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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

....one student “talked kind of extensively about how bad the department was, how much racism there was, how there were abusive professors, how the administration was letting all that slide..."

The idea that in 2023 UCLA is some kind of hotbed of bigotry a la University of Mississippi in the 1950s, is beyond absurd to the point of delusional.

The academic humanities have been conquered by this weird alliance between the DEI bureaucracy, Social Justice Inc (which includes everyone from those who go along to get along to the zealous true believers), and then to the students themselves, who seem to be fundamentalist Foucauldians who see "power dynamics or invisible barriers" in their cereal bowls and under their beds.

I don't know if this is Munchausen by Proxy, with the permanently fragile "minoritized" children sickened with racial paranoia so the activist class can tend to their wounds while denouncing their enemies and expanding their fiefdoms, or if this is all just a bad case of internet poisoning, and these people mainline oppression porn like a junkie mainlines dope.

American academia now most resembles a cross between a Maoist Struggle Session and an Esalen encounter session, where nothing matters except the feelings of the "minoritized" and the goal is to see who can best punish a proxy victim (scapegoat) for the historical crimes we all embody and which define our universe and moral worth as humans, and where "Justice" is defined as any member of an Oppressed class getting to wound any member of an Oppressor class, regardless of context.

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Adrienne Scott's avatar

"This. . . doesn’t sound like a healthy ecosystem for independent thought and intellectual life"

It also isn't helpful that these future psychologists will be so dogmatic and muddled in their thinking when they try to deal with patients.

My niece, off to receive her graduate degree in psychology in Boston, is the same way and she is the "wokest" person I know. I have no doubt that she will be castigating clients to "do better" rather than helping them overcome their issues, which is quite sad for them and for her too in the long run. .

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