Occidental College May Burn Self At Stake

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Occidental College May Burn Self At Stake

By ROD DREHER • November 25, 2015, 10:52 AM

 

You think it can’t get any crazier, and then you are proven wrong. From Reasonmagazine, an outcome of radical student protests at a Los Angeles liberal arts college:

 

In recognition of their complicity in “structural racism and oppression” atOccidental College, the faculty will vote on a resolution that mandates diversity training, requires all academic departments to make racial sensitivity a component of in-class instruction, and allows students to “report microaggressions” between students and professors.

 

The text of the entire draft proposal opens like this:

 

We recognize and are inspired by the leadership of Oxy United for Black Liberation and their call for widespread institutional change in the culture of the College. We affirm that Black lives matter and also affirm the broader ideals of social justice to which their call speaks. We recognize that the structural racism and other forms of oppression of the College violate our commitment to ensuring equity and excellence in our educational programs for all of our students. We also acknowledge that our collective inaction as a faculty body makes us complicit in the failures of the College to make our Mission a lived reality. For this, we apologize for failing you, our students.