Student Reports GMU Prof to DEI Office After He Criticized Proposal to Add More Mandated DEI Classes
“Even people who agree with such views should ponder the justice of creating an official state-sanctioned orthodoxy and requiring all students to spend multiple classes feigning agreement with it.”
George Mason University wants to mandate two more DEI courses. One professor spoke out against it. A student reported him. From The College Fix:
Economist Bryan Caplan posted on X his strong objection to the proposal — which is on the cusp of being implemented even as several states across the nation have enacted laws that curb diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and offices in higher education.
“George Mason University is a public university, funded by Virginians with a wide range of political views about the nature of justice. The Just Societies Initiative is a thinly-veiled effort to teach far-left (or ‘woke’) views of justice as the One True Position,” Caplan posted Feb. 20.
“Even people who agree with such views should ponder the justice of creating an official state-sanctioned orthodoxy and requiring all students to spend multiple classes feigning agreement with it.”
That post was screenshot by a student and emailed to GMU’s DEI office, flagged as troubling comments, an email Caplan told The College Fix he was CC’d on. He called it a veiled threat, but added he will not back down on his criticisms.
He said professors who would teach most of the courses that fulfill the “Just Societies” requirement “are so obviously and overwhelmingly biased that it does a disservice to the subject.”
My university plans to add new required "Just Society" courses.
My public comment: "George Mason University is a public university, funded by Virginians with a wide range of political views about the nature of justice. The Just Societies Initiative is a thinly-veiled effort to…
— Bryan Caplan (@bryan_caplan) February 20, 2024
Thankfully, many professors sided with Caplan and pushed against the proposal.
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Cue the Campus Outrage Brigade in 3…2…1….
Did the student actually care one way or the other about the allegedly troubling comments or was it just an excuse to strike at a teacher who didn’t give the grade the student wanted?
When you weaponize something, people will use it as a weapon.
DEI/CRT is such a fraud.
“One professor spoke out against it. A student reported him.”
Thank you, tovarisch. Here’s your armband. You’ve earned it.
GMU morphed into Faber College so quickly I hardly noticed.
Do any of these schools still teach courses in German History. The one that Bob Neil taught at Oberlin in the 1970’s perfectly illustrated how the Nazis employed every single tactic being used by the Left these days. So my take away from the course was “what the Nazis did was wrong”, while I guess some of my classmates saw it as “this is what the Nazis did wrong.”
I wonder what percentage of the student body in 2016 was considered ‘weaponized” by Raimondo.