16 Replies to “What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?”

  1. Reading through the twitter thread there are quite a few commenters who couldn’t see why a monoculture might be a problem. Some even suggest that maybe Republicans aren’t interested in becoming academics, while one wag says it might be a matter of Republicans being less intelligent. Replace “Republican” with “Women” or “Minority” and I imagine the responses would be rather different.

    1. Yes. Obviously these people have not been taught any history, as monocultures gave us the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, PRC, Cuba, Venezuela, and other examples.

  2. maybe Republicans aren’t interested in becoming academics

    They’re almost certainly correct, although I suspect there’s a chicken and egg problem there.

  3. Remember the old adage about “them that can, do while them that can’t, teach.

    It might be applicable in this instance.

    1. To Mike….
      ….and them that can’t teach, teach teachers!

      ( as teachers’ school students like to joke amongst themselves)

      1. them that can’t teach, teach teachers

        Actually, the way I heard it is like this: those who can, do; those who can’t do, teach;
        those who can’t teach, administrate.

    2. When I was an undergrad in engineering more than 40 years ago, most of my profs either had industrial experience or worked closely with it. In recent years, I’ve found that having worked in industry before eventually getting a doctorate can be hazardous to one’s career prospects in academe.

      It doesn’t surprise me that many of the current crop of engineering professors can’t find their way out of a wet paper bag and, in fact, are dumb enough to find themselves inside one.

  5. It’s hard to imagine what it would be like for a conservative to be working in such an environment to begin with. Why would they want to?

    1. Ha! No kidding talk about a “hostile” “unwelcoming” workplace.

      Which reminds me of my own college experience, of feeling FORCED to regurgitate my leftist professor’s teachings about every liberal arts topic I ever was forced to learn in college. In order to achieve an ‘A’ … I wrote papers parroting and restating the same wretched leftist ideology espoused by my professors. Yes, it worked, but I “felt” forced to betray my own personhood in order to be properly rewarded. That was a soul-crushing, shameful, experience. I believe that we Conservative FREE thinkers file a class-action lawsuit against every single college that fails to provide a politically BALANCED faculty which should have provided a broad spectrum of thought … not a uniformly narrow, and nasty worldview.

      I “feel” violated. I “feel” raped. I have recently “recovered” my memories of how my leftist professors seduced me into shedding my natural inhibitions. My natural aversion to intellectual RAPE! I want a Bill Cosbyesque Trial … 30-years after the fact! No justice, no peace!

      1. I know what you went through. I took an anthropology course to fulfill a require arts option in my sophomore year. It took me a while to figure out that I needed to repeat the prof’s warped views in order to get a decent grade.

        I aced the course and, thankfully, have long forgotten nearly everything he said in his lectures.

        1. fascinating that one has to learn lies in order to get a degree. it does make said degree pretty much worthless.

  6. I’m the good news here, I can’t be ‘fired’ ’cause I ain’t in the faculty. I’m taking undergrad courses, BUT, being a registered senior citoyen having the vantage of decades of experience and a much deeper and broader perspective on events and processes, focussing on starting mid 20th century, I am very capable and not reluctant at all to challenge the 20something brain sponges regarding topics such as nuclear power, microaggressions, social priorities and my favorite, an inexhaustible list of failed socialism experiments.

    aka call me a long since reformed, once ghastly naive left leaning yout’.

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