A personal account of how call out culture has harmed teaching

http://whitehotharlots.tumblr.com ^ | march 19, 2015

[lowbridge]

This is a matter of real, palpable fear. Saying anything that goes against liberal orthodoxy is now grounds for a firin’. Even if you make a reasonable and respectful case, if you so much as cause your liberal students a second of complication or doubt you face the risk of demonstrations, public call-outs, and severe professional consequences. My friends and colleagues might well agree that the student-teacher relationship ban is misguided, but they’re not allowed to say as much in public.

C-can you guys see the problem, here?

Personally, liberal students scare the shit out of me. I know how to get conservative students to question their beliefs and confront awful truths, and I know that, should one of these conservative students make a facebook page calling me a communist or else seek to formally protest my liberal lies, the university would have my back. I would not get fired for pissing off a Republican, so long as I did so respectfully, and so long as it happened in the course of legitimate classroom instruction.

The same cannot be said of liberal students. All it takes is one slip—not even an outright challenging of their beliefs, but even momentarily exposing them to any uncomfortable thought or imagery—and that’s it, your classroom is triggering, you are insensitive, kids are bringing mattresses to your office hours and there’s a twitter petition out demanding you chop off your hand in repentance.

Is this paranoid? Yes, of course. But paranoia isn’t uncalled for within the current academic job climate. Jobs are really, really, really, really hard to get. And since no reasonable person wants to put their livelihood in danger, we reasonably do not take any risks vis-a-vis momentarily upsetting liberal students. And so we leave upsetting truths unspoken, uncomfortable texts unread.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The left is and always has been evil and fascist. The college pukes are the worst.

[AZLiberty]

The professor who’s saying this appears to be a liberal herself. For example, she’s a global warmist, and she doesn’t understand the “illegal” in “illegal alien”. So perhaps it’s doubly interesting that a liberal professor sits in fear of not being as extreme as her most extreme student.

We live in a time of thought crimes. Germans and Russians of another era would laugh at us.

[Buttons12]

A flickering liberal, who may be on the verge of a complete collapse. He (whatever) reminds me of Streisand: immense talent coexisting with manure-for-brains politics.
I read several posts, and give her (whatever) a 9.0 for the writing, which is competitive with Iowahawk and Steyn.
Pray for this one to come over.