American college campuses continue to accommodate social justice warriors (formerly known as students) who only want provided for them a safe space where their ideas, and theirs alone, are acceptable and any challenging philosophy to the contrary is eradicated into a carbon-friendly dust bin.
There could be no better example of this currently than American University in Washington, D.C., where it has been announced it is "reimagining" the school's core curriculum to include in-depth studies into "equity, diversity and inclusion" of all "marginalized groups [struggling] for human rights."
This effort to "educate thoughtful, responsible human beings" will begin in the 2016-2017 school year. Here are some of the proposed inclusions American U likes to call "Complex Problems:"
All students, including transfer students, must take a Complex Problems seminar. A signature gateway to the University College curriculum, these courses will introduce students to the process of academic inquiry through analysis of one or more complex problems. Although many Complex Problems courses will draw heavily on the social sciences (in the analysis of such issues as inequality, social violence and health care access), others will be grounded in the sciences (climate change, dementia) or arts and humanities (art and politics, post-colonial expression).
Another credited class, labeled "AU Experience I," will focus on "race, culture, and society; public policy and sexuality; sex, gender, and sexual orientation; historic and current perspectives on generational cohorts and the unique struggles they face."
For those required to attend "AU Experience II," "special attention" will be paid to "diversity, inclusion, and community" with a focus on "oppression and resistance… historical violence, such as the early slave trade and genocidal conquests, [and] how entrenched systems of inequality marginalize some groups and privilege others."
Read even more course choices here.
This jack-booting of everyone's individual privileges, white or otherwise, is even rubbing far-left outlets the wrong way. Such is the case with The Daily Beast that was not only frustrated by a university willing to "stifle [the] freedom[s]" of students, but willing to immerse them into oppression by requiring new housing arrangements that coincides with the new "oppression studies:"
No longer will students shack up together at random: instead, AU would assign students to particular housing based on which “oppression studies” courses they are taking.
The point of this change is to force students to grapple with these subjects in their free time, as well as their class time—in other words, to move the oppression from the classroom to the dorm room. How horrible does that sound?
It gets worse. “Upper class peer mentors,” according to the draft, will be assigned to these groups of students. The draft describes them as “support teams,” but it’s easy to imagine them morphing into some kind of social justice enforcers instead.
This plan, if approved, would add AU to the list of campuses attempting to turn its residence halls into re-education camps.
How bad is it when a media organization that thrives on exposing so-called white privilege on a daily basis finally sees where a progressive mindset inevitably leads?


