aided by administrators either equally stupid or too cowardly to tell them the knock it off. and it's ruining education. What happens when, instead of students going to college who need remedial damn-near-everything, the fools in charge say 'Remedial education is racist/sexist/whatever!' and just start them in classes?
In some cases they'll get rid of grades, or otherwise make sure those unprepared kids cannot fail, which will mean the degree they're issued at the end is worthless. Oh yeah, that'll work. Look how well it's worked for all those Gender/fill in the blank/ Studies majors who whine about not being able to pay their loans...
The reason behind such tyranny came into focus for me when Condolezza Rice, former secretary of state and current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, told me she’d shared with her students that the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (9/11’s architect) had felt like “having Erwin Rommel under lock and key.” The blank looks on the faces of her very bright students revealed that they had never heard of WWII’s famous Desert Fox.
Until then, I’d traced the enmity to activists like Jackson and Hannah-Jones. Now, I could see that it also stemmed from students having swapped an education for indoctrination. Those enlisted as social justice warriors had avoided the lessons of history, missed out on refining skills that might have allowed them to judge assertions and denied themselves the insights required to make wise trade-offs.
Hey, wanting them to actually learn history, let alone make trade-offs, is racist, didn't he know?