This is why you’re the dumbest motherfucker alive if you’re an academic who tries to ‘address their concerns’ these people don’t want to have a principled conversation about the appropriateness of diversity statements, professor, they want to destroy your job. You cannot meet them halfway.
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There is like some abstract notion that they are attacking universities because they want to pressure them over wokeness or whatever but that’s backwards. The base wants universities shut down. That is the explicit goal, they will tell you it openly if you ask them and listen.
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/43783845
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721417708230
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-024-00087-4
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051117-073034
It's awful to see smart people retreat into these fairy tales to avoid facing grim reality.
but now that the stated motivation is "we don't like black people", too many people in academia are responding with "let's have a conversation"
"The pen is mightier than the sword" might be true in the long run, but when there's an armed man in the room with you, I'd rather have a sword than a quill in my hand.
Being uncompromising on a hot war means risking escalation, y’know? That said, Putin is unlikely to compromise so you are probably right 😬
It was a high price, and if we can avoid paying that price again, that’s a net win.
Sometimes you need to stare a motherfucker down and dare them to press the button.
Because, one of the lessons of the Second World War was that appeasement is the dumbest shit you can do.
If your institution doesn't have hobbyhorse-riders you're being oppressed
I can have civil discourse with a right-leaning person who disagrees with me on some topics. These folks ain't that.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/
From perspective of outsiders, "I must admit the protest had a few offensive signs" gives cover to "these 12 programs are radicalizing students and must be shut down."
Their obtuse relentlessness is outside comprehension. Engaging with these people is automatic and utter defeat. They can only be fought.
Erudition? Wisdom? Fuck that noise.