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- Aug 24, 2014
Today we have a rare tweet -- I mean treat -- a TL;DR by Kevvie. He is mad that tard academics like himself seems not to be able to act like tards as freely as they want to, and it's ALL WYPEPO'S FAULT!!!!! (Archive), with the extra rarity factor being that he doesn't tweet entirely in lower-case!
Things have improved since then. Now it is "you're a white girl, so you must be a Republican, you must be evil and racist! Oops Redundant!"
You can't please every and each woke soyboys, so just say "dirty nigger" and have peace with yourself.
Autogynephilia:
Easy to say for someone who sole income comes from the Bank of Dad & Mom.
"And it never ends. My job security as an adjunct educator depends on my shutting up about my own politics that negatively categorize whiteness, or the horrible violence the current administration espouses and encourages." -- So why do you keep tweeting how white people are terrorists? The fact is, your "job" as an adjunct depends on you being a permastudent who keeps paying money.Kevvie said:Education is about questioning power. Education should be about critical inquiry, period. Since Trump's election, any line of inquiry that names "white people" or "whiteness" (i.e. power) has become increasingly off limits. WHY? What is going on?
It's not new, but I've seen it ratcheted up exponentially in my own work and experience, and in others' stories. Why is "white" a protected class now for universities? White people have NEVER been historically discriminated against as a group. They/we don't need protection.
Yet universities are increasingly caving to demands that "white" is in need of priority protection due to mounting threats -- or even in equal need of protection as other actually discriminated against categories.
None of it's true. White students have never been in need of protection at universities. Whiteness is the default, no matter how liberal and/or progressive the school is (unless we're talking HBCU, which even still might hold conservative politics).
Yes, white students that intersect with other marginalized identities might be in need of extra protection in education, but whiteness by itself? NO. NEVER.
Anyway, I'm just frustrated. I'm not new to trolls messing with my life/employment. I've lost multiple jobs because i'm outspoken about my opinions (none of which violate any law but all of which speak to the ways whiteness has created a violent racist conservatism in the U.S.). And it never ends. My job security as an adjunct educator depends on my shutting up about my own politics that negatively categorize whiteness, or the horrible violence the current administration espouses and encourages. And if *I* can't even voice these opinions as a white (albeit queer) man without getting fired multiple times, can you imagine what it's like for educators that are not men, that aren't white, that are various intersections of already marginalized identities????
Yes, there's tenure track jobs, but to get them, you likely have to silence yourself for even longer and by the time you get tenure and can speak freely, you're often so beaten down that you don't. I have to apologize to potential employers for my radical politics and viewpoints, and I'm kept under close surveillance if I want to keep any job I do manage to get for a semester or multiple semesters because conservative student contingents/funders threaten the university.
I NEVER present my own politics as fact in a classroom. But I don't pretend I have no politics or opinions either. That's ridiculous. I create syllabi full of readings and questions that will hopefully spark conversations. And I insist you back an opinion with textual evidence. I've lost multiple jobs bc conservative student complaint about my social media and personal politics/opinion (sometimes outright lies). I'm risking losing another currently. But what is an educator supposed to do? How do you teach critical thinking while silencing instructors?
I'm sad and I'm tired and I'm disillusioned about the state of education today. But I'd also like to explicitly point out I didn't name anyone or any institution. None of this is meant to apply to a specific university because it probably applies to all of them. (& yes, I'm also protecting myself by speaking generally. i'm unapologetic about my views and politics, but i still have bills to pay and some of the small adjunct jobs i've been able to cobble together help make that BARELY possible--adjunct pay is still woefully inadequate.)
Things have improved since then. Now it is "you're a white girl, so you must be a Republican, you must be evil and racist! Oops Redundant!"
You can't please every and each woke soyboys, so just say "dirty nigger" and have peace with yourself.
Autogynephilia:
Easy to say for someone who sole income comes from the Bank of Dad & Mom.