The hopelessly rotten state of post-American "education" - today's edition

This one bears noting and discussing because to gets to the core purpose of all education, regardless of field: the search for what is true.

The identity-politics jackboots have just obliterated that self-evident fact:

A course that will be taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges next year will teach students that “objectivity” and “meritocracy” are examples of “white mythologies” and “social constructs.”

“This course explores the history and ongoing manifestations of ‘white mythologies’ — long-standing, often implicit views about the place of White, male, Euro-American subjects as the norm against which the peoples of the world are to be understood and judged,” states the description for the class, which is titled “White Mythologies: Objectivity, Meritocracy, and Other Social Constructions.”

“Students will explore how systematic logics that position ‘the West’ and ‘whiteness’ as the ideal manifest through such social constructions as objectivity, meritocracy, and race, and as justifications for colonial interventions, slavery, and the subordination of women,” the description continues.

Lest you think this is an isolated instance, avail yourself of this:

As crazy as this story may sound, this is far from the first time that we’ve seen this kind of thinking on a college campus. In April of 2017, a group of students at Pomona College wrote a letter to the school’s outgoing president claiming that “the idea that there is a single truth . . . is a myth and white supremacy.” Also last year, a professor at Pennsylvania State University–Brandywine argued that “meritocracy” is a “whiteness ideology.” This year, two University of Denver professors claimed that scientific objectivity works to “spread whiteness ideology.”

Applying the term "Orwellian" to what the Left is doing these days becomes trite by virtue of the fact that all its machinations are Orwellian now. That said, this is 1984 on steroids. If there is no objective truth, guess who gets to assume the role of arbiter of what shall be believed. The overlords. There will be no toleration of objective truths such as that there are only two genders, or that the global climate is not in any kind of trouble.

It is very, very late in the day.