By Professor Doom
The culture of
fear in academia that I wrote about last year is unchanged. You must watch what
you say, even watch what you blog, and forever look over your shoulder. The
most unforgiveable crime is to say anything remotely critical of our prevailing
government ideology of liberal progressivism.
Our state schools
are consumed with protecting this ideology, but as state schools, they’re
pretty much obligated the follow the party line of whoever is signing the most
checks. Unfortunately, it’s not just our state schools that squelch any
dissent, other colleges likewise come down hard on anything that could be
interpreted as wrong think.
Hampden-Sydney
college is a males-only college in Virginia, founded in 1775. One would think
it would have a system in place to give its around 2,000 students a fair chance
at an education, which must include exposure to ideas other than “whatever the
Poo Bah says, goes.”
Alas, the
annihilation of tenure has turned many of our campuses into sycophantocracies,
where spinelessness is rewarded, and even the slightest hint of independent
thinking must be annihilated at all costs.
Lt. Gen (ret)
William Boykin was one of their esteemed professors, with an impressive resume
that included being former commander of the elite Delta Force…this is obviously
a “get things done” person who doesn’t waste time on politically correct
stupidity.
And,
unfortunately, this was not a man easily cowed by higher education’s culture of
fear. He dared to speak out even a little against the
transgenders-in-the-bathroom issue which has been distracting our country from
vastly more relevant realities:
I’m not one to
advocate violence, but I think it’s fair to respect a father being protective
of his daughter. It’s just one line, the kind of bravado one would expect
(demand?) from a military man, and if our campuses were run by reasonably
intelligent people, his words would have been met with all the anguish as the
news that librarians keep their books at home organized, or that the accounting
professors are meticulous with their personal checkbooks.
Unfortunately our
Social Justice Warrior culture cannot abide by such manliness dissent:
Because
some of you already know and are contacting me about it, let me make it
official and let you all know that I have been terminated from teaching at Hampden-Sydney College after nine years there.
Wow, nine years
down the drain…for showing protectiveness of his daughter. This really is why
spinelessness is the most important personality trait for faculty, and I know
my own long term prospects in higher education are grim.
As a men’s
college, Hampden-Sydney is a bit of an anachronism, and I suspect their days
are numbered; it’s a just a matter of time until a Poo Bah comes by and
plunders it. Small colleges are in a bind right now; the student base is
falling, and they’re very hard pressed to compete with the massive tax breaks
that public community colleges get.
This was such an opportunity for
Hampden-Sydney to stand out from the pack. They could have used this outspoken,
manly, military commander as an icon for the school, as being a school that
stands for “old school” values that, bottom line, worked out very well for
Western (and, frankly, most other) cultures for a few thousand years.
I’ve nothing
against transgenders, they’ve a hard enough road to follow without me adding an
obstacle to it…but simply wanting to be protective of our children is a problem
now?
The fired faculty
tried to clarify his statement, but to no avail:
“I was
referring to perverts who will use these policies to get into locker rooms with
girls and women, and I object to that,” he stressed. “Nonetheless, I gave the
LGBT community just what they needed to pressure the college leadership to
terminate me and they did.”
Back when tenure was a common thing, it took
around 7 years of scholarship to get it. Now, 9 years still grants no
protections from the whims of the administrative caste, which only cares about
padding their own bank accounts.
I’m not convinced
the professor did anything wrong, and it takes some mental gymnastics to
perceive his words as a legitimate threat. Seeing as there was no harm done, it
really seems like a termination is overkill.
Wasn’t there a time when an apology was
good enough? Nowadays the Social Justice Warriors can only be satiated with
blood, and plenty of it. The “leadership” of the college is
frightened of Social Justice Warriors, I even find it to some extent
understandable but…the SJWs are wildly out of control now. With so little to
lose, the “leadership” of the college should have taken a stand, instead of
caving in like, well, every other college.
Hampden-Sydney College did not immediately
respond to Breitbart News’ request for comment.
Such cowardice,
they can’t even own up to their shameless pandering to the SJWs. There are
still some faculty that will at least try to stand up to the madness gripping
our campuses, but, as the gentle reader can see, such resistance is futile.
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