Tag: Diversity Equity Inclusion

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I was reading an article about how at one particular college, from 1990 to 2022 the number of tenured faculty decreased.  But during that same period the administrative staff increased 500%.  So, let’s say there were a thousand administrators at the college in 1990.  That would mean that there were six thousand in 2022.  Think about that.  They must have had to build out the campus enormously just to provide desk space for that many new people.  And try to imagine how these non-teaching employees made learning better at this college.

Obviously, this is absurd.  During those thirty-two years automation has made all of these “administrators” worse than useless.  Whate they really are is a drain on society.  All they do is attach more mouths to the government trough that pays for all those enormous loans that colleges manufacture as their primary product.  So, most of the increase in college costs over the last thirty years has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of educating college students.  Certainly since 2020 a new component of this scam is the DEI infrastructure.  Whole wings of college buildings must be crammed with bureaucratic activists writing propaganda papers and issuing edicts to force ever more oppressive requirements on students and teachers to pay homage to the holy trinity of diversity, equity and inclusion.

What is wrong with this picture?

Well, it’s two-fold.  Most importantly, it’s eveil.  It’s harmful, toxic and stupid.  We’re damaging the students who are being propagandized with this stuff and we’re warping society with these lies.

But in the second place, we can’t afford this waste.  America is the most affluent society that has ever existed on the face of the Earth.  But we’ve drained the well dry.  Everywhere you look people are drowning in debt and can’t pay their bills.  And worst of all are all the college students and graduates staring at six figure student loan debt.  And a lot of them can’t find any jobs better than Starbuck’s barista and will have to move back into mom’s basement because rent just doubled.

And colleges aren’t the only bureaucracies staggering under the weight of administration inflation.  Federal, state, municipal and local bureaucracies are full of libraries, schools and other offices that have grown their own bureaucracies where expansion is a constant state and no one ever gets laid off.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have grown the bureaucracies with single-minded intent.  Every one of those administrators or whatever they call these civil servants vote Democrat, every time they can.  It’s not even a question.

Every red state governor should make it his highest priority to eliminate all of the DEI and other leftist headcount in all government agencies and especially in state colleges.  But if Trump gets back in the White House his first priority should be to drain the swamp.  And whereas the most strategic departments to empty out must be the Justice Department, FBI and CIA, nevertheless, right afterwards it behooves him to make a general purge of all the agencies that perform affirmative action and all the other DEI related damage.  And then if I were he, I’d write executive orders that would mandate colleges to bring their finances in line with a more reasonable overhead.  No more $50,000 or $100,000 a year tuition bills.  Tell them the government can only afford $10,000 a year.  I’ll bet there’ll be a whole lot of Associate Directors of DEI slinging coffee at Starbuck’s that next year.

So that’s my idea.

Gee, I Hope So

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H/T to Arthur.  But truly I hope they just keep pushing this stuff forever.  When cast and crew are always selected based on protected status it’s more or less guaranteed that no one will pay to see that work.  Then when someone finally provides actual entertainment the contrast will be startling.

Flagging Confidence

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Back in the bad old days every road project had its police detail to direct traffic and drink coffee.  This was back when unionized police were a Democrat constituency and providing them with perks like this kind of detail was a fringe benefit of the job.  And all things being equal a cop at one of these road restrictions meant that the drivers would pay attention.

But cops make a lot of money and as Democrats shifted their patronage priorities to illegal aliens and transgender grade school teachers it occurred to them that they could save a lot of money by letting the construction workers take care of the traffic by designating one or two “flag men.”  And for the most part this worked pretty well.  The workers probably divvied up the flag work to give themselves a break over the course of the day.  Since they had a handle on when to stop traffic for various phases of the work and since they were mostly capable human beings the traffic was handled relatively efficiently.

Recently I think flag man has been broken out as a separate job.  They seem to be assigning relatively stupid people to this assignment.  Now granted, it doesn’t take much to flip a sign around from STOP to SLOW.  But you do have to coordinate with another person and understand the risks involved.  And lately things haven’t been going as well.  Several times in the last few months I’ve happened upon a road work site where the flag man wasn’t even trying.  Once he held his sign on SLOW while the other sign read the same thing.  He was talking to one of the workers and not even looking at the road.  Luckily for me I was paying attention to the traffic coming from the other direction and anticipated.

I was thinking of saying something or reporting it to the state but then I realized.  Who am I kidding?  This was some diversity hire.  He wasn’t a construction worker he was a DEI check mark.  My complaint would be considered a hate crime.  The smart play would be to confirm the traffic flow myself from now on at one of these work sites.

But now we’ve reached the final stage of flag depreciation, flag girl.  Lately all the flag holders are women.  Now you might think that this doesn’t pose any additional risk.  After all there were several male flag holders that displayed extreme disregard for the safety of the drivers.  But women present a different challenge.  As I’ve learned from Camera Girl, women have a different spatial sense than men.  Back in the old days before GPS we used things called road maps to find our way along the American highway system.  And occasionally I would use Camera Girl as my map man on a trip.  Now she is a very intelligent woman.  But for some reason I could ask her which fork in the road I should take and after looking at the map she would say right and then point left!  This can be a terrifying and dangerous situation if there are only a few seconds to react.

So, imagine one of these flag girls standing there flipping this sign from STOP to SLOW or vice versa and the driving public at the mercy of her sense of direction and her feminine logic.  It’s enough to make you want to give up driving.

But soon artificial intelligence will save us.  Robots will take over this function and then we’ll really have something to worry about.  Well, whatever else they do I hope they put a beard on the robot just to be sure.  You can’t be too careful.