(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Deceitful, irresponsible and remorseless “wealthy white men” constitute the socio-demographic group most likely to repeatedly violate the rights of others, including to the point of violence.
That was the “correct” answer in one section of a now-retracted, multiple-choice quiz reportedly given to the University of Texas at Austin students that posed a question about diagnosing antisocial personality disorder.
Middle-class Latino families, Asian men of all economic groups and female dentists were the obviously incorrect answers on the test question in Prof. Kirsten Bradbury’s Personality Psychology course.
Dr. Bradbury — who was named as an outstanding teacher in 2017 by the University of Texas Board of Regents — kind of gave the game away because the question included this hint that the culpable group holds “the most social power and because of that can get away with the most wrongdoing.”
The question also claimed that antisocial personality disorder has been applied in a racist and sexist manner and acknowledged that “neither race nor gender is determinative.”
This professor denigrated millions of Americans.https://t.co/OQNDdCHTsp
— The College Fix (@CollegeFix) April 19, 2023
According to the syllabus, the Personality Psychology class requires no real-time sessions; all the lectures are available on video on demand. In terms of academic rigor, quizzes are open book and writing assignments are self-graded.
The Washington Free Beacon reported that the entire quiz has apparently since been withdrawn because it has perhaps suddenly become outdated.
“After distributing the quiz to students, Bradbury…then backtracked, telling students that ‘given the current rate of sociocultural and scientific change’ the quiz had ‘grown too stale to use,'” the outlet wrote. “She did not indicate what scientific changes had rendered the quiz obsolete or what scientific research had at one point served as the basis for the question.”
The syllabus also includes a diversity statement in which the professor pledges to create “a learning environment that is safe and supportive of the identities and perspectives of all marginalized or minoritized people,” and to use students’ desired pronouns.
Bradbury, who earned a PhD in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech, has apparently not responded as yet to requests from media outlets for comment on the test question.
UT Austin Dean Ann Huff Stevens, however, told the Daily Caller that “The College of Liberal Arts is committed to the principles of equality and anti-discrimination in all of its teaching, and as such takes this potential violation of those principles seriously. We are following university policy when it comes to issues of potential discrimination. The material in question has been removed.”
This news item appears to be yet another example of the Left politicizing everything, a phenomenon hardly found only in institutions of higher learning, the latter venues where indoctrination has often replaced education.
In such situations generally, the irony is that self-described anti-racists often promote bigotry, while diversity and inclusion advocates typically demand conformity and exclusion.
The medical school at UT Austin was named as one of the Texas defendants that America First Legal sued in January over sex and race preferences in the admissions process.
