I’m a Black Ph.D. and here’s why I left academia
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I'm a Black Ph.D. and academia got so bad that I walked away. The relentless liberal agenda in colleges and universities is designed to cause resentment of Western Civilization.
My desire to empower my students was taken as an apologia for settler colonialism, a manifestation of my internalized anti-Blackness, a preference for White supremacy and a promotion of modern-day fascism. Erec Smith is a research fellow at the Cato Institute.
These sentiments had been lingering for years but became the cudgels of social justice initiatives at colleges and universities all over the country. Entire fields, especially my field of rhetoric and composition, were captured, even if the initiatives contradicted a field’s primary purpose. Wokeness’ usurpation of academia was swift, relentless and egregiously illiberal.
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