{"id":65627,"date":"2018-01-10T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65627"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:02:34","slug":"shocked-shocked-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65627","title":{"rendered":"Shocked.  Shocked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahdatory diversity courses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=10335\">do nothing useful<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A crminiology prof at Eastern Carolina University found out that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After assessing the bias of students before and after the course\u2014using prompts such as \u201ca woman should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers\u201d and \u201cif blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites\u201d\u2014Stacey found that the course hadn\u2019t altered students\u2019 attitudes towards race or gender.<\/p>\n<p>Only their attitudes towards homosexuality had changed, she found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results of the t-test indicate that the only significant change over time in the scales was in attitudes toward homosexuality generally,\u201d Stacey reports. \u201cThis would suggest that the course has no effect on [attitudes towards women], symbolic racism, or attitudes toward gays\/lesbians specifically.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>that&#8217;s actually better than I expected; I&#8217;d have figured the courses would make matters worse.<\/p>\n<p>Especially given that their purpose is\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>to foster diversity, but rather to provide jobs for activists and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=10037\">teach students not to question the Big Left&#8217;s narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahdatory diversity courses do nothing useful A crminiology prof at Eastern Carolina University found out that: After assessing the bias of students before and after the course\u2014using prompts such as \u201ca woman should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers\u201d and \u201cif blacks would only try harder they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indoctrinate-u","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65628,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65627\/revisions\/65628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}