Why are liberal US universities resorting to such Orwellian re-education tactics?

Question

NEWARK, Del., October 30, 2007—The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students’ rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech.

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It's like Déjà vu, all over again
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Answer 1

The school has issued a response (link provided by DailyKos): http://www.udel.edu/PR/response/

Answer 2

It's a lot more likely that the school is just introducing "sensitivity" training to some people from pretty racist parts of the country to avoid lawsuits from black and other minority students who have been harrassed or otherwise mistreated by white students. (Such as hanging nooses in doorways, having "dress like a n*gger" parties and other quaint things some American kids find entertaining.)

Answer 3

I can’t comment on what’s going on at the U of Delaware because I know nothing about it. I do know however that many employees in my company rebel against the very idea of diversity training because they are racist, sexist, homophobic fools who don’t want anyone to try to shake them out of their bigoted little closed-minded comfort zones. They would make up any horror story about diversity training because they just hate the very idea of it.

I was criticized by some of these people for promoting a gay man to a higher level management position. The only thing that these people could say to me was that he wasn’t qualified because he was gay. It is unbelievable how narrow-minded and backwards some supposedly educated people are. I had them all sent to diversity training.

Answer 4

In Doublespeak, clearly conservatism is double plus bad. It is a mental disorder that must be treated.

Parents: check out the colleges your high school kids are applying to. If they do ANYTHING like this, tell your kids you will pay NOTHING if they decide to go to that school.

Hit the Evil Leftists where it hurts: their pocketbooks.

Answer 5

I would actually be interested to read about the program described in the article. except the article provides no source for where they got the information about the program. Do you know where there is actual information on the program, and not an opinion article about it?

Also, the article doesn't actually say what the program is called, so I think it will be hard for me to look up.

Answer 6

Wow, I would've switched schools if I had to go through that. This is hardly the norm at public universities though.

Answer 7

Thats just crazy. IDK if its all universities but where I went to school we had no such program. It was clear that diversity was on the agenda but it wasnt compulsory for the students to get it as a program.

Answer 8

It's all part of the plan divised by Adorno, Gramsci, Lukazs, and Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School before WWII.

Answer 9

Fascism always comes from the left

Answer 10

Is this kind of like how in Regent University, they're forcing a student who criticized Pat Robertson to undergo psychological treatment or face expulsion?