Ludicrous

Universities have become uninclusive places of non-learning, the opposite of what they were designed to be.  I attribute this to the paranoia of visible minority and female students who see every opinion they don't hold as a threat to their identities. 

The latest is the dis-invitation issued Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield to be the keynote speaker at Concordia's 40th anniversary celebrations.  Why was he banned?  Because he wrote a book entitled 'Manliness', in which he describes it as evident in "the person who likes to be in charge of situations of risk.  He has a take-charge attitude.  Most manly persons are men, but not all," wrote the 50-year veteran of teaching at Harvard. 

Wow!  What a concept!  Manly men are usually men!  Amazing!  But apparently, a "diversity of voices among the university's alumni" was behind the decision to cancel the keynote speech and in the end the gala itself!  You know what "diversity of voices" means, don't you.  It means women who don't like the idea of men being manly.  At least, that's what it says to me.

I suspect many of the students against Mansfield's appearance were also "people of colour" who are usually offended by everything -- especially at a university.  Remember when the Middle Eastern students at Ottawa U had Ann Coulter's appearance cancelled by yelling loudly and waving placards at president Alan Rock who promptly caved?  Another example of chicken-sh-t behaviour.

But if anyone says anything like I have here, he/she is vilified and termed a racist.  Frankly, it's the visible minorities who have become the racists.  "The invitation was a surprise, the rejection less of a one, because I am a white male conservative professor," wrote Mansfield in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal.  A respected professor and author for his scholarship on political philosophy, Mansfield is also considered a world-class expert on Machiavelli.  But he also writes on gender and culture and his 'Manliness' book is considered by the protestors outdated and demeaning.  By the way, he also criticizes the panic around the so-called "rape culture" which many hysterics declare is rampant on today's university campuses. 

Absolutely a crock.  But apparently, if you are a white, male professor you are automatically a rabid racist.  It's all so ludicrous, but lines up perfectly with what Concordia has become.  We were planning to go to Montreal last Fall for homecoming, but they made it into a "Queer Homecoming" celebration, to which I objected.  When I wrote to tell them we would not be attending because of how they were going to celebrate it, I received an email telling me that this was because Concordia was so "inclusive".

How can a "Queer Homecoming" be inclusive?  It's completely exclusive.  Guess the people who organized it didn't understand the difference between "inclusive" and "exclusive".

Universities are now the thought and word police where no can say anything that's not politically correct.  Sad.