A.) The gentleman who uses the chair is PLENTY D.E.I. for them…
B.) Quillette is a super-reputable and storied bastion of modern truth and light.
C.) There is a leopard eating my face, currently.
I read this entirely. Looking for insights. Fresh perspective. Ultimately could only come up with 'but of course'. No surprise here. No unanticipated outcome. The irony of fervently believing modern 'liberalism' is anything more than yet another binary stance 🤔🤷♀️. Yup, going with the leopard.
Repulsive to the core. These lil white bots grow up thinking they have a right to control the women in their lives. And these daily teach their daughters to be submissive. I
correlate it child abuse”.
So much of the attack on DEI involves the Tolerance Paradox. The truth is, we cannot and should not tolerate intolerance. But when those who hate are being attacked for their intolerance, they accuse their attackers of intolerance.
Honey. It’s called the University of Austin in Texas. Do you think they’ve borrowed off the name of the flagship school of the UTexas system for shits and giggles?
Are you staff there? One of the people in the photo? Or did you just do a little Google search and decide you’re qualified to opine.
"Do you think they’ve borrowed off the name of ... the UTexas system for shits and giggles?" Yes - they'll steal intellectual valor however they can - they're charlatans.
You're the first person FROM UT Austin who I've seen confuse the schools - guess you're right that UT doesn't look good here.
You both have a point. As another UT Austin alum.... the Board of Regents is appointed by the governor and, as a political body, has gained more and more control over what is allowed at UT Austin. And also the University of Austin was started by different people for a different reason.
Thanks, I have all the points, seeing as how UATX blatantly rides of the name prestige of the flagship school. It’s like a po-man’s religious alt-right racist St. Edward’s.
But welcome to the thread! Which hopefully dies an ignominious death right about … now.
They don’t tolerate DEI because they count on white skin as being their ticket to admission, they cannot compete on qualifications. These good ol’ white boy institutions should just advertise as being a haven for losers.
Yes. UATX is not the same as University of Texas at Austin . UATX was founded for a specific group of ppl with a specific ideological background. It's not even accredited bc they don't even have real academic programs.
Lol!! I think it's free. Last I checked the first graduating class got free tuition. I don't even understand the degree they will have when they graduate.
It’s a wonder that employers don’t just look at the zip codes on their applications and just toss the ones from Texas without bothering to read them. Then again, maybe they do!
Correct. They are throwing a hissy fit over not being given priority in hiring and admissions. All decent people should simply cross that dump off their list.
Yes, they're a bunch of mediocre to substandard white people who thrive on their whiteness instead of any true ability. They are bottom feeding troglodytes, and it's time they go back to the box that came out of.
Their parents have told them all their lives that they are entitled and special because they fall out of their mommies’ crotches with white skin. It has never occurred to them that they would ever have to achieve anything on merit.
I read this, and I'm not sure if the author is completely naive or dishonest. UATX ultimate goals were clear, as is the goal of the attacks on DEI and wokeness.
Perhaps she should check her own intellectual biases bc the truth about UATX isn't exactly a secret.
Yes. If the question is "did a cancervative do something immoral and not consistent with the values they pretend they hold and hold others to," then the answer is yes.
What annoys me is the author seems to truly not undress that UATX was only founded to be an alt right conservative white think tank dressed up as a University. It's funny to me that Harvard as some liberal cess pool has a ton of conservative alumni.
These ppl will have you believe they had to fight for their lives to unlearn their liberal indoctrination. The free-thinking line is also BS. What some ppl want to free think abt is that minorities especially blk ppl don't deserve to be in certain spaces.
UATX is a scam and unless this lady was born yesterday she knew it too. It living up to its founding doctrine in every way shape and form. I can't wait to watch the documentary on UATX a few years from now on how a scam turned into a cult.
It's just the new Oral Roberts University without saying that it's Christian on the cover. They're going to produce far right "scholars" who will go to work at CATO and get hired as management at twatter.
'Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.' Ms Avishai appears too naive to have realised by now that anyone self-identifying as a 'free/critical/independent/curious thinker; truthseeker' is simply a racist bootlicker.
mystifying to me how somebody can be either this naive or this willfully ignorant, but it’s gotta be one or the other (unless it’s the secret third thing: ass-covering lol)
Absolutely! The photo speaks loud and clearly for itself. And you know damn well they are getting subsidized by all of our tax dollars. That makes us paying for our victimization. That’s pretty whacked.
Are we seriously supposed to see that Avishai didn't see this coming? "Anti-wokeism" is not even distantly related to academic freedom and free speech.
Terribly afraid! It is why trump wants MSNBC shut down forever...too many beautiful black and brown faces with amazing brains who make him and his merry band of RWN's look like they've spent their lives on the stool in the corner of the classroom. We love MSNBC for all the reasons they hate it.
Boycotts work. To everyone out there seeking higher education:
DO NOT PAY TUITION AT UNIVERSITIES THAT ARE TRYING TO REVERSE DECADES OF PROGRESS IN SOCIAL JUSTICE.
APPLY TO THOSE STANDING UP TO TYRANNY AND CORRUPTION.
THOSE ARE THE ONLY INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE STANDING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.
The publicly observable actions of the GOP's Anti-DEI campaign show that the existence of minorities cannot be tolerated by the GOP. THIS IS NOT A SECRET!
It might make one wonder why any minority would support the GOP.
I totally agree! Anti-DEI and “woke”. I’ve often wondered if they realize how ridiculous it sounds insulting someone for being “woke”, they prefer sleep-walking through life?? Of course I guess they do with being okay with their “leader” sleeping through events & meetings on the world stage.
The author of this piece was radicalized against the Ivies when she was … checks notes … asked to, “fight for equity in education, with systemic bias presumed to be the primary cause of unequal outcomes among students.”
THAT was the unforgivable dogma of Harvard’s doctoral program.
Her article was poorly written. Always glad to see these "oppressed" assholes, who volunteer their harvard creds, complain about elite institutions. When they get cut out of the grift gravy, they put out some shit like this to piss on the world they advocated for. Fuck off.
It's the maga christian way, even their Jesus was made white. Now everyone has to be white and christian. No longer a freedom nation when christians rule, just oppression.
Why not just call it white people's university? How pathetic a group does one have to be that they need a boring, intellectually weak bubble to hide in?
I knew where it was headed and was screaming internally “it’s a trap don’t go there” since the second paragraph, but persevered to the conclusion. Things turned out as I expected😏
I read the article. Did the writer simply not know who the founders and biggest proponents of this place were? Clearly not, if she expected anything better from them.
Given that they're the "free speech absolutists" who support sending someone to die in a foreign prison over saying the wrong thing, I'm thinking a belief in "ideologies are to support me and hurt anyone who disagrees with me" is an admissions requirement.
Yeah, here's the thing: Austin and it's population may think of themselves the liberal, and perhaps even the progressive hub of Texas, but at the end of the day, it's still Texas. Texas will still be Texas-ING in those circles. The same goes for Florida, the deep south, Arizona, and so on.
UATX is not the same as the University of Texas at Austin. UATX is some weird school with made-up classes that last I checked was even accredited. It doesn't have dorms or anything that gives anything other than we want to brainwash young ppl to be future MAGA victims.
I get that, but regardless, Texas will forever be Texas-ing everywhere in Texas, Austin included, until true change happens (state-wide mentality change, and republicans are voted out).
Austinite here. Yeah sadly, we're a blue pond in a red sea. Texas is still gonna Texas, you're 100% right on that. We're lucky to be deep blue but the state is doing everything it can to fuck that up. I love this town but hate the governance of the state.
You clearly missed the point. I'm not blaming Austin. I'm blaming Texas and pointing out that if you live in Texas, even Austin, there's simply no escaping that God-awful state and its f'd up mentality, leaders, and actions.
OK, I’m unqualified to give opinions on Ivy League priorities, but Avishai’s frustration with Harvard’s aspirational ideals sounds pissy to me. And how many faces are in that Austin U picture? And not a single one of them is a black person? Fuck them and their racist school, I got no use for them.
These fucking "free thinkers" tie themselves into the most grotesque mental knots to rationalize their rigid, outdated, ideas based on whitewashed history.
They are so white. It's what Trump wants. I've always hated racism. Now, it's rearing its ugly head again. At least put and vocal. Damn you Donald Trump and the GOP.
That’s an incredible picture. I’m just glancing at this pic earlier, I didn’t really “look” at it so didn’t notice what is so evident. I feel we are really going backwards.
I could not read past the part where she got offended by Harvard thinking her commitment to social justice meant she would want to pledge support for social justice. Ideological bubbles is when people believe things, apparently.
Her goal was some kind of leadership position to work on bridging communication between different groups ... but she didn't want to acknowledge that systemic racism & low SES are determinative factors in K-12 student outcomes, bc that's too woke for her
Just remember, no progress would’ve been ever made without pioneers and people thinking out of the box. People should stop being such cowards, should start speaking truth to power louder and on larger scale, then pioneers wouldn’t have to die, and countless people wouldn’t need to suffer needlessly.
Don’t take her at face value. When she wanted to examine DEI from both sides, she was never going to come down on the “DEI is good” side. I mean, surely they could see that. Surely.
"...the school’s founding president declared, this would be a place “where intellectual dissent is protected and fashionable opinions are scrutinized.”
Doctors, especially those who work in very specialized fields, can end up being highly trained in just a very specific area. And surgeons especially seen prone to ending up thinking they're geniuses.
Add to that his growing up in a religious system requiribg extremely compartmentalized thinking.
The end result, in Carson's case,being that if you put him in the operating room, he'd be competent, but if you talk to him conversationally there's no telling just what kind of ridiculous stuff is going to come out of his mouth.
Anybody can be stupid. To be stupid is just to choose not to make use of the cognitive resources available to you, in order to do something that ain't in your best interests.
And someone being highly educated often just means they're really good at talking themselves into doing stupid things.
These kids are having their parents paying thousands of dollars to get zoom lectures from Steven Pinker on race/iq so they can get fucking certificates of achievement. That’s some funny shit.
I would say that for once, it doesn't apply here. UATX is very much sticking with its real founding principles.
I'm not sure it's even possible to betray the fake window dressing they call "founding principles," because how do you betray something you never believed in the first place?
This is great (or not so great, but at least has some "structure" or analysis behind it). I hadn't heard of it before, so I learned something new before I even finished my 2nd cup of joe, niiice! Makes perfect sense.
Yikes. I really tried, I scanned slowly, but there doesn’t appear to be even one Black person in that photo 😑
When I lived there in the mid ‘80s it seemed completely segregated. I guess 40yrs haven’t changed anything
The Univ of Texas at Austin has completely capitulated to our dictator Abbott, and Texas A&M University Regents are in lock-step. These are our biggest 2 universities in the state. It's not about the students, it's about money, pure greed. The students are good kids who just want an education.
I do too. Time will tell. As the professors begin to leave, I hope the students do too. But with the cost of tuition, an out-of-state school might be too difficult for them to afford.
But it's so expensive to pay out of state tuition. And many of our liberal and democrat young adults have to stealth their beliefs or risk being cut off from their evangelical republican parents.
Good kids, except the ones who send death threats to an associate dean from student email accounts. Because the Dean supports an organization founded by the accounting firm, KPMG.
FYI- They intentionally named this unaccredited school so people confuse it with the University of Texas in Austin but they are not the same. This is a tiny private nothing burger “school”
Indeed. I'm mostly shocked that Avishai is so shocked and appalled that this occurred...in Texas. The business-ification of universities has been happening for a looooong time. I guess hope springs eternal.
Ellie Avishai must not have been paying attention these last few years. Over the Texas dictator Abbott has interfered in UT's and A&M's DEI programs, Pro-Palestinian protests, free-speech, Title IX funding, etc. He's in many ways emulating Trump in the State of Texas.
Yep, and public schools in TX haven't received any increase in student allotment from our "esteemed" right-wing legislators in the last 6 years. Glad I retired before Abbott's "defund public schools" initiative was passed.
evil people will always exist, those who choose to be in positions of leadership and know that a thing is evil and refuse to act … might not be as evil, but they are certainly more morally culpable
I’m wondering why the author was surprised at how it all played out. She chose to join a pit of vipers and is stunned when they bit her for not being viper enough.
I respect the people who are truly evil just absolute fascist garbage humans, they own it
The rest of the conservative apologists are way fucking worse and perhaps they’re just too fucking stupid and maybe I should pity them for living lives of such utter fucking stupidity
I tried to read this and what upsets me more then anything is that a person who purports to have graduated from all these prestigious universities - did so and remains a bad writer …
If you're looking for a sign of personal failure, it's not recognizing that these fucking idiots ARE EVIL. They just have a shred of shame about what they want so they're still using lipstick.
Idk Dr King was pretty mad at those fucking idiots when they were in the form of the moderate faith leaders who wrote him while he was in the Birmingham Jail.
I read that article shaking my head the whole time. When I first heard about this school I pulled up their website, it took me 30 seconds to see it was just a far-right hack of a school.
The failure of reasonable people, and the betrayal of allies, is always a lot more damaging (including emotionally) than the expected opposition of known enemies.
What's funny to me about things like this is that these people somehow fail to learn the lesson that *every* institution (or community within an institution) will at some point develop some kind of point of view and make that apparent.
Märzveilchen (March violets, those that joined the Nazi party after the enabling act) were treated with contempt by those outside the party and the evil old timers within the party.
(Admittedly I can’t find whether the term is apocryphal or a neologism, but the contempt was there)
Without going into great detail, this "double speak" creep towards supressive authoritarianism is what happens when time erodes away the lessons of history, and we resurrect the bitter demons of our collective nature.
Be patient…summer is almost here. Texas infrastructure is crumbling against global warming under Abbott. Let’s watch them roast in the lovely August heat!
It seems too many people in this country are racist, bigots and cowards. Nobody seems to have the cojones to stand up to the frigging republicans and just say no.
I have yet to hear anyone ask them to, say, justify taking away services to veterans or cancer reasearch, but still decide that having a parade that costs many millions or giving money to rich people who have more than they can possibly spend is a good thing.
Sorry but I have yet to hear anyone challenge him and the magats. If they do get some kind of an answer, which is usually BS, there is never a follow up.
t___p Derangement Syndrome
They who blindly worship and pay homage to a golden idol and they who blindly hate all that the golden idol hates, without reason or thought or question.
The only unsegregated university of which I am aware is PVAMU. They don't look at color although founded as dedicated to black education. If you have the grades you are in. However UT & TAMU are dedicated to keeping segregation alive.
What are you talking about?? There is clearly a gentleman of color in the back corner who…Nope. Nevermind. My bad. That’s a shadow on a white boy’s face. Yeah. They all whiter than a Christmas in Connecticut.
Hate is taught at home, generation after generation. This is the same group of Anglo-Saxon Whites who became Christians that committed more genocide on the Native Americans than the Nazis did on the Jewish.
WOW! Not a person of color visible in the entire group! That university has maximized the probability of NEVER graduating a future Nobel or Pulitzer Prize winner, a highly respected inventor or doctor or educator. They are investing all their energy in mediocrity and obedience!
"I was hoping to be successful in the career I trained for while also ignoring one of the most robust findings about what contributes to student success & failure: Family SES, closely intertwined with systemic racism.
"I knew I had to get out of there! Jordan Peterson would prepare me, I felt sure"
Diversity Equity Inclusion, why is the guy in the wheelchair allowed here? Isn't he here because he requires Diversity/Equity/Inclusion to allow him to participate in this photo opportunity 🤔 just asking IF YOU DO THIS, DO IT TO EVERYONE WHO BENEFITS FROM DEI STANDARDS, CRUELTY IS THE POINT RIGHT???
Thought Texas had more diversity than just German settlers in Mexican territory. Sad a slave red state has zero representation of the folks who built their state.
It's Texas, pray tell what did you expect? The far right barely tolerates the arts, and has no use for diversity, "DEI" is merely their new symbol for hatred and intolerance.
The founders of this so called university-UTAX ( they aren’t even accredited) picked the name in a deliberate attempt to confuse with the University of Texas at Austin- UT Austin).
Here’s a little background.👇
I really loathe those amateur, low grade institutions mainly interested in grifting money imo!
We have similar in Australia, milking the public purse & providing poor education & training as governments vacate the field😖😓
You know who I feel really sorry for in that photo, all the people of Indian and Asian descent. How do you deal with being a child of an immigrant at an openly racist school like this?
Also, that one person on the far left with the bright blue hair. That isn't the hair color of a right wing conservative. Did they mean to go to UT but got confused?
Obviously the author failed to read the early mission statements saying UATX IS a conservative think tank college because somehow Texas A&M was too liberal and they wanted to give neocons who didn't like UT a place to go to. Or maybe they did and wanted in on being a "conservative educator".
Read the whole article and this may be the one time I could’ve just taken jamelle’s one sentence summation, zoomed in on picture, digested the issue and moved along. Play with racists in the mud and it will dirty you and your Harvard sheepskin.
This is such a dumb article. All anyone had to do was look at the list of people who started this "school" to see what was going to happen. I talked about it with a bunch of my friends back when it was first announced and lo and behold, here we are, exactly where I knew it was leading.
Exactly. Like holy shit the founding of this place was steeped in conservative agenda shit. When Abbott gave it his praise that should've *gasp* VIRTUE SIGNALED exactly who and what they were. The article OP just thought she was one of the good ones is all.
yes. its very shortsighted to say shit like “we need diversity of viewpoints” and “nobody should be banned for being too far right”(?!) and not expect that this opens the door for nazis.
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B.) Quillette is a super-reputable and storied bastion of modern truth and light.
C.) There is a leopard eating my face, currently.
22 Scot,8 Eire and 2 Swe.
I don’t love full sun exposure. I do love equity and human rights.
Simply cringy knowing they’ll grow up to be like their fathers,narrow minded bigots with a superiority complex which only real losers can achieve.
correlate it child abuse”.
For those who've been surprised.....
fixed
"/S"?
UT Austin alum talking here, fvck all ya’ll.
Are you staff there? One of the people in the photo? Or did you just do a little Google search and decide you’re qualified to opine.
It was cobbled together by private donors a couple of years ago. There is no connection to the UT system.
You're the first person FROM UT Austin who I've seen confuse the schools - guess you're right that UT doesn't look good here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Austin
But welcome to the thread! Which hopefully dies an ignominious death right about … now.
Perhaps she should check her own intellectual biases bc the truth about UATX isn't exactly a secret.
And she was fine with it UNTIL they came for her.😶
Imagine a "dripping" sarcasm font as you read that.
And confession time - until 3 months ago I didn’t know Abbott was wheelchair bound
I thought he was a bastard who didn’t want to stand
Now I know he’s still a bastard - just he can’t stand
Abbot ruined Texas
My first choice!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
that said he might run.
I’ll remember his name…..
I don’t see color.
by which I mean I literally see no color in that photo.
This isn’t abt the principles of the school, cause those have ALWAYS been on FULL display.
The protective “bubble” that she & her co-founder had created for themselves was burst.
They lost their privilege, & now she is complaining.😶
Oops.
All you need to know I guess
DO NOT PAY TUITION AT UNIVERSITIES THAT ARE TRYING TO REVERSE DECADES OF PROGRESS IN SOCIAL JUSTICE.
APPLY TO THOSE STANDING UP TO TYRANNY AND CORRUPTION.
THOSE ARE THE ONLY INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE STANDING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.
The GOP has traditionally been very adept at defining and using code words to obscure the real meaning.
It might make one wonder why any minority would support the GOP.
Supporting your own oppression is smart?
THAT was the unforgivable dogma of Harvard’s doctoral program.
Is that token Black man or a token Indian front and center.
"Look, look, we have a dark person"
Like... HOW DUMB CAN YOU BE before you start forgetting letters of the alphabet, infringing on your ability to write?
The author is bonkers.
Maybe my perception is being colored by their politics.
When your job requires mastery of basic facts
I couldn’t get any further than that.
Add to that his growing up in a religious system requiribg extremely compartmentalized thinking.
And someone being highly educated often just means they're really good at talking themselves into doing stupid things.
https://bsky.app/profile/gavin.whyqd.com/post/3lkddui3ugk2h
I'm not sure it's even possible to betray the fake window dressing they call "founding principles," because how do you betray something you never believed in the first place?
When I lived there in the mid ‘80s it seemed completely segregated. I guess 40yrs haven’t changed anything
One would think we had moved past those days... maybe grown a little. Evolved a little. Learned a little.
Oy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Austin
Not UT.
more angry at the fucking idiots like this than I am at the people who set out to be evil?
evil people will always exist, those who choose to be in positions of leadership and know that a thing is evil and refuse to act … might not be as evil, but they are certainly more morally culpable
We know he and his are garbage, the dems are supposed to be better than that!
The rest of the conservative apologists are way fucking worse and perhaps they’re just too fucking stupid and maybe I should pity them for living lives of such utter fucking stupidity
tfg & co have put there's away.
I find this outcome unsurprising.
That’s respectable.
(They must be destroyed utterly, to be sure. But it’s a clean fight.)
There's no opinionless utopia to escape to.
(Admittedly I can’t find whether the term is apocryphal or a neologism, but the contempt was there)
He's losing in court, he's losing when he backs down from his tariff promises, and he loses when he flip-flops on his policies.
You're simply not paying enough attention. Search for "Democracy Docket."
t___p Derangement Syndrome
They who blindly worship and pay homage to a golden idol and they who blindly hate all that the golden idol hates, without reason or thought or question.
Texas.
We have gathered. Now we organize, train, plan, and resist.
The Literal End
"It's just a "known fact" that whites are smarter. Here, we don't pussyfoot about that or expect you to."
"I knew I had to get out of there! Jordan Peterson would prepare me, I felt sure"
Oh she's almost there
Here’s a little background.👇
https://www.austinmonthly.com/how-the-so-called-university-of-austin-is-faring-nearly-two-years-after-conception/
We have similar in Australia, milking the public purse & providing poor education & training as governments vacate the field😖😓