Glenn Loury recently featured Vincent Lloyd, a black, antiracist, and fairly 'woke' associate professor at Villanova University whose seminar was 'blown up' by a young black student crazy named Keisha and several other fellow student crazies who expelled two students with 'unorthodox' views and accused Lloyd of perpetuating 'anti-black r…
Glenn Loury recently featured Vincent Lloyd, a black, antiracist, and fairly 'woke' associate professor at Villanova University whose seminar was 'blown up' by a young black student crazy named Keisha and several other fellow student crazies who expelled two students with 'unorthodox' views and accused Lloyd of perpetuating 'anti-black racism'. The grand irony is that Lloyd was largely dismissive of critics of woke excesses and now has become a victim of them.
Race, and feeling oh-pressed by racism, is just too important to some black people to give up readily.
Students like Keisha have learned they can squeeze some power out of leveraging their victimhood. And while I sympathise with his position, professors like Lloyd are altogether too cowardly when it comes to challenging these students. Which, of course, is what the students are counting on.
It's exactly the same playbook the gender ideologues are using. Just as nobody in a progressive space dares point out how incoherent gender ideology is in case they get ostracised for being a transphobe, nobody in a progressive space dares question a black person's "lived experience," however improbable, in case they get pilloried as a racist.
In both cases, the Keishas of the world make life measurably worse for (and turn public opinion against) the trans or black or *insert identity here* people, just trying to live their lives. And completely ignore those who are genuinely marginalised.
Read the Compact article today. What shocked me was how easily the professor acquiesced to Keisha, *letting her get away with it for a month*, and how easily she corralled the others...who were different when she wasn't around, and who got cheated out of a great seminar because of Keisha's malignant narcissism. He needs to grow a pair. He needed to do what John McWhorter advised: Tell her to knock it off, he's running the class, and if she doesn't like it she could leave. He should have approached Telluride sooner too.
One "anti-blackness" obsessed child should not be allowed to ruin a very special group because she thinks she already knows it all. I wonder why she even bothered applying fir it unless she was hoping for nonstop "anti-blackness" drivel (taken to her extremes).
"What shocked me was how easily the professor acquiesced to Keisha"
Yep, as I said, this cowardliness is 90% of the problem. It's impossible to appease narcissists while playing their game. Set the ground rules early and give them the choice to leave if they don't like them.
Too many of these teachers don't understand the difference between being reasonable and letting students treat them like a doormat. And, of course, after the students have gone used to wielding power in this way, they come to expect it.
Glenn Loury recently featured Vincent Lloyd, a black, antiracist, and fairly 'woke' associate professor at Villanova University whose seminar was 'blown up' by a young black student crazy named Keisha and several other fellow student crazies who expelled two students with 'unorthodox' views and accused Lloyd of perpetuating 'anti-black racism'. The grand irony is that Lloyd was largely dismissive of critics of woke excesses and now has become a victim of them.
Race, and feeling oh-pressed by racism, is just too important to some black people to give up readily.
Yes! I saw this story. Write-up here if you haven't seen it already: https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell
Students like Keisha have learned they can squeeze some power out of leveraging their victimhood. And while I sympathise with his position, professors like Lloyd are altogether too cowardly when it comes to challenging these students. Which, of course, is what the students are counting on.
It's exactly the same playbook the gender ideologues are using. Just as nobody in a progressive space dares point out how incoherent gender ideology is in case they get ostracised for being a transphobe, nobody in a progressive space dares question a black person's "lived experience," however improbable, in case they get pilloried as a racist.
In both cases, the Keishas of the world make life measurably worse for (and turn public opinion against) the trans or black or *insert identity here* people, just trying to live their lives. And completely ignore those who are genuinely marginalised.
Read the Compact article today. What shocked me was how easily the professor acquiesced to Keisha, *letting her get away with it for a month*, and how easily she corralled the others...who were different when she wasn't around, and who got cheated out of a great seminar because of Keisha's malignant narcissism. He needs to grow a pair. He needed to do what John McWhorter advised: Tell her to knock it off, he's running the class, and if she doesn't like it she could leave. He should have approached Telluride sooner too.
One "anti-blackness" obsessed child should not be allowed to ruin a very special group because she thinks she already knows it all. I wonder why she even bothered applying fir it unless she was hoping for nonstop "anti-blackness" drivel (taken to her extremes).
"What shocked me was how easily the professor acquiesced to Keisha"
Yep, as I said, this cowardliness is 90% of the problem. It's impossible to appease narcissists while playing their game. Set the ground rules early and give them the choice to leave if they don't like them.
Too many of these teachers don't understand the difference between being reasonable and letting students treat them like a doormat. And, of course, after the students have gone used to wielding power in this way, they come to expect it.