Woke mob comes for professor who opposes left-wing social values
By: Jarrett Stepman, Op-Ed Contributor
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Woke mob comes for professor who opposes left-wing social values
Unsplash/Markus Winkler If you don’t agree with the politically correct narrative, you must be destroyed.
That’s the attitude elite Western institutions increasingly take with anyone who disagrees with the ever-moving and increasingly radical cultural left. If you have the gall to still be operating within those institutions, you are treated with an even higher level of hate.
Boise State University professor Scott Yenor is witnessing this firsthand.
Yenor, a tenured professor of political science, stirred up an angry hive of discontent for a speech he made at a National Conservatism conference in late October.
In the speech, he denounced the feminist ideology that treats boys and girls as if they are not only the same, but should want and value the same things as each other. He said that the modern feminist ethos of “careerism” without connection to family and religion leaves them finding meaning in politics and what he called the “global project.”
He also said that our culture now devalues and expects little out of men.
These comments spurred countless media articles , denunciations , and protests on the Boise State campus.
The attacks came with little actual engagement with Yenor’s view. We are simply to assume that he’s wrong and that his words and ideas are unacceptable.
This isn’t the first time Yenor has provoked a cancel mob at Boise State.
In 2017, Yenor wrote an article for The Daily Signal in which he wrote that transgender activists are undermining parental rights and traditional family values.
Yenor wrote at the time:
Transgender rights activists are seeking to abridge parental rights by elevating the independent choices of young children. Respecting the sexual and gender “choices” of ever-younger children erodes parental rights and compromises the integrity of the family as an independent unit.
The reaction to Yenor’s comments then was also extreme, to say the least. Students , staff members, and outside activists sprung into action to get him fired, typically calling his words “hate speech.”
You can read his article here and decide for yourself if this constitutes hate speech.
Activists immediately launched a petition to get Yenor fired.
Boise State’s Vice President for Equity Initiatives Francisco Salinas went on a crusade against Yenor, tying his work to Nazism. As usual, it’s the diversity, equity, and inclusion administrators who act as the woke inquisitors on college campuses — reinforcing dogma and intimidating dissenters into silence.
Yenor didn’t back down. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Yenor explained that it was disappointing to see just how little the vehement denunciations addressed his arguments.
“It strikes me that there has really been, first of all, no effort to first understand what I’m arguing, and second of all, to get anywhere beyond name-calling and labeling,” Yenor said.
Instead of debate, Yenor said that the response felt like little more than a “mob.” The worst thing of all was not just that they were trying to get him fired, it was that their actions created a deep chill on speech.
Boise State didn’t fire Yenor. Instead, the dean offered a statement on Facebook , filled with woke buzzwords, saying that while the school supported free speech and debate, Yenor’s views weren’t really welcome on campus.
The latest round of outrage at Yenor only shows how much further the cultural revolution has proceeded in our elite institutions in just a few years.
Again, there has been little real engagement with Yenor’s ideas. Instead, he’s simply been subjected to rounds of ritual denunciations based on the assumption that his opinions must be untrue and that they were meant as an attack on women.
The attacks have been vicious and personal. Yenor released audio recordings of voicemails he received after the flurry of left-wing media stories came out. The messages were hateful, called for violence, and were in some cases completely deranged.
These are hate voicemails left for me after left-leaning media attacked me for giving a speech. How many of these tolerant and open-minded folks do you think even listened to the speech? https://t.co/sgXSNAayot
— Scott Yenor (@scottyenor) December 2, 2021
What’s happening to Yenor is how elite institutions — academia and establishment media — treat anyone who disagrees with prescribed cultural narratives. They now ruthlessly enforce specific social views to the exclusion of everything else.
Intellectual diversity is a threat to diversity. Inclusion requires the exclusion of dissenters. Equity is only given to those deemed worthy and without wrongthink.
The socially radical and increasingly stifling atmosphere of the modern college campus is growing and spreading to all areas of our society.
Those who do not shout their devotion to the revolution are to be treated without civility or humanity.
This is the ugly course our woke institutions are taking us. Genuine debate and civil disagreement are being replaced by enforced ideology and mob retribution toward dissenters.
This is the real threat to “democracy” and self-government in America. It’s the real threat to the land of liberty where free speech, meant to lead us to the truth, is replaced by speech codes and enforced groupthink.
Originally published at The Daily Signal .
Jarrett Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal and co-host of The Right Side of History podcast. He is also the author of the book The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past.
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For future generations all these people who were persecuted by the left will be regarded as heroes. This period will be regarded as a dark age.
And yet, it is progressive liberals always crying over what someone else says!
Yet another ridiculous meme attacking parents who speak out at school boards against the indoctrination of our kids. The images are like former Governor Mc Auliffe’s debate comments on steroids.
Very true...
AS the article points out attacks come without any consideration for the argument or connection with reality... just blind hate...
We see it everyday right here on the board....
What they are blind to is that a lot of common everyday folk across the nation is beginning to see it as well...
And they are way to woke to care.... It will be their downfall...
In case you have not noticed, the Trump world has its own team of wokes.
You are both right on in your comments regarding the seeded content. Well said!
And who are they and how do they operate. Are you referring to this?
https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/14834/right-responds-to-cancel-culture-by-building-its-own-left-goes-nuts
I don't have a cartoon handy, so I will simply state: what an unbridled load of hogwash!
I suppose without a cartoon, you are left without any argument!
You may well be right!
They also have been tearing apart their white “allies”. Professors who are devotedly and publicly “anti racists” , shill for all the extreme left wing causes, make a mistake and call a black student by the wrong name and boom, they are toast.
Here's the story of the woke professor being fired for mixing up two black students' names:
I heard about that! It’s an outrage the degree that woke secular progressive left elites are willing to go to enforce their dogma and resort to arrogant condescension when talking down to those who dare to disagree with them.
And that was it right there. And rightfully so.
Just like the intolerance on college campuses with the secular progressive elites, and comments on that seed, marriage, family, religion, and capitalism are the arch enemies of the woke elites
In this particular case, it seems like Yenor is doing just fine. No one is canceling him. The school continues to employ him and defend his right to say what he says even if they disagree with it. That’s exactly what he should expect.
Additionally, though, he says a bunch of stuff that offends people, and those people have a right to respond - in anger (but not threats) if that is their choice. Keep in mind, we aren’t talking about something he said as part of a private conversation, where maybe he could reasonably expect some privacy. He is publishing his thoughts in print and rendering them also in speeches at public events. He should expect public responses.
But there is a difference between intellectual debate and challenging ones beliefs with counter points and what is happening here. As to Yenor, he’s a brave man to stand up for what so many believe to be true.