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[quote=Anonymous]I’m new to this thread, but thank you OP for starting a thoughtful thread.

I think your use of the term “wokeism” is not entirely accurate, because that is a Fox News term, and what you are really worried about is the rise of academic heterodoxy. Maybe I am wrong, but I don’t think you’d mind (for instance) CRT being taught [i]if[/i] debate about CRT was simultaneously allowed. If I understood you correctly, you think CRT could be taught as a thought framework—it is an influential and important development in thinking—but not being able to have a discussion about CRT is wrong. In other words, if I’ve understood your posts correctly, you wouldn’t mind kids reading Kendi provided it’s okay for kids to debate what Kendi says without worrying about expulsion or other punishment.

That isn’t what I understand as being against wokeism. I think being against wokeism would mean you don’t want any discussion of CRT at all. But being against academic heterodoxy means you are okay with teaching progressive doctrines provided there is an opportunity to safely debate and challenge those ideas. But maybe I’ve misunderstood.

And yes, academic heterodoxy is a problem in these schools at this point, because they haven’t figured out how to enable debate of ideas that come out of the progressive left. As an example, if a girl track athlete in one of these elite schools stands up in (say) debate class and says that she doesn’t think that pre- medical transition trans girls should be able to compete against her in the 100 meter dash, there is a high likelihood she would face punishment and ostracism in a lot of these schools. Right now, there is rigid orthodoxy of thought on gender issues that many of the schools strictly enforce; a girl athlete expressing concerns about having to compete against pre-medical transition trans girls violates those rules, and she has a good chance of facing a quick administrative response. It is an issue, and you are correct about observing the issue.

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