Via Robert Shibley at Insty’s place:
One academic who has written about his approach is Professor Asao Inoue, who claims that individualism is an undesirable aspect of “whiteness.” In his courses, students are not graded down for failing to write in standard English. Instead, he has implemented a “labor based” grading system in which students are graded on the basis of the amount of effort they claim to have put in on an assignment.
Why is this out of the Marxist playbook? Marxism postulates that what counts in production is not output, but input; i.e. that the eight hours worked by an assembly-line worker is equivalent to the eight hours worked by the company owner. (Also see: women’s professional tennis prize money “parity” at Wimbledon.)
Of course, anyone with a brain knows this to be false, but in the (Marxist) scheme of “equity”, reality has to conform to the dialectic. Or, to put it into quasi-academic language:
The Marxian process of change through the conflict of opposing forces, whereby a given contradiction is characterized by a primary and a secondary aspect, the secondary succumbing to the primary, which is then transformed into an aspect of a new contradiction. (American Heritage Dictionary)
