31 Replies to “The New Normal: Kangaroo Courts”

    1. This entire mess we are experiencing now is the result of a Marxist/Jihadi alliance. If allowed to succeed, it will result in new ghettos, similar to the No-Go-Banlieus of France, where the only law that exists will be Shariah. Even if it doesn’t succeed, it will become rather bloody before things finally return to something resembling “normal.”

      And if it does succeed, the Marxists will have a very sad awakening, when they discover that their Jihadi partners only wanted them as disposable tools. Islam can only coexist with Islam (and even that is a strained relationship at times), and they do truly intend to dominate the world.

    2. What I don’t understand is why the grown-ups go along with this. Why doesn’t the “administration” just tell the students to bugger off; and if they don’t like it, go somewhere else?

      1. The administration is worried about them being next. Better to give into the mob now and stay safe.

  2. That Black Committee sounds like Systematic Racism…..are they really Whites under the hoods, or just Caribbean Black’s looking for opportunities….

    1. “or just Caribbean Black’s looking for opportunities”

      What is interesting about affirmative action is a lot of schools find their diversity overseas because so few US blacks can keep up.

  3. This is why they allowed & promoted “Black Colleges” in the first place.

    Some smart people are slow learners. But I’m good with it, this will eventually kill the overrated Diplomas coming out of these places, and collapse their entire system faster than CHAZ.

  4. Colour charts left over from Apartheid in South Africa would be helpful here, perhaps they could ship them in bulk for all the colleges?

  5. I had to put up with garbage like that while I was teaching at Armpit College.

    When I started there, there were two sets of student evaluations. The one most commonly used were meant to provide comments to the individual instructor. Those were anonymous. The results were supposed to be kept confidential, but we all knew that was baloney.

    There was, however, a second one and those were only initiated by the department head. They were meant to be used in case there was an issue between instructor and students but the catch was that the students had to sign them.

    But, with time, the kiddies thought that they deserved a say in whether an instructor should be allowed to keep his or her job, but we all knew why they demanded that.

    When I started, the institution’s administration was largely comprised of long-time staff, people who, themselves, had taught there and who had an understanding of what the graduates would eventually deal with in the workplace. However, during that same time, many of those administrators retired or quit and were placed by professional educationists who tended to listen to the students. After all, the kiddies were our “customers”.

    Eventually, the second type of student evaluation was abolished and the other one was used as part of one’s performance appraisal. That meant that if a department head had an axe to grind against an instructor, the student comments would and were used to justify persecuting that person. In other words, if the students simply didn’t like someone, the institution would have thought nothing of giving that instructor the boot.

    My colleagues could be separated into 2 groups: lifers and short-timers. The lifers were tended to be there for more than 10 years and intended to retire from the place. Most of them simply went along with whatever happened, being content with a steady paycheque, even if it meant putting up with abuse from the students.

    Short-timers, though, usually left within roughly 5 years. Many got tired of the idiocy of the place and quit to do something else. One, who I knew from our previous employer, left to start his own company. But the short-timers saw what went on there and they didn’t want to stick around for very long.

    When I read about stuff like what’s described in the article, I’m glad I quit my teaching job when I did.

    1. I love your comment about professional educators. Most of my university professors in the early 1970’s had NEVER worked in the real world. The 2 who had and continued to do so as they worked part -time were invaluable. My real life work experiences did not reflect what I was told in my classes. As well, the professors in the Interior Design Department of the Faculty of Architecture had very unrealistic ideas about financial renumeration in the real world. I did learn from them, but took the 4 years of study as foundational and learned so much more (especially about the business side of interior design) during my first 5 years of work.

    2. There was the old saying, too often true, that those who could not “do” ended up teaching. I think we might add to it that those who cannot teach become university administrators.

      1. Some wag made exactly that same comment many years ago.

        One reason why people I knew at my institution went into administration was a sense that they can “do something” and make policy. More likely, it’s because there’s less teaching required (if any) and the money’s a lot better. And, no, they often weren’t particularly good at their new jobs.

        One departmental administrator took advantage of his position to dump work that he didn’t want to do on the desks of subordinates for no other reason than he was simply lazy. One instance when he couldn’t do that was when he had to sign forms that needed departmental authorization. That shiftless twit moaned and groaned every time he had to do that.

    3. As I mentioned earlier, one of the problems at my former employer was that many of the senior administrators were, as I called them, professional educationists.

      Many might have studied educational administration or educational psychology, but they probably didn’t understand that what I was teaching and how I was teaching it was in the best interest of the students. I often joked with my students that if they thought I was a tough SOB, they were in for a big fat surprise when they started working for a living as I had bosses that made me seem like a wimp in comparison.

      Those administrators were more interested in coddling the students, partly because they believed the kiddies were fragile porcelain figurines that needed nothing but TLC. But there was another side to that.

      Many, I’m sure, were graduates from what some wag dubbed the Seagull School of Management. Seagulls have the reputation of flying into a location, making a mess of things, and then flying off. Similarly, those administrators would flit from one 5-year contract gig to another, throwing monkey wrenches into the works, and then taking off and leaving a catastrophe that those who are staying have to clean up.

      Situations like the student-led kangaroo courts or, as I mentioned earlier, the push for them to have a say on whether an instructor or professor should be fired can’t be resolved quickly, often taking years to change the system accordingly. The seagull administrators can’t be bothered with taking so much time, let alone doing a proper job in fixing things, so they either let the issue slide, dump it on someone else’s desk, or take the easy way out by giving the kiddies whatever they want. The latter is preferred as it’s less of a burden for them.

      That last comment was no joke. I once shared an office with a retired department head who came back under contract to top up the retirement fund that he had from the institution. He told me that during his final years as a head, he didn’t want any hassles, so he tried to create the illusion of peacefulness and calm, at least until he got out. After that, he didn’t care what happened.

      Whenever I hear about situations like what’s described in the article, I ask myself what’s actually going on in the background. I’m sure that some administrator in the system has something to do with it.

  7. “Racial bias, or excessive force”

    Well we’ve already seen “excessive force” defined. It is when a UCLA Prof. insists his students sit for a test … even though they’re “upset” by another black criminal being harmed by the police.

  8. What is systematic in CANADA is the lack of competent leadership & the Conflict of Interest that Group control represents.. It’s a attitude of “don’t give a Dam” racism by the other 90%

    The Native issues ONLY have Native members on the Committees… The REST Of Canada has no representation except a weak Government Minister. The deck is stacked against wisdom
    1. The Residential Schools inquiry had NO input from Indian Affair officials that had documentary first hand Knowledge of Indian Band issues @ the time… Every few Indians had first-hand Knowledge, most where 2 Generations removed…Grand-son ETC…. It was a Gong show for CBC melon heads… Let the Indians screw themselves & become bigger & more despicable leeches…..

    2. Schools! Why are the employees in charge of themselves… The conflict is glaring…even the Trusties are dominated by retired teachers….Outside eyes always find a better solution and the employer needs to stand up & be Counted… Wasted Money & Wasted degrees

    The number of Canadian society issues controlled by the incompetent, is Systematically dysfunctional

    1. may I ask a simple question who did the Canadian Federal Government pay the awarded cash to and how did they examine the applications for cash. Was it A the individuals B the lawyers especially in Sask or C the Indian Brotherhood in Ontario? I have read various opinions on the ‘net. One native leader locally told me there are a lot of grannies who are going to get their arms broken If they do not hand it over to the band offices. this was in the weeks before the issuing of cheques

    1. Yup… and being the “trained Marxists” that they are (and more likely Leninists), they will end up lynching black people for being insufficiently supportive of their revolutionary agenda.

      There will be blood in the streets before it is over, and it won’t just be inner-city gang-on-gang violence.

  11. We’ve had kangaroo courts for a long time now. Trudeau’s charter and human rights committees saw to that.

  12. Methinks that most of these profs have been happily supporting this type of thinking for a long time. They just couldn’t imagine that they would one day be its victims.

    1. felis, if they read history, they would know that the like of hitler and stalin stated cleansing inside the tent, and not out side it. They did so because out side the tent is known, but one can not predict when some one inside turns, so they are more dangerous!

      1. Most of them probably did not read history, at least not history unfiltered through a “critical studies” lens. They therefore had no way of knowing that the crocodile they were feeding was actually waiting to dine on them.

  14. University Lives Don’t Matter.

    Defund all non-STEM university departments.

  15. More over excitement at SDA. Can’t happen or at least it can’t stand.
    When a real District >Appeals Court gets hold of such nonsense the damage’s dollars will be quick and easy.

  16. It sounds like a Committee of Public Safety but the name should be “Robespierre” not “Pitt”.

  18. BLM wants to burn down society because it is all a setup for white supremacy.
    BLM also wants reparations.
    My idea for reparations is that those who want can opt in. They get a one way ticket to the African country of their choice as well as enough money to buy an average home in that country.
    I think it would be a savings for the federal government in the long run.

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