Thread by @biblioracle

There is a dire threat to the "telos of the university" and it isn't social justice. My best effort to convince those who both sides anti-racism and anti-anti-racism that there is a clear choice on who to stand with if they believe their own rhetoric insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…

There's 15,000 words on the drafting/cutting room floor for this blog post because every time I would try to write it I would roll through anger on my way to despair and not only did I feel awful at the end, it would have the same effect on the reader.

After this post, I've made a pledge to myself to stop spending my time calling out on here or in the blog what I see as obvious hypocrisy among the heterodox academy crowd. This post covers everything I think I have to say. I hope they decide to truly live their values.

I think the narrative put forward by Coddling the American Mind and associated texts and movements has been massively damaging to students and institutions. In the post I attempt to draw a line between that narrative and today's assaults on institutions by right wing ideologues

I hope and trust that those who are concerned about so-called viewpoint diversity in academia are as dismayed by these assaults from right wing ideologues as anyone else. If so, I believe this is a time for choosing, not playing both ends against the middle.

I don't expect or even wish for any kind of mea culpa from anyone, but in the post I offer some concrete examples of actions that continue to undermine the ultimate health of post-secondary education institutions, primarily public ones.

A turf battle among the elite spilled over into the rest of the country and it's the rest of us who are paying the price for that skirmish. The souls of public institutions are at risk. I'm deeply worried.

Perhaps even more important, this turf battle has put targets on the backs of minority faculty. I can only imagine what kind of harassment is coming for them because of what the viewpoint diversity crowd as stirred up.