HIGHER EDUCATION'S SELF-INFLICTED DESANTIS PROBLEM.

I chronicle it.  "After years of higher education being run by people who have not acted in good faith, Florida coming to this pass comes as no surprise."

Its practitioners bring it on themselves.  Consider a recent presentation by a Vanderbilt professor of mathematics education that reads like "an over-the-top caricature", but it's not.  "Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice."  I wonder if "Diophantane equation" or "characteristic and mantissa" are even in this poseur's vocabulary.

I apply my framework and research findings to argue how undergraduate mathematics education operates as a white, cisheteropatriarchal space that limits learning opportunities affirming of queer of color identities and experiences. I conclude by re-imagining undergraduate mathematics education with structural disruptions that advance justice for learners marginalized across intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. This re-imagining accounts for ideological, institutional, and relational forms of disruption that interrogate dominant forms of knowledge production as well as expand access to learning opportunities and departmental support that affirm queer of color identities.

Plus, predictably, that stupid use of "interrogate". Everybody is now dumber for having sat through that.  I wonder if anybody at the session suggested that maybe those "dominant forms of knowledge production" ... dominate because they produce knowledge.

Apparently, some forms of structural disruption are more permissible than others these days.  An art historian shows an old Persian icon depicting Mohammed and the Archangel Gabriel, some Islamic Elmer Gantry riles up the Minneapolis faithful, and Hamline University beclowns itself.  Take a dig at Christians or Jews, or, heck, put Elmer Gantry on the reading list, and maybe that's a way to affirm those allegedly marginalized identities.

Showing an artistic rendition of Muhammad can get a professor fired within a semester’s time, but the evidence is lacking for definitive disciplinary action in cases of anti-Christian or anti-Jewish bias.

To use the words of the Hamline administration letter, “Ideally, each one of us should respect the lived experiences of others, and take appropriate responsibility, as leaders do, when those experiences fall short of expectations.”

One thing is clear: The feelings—and in some cases the physical safety—of Jewish and Christian students do not count in the eyes of the liberal academy.

Yes, and a drag show visit to the convent is all in good fun.

Perhaps, the poobahs of higher education, and their flying monkeys in the diversity, inclusion, and equity hustle ought to dial it back before they get mocked, before the voters find their own version of Ron DeSantis to champion Normals, before they get sued into insolvency.  "Schools Should Think Twice Before Punishing Faculty for Their Speech."  That essay notes, "One might think that school officials would learn from that, but they seem strangely obtuse about the legal ramifications whenever they want to go after someone who has gotten their goat."

Is it any surprise that terminally stupid people would not be strangely obtuse?