Why I am not a liberal, reason #99

But slowly I realized what the academy really is–v. what it claims to be such that I had mistakenly thought it was a less racist and sexist career path: a neoliberal corporation looking for the most docile workers (i.e. not ‘abrasive’, selfishly careerist, invested in benefiting from structural inequality and reproducing it–often unconsciously, for reasons of implicit bias as well as deep personal insecurities–exacerbated by the professionalization and socialization process academics undergo).

Axé. 


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