More proof as if we needed any that Democrats charges of racism sexism etc are projections… By way of Joanne Jacobs.
Erec Smith, formerly a professor of rhetoric and composition, got tired of colleagues calling him “inauthentically Black” because he embraced “white ways of knowing” such as “argumentation, knowledge of standard English and reason.”
“Critical thinking . . . became critical feeling,” Smith writes. The only acceptable feeling was resentment toward Western Civilization.
“My dedication to the preparation of my students for a free, pluralistic and liberal society induced a rancorous and multiracial tantrum from those dedicated to destroying said society,” he writes. “My desire to empower my students was taken as an apologia for settler colonialism, a manifestation of my internalized anti-Blackness, a preference for White supremacy and a promotion of modern-day fascism.”
There was no place for a Black man who doesn’t identify as a victim, Smith complains. Nor was there any demand for a Black rhetorician who didn’t want to focus on Black rhetoric.
So Smith has left his job at York College for the Cato Institute, where he’ll be a research fellow. He hopes to devote himself to “the life of the mind” — not fending off “middle-school mean girls” with PhDs.
With the tip of the hat to Ed Driscoll.
You know, it’s too bad that Candace Owens isn’t at Cato. I get the feeling she and Smith would get along just fine.
