Comments on: New AU student? Report for your oppression training

By: Campus climate roundup - Overlawyered

Campus climate roundup - Overlawyered — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 05:30:09 +0000

[…] More on scheme proposing mandatory oppression studies for first-year students at American University [Robby Soave/The Daily Beast (and thanks for mention), earlier] […]

By: px fragonard

px fragonard — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:58:01 +0000

In reply to En Passant. Virtue? Vice? What are those? "When they send 'repent' I wondered what they meant."

By: Don’t Act Like You’re Not Oppressed | Acculturated

Don’t Act Like You’re Not Oppressed | Acculturated — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:00:57 +0000

[…] that all students must take to graduate—that include classes that have been (accurately) described as exercises in “oppression training.” The proposed changes were laid out late last year in a […]

By: The Wild World of Oppression Studies – THE REGRESSIVE LEFT

The Wild World of Oppression Studies – THE REGRESSIVE LEFT — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:13:27 +0000

[…] students to enroll in several worrisome courses that the Cato Institute’s Walter Olson has astutely labeled “oppression studies.” The task force calls them “Complex Problems” and “AU […]

By: Weagle99

Weagle99 — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:46:34 +0000

SO, what happens to the first student who writes about how slavery enabled Africans, albiet generations later, to become members of a First World society so enriched, comparitavely speaking, that they now complaign of food appropriation?

By: Incredulous Parent

Incredulous Parent — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 01:12:40 +0000

I know one school to cross off the investigation list of my high school sophomore.

By: En Passant

En Passant — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:16:16 +0000

I wonder whether they will wind up calling these mentored support teams “block committees for the Defense of the Revolution.”

Or "Committees for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice".

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:57:16 +0000

I think the term you’re looking for is “Blockleiter.”