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May 3, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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What is a Social Justice Course？
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So the petition to suspend social justice courses in universities has gone past 63,000 people now, and I'd like to thank everyone for signing it.
There has of course been pushback against it, probably from people who don't watch my channel, and from people who have basically said, oh, well, it's so non-specific.
What is a social justice course?
Where are they?
I don't have any numbers.
I don't know anything about this, and for some reason, I can't use Google.
So, I used Google for you.
The people complaining that I wasn't being specific enough or not giving enough examples never told me exactly how specific they wanted me to be or how many examples they wanted.
So, I thought I'd just get a list of departments at major universities called Social Justice Departments, or something very analogous to that.
Now, they didn't tell me how many they wanted, so I just stopped at 50.
The links are in the description, and I encourage you to go and look at them.
The links are mostly departments of social justice in universities, under which they run various different kinds of social justice courses.
A few of them are university communities, and a few of them are just the courses themselves, as they don't have a separate social justice department.
I've also included a small selection of ones from the UK and Canada as well.
I could have included Australia or wherever, but I think I've found enough to prove my point.
These things are everywhere, and they are all teaching the same sort of thing, because, like I said, social justice is an academic discipline.
For people shrugging going, yeah, but what is a social justice course?
That just means you don't know what you're talking about.
But that's okay.
I'm not going to tell you to educate yourself shitlord, even though all it would take is one Google search for social justice in universities.
I'll do it for you, and I will take you through it step by step, because I think this is that important.
So, I just want to stress that these courses fall into two categories.
There are social justice courses that are connected to the humanities, and there are social justice courses connected to law.
The ones connected to law appear to be legitimate social justice courses, and again, I'll leave a list of these in the description so you can investigate and have a look at them, see if they're producing this SJW nonsense, because I don't think they are.
However, the humanities ones certainly are, and I will demonstrate that to you by using a few choice examples.
But I suggest you do go through the list yourself because you will see a repeated pattern of intersectional social justice nonsense that has consistent features that we know about.
We've talked about so many times, but fine, people want like, oh boy, you need to prove this.
Okay, well, I thought had, but let's do this.
So we'll start with the University of Illinois, specifically the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations, where they offer diversity and social justice education.
The course topics include race and ethnicity, gender, LGBQA slash heterosexual dialogue, being white in a multicultural society, resisting marginalization, women of colour dialogue, African-African-American dialogue.
Yes, you probably are cringing at all of this SJW nonsense already, but it gets better.
For example, the race and ethnicity course description.
This course offers students an opportunity to dialogue around what race means on a personal, social and institutional levels in the US.
The focus of the class includes exploration of individual identity and group membership, issues of commonalities, differences, conflicts and ways of working together with and across racial differences.
The course also considers how other aspects of identity such as gender, sexual orientation, social class and religion intersect with racial identity.
This is a course that people can actually pay for and that they're going to have to actually learn and presumably take an exam on.
And what are they actually teaching here?
The exploration of individual identity and group membership.
Is that really an academic dismay?
Is that really something people need to be taught?
Aren't these things that every individual has to learn about and decide for themselves?
And what kind of course even says, this course offers students an opportunity to dialogue around what race means, on a personal, social and institutional level.
But let's have a look at some of those intersections I've heard so much about.
Let's have a look at Rutgers University.
You might remember I did a video called The Rutgers Protesters, who are protesting Milo Yiannopoulos' speech there.
Specifically their Centre for Social Justice Education and LGBT communities.
Let's have a quick look at some of their educational handouts.
Are You Ally from the Centre of Social Justice Education in LGBT Communities.
What Can I Do?
Ideas for Allies.
A starter list of things you can do to be supportive.
Confront homophobia.
Resist heterosexism.
1. Refuse to tolerate anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans comments, attitudes, remarks or jokes.
Ask others that any anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans humour displayed in common areas be removed completely or placed within private office or living spaces.
3. Report all harassment or discriminatory behaviour to the appropriate officials.
4. Display positive materials in support of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans.
If possible, post flyers on activities, support groups, programs and resources for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans.
Right, so to become an ally, I need to become the Tumbler Stasi.
Good to know.
Let's have a look at another one of these community centers.
How about the Multicultural Student Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I could go to a workshop on exploring racial injustice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison itself, where the workshop aims to center students of colour experiences and empower white allies to interrupt racism.
Or I could go to a workshop on the privilege of whiteness.
Participants in this workshop will be able to describe privilege and marginalization.
They will also reflect on and name the ways their privilege impacts their beliefs and behaviours by gaining the skills to identify the historical roots of white privilege and how it manifests today.
The workshop is designed for a white audience, but people of colour are welcome.
Well that sounds totally legit.
Nothing unhealthy about that at all.
Let's look at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
In the College of Education Department of Student Development, Social Justice Education Concentration.
Now I know that sounds like it's some kind of SJW gulag, but I am assured that it is not.
Let's look in the social justice education bodies of knowledge and practice.
They teach specifically about prejudice and discrimination, the dynamics of power and privilege, and of course, intersecting systems of oppression.
Because how would people know that they're being oppressed if you don't teach them that they are being oppressed?
But also, socio-cultural and historic context for and dynamics within, among the specific manifestations of oppression.
Adultism, religious oppression, ableism, classism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, racism, sexism, transgender oppression, in other educational and social systems.
Where did you think Tumblr was getting all of this bullshit?
Just out of interest.
Social justice education's central focus is the preparation of professional educators, counselors and change agents who are able to understand and work effectively with social justice issues in a formal and non-formal educational setting.
It provides graduate degree programmes of study for educational professionals who teach and practice at all levels of the educational system, kindergarten through college, as well as in after-school programs, youth development programs and other community-based organizations working with students of all ages.
We hope to attract educational professionals whose primary responsibilities include teaching, school guidance and counselling, the supervision of professional development of teachers, school counselors, school psychologists, education administrators, student affair programmers, special educators or college resident educators.
Oh how wonderful.
This is the priestly caste of social justice.
finding invisible oppression everywhere, and now teaching people how to teach this invisible oppression to their students.
And you just know that those after school programs and youth development programs, well, you know, we'll cover them in a minute because they are just magical.
So anyway, you've created your priestly class of enlightened educators, and they're going to educate the students in the ways of social justice.
But what then?
I mean, you don't just want to just stop there, really, do you?
I mean, what good would it be to teach them all of this and not encourage them towards activism?
I mean, let's see what they do at the Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma.
The programmes of the Center for Social Justice work together to provide practical and academic tools to better understand our local and global communities.
We offer experiential learning alongside an interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on the complexities of and critical analysis of structural inequalities and injustices within a variety of fields.
And you can do this by getting a social justice minor.
Students can pursue a minor in social justice through the Women in Gender Studies program.
Courses offered through the Social Justice Minor introduce students to the complexities of structural inequalities and injustices, while teaching students critical thought processes.
So what does that like actually involve though?
Well, it involves social justice events and activism.
Our events integrate social justice awareness and promote the importance of activism in students' everyday lives.
The center events include film festivals, workshops, awareness campaigns, fundraisers, discussion groups, art shows, book clubs, symposiums, lunches and lectures, etc.
Well, it's no wonder that SJWs are getting all up in everyone's business.
They are being encouraged to do it as part of their courses.
At Oklahoma, they even have an activist in residence.
Every semester we bring a social justice activist to campus.
The activists come from a variety of social justice backgrounds and travel to Norman from around the world.
Activists hold workshops, lead discussion groups, teach classes, screen movies, assist in planning projects and campaigns, and are available to students for informal conversations.
Well, I mean, that kind of does explain the 2015 student uprisings across America, doesn't it?
If you are an SJW who's interested in knowing more about this, or you're a white person interested in paying reparations, you can go to thedemands.org and see the list of 79 different college campuses that are represented on here.
We'll have a look at one of these for now, Amherst College, because we've already covered it.
But all of these are the same in character.
We, the students of Amherst College, refuse to accept the negative social climate created towards our peers of colour and other marginalised groups.
We have begun this movement, Amherst Uprising, in an effort to change the status quo for a more just and inclusive environment within our campus.
We demand that Amherst become a leader in the fight to promote a better social climate towards individuals who have been systematically oppressed.
Student leaders acknowledge and support the demands previously stated and currently being presented.
Furthermore, we demand the college acknowledge its ethical and moral responsibilities as an institution and community of our world.
Amherst College should not be complicit in oppressive organizations and systems, no less.
Well, blow me down.
I can't believe that a bunch of professors teaching each other how oppressed certain groups are and then teaching students that these groups are all oppressed and encouraging them to activism has led to this.
A mass student demonstration over bullshit.
Shall I show you how they demonstrated?
And you'll want to break out your copy of the Communist Manifesto just to really remind yourself where this comes from.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We have nothing to lose.
We have nothing to lose.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and protect each other.
We must love each other and protect each other.
We have nothing to lose but our change.
We have nothing to lose our chains.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and protect each other.
We must love each other and protect each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose our chains.
It is our duty to fight for freedom.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We must love and protect one another.
We must love and protect one another.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other.
We must love each other.
We must support each other.
We must support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other.
We must love each other.
We must support each other.
We must support each other.
We have nothing.
We have nothing to lose.
To lose but our chains.
But our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to win.
We have a duty to win.
We must all protect one another.
We must all protect one another.
We have nothing to lose but our change.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to win.
We have a duty to win.
We must love and protect one another.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to win.
We have a duty to win.
We must love and protect one another.
We must love and protect one of us!
We have nothing to lose but exchange!
Is there anyone who actually thinks this is not a major problem?
Is there anyone who thinks this is not a cult?
Is there anyone who thinks this is education?
It should not surprise anyone to know that there are very few instances of racial hate crimes on university campuses in America.
There have, however, been over 100 hate crime hoaxes in the past 10 years on these campuses because the students are being taught that there is racism everywhere and when they can't find any, it's okay to make it up because, as we all know, there is racism everywhere.
So even if this specific example is false, it doesn't matter.
But what's more, the number of these hoaxes is increasing, presumably because students feel even more justified in creating a hoax to bring attention to the problem of racism.
We're even seeing the signs of universities beginning to racially segregate because of this ideology.
The universities of Vermont and Oregon have begun hosting social justice retreats, which incidentally are racially segregated and costing the taxpayer thousands of dollars.
On the racial Aikido retreat, non-white people will be taught how to respond to overt and covert racism, whereas on the white retreat, white people will be taught how to check their privilege.
And you might be thinking, why?
Why are they racially segregating in anything to do with the university these days?
And the answer is, the student activists are demanding it.
Black college students from across the country have demanded that they be segregated from white peers, calling for safe spaces on campuses meant for only so-called students of color.
All of this is the logical conclusion of teaching black students that they are being oppressed by the white students because all black people in America are living in a white supremacist system.
Is it any wonder that they're going to think the only way they can get away from this is by getting away from white people entirely?
And the thing is, these courses are being taught overwhelmingly by white people.
If you don't know about the University of Missouri, I'll leave links in the description so you can find out what's going on.
But it's no surprise to anyone who does know that they have now doubled down on social justice and the fact that Missouri is unbelievably racist in a series of videos that they put on their website.
I'll just let the professors themselves explain what the problem is.
The committee wants to make the campus aware, particularly the faculty aware of the magnitude of the race problem at Mizzou.
We have 2,000 faculty that are full-time faculty, 1,500 of whom are white.
And really the committee has several goals, but its main goal is to address this in a way that the majority understands it's a severe problem.
It's not just a series of incidents.
It's a way of life problem for many of our students of color.
That is most basic.
The committee's mission is to take on a huge task, which is to name the problem as it relates to race relations and to name possible solutions.
One of the things that we're trying to address is just kind of unseen racism in which we treat one race different than another race.
Many of the things that we have taught and we have recognized are not even over aggressions, are just little things that on their daily lives actually make a difference to the African-American people.
You'd think they'd probably be more worried about the overt racism that's very obvious coming from the faculty and students, but I guess that's just me.
The University of Missouri has put out a bunch of these videos in light of the Melissa Click scandal, and in it they describe their commitment to social justice.
I've left a link in the description if you'd like to watch these videos.
They're only about 15 minutes long in total, so it doesn't take too long, but I won't go through more here.
But I will show you one clip that's particularly relevant, and the chap we'll be talking about you've already seen in this video.
For people who don't think this is an issue, a very short answer is that you're part of the problem.
The person who just informed you that you are part of the problem is Jonathan Butler, a student activist at the University of Missouri.
He is paraphrasing the Communist Manifesto.
Jonathan Butler is the son of a multi-millionaire American success story, whose father is the executive vice president with Union Pacific Railroad and has a net worth of around $20 million.
He is claiming to be oppressed.
This is obviously nonsense.
Why is any of this being entertained?
Why are these students being taught that they are oppressed when they clearly aren't?
Why are these students being taught to be activists for this false oppression?
Why are the teachers on a mission to find secret, unobservable racism and then teaching them to chant that they have nothing to lose but their chains?
This is all obviously nonsense.
If it's not the lies, it's the false statistics.
If it's not the false statistics, it's the sweeping generalizations and the overt racism coming from the staff.
These courses are not education.
They aren't teaching them marketable skills.
They're encouraging them to become activists for an ideology.
And they are telling us exactly that.
These courses need to be suspended and re-evaluated.
After the current semester, before the enrollment of the next one, these courses should be taken off the books and there should be an independent inquiry into them as to whether these courses have any academic value, they are factually accurate, and they are not promoting the fear of or hatred for oneself or others.
It is in no way unreasonable to ask for these things to be evaluated.
If this were creationism courses being taught in universities that in some places are mandatory and students were coming out of them as creationists, or if this was say white supremacist courses that again were in some cases mandatory or just popular and students were coming out as white supremacists, you would want answers.
You would think this is wrong.
And this is exactly the problem that is happening with social justice.
And the thing is in this video, I'm just covering the serious stuff.
I'm not covering the stupid stuff.
There's stuff like Trigglypuff, the internet's newest favourite meme.
I am here to provide some adult supervision.
Calm down, young lady.
Fuck you!
The correct word, the correct word for contemporary third-wave campus feminism is not cancer, but madness.
Utter madness.
Future historians.
Now listen, this is very important.
Future historians are going to look back and look.
future generations One more disruption, and we'd have to ask you to leave the venue.
Get my free speech!
You have to obey the rules of the idea.
But this is free speech if you're self-conserved.
Please be here, Father.
Please keep your comments to the Q&A session.
Thank you for listening out of this campus!
I mean, we have campuses across the country.
You have armies.
Armies have to use our quiet voices, please.
Calm down.
Stop talking to us like children.
people come in to disrupt They don't want others to hear.
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