There is an excellent article by John McWhorter about the threat to academic freedom on campus. He compares the humiliation ordeals suffered by dissenting academics as like struggle sessions from Maoist China. He also describes the quasi religious aspect of this political orthodoxy and makes the interesting point that some of its most fanatical adherents do not belong to the demographic group on whose behalf they are relentlessly offended.
To what extent would you worry about the following consequences?” To the hypothetical “My reputation would be tarnished,” 32.68 percent answered “very concerned” and 27.27 percent answered “extremely concerned.” To the hypothetical “My career would be hurt,” 24.75 percent answered “very concerned” and 28.68 percent answered “extremely concerned.” In other words, more than half the respondents consider expressing views beyond a certain consensus in an academic setting quite dangerous to their career trajectory. So no one should feign surprise or disbelief that academics write to me with great frequency to share their anxieties. In a three-week period early this summer, I counted some 150 of these messages. And what they reveal is a very rational culture of fear among those who dissent, even slightly, with the tenets of the woke left