Academia Crazifies Apace: "Student Grievance Processes Weaponized In White Supremacist Institutions Of Higher Ed"

The fact that the problem is actually basically the reverse of this is a hatefact, hatefacter. War is peace, freedom is slavery...you see where I'm goin' with this. Via PHILOS-L:

Student Grievance Processes Weaponized in White Supremacist Institutions of Higher Ed
WHAT: “Neutral” Student Grievance Processes in White Supremacist Institutions of Higher Education WHO: Farhana Loonat, Ph.D.
WHEN: May 19, 2021 TIME: 2:30 – 4 pm Pacific Standard Time 5:30 - 7pm Eastern Standard Time 11:30 pm – 1 am South African Time 3 am – 4:30 am India Time (May 20th)
WHERE: Zoom Meeting *******

Websites of white supremacist institutions of higher education in the United States almost always include messaging about the institution’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Despite administrators’ declarations of their DEI commitments, Black, Indigenous and other womxn faculty of color (BIPOC) remain severely underrepresented in higher education. This underrepresentation exists within a political and historical context in which womxn BIPOC faculty experience various forms of discrimination (Ford 2011; Kelly and McCann 2014; Matias 2013; Morris, Harris and Berthoud 2012; Pittman 2010; Sterett 2002; Turner et al 2011). In this presentation I theorize the ways in which administrators’ avowed commitments to DEI stand in contradiction to their support for racially biased student grievance processes. My presentation: 1. Illustrates how BIPOC womxn faculty’s diminished political status as gendered and raced bodies in academia makes them especially vulnerable to systemic gendered racism disguised as singular events. 2. Illuminates how national patterns of discrimination against BIPOC womxn faculty are reinforced within higher education when biased white students weaponize student grievance processes. 3. Unmasks student grievance processes that masquerade as neutral and expose their role in upholding white supremacy in higher education. 4. Provides recommendations on how administrators can bring their student grievance processes in line with research on students’ racial discrimination against BIPOC womxn faculty. 5. Provide suggestions for how BIPOC womxn faculty can protect themselves against biased students. 6. Invites reflection on what white womxn’s aggression against BIPOC womxn faculty in higher education implies for cross-racial feminist solidarity.