• stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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    Initially, Texas A&M celebrated hiring McElroy with a public signing ceremony to announce her hiring. But in the weeks following, vocal groups from outside the university system expressed issues with her previous employment at The New York Times and her support for diversity in newsrooms. McElroy has said she was told that not everyone was pleased by her joining the faculty. Critics of her hiring focused on her prior work on diversity and inclusion.

    Sounds a lot like that ‘cancel culture’ that conservatives love to pretend to hate.

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    It’s wild to me that there are actual adults who think “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is somehow evil and bad. I grew up in a conservative family in a rural area, and even I remember being told by my parents and Sunday school teachers that “It takes all kinds,” and “Jesus loves them, you should too.” Those lessons convey the same ethos as “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

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    She didn’t just hire a woman, she hired a black woman. They don’t take kindly to that sort of thing in Texas.

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      She currently works at University of Texas in Austin. So maybe just not College Station.

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        Not even that, just with influential old rich shits like the Rudder Association and Abbot’s picked men Board of Regents. Disastrous meetings with students and faculty are big parts of why she is leaving.

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        Those schools do hate each other but I think that’s less important here than in football

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    It’s nice that the Pres of Texas A&M gets fired, hooray for that, but it doesn’t get Kathleen McElroy the job she was told she had.