Parents, legislators, taxpayers, and others footing the
bill for college education might be interested in just what is in store for the
upcoming academic year.
Since many college classes will be online, there is a
chance to witness professors indoctrinating their students in real time. So,
there’s a chance that some college faculty might change their behavior. To
see recent examples of campus nonsense and indoctrination, visit the Campus Reform and College Fix websites. 
Walter E. Williams
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington
University, warned congressional lawmakers “that Antifa is ‘winning’ and that
much of academia, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is complicit in its
success,” reported Campus
Reform.
In his testimony before Congress Turley said:
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To Antifa, people like me are the
personification of the classical liberal view of free speech that perpetuates a
system of oppression and abuse. I wish I could say that my view remains
strongly implanted in our higher educational institutions. However, you are
more likely to find public supporters for restricting free speech than you are to find defenders
of free speech principles on many campuses.
The leftist bias at our colleges and universities has many
harmful effects. A mathematics professor at University of California,
Davis, faced considerable backlash over her opposition to the requirement for
“diversity statements” from potential faculty.
Those seeking employment at the University of California,
San Diego, are required to admit that “barriers” prevent women and minorities
from full participation in campus life.
At American University, a history professor wrote a book
calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. A Rutgers University professor
said: “Watching the Iowa Caucus is a sickening display of the
overrepresentation of whiteness.”
A Williams College professor has advocated the inclusion of
social justice in math textbooks. Students at Wayne State University are no
longer required to take a single math course to graduate; however, they may
soon be required to take a diversity course.
Maybe some students will be forced into sharing the vision
of Laurie Rubel, a math education professor at Brooklyn College. She says the
idea of cultural neutrality in math is a “myth,” and that asking whether 2 plus
2 equals 4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.”
Rubel tweeted: “Y’all must know that the idea that math is
objective or neutral IS A MYTH.”
Math professors and academics at other universities,
including Harvard and the University of Illinois, discussed the “Eurocentric”
roots of American mathematics. As for me, I would like to see the proof, in any
culture, that 2 plus 2 is something other than 4.
Rutgers University’s English department chairwoman, Rebecca
Walkowitz, announced changes to the department’s graduate writing program
emphasizing “social justice” and “critical grammar.”
Leonydus Johnson, a speech-language pathologist and
libertarian activist, says Walkowitz’s changes make the assumption that
minorities cannot understand traditional and grammatically correct English
speech and writing, which is “insulting, patronizing, and in itself, extremely
racist.”
Then there is the nonsense taught on college campuses about
white privilege. The idea of white privilege doesn’t explain why several historically
marginalized groups outperform whites today.
For example, Japanese Americans suffered under the Alien
Land Law of 1913 and other racist, exclusionary laws legally preventing them
from owning land and property in more than a dozen American states until the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
During World War II, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans
were interned. However, by 1959, the income disparity between Japanese
Americans and white Americans had almost disappeared.
Today, Japanese Americans outperform white Americans by
large margins in income statistics, education outcomes, and test scores, and
have much lower incarceration rates.
According to Rav Arora, writing for the New York Post,
several black immigrant groups such as Nigerians, Trinidadians, Tobagonians,
Barbadians, and Ghanaians all “have a median household income well above the
American average.”
We are left with the question whether the people handing
out “white privilege” made a mistake. The other alternative is that Japanese
Americans, Nigerians, Barbadians, Ghanaians, Trinidadians, and Tobagonians are
really white Americans.
The bottom line is that more Americans need to pay
attention to the miseducation of our youth and that miseducation is not limited
to higher education.
Walter E. Williams, a columnist for The Daily
Signal, is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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This article has been updated to reflect the
sourcing of a passage about Turley’s testimony.
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