Really? Because they’ve came for tenure here in GA…
As someone who studies history, we need to stop doing this very thing. BELIEVE them, because they seeking to tear down a democratic society, and a university system that is autonomous and protects the rights of the people within it are at odds with an authoritarian state. Given EVERYTHING else they’ve done these past few years, which relatively comfortable people shrugged off as “just a gesture” that has now come to be ACTUAL threats to ACTUAL people who are not white men, continuing to do so is incredibly dangerous.
This was literally the US not too long ago. In LIVED MEMORY, there were people who did not have full civil rights. I get that you’re a scientist, but this kind of thinking right there is why history and the humanities matter in higher ed (and k-12 education, too) just as much as STEM - because people think it’s just a list of names and dates, when it’s the study of how things change, why they change, and how they can change in the future given a set of historical and current circumstances. YES, we can go back to these days. It’s entirely within the realm of possibility… people who study this stuff (YOUR colleagues in academia, in fact) have been ringing alarm bells on the rebuilding of the white supremacist state in America, and we need to listen to them.
I mean, FFS, they just tried to over throw the US government not 2 years ago! I thought we were done with this “well, they don’t really mean it” stuff. YES! They fucking mean it! 
