Irony State: College Diversity Officer Placed on Leave for Expressing Opinion

Thanks for picking up on this story.  The Wash Post buried the story deep in today’s Metro section, oddly at the bottom of the Federal Worker page.  It looks like the homosexual lobby got hold of the names on the submitting petitions, and sifted them, looking for folks to retaliate against for signing in the first place.  The teaching here would be that if you don’t support gay rights, you don’t deserve a job. 

The school has acknowledged that there is no university policy against political participation.  Indeed, in the days of a much tougher Hatch Act, there was never a prohibition on federal employees in signing a political petition. 

This is a horrible story, and the “Marriage Equality” group here in Maryland has recognized that, and has already called for Dr. McCaskill’s reinstatement.  She is a deaf African American, with a distinguished career, many years at Gallaudet, and should never have been subjected to this abuse.

Don’t administrators consider the possible blow back on decisions like this? T. Alan Hurwitz should be fired.

First they came for the white people, and I did not speak out because I’m not white.

Then they came for the men, and I did not speak out because I’m not a man.

Then they came for the conservatives, and I did not speak out because I’m not a conservative.

Then they came for the evangelicals, and I did not speak out because I’m not an evangelical.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not speak out because I’m not a Catholic.

Then they came for the African-American women with disabilities who believe in traditional marriage, and I found out there was no one left to speak out for me. . . .

Theh McCarthy black list is back.

Academic diversity officers pretty much owe their existence to silly, academic, clued out political correctness.  Their job is to convince everyone that their school is more on board the liberal political agenda than anyone else.  Understand that - academic diversity officers are first and foremost PR spinmeisters, whose job it is to convince everyone that affirmative action defined very broadly (i.e. includes not only racial minorities but “sexual minorities” as well) is alive and well, good for us, and that their school is doing more to aid and abet this group than others.

But understand this, and understand it well - “diversity” refers to non-white ethnicities, non-Christian religions, non-heterosexual sexual “minorities”, and non-conservative intellectual perspectives.  Real diversity is most unwelcome.

Re diversity - and this is off-thread =

I attended Chapel Hill in the 1960s, and we took a campus ballot on the 1964 Johnson/Goldwater election, and it came out something like 55/45 Johnson.  And we were a crowd of small-town, medium town, largely male, largely white undergrads.

Now my nephew attended an expensive upscale private school in southern California (Pomona), and when I visited, he bragged that its student body voted “over 95 percent” for Obama. 

Where is the diversity?

Evidently some advocates of “diversity” and “tolerance” believe in practicing neither if you don’t agree with them.

Her problem was the mistaken belief that she was hired as a diversity officer.  She was actually supposed to be the Chief Liberal Agenda Officer, and ran afoul of the requirements of that position.

Academic freedom, we don’t need no academic freedom….for conservatives.

This study says it all.  Diversity doesn’t really mean diversity.

Precisely, #8 and #9.  As Tom Sowell acidly puts it, diversity means conformity of though hiding behind superficial differences.

Well, now. 

“She signed a petition to put gay marriage referendum on the ballot.”

ANGELA MCCASKILL WAS SUSPENDED BECAUSE SHE SIGNED AN ANTI-GAY PETITION AFTER LISTENING TO AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE SERMON AT HER CHURCH.

Just so you know.