“I’m not sure this is legal to be teaching,” the student says. “According to our president, there’s only two genders and he said he would be freezing agencies’ funding programs that promote gender ideology. And this also very much goes against, not only myself but a lot of people’s religious beliefs.”
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“It is unacceptable for A&M system faculty to push a political agenda,” Glenn Hegar, the school’s chancellor, said in a statement. “Early investigations appear to indicate this course failed to comply with clear instructions to align course descriptions with course materials.”
Texas A&M passed an audit earlier this year to ensure that the school complies with a new state law banning DEI in public universities, according to the Battalion, the student newspaper.
They think they’re rooting out all the Secret Marxists that they’ve been told are littering academia, certainly. But A&M is about as well-regarded among Christian Conservatives in Texas as any state school.
I don’t think anyone in Greg Abbott’s inner circle wants their children to know about the sociology of the LGBTQ community, except as some kind of alien satanic threat to be exterminated.
To clarify when I talk about a “liberal education” I mean that in the broadest sense possible, not necessarily about identity politics, although it’d be fine if that were a component of a larger picture.
I mean someone coming out being able to spot logical fallacies, have a real media literacy and capable of being an autodidact.
I would buy that some true believers might feel that way, but I think most elitists (not sure Abbott is in that upper echelon and I don’t know how much xtianist horseshit he personally believes.) would assume it’s okay for themselves to have a broader view (if only to reject it), but they don’t want the peasants to get any uppity notions…
So, for instance, you see Harvard grads like Ted Cruz, Romney, Cotton, DeSantis…W went to Yale, and so on.
I view it the same way the business class view something like WSJ - they need to see the unvarnished truth about things to really be captains of industry. Hiding things because they are politically incorrect is not going to be helpful for them.
That’s the way today’s elites mostly view education - they probably want a return to where it was only the aristocrats that had any (useful, meaning liberal, in every sense of that word) education, and sure, the peasants can get “educated” in a trade so they are useful to the moneyed elite as slave wages, but have no notions of changing anything about their station in life…if they can expunge any and all liberal (again, not necessarily politically liberal) things from universities, that’d be exactly what they want.