Unpopular (Lefty) professor opinion:

The dumbest irony in the “the Left is indoctrinating college students” discourse is the thing that pulls them to the Left (of wherever they are) is just explaining the world in a more ideologically neutral way than they are used to. Example: alotta students are used to getting American history through the prism of exceptionalism and good vs evil dichotomies, not material facts. The average student is likely to move Left (to whatever degree) merely by telling them what happened without those framings.

Think it's telling that three of the top issues (cancel culture, "wokeness," and CRT) all stem from Black communal, online or academic discourses that got co-opted and then caricatured as they travelled across the political spectrum. Imo, the most egregious of these co-options is "woke." "Woke" is/was used in the Black community to convey the need to be social aware in order to at least safely navigate, at most dismantle oppressive systems, ideas, etc. An analogy would be like seeing the code in The Matrix.

This push against critical race theory makes more sense if you consider that the premise is also the conclusion; that there is no systemic racism. Conservativism, in its adherence to certain dogmas, starts with the conclusion. So you aren’t allowed to reach different conclusions There’s a cynical push for balance that also becomes a circular idea that conservative understandings of history, politics, cultural, etc. IS balance.

Hope folks realize that a part of the reason the Right pounced on “woke” and now use it as a meaningless catch-all pejorative is because folks on the Left stripped it from its context in the Black experience, and made it mean “excessive social awareness.”

It didn’t mean that. “Woke” wasn’t actually about virtual signaling, but ironically became virtual signaling because folks farther and farther from its Black social and linguistic root made it mean what they wanted it to me or took it to mean.

Going to read and live-tweet some theological books every Sunday.
First book will be “Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity” by @CornelWest

Want to use these tweets from NYT to explain active vs passive voice and why it matters in news coverage (particularly when covering charged topics at the moment). A sentence typically has a clear subject and verb. When you write a a sentence, you can write in active or passive voice.
Active voice is subject then verb. An example is "I fixed the car."
Passive is an inversion of this ie. "The car was fixed by me."

A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades. psmag.com/ideas/no-profe… Wanted to give my thoughts on this as an instructor. The idea of bias towards conservative students from teachers is incredibly overblown. Especially considering institutional dynamics and the ethics of classroom pedagogy.