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The Unanymity of the Graveyard

 FIRE has just released a report on one of the most overt and chilling thought-reform program I have ever heard of at an American university. The University of Delaware’s office of Residence Life forced students to attend its ResLife program, which sought to turn them into little social justice shock troops. From the report:

Mandatory group sessions singled out and shamed non-minority students because of their “privilege” in American society. Staff members kept individual files on students and their beliefs – which were to be archived after graduation. RAs were trained in the zero-tolerance policy against anything “oppressive” – an untoward word would trigger immediate notification of the campus police. RAs were required to report their “best” and “worst” one-on-one sessions to their superiors, including students’ names and room numbers. Posters and door decorations provided the ResLife messages everywhere; one could not escape them. One administrator of the program, Sendy Guerrier, wrote that students “should be confronted with this information at every turn.” Students with “traditional” beliefs had to become “allies” and “change agents” by their senior year.

There’s so much outrageous material I don’t even know where to start. For example, these are two definitions that were taught to RA’s during training sessions:

A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination…

REVERSE RACISM: A term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege. Those in denial use the term reverse racism to refer to hostile behavior by people of color toward whites, and to affirmative action policies, which allegedly give ‘preferential treatment’ to people of color over whites. In the U.S., there is no such thing as “reverse racism.”

What’s more disturbing is the University of Delaware shopped its cutting-edge “curricular approach” to resident education to other universities in annual “Residential Curriculum Institutes.” You can see how organized and entrenched the social justice crowd is on college campuses. They all use the same buzzwords and methods, whether at the University of Oregon or the University of Delaware, and they use their positions in student and university government to force their twisted worldview on students.

Please read the full report, as I can’t really do it justice. If you like going to college without having to be “re-educated,” you should check out FIRE anyways. (FIRE once defended the Commentator’s First Amendment rights when the ASUO tried to defund us.)

  1. Betz says:

    Preposterous!
    (*hurumph* *hurumph* *hurumph!*)

  2. Ossie says:

    Blasphemous!

  3. Chris says:

    wow.

  4. Vincent says:

    I remember reading about this a few months ago. I think the school has suspended the program “pending review”.

  5. Michelle Haley says:

    This report is sickening. I don’t believe there is such a thing as reverse racism, because all race-related oppression is racist, but the definition here is so wrong. It’s not surprising to me that the MCC uses many of the same buzzwords as expressed in this article.

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