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Sadly we are only seeing bits and pieces of the emails. Roughly it’s going: ““My initial reaction is I refuse to engage in left-wing Maoist political propagand
by pyuser583 4y ago
Sadly we are only seeing bits and pieces of the emails. Roughly it’s going:
““My initial reaction is I refuse to engage in left-wing Maoist political propaganda workshops and, as a tenured faculty, that is my choice,”
Response on Twitter:
“[the professor] expressed reactionary rhetoric for many years now, and is set to retire soon.”
“Yet another reminder that despite someone's contributions to a field, or the money they might bring in to an institution, academic administrators do themselves and future scientists a great disservice by keeping these types of people around for the long haul …”
If that’s the worst of the professors rhetoric … then so what?
- bobsmooth 4y agoHe's rejecting the groupthink. That means he needs to be removed.
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- jhanschoo 4y agoYeah I expect to be fired and professionally scandalized if I were to call equity training Maoist too, and expose such confident ignorance in my understanding of what either word means.
- boppo1 4y agoI think it depends on the training. If it'd DiAngelo style "separate people by skin color then have the white people stand up & admit guilt and the brown people stand up and admit they can't get ahead" then yeah, I'd draw comparisons to struggle sessions too. But if it's like "hey your hospital serves this particular community that lots of challenging patients come from and we're going to talk about some of the history of how they were displaced from a different neighborhood (or something) and still fighting a particular uphill battle for these identifiable reasons X, Y, Z." then obviously it's helpful and I'd embrace it. There is some seriously poisonous stuff masquerading under the 'equity' banner alongside some seriously necessary stuff.