Yeah, Pres Roth has a post up in Politico, commenting on the plans for a new school “the University of Austin”, whose perhaps not overwhelming prospects I commented on here last week. Yet I gave a pretty hearty thumb’s up to new Austin pres Pano Kanelos’ harsh words regarding the curse of political correctness that indeed holds forth across America’s campuses:
Nearly a quarter of American academics in the social sciences or humanities endorse ousting a colleague for having a wrong opinion about hot-button issues such as immigration or gender differences. Over a third of conservative academics and PhD students say they had been threatened with disciplinary action for their views. Four out of five American PhD students are willing to discriminate against right-leaning scholars, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
Well, sez you, sneers Michael S:
We’ve heard such complaints again and again from moderate and conservative critics at odds with students and faculty devoted to such things as rooting out racism, treating less conventional people with respect and eradicating gender-based violence and discrimination. Most of the critics are themselves in favor of these things in principle, but they fear that through a combination of self-righteousness, hypocrisy and group think, campus cultures have gone too far.
Got that, fascists? Sure, you say you believe in good things, but you aren’t willing to ruin the careers of people who disagree with you! And you call that virtue!
Michael S. Roth, seeking to refute the “cliché” of political correctness, becomes that cliché instead. What an ugly little mind, one who just happens to be in charge of a major American University. Austin, here I come!
