NY Times’ columnist Michelle Goldberg downplays cancel culture (but her readers disagree) HotAir

A retired professor says these are scary times.

I m retired but I worked for decades as a scientist in industry, and also taught for many years as an adjunct in both community colleges and at a private university, going clear back to 1972 and through 2016.

I like many have seen unbelievable changes over those decades.

Anyone who doesn t think that the politically correct thought police control the agenda, and what is allowed to be discussed at most colleges today doesn t have a clue.

If you don t largely align with the woke and their agenda and view, you shut up, or your career is effectively over.

Few if any really speak their minds today. They may agree with some but not all of the views and goals of the PC, but you don t express that. There is no real debate about any cultural, political or social issue among faculty today. And you guard what you express in class of course.

It s insane. And those in academia today know well of what I m saying. We re not headed in a good direction as far as having a climate where honest differences in views can be expressed and discussed in colleges today.

Today, the woke define what is right and acceptable. If you disagree, one way or another you ll be cancelled. They of course think they re right and you re totally wrong.

Most with any sense see the hypocrisy and fascism. Scary times.

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