State of Wednesday: THEY KEEP DESCRIBING THEMSELVES
Hopefully the trend spreads from coast to coast.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Once again, I am going to beat the drum of education reform (see: Demolition + Renovation).
Let’s get after it …
THEY KEEP DESCRIBING THEMSELVES
You wouldn’t believe how simple it is to dismantle the left’s pipelines. The hardest part is finding someone with the cojones to actually do it, seconded only by the patience required to weather the absurd wailing sure to follow.
Brandon Creighton has upended one pipeline in the Texas Tech University system (of all places!).
All it took was this flowchart:
Creighton led the charge as a Texas legislator to “purge woke curriculum.” He also sought to dissolve the power and influence of things like academic tenure, faculty senates, and “diversity and inclusion” initiatives.
We all know now that DEI bureaucracies are internal politburos with almost-authoritarian power to enforce neo-Marxist policy goals over the entirety of academia, from speakers and clubs to hiring, admissions and curricula. Remember that as you read this.
Texas Tech regents unanimously appointed Creighton chancellor of the school system in late 2025, and he set to work on this flowchart, apparently.
To simplify it even further, it goes like this: If a lecture and its accompanying materials are not absolutely necessary and relevant to the discipline you are teaching, don’t include them. If you think they are, maybe ask the adults first.
With the flowchart, Creighton included a memo that essentially told faculty to stop teaching weird race and gender nonsense unless their course was literally titled “weird race and gender nonsense.”
He also banned “advocacy” for race- or sex-based prejudice, professors from teaching students that certain immutable traits automatically made people racist or bigoted, and instruction that encouraged shared racial guilt.
Radical professors effectively “commandeered” universities, Creighton told WSJ, saying, “That has led to campus takeovers, to degrees that don’t have value.”
Texans, who fund these universities to the tune of billions, are “frustrated with the final product,” he says.
You might think the final product is advanced degrees in memetic transgender poetry, but no. It’s actually an army of radicals with trillions in debt and no hope to meaningfully participate in the capitalist system. They’re institutionally inculcated identitarians. Their primary output isn’t poetry; it’s grievance. Racial, economic, and weird gender stuff.
Of course, the logical among us can identify the problem as easily as Creighton.
Andrew J. Siefker, a math teacher in the Texas Tech system, called the flowchart “straightforward and reasonable.”
An art teacher, of course, sees it differently.
“This is disastrous,” Andrew Martin said. “History is full of examples of what happens when authoritarian governments gain control of the educational institutions of a country or a society.”
And yet again I ask: Why do they always describe themselves?
The recent radical takeover of America’s university system is just a gayer version of Mao’s student revolution. It also had the support of political parties, local, state and federal agencies, and literal corporate sponsorship across the board. It demanded that employees make loyalty pledges to things like “diversity and inclusion.” If you raised your voice against it, you lost your livelihood. It was an all-encompassing, suffocating imposition.
And, worst of all, it empowered idiots. People who only knew how to tear things down. People for whom a hammer was just a symbol on a ragged, smelly T-shirt, rather than an actual tool with a well-defined use.
Until guys with cojones like Creighton came along and said enough is enough.
Good for him. Drain the useless pus infecting Texas Tech.
Hopefully the trend spreads from coast to coast.
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