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Schadenfreude Article Of The Week.

"My daughter is a tenure-track assistant professor at a well-regarded liberal arts college." : Schadenfreude
"I’m a humanities professor, and I am middle-aged (55, to be exact)" : Schadenfreude
"It’s about whether those cases produce enough fear in other academics." : Schadenfreude
"I had a conversation about this with a friend who is a college professor. She received a lengthy screed from a student who dropped her class after two days because the student had been made to feel “stupid” " : Schadenfreude
"(Same Libtard freak as above) I have two teenagers, one of whom has gone all in on the Woke Brigade." : Schadenfreude
"Clearly, Michelle Goldberg doesn’t actually work on a college campus. I do. The teaching environment is fraught with the fear of saying something that is taken completely out of context" : Schadenfreude
"I’m retired but I...taught for many years as an adjunct in both community colleges and at a private university, going clear back to 1972 and through 2016....If you don’t largely align with the “woke” and their agenda and view, you shut up, or your career is effectively over." : Schadenfreude
"I am a staff member, not faculty, in academia. The current political environment can be stifling. not just from students, also from faculty and staff. I am, by all accounts, an anti-racist liberal Democrat. I announce my pronouns on my badge, name tags, at meetings, etc… And even I have been shut down at meetings for expressing ideas not liberal enough by people whose beliefs have no flexibility" : Schadenfreude
"This from a liberal college professor...Please believe those of us who are sounding the alarm." : Schadenfreude
"The problem with cancel culture is that it is mob justice. Combined with what appears to be many young people’s tendency to feel that anything they think must have validity, and what they don’t like must be wrong, it’s a pretty toxic stew." : Schadenfreude
"I’ve been teaching at a mid-sized, liberal arts college for 20 yrs and agree with Dre. You can feel the pall that has descended over both faculty and students when it comes to open expression, let alone disagreement. It’s born of fear. As a lit prof..." : Schadenfreude