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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You might look into Indiana. Doing some pretty conservative MAGA stuff over there. [/quote]

That they are. A friend of mine is a humanities professor at Indiana -- and just happened to post this on his social media earlier today:

[quote]In my system, we not only have to submit all syllabi for oversight by potential censors, but now also contend with an “intellectual diversity” law that allows right-wing students, community members, and all manner of fascist activists to lodge anonymous complaints against faculty -- already leading to suspensions. These measures, combined with cuts and closures of countless humanities programs across the state, has left the university thus far unrecognizable compared to what it was a decade ago.
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Making Indiana great, innit?

Bloomington is a great college town. Personally, I'm not remotely concerned about my children encountering people or even entire communities with views different from theirs or mine, whether in Bloomington or in or Columbus or in Austin or in Tallahassee. All that is fine and good. I've lived in communities where views similar to my own predominate and have been part of tiny minorities, and those experiences each carry different risks and plenty of opportunities.

But censors reviewing syllabi?
Anonymous complaints leading to suspensions?

Many of us remember a time when this sort of repression would be immediately condemned as "un-American" -- and certainly not celebrated by ideologues as some sort of patriotic restoration.

That time, however, has passed.

[quote]According to Inside Higher Ed, lawmakers in 32 states introduced a combined 93 bills that censor university faculty and curricula in 2025. Of those, 21 bills were enacted across 15 states: Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.[/quote]

These aren't the only attacks on academic freedom happening in today's America. (And notice that they really have nothing to do with "the south.)

But they are unprecedented in our lifetimes.

And they are worth paying attention to. [/quote]

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