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How do I even explain this, okay.
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I mean, listen. Academic department meetings are notoriously awful. I've been to department meetings at other schools (and at other departments in my own school) where people literally stand up and scream at each other. It's no news to anyone that professors like to play pointless politics games that affect no one but themselves. But...
I feel so betrayed and frustrated that this group of people makes such a big deal about "diversity" and "diversity statements" and "protecting the humanities" and "the value of studying other cultures" in an abstract sense but absolutely cannot tolerate someone who does excellent work but whose situation requires a progressive and nuanced understanding of what difference is and how it affects individuals and the larger community.
It's like, why are we all here, then? What's the point?
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I mean, listen. Academic department meetings are notoriously awful. I've been to department meetings at other schools (and at other departments in my own school) where people literally stand up and scream at each other. It's no news to anyone that professors like to play pointless politics games that affect no one but themselves. But...
I feel so betrayed and frustrated that this group of people makes such a big deal about "diversity" and "diversity statements" and "protecting the humanities" and "the value of studying other cultures" in an abstract sense but absolutely cannot tolerate someone who does excellent work but whose situation requires a progressive and nuanced understanding of what difference is and how it affects individuals and the larger community.
It's like, why are we all here, then? What's the point?
