Madness rules in ‘woke’ world as those it claims to help suffer
FIRST, it was Hollywood. Then came corporate America. Both found that by going woke, they risk going broke.
Tinseltown’s movie bosses took years to realise the slew of politicsdrenched efforts at blockbuster films only ended with empty cinemas and online streaming viewers staying away in their droves.
In recent months another field has become so worryingly entrenched in wokeism that it has left many fearing what the future may hold.
Education in the States is at a crossroads and one that Britain would do well to learn the lessons from.
Only last week, the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work became the first entrant in this year’s woke awards.
Dons there published a letter saying they would remove the word “field” from its curriculum and practice and replace it with “practicum” over fears of racism.
“Language can be powerful, and phrases such as ‘going into the field’ or ‘field work’ may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign,” they wrote.
The move has sparked a backlash, with many arguing it insults the intelligence of the people it addresses.
It left many wondering what was next, but they didn’t have to wait long.
On Monday, it emerged an American astrophysicist claimed her field is steeped in white supremacy and sexism because of the language used to describe the cosmos.
The way in which stars burn through their fuel and die is viewed through a ‘hypermasculine’ lens and the metaphors used are often ‘very violent,’ claimed Natalie Gosnell, an assistant professor at Colorado College.
She said has struggled to overcome a division between art and science that is rooted in “systemic racism”.
She said her work aims “to cross typical disciplinary boundaries to create art-science pieces that re-inscribe outer space as feminist space,” – whatever that meant.
This professor and the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work are entrusted to teach our leaders of tomorrow.
These examples were the latest in a long, worrying line of views that have far-reaching consequences for those now in an education system that is falling apart.
Woke graduates have become woke employees, pushing their often minority views onto a much wider majority with huge implications as notions of “equity” and “privilege” that are popular on campus spread to the corporate world.
Some employers here are now going as far as to ask job applicants to leave the university they attended off their applications.
Instead of the institution, they are simply to list the degree. Whether it came from Harvard, Oxford or Carry on Campus doesn’t seem to matter anymore because the employer doesn’t want to know.
Prestige degrees equal “privilege,” and that’s bad for equality.
Things have become so bad here this week it emerged 13 Virginia schools are under investigation for withholding merit awards to predominantly Asian-American students who excelled in their studies. The awards can help towards scholarships, but parents of the pupils have hit out at the revelations, claiming their kids were deliberately left in the dark so other students’ “feelings were not hurt”.
In the woke world, insanity rules. Universities and companies that follow these philosophies are shown to suffer. Even the people they think they’re helping are eventually hurt by it.
EVEN before her arrival into the world, Lisa Marie Presley’s fame was assured. But much like her famous father, Elvis, her life was tragically cut short, blighted by drug abuse, suicide, money troubles and a series of turbulent failed relationships. Now after the 54-year-old died last week, suffering two full cardiac arrests, she is to be buried alongside her father and her son at Graceland.
It is clear she never recovered from the death of her beloved father or that of her only boy Ben at 27 by suicide three years ago.
If ever there was anyone to die of a broken heart, it was Lisa Marie.
Woke graduates have become woke employees, pushing their often minority views onto a wider majority with huge implications.