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The United States education system, especially its universities, is under attack by the ideological Left, dominated by advocates of Wokeism and Critical Race Theory.
Marshall McLuhan was a brilliant thinker best known for his insight that the medium is the message. Universities, as well as our entire educational medium including the K-12 system that feeds its graduates into the university and societal systems, are powerful and overarching mechanisms that we use to shape our understanding. For Western nations, the ideal of the university and of education generally has been to provide us with analytical skills, knowledge, and the ability to create and nurture a healthy society that benefits as many people as possible. That ideal, and the university as educational and social medium, is under severe attack.
The power to use the university as an overarching medium that offers a strong sense of legitimacy to even flawed and overstated arguments and assertions is why the institution is a target of an ideological Left that is now dominated by advocates of Wokeism and Critical Race Theory. Once obtaining a strong power base in university disciplines and administrations, the revolutionaries of race, gender, and other radical interests metamorphosed from heroic moral beacons fighting and railing against injustice, and revealed themselves as ideological dictators. The truth is that what we now refer to as the Woke/Critical Race Theory activist movementparticularly that controlled by those who came to power in the past thirty years or sowere not simply seeking to expand the nature and content of the university curriculum, or even what is taught in the K-12 system. Their intent was and is to destabilize, transform, and supplant what is taught. They seek to create a culture that elevates their interests while aggressively repressing anything they see as an obstacle to power, including healthy discourse and debate.
The activists of the Woke/Critical Race Theory Movement are not an honest intellectual movement. They are intense and aggressive political strategists, self-styled revolutionaries seeking to use our educational systems with the framed narrative of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) that is actually one of Division, Enmity, and Intimidation/Indoctrination, all the while claiming their interests are benign and aimed at healing. In reality, they are fracturing our fundamental social order, sowing discord, and deliberately suppressing the freedom of speech and thought essential to the well-being of our democratic republic. Conformity Colleges: The Destruction of Intellectual Creativity and Dissent in Americas Universities will help you understand what is happening and come to grips with the need to challenge, counter, and reverse this revolution. Nothing of significance can be done to stop what is going on unless the DEI administrative bureaucracy that now controls universities is dismantled or substantially weakened.
Author: David R. Barnhizer
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 01/16/2024
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781510780286
Language: English
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