Dems torn over transgender issue: Centrists worry that party is ‘reading the public wrong’.
https://x.com/politico/status/1856638729194012747?t=kJ7Nk1A5LRRRlqyUZWlLWg&s=19
Wait, so they though that the public actually wanted this? And they were following the lead of the public opinion? Can anybody be even more out of touch?
This utter incapacity to understand reality is widely spread on the Left. Among academics who believe that Trump supporters should be banned from voting (true story) the strangest myths about teaching proliferate. I sit with colleagues at a conference, and they try to outcompete each other on whose teaching is more touchy-feely and less demanding.
“I don’t grade anymore! Instead, students decide for themselves which grade they deserve!”
“I don’t do exams or assign essays because it’s too stressful for students!”
“I don’t assign presentations or group projects because students with mental health issues suffer!”
“I don’t do lectures because students get too bored.”
“I tell students I’m not the authority in the classroom, I don’t have the right to say if they are doing well or not and we are completely equal in the classroom.”
“I’m against hierarchy! Merit is racist! If students miss a lot of class it’s probably because they are underprivileged!”
Then it’s my turn to speak and I say, “I do traditional teaching. Lectures, exams, tons of assigned readings, harsh grading, I fail people easily and with gusto, everything is graded strictly on merit, I’m the authority in the classroom, when I speak, everybody else is silent.”
Colleagues stare at me in confusion but I haven’t had an underenrolled class since my first year of teaching and my evaluations are invariably spectacular.
Students actually love rigor, merit, clear expectations, hierarchy and a professor who is authoritative and in control. The Left is making assumptions about human beings that are completely baseless. Its ideology is based entirely on hubris.
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