Ray, of course you’re right.
But damn not every mistake or offence is worthy of permanent banishment or career loss. It’s not unlike the Reign of Terror, minus the guillotine, where any offence is suddenly worth a digital chorus of ‘off with his head!”
And that’s why so many prof’s run duck and cover.
Universities have to return to scholastic integrity, which means debate…open and fair.
No cancelling of an unpopular guest lecturer, no safe rooms with comfort dogs or automatic social media assumptions as consideration for banning an author, without even reading the work in question.
That’s nothing short of a lack of academic rigour in the face of a new dogma which takes no prisoners.
Anything else means infantilizing young adults to the realities of life…not everyone who disagrees with you is doing so because of their race or privilege or gender preference or adherence to the the patriarchy.
Deconstruction of a conflict must also include a look at oneself.
Lamentably, until universities take a stand against simplistic ideologies, take the heroic stand and back their educators, and of course risk the number of seats in their lecture halls, far too many Profs will continue, as you rightfully opine, to wear the coward’s crown.
BTW, if you didn’t catch it, I really enjoyed the recent debate from two black profs on the Bill Maher show…open and fair and very interesting take on CRT which didn’t insult my intelligence by telling me which prof needed to be silenced:
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