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Well, I am kind of "retired" too, at age 64 with a history of only TEACHING college chemistry over 30 years, the teaching experience has gone way down hill, particularly when student evaluations are now the norm regarding regarding retention, promotion, recruitment, NOT merit or years of teaching undergraduates. Being called a misogynist, racist, and worse in student evaluations because I ask all students to read the book and do a lot of homework problems, and ask all students to earn their grades in General Chemistry 1 and 2 got very tiresome.

Good luck with your efforts, but asking administration to change their views when they are held hostage by an admin department set up to enforce DEI on their campuses won't happen. The fact racist Hannah decided to go to Howard instead of accept UNC-CH offers was because conservatives on the outside and the board put up a stick, that exposed the rot on campus for all to see. It was not a faculty revolt who rose up and decided that person was a propagandist and not a real academic or qualified in her field to properly teach anything particularly American History.

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Why would someone who calls himself George Q. Tire-Biter ( Tyrebyter) "ask administration" anything? I imagine he might talk to donors to a College or to politicians about funding neo-marxist-charlatans or "race grifters". But a tire biter isn't as predictable as a brow beaten member of a doomed "Academy" to whom "the administration" has been DEI-fied. Cheer up! Hope someone needs ya! Hope someone feeds ya!! Now ('cause) you're 64!!! [Whooh!]

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Pathetic. You are older than that, you fool.

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Of course I'm older than 64. I was 18 years old when the Beatles did the song "When I'm 64", in 1967, on the Sargeant Peppers album. Bet you didn't get the reference you grouchy little twerp --- he said ad hominously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTunqv1Xt4

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Classy....... LOL

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Perhaps not, but this character is a classic obnoxious troll. He needs to be discouraged from trolling.

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Now you're gossiping about me behind my back to the 64 year old chemist who seems to have given up. How "woke" of you. I liked Chemistry in 1967 where most of the course was about Stoichiometry --- Stoic balance among the stoicheons/elements of ancient Greek alchemy advanced from the ancient 4 stoicheons (air earth fire and water) to the 100 and some of Mendeleev's atomic table of elements. I got the 2nd highest mark among students from the Alberta "Tundra" in the departmental examinations that year. As to obnoxious, be careful with what judgment you judge --- little snot-nosed twerp. In my day, at your age, with your attitude, you would be missing more teeth than you have brains.

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Yeah, like your method will work....... LOL

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Probably not. But we are facing a serious situation. And I think allowing those on the side of darkness to run rampant without any pushback is not a great strategy either.

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Why do you "think" that I'm on the "side of darkness", twerp? You propose to "push back darkness" with illogic and gossip. Good luck with that tactic. There is no "we" facing a serious situation. There is just you and me in this argument, twerp. The chemist can't save you.

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Better to present a cogent argument and then laugh at him when he decides to change the subject or deflect the rhetorical attack from himself back at you, saying that is a typical response from the deranged.....

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He doesn't know how to present a cogent argument, Mr. Chemist. So far he is only demonstrating simple minded fallacies. I would never call him "deranged". He is just inexperienced. His STEM might be math more than engineering/plumbing. But he hasn't answered as to plumbing, math or what? We become like what we love or what we hate. He hates "woke". He has become "woke". I love Socrates. Tell him to answer my questions ---- beginning with the first one. He can't laugh at me, given how angry he has become. He simply doesn't have "the chops". I was dealing with "Wokesters" in my discipline, on their own terms, before the little twerp was even born. Neither you, nor he, can teach me anything about either DUMB GIRLS or DULLER EFFEMINATE BUREAUCRATS. That is exactly what the "woke" are. But we men are not allowed to punch their teeth down their lying throats anymore --- as in the "good old days" of my misspent youth.

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