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same...i'm in academia as well...when BLM started rioting we immediately got a letter the next day from our bosses and administration saying we all needed to "affirm" our commitment of supporting BLM and dismantling racism blah blah blahIn the academic environment I'm in, half the people I'm around are afraid to voice their politics. Even the quite moderate, left leaning ones just shut their mouths. There are petitions circulating the department that are signed by everyone, with at least a 25% of the people signing them not wanting to but being afraid of the consequences if they don't. There is a literal environment of fear of stepping out of line in institutions which are supposedly built around free and experimental thought.
The irony was that when I was working construction to save up some cash for my education, all the high school educated Conservative voters would call you and asshole and a dipshit if you voted NDP (left leaning) and then go out for a beer with you after. Hell, I still see a lot of these guys, and they're the same old same old, usually ragging on me for putting on weight and having soft hands and being a "liberal pussy," but perfectly willing to accept people they don't agree with. I wish the academy was as open to disagreement as the construction environments I used to work in.
All of that "I must excise (people who hold the wrong politics) from my life!" shit you hear about on twitter is far, far too real.
my boss also officially refers to us as "colonizers on occupied land"
LOL
academia has been corrupted for some time now...it used to be for the academics...now the whole herd comes