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I've been told that many faculty, admin, and alums @MiamiLawSchool and @univmiami have been upset, concerned, and felt attacked my by words.
Good. Now they know exactly how my conservative, religious, libertarian, and @realDonaldTrump supporting students have felt for years. ...
Good. Now they know exactly how my conservative, religious, libertarian, and @realDonaldTrump supporting students have felt for years. ...
... These students, who literally number in the hundreds, have confided in me as the ONLY faculty member they trust to share their true selves with.
I'm sick and tired of hearing the horror stories over and over again of REAL direct personal attacks on these students by ...
I'm sick and tired of hearing the horror stories over and over again of REAL direct personal attacks on these students by ...
... faculty (yes, faculty, most tenured) and fellow students merely for expressing ideas in the classroom or on campus. The MAJORITY of the students that have complained to me they live in fear of speaking their truth are women, and many are black, LGBTQ, and of other groups ...
... that aren't socially allowed on campus to publicly disagree with groupthink. One conservative of color was called an Uncle Tom. Seriously. The Dean has been told. I don't believe the student filed a bias complaint because that's not how conservatives react to free speech. ...
... I've raised these concerns over and over, in faculty wide emails dating back years, and receive no response other than the same exact personal attack. Numerous faculty have yelled at and cursed at me for my political views. I've never EVER once done the same. I've NEVER ...
... personally attacked anyone. Ideas are fair game. Pointing out someone's race, gender, religion, nationality, or other feature of identity as a basis to attack their beliefs is not only the weakest of all weak sauce, it's morally repugnant.
I've asked that public events ...
I've asked that public events ...
... discussing matters of public policy have at least one Republican or conservative on them, and been told that's not appropriate for an academic environment, that students need to be confronted with ideas they disagree with even if they're made uncomfortable. The hypocrisy ...
... of this response is astounding. Everything I've said here, I have the documentary poof to back it up. If we want to live in truth, let's do it. Let's get the details out, and on record.
I know with absolute confidence that if the school goes through the evaluations of ...
I know with absolute confidence that if the school goes through the evaluations of ...
... professors by students they'll find many that complain of how faculty treat conservative students. There's administrative hostility also, where conservatives are held to different standards, or not treated the same as other groups.
I've been told to "follow rules of ...
I've been told to "follow rules of ...
... professionalism" that are not written, defined, or applied to any other member of the faculty. I'll happily play by the same rules as applied to others, but don't selectively choose to apply certain standards to me while letting anything go by other faculty.
Despite my ...
Despite my ...
... concerns and warnings about these issues of fairness and decency and true existence of diversity of thought on campus, nothing has changed. They're met with claims of "white male privilege", which while of questionable substantive merit, is also factually untrue. Many of ...
... the students suffering from the dual standard on campus are not white male.
In short, if the powers that be at the university are finally thinking about these issues, I've accomplished my goal. No student or faculty should feel incapable of expressing their opinions ...
In short, if the powers that be at the university are finally thinking about these issues, I've accomplished my goal. No student or faculty should feel incapable of expressing their opinions ...
... or permitted to make personal attacks. The problem is, conservative ideas are seen as personal attacks, while personal attacks on conservatives are seen as ideas.
I've been told that if I live in my truth and fight for conservative students, which I do without ever ...
I've been told that if I live in my truth and fight for conservative students, which I do without ever ...
... making any personal attack on anyone, then I no longer have a place at the U. I suspect they're now concocting on a way to pressure me to quit, to publicly shame me, to ostracize me, to document my professional failings. Good luck, but as I said before, I will not quit.
