Even liberal, progressive states suppress or ban teaching about people of color, queer or trans folks, critical race theory and women.
On May 3, a few colleagues and I put on programming in conjunction with theorganized by the African American Policy Forum and the National Women’s Studies Association, as well as national civil rights organizations, and local academic and activist organizations.
What is happening to K-12 and higher education in states like Florida, Texas and Kentucky might seem far away from the conditions at my left-leaning small liberal arts college in the state of New York. To be sure, we have the blatant anti-BIPOC/queer/trans/women attacks. I recall the cohort of faculty that attempted to block the hiring of a diversity officer, and the faculty who threatened a lawsuit to prevent faculty and staff of color from holding meetings on campus.
One move in this category is to weaponize popular DEI terms for anti-BIPOC/queer/trans/women efforts—for example, the promulgation of “” rhetoric to allow racist, misogynist, homophobic and transphobic ideas to continue unchecked and, further, rebrand them as valid aspects of a well-rounded education.
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