That is, essentially, Dr. Robert Weissberg’s argument today in a humorous, Machiavellian essay over at the Manhattan Institute’s Minding the Campus website. He advocates separating the hard-line left from the mainstream faculty into such departments as Women’s Studies, African American Studies, and, his suggestion, a collective School of Oppression Studies. Why? Weissberg explains:
“The pathway to detoxification is clear: the 19th century leprosy- or tuberculosis-style quarantine. That is, if you cannot cure the infectious pathology, and any attempt to do so only exacerbates the situation, isolate the Typhoid Marys. And, if properly managed, the pox may well dwindle and vanish….
Non-academic outsiders will, no doubt, be initially appalled, even write blistering essays on Minding the Campus. But, such condemnation is naive. The School of Oppression Studies will eventually wither away to irrelevance and the university will be saved….
Since none of these SOS courses are required, and all will be instantly recognized for their empty calories agitprop content, enrollments will be modest, far less than what these PC professors would have drawn in their home department’s required courses.”
Intrigued? Read the whole thing.
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For the UNC alums in the audience, are you feeling proud to be a Tar Heel? Our excellent recruiting class swelling your chest a little bit? Well, pride is a sin, dear brothers and sisters. So, in order to help you maintain proper humility, here is a single picture that will almost certainly diminish any errant pride in being associated with UNC-Chapel Hill.
