{"id":1463234,"date":"2022-05-04T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1463234"},"modified":"2022-05-04T08:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T12:01:29","slug":"catholic-college-reacts-hysterically-to-hillsdale-professors-presentation-on-racial-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-college-reacts-hysterically-to-hillsdale-professors-presentation-on-racial-hysteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic College Reacts Hysterically To Hillsdale Professor\u2019s Presentation On \u2018Racial Hysteria\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcatholic-college-reacts-hysterically-to-hillsdale-professors-presentation-on-racial-hysteria%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1463234&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/4887790197_031e45f48c_k.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Cross off another place for students to hear views outside of the usual oppression and grievance studies fare. A paper presented earlier this month at the conference of the independently funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stvincent.edu\/academics\/academic-centers\/the-center-for-political-and-economic-thought.html\">Center for Political and Economic Thought<\/a> on the campus of the first American college of the Catholic order of Benedictines, St. Vincent College in idyllic Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has resulted in a censorship order by the college president.<\/p>\n<p>The center, according to the website, is an \u201cinterdisciplinary public affairs institution of Saint Vincent College,\u201d which \u201csponsors research and education programs, primarily in the fields of politics, economics and moral-cultural affairs\u201d in order \u201cto advance scholarship on philosophical and policy concerns related to freedom and Western civilization with particular regard to the American experience.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ironic, for the presentation that led to the censorship order was precisely about \u201cfreedom and Western civilization with particular regard to the American experience.\u201d Titled \u201cBlack Privilege and Racial Hysteria in America,\u201d it highlighted the dangers posed to it.<\/p>\n<p>Watching this presentation by Hillsdale College professor of povernment David Azerrad on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RFAUeZZQ0vo&#038;list=PLhYf_udPMpwyT6HUDD-vxjnC75diQVdpw&#038;index=6\">video<\/a>, I was reminded of participating in the same conference in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theahi.org\/ahis-grabar-participates-in-diversity-conformity-and-conscience-in-contemporary-america-conference-at-saint-vincent-college\/\">2015<\/a>, when I presented my paper on the black libertarian journalist George Schuyler to an audience of students, faculty, and community members and enjoyed the collegial exchange too rare in academia these days.<\/p>\n<p>But the biennial events at St. Vincent seem to be in danger from a kind of panic, which ironically fit the theme of this year\u2019s post-Covid conference, \u201cPanic, Policy, and Politics,\u201d as evidenced by a quickly issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stvincent.edu\/news\/2022\/statement-regarding-cpet-conference-speaker.html\">statement<\/a> of apology. The talk by Azerrad, who was born in Canada, was an exposition of the double racial standards afflicting America today and a plea to preserve the qualities that make America exceptional and great: equal treatment under the law and reward by merit.<\/p>\n<p>Azerrad\u2019s examples, such as the exaggeration of black accomplishments (commonly in lessons about George Washington Carver), prohibitions against uttering the \u201cn\u201d word by white people only, the capitalization of black and not white, hundreds of points awarded for race in college admissions (resulting in high dropout rates), much harsher punishments meted to January 6 protestors than George Floyd rioters, and the disparities in crime rates and media coverage\u00a0 (Dylann Roof versus the forgotten black driver who mowed down white participants in a Milwaukee Christmas parade), ruffled some students.<\/p>\n<p>But in answering questions, Azerrad went to great pains to point out that he acknowledged the injustice of the past. No students behaved uncivilly (unlike the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/allen-west-radical-mob-kilmeade-buffalo-college-protesters\">Allen West<\/a> event at the University of Buffalo) and the conference went on. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, as one of the conference participants, Keith Whitaker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindingthecampus.org\/2022\/04\/20\/winged-words\/\">explained<\/a> at Minding the Campus, \u201cIn contrast to the \u2018grown-ups\u2019 at St. Vincent, the students who attended the lecture were not panicked. Some of those \u2018in real life\u2019 calmly shared their hurt, resentment, and (frankly) their misunderstanding of the argument. (And Prof. Azerrad calmly answered them).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stvincentreview.com\/post\/uniting-all-people-club-a-conversation\">St. Vincent<\/a> College President Father Paul Taylor, however, who had followed the herd of college presidents in issuing statements about Floyd, even after the dean\u2019s apology accused Azerrad of making \u201churtful and divisive\u201d statements and \u201cdiminish[ing] the accomplishments of American Black leaders.\u201d He sent out an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stvincent.edu\/news\/2022\/saint-vincent-announces-policy-structural-changes-to-ensure-benedictine-principles-upheld.html\">announcement<\/a> stating that henceforth all prospective speakers and topics would have to be submitted to the college for approval.<\/p>\n<p>Events following the conference further affirmed Azerrad\u2019s warnings. Another black man steeped in anti-white hate, Frank James, is a suspect in the recent mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway. Police departments and mainstream media declined to describe James\u2019s race when he was a person of interest, part of a\u00a0trend, as documented in a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/yes-the-media-bury-the-race-of-murderers-if-theyre-not-white\/\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a> study.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the conference\u2019s theme was \u201cDiversity, Conformity, and Conscience in Contemporary America.\u201d I commented on the form of \u201cdiversity\u201d in Schuyler\u2019s time, which he called \u201chokum,\u201d one of his favorite words. A monk in the audience pointed out to me the anti-Christian origins of the word. Although I felt a twinge of guilt, I was grateful for the additional knowledge. Such exchanges are needed.<\/p>\n<p>Conference papers are published and placed in the library for future use. My paper appears in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Diversity-Conformity-Conscience-Contemporary-America\/dp\/1498588832\">volume<\/a> with the title of the conference. Schuyler has been \u201cdisappeared,\u201d I pointed out, and falsely portrayed as an \u201caccommodationist\u201d and worse. But he saw patronization as a form of racism. In his 1927 essay, \u201cOur White Folks,\u201d he blasted \u201cwhite folks\u201d who think of blacks as \u201cchildish, shiftless, immoral, primitive\u201d and \u201cincapable of self-government or self-restraint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is this what President Taylor thinks?<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Mary Grabar, the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fake-History-Generation-Against-America\/dp\/1621577732\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=&#038;sr=\">Debunking Howard Zinn<\/a>,&#8221; earned her PhD from the University of Georgia and taught college English for 20 years. She is now a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. She is also author of the forthcoming &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnery.com\/9781684511778\/debunking-the-1619-project\/\">Debunking The 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America<\/a>&#8221; (Regnery, September 7, 2021). Her writing can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentprof.com\/\">DissidentProf.com<\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marygrabar.com\/\">marygrabar.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross off another place for students to hear views outside of the usual oppression and grievance studies fare. 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