Conservatives will look you dead in the eye and say this a man

Thought this was satire but no, just a real article by the new head of the American Psychological Association. This shit gets branded as “far left” but it’s just Influencer Slop gussied up with academic jargon. “Doing me unapologetically” and “hyping up my friends” is “science.”

Sen. Elissa Slotkin just said that he wants to prosecute everyone who works for President Trump and that her goal is for young conservatives coming out of school to be afraid of working in a Republican administration

The Closing of the American Mind has some evergreen moments but one of the ways it shows its age is that Bloom is describing an academic climate where moral and cultural relativism prevails, whereas the academic climate today is marked by moral dogmatism and cultural orthodoxy.

Accreditation standards were saturated with DEI for years, and the AAUP was fine with it. The one kind of diversity they can’t stand is diversity of ideas.

An overlooked way that college has become "woke" is through internal threats to profs' employment. The way it happened to me and others is that committees reporting on your progress to tenure warn that you haven't incorporated enough rad fem / CRT / decolonial / etc. perspectives, and that a successful tenure application in a year or two will need to have remedied this "omission." It's nothing less than a threat that you'll lose your job if you don't go woke. I suspect many profs who don't wish to go woke do so under the force of this coercion. It's often fairly subtle. Here's what I was told in 2019: "Advisory Council...felt that your narrative could be strengthened by a more thorough engagement with the discipline-wide conversation about diversity in the study of the classics. We would advise you to connect more deeply to the debates in the field and to locate your approach with respect to these pedagogical trends related to diversity in the classics classroom, which grapples with the Western heritage narrative and the balance of primary and secondary source authors with which students become acquainted." Presumably, "grapple with the Western heritage narrative" meant "start teaching that the West is oppressive" and "secondary source authors" meant the sort of tendentious ephemera by the likes of Sarah Bond and Donna Zuckerberg that was then being lauded in my field. I resisted, prepared to stand on my academic freedom, and came through unscathed, but I'll confess I felt the force of the threat, and I don't blame others if they've caved out of a desire to keep their jobs.