of legal immigration, and those who wait in line, forgotten in the rush to legalize those who jumped the line.

The really maddening part of all this is that this isn’t even the worst of what is being passed off as legitimate course work at our universities.

Parents, you’d better begin the lay strong foundations when your kids are young. Give them the kind of start in life and the support and love they need to grow and be responsible, rational thinkers before you send them out into the world.

If you don’t fill up the well of their emotional, spiritual, and intellectual being, somebody else out there is more than willing to step in and do it for you.

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