Wednesday, 12 October 2016

THINKPOL UNLEASHED!

Welcome to our brave new world where Orwellian [rather than Huxleyian] thought policing is the standard and enforced norm. ThinkPol is being resourced and strengthened, and the Pol ('scuse the pun) Pottian 're-education' centres (currently called universities) are taking up the much needed task of re-orienting the public's attitudes towards the correct and proper perspectives according to their ruling masters.
...the Michigan Daily:

The university is piloting a culture training programme for students that will ultimately include the entire freshman class in five years. The training will require a preliminary assessment to evaluate the students’ cultural sensitivity levels.
WrongThought™ will be detected. Worldviews will be harmonised. Intrusive condescension will be the norm.
Participants will receive a unique training programme based on assessment results targeting specific areas for cultural development. At the end, students must take a follow-up assessment and receive a certificate for completion.
The university’s “strategic plan” for “diversity, equity and inclusion” tells us that the political correction on offer is “increasingly in demand… among employers,” and that “the ultimate goal” is to subject “all incoming students” to this or similar corrective processing. The document also boasts of encouraging “many voices.” Though as the stated object is to “shift cultural perspectives” and to “adapt” any behaviour deemed insufficiently sensitive and therefore improper, readers may wonder whether diversity of opinion will be the ultimate result.

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