Thanks for making my point. You felt it important to suppress your natural urge to express your viewpoint but held it at bay. I suspect you tried to make your classroom a space where divergent opinions could be offered and tried in the crucible of socratic dialogue. If only Wax were as circumspect and respectful. By the way conflating th…
Thanks for making my point. You felt it important to suppress your natural urge to express your viewpoint but held it at bay. I suspect you tried to make your classroom a space where divergent opinions could be offered and tried in the crucible of socratic dialogue. If only Wax were as circumspect and respectful.
By the way conflating the bomb throwers of the failed communist revolution with those who teach political theory is a bit disingenuous. It's the reason that "communism" -- anything that's not what right wing "conservatives" want -- is the go-to bogey man for the right. As for progressive dominance on campuses: from my observation the difference on campuses between trigger warnings and petulant malicious behavior is the difference between asking someone not to call you an asshole versus feeling quite free to degrade someone, to call someone an asshole, or worse, for whatever reason one chooses, but mostly because he/she wants to, and feels entitled to do so because "that's just my opinion, man." Unless you're Professor Wax , of course, and can do it because you're better.
Another correct point you could have drawn, Grumpy, was that conservative students came to me in error because most of my colleagues did not suppress their natural urges, and those colleagues, in my humanities wing, were always on the Left. I'm not aware, however, of *any* colleague who felt free to degrade their students on thebasis of ideology. (I know of some cases that clearly involved emergent personality disorders; one of those did result in detenuring, a very sad affair.)
I didn't say anything about those who taught political theory. I was speaking of faculty who were personally communists. I have not actually read of any instance where Professor Wax has made her views on race the subject of her teaching. Maybe she has; I don't know. The calls for her dismissal have, so far as I know, all been based on her activities outside the classroom. If Wax has systematically mistreated students, then those behaviors should be the basis of a job action, not her publicly expressed views.
A fair and reasonable conclusion on Wax, though it’s hard to separate the message from the messenger in this case. Just because one doesn’t shout the pejorative inside the classroom but waits til outside the classroom door doesn’t soften the blow.
Thanks for making my point. You felt it important to suppress your natural urge to express your viewpoint but held it at bay. I suspect you tried to make your classroom a space where divergent opinions could be offered and tried in the crucible of socratic dialogue. If only Wax were as circumspect and respectful.
By the way conflating the bomb throwers of the failed communist revolution with those who teach political theory is a bit disingenuous. It's the reason that "communism" -- anything that's not what right wing "conservatives" want -- is the go-to bogey man for the right. As for progressive dominance on campuses: from my observation the difference on campuses between trigger warnings and petulant malicious behavior is the difference between asking someone not to call you an asshole versus feeling quite free to degrade someone, to call someone an asshole, or worse, for whatever reason one chooses, but mostly because he/she wants to, and feels entitled to do so because "that's just my opinion, man." Unless you're Professor Wax , of course, and can do it because you're better.
Another correct point you could have drawn, Grumpy, was that conservative students came to me in error because most of my colleagues did not suppress their natural urges, and those colleagues, in my humanities wing, were always on the Left. I'm not aware, however, of *any* colleague who felt free to degrade their students on thebasis of ideology. (I know of some cases that clearly involved emergent personality disorders; one of those did result in detenuring, a very sad affair.)
I didn't say anything about those who taught political theory. I was speaking of faculty who were personally communists. I have not actually read of any instance where Professor Wax has made her views on race the subject of her teaching. Maybe she has; I don't know. The calls for her dismissal have, so far as I know, all been based on her activities outside the classroom. If Wax has systematically mistreated students, then those behaviors should be the basis of a job action, not her publicly expressed views.
A fair and reasonable conclusion on Wax, though it’s hard to separate the message from the messenger in this case. Just because one doesn’t shout the pejorative inside the classroom but waits til outside the classroom door doesn’t soften the blow.