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Just days later, McElroy’s tenure offer unraveled after the university buckled under backlash from Texas Scorecard, a conservative website, and an unspecified group of individuals close to the university who opposed her previous diversity initiatives. A new state law will limit that and the discussion of race and inclusion on college campuses next year.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Texas state government stepping in and quashing a new university journalism department that would have been headed by an award-winning investigative journalist is very on-brand, given how many scandals the state produces in a given year.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the black and a woman parts of the equation.

[–] TheAndrewBrown@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It’s crazy to me that the backlash was so bad the president had to resign. Just because Texas is that racist

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Conservatives are opposed to education and should be prohibited from participating in the administration of higher education. If we are allowed to make laws probibiting inclusion of vulnerable groups of people, we need laws probibiting the inclusion of conservatives as well.

Nearly every act of racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia in history has been committed by conservatives. Conservatism should be excluded from polite society and completely shunned by the intelligent among us. Do your part in your daily life by excluding conservatives. It is inappropriate and grotesque to do business with or engage in personal relationships with conservatives.

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Conservatives should be prohibited from participating in society.

[–] LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

There's a professor in another university who literally used to tweet about black people being subhuman and asian people too and routinely would tell them to go back to their countries on twitter, but she was never fired because SHE had tenure at a pretty well known law school

I honestly don't understand this country