I agree. I attended a small state university in a deep south town where there's still to this day a Confederate flag hanging on Main Street about 3 mi from campus, and a law on the books
in the town that all homeowners have a gun. But many of my professors there were professed Marxists, and in two of my African American history courses I and two other non-BIPOC students were asked to explain our presence in the classes. The majority of students *were* conservative, but most of my professors in the humanities were quite vocally on the far left.
The professor who was driven to suicide after he made some un-woke comments at UNC Wilmington, for example. (https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/on-prof-mike-adams-suicide-one-year-later/). Wilmington NC is deep south. The town government was overthrown by legitimate white supremacists during the reconstruction era. But the university is apparently crazy in a different way now.
On the charming end of this scale, I had a male student attend the women in engineering panel. He wanted to get information for yia younger sister. Heart melted
Yes. This was about 15 years ago too. I don't think students today would think twice about being asked why they would take a class on a subject that didn't directly relate to one of their identities.
The derangement in universities is everywhere, including the various places in the deep south that I've been.
I agree. I attended a small state university in a deep south town where there's still to this day a Confederate flag hanging on Main Street about 3 mi from campus, and a law on the books
in the town that all homeowners have a gun. But many of my professors there were professed Marxists, and in two of my African American history courses I and two other non-BIPOC students were asked to explain our presence in the classes. The majority of students *were* conservative, but most of my professors in the humanities were quite vocally on the far left.
The professor who was driven to suicide after he made some un-woke comments at UNC Wilmington, for example. (https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/on-prof-mike-adams-suicide-one-year-later/). Wilmington NC is deep south. The town government was overthrown by legitimate white supremacists during the reconstruction era. But the university is apparently crazy in a different way now.
Oh my lord that story is so sad!!
When is this madness going to stop?
You mean you guys were singled out and had to say why you were taking the course?
On the charming end of this scale, I had a male student attend the women in engineering panel. He wanted to get information for yia younger sister. Heart melted
What a peach!
Yes. This was about 15 years ago too. I don't think students today would think twice about being asked why they would take a class on a subject that didn't directly relate to one of their identities.