The University of Texas will appoint a new vice provost in charge of diversity, reports the Daily Texan. (Hat Tip to Dave Huber).
He or she “will oversee the use of $500,000 for the 2004-05 fiscal year” to promote diversity, which includes (among many other issues) such things as considering, along with the faculty, the “development of mandatory diversity coursework” and “reviewing the movement of Confederate statues on the South Mall.”
I wonder if Praire View A&M or Texas Southwen have a vice provost in charge of diversity? Or is it the kind of position that can exist only at a univeristy that has whites in the majority?
I’m wondering when the black colleges will try to diversify. If diversity meant what they claim it means, they would have been sued by the govt long ago. Same question for all the woman’s colleges.
Now if “diversity” means, not a white male (as all the evidence indicates), the answers to the questions above are “never” and “never”, as having no white men at all would in fact be maximum diversity (a situation some posters here clearly support, in the name of ending racism no less).
Rich
SuperD and Rich: How dare you question their patriotism!!
Just kidding.
I really have to give leftist academics credit. Once they appropriate a term or phrase (diversity, racism, separation of church and state) they are quite successful in redefining it to suit their narrow interests. “Diversity” is the current star, and properly so. It used to have so many applications, so many areas where it could be used to define a problem. Now it means “African American” (and not even blacks in general). “Racism” was a good exercise in appropriation also. What was once a general term for a universally condemned form of hatred and discrimination is now a whites only crime. I just hope they let me keep “a**hole!”
You can tell from the context that diversity means anti-dominant, and anti-caucasianism in particular. It can’t be made as explicit as if they were to say our policy is pro-diversity. If they were interested in protecting diversity of cultures and ideas, the confederate statues would be a clearcut diversity item, that they would be obliged to defend against the academic majority opinion. Therefore, they mean pro-diversity as anti-dominant and anti-caucasian, and they expect you to be too polite to mention that they are promoting civil war and the overthrow of the republic, and its democratic features. What the pro-diversity don’t realize is that they could be about to cause the suppression of public education, as the people react against what is so obviously hostile to them and their children, and this can yield a permanent and world-shuddering defeat for the left.
“reviewing the movement of Confederate statues on the South Mall.”
If statues are moving, I want to know about it. So I can run the other way.
Seriously, where is that $500,000 coming from? Taxpayers? Tuition?
The scam of diversity was shown in the amicus briefs submitted during the Gratz decision. Ford Motor Company claimed that their managers needed a “diverse” education in order to manage a “diverse” workplace. Everybody translated this as meaning that whites needs to attend college with a certain number of black students in order to know how to work with them.
However, Ford (and others) have programs where they recruit at Grambling, Praire View, Howard, etc. Yet, no one questions whether a black manager who attended a black only high school and a black only university is capable of managing whites let alone Koreans, Chinese, Hindus, Pakistanis, etc.
As faithful readers of Discriminations know, “diversity” means “more blacks”. Therefore, for instance, an all-black college would be completely diverse.
John S Bolton writes:
“You can tell from the context that diversity means anti-dominant,…”
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Actually I’ve never seen it to have anything to do with anything except the presence of too many white males. They destroy diversity, have you not heard?
The same is true for “minority” BTW, the term has nothing whatsoever to do with numbers, never had. Even when white man are represented at 1%, blacks are still minorities. So are women, despite the fact that they are not a minority anywhere and have never been a minority anywhere.
Mikem’s got the right idea, and a nice turn of phrase as well.
Laura, don’t worry, you won’t have to run far, they will soon reach their statue of limitations. :^/
Rich
That makes me so angry. Money spent discriminating and lowering standards. You need half a million in taxpayers’ money to do that?
Here in the People’s Republic of Austin, these government and university strategies simply demonstrate the existence of Grace and Providence. The measures are so stupid and wasteful it is an indication of Something Bigger protecting us all that we have not tanked.
Austin Independent School District recently ran out of money, can’t find paper and cartridges to print curricula. At the same time there is a nice little pot-o’gold set aside for Diversity Workshops for Middle Schools, I hear.
Pfuuuui.
BC,
In the City of Baltimore, the worst school district in the state of Maryland, it was discovered that the school district paid well above market rates for light bulbs and other maintenance supplies because the supplies were purchased from a “minority” vendor.
I always ask liberals who complain about not having enough funds for schools if the schools have a minority set aside contracting program. If the school district does, it is obvious that the schools have more funds than they claim but just choose to spend the funds of political objectives other than education.