{"id":12083,"date":"2019-12-04T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12083"},"modified":"2019-12-02T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:39:29","slug":"how-americas-students-need-to-get-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-americas-students-need-to-get-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"How America\u2019s Students Need to Get \u2018Woke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s university students want to \u201cwake\u201d the nation to problems that they and their professors have identified as threatening our very existence. And they issue these periodic alarms in hyperbolic terms: we have just 10, 20\u2014fill in the blanks\u2014years to end fossil fuel use or else die from global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They warn us that there is a veritable war waged on American women who have been limited to a mere 800,000 abortions on average per year. Sexism must explain why only 56 percent of college students are women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woke university lectures us that ubiquitous racism, white privilege, sexism, homophobia, transgender hatred, Islamophobia, nativism, and xenophobia supposedly make life deadly for people of color, gays, immigrants, the transgendered, and women. Apparently, such endemic hatred explains why the United States is the most tolerant, freest, most leisurely and affluent country in history for racial, religious, and gender minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address these supposedly existential concerns and agendas, the university has radically reinvented itself over the last 30 years. The relative and absolute number of tenured and tenure-track professors on campus has nosedived. In their places, the legions of noninstructional &nbsp;employees and part-time lecturers have soared. The former are mostly highly paid race, class, and gender diversity and inclusion provosts, deans, and czars. The latter are low-paid and largely exploited temporary teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/12\/01\/how-americas-students-need-to-get-woke\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Today\u2019s university students want to \u201cwake\u201d the nation to problems that they and their professors have identified as threatening our very existence. And they issue these periodic alarms in hyperbolic terms: we have just 10, 20\u2014fill in the blanks\u2014years to end fossil fuel use or else die from global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-38T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8479,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/sexism-and-racism-are-leftism\/","url_meta":{"origin":12083,"position":0},"title":"Sexism and Racism Are Leftism","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In our time, sexism and racism have become the province of the rich. by Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0\/\/ National Review Online Discrimination by sex and by race are ancient innate pathologies and transcend particular cultures. 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