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Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd
you are so right. If this was a white professor he would have been axed.
It is sad that these Boston universities used to be bastions of higher learning have become indoctrine sites for tomorrows over the top liberal whackos.
College should be about broadening ones thinking but so many of the professors lean to the left there is not much diversity at the university.
I think this woman stands behind what she said and only regrets being called on it.
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I think in general white males have been very tolerant of this notion of diversity, even though that is a code word for less white males.
Think about it.
If white males had the lions share of certain jobs (for both the right and wrong reasons), it is still a fact they benefited from such.
So why would anyone, or any group of people for that matter, wish to have their potential employment/promotion/educational opportunity go to someone else
It is obviously counter intuitive, but those who have promoted diversity have done so not with much resistance of whites, and instead many whites themselves have also been behind it.
I believe many whites figured that certain groups of minorities had historically been unable to get certain opportunities, and they in a high minded way put their own advantage(real and perceived) aside, so everyone could have an equal opportunity.
Even the name of the EOC (Equal Opportunity Commission) was acceptable since it was originally designed to make sure all people had an even playing field. However when AA (Affirmative Action) came along, it was now an advantage for minorities and women, at the expense of white males. This discriminatory policy, along with others of different names but having the same meaning, was less accepted by whites.
[even when the SCOTUS deemed quotas unconstitutional, the name of the quota was dropped, but similar terms like "diversity goals" took it's place. It is the same thing, only a different name.]
Not having a group/union/organization that could represent them and their interests as minorities did, left them vulnerable to having their rights trampled upon.
This despite the fact that certain professions important to the safety and health of the general population were hiring people not for their ability to do the job, and instead because of their color or gender.
Yet as a society we do not apply those same discriminatory policies for unimportant professions like sports, which only entertain us.
Can you imagine the outcry of people if their sports teams were mandated to have a certain amount of XYZ, despite not being able to play as well as the dominate race/gender in that sport (i.e. hockey/basketball, etc.)? They would freak out if they had to have X amount of minorities, women or whites on their beloved sports teams.
Yet when their life might be on the line and an affirmative action hired paramedic mistakes a cardiac arrhythmia and gives the wrong drug, or the firefighter cannot get through a door and then carry down an unconscious heavy victim out of a fire, little to nothing is said.
They live in ignorant bliss, but at least their sports teams hire the best qualified and are the best they can be.
My main point in this semi-rant is that whites, white males in particular, suffer the most under this notion that diversity is not only a good thing, but as the liberal left has espoused, "is our greatest strength".
I for one think our militaries greatest strength has always been the ability to win wars which typically equates to killing the enemy as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Yet the high minded liberal utopian idea that women should be able to be in any branch of the military, even including special forces, all in the name of progress/diversity is absurd.
The idea that X number of minorities must be hired/promoted on police forces over more qualified whites, even if they have questionable backgrounds (i.e. Miami River Cops) will obviously result in problems for the general public. The same is true of EMS & firefighting.
Yet the media plays it up like a great thing, extoling the theory that diversity is virtuous, but not reporting on the pitfalls of it.
We are even at a point with PC that whites feel they cannot have freedom of speech for fear of being called a bigot/racist. You make a comment 90% less offensive than this BU professor, and the liberal PC police try to ruin your life.
Yet if a minority like her says something much worse, equivalent to what you'd expect a hate group to say about a minority, barely an eyebrow is raised by the liberal media and college administrations.
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