Texas A&M loses its President then its soul
Texas A&M loses its President then its soul
Partisan coercion and outright censorship at this once great university should now be forcefully condemned by every American
This morning there was this:
According to the terrific reporting by the Texas Tribune, the professor was ultimately cleared. There is no recording of her lecture, and witnesses did not clearly recall what, if anything, she might have said about the Lt. Governor. None the less, the university sent out a broadly worded and censure letter to all students in attendance. The professor was put through a frightening ordeal. All the details, so far as they are known, are spelled out in the article.
What emerges from this, and other stories is clear evidence that of censorship and coercion by government forces Texas. It is far more dangerous and troubling than the sometimes-ill-tempered obstruction of speakers by students who find the content of their speeches repellent. Here we have state sponsored censorship, abetted by the leadership of the university for partisan political purposes.
This follows the hasty departure of the University’s President after the administration tampered with an offer letter to a Black scholar.
I am reminded of a visit several colleagues and I made to China in the 1990s. I was invited to several universities to discuss business education. Towards the end of one of the conversations I on campuses, the authorities prematurely ushered us out. As we were departing, the school’s CCP committee leadership went in. We were told that the faculty members who participated in the discussion now required “ideological correction.”
This is not what most Americans would call freedom. But, the folks controlling the GOP in Texas think differently. The rest of us know, intuitively, that this is no path for a great, free, and curious people. We need to speak out, and loudly.
