
UCLA Student Speaks Out On Growing Wokeness On Campus
These past few months, UCLA has made national news from several stories. First, the school did not punish pro-Hamas mobsters who intimidated Jewish students on campus.
Second, a university-funded magazine published an essay claiming ‘furries’ are just another sexual fetish. Third, a student government serving leader had urged those who beat up synagogue tourists to be prepared for when the LAPD came knocking that “they must take their guns with them.”
“In my 3-year tenure at UCLA, less than a fourth of my classes have assigned complete books. Instead, professors tend to focus on assigning op-eds, TED talks, and essays that are meant to squeeze conversations into a particular moral framework,”a student at UCLA said.
In place of developing an understanding through studying the texts that have given form to our civilization, UCLA classes seem to be handing students short readings responding to a concept from thinkers like Hobbes and Locke who hate the very idea of their theorizing having been authored by some straight white man.
In this system if racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia become inseparable entities – as they have to be in order for the revolutionary class theory against systemic oppression makes sense — all come from a common root cause.
However, that cause is often defined as an elite group of wealthy or traditional society power holders.
The morality of this framework is that so long as the “oppressed” benefit from violence and malevolence, it’s just fine. Hamas and other terrorist organizations are portrayed as heroes alongside America which is cast in the role of purveyor of a malignant status quo.
“In one class, I was taught to applaud people with mental illness as heroic, such as schizophrenics who refused to take their medicine. In the same class, the professor lauded their own conditions as self-diagnosed and that formal medical diagnoses were inherently racist, ableist, and classist,” the student shared.
By 2023, one UCLA professor declared that year the worst to have been black in American history.
This is of course not applicable for every professor at UCLA. Some professors genuinely care about their students, the quality of their scholarship, and the health of their field.
The UCLA student claimed that until we see faculty and staff who guide students towards constructive conversations as a part of the hiring priorities at UCLA, everything from empty statements to performative commissions will only distract us from treating its symptoms – themselves merely reflections of this crisis.