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Bret Weinstein voluntarily resigned his position at Evergreen; Thomas Sowell is still a member of Stanford's Hoover Institution.

If you want a case of an academic being drummed out of academia for their beliefs, the best example is that of Nikole Hanna Jones, the woman behind the 1619 Project, a MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize winner who was denied tenure primarily at the request of a wealthy conservative donor.

As for a monoculture, I don't agree, but I concede, American universities have, in modern times, leaned liberal. American universities are also the envy of the world, and objectively are the best on the planet. If it isn't broke, why fix it?

And why trust the same people who gave us Donald Trump to fix anything?

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Yes... Bret Weinstein "voluntarily" resigned his position at Evergreen... after being hunted by a mob with baseball bats.

Nikole Hanna-Jones--author of the egregiously historically inaccurate 1619 project and an "academic" with no PhD, no academic publications, no teaching experience--was offered a non-tenure 5-year contract at UNC. Then when UNC eventually buckled under woke pressure and offered the 5-year contract with tenure, Jones rejected UNC and accepted a tenured position at Howard instead.

Very comparable situation.

This comment is the perfect storm of all things pernicious with a lot of modern discourse I see surrounding wokeism. Let's see; * liberal interpretation of the word "voluntary," * presenting Nikole Hanna Jones as a martyr for social justice when in reality she is no such thing, * no mention of the political allegiance or ideology of the people behind those awards as if they were objective and neutral third-parties (they're not), * no elaboration on the 1619 Project and its MANY faults, chief among them being its status of more of a work of fan-fiction than historical reality as attested by the author herself, * exaggerating the degree to which American universities are neutral; they are not, they are fully captured institutions of the left for better or worse (note that I am neutral on this point) * mandatory mention of Donald Trump for maximum effect, * all of the above presented with an aggravating demeanor of a petulant apologist for bad politics, all while pretending to be some sort of centrist(?) (or at least that is how I interpreted your attitude. I could be wrong. Let me know.)

If you do consider yourself some kind of leftist or at least an advocate for social justice, can you stop with this manner of addressing your purported adversaries online? I can't think of anything more frustrating than crypto-wokeists. It fans the flames of animosity and strengthens the spirit of reaction. You're not fooling anyone with this plausibly-deniable posturing.

Of course I could be wrong myself and read into your comment more than you intended :).

>why trust the same people who gave us Donald Trump to fix anything?

What? Where did anyone say anything about 'people who gave us Donald Trump'?

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