A Brief Description of What It's Like to Be Me on Campus

Nov 11, 2022

I'm going to give you a brief description of what it's like to be me on campus. Very brief.

Pop my head in to see an old Chair.

Here's my greeting, after not seeing this person for months:

I ask, how's the grade inflating coming ?

And the Chair is shocked, shocked that's my greeting, when that's exactly what we talked about the last time we spoke, *and* it's what the Chair was doing when I popped my head in.

Here's another: a tenured six figure Democrat Theology professor grimmaces at my NRA hat in West Los Angeles at a liberal Catholic school. But he's not bothered in the least when the intercom comes with an active shooter drill that commands faculty--who are disarmed by state, Democrat law-- to barricade doors that open to the outside, or to lock the door that doesn't have a locking mechanism. He doesn't hate what passes as preparedness for "active" murderers, he hates the organization that helped Robert F. Williams fight the Klan in North Carolina, an organization founded in 1871 by Union (Republican) officers who'd just freed slaves from Democrats. That's what he hates.

An HR person asks me to fill out a form declaring my gender and race. Been there for years. I say, why don't you fill it out for me. Now that you've seen me. I can't do that, they respond. Why not? Because, you have to. No, that's not a reason, I say gently--that's just restating the conclusion--but I asked for the premise. "Why" is a request, not for a restatement of the conclusion, but of new information--for the reasons. Because I can't tell by looking at you, they say. How am I to tell?, I ask. I look at me, too. I go by the same evidence. You could tell a new thought entered their minds about this subject that they'd never thought about before. You could tell they thought it was a stupid policy or rule. They looked afraid of a lawsuit. I smiled and asked them to fill it out however they wanted. Left it there.

This kind of thing is Higher Ed. Why?

More later. Much, much more later.

The Republican Professor

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