Such comments are sparking debate nationally about free speech, decorum, and whether universities are intemperate “ideology factories” that generally lean hard left.
In a 2016 essay about life in academia, Monica Casper said that “in a shallow Twitter zeitgeist” you need to speak in a nuanced way when talking to the public about hot-button issues.Casper, dean of the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University, went on Twitter in December and made statements about conservatives that were anything but nuanced, leading to an angry backlash that included threats of violence against the campus.Thank you for your support.
A University of Pennsylvania professor recently said the U.S. would be “better off with fewer Asians.” A UC Berkeley professor suggested that a U.S. senator be slapped for her vote on the filibuster., “The [critical race theory] conspiracy theory is rebranded Nazi-style antisemitism that’s being used by wealthy donors and their think tanks to weaponize history for their own purposes while radicalizing people to take over local governments and clear the way for the privatization of education.
Hostile remarks occur everywhere. But the rhetoric at colleges and universities gets special attention because they drive social change on issues such as race and gender. The digital warfare has left Peter C. Herman, a tenured professor of literature at San Diego State, in a funk about its effect locally and nationally.
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