By the time they arrive in college, many young Americans have been turned into zealots for all the “progressive” notions. They don’t want to hear anything that doesn’t support their beliefs and are eager to make life miserable for people they regard as their enemies.
Here is a sad story by Villanova professor Vincent Lloyd who recounts his experiences in trying to deal with “woke” students.
Lloyd writes:
They alleged: I had used racist language. I had misgendered Brittney Griner. I had repeatedly confused the names of two black students. My body language harmed them. I hadn’t corrected facts that were harmful to hear when the (now-purged) students introduced them in class. I invited them to think about the reasoning of both sides of an argument, when only one side was correct. The students ended with a demand: In light of all the harms they had suffered, they could only continue in the class if I abandoned the seminar format and instead lectured each day about anti-blackness, correcting any of them who questioned orthodoxy. The only critical perspectives they were receiving during the summer, they claimed, were from Keisha. A white girl—the one with all the snails—punctuated their point: “Keisha speaks for me: She says everything I think better than I ever could.”
You can’t teach people whose minds are closed.
Hat tip: Don Boudreaux