The grievance industry pays well, along with giving jobs to people holding useless degrees. Dr. Sowell will do the honors:
The diversity industry is one vast grift, that adds not a penny of value to the economy and survives by creating race hate. Booker T. Washington saw this coming long ago:
A few years ago my own alma mater created a Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It’s headed by a man whose annual salary tops $400k. With that sort of administrative bloat, student fees and tuition have almost tripled in the years since I graduated. And no, I wouldn’t dream of giving that woke, woke university one dime of my hard-earned cash.
To give you an idea of how the woke DEI Department has poisoned the atmosphere at my alma mater, let me tell you about what happened to a friend who is an English professor there.
She was lecturing her class of undergrads and noticed that one student was wearing a sweatshirt with the seal of my friend’s own alma mater. She told the student that her shirt looked good on her, and continued her lecture. A few days later, my friend was called into the DEI offices to respond to a complaint from an anonymous student who had contacted DEI to report the professor for ‘commenting on another student’s appearance’, which is doubleplusungood.
Long story short, after several meetings and the hiring of a lawyer, my friend settled for a letter of reprimand placed in her personnel file. While her classes are popular and she’s received awards for her lectures and her writing, she’s taking an early retirement to get out of that atmosphere of snitching and PC.
There are several reasons for the present decadence in higher education, and the Diversity Industry is one of them.
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
Lewis Carroll
What about the children!? Hint: Our youth are the oysters.
Ziggy Zoggy! Ziggy Zoggy! Oy! Oy! Oy!
..And upon being awarded in $325K/annual job + fabulous lifetime benefits, she STILL has the elephantine chutzpah to complain of “fighting against structures of oppression.”
Imagine if this $ was put to some good use—endowing a public hospital, a medical clinic for low-income or elderly, a veterans’ skilled nursing facility—anything, instead of being diverted to blatant parasites on the system.
What is “Mindfulness breathing”??
Not to brag, but I am able to breathe without even thinking about it.
$325K?
The lawyers who can work out a civil RICO case against institutionalized race essentialism in the academic and business worlds will make bank.
It’s going to take financial consequences to shut this stuff down. Because Lord knows you can’t otherwise reason with or shame people out of this moneymaking cult.
Is “mindfulness breathing” the new simile for “airhead”?
Just about every large corporation now has a VP of “diversity, equity and inclusion” these days… .
This is to be expected as Universities have produced many doctorates in grievance studies -these persons need jobs; While CEOs of large corporations pulling down millions love to virtue signal to their workers (and the public) who earn a fraction of what they do.
It’s quite the cottage industry, very good money if you can get it.
If you recall, Michelle Obama was pulling salaries of that magnitude 15 years ago, her salary having been doubled after her husband was elected to Congress. I suppose in her case it was a laundered bribe, rather like the activity in Hellary’s brokerage account of futures and options.
A great deal of behavior on the part of higher ed apparatchiks can be explained by Danny DeVito:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUJTRqV7B8E
This is to be expected as Universities have produced many doctorates in grievance studies -these persons need jobs;
Victimology programs are patronage for favored political interests. Almost no one gets a degree in those subjects, much less a research degree. About 1.9 million BA’s are handed out every year. About 1,200 are in ‘women’s studies’, and that’s the victimology program with by far the largest census.
https://www.fordham.edu/info/20526/majors_and_minors/1900/women_gender_and_sexuality_studies
“Originally founded as the Women’s Studies program, the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program takes an expansive view of gender and sexuality studies as both a lens on and a vehicle of social change…”
Art, it seems there’s been a metamorphosis even at “catholic” Fordham from “women’s studies” to “gender and sexuality studies”. Teaches correct “pronouns” I suppose. More opportunity to use that degree….
I’d suggest rather “Male and Female HE made them”, class dismissed.
Disclaimer: my opinions my own and not reflective of the position or stance of any real-life organization.
This sort of rot has sadly infected even my industry of Neutrons ‘R Us. I know of fantastic women in engineering & leadership positions. A woman was assigned to be the emergency diesel generator system engineer at a previous employer; she was the best there was – those diesel generators hummed (very very loudly, but they hummed) like a kitten purring every time they were in run mode after start up while she was in charge, and when she left us, they fell to crap. The Training Manager and the QA Director at a different employer come immediately to mind. Both are fantastic leaders, and NOT because they are women but because they are nuclear professionals. But there are some feminists appointed to leadership positions specifically because of their gender, and they put the “B” in front of “itch.” Narcissists full of vanity! I freaking despise them with great loathing.
Now that company is going public on the stock exchange. So undoubtedly it’ll follow others in soon having a diversity and inclusion director (I have no inside knowledge, but that’s how things go) –> equal by 2030 / 20 whatever campaigns where hiring and promotions are skewed for women and non-whites regardless of qualification. Think about the consequences of that in industries like nuclear, airline, locomotive, medical, pharmaceutical, etc. I am all for hiring and promoting women and minorities, but when it comes to nuclear, you damn well better be technically qualified.
This whole freaking political correctness bu11 $h1t has got to be purged and eradicated from our society.
There are several reasons for the present decadence in higher education, and the Diversity Industry is one of them.
I think changes in corporation law which required the board be elected by alumni registered to vote in the state in which the institution was located might help, or it might not. (It would be necessary to have the state board of elections supervise the nomination process and balloting per statutory law).