Because they must yearn for the days when one’s race was the primary factor in determining one’s success in life, the folks at Barnard College announced they’re now using “skin color” to determine who they hire.

Discriminating against someone based on race has been illegal – and widely recognized as pretty immoral – for decades now, but the all-women’s liberal college in New York City doesn’t see it that way. From their perspective, there are “demonstrated benefits” of hiring “non-white” teachers over plain ol’ white ones.

The College Fix reports that after one year of deliberation, the college’s “Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion” has released a set of recommendations with the purpose of improving “representation, inclusion and social justice” in the classroom and on campus.

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This kind of nonsense is so backward in its thinking, it’s mind-boggling. That we are going to revert to using skin color to determine whether or not someone can get a job is just insanity.

But that’s liberal arts colleges these days. They think it’s great … in their words, it will “focus on developing cultural competence with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, class, disability, sexuality, religion, and intersectionality.”

This will “create a shared understanding of the distinctive challenges facing … historically underrepresented groups,” according to the document. It’s not clear how Barnard plans to enforce workshop attendance; the task force only says everyone “will be expected to participate.”

Mandatory cultural sensitivity training, race-based hiring, and a focus away from academics and on teaching students “diversity” and “social justice.” These are the leaders of the future.

Their plan – laughably – is to hire ten extra faculty – presumably all “people of color” out of the current 358 faculty members. That doesn’t seem like it will make a dent in whatever numbers they’re trying to change.

A newly funded “Center for Academic Success and Excellence” would extend the work of an office that focuses on “students of color, first generation and low-income students,” though anecdotally the office serves almost exclusively people of color.

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All of this is so expensive, the school is going to have to hold a fundraiser to make up the money to pay for it all.

Barnard already has a social justice workshop, a “resource room” for people who want to mingle with like-minded leftist nitwits, complete with soft couches and hot tea.

So yeah … there’s another school not to send your kid to.





