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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Thomas M. who wrote (357312)12/16/2025 9:42:22 AM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (1) of 358048
 
The eery thing about this piece, is how precisely it mirrors my own experiences in American academia. Even the chronology is almost exactly the same. I got my professorship almost by accident, right as the hammer was coming down. I was the only white male I knew of in graduate school who got a tenure-track appointment at all.

During my time as a professor, the combination of fierce outside pressure from the administration and internal fighting from the ever-growing minority bloc in my department, meant it was practically impossible to hire white male faculty. In a time of big generational turnover and almost constant searches for new faculty, we hired one (extremely gay) white guy in all my years there. Even trying to extend job offers to white male candidates could trigger scrutiny from the administration and veiled racism accusations.

The primarily older white male old guard, with their full professorships and their comfortable named chairs, presided over this regime of relentless exclusion, complaining occasionally about the escalating racial and political crazy they had invited into their institutions.

The brown minority hires were almost impossible to get rid of, however openly incompetent. They invariably acted as a unified bloc within departments, in the administration and across the whole school to suppress criticism and protect their own. The quality of instruction (never that great at American schools even in the best of times) cratered. Campus life became a parade of never ending DEI protests and racial grievance – and this is all well before the St. Floyd era.

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