Starting next week, Texas universities will begin scrubbing how race and gender are discussed in classrooms, thanks to a new state law that politely suggests “job readiness” is more important than, you know, actually understanding the world you’ll be working in. The idea is that fewer uncomfortable conversations will somehow produce more employable graduates. Sure.
At Texas A&M, entire courses have already been canceled, while others have been edited like a bad Wikipedia page, with race and gender quietly deleted. Because nothing says “rigorous higher education” quite like taking a red pen to topics that might make someone in Austin uncomfortable.
Here in Lubbock, Texas Tech’s own Chancellor Brandon Creighton — who, fun fact, literally wrote the law before being hired to run the system — was blunt. If you want to study gender, he said, don’t come to Texas Tech. Try the internet. Or “some other medium.” Just not a public university you’re helping pay for.
Creighton isn’t alone. Texas A&M and Texas State are also run by former Republican lawmakers, because nothing screams “academic independence” like a campus run by career politicians enforcing laws they wrote themselves. What could possibly go wrong?
So if college is supposed to prepare you for the real world, does the real world now officially not have race or gender—or is that just true in Lubbock?
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