Does Texas A&M’s botched hire spell doom for classroom diversity? Some say yes
Does Texas A&M’s botched hire spell doom for classroom diversity? Some say yes
Texas A&M University marked its hiring of Kathleen McElroy with great fanfare — balloons, a banner and a signing ceremony.
Just days later, McElroy’s tenure offer unraveled after the university buckled under backlash from Texas Scorecard, a conservative website, and an unspecified group of individuals close to the university who opposed her previous diversity initiatives. A new state law will limit that and the discussion of race and inclusion on college campuses next year.
The Texas state government stepping in and quashing a new university journalism department that would have been headed by an award-winning investigative journalist is very on-brand, given how many scandals the state produces in a given year.
Don't forget the black and a woman parts of the equation.
It’s crazy to me that the backlash was so bad the president had to resign. Just because Texas is that racist
Conservatives are opposed to education and should be prohibited from participating in the administration of higher education. If we are allowed to make laws probibiting inclusion of vulnerable groups of people, we need laws probibiting the inclusion of conservatives as well.
Nearly every act of racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia in history has been committed by conservatives. Conservatism should be excluded from polite society and completely shunned by the intelligent among us. Do your part in your daily life by excluding conservatives. It is inappropriate and grotesque to do business with or engage in personal relationships with conservatives.
There's a professor in another university who literally used to tweet about black people being subhuman and asian people too and routinely would tell them to go back to their countries on twitter, but she was never fired because SHE had tenure at a pretty well known law school
I honestly don't understand this country
The new state law just says you can't accept a student based on the race of the applicant.
Do yall honestly have a problem with outlawing systemic racism?
Affirmative Action helped get rid of all white classrooms and workplaces, it worked. Taking it away means we're just going to go back to an all white America. I'm sorry to tell you this but people are not inherently good or bad, we have to make laws like AA otherwise things would never change. We had to force the South to desegregate at gun point
A deeply racist state like Texas is never going to have racial equality without being forced to, just like the South was never going to desegregate unless forced to
And in California where they got rid of AA in 1996, Black attendance in higher education immediately dropped and it hasn't even recovered yet to what it was before 1996
I think there is a way to do a form of economic AA that factors in the applicant’s background in a way that doesn’t bucket them by race. It could still help historically marginalized groups without having to codify anything by race. Not saying I’m against AA, it was an important tool in partially fixing the systemic racism in America, but maybe there’s a different way of doing it?
Do yall honestly have a problem with outlawing systemic racism?
Yes. They do. The specific problem is that some people in power really really want to be racist, and will try to find any possible way of enacting racist policies without being openly racist.
Want more black people picking cotton but can't because non-prisoner slave labour is illegal? Simple! Just quietly defund all public services from a majority-black area (except the police of course), and then start making arrests when people gotta commit crimes just to survive. Now you have your black people under ball and chain but it's okay, because he committed a crime!
Part of the reason why AA is so effective is because it partially defangs these more covert attempts at systemic racism. Because even if you do have these stealth-racism tactics, you can't stop, say 30% of university undergraduates from being African American
Do yall honestly have a problem with outlawing systemic racism?
Fuck you and your bad faith argument.