The original purpose of universities was the education of the clerical, priestly elite and universities have always had the whiff of ideological fanaticism and intolerance about them. But in its ever more graduated and finely grained degrees of racial and gender grievance the university has shifted from secular pentecostal speaking in tongues fanaticism to Taliban level craziness. This at a time when its value to the broader society has never been more in question.
It's ironic that the institution most obsessed with race and gender has far and away the most problems with it. I guess when you spend all your time focusing on "difference", on what divides us, you get more division.
Imagine that. More horrified bemusement at the link.
http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/05/17/rex-murphy-check-your-bigotry
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