SPOT THE ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM.

Inside Higher Ed discovers a controversy at the cesspool of the west.  "Faculty and students at the University of Michigan are calling on a regent to resign due to his leadership role in the Republican Party and rhetoric around the 2020 election and Capitol violence."  The regent is former U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, Ron Weiser, not to be confused with Bud Weiser.

You'd hope that people attending what still trades on its reputation as a selective public Ivy would make a good argument or so.  Judge for yourself, dear reader.

“We acknowledge that you were democratically elected to your position as regent. We also acknowledge your right to seek the chair of the MI-GOP,” the letter reads. “However, we maintain that the aims of these two positions diverge so radically that you cannot hold both concurrently without bringing disrepute to our university.”

The University of Michigan, the letter says, is dedicated to seeking truth and the emergence of a diverse, equitable society.

“The Michigan GOP, by contrast, is a partisan organization that has chosen to side with blatant lies, helped foment an anti-democratic uprising, and worked to disenfranchise the voters of Detroit, a majority Black city.”

I wonder if "emergence" is really the word the authors seek.