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Jodi Shaw has resigned from her post at Smith College after a long battle over Critical Race Theory
The former employee's battle against the Massachusetts based school is a sign of the times and, hopefully, of things to come. It's long past time this pernicious ideology got the scrutiny and repudiation it so richly deserves.
After over a year of combating
Critical Race Theory (CRT) at Smith, Jodi Shaw finally submitted her
letter of resignation to President Kathleen McCartney. She thereby relinquished her position as a Student Support Coordinator in Student Affairs, which earned her a whopping $45,000 per year.
But, you see, Jodi Shaw is "privileged," and, according to the CRT experts at Smith College and elsewhere, her privilege needs to be eradicated.
She needs to be subjected to CRT's racial profiling, struggle sessions, and shaming routines in order to root out her secret disease. Seeing no end in sight, Shaw finally decided she'd had enough.
The ins and outs of Shaw's battles with Smith follow a predictable pattern. I'm not surprised that the college has attempted to discredit her. In fact, having been the subject of NYU's
attempts to discredit me after I
criticized social justice ideology at NYU and across academia at large, I'd be surprised if they hadn't launched their campaign of
administrative gaslighting.
But the intricacies of Shaw's case at Smith College are less important than the war it represents.
The war is with a regime bent on silencing dissent and forcing submission to its essentialist, racist, totalitarian worldview. The objective of this ideology is to shame the majority into accepting that their way of life has come at the expense of racial injustice, and they must forfeit its benefits. They must scrutinize and humiliate themselves, forever.
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