What's The Opposite of Diversity?

An interesting talk on democracy.

Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it | Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE

About tweedism and 0.02% of power.

While I was an undergrad, I didn't have much use for the Students Union. I was required to pay a fee for an organization that did little for me and didn't represent my interests.

Similarly, while I was a grad student, I was supposedly represented by the Graduate Students Association and I recall having to pay a fee for that organization. Shortly after I started grad studies, I ended up being my department's representative at GSA meetings. It was then that I saw just how useless and self-serving it actually was. For example, dissenting from the majority opinion was discouraged.

The only real purpose the SU and GSA serve is to provide an apprenticeship, of sorts, for those students who planned on pursuing political careers.

Acadia University in Nova Scotia has its own version of Jordan Peterson that the snowflake students and administration are trying to silence.

Margaret Wente: You can’t say that on campus

Prof. Mehta is an unabashed Peterson fan. He, too, likes to whack away at current campus pieties. He has also said that Indigenous policies have fostered a victim mentality, and that he, personally, does not feel guilty for the wrongs done to historic populations before he was alive. (As an immigrant of East Indian descent, he can hardly be accused of white privilege, either.) The bill of indictment also includes statements he has made on social media, and sometimes in the classroom, about men and women and the fact that their career interests tend to differ. He thinks that the pay gap is largely fictional, that immigration policy needs vigorous debate and that introductory psych courses (such as the one he teaches) largely ignore the role of intellectual ability in determining social outcomes. In the real world, none of these views are particularly radical, and some are empirically correct.

There are dueling petitions on Change.Org. The one supporting Mehta has twice as many signers as the one to remove him from teaching.

I know it sounds simplistic but the modern versions of Komsomol and Mao's Red Guard rule our universities today and the administrations have given in to them everywhere.

I read the court decision and Danielle Smith misrepresents it.

The court says the clubs were treated badly, an SU was 'incompetent' in its handling of the clubs, that there was no clear evidence of political or religious bias and that the clubs need to do a few simple things like clean up their constitutions and elect additional executives to meet the SU mandatory requirements.

Danielle Smith? Why would any conservative rely on her?

I think non-leftists are fighting the university censors and morality police the wrong way. Perhaps humour and mocking is the only way to erode the power of progressive religious fundamentalism. Think Rhinoceros Party. Can't have a club dedicated to conservative or libertarian ideas, then how about a Hitchens Club:

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.
Christopher Hitchens

Or an Orwell Club:
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell

Mark Twain Club:

"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
Mark Twain

Make the university and their co-cultist students look ridiculous by outlawing satirical and ironic clubs of popular literary and historical figures who are dedicated to mocking progressive religious fundamentalism.

Danielle Smith "I am pro-choice". So you are one of those evil Canadians. Consider this:
What is the difference between Hiltler's exterminaion camps and Turdeaus Liberal abortuaries? Nothing. They both kill unwanted people

Well you know, nobody really -has- to go to RyHigh. There are other schools.

On the other side, nobody says you -have- to hire recent RyHigh graduates. If those resumes were lost in a tragic boating accident, that would be very sad indeed.

There's lots of good reasons to criticise what's going on in universities.

Most, if not all, are either directly funded by taxpayers or indirectly through tax breaks, grants and subsidies. As such, student groups that hold the same philosophical ideas as many taxpayers should not be prohibited. Taxpayers will eventually rebel.

Universities are increasingly becoming homogenous orthodoxies. The prohibition of non-confirmist, non-leftist groups only increases the tendency towards bias and the purity cycle. This isn't healthy for higher education or society.

The double standard is blatant. Leftist groups can promote violence (antifa) and racism (demonizing whiteness) without censure.

There's more reasons, of course, but a few to think about.

If there was one court that might have been applicable for this case, it might have been the human rights commission and their kangaroo courts who have no problem inserting themselves into disputes regardless of whether laws have been broken or not.

Western Universities have fully supplanted the Soviet Union’s thought control. Longtime admirers of Totalitarian State authoritarianism ... our Universities are keeping the Communist Dream alive. By controlling the minds of young impressionables.

We must not allow such anti-humanist actions to be codified into law. We must become ACTIVE in RESISTing their Fascism.