ASU's Diversity Training for Social Justice
What would you think of a conservative or religious social philosophy taught in an employee training class offered at a secular university? The obvious answer is that the secular university is not permitted to take a political or religious perspective and require employees to adopt that perspective. And yet, we find that the far-left political philosophy behind the “social justice” movement is taught through a training class given to employees of ASU. The phrase “social justice” is part of the Marxist religion which teaches that humans are divided into the oppressed and the oppressors.
“Social justice” teaches that the oppressed are to find their oppressed gender, race, or class identity and then demand that the oppressors redress wrongs through financial compensation and by ceding power positions to the oppressed. The Marxist religion reduces all truth and purpose to power. All claims about right/wrong, true/false, are power claims.
Therefore, the strategy is to first take true/false, right/wrong, off the table of debate. The Marxist religion just is. And oppression just is a fact. Any opposition is a phobia or mental illness. And the only way to redress oppression, according to the Marxist religion, is to give the oppressed power over the former oppressors. This includes erasing any other religion by categorizing it as part of the oppressors and due to phobia.
Having accomplished these things, the Marxist religion can then teach its theory of social justice as the neutral view of benefit to all employees. And so you get employee training classes like this one:
The key is recognizing and naming the "social justice" version of Marxism for what it is - a religion. A core set of basic beliefs, not subject to examination, scrutiny or criticism, that people use to give meaning to their experience, regardless of whether that set of beliefs involves belief in a deity. It's interesting to me that the hard left now overtly and hypocritically practices what it has long (and wrongly, in my view) criticized its opponents for doing - using institutional power to promote adherence to its religion. Mandatory workplace DEI training is a perfect example of this. Take this DEI training and answer these questions to demonstrate that you understand and agree with the principles being taught (and you'd better get all the answers right), or you can't work here. The funny thing is that I don't recall ever being required to take theological training (or attend a workplace Bible study) as a condition of employment, and nobody (including me) would stand for such a requirement. Why do we play "go-along-to-get-along" with the DEI version of it?
Wasn't Jesus Christ himself an advocate for social justice? Did he not standup for the outcast and downtrodden? Or was your JC a different dude?
But more to the point. Why repeat tired Tucker Carlson-isms about Marxists in the university? That's simply a far-right cliche, which is lazy and in addition to being inaccurate -- and, frankly, smacks not just of Carlson-ism (if you like, I suppose it's a thing now), but McCarthyism.
Why all the mudslinging and fearmongering? If you don't like your colleagues, I'm sure you can find a job preaching somewhere else -- probably pays better too.