Diversity Requirements Campaign (or how I became a Ben Shapiro fan)

[FMMLiberty]

I will begin with the question and provide the backstory.

The question is:

Given my background and the evidence I have, how can I embark on a campaign to spur students at my former college into demanding an end to their curriculum's corrupt diversity and ethnic studies requirements?

 

Now, time for a story.

Remember back in 2015 when Ben Shapiro went to go speak at a little college in Southern California named Cal-State LA, and a bunch of leftist bastards attacked the innocent students who wanted to hear him speak, barred the doors, and essentially deprived those innocent students of their 1st amendment rights? Well, those leftist bastards were my friends.

I'm Fernando. I attended Cal State LA (California State University - Los Angeles) from Aug. 2012 to Jun. 2014. In my first year there, I got involved with a group called "Students for Quality Education." If you were to walk along the campus "free speech zone" on any one afternoon during the school year, those guys handing out flyers about ostensibly fighting unjust tuition hikes will tell you that their organization (SQE) is all about organizing the student body to mobilize against overreach and graft at the administrative level of the university, and ensure student success by protesting unfair legislative and administrative initiatives that threaten the "quality of education," maybe even citing that teachers' teaching conditions are student learning conditions or some crap like that.

I believed this crap too, and I even spoke on behalf of SQE at a rally in 2013 when Old Moonbeam Gerry Brown decided to push his "unit cap" agenda onto the school system (in short, unit caps made it so that after a student took a certain amount of classes, if they didn't graduate, their tuition doubled because the state no longer subsidized it).

I gave a hilariously misunderstood speech about political manipulations of the student body to ransom tax money out of regular citizens, warning the citizens that they should not vote for any new taxes and instead sign our little petitions to tell their local representatives that they would be out of a job if they continued to support this budget, and it went RIGHT over every little leftist's head in the audience. One dipshit can even be heard squaking at the end, "We have to raise the property taaaaax!!!" Youtube:

Now, SQE is actually sponsored and paid for by the teachers' union, The California Faculty Association. They give the resources and the orders to SQE to mobilize the students towards a particular cause, and SQE follows their orders, but makes it seem like it's an independent group of students acting of their own accord. The California Faculty Association's chapter in Cal State LA is run by a set of professors (at least three of which are outspoken Cultural Marxists) who chair various departments in the university. https://www.calfac.org/los-angeles-executive-board

Now, let's direct our attention to one name on that list, Dr. Melina Abdullah.

Dr. Abdullah was the chair of the Pan African Studies department at CSULA. Dr. Abdullah is also an outspoken member (middle management) of Black Lives Matter.

Now, here's the budget for the Pan African Studies department For Year 2013-2014: (http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/default/files/groups/Budget Administration/2013_14/ye_vpaa.pdf) line 201750, $393,926 expended, $280,389 available.

At around this time, the unit cap proposal was long behind SQE, and orders came "from the top" (from the CSULA teacher's union run by this "lady") to begin a campaign to demand ethnic studies in higher education so as to assuage racial violence in our society (right out of a George Soros playbook). Dr. Abdullah rallied ALL of the on-campus activist organizations, among others, Black student organizations, SURGE (representing undocumented Hispanic students), the Muslim Student's Association, and of course, SQE as her administrators and enforcers. I sat at the meeting and listened to Dr. Abdullah rant about racial violence, apathy, and then I heard her say something extremely significant.

She mentioned that the university administration was thinking of cutting the Pan African studies department because it had more teachers than students in the major.

For reference, here are the university's demographics: https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/california-state-university-los-angeles/student-life/diversity/

So, in short, Dr. Abdullah (and I have no problem publicly charging her with this) mobilized on-campus student groups as brown-shirts to foment a false narrative of racial injustice among the student body and the university administration so as to guarantee her own job security by facilitate a vote imposing a requirement on CSULA students that, among other diversity requirements, each student is required to take an ethnic studies course specifically within an ethnic studies department in order to be able to graduate from college.

This is significant because such legislation would guarantee her job in the face of an administration who would be seeking to eliminate it due to its redundancy.

At this point, I distanced myself from the organization because I personally was against the movement. Imposing even more requirements on already overburdened students did not strike me as activities protecting the quality of student education However, they were still my friends (and I was still misguided), so I didn't stand up against them.

When Ben Shapiro was invited on campus, it was this very "ethnic studies coalition," my old friends and colleagues, who were ordered by Dr. Abdullah and her ilk to attack innocent students and publicly shame and excoriate anyone who dared attempt to attend Shapiro's lecture. http://abc7.com/news/ben-shapiro-escorted-from-csula-due-to-angry-protesters/1219358/

I publicly disavowed my former colleagues' actions on facebook (I had already graduated a year prior) and told them that their actions were not helping race relations, but rather destroying 1st amendment protections for students whose interests they ostensibly claimed to protect. Not only that, I publicly called them out for outright attacking innocent students whom they, again, ostensibly claimed to be advocating for!

What was the reaction? I was called a privileged scumbag with my blue eyes and light skin, and I had no right to relay to these exalted people of color any perspective on their experience (this is basically verbatim). At that point, I cut ties.

And about the ethnic studies requirements that got passed in June of 2014? What was the effect? Here is the CSULA budget for the next two fiscal years:

2014-2015: http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/default/files/groups/Budget Administration/2014_15/ye_vpaa.pdf Line 201750, $619,419 expended, $425,912 available
2015-2016: http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/default/files/groups/Budget Administration/2015_16/ye1516_aa.pdf Line 201750, $819,767 expended, $95,374 available (I guess there was a cut!)

As one can see, my friends who sold their souls, and those innocents who bled in their indignity, the reason they suffered was primarily for Dr. Abdullah's job security. And given that her budget is almost running dry, it might just be time for another rush of "racial awareness campaigns."


 Not on my watch.

 

I felt horrible being impotent in my unemployed depression while witnessing this going on. Now, with resources at my disposal, I feel like I can do something about it. It's too late to expose Dr. Abdullah; she's too powerful and the university too far invested in her scheme for any exposure to have an effect other than empty virtue signalling. But I don't think it's ever too late to take down the diversity requirements and to expose the truth behind them.

Our country is no more racially united than it was before these stupid requirements. We don't see these leftist bastards cheering about how their campaigns are bringing about racial unity. In fact, they claim the opposite, that race relations are worsening, and thus their presence and activities are ergo ever more necessary.

I want to stand up and do something to put my old colleagues in their place, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

Maybe some of you have some ideas as to how to do this? I've e-mailed this to Ben Shapiro and received no response (probably because his show and his inbox are WAY bigger than this one incident ), but any ideas are appreciated.

Reference: CSULA Budgets (https://www.calstatela.edu/budget/year-end-reports) - check under "academic affairs"

 

Edited December 14, 2017 by FMMLiberty
Grammer, typographical errors, etc. - Sorry I keep editing! Added a sentence to clarify linke between SQE and CFA

[barn]

Hi @FMMLiberty

<In essence, due to reasons I rather not go into(here), forgive me for thinking it's not the right time to act in this matter, yourself. Or that (in my opinion) it's a higher than other routes when ROi is taken into consideration. Again, sorry for not getting into clarifiers and descriptors.>

However. If you did take the route, or for others who weren't familiar with the concept of...

About contacting Ben Shapiro:

Frigyes Karinthy popularised/came up with(don't remember) an idea called something like '5 degrees of separation'. In short, I'm sure you have heard the theoretical possibility of being able to 'reach' any individual through 5 other people. 'Friend of a friend..'

You could build towards a final goal being (having heard out) in contact with him and approach individuals whom are increasingly likely to be part of the 'chain of degrees' between you and him. While you also utilise all and any opportunities for trying to contact him, always with a 'clear ask, transparent motives'. Ultimately it will be down to incentives I guess but who knows.

Barnsley