If you thought the educator" who saw racist" intent behind offering someone a peanut-butter sandwich was a loon consider Western Washington University (WWU) president Bruce Shepard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his institutions academic integrity he recently circulated a school-wide questionnaire and asked How do we make sure that in future years we are not as white as we are today?"
Apparently Shepard has been gnashing his teeth over this problem for quite a while. As Kaitlyn Schallhorn at Campus Reform reports el presidente said in a 2012 speech Every year from this stage and at this time you have heard me say that if in decades ahead we are as white as we are today we will have failed as university."
Hey forget the old measures of academic success such as if students know whats in the Constitution have a grasp of basic history and civics can perform rudimentary mathematical calculations and properly use the language (for Sheps benefit I refer to English). Its now all about melanin content.
And if you disagree with this thesis then hope youre just an ignorant rube. Because the alternative according to el presidente is far worse. As he wrote in a January blog post if you disagree you have not thought through the implications of what is ahead for us or more perniciously assume we can continue unchanged." Lions and tigers and pernicious! Oh my! For graduates of WWU in calling those whove thought things through but nonetheless cling to their misbegotten notions pernicious" Shep is accusing them of being ruinous; injurious; hurtful." Well off to the re-education camp with you.
And WWUs got that covered: Campus Reform also tells us that el presidente has already junked standard performance reviews" in favor of sensitivity training and hosts workshops" to better serve illegal aliens. Hey doubleplusgood for you Shep.
But Shep is just looking to the future. He also warned on his blog In the decades ahead should we be as white as we are today we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity; or become a sad shadow of our current self." Would that be a White Shadow?
But Im hip. We certainly wouldnt want to be mediocre like the white guys who forged Western civilization founded the US created the modern world and gave us most of what makes our lives better.
Now given that WWU was founded in 1886 and originally called the Northwest Normal School I have a feeling its already a shadow of its former self. But question: if WWU became what it is today while being intolerably white how could remaining so make it a shadow of its current self? I know I know our strength lies in our diversity our smartness lies in our stupidity and academics lie constantly.
But I have a couple more questions. Does Shep still want the mediocre white alumnis money? And since WWU has printed information on how to more effectively recruit and retain faculty and staff of color" will the colorless Shepard lead by example and give his presidency to a member of the color replete? Or is this where as with Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren we suddenly learn that Shep is really a Cherokee named Peddling Bull.
Anyway its not hard to figure out how to reduce the number of whites at WWU: just eliminate the affirmative action for whites.
Oh wait….
Alas mediocrity may not remain restricted to WWUs presidency after all.
If you thought the educator" who saw racist" intent behind offering someone a peanut-butter sandwich was a loon consider Western Washington University (WWU) president Bruce Shepard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his institutions academic integrity he recently circulated a school-wide questionnaire and asked How do we make sure that in future years we are not as white as we are today?"
Apparently Shepard has been gnashing his teeth over this problem for quite a while. As Kaitlyn Schallhorn at Campus Reform reports el presidente said in a 2012 speech Every year from this stage and at this time you have heard me say that if in decades ahead we are as white as we are today we will have failed as university."
Hey forget the old measures of academic success such as if students know whats in the Constitution have a grasp of basic history and civics can perform rudimentary mathematical calculations and properly use the language (for Sheps benefit I refer to English). Its now all about melanin content.
And if you disagree with this thesis then hope youre just an ignorant rube. Because the alternative according to el presidente is far worse. As he wrote in a January blog post if you disagree you have not thought through the implications of what is ahead for us or more perniciously assume we can continue unchanged." Lions and tigers and pernicious! Oh my! For graduates of WWU in calling those whove thought things through but nonetheless cling to their misbegotten notions pernicious" Shep is accusing them of being ruinous; injurious; hurtful." Well off to the re-education camp with you.
And WWUs got that covered: Campus Reform also tells us that el presidente has already junked standard performance reviews" in favor of sensitivity training and hosts workshops" to better serve illegal aliens. Hey doubleplusgood for you Shep.
But Shep is just looking to the future. He also warned on his blog In the decades ahead should we be as white as we are today we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity; or become a sad shadow of our current self." Would that be a White Shadow?
But Im hip. We certainly wouldnt want to be mediocre like the white guys who forged Western civilization founded the US created the modern world and gave us most of what makes our lives better.
Now given that WWU was founded in 1886 and originally called the Northwest Normal School I have a feeling its already a shadow of its former self. But question: if WWU became what it is today while being intolerably white how could remaining so make it a shadow of its current self? I know I know our strength lies in our diversity our smartness lies in our stupidity and academics lie constantly.
But I have a couple more questions. Does Shep still want the mediocre white alumnis money? And since WWU has printed information on how to more effectively recruit and retain faculty and staff of color" will the colorless Shepard lead by example and give his presidency to a member of the color replete? Or is this where as with Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren we suddenly learn that Shep is really a Cherokee named Peddling Bull.
Anyway its not hard to figure out how to reduce the number of whites at WWU: just eliminate the affirmative action for whites.
Oh wait….
Alas mediocrity may not remain restricted to WWUs presidency after all.