Glen Loury Critical Race Theory: “Criminal” By James Reed
Ivy League, which always reminds me of poison ivy, Professor Glenn Loury, who just happens to be Black, has given both barrels to the teaching of identity politics at university, seeing it as a criminal derelict of the duty to encourage rational conceptions of the self. People become identified with their race, or genitalia, which is self-limiting of the highest degree. Good to see the Left cop it from the good prof.
“During his latest show, Glenn Loury, an Ivy League economics professor and host of video blog The Glenn Show, blasted the teaching of identity politics in higher education, calling it a “criminal abdication of our pedagogic responsibilities,” while asserting a teacher’s responsibility is to challenge students’ preconceptions about themselves.
Loury was talking to John McWhorter, an author and linguistics professor at Columbia University, on Tuesday when he began discussing the issue of identity politics in American higher education.
“To teach young people that they are this [the color of their skin] is criminal in my opinion,” he stated.
“We’re to challenge them!” he exclaimed.
Loury lamented that students present themselves by the nature of their skin or sexual preference.
“They [students] come in telling me that they’re this [the color of their skin] or that they’re their genitalia,” he said. “That’s how they get to me at 18 years old. They think they are these things.”
The professor also criticized the lack of knowledge on behalf of those presenting themselves as such.
“They haven’t read anything,” he said. “They haven’t been anywhere. They haven’t done anything.”
Loury then expressed what he believes are his duties as an educator.
“I’m a teacher,” he said. “My job is not to reaffirm them in their preconceptions. It’s to challenge them to outgrow them — their preconceptions.”
Emphasizing the “pedagogic trust” accorded to educators, Loury blasts the failure to challenge students.
“We’re entrusted to shepherd young minds into their maturity,” he said.
“To jump on a bandwagon and to fill their heads with slogans rather than challenge them with the best that human beings of any color have thought through the ages, is a criminal abdication,” he cautioned.
After the segment was aired, many prominent figures on Twitter expressed support for Loury.
“Want to know what truth sounds like? Take a listen to this,” political commentator and YouTube personality Dave Rubin wrote.
“Glenn, would love to have you on the show…,” he added.
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