The Chilling Effect.

[Editorial]

Stop and think, what this witch hunt is doing.

When I went to college you chose your classes, there were three or four taught at the same time and you picked which class you wanted. There were hard professors, there were easy professors. There were some neat classes and some boring classes. There were liberal professors, there were conservative professors. And there were some liberal colleges and some conservative colleges… You picked your choices.

PBAU professor is being investigated for teaching racial justice in class. Here's what university says.
Palm Beach Post via Yahoo
By Andrew Marra
February 21, 2023


Samuel Joeckel has taught the same writing composition class at Palm Beach Atlantic University for more than a decade. And while he says the course has not changed much in years, the world he teaches in has.

The veteran English professor says he learned just how much last week when he received a visit after class from a dean and the school’s provost.

The somber-faced administrators told him Wednesday that his annual contract renewal, usually a formality, was being postponed while they investigated a claim he was “indoctrinating” students with discussions about racial justice, he recalled.

A parent, it seemed, had called to complain.

OMG! A parent complained!

“PBAU administration has never voiced any concern about my racial justice unit over the last 12 years,” he said. “This was the first time. And it’s also the time when they informed me that they may not renew my contract.”

His teaching was never a problem until the conservatives started their offensive on “Woke” and liberal professors.

Some of Joeckel’s former students say the move against him coincides with what they see as a move by school leaders to identify more visibly with conservative politics and political leaders

A turning point, some said, was in 2020, when it angered some students by naming first lady Melania Trump as its annual “woman of distinction.”

“I think that was the mark of when things really started to change and the culture started to change,” said Danielle Hawk, a former student and school employee who is now among those clamoring for Joeckel to keep his job.

They are banning books claiming that the books are obscene and phonographic but what the books really are is a threat to the right-wing ideology. They are books on LGBTQ+, and they are books on Black history.

They say that we are “indoctrinating” and “grooming” but in reality they are the one who are want to control the children and make then fear those who are different! They are the ones who want to wipe out “liberals” and “free thinkers.”

This has a very chilling effect on professors and teachers!

This has a very chilling effect on society!

This has a very chilling affect on the LGBTQ and Black children!

This teaches that it okay to discriminate and bully those who are different from them.

The conservatives want to turn us in to an authoritarian banana republic.