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@billmaher slammed America’s elite universities as “indoctrination factories” and shared support for President @realdonaldTrump’s plans to reform them as the Trump administration has been waging war against the country’s top colleges over antisemitism, DEI and lack of diverse thought.
ANU BELIEVES IN ACADEMIC FREEDOM IF ACADEMICS ALL THINK LEFT
The Australian National University claimed it couldn’t accept a grant to teach Western civilisation because it trampled on academic freedom. Yet the hypocrites do this: “[The ANU] is demanding all new staff undertake ‘cultural awareness’ training that endorses a treaty with indigenous Australians.”
Andrew Bolt
The Australian National University claimed it couldn’t accept a grant to teach Western civilisation because it trampled on academic freedom. Yet the hypocrites do this:
The Australian National University is demanding all new staff undertake “cultural awareness” training that endorses a treaty with indigenous Australians, calling into question its commitment to academic freedom and autonomy cited repeatedly in recent weeks to justify its decision to withdraw from negotiations with the Ramsay Centre.
Launched during Reconciliation Week in late May by vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt, the Core Cultural Learning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia Foundation Course has been designed to educate staff and students on issues around indigenous heritage and culture.
Developed by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, parts of the training are mandatory for new staff, while existing staff are strongly encouraged by department heads to participate.
Some academics, however, are understood to have raised concerns that the course, which consists of 10 training modules, presents the concept of a treaty in an unquestioningly positive light, glossing over the counterarguments and legal complexities.
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Traditional Aboriginal Imam
from the Andrew Bolt blog
Who said academic theories had to make sense?
Peta Stephenson, a doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute, says Islam doesn’t share the baggage of missionary Christianity, and has become one path by which Aborigines can affirm their pre-colonial identity.
“Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X are role models,” she says. “A lot of people see Islam as an answer to the ills of Western society. For communities suffering chronic levels of unemployment or underemployment and substance abuse it might have special appeal for those wanting to break away from the statistics.”
So to reject British colonialism and affirm a “pre-colonial identity”, Aborigines adopt a Middle Eastern faith with American role models.
Er, OK.
And to revolt against the statistics of unemployment, they take on the faith of that part of the world that suffers worst from poverty.
Actually, I’d suggest Islam offers an underclass something more primitive and dangerous – a revelling in an us-against-the-world victimology, and a legitimising of anger and force. No wonder that so many Aboriginal converts are convicted criminals and boxers.