The General's Redoubt weighs in again
In an article his blog, The Patron Saint of Superheroes, Professor Chris Gavalar breaks down the latest missive from that lot.
It's been a long time since I gave them any attention, but the stick fort is at it again. Surpise!
While losing their appeal for their new confederate castle to be tax free, they shocking rejoined the anti-DEI chorus revealing the stark contradictions inherent in their stances on academic freedom and "cancel culture."
Of course it was a fundraising email. They always are with that lot.
As they used to say, read the whole damn thing, but I've pulled a few quotes from his analysis and observations.
We can start with the fundamental contradiction in this campaign. As Gavalar notes:
"The claim is ironic, since the W&L that Mr. Robinson knew as a student and now longs to recreate was overwhelmingly discriminatory. When Mr. Robinson entered W&L as an undergraduate, Black men and all women were excluded."
The scope of the proposed course cancellations also reveals a pattern that extends far beyond curriculum concerns into the realm of th4e "huh."?
"Of the 70 courses he targets, more than a quarter include 'Women' in the titles or prominently in the descriptions. Even mentioning 'sexism' is forbidden."
They are talking both ways. An abyss exist between the organization's mission statement and what it actually wants:
"The organization's mission statement includes: 'advocate for academic freedom,' and the second of its four primary objectives is: 'Advocate for free speech, civil discourse, and academic freedom.' Mr. Robinson is promoting the opposite values."
You have all the freedom to think as long as it's like we do.
As usual, their campaign is less about educational quality and more about the "good old days," when they could use those words and women knew their place:
"The 75-year-old Mr. Robinson wants to remake W&L into the school of his late adolescence when his impressionable mind was protected from people and topics that are commonplace in 21st-century America."
They want to haul W&L back to an era before the civil rights movement, when the only ones that mattered at the school were white elites.
Again, read the whole damn post. I only offer it pale justice via sound bites.
Non in cautus futuri.
