“To suggest, as the critical race theorists do, that equality must precede liberty is simply to jettison the latter without securing the former.” Henry Louis Gates Jr., director, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard, writing in the New Republic, 1993
A major effort to attack critical race theory is gaining steam at the policy level, in local school boards, in the regulation of the military by Congress, and in state legislatures mooting bills that would, in some cases, restrict teaching in institutions of higher learning. It is no longer tenable for people who care about the substance of this fight over ideas to pretend it is an argument over what to call them, or to pretend coyly not to know approximately what is being discussed when people refer to wokeness. Cultural and policy changes are moving fast.
Freedom of speech according to the gospel of Koch
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But the faculty (surprise!) is mostly white, according to the Human Resources annual report[PDF].
In 2016, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education picked OU for its Top 10 list of worst colleges for free speech [
On FIRE’s 100-point scale that surveyed 55 colleges, the university ranked an abysmal 38. FIRE CEO Greg Lukianoff detailed OU’s anti-free speech movement at
HuffPost [
The 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2016, December 6, 2017]. Oklahoma State University, the state’s second biggest university, has PC problems too, but its ranking is 50. I documented a reason here:
OU’s problems are not new. They go back at least