Development
'exposes the fraudulent priorities of contemporary higher education' by Paul
Bremmer, 6/24/17, WND
High school students who aspire to
be social justice warriors are increasingly finding higher education options
available to them, as more than 100 colleges and universities in the U.S. now
offer formal academic programs in “social justice,” according to
research by the College Fix.
The Fix discovered at least 64
American colleges that offer minors in social justice or a markedly similar
field. At least 18 schools offer four-year degrees, and at least 15 offer
master’s degrees.
There are even two universities that
offer Ph.D. programs with a social justice focus: The University of
Massachusetts-Amherst (Social Justice Education) and Fielding Graduate School
in California (Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice).
Schools with social justice programs
range from small private universities, such as Carleton College in Minnesota
(B.A. in Human Rights and Social Justice), to large public universities, such
as the University of Michigan (minor in Peace and Social Justice), to religious
institutions such as Northeastern Seminary (M.A. in Theology and Social
Justice). Even Cornell, an Ivy League school, has an MPA program in Human
Rights and Social Justice. These schools offer a wide variety of social
justice-themed classes.
At Merrimack College, for instance,
social justice majors can take a class called “Thinking
Green: Environmental Justice, Gender, and Animal Rights.” Students in the University of Iowa’s social justice
B.A. program can learn about the “History
of American Inequality.” Ohio
Wesleyan University offers a course on “Feminist
Perspectives on Race and Gender in the Media.”
At the University of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh, social justice minors can learn about “Gay
& Lesbian Literature,” while
Oregon State University offers an entire program in “Food
in Culture and Social Justice,” including
a course titled “Food and Ethnic Identity: Decolonizing Our Food and Body.” Scott Greer, deputy editor at the
Daily Caller, can only shake his head at the rise of these non-traditional
academic programs.
“Social justice degrees are a
logical conclusion to the prevalent trends within higher education that stress
teaching left-wing orthodoxy over real-life skills,” Greer told WND. “It’s
unclear how this major will help a student navigate a real workplace
environment, and is likely only going to encourage them to identify every
little thing as a representation of white supremacy.”
Greer, author of “No
Campus For White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education Into Hateful
Indoctrination,” said there is one good thing
about the creation of social justice majors: “It exposes the fraudulent
priorities of contemporary higher education.”
International journalist and
educator Alex Newman, co-author of “Crimes
of the Educators,” said the appearance of social
justice degrees is a natural byproduct of a public K-12 education system that
no longer prioritizes real education.
“After generations of dumbing down
and indoctrinating children in government schools, it was inevitable that this
would happen someday,” Newman told WND. “As Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld and I show
in ‘Crimes
of the Educators,’ this sort of lunacy is the
bitter fruit produced by the poison tree that is the ‘progressive,’
anti-Christian, anti-liberty, collectivist government education inflicted on
the American people by socialist humanist John Dewey and his radical cohorts.
Now the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost.”
Newman foresees devastating
consequences for the country: “Legions of brainwashed social-justice warriors
with ‘community organizing’ skills and thorough statist and humanist
indoctrination will constantly agitate for more government, less freedom, more
globalism, more insanity, and more tax funding to feed the perpetually
expanding beast that has been unleashed on America and the world.”
Newman suspects those who graduate
with social justice degrees will have trouble getting real-world jobs that
create value for society. On the contrary, he worries about the adverse effects
they will have on society.
“The danger, if taxpayers and voters
are not vigilant, is that these indoctrinated overgrown children will end up
burrowing their way into government and becoming a permanent parasite class
that sustains itself by leeching off the taxpayer and making ever-more
ludicrous demands,” Newman warned. “These taxpayer-funded universities
are producing zealots to wage war on God, Christianity and liberty on an
industrial scale. Taxpayers and voters must demand an end to it.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/colleges-giving-degrees-in-social-justice/
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