University cancels honors for African president over LGBTQ issues

Lincoln University announced that it would not confer an honorary doctorate on Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, citing “unforeseen circumstances.”

The Embassy of Ghana, however, claimed that it had “received a communication from the University indicating that concerns had been raised by a group regarding President [John Dramani] Mahama’s perceived position on Ghana’s Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill.”

The bill would expand penalties for individuals participating in same-sex activities…Mahama has signaled support for the legislation, citing his Christian faith.

The school had originally billed the event as a means of honoring Mahama’s “outstanding contributions to public service, democratic governance, peaceful international and inter-African relationships, and global advocacy for justice, equality, and education.”

Last year, Harvard appointed the drag queen LaWhore Vagistan to its faculty.

Cornell University has had a class called “Queer Marxism.”  Occidental College offers the course “Black Queer Thought,” which critiques “the demands” of “patriarchy and capitalism.”

Meanwhile, many college students can’t even read their assigned texts.

Students enter college unable to write competently. Many graduate still unable to write. High school grades have risen even as test scores have fallen and students’ knowledge has shrunk, especially in math. American IQs appear to be falling as the educational system fails to teach skills or stimulate minds.

College students are learning less and less. People’s vocabularies are shrinking at a time when more and more people have college degrees. As Zach Goldberg noted, people’s mastery of hard words has been falling for well over 20 years, and their mastery of easier words has been falling for 15 years. Meanwhile, a higher proportion of Americans have college degrees than in the past, and their average amount of education in years has grown. These trends are illustrated on his graph, “WordSum Scores Overtime.”

Going to college no longer expands people’s vocabularies the way it once did: Since 1970, there has been a steady decline in the correlation between years of education and people’s personal word stock.