Higher education has basically been supplanted by leftist activism.

The College Fix reports.

Wesleyan activists demand microaggression-reporting system, ‘mandatory social justice workshops’

Wesleyan University protesters want the school to create an anonymous system for students to report incidents of “bias, including microaggressions, perpetrated by faculty and staff.”

It’s among five demands that the group handed to Wesleyan President Michael Roth after marching through campus to his office Wednesday.

The group, which says it represents “students of color,” calls itself “Is This Why?” That’s a reference to Wesleyan’s current alumni fundraising drive, “This Is Why.”

Like his New England colleague Carolyn Martin at Amherst College, Roth didn’t answer the specific demands of protesters but said he shares their “major goals.”

Reaction to the protesters and their demands on Wesleyan’s Yik Yak page was all over the map, with some commenters wondering how the school would judge a “microaggression” and whether professors could be retaliated against for giving out poor grades.

That fear is very real among faculty, according to a state college professor who wrote in Vox this summer that his “liberal students terrify me.”

‘Mandatory Social Justice Workshops’

Is This Why’s demands start with a vague plea to be “holistically included” and not used to simply fill Wesleyan’s “diversity quota,” but they get more specific from there.

They demanded Roth and other officials apologize for “perpetuating the vilification of students of color,” failing to “reach out” to them when The Wesleyan Argus published a controversial op-ed with a racial theme, and staying silent when “international tragedies occur outside of Europe,” such as November’s terrorist attack in Lebanon.


 
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