Academia’s “Ethnic Cleansing” Hits Music. No performer or theorist is safe from the progressive mob.

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | December 15, 2023 | George Leef

[karpov]

One of the most striking aspects of the “woke” domination of our education system is the way anyone who is perceived as a dissenter is likely to be targeted, much as members of a primitive tribe will attack someone from an enemy tribe who happens by. Overwhelmingly, the philosophy in our colleges is not “live and let live” but “agree with us or suffer.”

If you thought the fine arts might be more mellow, think again.

In a pair of cases, music educators have been subjected to academic “herd culling,” as one administrator honestly described his efforts at ridding his school of unwanted faculty members. In both instances, professors were attacked simply because they wrote things that upset some of the irritable “progressives” on campus.

One of the cases arose at Western Michigan University (WMU). Since 1999, Daniel Mattson had worked as a performer and adjunct faculty member in the School of Music, his specialty being the trombone.

He kept his personal life completely separate from his responsibilities at WMU. What no one at the school knew was that he had been raised in the Catholic Church, had spent most of his adult years living a homosexual lifestyle, but had later abandoned that lifestyle and returned to his earlier religious beliefs. In a 2017 book, Mattson had explained his re-conversion. He had also written a number of articles for Catholic and Christian publications.

Those facts about him made no difference to anyone until 2021, when a faculty activist came across his book and immediately started a campaign to have him removed from WMU. Mattson had never talked about his personal life on campus, but that was irrelevant to his enemies. He was now known to be undesirable.

[bk1000]

“It amazes me how much time the Universities and students waste on this woke BS. Last time I checked, there are no job openings for professional woketards.”

I don’t believe woketard students are even considering employment. They are undeveloped children stomping their feet and holding their breath at perceived injustices they hear about. It’s all about their feelings, not about facts at all. The college is their world, their safe place. They harbor a strong spirit of fear of the real world. These are the people who become leftist authoritarian rulers.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Flatus I. Maximus]

The jobs exist. They’re all in the HR department.

[Noumenon]

Zampolits.