A DEI hire sees through the wokisme and quits the tenure track. A must-read in The Atlantic:
In a consultant-led meeting I attended near the end of my time at the college, one month into Donald Trump’s second term, the small group of professors and senior administrators present was asked to share what it saw as Bates’s greatest strengths and weaknesses. One of my colleagues said that the college’s greatest strength was its commitment to DEI. Another said that the college’s greatest weakness was that it could be even more committed to DEI. Someone lamented that our ties to the Wabanaki Nations could have been stronger.
As snow turned into slush, I walked by a flyer pasted to a campus building announcing the college’s annual sex week. The technicolor poster proclaimed that Bates would be hosting a game of “dildo ring toss” and would provide “exploration tables” replete with sex toys. Once, I might have seen in that poster a symptom of everything wrong with the college—money wasted on weird bullshit, organized by bureaucrats whose jobs nobody could explain. Now I found it all oddly refreshing. What was Bates if not a place devoted to risk-free ideological masturbation? For a week, at least, we could be honest about it.
Months later, I joined The Atlantic as a full-time staff writer.
“As snow turned into slush, I walked by a flyer pasted to a campus building announcing the college’s annual sex week. The technicolor poster proclaimed that Bates would be hosting a game of “dildo ring toss” and would provide “exploration tables” replete with sex toys.”
Good heavens, what a terrible day to know how to read.
Unfortunately, it’s hard to tell whether this is some kind of demonic activity or a very well-crafted plot for a South Park episode. I don’t know how we got this far (sometimes I could only guess), and I’m just as clueless about how we can get out of it at all.
Good comments, Vini.
A populace addicted to pornography and sexual perversions of every sort will be easy to control by the apparatchiks of the totalitarian state.
Our institutions need to be fumigated, not torn down. How are things in Brazil?
Hey, Bill!
Oh, man… where do I even start?
I finished Law at the end of 2020, and things were already pretty wild. I don’t think the situation here is all that different from the US, unfortunately.
There was a “theatrical” piece — if we can even call it that — called Macaquinhos. It dates back to 2011 and somehow got a revival in the media through reenactments. I won’t describe it here for the sake of decency, but you can read a bit about it here:
https://www.uol.com.br/splash/noticias/2022/09/30/padre-kelmon-peca-macaquinhos.htm
Our “intellectual work” isn’t much better either. This outlet published around 20 paper titles produced at our universities:
https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/ideias/20-teses-insolitas-que-acabaram-sair-forno-universidades-brasil/ (If the title or abstract makes you raise your eyebrows and think “maybe it’s just a translation issue,” I can guarantee it’s not).
I’d say we’re in the same boat. The only difference, or so I think, is best captured by an old Brazilian penalist: ‘Whenever Europe makes fire, South America makes smoke.’ We’re not creating anything new — we’re just copying the degeneracy of the rest of the world.