hi so today I wanted to read this
article written by Tony I'm not going to
try and read the last name because I
will probably butcher it it's one of the
very few times I've written an article
from a journalist in New York City where
I did not feel that immediate desire to
puke or take a shower afterwards so good
on you Tony you can follow her on
Twitter here I got the URL and this is
the article so the article is about how
a University of Ohio of Idaho students
can earn academic credit for
contributing to and writing feminist
blog posts they say that we cannot
pretend to be unbiased the blogs mission
statement declares so they're they're
they're biased and let's just read what
some of these articles are about so
students Khloe for instance wrote the
most recent post for the blog which
argued in favor of banning the Victoria
Secret ping tour bus Which sells
athletic and Leisure clothes from
vending on Campus Victoria Secret pink
bus should not be allowed on campus
because of their lack of inclusion she
suggested from their Styles prices and
advertising Victoria Secret markets for
a very specific clientele she went on to
question how a Company Catering to Rich
pretty white women helps further
society's acceptance and support of
positive body image and we've got other
other blog posts here about being single
on Valentine's Day so this this this
blog post on being single on Valentine's
Day uh is something that you can earn
college credit for yes write about your
experience being single on Valentine's
Day and that will actually get you
academic credit at a real University now
we could have a legitimate discussion on
whether or not V certain companies
should be allowed to advertise on campus
or whether or not you uh whether or not
you agree with them and fair enough and
we could also have a discussion on the
opinion on how Victoria Secret operates
as a company and fair enough you can be
an activist you can have your opinion
you can write for whatever blog you want
I am not against freedom of speech I am
not against freedom of expression but
but there are a couple of reasons that
I'm surprised that this is what you can
earn college credit for at a higher
learning institution the first is that
it's very ideologically driven and it
doesn't take a lot of effort to learn
this ideology you you could be lectured
to for half an hour to an hour and you
now have the framework within which you
need to classify everything in the world
through your ideology so it's goes
something like this find any subjective
or objective standard of quality
competence or beauty attack that
objective standard or subje of standard
of quality competence and Beauty as
something that is oppressive because
that there are many interpretations of
anything how dare you say that this is
what is beautiful or this is what is
competent then combine that with
identity group identity and talk about
how your group identity has less power
than the group identity that you
perceive as having more power and use
that as fuel to create conflict between
groups and identities based on Power and
also based on the attack on a hierarchy
of competence quality or beauty it's not
even about whether I agree or disagree
with a point or whether or not it's
worth a discussion as to whether or not
it provides value that Victoria Secret
can advertise on campus it's that the
ideology behind the article itself is
boring tried old and it just it reeks of
unoriginal thinking it reeks of someone
looking at an ideology and thinking how
can I apply this to everything in the
world you know we can have a discussion
over whether there should be other
lingerie companies that that U that
market to people who who are not you
know Picture Perfect models that have
had you know 5 hours of Photoshop put
into every single advertisement and all
right that's fair enough but we know
it's happening here this is essentially
just take ideology spray and prey and
attack everything based on that ideology
and you know we call that the whole
social justice Warrior thing and in 2018
it's really getting kind of boring
rewarding people for how well they're
able to box the worlds within the
confines and framework of a specific
ideology is not something that requires
a high level of critical thinking nor is
it something that in my opinion is going
to help someone be productive become
gainfully employed or start a business
it's not something that I would ever
expect to see at a higher learning
institution and the thing here about
this type of of of article as well is
it's also some in some sense a form of
activism that you may really agree with
and support or vehemently disagree with
and not want to support but the issue
with it being done for credit at a
university is that it doesn't matter if
you support it or not you're probably
funding it because universities in the
United States are heavily federally
funded as are the grants as are the
loans in addition to all the money that
colleges get for a number of other
things so if you're reading this and you
think wow I don't you know there's an
article on being single on Valentine's
Day I really don't think this is the
type of thing that people should be
getting college credit for well they are
and you're probably funding it and this
is where the problem sets in and this is
where the debate or at least the the the
temperature of the debate gets turned up
a lot and it becomes more and more
divisive and more and more of a hot
button issue because you're being forced
to fund something that is just in many
ways just not really something that
belongs in a in a Higher Learning
institution you know this is this is not
the type of thing that in my opinion is
going to help you get a job that is
going to solve problems in the world
that people are willing to pay for un I
I get maybe I could be wrong you know
it's going to help you start a YouTube
channel with a patreon talking about
taking down the patriarchy and all that
but maybe they are adopting maybe that's
a job these days you could you could
kind of turn down the temperature on
that debate by not forcing people to
fund these types of things and I got a
lot of flak for doing this video on
about free college is a lie where I was
talking about my opposition to college
being free which is not free meaning
funded by taxpayers at the expense of
that money going elsewhere and a lot of
people took that as me being
anti-education and that's a point of
contention for me since I am
pro-education I believe that everybody
that knows something that that that is
genuinely beneficial to society has a
responsibility to share that information
for the betterment of society which is
why I do all the work I do here and I'd
love to see more people do this type of
thing where if they have knowledge that
they think is beneficial to society find
a way to make it freely available to as
many people as you can I think education
is great the problem I have with
taxpayer funding of education is that
it's compulsory and anytime you you put
compulsory funding into something like
this you want you know once you take out
that market facing aspect of it where
there is no direct clamoring for Value
in exchange for money spent you get
stuff like college credit for writing
feminist blog posts protesting
Victoria's Secret and talking about
Valentine's Day and this is the problem
you know we are at a point where College
costs are ridiculous amount of money as
is and there is a lot about modern
college that is not good it's very easy
nowadays to go to college to spend four
years of your life there just not
withstanding the the money you go in
debt just the time that you spend there
the opportunity cost and come out of it
being less hirable than you were going
into it and that's a serious problem and
by giving more money to that inst tion
where they are less Market facing where
they're less directly liable to their
students to provide them value I don't
think that fixes anything and I think
stuff like this is worth pointing out
they offer workshops about how
masculinity is linked to violence they
let's see they recruited a student to
become a Body Revolution intern awarding
the student with an academic credit to
facilitate workshops that overthrow and
replace a stablish societal Norms about
body image a AKA body positivity so your
federal funding is going to universities
that are hosting workshops on and trying
to not just even talk about it but
overthrow and replace established
societal Norms I mean that that's
activism in a sense and you you're and
you're forced to fund it she's also got
a host of other great articles on
universities that offer free room and
board and we almost to some degree even
pay you to advance social justice and
diversity uh the inclusive language
campaign was launched in 2015 with
taxpayer
funds
um yeah just just just a bunch of good
interesting stuff to read if you're
interested in where your federal tax
dollars are going when it comes to
University and if you're debating
whether or not you could you should
spend that four years at University or
doing anything else to learn so I very
happy for people like Tony that put in
the work and effort to um shed a light
shed light on this type of stuff
so do let me know what you think in the
comments below do I have a point am I
full of it if so why and as always thank
you for watching and I hope you learn
something