It is a sad reality that our universities are succumbing to that imbecilic American practice of providing so-called ‘safe spaces’ for students traumatised by politically incorrect facts. Now it appears they have to do the same for infantile lecturers.
“I’m a linguist. My discipline long ago stopped thinking some languages are better than others,” tweeted University of Sydney academic Dr Nick Riemer last month. “It’s deeply shocking to me, intellectually & politically, that in 2018, at @Sydney_Uni, we’re having to argue against a course predicated on the superiority of the West. #RamsayCentre”
Heavens to Betsy; someone holler for a counsellor while we place Nick in the recovery position. He was of course referring to the philanthropic proposal by the Ramsay Centre to provide funds for universities to teach degrees that promote “an interest in and awareness of Western civilisation,” and encourage students in the West “[to] learn to value their own civilisational heritage”.
Read the full article by The Mocker at The Australian (subscription only).