Wednesday, April 9, 2008
What University of Delaware freshmen go through:
...The program's stated intent was for the approximately 7,000 students in U.D.'s residence halls to espouse, in FIRE's words, "highly specific university-approved views on politics, race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism."
Program materials for this ideological reeducation, which have been removed from the U.D. Website, included race/gender/class/sexual orientation "trainer" Shakti Butler's definition of a racist as "all white people living in the United States" and her edict that "people of color cannot be racists." An intrusive rating instrument, "Discovery Wheel," was used to prompt students to admit to their putative racism, and they were instructed that the U.S. is as "an oppressive society" whose "structures of oppression" it is their "duty" to eliminate.
"The treatment" was also mandatory and punitive. Students were required to attend training sessions, group floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Advisers (RAs), who, having been coached in interrogating vulnerable freshmen, plied them with invasive questions. Thereafter students were rated on a scale of "best" to "worst," according to how they complied with the prescribed campus orthodoxy. For example, students were grilled about when they first discovered their sexual identity. One resistant student who replied, "That is none of your damn business," was written up as having one of the "wors[t] one-on-one" sessions, and identified by name and room number...
How many tens of thousands a year for this? Much more and the included links in the full article.
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