Indoctrination - this was in 2007. Since then, this sort of thing has taken over campuses.

Here’s a fascinating video because it seems almost archaic. It documents the leftist, racist indoctrination occurring on a single campus in 2007, and how some students and faculty, along with FIRE, helped stop it when they learned of it.

Back when this was made, the viewers were probably shocked and surprised, and the content of the thought programming probably seemed extremely far-fetched and unusual. Now it’s standard, mostly accepted, and widespread.

FIRE has lost on campus and the leftists have won. At least, that’s the way it looks at the moment, and unless there’s a massive backlash I don’t see much of a change for the better.

In addition, at this point most of the faculty has changed, as well, and fewer professors have either the courage or the inclination to speak out against indoctrination. Sometimes, it’s because of fear; they are silent or compliant in an attempt to avoid becoming the next target of the organized leftists on Twitter and elsewhere. The rise of Twitter is only one of the differences between then and now, but it’s an important factor.

Without further ado – the video:

“Coercive political correctness” hit the tech companies years ago, and now they are leading the charge against everyone else (see the Google defunding of Federalist – attempted – and Zerohedge – achieved)*, but they don’t Walk the Talk themselves.

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-6-15-the-hunt-for-systemic-racism

The Woke Tech Giants Teach Us How To Deal With Systemic Racism
June 16, 2020/ Francis Menton

Essentially every form of discrimination on the basis of race in economic matters has been banned by law in the United States since at least the 1960s. That’s sufficiently long ago that the number of people old enough to have living memory of the days when racial discrimination was legally tolerated is rapidly diminishing. Today, nearly every institution of any size in our country — businesses, the government, educational institutions, arts organizations, you name it — not only asserts that it does not practice discrimination, but also loudly proclaims a commitment to diversity and to economic justice for African Americans. And yet, while everyone claims to practice non-discrimination, blacks continue to lag other racial groups in various measures reported in government statistics, particularly income and wealth.

What is the explanation? The one most often articulated at this moment goes by the name “systemic racism.” The theory is that even in the absence of any overt discrimination, there is something deeply embedded in institutional structures that keeps African Americans down. But what exactly? And how can we then identify these racist “structures” and change them?
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We need some practical guidance here. Fortunately, I know just the place to look. Out there in corporate America there are some hugely successful companies that have also completely gone over to woke progressive ideology. I’m speaking of course about the tech giants — the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. Obviously, these companies are run by geniuses. We know that because the companies make oodles of money year after year, and because the leaders are committed progressives, which means that they always follow the official prescriptions of the scientists and the experts. Let’s face it, these people really know what they are doing. And as the geniuses they are, these corporate titans also claim the role of thought leaders, instructing the world of deplorables like us how to measure up to proper progressive standards of righteous conduct and goodthink.

Surely then, these people have led the way in being the first to stamp out the “systemic racism.” And, in observing how these people have accomplished this important goal, we can learn the practical steps that we too can take in our own institutions to match their accomplishment.

It turns out that information on the march toward ending systemic racism by the tech giants is readily available.

Bottom line on the numbers (remember that blacks constitute about 13% of the US population, and “disparate impact” has been the name of the game for targeting businesses and individuals for years now).

…
Anyway, we are now six years on, and these tech titans have had those six long years to demonstrate their progressive bona fides by teaching the rest of us how the true geniuses can eliminate the pre-existing systemic racism. The companies have recently been releasing their reports covering the year 2019. Have you read about them? I didn’t think so. You might expect that this would be big news, but in fact I hadn’t seen anything about the subject until a reader sent me this link to a CNBC piece on June 12, which is the only summary article on the subject that I can find in the media at this point.

So what are the data? According to a chart in the CNBC piece, Google’s percent blacks (in the full staff) had edged up from from 2% in 2014 to about 4.5% in 2019 (but this report from Google itself gives the percent of blacks in its full U.S. workforce in 2019 at only 3.3%); at Microsoft, per CNBC’s chart, the 3.4% in 2014 had gone all the way to 4% in 2019; at Facebook the 2% in 2014 was still under 4% in 2019; and at Apple, the 7% in 2014 had gone to 9% in 2017, at which point Apple had stopped reporting. What’s going on at Apple? Well, there’s this:

Apple’s workforce is 9% Black — but . . .[I]ts share of Black technical workers remained flat at 6% from the end of 2013 through the end of 2017, the last year Apple published diversity data.

The 6% of blacks among tech workers reported by CNBC for Apple in 2017 is even lower than the 7% claimed by Apple at that link above for 2014.
…

I would say that that is beyond embarrassing. And now we have the George Floyd killing, and all the associated disruptions and upheavals. These enormously profitable tech companies would seem to be soft targets for attack on obvious grounds. Surely their brilliant executives will need to say something. How will they react? The answer: it’s time to buy indulgences.
…
Meanwhile, did you notice the flood of articles in the media excoriating these tech giants for their abject failure in eliminating the “systemic racism” in their organizations? Neither did I. I guess they must be on the right team.
…
But as obnoxious as these tech companies are, I do not doubt that they are making a serious and sustained effort to increase the numbers of African Americans in their ranks of employees, including among the those in the tech field. The fact that they are having very limited if any success in the effort tells you that there has to be something else going on here besides “systemic racism.” I don’t claim to have all the answers, but “systemic racism” is at most a very small part of the reason for underrepresentation of African Americans in tech companies, and in American business more generally.

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Indoctrination – this was in 2007. Since then, this sort of thing has taken over campuses. — 9 Comments

j e on June 19, 2020 at 4:14 pm said:

Harald Uhlig, a tenured economist at the U of C, is under considerable pressure for having made some “insensitive ” comments and tweets, and Jonathan Turley has just posted a piece about a columnist at The Daily Orange (Syracuse U) being let go for questioning the existence (no more real than the yeti or the unicorn) of “institutional racism” on another website. The relentless quest for blasphemers, heretics, and witches shows absolutely no sign of abating, nor is anyone in authority truly confronting the nearly universal insanity, the collective hysteria and the mass psychosis.
SCOTTtheBADGER on June 19, 2020 at 4:38 pm said:

This is appalling, but, unsurprising. If Biden gets elected, these programs will go full throttle.
parker on June 19, 2020 at 5:06 pm said:

The Great American Cultural Revolution is gaining momentum.
miklos000rosza on June 19, 2020 at 6:15 pm said:

I would have got in immediate trouble because of my contrarian instincts. In high school, back in 1970 — very different times — this came up because of the Christian ministry program Campus Life. A group of students wanted to hold prayer meetings in a classroom at the end of the day’s classes. I wrote an editorial in the school newspaper reminding everyone about the separation between Church and State. I found it amusing that I was then accused by some of being a Jew.

But already, in 1970, there was a reaction against the “revolutionary” fervor of the previous 2-3 years. Beer was becoming popular again, as opposed to marijuana or LSD. Social clubs like Psi Omega (I don’t remember the names) were returning.

The demonstrations and psychedelic drugs had worn everyone out. And of course I’m not really talking about “everyone” here, only a highly visible percentage, the “influencers” I guess of their time.
M J R on June 19, 2020 at 6:38 pm said:

Two experienced professors in 2007 actually speaking out publicly against coercive political correctness on a university campus — and actually retaining their jobs.

How amusingly quaint.
AesopFan on June 20, 2020 at 3:20 am said:

“Coercive political correctness” hit the tech companies years ago, and now they are leading the charge against everyone else (see the Google defunding of Federalist – attempted – and Zerohedge – achieved)*, but they don’t Walk the Talk themselves.

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-6-15-the-hunt-for-systemic-racism

The Woke Tech Giants Teach Us How To Deal With Systemic Racism
June 16, 2020/ Francis Menton

Essentially every form of discrimination on the basis of race in economic matters has been banned by law in the United States since at least the 1960s. That’s sufficiently long ago that the number of people old enough to have living memory of the days when racial discrimination was legally tolerated is rapidly diminishing. Today, nearly every institution of any size in our country — businesses, the government, educational institutions, arts organizations, you name it — not only asserts that it does not practice discrimination, but also loudly proclaims a commitment to diversity and to economic justice for African Americans. And yet, while everyone claims to practice non-discrimination, blacks continue to lag other racial groups in various measures reported in government statistics, particularly income and wealth.

What is the explanation? The one most often articulated at this moment goes by the name “systemic racism.” The theory is that even in the absence of any overt discrimination, there is something deeply embedded in institutional structures that keeps African Americans down. But what exactly? And how can we then identify these racist “structures” and change them?
…
We need some practical guidance here. Fortunately, I know just the place to look. Out there in corporate America there are some hugely successful companies that have also completely gone over to woke progressive ideology. I’m speaking of course about the tech giants — the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. Obviously, these companies are run by geniuses. We know that because the companies make oodles of money year after year, and because the leaders are committed progressives, which means that they always follow the official prescriptions of the scientists and the experts. Let’s face it, these people really know what they are doing. And as the geniuses they are, these corporate titans also claim the role of thought leaders, instructing the world of deplorables like us how to measure up to proper progressive standards of righteous conduct and goodthink.

Surely then, these people have led the way in being the first to stamp out the “systemic racism.” And, in observing how these people have accomplished this important goal, we can learn the practical steps that we too can take in our own institutions to match their accomplishment.

It turns out that information on the march toward ending systemic racism by the tech giants is readily available.

Bottom line on the numbers (remember that blacks constitute about 13% of the US population, and “disparate impact” has been the name of the game for targeting businesses and individuals for years now).

…
Anyway, we are now six years on, and these tech titans have had those six long years to demonstrate their progressive bona fides by teaching the rest of us how the true geniuses can eliminate the pre-existing systemic racism. The companies have recently been releasing their reports covering the year 2019. Have you read about them? I didn’t think so. You might expect that this would be big news, but in fact I hadn’t seen anything about the subject until a reader sent me this link to a CNBC piece on June 12, which is the only summary article on the subject that I can find in the media at this point.

So what are the data? According to a chart in the CNBC piece, Google’s percent blacks (in the full staff) had edged up from from 2% in 2014 to about 4.5% in 2019 (but this report from Google itself gives the percent of blacks in its full U.S. workforce in 2019 at only 3.3%); at Microsoft, per CNBC’s chart, the 3.4% in 2014 had gone all the way to 4% in 2019; at Facebook the 2% in 2014 was still under 4% in 2019; and at Apple, the 7% in 2014 had gone to 9% in 2017, at which point Apple had stopped reporting. What’s going on at Apple? Well, there’s this:

Apple’s workforce is 9% Black — but . . .[I]ts share of Black technical workers remained flat at 6% from the end of 2013 through the end of 2017, the last year Apple published diversity data.

The 6% of blacks among tech workers reported by CNBC for Apple in 2017 is even lower than the 7% claimed by Apple at that link above for 2014.
…

I would say that that is beyond embarrassing. And now we have the George Floyd killing, and all the associated disruptions and upheavals. These enormously profitable tech companies would seem to be soft targets for attack on obvious grounds. Surely their brilliant executives will need to say something. How will they react? The answer: it’s time to buy indulgences.
…
Meanwhile, did you notice the flood of articles in the media excoriating these tech giants for their abject failure in eliminating the “systemic racism” in their organizations? Neither did I. I guess they must be on the right team.
…
But as obnoxious as these tech companies are, I do not doubt that they are making a serious and sustained effort to increase the numbers of African Americans in their ranks of employees, including among the those in the tech field. The fact that they are having very limited if any success in the effort tells you that there has to be something else going on here besides “systemic racism.” I don’t claim to have all the answers, but “systemic racism” is at most a very small part of the reason for underrepresentation of African Americans in tech companies, and in American business more generally.
Brian Morgan on June 20, 2020 at 12:02 pm said:

All the statues are coming down including George Washington.

Will they next rename Washington, DC ?

I hear that Pelosi, PC is gaining traction
Marlene on June 22, 2020 at 8:53 am said:

Must watch to understand!!!
2 college professors who were sacked from Evergreen College hold a session where they tell their story. Videos of the mob take over fill in the details.
From 2017, but was a predicate for exactly what is happening now.
Just one comment from me: You reap what you sow when you hold no line in the sand. When there are no absolutes, when free expression is part of the curriculum in a way that kids get to determine pretty much everything. Wisdom is abandoned and communist/marxist/leftist tenured professors get to “experiment” on their students. I find of the two professors, the woman’s demeanor is repulsive as filled with hubris and elitism. Not so sure about Bret, he at least had the axe maker mind to fight this insanity. She most likely in her 15 years at the school contributed to her own demise.
Slightly time consuming but would be a Pre-Requisite for what is happening as we share our thoughts on the current atmosphere.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/06/20/this-is-the-breakdown-of-the-basic-logic-of-civilization-and-its-spreading/
Karl Lembke on July 4, 2020 at 4:01 pm said:

Tolerance for many different points of view = diversity.
Tolerance for only one point of view = university.

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Indoctrination – this was in 2007. Since then, this sort of thing has taken over campuses.

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