{"id":4527,"date":"2018-05-13T17:51:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/13\/the-catholic-cave-in-to-leftist-claptrap\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T17:51:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:51:17","slug":"the-catholic-cave-in-to-leftist-claptrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/13\/the-catholic-cave-in-to-leftist-claptrap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Cave-In to Leftist Claptrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">This is getting boringly predictable, and predictably boring.&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2018\/05\/the-dark-secret-of-saint-marys-college\">Here<\/a> is yet another example, St Mary&#39;s College of California.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">. . . administrators encourage students to equate opinions with personal identity. Disagreement is not just disagreement\u2014it is an attack. Staff in the Mission and Ministry Center, the Intercultural Center, and the New Student and Family Programs encourage students to use the \u201coops\/ouch\u201d method. If someone forgets to use politically correct language or says anything deemed offensive, these staff members encourage bystanders to interject \u201coops\u201d as a corrective, and \u201couch\u201d if they have been personally harmed. One male friend recalls being chastised for saying \u201cyou guys\u201d instead of \u201cyou all\u201d to a group of men. Especially offensive opinions may be reported to our Bias Incident Reporting Team (BIRT). More than fifty such reports were filed last year.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I am tempted to say that sending your kid to this leftist seminary is equivalent to child abuse. Save your money and for a lot less you can buy him or her a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/jordanbpeterson.com\/12-rules-for-life\/\">Jordan B. Peterson&#39;s 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I&#39;m reading it. Your kid will learn something. Peterson talks sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">For more examples of &#39;academentia&#39; see my <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/academia\/\">Academia<\/a> category.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I &#39;appropriated&#39; the cute coinage from <a href=\"http:\/\/keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com\/just_philosophy\/\">Keith Burgess-Jackson<\/a>.&#0160; Appropriate, but do it with gratitude giving credit where credit is due.<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is getting boringly predictable, and predictably boring.&#0160;Here is yet another example, St Mary&#39;s College of California. . . . administrators encourage students to equate opinions with personal identity. Disagreement is not just disagreement\u2014it is an attack. Staff in the Mission and Ministry Center, the Intercultural Center, and the New Student and Family Programs encourage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/13\/the-catholic-cave-in-to-leftist-claptrap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Catholic Cave-In to Leftist Claptrap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-catholic-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}