Your nonsilence is admirable. Nowadays lowly and fringe status is something to strive for (as long as it is earned in the search for truth)! There are two silent treatments---one that you get when you ask someone to justify DEI and they are unable to explain it and justify it--the other is when people do not talk to you in the hallways because you do not support the DEI bureaucracy so they assume you are a racist based on Ibram X. Kendi's definition of a racist not the definition found in dictionaries of the English language.
In institutions dominated by Critical Social Justice Ideology, to profess and indeed to question anything that outlies the ideology-in-use is to end one's professorship. Believe me, I know this from personal experience.
Encouraging. Our “inclusive” colleagues would support you in the ability to think aloud and profess your opinions (only one caveat: they have to be based on their manual). As for students, I think (scratch that… I know) many of them are so convinced that every professor these days is an aspiring Marxist (using this term loosely), they do not dare to challenge them in or outside classroom lest they get punished, with full endorsement of the superiors. More traditional professors do not insert their politics into classroom (nor should they), so there is no way for students to know they can speak freely on any topic.
Solutions would be to follow the UChicago initiatives for free speech or have several exemplary merit-based colleges prove their worth in ranking and employment opportunities (as suggested in this forum before).
Dear Nancy,
Your nonsilence is admirable. Nowadays lowly and fringe status is something to strive for (as long as it is earned in the search for truth)! There are two silent treatments---one that you get when you ask someone to justify DEI and they are unable to explain it and justify it--the other is when people do not talk to you in the hallways because you do not support the DEI bureaucracy so they assume you are a racist based on Ibram X. Kendi's definition of a racist not the definition found in dictionaries of the English language.
In institutions dominated by Critical Social Justice Ideology, to profess and indeed to question anything that outlies the ideology-in-use is to end one's professorship. Believe me, I know this from personal experience.
Encouraging. Our “inclusive” colleagues would support you in the ability to think aloud and profess your opinions (only one caveat: they have to be based on their manual). As for students, I think (scratch that… I know) many of them are so convinced that every professor these days is an aspiring Marxist (using this term loosely), they do not dare to challenge them in or outside classroom lest they get punished, with full endorsement of the superiors. More traditional professors do not insert their politics into classroom (nor should they), so there is no way for students to know they can speak freely on any topic.
Solutions would be to follow the UChicago initiatives for free speech or have several exemplary merit-based colleges prove their worth in ranking and employment opportunities (as suggested in this forum before).
Good premise from Stanford. Cheers!