In academia, as with the world outside, there is a tendency to overlook that discrimination, harassment, and violence occurs and, further, to minimize it when it is acknowledged. At the first step, we pretend these acts of hostility and hatred never occur — not in the enlightened world of academia! Second, we trivialize these acts when they do occur. “I’m sure he didn’t mean it that way.” “Are you sure you’re not overreacting?” “How could she be racist?” Third, when these acts cannot be erased, we dismiss them as isolated incidents — one bad apple, nothing more! Fourth, when evidence suggests these practices are widespread, we go to undermining the data collection — reliability! non-generalizable! selection effect! At what point do we finally admit academia, in general, is not an exemplar space for inclusion and understanding?
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:47:45 +0000
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