Sounds like they did her a favor.
The claims about 'White Supremacy Culture' alone are asinine (sense of urgency?).
Why anybody would want to participate in academia as an administrator is beyond me. It just seems so toxic and petty.
The claims about 'White Supremacy Culture' alone are asinine (sense of urgency?).
Why anybody would want to participate in academia as an administrator is beyond me. It just seems so toxic and petty.
Okun's website attempts to clarify all of this; for instance, the page expanding on "worship of the written word" explains that it's a reaction to the idea that anything not written down according to formal standards is worthless. That's not a crazy DEI idea, so much so that it's part of the plot of the Terry Gilliam movie Brazil.
But people just want fortune cookies to memorize and repeat, and it is somewhat on people like Okun for providing those fortunes and only 20 years later clarifying them. And, of course, De Anza wasn't at all engaged with Okun's actual thoughts; it was using them to prevent managers from setting agendas for meetings.
Again: everybody involved in this story is a crank.