“Of the 39 courses offered this past fall by the department… none focused primarily on race.”
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. Now there’s a whole ProPublica sob story about how Florida’s ban on indoctrinating students with racist and hateful ideas is really hurting the real victims.
Racist profs. Get out your hankies, you’re gonna need them.
Jonathan Cox faced an agonizing decision. He was scheduled to teach two classes this past fall at the University of Central Florida that would explore colorblind racism, the concept that ostensibly race-neutral practices can have a discriminatory impact. The first, “Race and Social Media,” featured a unit on “racial ideology and color-blindness.” The second, “Race and Ethnicity,” included a reading on “the myth of a color-blind society.” An assistant sociology professor, Cox had taught both courses before; they typically drew 35 to 40 undergraduates apiece.
As recently as August 2021, Cox had doubted that the controversy over critical race theory — which posits, among other things, that racism is ingrained in America’s laws and power structure — would hamstring his teaching. Asked on a podcast what instructors would do if, as anticipated, Florida restricted the teaching of CRT in higher education, he said that they would need to avoid certain buzzwords. “What many of us are looking at doing is just maybe shifting some of the language that we’re using.”…
Last April, DeSantis signed the Individual Freedom Act, also known as the “Stop Woke Act,” into law. It bans teaching that one race or gender is morally superior to another and prohibits teachers from making students feel guilty for past discrimination by members of their race. And it specifically bars portraying racial colorblindness — which the law labels a virtue — as racist…
A month before the fall 2022 semester was set to start, he scrapped both courses. Students scrambled to register for other classes. “It didn’t seem like it was worth the risk,” said Cox, who taught a graduate course on inequality and education instead. “I’m completely unprotected.” He added, “Somebody who’s not even in the class could come after me. Somebody sees the course catalog, complains to a legislator — next thing I know, I’m out of a job.”
Mission accomplished.
But, ProPublica wails, Cox isn’t up for tenure until the fall and his “salary was his family’s only income while his wife stayed home with their baby.”
His wife is a realtor. The poverty must be grinding.
How much sympathy did these people have for the folks whose lives were destroyed, were fired, left unemployable and canceled over misunderstandings or failing to get into line with BLM fast enough?
Here was Cox cheering the Dr. Seuss book ban last year.
When the writer Joyce Carol Oates noted that editors won’t even touch first novels by young white male writers, Cox sneered, “I’m just here for the replies to this blatant lie and reverse-racism pity party.”
I’m just here for ProPublica’s blatant lies and racism pity party.
“If they are acquitted, I’m fine with whatever forms of responsive rage that will happen across the country,” Cox tweeted about one incident.
That’s a Florida prof endorsing violence. It’s the same guy that ProPublica tries to turn into a saint being round under by DeSantis.
Some of Cox’s racist tweets include, “White people can literally get away with anything” and “the kicker is connection to how white logic perpetuates ongoing racist ideology.”
He complained that, “I grew up listening to my mom (a Black woman PhD) speak in frustration about her (mostly White) undergrad students who had the audacity to call her by her 1st name. Here I am—years later, a PhD myself—with the same damn problem.”
“I go running in the morn a couple times each week. I see (mostly White) ppl out walking their dogs or kids to school, and most are friendly. We’ll wave, smile, and say GM. But some of these ppl—esp older White ppl—won’t even acknowledge me. They will stare very Jim Crowly though.”
That’s a small sampling.
It’s painfully clear that Cox, like most racialists, has issues with white people. He’s not an “expert” teaching an academic subject, as ProPublica insists, he’s a racist spreading hate using taxpayer funds.
And he’s worried now that Gov. DeSantis has forced the universities that used to pander to and coddle academic racists to do the math and stand down.
“UCF Provost Michael Johnson told faculty last July that the university would “have to take disciplinary action” against any faculty member who repeatedly violated the Individual Freedom Act because it couldn’t afford to lose a “catastrophic amount” — $32 million — in state funding linked to graduation rates and other metrics.
Cox’s department chair, Elizabeth Mustaine, said she went along with the professors’ wishes because “I thought: ‘I’m not going to stress anyone out about this. It’s crazy.’” Still, she added, “it’s an absolute tragedy that classes like this get canceled.” Of the 39 courses offered this past fall by a department that specializes in the study of human society, none focused primarily on race.”
This is what winning looks like.
It’s not leftist rage, it’s leftist fear.
GabrielKing210 says
And the cherry on top ? Scum like this get rich with your stolen tax dollars ! Watching these Communist trash “play the victim” makes my stomach churn ! And then we get to watch the maggots in Congress who stole our money to fund these worms gloat over our demise as they genocide the planet with fake vaccines, chemtrails, and climate scams.
America began with a tax revolt. If they came after one of us, they would have to face ALL of us. It’s time to stop letting these lying trash steal from us, WE THE PEOPLE are supposed to be the government. Not vote frauders and foreign invaders exploiting our Amnesty laws.
SICK OF IT ALL YET ? Or do you require further lashings ?
somehistory says
A “win” for the kids, for the students and the parents who pay others to educate their children about math, science, language, history, etc. Gov. DeSantis is a father and cares about children. I’m in agreement with his policies on this fight against the social cancer; and hope his wife beats the cancer she has.
DHZ says
Non-imaginary racism is now at it’s lowest point in the history of human beings. Consequently racists, who identify as non-racist race saviors, hate that fact which leaves them with two strategies:
1. Exaggerate, amplify and repeat over and over any known instance where a Black or Brown person of color is actually a real victim of a real racist (this may depend on an imaginary class of racist, the black racist).
2. Invent a new form of imaginary racism, exaggerate it’s imaginary existence, amplify it’s imaginary effects and repeat the totally fabricated non-issue until everybody around you wants to throw up, or is cowering in fear of being called a racist and losing their jobs.
Guilt tripping, gaslighting and race baiting is only racist if some else does it. When successful, the reward for all this behavior is in the power gained over other people’s hearts, minds and spoken words. When this happens the “melanin deprived” people, who aren’t racist at all, will be forced to publicly lie about themselves. This kind of humiliation is icing on the cake of your newly acquired, and utterly unwarranted, importance.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There is a solution for these professors. Move to New York or Illinois – the reverse route of what most residents of those states have been taking. They’ve come to Florida to get away from all that, and now, you can move to those states where the governments are still solidly behind you. There you can teach the 1619 project and all the other ‘Whites-are-evil’ classes that you wish to teach. Just hope that you aren’t around when graduates of those classes who can’t land proper jobs once companies stop being woke turn around to sue you!