UT faculty members demand answers after Dan Patrick says Liberty Institute intended to fight critica

[TexasTowelie]

by Kate McGee, Texas Tribune


A tweet sent by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has reignited concern among some University of Texas at Austin faculty members that the purpose of a new conservative-backed think tank may be to restrict teaching about critical race theory.

“I will not stand by and let looney Marxist UT professors poison the minds of young students with Critical Race Theory,” Patrick wrote on the social media platform Twitter. “We banned it in publicly funded K-12 and we will ban it in publicly funded higher ed. That’s why we created the Liberty Institute at UT.”

Critical race theory, a university-level discipline that studies how race and racism have impacted social and local structures in the United States, has come into the crosshairs of conservative state lawmakers across the country over the past year, including in Texas. Last year, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that limits how race, slavery and history are taught in K-12 classrooms.

Now, some faculty members are demanding an explanation from university leadership, arguing that Patrick’s comments directly contradict what administrators told them last fall and raise serious questions about academic freedom and freedom of thought on campus.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/16/ut-liberty-institute-dan-patrick/

[Beachnutt]

1. Dan Patrick is one sick pos

[Skittles]

2. LOL

"intellectual diversity" coming from repukes should have been their first clue

[Paladin]

3. Dan Patrick and "think tank" in the same sentence.

I don't know whether to laugh like hell, or throw up...

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Dan Patrick wants a white-washed history cirriculum

Written to the specification s of the DeVos clan, the Koch’s and also Faux Noise propaganda whores. Heaven forbid that Latinos (soon to outnumber Texans of European descent) and Afro-Americans should learn about what white supremacists and their political allies did to folks who didn’t have the good fortune to have an English-speaking background AND fair skin in living memory as well as in many decades past.