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New survey data casts doubt on a popular framework used by universities to identify microaggressions.
By Conor Friedersdorf @ The Atlantic.com, Oct. 16
As the ranks of college administrators have swelled in higher education, one task they’ve undertaken is more aggressively training students—and at times, faculty members— in what is variously called “cultural competence” or “diversity and inclusion.”
The aims of these efforts are laudable [....] But when training faculty members or educating students so that they are “culturally competent,” a process that should involve telling them pertinent facts, is instead used as a pretext to indoctrinate them into a contested ideology, the laudable becomes objectionable [....]
The Cato/YouGov survey on free speech and tolerance that I reported on last week included questions about whether folks find the same sentiments expressed above offensive.
Among the results?
Telling a recent immigrant, “you speak good English” was deemed “not offensive” by 77 percent of Latinos; saying “I don’t notice people’s race” was deemed “not offensive” by 71 percent of African Americans and 80 percent of Latinos; saying “America is a melting pot” was deemed not offensive by 77 percent of African Americans and 70 percent of Latinos; saying “America is the land of opportunity” was deemed “not offensive” by 93 percent of African Americans and 89 percent of Latinos; and saying “everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough” was deemed “not offensive” by 89 percent of Latinos and 77 percent of African Americans [....]
Comments
Fascinating. I try not to get too worked up over excesses on college campuses. Those are places, after all, for excess that gets tames when you enter the real world. But this sure implies that our conversations about diversity and inclusion are kind of one sided.
by Michael Maiello on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 9:52pm