This is why parents should teach their children to be suspicious of authority and not to do something just because someone tells them they are supposed to.

@WILTALK

7 жыл бұрын

People need to recognize that time changes both the victim and the victimizer. In the fifties society was pretty much controlled by the right and it was liberals for fought for social liberties. It has now done a complete 180 and it is the left who are the oppressors. A lot of the Hippies and liberals of the fifties and sixties have not recognize that change in dynamic and have continued to be opposed to the right when it is not the left who are the threats to personal liberty for quite some time. They are responsible because they should have recognize the change decades ago. I don't think they were actually really liberals, rather they got pulled into the movement purely because the times matched up with their age of dissent.

this was 7 years ago imagine what it is like now

The university should be sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress and tortious invasion if privacy. Make them pay in the courts for their misdeeds

This is 2009. This stuff was just gaining momentum. Now it's full speed and luckily showing signs of derailing.

@mark7166

2 жыл бұрын

And sadly in 2021 they got themselves firmly back on the rails :(

Social Justice Warrior University

@titusorelius9458

9 жыл бұрын

Hate to break it to you but this is happening on most American universities in one form or another. They understand that shaping the mind of the youth is the key to controlling the future. They have also infiltrated grade school levels as well.

@direwolf8703

7 жыл бұрын

This is why I hire private tutors for my kids and force them to figure things out for themselves

Political correctness is the most serious threat to individual liberty our nation has faced since the McCarthy period. We must stop it before it gets further out of hand. FIRE's doing a great job of that, challenging on-campus indoctrination of every form, whether liberal (more common) or conservative (not unheard of). This is why I support them financially as well as politically. Well done, you guys!

7 years ago? This was a thing 7 years ago? Wait, this was about an incident in 2007... This was thing *9 years ago*?!

@syntheticfox_real

7 жыл бұрын

10 now.

OMG!! WE WERE CAUGHT! You can guarantee it would still be rolling along if it weren't. The people in charge should have been fired and had their teaching certs pulled. I know, no one wants accountability on a campus, so it will continue. thanks to those that brought this forward.

There was an unfair representation of Non-Coca-Cola related products at the students' table. Time to riot.

@InFiNiTyWaRd55

9 жыл бұрын

that's because they signed a contract with Pepsi, banning any non-Pepsi products from campus

@WILTALK

7 жыл бұрын

So now it's cheese burger, cheese burger, Pepsi and chips.

FIRE, you are my new heros

EVERYONE who disagrees with what these FASCIST, TOTALITARIAN ultraliberals (sounds like an oxymoron, I know, but it's not) are doing, should post this video on their Facebook page, and other social media. Period. It takes about two minutes, and we need to get the word out, and warn people about what's happening. Including the parents of these students, who in many cases will be paying for their "education". Share it, like it, post it, etc!!!

@MWcrazyhorse

8 жыл бұрын

+bookguitarguy Neo progressives is a more accurate term.

@latch0612

8 жыл бұрын

Neo-feminists included.

@jonathonpeterson6203

8 жыл бұрын

+bookguitarguy +1. Don't ever call these people liberal. They aren't conservative either. They are regressive il-liberals.

@2AForever-wi8yj

8 жыл бұрын

+Jonathon Peterson they are assholes

@hamiltonharper

8 жыл бұрын

+bookguitarguy There has been a "flip" occurring over the past couple years. No longer can we call the Left "Liberal" as they are trying to impose increasingly Victorian values on society. How ironic, given their history. The problems run deeper than just free speech, but the vilification of males, hetrosexuals, and whites. The erosion of free speech is just a shield to protect their beliefs from criticism, beliefs which are entrenched in the Humanities yet are free from peer review and student objection. I applaud your initiative to spread the word against these racist & sexist idealogues. People like Ben Shapiro, Milo Yiannopoulos, Janice Fiamengo, and Karen Straughan are all gaining a following. One thing that we all can do is give financial support to groups that are challenging these Authoritarians in the media. Personally, I am active on Patreon and give direct support to others as I see fit.

amen! this is a good example of 'throw the bums out'!!!!

The word racism triggers me. We should replace it with the word race negative. The word sexism also triggers; instead people should use the word sex negative. I am a non-binary person who sexually identifies as a Mack truck; I'm like really oppressed so we need more censorship so I don't get PTSD from 'micro - aggressions'.

its funny how i see the similarities of the university indoctrination to the teaching methods i had in catholic school in ireland, though the scary thing was at least we could participate in dabates and question what we were being thought

I'd like to commend FIRE for their excellent work bringing this to the public.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for exposing yet another example of double standards....not a good thing for our future generation to learn and integrate in the fundamental principles that is devoid of equality, ,dignity, and diversity and of course the first amendment.

As I am ready to send my daughter off to college, this reminds me, to never stop looking after the best interests of my child. These nuts are everywhere, and in all Universities. I will make it a point, to never send her to The University of Delaware. You are right Bruce, they should be thrown in jail !!!!

This is outrageous and a violation of privacy.

8:06 well said. “What racism is, is thinking about race when you see someone...”

Chilling!

This is doubleplusungood.

@saskiablack3471

4 жыл бұрын

That'sWhatSheSaid pretty soon ungood won't be in the newspeak dictionary - someone found it offensive.

The interrogations they did (@11:35) are just like the interrogations that the church of scientology does to blackmail their members.

As a Delawarean myself, I can tell you that hearing about this going on years after it was eradicated really made me think how insane UofD really can be. That's why I go to a different college.

thanks so much. keep it up

Scientology on steroids!

"We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him...You must love BIG BROTHER. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him." - O'Brien to Winston in 1984, by George Orwell

This is a great example of what is wrong with this country.

My Dad did renovation brick laying at the college. The Stone Balloon was a local hang out that I remember.

I was an RA when we did the 13 sheets of paper exercise. I never made it mandatory for someone to reveal their sexual identity. It was never written down in any curriculum. People were given the CHOICE to admit it in front of peers. It is a very powerful CHOICE for some to make. No one was EVER forced to reveal their sexual identity. Also...I don't know what your talking about with "what kinds of people would they date". I never saw that curriculum in place either.

Exactly!

I received my MSc from UD. What arrogance displayed by administrators in instituting this program. We have a major problem with our Univiersities as demonstrated by this video.

well said

This shit is nothing new. When I went through orientation for graduate school and graduate teaching assistants two decades ago, I encountered shit like this. We had to do the "what is the first thing that comes to mind" game when discussing different races etc. It was a fucking monumental waste of time.

@2AForever-wi8yj

8 жыл бұрын

+masanf My answer would have been to every question they asked YOU'RE A RACIST LIBERAL IDIOT.

I was experimented on and had an attempt on my life in elementary school(MKULTRA kinda stuff) I've had medical doctors giving me drugs that can only WORSEN my conditions, and I was heavily abused by psychologists saying that I was a failure, and subhuman and such my whole school career. I was an outgoing, creative, normal white kid. Now I'm terrified every time I leave the house and my legs are temporarily crippled due to malpractice. Our government is our enemy, our enemies in charge. help.

This was 2009, it's happening in different ways at virtually every university now and almost nobodys fignting back anymore.

After having seen the movie by Ben Stein - "Expelled" can't say im surprised about what has happened at the University of Delaware.

I am glad that I am a Celestial Being and none of this stupid nonsense applies to me.

we shouldn't need organizations like fire, but the fact that we do only goes to show how insane this country is becoming

It's really unfortunate that a program like this exists. I am very proud of what I do as a Resident Advisor and what our department does for our students. This makes us all look bad, especially when our department is always "Challenge by choice", and no opinions are projected onto students to make them think one way or another. The name of the game is open mindedness, not force-fed acceptance. I love my job, and the things we do for and with our students is made to look bad by these asses (UoD)

In my university, we had this program where we "learned" about disadvantaged people for one half of the year, and volunteered for the other half. While the volunteering was beneficial, I found the "learning' to be ridiculus. It would have been valuable to learn statistics or history, or anything that actually constituted information in that class. Instead, we spent 70% of class time watching promotional videos from various charity organizations and speeches.cont..

Great video FIRE! This is amazing... In the last week of so I have become a "White Right Wing Extremist Radical Terrorist Racist Oppressor"! I didn't even break a sweat or a law for that mater! Must be some kind of a record???

Any country is oppressive in one way or another, but the way to stop oppression isn't to oppress people's thoughts.

And so it is with this. The lameness of the program documents comes from the fact that the universities get the cheapest labor they can to do this work -- a $15/hr crowd, basically, since they are trying to replace the need for $500/hr law firms. In the end this is all due to judges and juries and the special way universities, which are basically elite institutions, are targeted by them.

Not really I studied Marketing in college worked in different industries . I now work as a full time mother cook, cleaner, laundry specialist, and driver :) It is the best job I've ever had

This video is 12 years old, it's amazing how we didn't see the neofascists rise.

my how far we've come!!

@2AForever-wi8yj

8 жыл бұрын

+Alex Stone yeah we've come to the point where everything is a micro AGGRESSION

What gives a person importance, when not based on their common humanity first, is a direct pathway into chaos. When a person's importance is based on their identity, how is this essentially different than a high school clique? (And we forgive those, because they are so young, so young.) To rush around trying to find one's own identifiable meaning in life by a group identity, one must give up completely the belief that they can disagree with impunity. Because disagreement now invites punishment. To be cast out. Other. This is a powerful social mechanism that everyone learns in life. And it can be tough going. I can say this simply. The real reason, the main reason why I am not a racist, bigot, sexist, "phobe" of any kind - is because long ago and at a tender age, I learned how to see people as human beings. Which meant relating to their common humanity. And I use that word common with intent - because it is certifiably the ONE single thing that we all share. And when people are damned and condemned for being "incorrect" you can be certain that the damners and condemners are equally adept in the fine art of denying the common humanity of those with whom they find fault. And so goes the games of the damned. The real denizens of their own hell. The long slippery slope that breeds enemies, not friendship. That leads to amoral emptiness and vacuous reasoning. And that eventually, as history teaches us, invites the kind of backlash that destroys human solidarity altogether. Along with civilization itself. I find it a curious thing - the bubble that these activists live in, as if they either really believe that they are operating by divine grace, and so protected from consequences - or they just don't give a damn. Either way, in the end, they lose.

I go to UD. I'm so happy I didn't go through that shit.

Thank you for standing up to blind political correctness.

His closing statement says it all

That marshmallow orientation is astounding. Ridiculousness of that exercise aside, stuffing marshmallows in your mouth and then trying to talk is a great way to die of asphyxiation; melted marshmallows are notoriously Heimlich-resistant. Maybe natural selection will step up where rational discourse is flagging.

That is a given, but this should not be allowed to go on.

Education is about submission to adult domination, obedience and conformity. And thought control. Obey or get kicked out.

Are marshmallows halal and vegan?

@Nullifidian

8 жыл бұрын

Standard marshmallows are made with gelatin, which is made from animal bones, tendons, and ligaments, so definitely not vegan. However, you can get vegetarian marshmallow substitutes. Little Debbie's uses these vegetarian marshmallows in some of its desserts because the company is owned by Seventh Day Adventists and vegetarianism is part of SDA culture.

It's 2018, and things are waaaaay worse

The curriculum says "Each study will recognize that systematic oppression EXISTS in our society"... not "America is a system of oppression". "Each student will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression"....I hope everyone can see the benefits of that. If you don't want to...you don't have to.

(--Or it was, though less so now, thus e.g. the tuition hikes that exceed inflation. My university kept refusing to raise tuition for fear that the state legislature would get angry and cut them off; when finally the state's part of financing it fell to a quarter what it had been in the sixties, the called their bluff and hiked tuition, which it turns out is better for pretty much everyone.)

Agreed... it should be an optional path for students to choose a specialization or a more liberal "well rounded" curriculum. The military doesn't train it's Air Force Pilots to drive tanks, and build explosives, and steer submarines, and, and and... lol (you get the point). Specialization is certainly valuable in our global economy. Far too often great talent is marginalized by FORCING everyone to be "well rounded". Tolerance, Respect and Understanding is all we need of each other.

it seems to me that if a student wore a t-shirt saying, "I Love Socrates"!, it probably wouldnt take 6 minutes before faculty called the student to dump that inflamatory t-shirt!!..................no American university wants another Socrates!! look him up and see why!

Sadly, this exact type of program exists within the U.S. military - it comes from the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI). A friend of mine had to take this course. He learned that being a white, Christian male means you're a racist. According to him, he was the only one (white, male) who didn't "crack". He said it was the worst 15 weeks of his life.

Not so shocking or unheard of 12 years later

well god damn. if this doesnt explain 2021 i dont know what does.

I graduated from college only a few years ago and this sort of thing is quite common. I used to get into arguements all the time with leftwing professors over this sort of nonsense. I am by nature a combative person who hates being told what to do or think, consequently I was'nt able to be indoctrinated,but some students of a gentler disposition probably were. It's amazing that this sort of leftest bias has'nt changed since Bill Buckley wrote GOD AND MAN AT YALE in the 1950s.

I love what FIRE does, but the music in this documentary is just too much. I feel like I'm watching Forensic Files or something...

The idea is that racism is basically a sort of social hierarchy, no matter what people think. A bigot, a prejudiced person, someone who discriminates, can be any kind or color of person and can direct his bigotry and stereotypes in any direction. A racist, then is someone who occupies a superior position in the social hierarchy, and adopts the associated form of bigotry or prejudice. It follows that people in the subordinate position won't come under the definition.

coming from ud- alumni-- this sounds nuts but this is the type of stuff they did. i was a senior when all this was going on, i was THRILLED to have the program over with midway through the year.

if this was curricular, it would be fine... its messed up that they required this activity. but still, social inequalities should be recognized so that they can be dealt with!

I'm glad the students recolonized how wrong and outrageous that course was.

Anyone else think of the bar scene in Good Will Hunting?

Ahem... this was 10 years ago

And the gattling gun was designed to be a weapon so horrible that no war would ever be fought again for fear of it. The best laid plans, eh?

Don't send child to University of Delaware. Got it.

Wow...this is crazy shit.

11 years ago. Holy fuck.

Excellent video. However, the video aspect ratio is so far off as to be distracting!

But it wouldn't be a proper "higher moral ground" if they didn't use treachery to promote it.

Criminal.

I find it somewhat ironic that a preponderance of the reviews of Professor blits describe him as some variation on "authoritarian" or "closed-minded"

Im tired of the term African-American...We are all Americans. I don't go around saying calling me white is racist, that I should be called European-American (maybe I should). This country is filled with reverse racism, it sickens me.

and how many thousands do they charge?

...done is an official or quasi-official manner, as was the case here. A larger problem I have with it is the intellectual shallowness of the approach. The idea that you can only "empower" a group by denigrating another group is simply repugnant and just as simply wrong. It teaches us not that we all share a common humanity, but that we are instead members of intractable camps divided by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation etc... If what they teach is true, then real citizenship...

Freedom of expression is one in the same as freedom of thought. Oppress one and you automatically oppress the other. We are must be allowed to think independently in a democracy. Thought police are no different to morality police.

...would be impossible. Instead we would all be better off to deny any sense of the "common good" and instead just look after "our own." Programs like the one at UD simply pick an ideological side in this quarrel and then declare those that disagree with them "morally suspect" because they are the "narrow minded other." That this is done in the name of "diversity" and "inclusion" makes it all the more perverse.

Ok. I was an RA at UD for 3 years and had different curriculum every year. Look at what the girl says at 6:50. "and everyone was laughing". If you were a decent RA you would bring up the fact that the stereotypes are not funny...that we are not doing this activity to make fun of each other...and that we are participating in this to realize how we view others. I know that my floor changed from boys to men...and citizens. Any one of my residents will back me up.

they still are in places like north korea and cuba.

i saw no evidence for and heard no reports of coercion, force, or threats.

Recycling uses more energy to recycle then it would just to bury the fucking thing

After 9 year this is worse WTF happened ?

@RehobRob yes. thank you for thinking clearly and critically. i found this presentation suspect as well.

...minorities sometimes have power over people of racial majorities and discuss whether that means they have the possibility of being racist as well. They also should have interviewed non-whites as well. I also need to point out that according to...

So, the PC stuff is basically imposed from above, by the corporate bigwigs on the boards of trustees, not to put too fine a point on it.

Because Residence Life produced documents that were harmful and those documents are evidence. Residence Life personnel were not needed to comment on their own documents.

I would have eaten as many marshmallows as I could and when they got upset been like, “white privilege bitch.”

@Bradley8787 Well, theoretically, one would only go to a Christian school if one were not open to Christian beliefs or ides. But even Christian schools present the material in a way that is open for debate (mine did), and debate should be willing. If someone doesn't want to talk about their beliefs, they should not have to. Its one thing to present perspectives to students; its another to enforce certain opinions as wrong in an education system. That does not encourage development.

@Cookiecutter87 While my experience was less extreme than this one, it shows how universities can convince themselves that this nonsense is educational.

You can add conservatism to the list, or any "ism" for that matter that. It's all thought control.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Joseph Stalin

Another point. The dishonesty of FIREs treatment comes out in their failure to point out that the document also explains that a white and nonwhite people alike can "anti-racists", when it comes to define that term. Is FIRE claiming that, according to this document, white anti-racists are racists? That would be a very dishonest reading.

Hey, isn't the VP from Delaware?

0:38 say what? AHHHHHHHHH! instant mus....oh sorry wrong video