What always frustrated me about gender-benderism, CRT, DEI and “green solutions” is how they were imposed on us, even in academia, without any rational debate or collegial discussion but entirely by ham-fisted fiat. “You WILL learn and respect your students’ preferred pronouns! You WILL respect their cultural sensitivities!” What the administrations in effect did was to weaponize student special pleading and whining against their instructors. Just as Mao unleashed the anger of Chinese youths upon their teachers and elders. Suddenly at ISU the religious sensitivities of Muslim students became absolute while it remained “open season” upon the sensitivities of Christian or Jewish students. OBEY!! COMPLY!! OR ELSE - so much for protections of intellectual freedom!
What always frustrated me about gender-benderism, CRT, DEI and “green solutions” is how they were imposed on us, even in academia, without any rational debate or collegial discussion but entirely by ham-fisted fiat. “You WILL learn and respect your students’ preferred pronouns! You WILL respect their cultural sensitivities!” What the administrations in effect did was to weaponize student special pleading and whining against their instructors. Just as Mao unleashed the anger of Chinese youths upon their teachers and elders. Suddenly at ISU the religious sensitivities of Muslim students became absolute while it remained “open season” upon the sensitivities of Christian or Jewish students. OBEY!! COMPLY!! OR ELSE - so much for protections of intellectual freedom!