As an undergrad I took a ‘race, class, and gender’ history seminar led by a white Ivy-PhD postdoc who would give me a dirty look on the rare occasion I’d venture a milquetoast centrist opinion.
I went to her office hours at the end of the semester to pick something…
I went to her office hours at the end of the semester to pick something…
…up and asked her what she was doing next year. She remarked bitterly that she didn’t know and that, ‘they only want to hire people who are black,’ for the tenure track jobs.
As best I can tell this sort of person imagines themselves to be…
As best I can tell this sort of person imagines themselves to be…
…a ‘member of the Party’ and thus deserving of special privileges and immunity from the predictable consequences of their politics.
If that doesn’t end up happening and they’re fed into the grinder like everyone else it’s a huge shock and they’re outraged and bereft.
If that doesn’t end up happening and they’re fed into the grinder like everyone else it’s a huge shock and they’re outraged and bereft.
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