Dalhousie U Restricting Job Search to Minorities

[Anonymous]

If I hear another white snowflake talk out their ass about white privilege in this country again I am going to punch them in the face. Applicant must not be of European descent and must support the muzzling of anyone who questions 'white fragility'





HALIFAX — Dalhousie university says its search for a new senior administrator will be restricted to "racially visible" and Indigenous candidates, part of its efforts to increase underrepresented groups on the Halifax campus.



In a memo to the university community, provost and vice-president academic Carolyn Watters says the search for a new vice-provost of student affairs is in line with the principles of dalhousie's employment

equity policy.



she says the university has retained an executive search firm to oversee the hiring process and conduct consultations with the university community through confidential questionnaires.



The search comes after incumbent arig al shaibah announced she would be leaving the university at the end of March.



She became the public face of the university's high-profile decision to [size=200]take disciplinary action against a student leader last fall who criticized "white fragility."[/size]



The situation sparked debate about free speech, inclusion and equity on campus and eventually led al shaibah to acknowledge that the university's code of conduct may not place two core institutional values — freedom of speech and the prevention of demeaning and intimidating behaviour — in sufficient and proper context.

[Anonymous]

How can they get away with this.

[Wazzzup]

Isn't this against Canadian law?

[Anonymous]

It's supposed to be Wazzzup.



Canadian Human Rights Act



PART I

Proscribed Discrimination

General

Marginal note:Prohibited grounds of discrimination

3 (1) For all purposes of this Act, the prohibited grounds of discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability and conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered.



Employment

7 It is a discriminatory practice, directly or indirectly,



(a) to refuse to employ or continue to employ any individual, or



(b) in the course of employment, to differentiate adversely in relation to an employee,



on a prohibited ground of discrimination.





Marginal note:Employment applications, advertisements

8 It is a discriminatory practice



(a) to use or circulate any form of application for employment, or



(b) in connection with employment or prospective employment, to publish any advertisement or to make any written or oral inquiry



that expresses or implies any limitation, specification or preference based on a prohibited group

[Anonymous]

Dalhousie didn't learn it's lesson from it's outgoing t vice provost of student affairs Arig Al Shaibah

If there is a God, pray that "Ze" — as in a gender-neutral deity — will look after the poor young souls who are having the misfortune of graduating today from our universities and colleges.



They appear to be a doomed lot.



They are not taught how to think, but how to obey. They are not taught how to argue, but how to acquiesce.



The latest disgrace, and it is simply another blatant surrender to political correctness in the post secondary world, comes courtesy of Dalhousie university in Halifax where merit and superiority have been kicked to the curb for the sake of public image.



The university has taken Justin Trudeau's line that "diversity is our strength" and has turned it into a cause to celebrate discrimination.



What the university will get as a result is anyone's guess.



This institute of higher learning, once a bright light, is in search of a new vice provost of student affairs, but the university will not make its choice based on merit or on the strength of curriculum vitae, but on the colour of the applicant's skin.



White Men Need Not apply is so old-school, and so now are White Women, even though the glass ceiling still exists.



No, at Dalhousie university, only those who are "racially visible" or "Indigenous" will be considered for this senior administrative post, meaning all white people need not apply.



and, if you are black, you'd best be visibly black and not too light-skinned, one presumes, by the university's "racially visible" yardstick.



Nor would an Indigenous candidate, one supposes, unless he or she had some physical characteristic that suggests First Nations.



That being the case, the majority of Mohawk academics would likely not make the cut either for not being dark-skinned enough to be sure-fired First Nations, as in First Nations beyond the shadow of a doubt.



As for a clearly Indigenous surname? Who knows?



It could be the ticket. The incumbent vice provost of student affairs at Dalhousie, Arig Al Shaibah — now there's a name that signals non-white — is leaving the university in March, hence a search for her replacement.



Folks who follow the increasingly bizarre world of university political correctness may remember her.



She led the charge last year in taking disciplinary action against a student, Masuma Khan, who also happened to be vice-president of the student union, who took to her Facebook page in the summer to post her frustrations and take a shot at Canada 150 celebrations.



"White fragility can kiss my a--," she wrote following her union's vote not to participate in the celebrations, and the backlash she received for the union's decision. "your white tears aren't sacred, this land is."



This had Shaibah going off the rails and launching disciplinary action against Khan and demanding, at the very least, that she get counselling and write a reflective essay on the alleged error of her ways. Counselling? WTF?



The university's heavyhandedness ended up having it taking a lot of heat from the public, and Arig Al Shaibah rightfully becoming the face of a university that took its political correctness a little too seriously.



The result, of course, was the university caving in, and withdrawing its disciplinary action against Masuma Khan — admitting it may have trampled on the right to freedom of speech by taking such a harsh stand.



This, of course, is an understatement.



One would think that Dalhousie would have learned its lesson over pushing political correctness again to the point of absurdity. but obviously not.



Now it wants only a "racially visible" person — or someone clearly "Indigenous" — to replace the outgoing rig Arig Aj Shaibah.



Live but don't learn. Now there's a motto to embrace.

[Anonymous]

This is not the first time Dalhousie has discriminated against whites. Since 2012, eleven faculty postions have been off limits to whites. Time for a boycott of Dalhousie.

[Anonymous]

This is not the first time Dalhousie has discriminated against whites. Since 2012, eleven faculty postions have been off limits to whites. Time for a boycott of Dalhousie.

Fuck doll house U.

[Anonymous]

This is not the first time Dalhousie has discriminated against whites. Since 2012, eleven faculty postions have been off limits to whites. Time for a boycott of Dalhousie.

I read something about equity being how they get away with it..



Apparently if there are not enough visible minorities or females or disabled people they can discriminate in hiring until the numbers are reflective of the Canadian population or something like that.

[Anonymous]

Any university that discriminates as blatantly as Dalhousie is doing should lose all public funding.

[Anonymous]

Any university that discriminates as blatantly as Dalhousie is doing should lose all public funding.

Good  luck with that.